Investment Watch Blog

This is where the congressional trading rules start looking ridiculous. Corporate insiders have 2 business days to report a trade. They disclose the exact shares, exact price and resulting holdings. Congressional officials generally have up to 45 days after the trade, or 30 days after receiving notice, whichever comes first. And they don’t have to … Read more

Iceland has rejected a renewed push toward membership of the European Union, with voters on course to vote against reopening accession negotiations with Brussels in a bitter blow for globalist elites. With results declared in five of the country’s six constituencies on Sunday morning, the “No” campaign held an unassailable lead of around 52.5 percent. … Read more

🚨#BREAKING: NBC News crew reportedly beaten with clubs by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, leaving five journalists injured and their camera smashed. — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 29, 2026

It has been an active stretch of seismic activity for the Pacific Ring of Fire over the last few hours. Beginning Friday night, several earthquakes fired off along the active region from California to Indonesia, all ranging in magnitudes from 3.5 and higher. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake started things off last night off the coast … Read more

The biggest thing from Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech wasn’t that a September hike is possible. It was that the Fed is no longer promising investors anything. No forward guidance. No guarantee of cuts. No promise to protect asset prices. Warsh said inflation is still too high and the Fed needs to see prices falling clearly … Read more

And that’s the Baby Boomer exodus from the U.S. Housing Market. In the next decade, the share of U.S. population above 75 will skyrocket. Meaning Baby Boomer owners who fueled the housing market over the last 20 years will turn into sellers they age out. And Gen X, the next generation in line to buy … Read more

Volcker needed 20%. We may only need 6%. PCE is the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge. Overlay it on the 1970s and the path rhymes. Add the 10-year and the rhyme gets harder to ignore. That doesn’t mean we reprint the 1980 Fed fund rate. Debt, leverage, and interconnected markets are a different animal now. In … Read more

In the past 250 years the U.S. economy has absorbed spending on transformation technology equivalent to 25% of GDP before the bubble popped. The 1860s railroad bubble popped after $2.5 billion was spent, 25% of GDP The 1920s electrification bubble popped after $26.1 billion was spent, 25% of GDP The 1990s internet bubble popped after $1.5 trillion … Read more

Office of Government Ethics dropped the June list last weekend. 1,051 tickets. $78 million to $263 million. Defense names are in there. Energy names too. White House says a computer runs the book. That does not erase the timing. Boeing bought the same day the Navy handed Boeing $880 million. Palantir in and out around … Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded a $10.1 million contract to expand a rapid DNA testing program used to verify claimed family relationships during immigration enforcement operations, according to federal records. The one-year contract, awarded to Virginia-based SNA International LLC, began August 10 and runs through August 9, 2027. The work will support ICE … Read more

Thirty-seven people have died and almost 400 have been evacuated after a Russian drone strike hit a depot storing weapons for Ukraine’s military near a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv. The strike caused shells, mines and drones to detonate late on Friday, triggering a blast that damaged nearby properties including a care home … Read more