The TSX is a casino...The house always wins...So, the shiesters dropped Krr 5% at the opening..Most gold stocks were flat or down a bit...So, whenever you have a small group of men who can collude behind everyone's backs, and do certain things and they themselves benefit greatly at the expense of everyone else because of these secret dishonest actions, then you don't have a free and honest game going on..
I went to Vegas for a vacation about 8 yrs ago and spent about 45 minutes observing a blackjack table in the casino in my hotel. I am not a gambler but I planned to try my hand at blackjack (21) to the maximum limit of only 50$ US.. Before going , I had figured that if I was going to try anything , it would be blackjack because mathematically the odds should be 50/50 that I could win against the house. On top of that the "house" had to take another card from the deck if it's total was under 17...So it seemed like it was easy enough to win, depending of course on getting good cards more often than not..
So, here I am watching people play blackjack at a table.. All the people lost all their money and I was astonished at how the dealer always seemed to have a better hand, time and time after time again. It just was not possible , mathematically speaking for the dealer to have such great cards for a good 30-45 minutes in a row. The dealer just crushed everyone at that table. But here's the thing, there was no fresh deck of 52 cards being used before each game, there was just a machine under the table providing fresh cards to the dealer to dispense either to themselves or the gamblers. So it was an automated card dispenser hidden under the table that was providing all the playing cards for each game. What could go wrong, eh?
I am convinced that that is where the rigging was taking place. The dealer probably had a switch activated by their foot under the table that switched the feed of cards , that guaranteed them great cards almost each and every time..
An honest game of 21 would entail using a fresh deck of cards each and every time and if this rule was followed there is no way in the world that the house would win so overwhelmingly so much more than their paying customers.. But they didn't use fresh decks of cards every time and instead relied on the machine hidden under the table to dispense new cards for each new game..The machine/computer rigged the game for the dealer and so the hotel always made big profits over their clients. .Sure, the odd time they let a gambler win, but it was all in the name of keeping gamblers coming back.. If clients never won , even once, then the Casino would run out of suckers and would have to close down..But these casinos always make money and they don't give a rat's you know what if a gambler loses his house and then kills himself...Casino owners are scum of the earth people.. Trump is a casino owner . I have always kept that in my mind, that even though I agreed mostly with what Trump was saying, me being more conservative leaning, he and his main donour were Casino operators..Casino operators are dishonourable people.. The vast percentage of their customers lose and tens of thousands of them have been ruined over the years. Families have been destroyed by these establishments, many people have commited suicide but these pigs don't care, as long as they make their billions of dollars of profit..Most of the suicides in the metros are people who were so distraught over losing all their hard-earned money. Newspapers never report these suicides because if they did, people would be clamouring for these casinos to be banned. Many casinos are government run casinos who make outrageous profits. Can't stop that, eh?
The TSX is ripe with these types of men and women..Men who care only about the money made by illicit means, not the people who invest there...
Anyway, that's my rant for the day...