Investment Watch Blog

South America is collapsing (Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru) and millions will soon flood the US border. Incredible scenes in Quito today, as mass rallies gather to demand Lenín Moreno’s resignation. Moreno implemented deep austerity, betrayed Correa, sold out Julian Assange, censored media, repressed striking workers and the indigenous protests. His fall is only a matter … Read more

As studios spend billions on content and Endeavor scraps its IPO, long-term obligations may weigh down strategic bets. A ripple of anxiety ran through Wall Street on Sept. 9 when Jay Clayton, chairman of the SEC, warned that corporate debt now stands at $11 trillion, half the annual gross domestic product of the United States. … Read more

by DCG Amanda Wood s from the NY Post reports that Dick’s turned $5 million worth of “assault weapons” into scrap metal. From her report: “Ed Stack, who has been the CEO and chairman of the chain since 1984, told “CBS News Sunday” how he came to the controversial decision. “I said, ‘You know what? If we really think … Read more

Money manager Peter Schiff says, ““It’s more politically expedient to take the printing route, especially because nobody believes they are going to destroy the currency. They think they are going to print enough money to reduce the value of the debt enough to make everything go away. It’s like trying to get a little bit … Read more

by DCG Now I know why they want to protect this whistleblower’s identity as I’ve uncovered their photo: DCG  

via silverdoctors: Spoiler Alert: We’re all being duped… Yesterday we highlighted a brand new product from Barclays that hits the ticker today, the “zero fee” paper gold & silver derivatives products “GBUG” and “SBUG”, Exchange Traded Notes that offer investors “exposure” to gold & silver prices, but not really to gold & silver in physical form, only … Read more

from Zero Hedge Following Fed Chair Powell’s surprising announcement today that the Fed was resuming Permanent Open Market Operations after a 5 year hiatus, just as we said last month that it would (see “The Fed Will Restart QE In November: This Is How It Will Do It“)… …  there was a brief debate whether the … Read more

by Jason Burack via Wall St For Main St According to the NY Fed daily Repo Madness daily data disclosures the Fed is taking in as “good collateral” sometimes more than $10 billion dollars per day in mortgage backed securities (MBS) while according to the St. Louis Fed (FRED) data, the Federal Reserve has unloaded $214.515 billion dollars … Read more

China’s Censorship Is Creeping Into America, Blizzard And NBA Bend The Knee To Communist China. The big story trending today is that Blizzard, the company behind Hearthstone, has suspended a player and rescinded prize money over his support for the ongoing Hong Kong protests. This comes in the wake of the South Park episode mocking … Read more

The [DS] is pushing their agenda hard, they know impeachment is a dead end but they cannot stop. The entire whistleblower case is falling apart, the attempts to change the rules is coming back to haunt them and the people are seeing through all this. Trump and the patriots signal that the storm has arrived … Read more

The EU thought they had BJ cornered it turns out that it is the other way around. The economic landscape is now changing, the trade deals are being made and congress needs to vote on the USMCA. Trump has made new trade deals to help the American farmers and to prepare the economy for the … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Once we understand this mechanism, we understand that labor can never get ahead. I’ve been pondering a comment longtime correspondent Drew P. emailed me in response to my post, What’s Holding Up the Market?: “Our time/labor is finite, but money is infinite.” Drew explained that creating new fiat currency and injecting it into a closed … Read more

Its scheme has run into trouble, and a lot is at stake. This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The biggest force behind the startup bubble in the United States has been SoftBank Group, the Japanese publicly traded conglomerate. It has been the biggest force in driving up valuations of … Read more

By Sandra D. Lane According to Food Safety.gov, two of the most common foodborne illnesses are Listeria and E.coli. Dagny Taggart has already written an especially informative article on listeria and a listeria outbreak in the spring of this year that I would caution everyone to read carefully. This dangerous bacterium is fatal in up to 30% of cases and a listeria infection … Read more

from Financial Survival Network John Rubino is back… The recent economic numbers are starting to have a decidedly negative bent to them. Manufacturing is down, the stock market is heading down and nobody knows where it will stop. Trump has been haranguing the Fed to rapidly lower rates and now it appears that he’ll have his wish. … Read more

by Daisy Luther According to a report by Business Insider, the title of the most miserable city in the United States goes to… …Gary, Indiana. BI says that the 50 “most miserable cities” are made so mostly by poverty and a lack of opportunities to pull oneself out of poverty. We’ve identified the 50 most … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn   Do you remember that new book on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh which made new sexual assault charges, but were almost immediately debunked when friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the attack? The book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, is co-authored by two New York Times reporters, Robin Pogrebin … Read more