Investment Watch Blog

by TFittonJW Lou Dobbs interview: One minute reaction: https://instagram.com/p/B531rEOgNsf/ Our Judicial Watch statement: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-statement-on-fisa-application-report/ Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General report: Today’s IG report on the Russiagate FISA abuse provides abundant evidence that the FBI and DOJ massively violated the law in order to obtain … Read more

by sundance U.S. Attorney John Durham issued a statement contradicting a key and consequential  conclusion of Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and reads in part: …”last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.” The reason for this conflict, and immediate rebuke by Durham, is … Read more

By Harry Dent The first global debt bubble came from 2001-08, rising from $77 tr (trillion) to $180 tr. Most of that was in the developed countries (DCs). The second bubble, based on easy money from DC QE policies to bail out their debt bubble, saw that global debt rise to $250 tr. Most of … Read more

Macro Voices, Released on 12/9/19 Comparing the popular narrative of rapidly improving sentiment with global dollar liquidity indicators Beyond Trade Wars and Trump Tweets: What liquidity indicators are actually telling us about the global economic outlook The “King Dollar” meme: Why a strong USD doesn’t necessarily imply U.S. economic outperformance

by Money Metals Wall Street owns Washington DC – figuratively speaking. In literal terms, the largest banks in the nation own the Federal Reserve. They also bought and paid for a great number of DC politicians as evidenced by campaign contributions, Congressional voting records and sham oversight. This was on full display at last week’s Committee … Read more

by AlmostWardCunningham At this point, congressmen should be able to vote and debate from their district. We have the technology. Force ‘em to reside in their home state, only use the capital for a couple months/for the huge issues.    

This is going to be one very important week for the markets and the economy, and it looks like most people are just a little too cozy in their blind faith in the Fed and their blind faith in President Trump. When everybody is so sure of something, such as right now, bad things happen…

by Blacksmith Hostmaster We just capped off a spectacular weekend in St. Lucia with members of our Total Access group to explore this country’s Citizenship-by-Investment program. I’ve written about Citizenship-by-Investment programs before; these are completely legal programs that exist in several countries where foreigners can invest a particular sum of money in a country and become a citizen. … Read more

WELL. US Attorney Durham objects to IG findings on Russia probe origins in stunning statement. The U.S. attorney who is conducting a wide-ranging investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe released a rare statement Monday saying he disagrees with conclusions of the so-called FISA report — after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found in that … Read more

Trump hits back at IG’s Russia probe report: ‘An embarassment’ IG Report Confirms Brennan Lied Through His Teeth About Steele Dossier Donald Trump: IG Report Shows ‘Attempted Overthrow’ of Presidency President Donald Trump said he was deeply disturbed and saddened by the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) report on Monday. “This … Read more

Lib Tim Pool tells it how it is. TRUMP IS WINNING!   They know it. They have nothing and nobody. The collective DNC is a lousy lot.   AC

by LV The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), led by Michael Horowitz, just issued a report, which concludes that there was no intentional misconduct or political bias by the FBI when it sought a highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page.  Instead, the report faults … Read more

From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: How gold is entering another bull market, gold to go to all-time highs in the next few years, and Slovakia is thinking of repatriating its gold from the U.K. Why gold’s newly-ushered … Read more

via bearingarms: I've been working on gun violence for over a decade. And as president, I will fight gun violence from every angle and do everything in my power to save lives. pic.twitter.com/clzxVaktTO — Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) December 6, 2019 “On February 5th, 2015, in front of less than 400 people, Michael Bloomberg had a speaking … Read more

“Obama attempted to jail journalists. Donald Trump’s never done that….His rhetoric is the worst, no question, but he hasn’t tried to jail anybody and Obama did it twice.”     h/t Eustace Muffins

by FS As discussed with Macro Watch’s Richard Duncan on our podcast this week (see The Most Extraordinary Monetary Policy U-Turn In History), credit growth has moved sharply higher following the repo crisis in September. The Fed is now injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the financial system and expanding their balance sheet at the fastest … Read more

Authored by Nomi Prins via The Daily Reckoning, It’s hard to believe the end of the year is upon us and 2020 is right around the corner. In many ways, it went by very quickly. For economies and markets, it was a year marked by uncertainty over economic slowdowns, trade wars and a complete pivot … Read more