Investment Watch Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4qxy3mXOE All across the nation, retailers are going bankrupt and closing stores. Evidently, this has been going on for many years, but as we are about to discuss, the bankruptcy numbers have never escalated as high as they did in 2020 in all US history. This is the worst retail cataclysm ever. To understand the … Read more

by Frank Shostak via Mises According to the modern portfolio theory (MPT), financial asset prices always fully reflect all available and relevant information, and any adjustment to new information is virtually instantaneous. In this way of thinking, asset prices respond only to the unexpected part of any information, since the expected part is already embedded in prices. For … Read more

By MINING.com During Tuesday’s much-hyped battery day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid out plans to put everyone behind the wheel (or is that sleeping in the back) of a $25,000 car that drives itself. Much of the three-hour-plus presentation was low on detail, high on promotion, and stratospheric on ambition, (it is ever thus) but … Read more

by Stucky I found this recently while clearing my mom’s house of clutter.  It is a study guide titled “Review Guide Questions and Answers for the Naturalization Test”, dated 1950, authored by A Dr. Richman / “Consultant in Adult Education Specialist in Citizenship Education”. IMMIGRANTS STUDYING BACK THEN — Actual picture There are 77 questions.  I … Read more

Josh Sigurdson talks with Jeffrey Tucker of AIER about his new book ‘Liberty Or Lockdown’ in which he makes the case against the global lockdown we’ve witnessed take place almost everywhere in the world since March. In some places the lockdowns started in January. Not only is the lockdown unscientific, it’s a level of tyranny … Read more

by Kimble Charting Inflation has long been a word that the Federal Reserve uses but the general markets have forgotten about. Why? Well because it’s been virtually non-existent for years. Key indicators like commodities (i.e. copper) have been in a down-trends and the Materials Sector (XLB) has lagged… until this year. In today’s chart 3-pack, we take a … Read more

by David Haggith Since I’ve spent a fair amount of time on the US stock market of late, I won’t say much. Just taking a moment to note September just finished its fourth consecutive week down (final full week), maintaining a downtrend that began as we rolled over from August into September. Here you can see … Read more

What it’s like living in California now is a little bit significantly different than seven months ago. California, now officially the world’s largest prison has the industries of homelessness and lockdowns to bolster its economy. Along with the highest tax rate in the nation, businesses being shutdown is another fantastic strategy that’s sure to improve … Read more

American companies are pushing back against Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods. About 3,500 firms, including Tesla Inc., Ford Motor Co., Target Corp., Walgreen Co. and Home Depot, are suing the Trump administration over “unlawful tariffs” on Chinese imports.