Investment Watch Blog

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jan/19/health.medicineandhealth3 According to a John Hopkins study, the 3rd leading cause of death is medical errors. The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. “At that time, it was under-recognized that diagnostic errors, medical mistakes, and the absence of safety nets … Read more

QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERED: Where are New Yorkers headed? “New Yorkers are leaving the state in droves. Where are they going—and what are they earning when they get there? Based on just-updated federal tax return data through 2017-18, the Empire Center’s exclusive rollover map provides some answers.” Meanwhile, in the other big blue parenthesis state, “California added more … Read more

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Stop Lying. Ever since Donald Trump declared for the presidency, the mainstream media—apparently to protect us and themselves from the dreaded Donald (even though his candidacy and presidency were enriching many of them as never before)—have given themselves permission to lie about and/or distort and/or exaggerate almost everything they say about … Read more

via 321gold While I happen to be a giant fan of the Daily Sentiment Index I also use a bunch of other signals. The DSI is the single best indicator I’ve found but there are dozens of other measures of investor sentiment. If you are a contrarian, you search constantly for some way of figuring out what investors … Read more

Talk Digital Network, Released on 1/1/20 Everything is coming up roses for Donald Trump, impeachment is a major non-event. Yet there are still things that can bring him down. A stock market collapse, a credit collapse or a geo-political event that kills the economy. Junk bonds are now booming, a late cycle event that is … Read more

by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders The US stock market has recently rallied throughout most of the last year after the very deep downside price rotation in late 2018.  Our researchers believe there is a very high likelihood of this trend continuing in early 2020, yet we would need to see confirmation across various broader indicators before … Read more

By Mining.com Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed an electrolyte that could help manufacturers produce recyclable, self-healing commercial batteries. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the researchers said that they have created a solid polymer-based electrolyte that can self-heal after damage—and the material can also be recycled without the use … Read more

by Michael Snyder Many of us are expecting 2020 to be a very unusual year, and it certainly didn’t take long for the weirdness to start.  In this article I am going to share several examples of this weirdness with you, and I have a feeling that this is just the beginning of what we … Read more

by Michael Snyder If this is what “the good times” look like, how nightmarish are “the bad times” going to be?  In America today, more than 500,000 of us are homeless, about 40 million of us are living in poverty, 50 percent of all workers make less than $33,000 a year, and 70 percent of us have cried … Read more

Prices fall year-over-year in San Francisco Bay Area & New York condo market. Seattle below June 2018. Chicago nearly flat year-over-year. Other markets lose steam. Phoenix, Tampa, Charlotte surge. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Powered by the innumerable millionaires and multimillionaires that the mega IPOs would be suddenly printing in 2019, home prices in the San Francisco … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith One day the stock market ‘falcon’ will no longer hear the Fed ‘falconer’, and the Pavlovian magical thinking will break down as the market goes bidless. The past decade has shown that when the Federal Reserve creates trillions of dollars out of thin air (QE), U.S. stocks rise accordingly. The correlation is very … Read more