Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:09:03 PM
Bear Raid on Metals and Stock Buying Timed to Release of Fed Beige Book
Posted by Jesse at 4:47 PM
December 17, 2018
(excerpted)
Gold was rallying and stocks were lackluster with the US dollar running at multi-year lows this morning.
The Fed released its 'Beige Book' at 2:00 PM. It was full of anecdotes about the tremendous jobs growth and robust economy, with growing labor shortages. And by implication, wage pressures.
As some noted, we suspect that this was aimed to please twitter man, el hombre naranja, and to justify the next round of interest rate increases. The Fed is glossing over the significant lapse in the number of employed in the Labor Participation Rate and hand-picking examples. But they have always been courtiers to power. Their independence and self-effacing goodness is a fairy tale, a farce. Unfortunately they are in good company with the other regulators, the pundits, and the politicians.
The labor shortages are for the most part artificial, because employers are not yet engaging in wage increases designed to attract talent, having become accustomed to thirty years of growing productivity and stagnant real wages.
The moneyed interests and their courtiers like to blame it on laziness, games, and drugs of the unemployed and the poor. It is not their stealing that condemns them so much, as it is the slandering and dehumanizing of their victims, at home and abroad, to justify themselves. They steal not only their victims' money, but their humanity. It would have been better for them if they had never been born.
Do not delude yourselves, and go only to those places where they tell you what you wish to hear. Where they flatter you with tales of your superiority, compared to these others. For this is an easy and carefree path, blithely into the abyss.
You know it is wrong, you can feel the unease when you part from these serpents and their soothing reassurances. But you cannot bear to face the truth, and the lies are smoothly seductive. Your vanity urges you to imagine yourself to be the real victim of these others, to justify yourself.
Let's see if this is the start of something new, or just the kind of tickle and comfort that the courtiers and careerists to power like to pay to their masters, and the god of the markets. There is nothing like a good wash and rinse in the market that the boys like better, just ahead of a stock options expiration. And from the short term overbought and oversold conditions it was a nice opportunity to game the system and pick up some easy profits from the public.
There will be a reckoning, and it may be historic. But they do not believe in it, they do not think that change or reform is possible. This is the true opium of the people.
Have a pleasant evening.
More at:
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2018/01/stocks-and-precious-metals-charts-bear.html
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