Investment Watch Blog

WAIT! YOU MEAN GOVERNMENT DOESN’T CREATE THE MONEY IT GIVES AWAY! UN-POSSIBLE! IF THAT WERE TRUE, SOCIALISM WOULD NEVER WORK! via victorygirlsblog: Presidential candidate Andrew Yang cheerfully touted his “Freedom Dividend” during last night’s debate. We will save our economy and Americans by gifting them with $1,000 a month! WOOOO! According to Yang, robots (whom CNN just … Read more

President Trump cut off US funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees last September because UNRWA is “irredeemably flawed.” In fact, it’s worse than he thought. An internal ethics report leaked to the press this week exposed a corrupt UNRWA “inner circle.” Notably, its married director, Pierre Krahenbuhl, allegedly created a position … Read more

by Doug Casey For some time, I’ve been saying that the economy is in the “eye of the storm” and that when it emerged, the weather would be far rougher than in 2008. The trillions of currency units created since 2007, combined with artificially suppressed interest rates, have papered over the situation. But only temporarily. When … Read more

from GATA Trump not alone in seeking lower dollar, as lawmakers unveil foreign investor tax By David J. Lynch Washington Post Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell has spent several months fending off President Trump’s demands to lower the value of the dollar to help American manufacturers sell their goods abroad. Under a bipartisan Senate bill … Read more

President Trump’s recent tweets about Baltimore, rats, and the city’s political leadership have roiled Washington and prompted another round of cries of “racism” from the usual race hustlers, who are seeking out every camera they can find. But rather than focus on whether or not Trump is a racist, how about we focus on the … Read more

via freebeacon: A redesign of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website will make it harder for voters to inspect Sen. Kamala Harris’s controversial record as the state’s top cop. The department removed public access to a number of reports on incarceration in the state, including when presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D.) was California’s attorney … Read more

via morningstar: The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick. Filling the gap between earning and spending is an explosion of finance into nearly every corner … Read more

via MarketWatch: After years of feverish remodeling activity, Americans are starting to cool on home improvement projects. The annual gain in homeowner spending on home improvements and repairs is expected to drop from 6.3% during the current quarter to less than 1% by the second quarter of next year, according to the Leading Indicator for Remodeling … Read more

Prospective Fed nominee Shelton says global economy in ‘very dangerous situation’ like 1930s Judy Shelton, who is President Donald Trump’s likely nominee to the Federal Reserve board, warned Thursday about the dangers of central bank actions. Rate cuts these days are being used simply to devalue currencies and hurt other countries as opposed to promoting … Read more

Washington (CNN)The United States announced Friday it has formally withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Moscow, putting an end to a landmark arms control pact that has limited the development of ground-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. “Russia is solely responsible for the treaty’s demise,” Secretary of State Mike … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The Pentagon is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan as part of a proposed peace deal with the Taliban, U.S. officials told Fox News Thursday. One official warned the withdrawal would be subject to the completion of any agreement. So far, no such deal has been finalized. The … Read more