Investment Watch Blog

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In a recent weekly newsletter (Subscribe for free e-delivery), I discussed the rather dramatic decline of short-interest in the S&P 500 which suggests a high degree of complacency by investors. As Wolf Richter recently noted: “Of the total shares outstanding of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, only 2.6% were out on loan … Read more

by The Phoenix Stocks broke upwards last week from the consolidation pattern we’ve been watching. Both breadth and credit suggested this move was coming. Stocks had some catching up to do and if you took our analysis from two weeks ago to go long, you’ve done well. So where do we go from here? The answer … Read more

‘We can’t ignore Trump’s bigotry and cruelty’ America’s second-largest teachers union wants to educate its 1.7 million members in how to practice inclusion in the classroom. Namely, by reminding students at every turn how they are different from others. The fall issue of the American Federation of Teachers’ quarterly journal, American Educator, is brimming with calls for incorporating … Read more

Was it Trump’s magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock? I’m beginning to think that hidden somewhere in the White House or Trump Tower there’s a magic wand that the president wields which turns his detractors— old Obama hands, make-believe conservative politicians and commentators, Democrats, and the media, into laughingstocks. If so, this weekend … Read more

Who cares about public pension liability? Well, you should – after all, it’s the reason entire cities and even states are facing bankruptcy. Joshua Rauh, professor of finance at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, paints a startling picture of just how broken the public pension system really is, and what will happen … Read more

by Michael Snyder Have you noticed that each year the overall tone of Halloween just continues to get darker and darker?  The movies keep getting more graphic, the decorations keep getting more gory and even the costumes keep getting more twisted.  When I was growing up, I remember watching relatively benign cartoons such as “It’s … Read more

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via heisenbergreport: BofA’s Mark Cabana – who repeatedly warned about a possibly imminent squeeze in short-term funding markets prior to the acute episode that grabbed headlines late last month and caught the Fed flat-footed – is worried that a “combustible cocktail” may create the conditions for another such episode at the end of the year. The … Read more

Why Jerome Powell did the 180 degree turn in monetary policy in December 2018, by Danielle DiMartino, former advisor at the Dallas branch of the FED.   The reversal in monetary policy was to lower interest rates. And thar’s the catch 22. He can’t raise interest rates because the debt already out there would be … Read more

by Willy_WY   Full video showing the record from 1960 to 2019 is available here: https://youtu.be/qlGxfVJt95M Source: World Tourism Organization Tools: Python, d3.js  

by theimpossiblesalad Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics, Natality public-use data 1995-2018 Tools: Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop for the visualization If you liked this, please consider following my Instagram account ( https://www.instagram.com/statistics_data_facts ) for … Read more