Investment Watch Blog

by Chris As bad, awful and stench-o-rific as the non-prosecution of Merrill Lynch over the gold bid rigging is, the government’s handling of the Jeffery Epstein case is just as bad and maybe even worse. It’s 99.999% clear that he was and continues to be protected because other powerful people were involved with him in … Read more

Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. bank, will stop lending to companies that run private prisons and detention centers. “We have decided to exit the relationship’’ with companies that provide prison and immigration-detention services, Vice Chairman Anne Finucane said Wednesday in an interview. “We’ve done our due diligence that we said we would do … Read more

https://np.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/c5pw4m/the_google_insider_video_thats_been_making_the https://np.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/c5ocmw/it_seems_as_if_reddit_is_censoring_bitchute_i     h/t peetss

via breitbart:   At Mastercard’s AGM this morning, the far-left groups SumOfUs and Sleeping Giants circled the venue with a mobile billboard stating: “Putting hate groups out of business? #Priceless.” …As left-wing political activist groups have pressured social media companies to blacklist their political rivals, they are also intent on destroying the ability of the political … Read more

by theBTMANIAC90   Teddy Roosevelt was a true old school progressive who recognized that as long as we have international politics and government, there will never be a 100% free market. Corporations receive charters from the government that already grant certain benefits sole proprietorships, partnerships and co-ops don’t enjoy. Furthermore as corporations grow they gain … Read more

by Claudio Grass via News Room Interview with Chris Powell Every seasoned gold investor and every student of monetary history has likely stumbled upon various theories about institutional manipulation of the gold market. While it is true that rarely is there smoke without fire, it is still important to approach this matter rationally and form opinions based on … Read more

by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan Businesses in the United States are having a harder time in the real world than the stock market indicates, says CNBC‘s market expert Jim Cramer. “The real world is much worse than the stock market indicates,” Cramer said on Squawk Box.  Cramer stated that out of the “dozens of company executives he’s spoken with”, not … Read more

via theatlantic: Libra will be big. Facebook has 2.4 billion users, and if, as Facebook promises, they can costlessly, seamlessly jump from their Facebook accounts to their Calibra wallets to spend money, many of them will do so. Visa has issued more than 2 billion credit cards and is used by more than 40 million merchants. … Read more

Billions of dollars worth of China-made goods subject to tariffs by the Trump administration in its trade fight with Beijing are dodging the China levies by entering the U.S. via other countries in Asia, especially Vietnam, according to trade data and overseas officials.   https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-tariffs-on-china-are-being-blunted-by-trade-cheats-11561546806    

As Congress’s resident socialists tell it, the Americans who hold a collective $1.6 trillion in student loan debt are victims of an exploitative higher education system, robbed of their financial future through no fault of their own. That’s why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and their cohorts introduced a bill this week to cancel all student … Read more