Craig Hemke – All Markets Are Broken
by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Financial writer and precious metals expert Craig Hemke says forget about new threats that the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in September. Hemke explains, “They are trying to move things by talking, which is their primary policy. That’s why so many of these Fed goons, not Fed Governors, as we like to say, that’s why they seem to have conflicting messages all the time. They are always trying to get the markets to do what they want them to do. Rational human beings are telling you that they are not going to raise rates in September. Not only are they going to do it right before an election, that never happens, if you look at FOMC minutes, the expectations actually went down. . . . People see through the nonsense, and actually you’ve got to go all the way out to March of next year, seven months from now, before you at least have a 50/50 likelihood of a an interest rate hike.”
On gold, Hemke contends, “What people have to understand here is what you think of as a market, two rational people exchanging goods at a certain price that works for both of them, is not what happens here. The price is discovered for the paper derivative itself, and it is determined by electronic high-frequency trading. All this is machines taking ques from other things that seem totally unrelated. So, it sounds like these are markets that are broken. I think that is a safe assumption to make. . . .