Investment Watch Blog

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “Our advice is to own as little exposure U.S. equity exposure as your career risk allows.” – Martin Tarlie, member of portfolio allocation at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo investment management The following is an excerpt from the latest Short Seller’s Journal: Economy is worse than policy makers admit publicly – Less than four months … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER The ‘labor market’ is not a ‘fair game’ as people need to work to eat, and business only needs to hire if it likes the return prospects, so real wages should be expected to remain depressed without some form of outside support, which broke down in the 80’s with globalization policies, and … Read more

by Martin Armstrong As there is a drive to eliminate cash, police are engaging in illegal search and seizures of debit cards. More and more businesses are refusing to accept cash, which was noted even at a ball game at Tropicana Field in Florida. They announced that during in 2019, they will no longer accept … Read more

https://youtu.be/e5tu8i4SQjM “Chairman I See Your 5 Minutes Is Up” Matthew Whitaker SLAMS Nadler today matthey whitaker hearing in the house judiciary committee hearing this is latest news and breaking news in the current events and business in politics and political news in business and in mueller trump and trump mueller this is ag matthew whitaker … Read more

by -F-B-I-   Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Livestreams: *CSPAN *FOX *House Judiciary Committee Hearings    

by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the continued crash of the auto industry and GM plans 4,000 layoffs this week. This will affect several factories in North America. Now, we aren’t here to blame Trump because this was going to happen one way or another, … Read more

by John Adams of Adams Economics and Martin North via In The Interests Of The People This week Australia’s Central Bank Governor Philip Lowe spoke to Australia’s National Press Club about the state of the Australian and global economy, the state of the Australian banking system and the future direction for Australian interest rates. The Governor’s speech and the subsequent Q&A was … Read more

via sentimentrader: Fear is slipping Even while the S&P 500 remains below its 200-day average, the VIX has slipped to a multi-month low and is well below its long-term average of 20. This has consistently led to trouble over the short- to medium-term as the ebbing of concern showed that investors were too quick to price … Read more

by confoundedinterest One of the world’s most important borrowing benchmarks staged its biggest one-day decline in a decade on Thursday. The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars sank 4.063 basis points to 2.697 percent, the largest one-day slide since May 2009. The move may reflect a benchmark that’s making up ground following a repricing of short-end Treasuries and … Read more

via marketwatch: An escalating trade war, a hard landing in China, and Brexit could prompt a global recession U.S. investors are once again paying attention to the dark clouds gathering over the global economy, with reason to fear that the next big storm could be as damaging as the downturn that accompanied the global financial crisis … Read more

Cellphone apps now openly have been caught “screen recording” your cellphone screen and sending that data back to the company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlvYuE8cvs    

Global PMIs pic.twitter.com/dOOn35O4nw — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 8, 2019 Darkening ‘Global Economic Skies’ Pull Stocks Lower Global stocks fell for a third straight day on Friday, and were set for their first weekly loss in seven, as investors worried about a broadening global economic slowdown Safe-haven government bonds benefited, with the German 10-year bund yield … Read more

San Francisco is one of the richest cities in the world. It’s given us music, technology and elegant architecture. Now it gives us filthy homeless encampments. One urban planner told me, “I just returned from the Tenderloin (a section of San Francisco). It’s worse than slums of India, Haiti, Africa!” So I went to San … Read more

LEFT or LIBERAL? Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than … Read more

There are more out there than people realize. I would like to see Candace Owens debate Occasional Cortex.     h/t Miggy

by Thinker Guess none of the members of Congress will have a problem with allowing the public to look at their taxes, like those that are calling for the release of the president. It would only be fair for the American people to see not only the taxes of Congress, BUT OF ALL THOSE HOLDING HIGH … Read more

What mess. It’s fun to watch the truth about the Dems being exposed     h/t supporter

The EU is now in a deep panic, they thought they were controlling the situation but now they realize the people are in control, they don’t want a no-deal BREXIT because it would expose them. EU commission slashes forecast economic growth is slowing. The [CB] economy in the US is hitting a tipping point, the … Read more