Investment Watch Blog

by WARREN MOSLER Starting to look more like most of the rest of the world: US retail trade fell by 1.2 percent from a month earlier in December 2018, following a revised 0.1 percent growth in November and missing market expectations of 0.2 percent gain. It was the steepest decline in trade since September 2009, as … Read more

via consortiumnews: When Hawaii’s Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced her plans to run in the 2020 presidential election, I predicted that it would disrupt war propaganda narratives and force a much-needed conversation about U.S. interventionism, but I didn’t realize that it would happen so quickly, so ubiquitously and so explosively. Gabbard officially began her campaign for president a little over a … Read more

by Playaguy This video is already over a year old but still worth the half hour, in my opinion. A man who writes a cartoon strip has a very interesting perspective on society. In this video he shares his opinion why politics is making people so irrational (screaming at the sky anyone) and what to … Read more

by Michael Snyder All over America retailers are going bankrupt and closing stores.  Of course this has been happening for years, but as you will see below the numbers have dramatically escalated during the early portion of 2019.  Our landscape is already littered with countless numbers of hollowed out stores and abandoned malls, and it is … Read more

by Michael Snyder On Wednesday, the House and the Senate both passed a massive 1,159 page spending bill that they were given less than 24 hours to read.  There was a concerted effort by the leadership of both parties to rush this bill through before the American people could be mobilized to oppose it.  We … Read more

Judge removes Manafort’s plea deal. McCabe admits everything,[RR] is leaving his post, he never testified but he has no problem speaking to reporters. Mueller’s insurance policy is almost up. MSM prepares the public for Mueller’s Russian Collusion report, they are projected on how nothing was found. Trump is reviewing the border bill, there are tons … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Consumer exuberance maxed out last summer and has since changed direction. The headlines today were all about retail sales that “fell most since 2009,” or as the WSJ put it, “at Fastest Pace since 2009,” or as CNBC put it, “so bad it’s either suspect data or a recession warning.” So … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The smart money is liquidating assets, paying off debt and moving capital into collateral that isn’t impaired by debt or speculative valuations. The Federal Reserve’s sudden return to “accommodative” dovishness in response to the stock market’s swoon telegraphs its intent to fire up QE once the recession kicks into gear. QE (quantitative easing) … Read more

by John Rubino People who assumed the Fed, along with the rest of the government, would cave the minute the financial markets got a little choppy turned out to be right. A couple of bad months and the “normalization” of both interest rates and the Fed’s balance sheet have stopped cold. Now the markets expect … Read more

Two thirds of the American people declare bankruptcy because of medical bills. Obama’s ACA was suppose to fix this, it did not.US retail is collapsing, it is a race against time, the [CB] economy is deteriorating at an accelerated rate, this is part of the plan, let the [CB] economy destroy itself. CA is in … Read more

by TFittonJW Visit JudicialWatch.org to find out more about our investigations into the DOJ, Rod Rosenstein, & Andrew McCabe.      

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LRWQfIdGc8 Nancy Pelosi REACTS To President Trump Declaring A National Emergency Over The Wall nancy pelosi reacted to president trump declaring a national emergency over the wall trump national emergency was stated earlier today that he might do it or might not but sarah sanders and others like mitch mcconnell stated they talked to president … Read more

I Love My Freedom reports, Documentary filmmaker and Democrat Socialist Michael Moore is one of President Trump’s loudest celebrity critics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWazLdpcH14 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://ilovemyfreedom.org/anti-trump…    

You don’t need to watch an entire 25 minutes to realize this is a national emergency. The Most Crossed Areas between the US and Mexico: 2,000 Illegals Caught in 72 Hours: And then there’s the Canadian-US border that gets little press. Border agents stretched too thin to cover over 5,000 miles. Entering from Mexico via … Read more

CNBC, Released on 2/13/19 Sean Parker, chairman of The Parker Foundation, discusses big tech’s data privacy problem.    

In his first interview since being fired, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is telling “60 Minutes” why he opened up investigations involving President Trump.   h/t supporter