I am pretty sure that some readers will think that I see conspiracy theory all over the place.
In reality what I see is not conspiracy theory, but realpolitik (or realekonomic) in the real world.
It is a bit like blue pill or red pill of Matrix, do you really want to see the reality.
Or as John Le Carre, master novelist of the real spy world, would say it is just “Little (intended as of little morality) men with great power chasing their personal objectives.
The LIBOR market (that settles all mortgage rates) had been found rigged by the UK Court of Law (Barclays Bank).
Then the Forex (JPM, BofA, Citi, UBS)
Now we found that also Gold and Silver are manipulated (FT article, US/UK Court of Law) -UBS
The FED in an article in June 2014 in an article of The Economist admitted to intervene directly on the share market, together with all the main world reserve banks (US, UK, EU, Japan and China).
And in the US Treasury there is a little known Office of Foreign Assets Control that is the Financial War Department of US Government.
In the surface is just responsible of the sanctions imposed by the US, but in reality has much more meaningful powers.
Russia has the largest reserves of gold, and gold falls like a stone.
Russia has 80% of revenues from oil, and oil falls like stone.
I do not believe in coincidences.