JP Morgan

There’s a lot of rumor, buzz, innuendo, chitchat and scuttlebutt about the precious metals markets these days…..

Is the Kriger/Keiser “Short Squeeze JPM to Oblivion” plan working? Judging by the wholesale availability of silver (or lack thereof) the answer is a resound yes. In Coin Updates News we read that “as of today, there are no longer any regular wholesale supplies of the 1 ounce through 100 ounce silver rounds and bars … Continue reading

Housing – Zillow was out with a report today in which – well, I’ll let the headline from the Housing Wire speak for itself: Home price depreciation to worsen market into 2011 Zillow’s catalyst for this is higher foreclosure liquidations based on current delinquencies and the high degree negative equity embedded across home ownership. They forecast a … Continue reading

Gold On Its Way To Validate Goldman’s $1,400/Oz Prediction….

In case readers missed this, Sunday’s New York Post – the only major newspaper to report this, despite ALL major media outlets having been made aware of this – reported a wide-ranging investigation into JP Morgan’s silver market corruption.  The Antitrust Divsion of the Justice Dept is looking into criminal behavior and the CFTC is … Continue reading

Everyone knows the concept behind a “fractional” banking system, right? You have $1 in deposits and you lend out $10. The Romans invented the concept and it is widely understood to have been one of the ingredients that led to Rome’s demise. As per the electrifying CFTC hearings on March 26, and a fact that … Continue reading

I have been telling Bill Murphy, Chairman of GATA, repeatedly that his email bombshell at the CFTC silver market hearings two weeks ago ripped the tightly sealed lid off of Pandora’s Box with regard to the extreme fraud and manipulation in the gold and silver markets. Although the whole episode, and the implications of what was … Continue reading

A few days ago we presented an interview of Harvey and Lenny Organ with King World News, in which the Organs recounted their personal visit to Canada’s only bullion bank vault – ScotiaMocatta. According to them, the vault contained roughly 89,000 ounces of gold, in the form of “210 400 oz bars, 4,000 maples, 500 … Continue reading

I congratulate GATA and applaud whistleblowers for taking risk to life and career to expose the market manipulation in precious metals. It exists. It is not a tinfoil hat thing, it is reality. However, it is important to not lose sight of the longer term and in the longer term, manipulation doesn’t work. Gold will … Continue reading