Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Manipulated Government GDP Statistics Report is Just Plain Wrong / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Martenson
The GDP report was released Friday (7/31/09) and it was a compendium of incomprehensible and illogical numbers and, worse, it is just plain wrong.
Of course, since so much rides on an accurate assessment of our true economic state of affairs it behooves us to make sense of it as best we can understanding that the GDP report is less than perfect and riddled with difficult-to-rationalize statistical manipulations and quirky additions.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Economic Statistical Deceptions to Sell U.S. Treasury Bonds / Interest-Rates / Market Manipulation
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Last week on NPR a professor in the Sloan School of Management at MIT explained that what is really at stake in the health care bill is the US government’s ability to borrow. In other words, the bill is about cutting health care costs, not about providing hard-pressed Americans with health care.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wall Street's Love Affair with Ben Bernanke / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
A careful reading of Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's op-ed in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, shows that Bernanke thinks the economy is in a deflationary spiral that will last for some time.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs Making Billions in Profits From the Tax Payers / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: LewRockwell
Two important headlines this morning, both of them fraudulent: "Chinese economy bounces back," says one headline in the International Herald Tribune.
"JPMorgan profit soars despite downturn," says another.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Goldman Sachs: A Vampire On The Jugular Of America / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
…organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy - Matt Taibbi
In Rolling Stone Magazine, Matt Taibbi wrote what would never be read in The New York Times, The Financial Times, Fortune, Barrons and certainly not in the Washington
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Friday, July 17, 2009
All Businesses Should Be Lucky Enough To Be Big Banks! / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Sy_Harding
The half-dozen or so banks that became too big to fail have had it good. They received $billions in taxpayer bailout money and loan guarantees, were hand-fed lucrative deals to take over the choicest parts of less fortunate competitors, were allowed to exchange some of the toxic waste assets on their books with the Fed for Treasury bonds, and have been able to hire the best of the many newly unemployed bankers and traders. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, July 17, 2009
Surmounting Deception, Distortion & Intervention Thus Protecting Profits & Wealth / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Bank (Goldman Sachs – Ed.) has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.” Joseph Facciponti, Assistant U.S. Attorney, July 4, 2009
The significance of the Assistant U.S. Attorney’s statement at the Bail Hearing for the former Goldman employee, Sergey Aleynikov, who was charged with stealing Goldman Sachs trading software, goes far beyond the issue of the alleged theft.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Cautions for Investors and Traders Regarding Interventions / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
Continues from Part1 - Banking Cartels Engineered Financial Crisis Endgame
We issue a word of caution to our readers. So long as The Cartel is in a very active interventional mode (e.g. as in taking down the price of Gold and Silver) do not be lured into thinking that the periodic up spikes in the prices of Gold and Silver necessarily present a "breakout" or a buying opportunity. As a practical matter, technical breakouts are sometimes a lure designed to suck in more "longs" prior to a subsequent deeper Takedown.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Banking Cartels Engineered Financial Crisis Endgame / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“…what is the reason for this “seemingly random monetary mess that multiplies its momentum every day? The answer, in one word, control. The elite/insiders already have control of the financial system, but they wanted more, much more…and it was not random, it was planned.” (emphasis added)
“How will all the above manifest itself in your life? The answer: “All you own will shrink...your income, assets, net worth, will shrink year after year in real terms inflation adjusted and possibly also nominally.” - HS Letter, April 27, 2008.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Pompous Financial Market Prognosticators Revisited / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Nick_Barisheff
The experts go into denial as the credit crisis unfolds- In 2001, Colin Seymour published an article entitled 1927-1933 Chart of Pompous Prognosticators. In it, he documented the many Depression-era assurances given by politicians, economists, financial experts and the media to the public, protesting that everything was fine and there was nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, the stock market would decline by 92%, the US dollar would be devalued by 40%, real estate would drop 30% and unemployment would soar to 25%.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Are Financial Markets being Manipulated by "Rogue Traders"? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Global_Research
Danny Schechter writes: There’s New Evidence to Suggest that Crime In The Financial Markets is Rife.
New York, New York: Everyone has heard of the Wikipedia but not everyone knows about the Investopedia, a Forbes website, that monitors finance for market players. One of the issues it is concerned about is market manipulation, actions by rogue and not so rogue players who, working alone or together, unduly influence the way our supposed “free” markets function.
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Why have we Abandoned Free Markets? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Michael_Pento
It astonishes me to see how quickly this country has embraced a socialist mentality and how readily it has accepted the belief that the source of our problems was an unfettered free market. Perhaps it is because those in power do not understand what the term free market truly means. If they indeed understood what a free market entails, then it would be impossible for them to lay blame upon it.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Trend Following or Market Trend Manipulation? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Andrew_Abraham
Trend following commodity futures trading as well as stock traders were villified last year as speculators. Even George Soros came out with the statement that the rampant rise of crude oil was due to speculators. Trend following commodity trading advisors are speculators but they do not manipulate trends. On of the main principles of trend following is that there is a trend to follow. Commodity traders surely can not start trends. Commodity traders are accused of throwing markets in disorder. As an example in Bloomberg news yesterday it was reported that The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC) will announce plans to introduce curbs on speculation of commodities including energy.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
CFTC: Corrupt Foxes Tending Chickens / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Midas_Letter
All the hyperbole in the mainstream media announcing imminent changes by the CFTC (Commodities and Futures Trading Commission) amounts only to so much spin and P.R. There aren’t too many thinking adults involved even peripherally in the global poker game known as the Futures market who still believe the house always wins by dint of natural statistical preference.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Banking Stocks Short Selling Ban Reinstatement SEC Idiocy / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are reading S.E.C. May Reinstate Rules for Short-Selling Stocks.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Make Bernie Madoff the Next Fed Chairman / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: LewRockwell
Bill Bonner writes: Poor Bernie. The man has been ordered to spend 150 years in the hoosegow. What for? Who did he kill? A century and a half seems a little excessive for a financial crime. You could hold up three liquor stores and rape a whole convent and still not get 150 years. With a little bit of good lawyer-ing, a history of child abuse in the family, and good behavior in the big house, you’d be back on the street in 18 months.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Faber & Greenspan: Shills for Fed Snake Oil on Deflation and Hyperinflation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Adrian_Ash
"Just how can the Fed credibly promise to be irresponsible...?"
HERE'S A THOUGHT – that tiny handful of investors and analysts warning how Fed policy risks hyper-inflation are in fact doing the central bank's work.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Is the U.S. Fed Juicing the Stock Market? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Whitney
Why has the stock market been on a 3-month tear when the economy is undergoing the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression? The S&P 500 has shot up 40% from its low on March 9 and the Dow Jones Industrials have followed close behind. Is this a typical bear market rally or is the invisible hand of the Fed goosing the markets?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Goldman Sachs The Fourth Branch of the U.S. Government / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Graham_Summers
Quietly and almost unnoticed by most Americans, the US Federal Government introduced a fourth branch to its political structure in 2006. As you know we already had three branches, they are:
Monday, June 29, 2009
CNBC Admits to Manipulated Market that Continues To Be Propped Up By Government Intervention And Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Readers of my articles and those of other authors on this site will have long come to know that CNBC lacks any credibility as it continued to pump out bullish market propaganda in the face of the severest bear market since the 1930's, whilst at the same time engaging in the re-writing of history on the channels past market calls as witnessed numerous times on Jim Cramer's Mad Money Show.