Investment Watch Blog

Trade War starting to take its toll on manufacturing, China’s capital flight is getting worse, The Euro is about to break a key support against the USD….

August 3, 2018 11:14 am

#TradeWar starting to take its toll on manufacturing (seen notably in new orders component of ISM) @SoberLook https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1024969700399374336 China’s capital flight is getting worse The dollar is jumping against most of the currency #DXY #Yuan #EURUSD https://twitter.com/amital13/status/1025097412594073600 https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1025339582232100864 The Euro …

CRACKDOWN: ICE Agents Break Up Massive Fraud Scheme Aimed at American Taxpayers

August 3, 2018 11:10 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEzOH5H57I Benjamin Arie for the Western Journal reports, The left frequently pushes narratives about immigration that don’t seem to match reality. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cra…

Jim Bianco: “Next Year 20% of Bank Profits Could Come Directly From the Fed”

August 3, 2018 11:07 am

via thesoundingline: CNBC’s Rick Santelli recently spoke with Bianco Research President Jim Bianco about global central bank balance sheets and the increasingly massive profits banks are generating due to the Fed’s decision to pay banks interest on their excess reserves. Santelli …

Investor Alert: Less Than 3% Of The Index Is At A New 52-week High While Wage Growth, Construction, Jobs Added, Auto Sales, Home Sales Has Been Slowing.

August 4, 2018 8:27 amAugust 3, 2018 11:06 am

For those out there who are getting overly excited over the S&P 500, this one’s for you. Less than 3% of the index is at a new 52-week high. https://twitter.com/DavidInglesTV/status/1025185689090981888 Wage growth has been slowing. Construction has been slowing. Jobs …

Kevin O’leary Warns Apple Investors After Value Reaches $1 Trillion

August 3, 2018 10:54 am

via etf trends Shares of Apple crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization mark on Thursday, causing investors to board the tech giant’s titanic boat party to rejoice, but Canadian businessman and “Shark Tank” television personality Kevin O’Leary shouted down the celebration with …

Just How Unhealthy And Unsafe Are Disaster Shelters?

August 3, 2018 10:54 am

via readynutrition: There has been much evidence to support preparing for an emergency and disaster scenario on your own without putting your hopes in crowded shelters or government-operated camps. Even though FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) has come out and said they …

Details Surface About Chinese Spy Who Worked For Sen. Feinstein for 20 years

August 3, 2018 10:53 am

New details emerged Wednesday about how a mole for the government of communist China managed to stay by Senator Dianne Feinstein’s side for nearly 20 years. It happened five years ago, but additional information is just surfacing about how …

Bill Binney In His Own Words: ‘A Collaborative Conspiracy to Subvert the Government of the US’

August 3, 2018 10:49 am

by Jesse “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Edward Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who …

The German Government Pays for 3 Week Vacation for Refugees to Go Home

August 3, 2018 10:49 am

by Martin Armstrong You really cannot make up a story like this, because it sounds just so unbelievable. I am in Germany on business and did not see the place overrun with refugees as on my last trip. So I …

Why Trump Won’t Start a Real Trade War

August 3, 2018 10:14 am

by Bill Bonner NORMANDY, FRANCE – Oh boy… the plot thickens. The New York Times reports: President Trump escalated his trade war with China on Wednesday, ordering his administration to consider more than doubling proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese …

Tommy Robinson Gives POWERFUL Interview with Tucker Carlson

August 3, 2018 10:13 am

https://youtu.be/mdZZD89ucoI Tucker Carlson exclusive interview with Tommy Robinson (8-2-18).

The Left is not Ready for Inner City Trump Supporters!

August 3, 2018 10:13 am

Wandering around the Tubes today… …came across “Uber Guy Jimmy Jay”. Wanted to share it with you guys. https://youtu.be/399nEEY5aJc Encouraging people to step back and rethink things. Really good stuff. https://youtu.be/8fKde4L4m1w h/t Coppercoal

The original trillion-dollar company was made in China

August 3, 2018 9:01 am

Hey Apple, congrats on the big $1T! So the original trillion-dollar company was made in China – PetroChina’s market cap hit $1.1T in 2007 – By the end-2008 it had lost $800b – That was the biggest destruction of shareholder …

ASHE SCHOW: Study Shows Liberal Universities Show Liberal Bias Even In Tweets.

