Of Course It’s Not Gold: The CFTC Is Probing Market Manipulation Of Bitcoin
“demanded that several bitcoin exchanges hand over comprehensive trading data to assist a probe into whether manipulation is distorting prices…”
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The CFTC And Its Director Of Enforcement Are Ignoring The 800 Pound Gorilla In The Room
Ted Butler says the CFTC simply ignores the specific questions about manipulation in the silver market. Here’s the latest example…
Continue readingJust A Superficial Look At The Bullion Banks And Their Trading Should Give Regulators Pause For Thought
Ronan Manly says “COMEX and the London Fixings are two sides of the same coin. With blatant evidence that the same banks and…”
Continue readingA Year After The Changing Of The Guard At CFTC And What Changed? (Spoiler Alert: NOTHING)
Ted Butler says “JPMorgan not only maintained its perfect trading record, it did so in absolutely spectacular fashion, with the past year being…”
Continue readingHere’s Just How Easy And Pervasive It Was (Is) To Manipulate The Gold & Silver Markets
“investigations found many of the traders had placed “thousands” of fake orders over “hundreds” of occasions…”
Continue readingFrom Silver’s Point-Of-View: A Different Look At Bear Stearns
Ted Butler says the ten-year anniversary of the failure of prominent investment bank Bear Stearns, and its takeover by JP Morgan, is cause for reflection…
Continue readingBix Weir: It’s ‘Slow & Steady Wins The Race’ For Bitcoin
Bix has an update on the cryptos, including Bix announcing great news that the CFTC and government are getting more and more involved. Here’s more…
Continue readingEric Sprott: How STUPID They We’re To Not See The Gold & Silver Manipulation Right In Front Of Their Eyes
With the markets in turmoil and gold & silver whacked as usual, Eric Sprott is pretty worked up today. Here’s an update…
Continue readingTed Butler: The Regulators Didn’t Even Come Close To Cleaning Up The Market With The Arrests & Fines
“If the CFTC was intending that this week’s announcements showed that it was truly cracking down on bad actors in silver and gold, then it failed…”
Continue readingNew Details Emerge On The Traders Arrested And Banks Fined Today For MANIPULATING The Gold & Silver Markets
This isn’t the end of the manipulation. These are simply six little fish and three bank slaps on the wrist as the bigger suppression scheme continues unabated…
Continue readingMonex CFTC Complaint Is SECOND MAJOR Lawsuit Since Early 2000’s
Gold and silver precious metals dealer Monex is facing a legal suit filed by the CFTC last week, but there have been legal problems before, for both the company and the founder…
Continue readingCFTC Monex Lawsuit Shows Exactly What To Look For (and not) in a Bullion Dealer
The CFTC just sued a California gold dealer in what is reported by Reuters as the “biggest ever retail precious metals fraud enforcement action brought by the regulator“. The action […]
Continue readingOne of World’s Largest Primary Silver Miners Blasts CFTC on Silver Manipulation
First Majestic Silver’s CEO Keith Neumeyer (who advised SD readers in a 2012 interview that “I am a TRIPLE DIGIT silver guy“) has just stepped to the plate as the first major player […]
Continue readingThe Silver Manipulation Solution: 17 Requirements for a Freely Traded Silver Market Structure
The silver market is broken and has been broken for a long, long time. It is silver derivatives and computer trading models introduced in the 1970’s that really started to […]
Continue readingBart 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 readingAnother Settlement – JP Morgan Receives Slap on the Wrist Despite Years of Fraudulent CFTC Data
Well it appears nothing has changed at the CFTC. Less than two weeks ago we learned that former CFTC commissioner Scott O’Malia, who had fought hard against any new […]
Continue readingThe CFTC Commitment Of Trader Data Is Rigged After All
Myself and a few others – primarily GATA – have been suggesting for quite some time that While certain newsletter peddlers adamantly maintain the reports are accurate and honest in […]
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 readingMeet The New Boss…
Do you know this man? You should… he is now in charge of the CFTC, the government agency that “regulates” gold and silver futures trading, now that our buddy Gary Gensler […]
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