Investment Watch Blog

by DCG I’ll bet you that number is a LOT higher than reported. I wonder if the AP (who is the original author of this article) will follow up and report any more facts other than those provided in this THREE paragrapharticle. Yeah, don’t hold your breath. From MyFoxChicago: An error in Illinois’ new automatic voter registration system led to a possible … Read more

Photo by Flickr.com | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group As the founder of $160 billion investment behemoth Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio tends to have a fairly good idea of how the market is moving. So when he comments on macro trends, people tend to listen. And recently, he made a couple of rather pointed statements about cash … Read more

by AC Fluent speaker, will do my best to translate. If all of the pictures and videos circulating on social media are true, (have contacts in mainland that saw even small third tier city had suspected case, emergency personnel in hazmat suit putting patient in ambulance )this is a massive cover up and a humanitarian … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03k7F3ygNAQ&feature=youtu.be It’s a totalitarian regime… there is no panic since they have full control. The “panic” is the higher status people lining up to leave any way they can. The regular folk who are dumb aren’t as concerned because they are naive and being lied to about the severity of the virus. SP

Photo by Flickr.com | CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group Since 1975, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has provided automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs), which increase Social Security benefit payouts. For 2020, the adjustment officially ended up at 1.6%. According to the SSA, this adjustment is “enacted by legislation that ties COLAs to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz In this insightful interview, Max and Egon talk about the 2010s as a decade of fantasy and decadence. Central bankers medicine has enabled the terminally ill patient to survive for much longer than he should have. But that sadly will soon come to an end. Egon further warns: Stocks will be a … Read more

Those counting on the Fed’s endless “Not-QE” or whatever to inflate the market might be disappointed. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Fed had doused the market with $410 billion in liquidity between September and January 1 through its repo operations and its T-bill purchases. Market hype had expected this blistering pace of money-printing to continue, but wait… While … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhy8bVg5FjM Shocking video of the imminent global currency reset and economic collapse! The Devaluation of the dollar has been happening for the last 70 years or so, especially after 1971. The devaluation of the dollar is a monetary phenomenon and typically driven by lowering interest rates by the federal reserve to increase credit and liquidity. … Read more

by visualcapitalist What percentage of your income goes into Uncle Sam’s pocket? Your answer will vary depending on how much you earn. Data shows that low and middle-income families pay a much greater share of their income towards state and local taxes than wealthy families. Today’s visualization uses data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) … Read more

by UPFINA In a simple world without expectations, stocks would rise as much as earnings grow. As we know, it’s not a simple world as expectations rule the day. We often see investors jump the gun by buying before the first signs of economic and earnings improvement occur and selling before recessions start. Everyone is trying … Read more

via sentimentrader Two weeks ago, options traders pressed their bets, pushing speculative activity to a record high. And they just keep pressing. Last week, call buying to open as a percentage of all NYSE volume hit a record that had been set just the prior week. Even more telling, traders are not willing to cap their … Read more