Investment Watch Blog

Banks worldwide have announced major job cuts this year. Globally, 75,700 jobs are reportedly being eliminated, with the most recent announcement coming from Italy’s largest bank.  

By Robert Ross I’m sure you’re familiar with the “retail apocalypse.” Brick-and-mortar retailers are dying off as people buy more stuff online, or so the story goes. This trend has taken out household names like Circuit City, Blockbuster Video, and Payless ShoeSource. Even luxury retailer Barneys filed for bankruptcy this year. All told, about 9,000 … Read more

by Michael Snyder I don’t do many articles about toys, but when I learned about the disgusting toys that many Americans are buying for their children this year, I just had to comment.  Look, I certainly understand that normal bodily functions can be funny sometimes, and it is not wrong to laugh about them once … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clVAxQIzV0Y

European banks could need as much as 400 billion euros ($442 billion) in capital to comply with new rules aimed at making the global financial system better able to bear potential losses, a study commissioned by the European Union’s banking lobby showed. Under the new rules, which are known as Basel III, an “output floor” … Read more

Brian Ochsner interviewed by Half Dollar of Silver Doctors Farmer & Marketing Strategist Brian Ochsner sat down with Silver Doctors on Thursday for a robust discussion on farming in America. How are U.S. farmers doing in the face of a trade war, highly financialized markets and a loss of competitiveness in the global marketplace? Some of the … Read more

Wow you can really tell he’s beyond done. He absolutely destroys every Dem in that room.     h/t PirateMonkey

https://youtu.be/1QUlPXOj214

by smurfin101   Trump: US Robbed By ‘Elite’ He ‘Used to Be’ Part Of (2016) Said he will drop the US from the TPP (which he did) Said he will hold foreign countries accountable for breaking trade laws (which he did) Said he will renegotiate NAFTA (which he did) Said he will called out china for being a … Read more

via thetruthseeker: Los Angeles’ head of homelessness is resigning after presiding over a 33% increase in homelessness over the course of just five years. Peter Lynn, head of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority, announced that he would leave at the end of the year, with the LAHSA having splashed out a total of more than … Read more

Jonathan Turley, professor at George Washington University Law School, delivers his opening statement at the House Judiciary Committee’s public impeachment hearing. #FoxNews   AC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtz3DoxxRk   Shocking video about the economic collapse of Germany and Deutsche Bank Collapse! Germany’s economic indicators across the board are shrinking. And with Merkel masking a massive tax raise as a political cave to the rising Greens party, the future for Germany’s economic growth looks terrible. Germany is a Dead Economy Walking. The implosion … Read more

Do you think that the stock market would crash overnight if the Fed said no more QE, and reduction of the balance is coming? If so, what does that tell us about the underlying issues? If the central banks intervene in the markets, the expectation is that this is forever. There was never any indication … Read more