Investment Watch Blog

by: Stefan Gleason Recent collapses of bridges and a Florida condo building highlight what can go wrong when basic structural and foundational elements are neglected and allowed to deteriorate. As corrosion and cracking spread, they may go little noticed at first, with repairs and upgrades put off. Meanwhile, the risks steadily build of a single … Read more

by mapi During the height of the pandemic, Knightscope posted a blog titled “By The Numbers” with the above image. Their blog is basically a primer into everything that is wrong with unchecked corporate surveillance masquerading as public safety. “Knightscope is the only company in the world (that we know of) commercially operating fully autonomous vehicles 24 … Read more

Protection for me but not for thee.

Statues are going down and statues are coming up. The latest one to come down: Teddy Roosevelt. The latest one to go up: George Floyd. What does this say about our culture?

Climb up the leaderboard and compete against other shills while you earn points and badges! This app orders recruits to vote manipulate Reddit to prevent anti Israel posts from trending! The Israeli Hasbara app, Act-IL, orders recruits to vote manipulate, mass report, and distribute ready-to-spam propaganda talking points out of a library to manipulate public … Read more

The situation leading up to this huge dose of karma for the ATF Agent goes thusly: Woman’s husband buys a shotgun. Sometime later an ATF Agent attends the house when the woman and her sons are the only ones home. He asks to go inside and the woman refuses. The ATF Agent tries to force … Read more

by Lance Roberts “Warnings From Behind The Curtain” almost sounds like the title of a good “Cold War” fiction novel. However, this time, the story is of warnings for investors not often discussed by the mainstream media. Notably, there is a necessary clarification that must get made. Warnings have different degrees of outcomes. For example, a warning label that … Read more

by The Phoenix Yesterday I outlined how the Fed is extremely late to curb inflation. As a brief recap, it only took CPI clearing 5%, multiple signals that inflation is running hot, housing entering a bubble, stocks roaring to new all-time highs, and signs of frothiness including: someone sold a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) of a fart, crypto-currencies … Read more

by confoundedinterest17 The Federal Reserve is growing “the slosh” again with its Temporary Open Market Operations (TOMO). The New York Fed conducts overnight reverse repo operations each day as a means to help keep the federal funds rate in the target range set by the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC. But, the Effective Fed Funds rate is … Read more

CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ has shed 75% of its audience since January https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-th…  

by confoundedinterest17 The US housing bubble (again) keeps growing! According to the S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller national home price index for April, house prices grew at a rate of 14.59% year-over-year. And keeps on growing with M2 Money growth. The Month-over-month numbers are even scarier. On an annualized basis, the 20-city Case-Shiller HPI is up 19.4% (1.62% * 12). Where are … Read more

A Louisiana FBI agent has been arrested by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations Special Victims Unit and the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (USDOJ/OIG) for sexual misconduct against juveniles, according to a press release from LSP. David Harris, age 51 of Prairieville, La was booked on numerous sexual … Read more