Investment Watch Blog

By LV According to this article that appeared in today’s Washington Post, U.S. Attorney John Huber is expected to conclude that there was no criminal conduct by the Clintons regarding the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html#comments-wrapper This result means that numerous cases of blatant self-dealing by the Clintons, which were cited in … Read more

by DCG Demorat Dhingra: Believes your teenagers have rights you don’t need to know about Washington State Senate Bill 5889, sponsored by demorat Manka Dhingra, went into effect on January 1 this year. The bill relates to “insurance communications confidentiality” for children 13 and above. In a nut shell, children (members of a plan) 13 and older will … Read more

Look how small that rally is that’s pathetic. We need more Americans to stand up to Traitors like Warren ! She is Bad for American Values !   AC

by Dr. Eowyn According to some polls, Vermont Sen. (((Bernie Sanders))), the millionaire socialist (oxymoron and hypocrite alert!), has risen in popularity with Demonrats, now second only to Joe “pedo” Biden. Daily Caller investigative reporter Andrew Kerr writes, Jan. 9, 2020, that since announcing his presidential campaign nearly a year ago in February 2019, Bernie Sander’s … Read more

The internet is forever @SpeakerPelosi pic.twitter.com/TsotqABtZN — Mike_Poppin ☂️🕴🏼 (@oh_cue_m) January 9, 2020 Streamable Mirror: https://streamable.com/2ujzd UPDATE: New Mirror via the GOP two dozen articles on obama’s unauthorized use of force 470,000 died in syria because of it. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/27/congress-still-not-specifically-authorizing-islami/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/obama-isis-syria-air-strikes-legal-argument View post on imgur.com   h/t dr0id

The Changing Supply of Used Vehicles. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. If you have been renting cars periodically, you will have noticed that it’s not unusual now to get into a rental car that has 45,000 miles or even 50,000 miles on the odometer. But 10 years ago, a rental car with 30,000 miles on the odometer … Read more

Something funny’s happening in NIRP land: long-term yields are rising, negative yields are turning positive, and investors are getting punished for having handed their brains to central banks. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. So how much can you lose in a little over four months buying one of the most conservative investments, the German government 30-year bond, … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhmaYWiybis The [DS] is panicking, the MSM is now asking more questions about the fake impeachment. NP is trapped and she can’t make her next move. The patriots have now pushed operation replace and remove, Iran is in the process of flipping, the [DS] is on the run and they are panicking. HRC sends out … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The global economy and financial system are both running on the last toxic fumes of financialization and globalization. For two generations, globalization and financialization have been the two engines of global growth and soaring assets. Globalization can mean many things, but its beating heart is the arbitraging of the labor of the powerless, and … Read more

The week after the year-end Repo Chaos didn’t happen. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The feared chaos in the repo market over the year-end period didn’t materialize as the Fed had flooded the market with cash via repo operations and purchases of T-bills (Treasury securities with maturities of one year or less). This kept repo rates glued to the … Read more

by Michael Snyder What in the world are the Iranians thinking?  After President Trump decided not to respond militarily to the rockets that the Iranians fired at U.S. bases in Iraq, it appeared that a major war had been averted.  People all over the world celebrated this unexpected turn of events, and global stock markets soared.  … Read more

Party like it's … pic.twitter.com/i7fTI4vyvl — Not Jim Cramer (@Not_Jim_Cramer) January 9, 2020 On EV/Sales, the market is at 99th percentile in history pic.twitter.com/T75NSNwSNo — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 9, 2020 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1215353772815405059 97% of CFOs say an economic downtown has already begun or will occur by the end of 2020, according to Deloitte — ian bremmer … Read more

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/9/20 U.S. manufacturing closed out a tumultuous year with the weakest monthly performance since the end of the recession, with orders shrinking and factories continuing to dial back production. The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers’ index fell to 47.2 in December from 48.1, the fifth straight month … Read more

by saman65 This is a long one. Read if you care enough. I’m not promising to say something outrageous. Just what I think, have seen and know. I refute more than a few lies that are told by MSM and independent Media. Iran is a complex country, as I’m sure most countries are. There is … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn Judicial Watch (JW), the DC-based citizens’ watchdog group, is the national leader in enforcing the National Voters Registration Act, which requires states and counties to take reasonable steps to clean their voting rolls by removing ineligible registrations (voters who had died or moved). Below are some examples of JW’s success: In 2018, the … Read more