Category: Market Manipulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, June 01, 2012
Facebook Thanks Heaven for Dumb Money! / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Thank God for dumb money!
What would the world be without chumps? Suckers? Bagmen and patsies?
Who would buy a ladies handbag for $1,500? Or blue-jeans for $150? Who would buy an oversized show-off pickup…or a $4 million McMansion?
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Facebook - How Wall Street Really Works / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland – How do you like those wimpy, whiney investors? They lose money in Facebook. Do they take their losses like men? Nope.
They rush to sue everybody! The investment banks who were midwifes to the birth of FB into the public markets weren’t playing fair, they say. They gave their best clients more and better info than they fed to the public.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Open Market Manipulation of the Gold and Silver Futures Market By Banks and Producers / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Marshall_Swing
The precious metals marketplace and even main street media is all abuzz about the 7,500 contract trade, in gold, on Monday, April 30th. Gold fell $15 in the space of a minute as many news outlets reported. Speculative traders think the trade could have been a fat finger. COMEX floor traders say otherwise and think the trade was deliberate just like any other trade because no one makes a trade of that size without specific instructions.
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Risk of Investing in a Markets Full of Conmen / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Dow up more than 100 points yesterday. Gold up $18.
Google…Apple…what more do you need to know?
“Blah, blah, blah…don’t you feel you’re wasting your time?”
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodity Prices / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
Michael Greenberger of the University of Maryland has been an outstanding spokesperson for financial reform. I have carried his interviews before.
He served on the CFTC with Brooksley Born in the late 1990's. This is how I first became aware of his opinions about regulatory matters.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
JP Morgan Metals Market Manipulation, Blythe Masters Lays an Egg / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
On April 5, 2012, JPMorganChase commodity executive Blythe Masters appeared on CNBC, and she was questioned whether the bank is manipulating metals markets?
Sunday, April 08, 2012
Blythe Masters Speaks Out On JPM and Market Manipulation / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
A number of people have asked me what I think about Blythe Masters' interview on CNBC in which she categorically denies that JPM is involved in anything but legitimate hedging of customer positions in the silver market.
I think a detailed description of all of JPM's hedging positions in the futures and derivatives market, and the related customers and bullion holdings, should be supplied to Gary Gensler's CFTC as government regulator so they can look them over. That is what the CFTC has been asked by the people who pay them, the investing public, to do.
Friday, March 09, 2012
How Big Money and Insiders Use Options to Manipulate the Stock Market / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
Anything that has to do with investments will be subjected to risk and return. Normally, the higher the risk the higher will be the return. Is there any investment that will provide you the opposite, where the potential risk is reduced while the return will actually increased? The answer is YES and it is through Options.
Before we delve into how ‘Big money and Insiders’ use options to manipulate the Stock Market, I think we should educate ourselves on the inner workings of the options market so that we as an investor will also can benefit from the versatility that options can offer.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The Greatest Episodes of Market Manipulation's…Is Silver Next? / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Market manipulation has a long and storied history.
From the Tulip Mania of the 1600s all the way to the recent housing bubble, market manipulators have employed a wide range of tactics to lighten the wallets of unsuspecting investors.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Failure to Rig Gold Market During Dollar Devolution, Manifest Destiny Derailed: Treason from Within / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Something very unusual recently occurred in financial journalism. If you are from or rely on the mainstream western financial press as your primary means of being informed – you surely wouldn’t have noticed – because this ‘oddity’ involved a real act of investigative journalism by one Lars Schall.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Gold and Silver Market Manipulation Video / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Angie Miles interviews Janet Tavakoli. There’s a rich history of price manipulation in the commodities markets. Look for price anomalies as options expire tomorrow.
Many view gold as a currency alternative as central banks print money and debase their currencies.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Gold and Silver Market Price Manipulation, Look for Motive / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Regulators haven't been able to keep up with price manipulation in the commodities markets or any other market. Why do games persist? The short answer is because they can, and because they can be very profitable in the short run.
