The Silver Riggers’ Price Illusion Will be Shattered
“Business as Usual” is in Trouble As the days go by, more and more hard data continues to point to one thing: silver supply has never been tighter. It doesn’t […]
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Bart Chilton: Since 2007’s Rise Of The Machines, “Markets Have Not Been The Same”
“Commodity pricing is vastly more important than most people actually realize,” explains former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton, warning that “beginning around 2007 the rise of computer driven trading algorithms changed […]
Continue readingWho’s Telling the Truth on Silver Manipulation- Ted Butler or Bart Chilton?
In a recent column, silver analyst Theodore Butler presented information that leaves him somewhat optimistic that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is looking into the possibility that the silver markets […]
Continue readingTed Butler: Is the GAO Investigating the CFTC Over Silver Manipulation Cover-Up?
In December 2012, I received a phone call from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and that led to me providing documentation about the silver manipulation and the CFTC that led […]
Continue readingOpen Letter To Bart Chilton
Failure to address precious metals market manipulation is your true legacy, Mr Chilton. Position limits by themselves fix nothing. To your credit, you did make the space for GATA’s Bill […]
Continue readingPic of the Day: Bart Chilton Steps Down
Our talented Pining caught up Bart Chilton on his way out the door at the CFTC today…
Continue reading“At Last”: Bart Chilton Stepping Down from CFTC!
Is it Mission Accomplished for the CFTC’s “Good Cop”? In a statement just released by the CFTC, Bart Chilton has sent President Obama notice that he will be stepping down […]
Continue readingMarket Manipulation & The Sicilian Code
Criminal enterprises the world over are tied together by a particular conduct so endemic to organized crime that it might accurately be referred to as Mafiosi Best Practices. It is […]
Continue readingCFTC Files and Settles Charges Against JPMorgan Chase For Manipulative Conduct In Connection with “London Whale” Swaps Trades
The CFTC has announced Wednesday evening that it has settled with JP Morgan for $100 charges that the bank violated prohibition on manipulative conduct in connection with the London Whale […]
Continue readingPrecious Metals Markets: The New Wild, Wild West
Precious metals markets are now the Wild West: a lawless territory where the Judges are bought and paid for, and where brutal and rapacious men are allowed to pillage the […]
Continue readingFriday Humor: Bart Chilton: If You Don’t Want Consumers Protected, Fire Us All!
Bart Chilton provided Friday humor a little early yesterday on Bloomberg: “If you don’t want consumers protected, fine, fire us all, shut us down. If you want the markets safe, […]
Continue readingGensler to Step Down as CFTC Chairman
The WSJ is reporting that Goldmanite Gary Gensler has declined an invitation from President Obama to serve a second term as CFTC Chairman, and will leave the CFTC by the […]
Continue readingDid Bart Chilton Predict Today’s Gold & Silver Smash?
Bart Chilton on today’s metal’s smash: You’re on your own. Chilton’s prediction that the “do-badders” would attack due to lack of any gov’t oversight of the markets in light of […]
Continue readingAnother Day, More Algo Silver Manipulation: SD Dissects Today’s PM Smash
This morning’s trade in silver demonstrates a pattern regular observers of this market will instantly recognize. This pattern happens so frequently that any claim by the CFTC that they couldn’t […]
Continue readingSD Weekly Metals & Markets: A Discussion on The End Game With GATA’s Bill Murphy
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On this week’s show, GATA’s Bill Murphy joins The Doc & Eric Dubin to discuss: CFTC formally closing down investigation into silver market manipulation Trading leading up to and following […]
Continue readingBart Chilton, RESIGN and Become a Whistleblower: Open Letter & Petition
TheNewsDoctors.com Exclusive: Open Letter & Petition to CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Petition Background (Preamble): CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton has claimed he stands for honest markets. We, the undersigned, call upon […]
Continue reading*Breaking: CFTC Closes 5 Year Silver Investigation- No Viable Evidence of Manipulation
*Updated 11pm EST 9/25* Well, that didn’t take long. After Andrew Maguire went public last Friday that the CFTC is holding evidence that JP Morgan manipulated the gold and silver […]
Continue readingBanks Are Fined for LIBOR & Energy Manipulation, But Prosecution of PM Rigging Cannot Be Permitted!
We know market rigging occurs every day. We may not be able to see it, as it’s hidden in vast arrays of high frequency trading at the nanosecond level. The […]
Continue readingFree Market Forces Will Do What the CFTC Will Not!
The CFTC IS the watchdog for abuse in the options and futures markets and Friday April 12-Monday April 15 were beyond obvious as to what was done. Reportedly 1,000+ tons […]
Continue readingTed Butler: CFTC- The Worst Regulator Possible
By SD Contributor Ted Butler We’ve just crossed a few important anniversary dates that relate to silver that taken in proper perspective point to a disturbing conclusion. That conclusion is […]
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