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Category: Economics

  • JP Morgan Chase In Hot Seat Over Precious Metals

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    It’s been a contentious issue over fifteen years in the investment community. Are precious metals markets rigged? If you’ve never heard of GATA (Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee) I suppose it’s about time they get some credit for quiet behind the scenes research into irregular trading patterns of precious metals on the COMEX and LME. GATA…

  • Loss Of Objectivity in Public Policy

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    Upon reading the Calgary Herald’s online comments to Rachel Notley’s letter to the editor today, I can’t help but feel dismayed by people’s vitriol. To preface this piece, I’m fiscally conservative and did not vote for Rachel Notley in our last provincial election and nor would I vote for her today. She has failed to…

  • Cognitive Dissonance and The Markets

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    Okay. It’s not my term (cognitive dissonance) but I like it. Dr. Jim Willie has used it in reference to what he believes to be malaise and the failure of 90 per cent of us who are failing to connect the dots in respect of the current shift underway pertaining to the economic “reset”. In…

  • Gold Swaps

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    Follows is a discussion of gold swaps. Over the past week or so, the S&P 500 has been forming a topping chart pattern and today has seen simultaneous down moves in both the S&P and the gold price. Gold price suppression theorists will cite this day in their argument that there are artificial forces working…

  • Being In The Know

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    We often think we’re in the know when we really aren’t. We come to know because of what we’ve been told but who has been doing the telling and why? In spite of the profligacy of information on the internet, we are deservedly suspect. The question becomes “what do we do and where do we…