August 3, 2018 8:50 am

Study Shows Liberal Universities Show Liberal Bias Even In Tweets. Andrew Selepak, a researcher at the University of Florida, analyzed more than 1,000 tweets sent by the top 25 and bottom 25 universities on the U.S. News and World Report’s …

CULTURE OF CONTEMPT: Politico Reporter Apologizes for ‘Caustic Remarks’ After Mocking Trump Supporters at Florida Rally…. CNN contributor (wrongly) accuses Trump of treason.

August 4, 2018 8:27 amAugust 3, 2018 7:48 am

Politico Reporter Apologizes for ‘Caustic Remarks’ After Mocking Trump Supporters at Florida Rally. Politico reporter Marc Caputo faced backlash on Twitter after he mocked President Donald Trump’s supporters for heckling CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, calling the president’s supporters …

Update on the Rental Bubbles & Crashes in US Cities

August 3, 2018 7:43 am

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Asking rents spiral down in Chicago & Honolulu, come unglued in Washington DC, drift lower in New York City, but see double-digit surges in Southern California and many less expensive markets. Let’s start with Chicago and …

Here’s No Point Trying To Make Lefties Happy, Because Not Being Happy Is Key To Their Identity

August 3, 2018 7:42 am

Politically correct effort to rename Austin proves Donald Trump was right. “First they came for the Confederate monuments, but who knows where progressive efforts to erase history will end? It is a ‘short hop from the unthinkable to the mandatory.’” IT’S …

Google and youtube search only brings MSM footage of CA wildfires

August 3, 2018 7:34 am

by SherbetMalargus I know we all know this but it just really upset me this morning that while I was trying to find videos of the California fires from ACTUAL PEOPLE, it was literally impossible. Pages and pages of msm …

Alex Jones Interviews Actor Isaac Kappy Who Claims He’s Exposing Hollywood Pedophilia

August 3, 2018 7:33 am

Groundbreaking expose on the underground elite pedophile ring in Hollywood. Now we know why they are always pushing degeneracy. They’re absolutely degenerate.. https://youtu.be/QxMXJf4W0Z0 h/t RMFN

CNN Didn’t Think It Was Funny

August 3, 2018 7:31 am

HILARIOUS VIDEO: Liberal Media Frothing At The Mouth Over CNN’s Jim Acosta Getting Heckled At Trump Rally Start telling the truth and we’ll stop heckling you. What cry babies! h/t DS

Millennials hiring video game coaches for their kids

August 3, 2018 7:30 am

Some parents have a new goal in mind for their children: Be good at “Fortnite.” The Wall Street Journal reported this week that parents nationwide have started hiring “Fortnite” coaches to make their children better at the video game, which has …

Rob Reiner: Fox, Breitbart ‘Trafficking in Another Narrative’ – We Might Be in ‘Last Stage of a Civil War’

August 3, 2018 7:28 am

Wednesday, on “MSNBC Live with Katy Tur,” actor and director Rob Reiner made the argument that Fox News and Breitbart News Network are “trafficking in another narrative” that is different from outlets such as the Washington Post and the New …

Democrats have gone from “It’s the economy, stupid” to “It’s the stupid economy.”

August 3, 2018 7:21 am

Survey: Business Owners Think Trump’s Tariffs Are Awesome #Maga President Donald Trump’s tariffs are very popular with the owners of American businesses. Seventy-one percent of business owners surveyed by UBS Wealth Management Americas support additional tariffs on imports from China. Eighty-eight …

As Glenn likes to say, I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.

August 3, 2018 7:20 am

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: ● Shot: NBC’s Thompson Promises ‘Environmental Civil War’ Over Trump’s Rollback of Regulations. —NewsBusters, today. ● Chaser: NASCAR, NBC announce 10-year deal. —ESPN, July 23, 2013. ● Hangover: Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Sign Multiyear Contract to …

Trump Coup MSM Ignores, Trump Branding MSM Fake News, Tommy Robinson Free

August 3, 2018 7:14 am

The mainstream media (MSM) refuses to acknowledge the fact the FBI and DOJ used phony research paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to get warrants to spy on Donald Trump and his Administration. It refuses to report there …

Motor vehicle sales, Factory orders

August 3, 2018 7:13 am

by WARREN MOSLER Highlights Unit vehicle sales proved surprisingly weak in July, at a 16.8 million annualized rate vs 17.2 million in June. This is the lowest rate since August last year but it will be the comparison with June …

Consumer Debt Suddenly Surges in Spain, Banks Love it, But Regulators Begin to Fret

August 3, 2018 7:05 am

Bad habits die hard. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. So it is that banks in Spain are once again beginning to significantly relax their lending standards. This includes the resurrection of the 100% mortgage, a high-risk instrument …