If you've Googled gold or silver, you've probably come across sites that are breathless about the possibility of manipulation of metals prices. The problem with the internet is that it's new, too new to capture the rich history of the financial markets. Manipulation of metals prices--and the prices of many other commodities--is an old tradition. Here's one example adapted from An Alchemists Road: My transition from medicine to business, by Dr. Henry Jarecki (Dr. Jarecki is currently Chairman of Gresham Investment Management LLC.), October, 1989. This publication is not available on the internet.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Stock Market Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Tim_Wood
My research suggests that the secular bull market, which began at the 1974 low, peaked at the October 2007 high and that we have been in a bear market advance since the March 2009 low. According to Dow theory, all bull and bear markets unfold in 3 phases with important counter-trend moves separating each of the phases. As I have said all along, the rally out of the March 2009 low has been a bear market rally that should prove to separate Phase I from Phase II of the longer-term secular bear market that is now under way. Nothing has occurred to change this point of view. Since the rally out of the October low began, I have received a number of e-mails asking about manipulation and if "they" could prevent or if "they" have perhaps already prevented the phase II decline.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Dodd Frank Act Finally Cleans up the COMEX Commodities / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: George_Maniere
One of the best parts of writing is that I get so many great ideas from my readers. The readers of this site are some of the smartest people I have ever spoken with. Even the people who have never traded bring a fresh and new prospective to the way I see the market.
Yesterday I was proved right and completely blown away by a post from a reader. I did some homework on other sites and the probabilities of his post being accurate are 80%. So let’s get to it because I think you are going to like his thesis.
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Market Manipulation is Easy when Money is Free / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
A concept investors had much time to ponder is the long run value of investment capital. To calculate seemingly abstract concepts, investors have very simple answers. The rule of 72 gives us a guideline for the doubling of money, and net present value calculators are now found on every computer with a spreadsheet program.
Calculating the rate at which money can earn a return is simple. Finding ways to generate that return is anything but. Further, in this period of record low interest rates, the methodology of money making has never been so twisted.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Profitably Playing Market Manipulation / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“In his latest interview with King World News, geopolitical analyst James G. Rickards says credit default swaps are fraudulent mechanisms by which the "too big to fail" New York investment banks like J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs loot the world with an implicit U.S. government guarantee, making them de-facto agencies of the government.”
“With credit default swaps, banks loot world with a government guarantee, Rickards says”
Chris Powell, gata.org, 7/16/11
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Friday, July 22, 2011
Manipulated Markets, Dinosaurs, Dodo Birds and Wooly Mammoths / Commodities / Market Manipulation
By: Rob_Kirby
Back on June 23, 2011 – the Washington Post and Bloomberg reported that the U.S. and allies were going to release 60 million barrels of crude oil from strategic reserves to REDUCE OIL PRICES - reasoning this was to replace alleged shortages caused by the removal of 1.5 million barrels per day of light sweet Lybian crude which had been removed from the market:
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Insider Trading: “You Can’t Regulate Uncertainty” / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Casey_Research
On May 11, hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty by a federal jury of engaging in a seven-year conspiracy to trade on illegal tips from corporate executives, bankers, and consultants. In a Conversations with Casey interview with Senior Analyst Louis James, here are Doug’s no-holds-barred musings on insider trading and the SEC.
Louis James: So, Doug, what’s your take on Raj Rajaratnam’s conviction?
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Is Insider Trading Really a Crime? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: Robert_Murphy
A major piece of financial news last week was billionaire Raj Rajaratnam's conviction on 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy. Rajaratnam, founder of the hedge fund Galleon Group, was worth an estimated $1.8 billion in 2009. His conviction has pleased those who want the feds to crack down on "insider trading" and show the fat cats on Wall Street that they aren't above the rules.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Rajaratnam Guilty On All 14 Counts of Insider Trading - Faces 19+ Years In Prison / Stock-Markets / Market Manipulation
By: Jesse
"The tapes show he didn't believe the rules applied to him. Cheating became part of his business model."
"He" is a microcosm of a financial system in which the currency of fraud drives out honest price discovery and displaces productive activity, and large institutions game the markets on a daily basis with near impunity, while the public underwrites their steady gains and occasional but spectacular losses.
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