Investment Watch Blog

via zerohedge: One month ago we wrote that in the aftermath of the shocking government May 24 seizure of Baoshang Bank – not shocking because the bank failed as most Chinese banks are insolvent if left to their own devices due to the real, and far higher levels of non-performing loans, but because the government allowed it to … Read more

By Lance Gaitan As you know, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets every six weeks to decide whether they need to change policy to coax our economy in the right direction. You also know that the Fed has a Congressional mandate to provide maximum employment and stable prices, which it works to achieve by manipulating interest rates. Well, Fed … Read more

by TFittonJW Heavy lifting by Judicial Watch gets huge results — again. A giant mailing by LA County and other actions required by the settlement should result in the immediate and ongoing clean up of the rolls in California: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/ Some background vids:

New Law Would End Social Media Censorship, Leaves Big Tech Is Outraged. Josh Hawley, a republican, has proposed a new law that would remove section 230 protections from big tech giants under certain circumstances. Naturally many of these companies are outraged and demand to have it both ways. They want to have the right to … Read more

by visualcapitalist If you feel like you’ve seen this diagram before, you probably have. Every year, it’s assembled by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a research center founded by UC Berkeley and funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy. The ambitious aim is to chart all U.S. energy use in one Sankey diagram, including the … Read more

By David Stockman In a new note out early this week, J.P. Morgan has shot down the idea of a second half resurgence in the automotive sector that many had expected would be the turning point for the industry, which is now mired in recession.    

by Simon Black   On January 3, 2009, about six months before I launched Sovereign Man more than a decade ago, the Bitcoin blockchain came into existence. 50 bitcoins were mined by the network’s creator in that very first transaction. And within a few days, the first open-source Bitcoin software was released. Few people noticed. By … Read more

by Playaguy The idea of “settled science” is in itself, pseudoscientific. Science is never settled it is just the best understanding we have today. Worth the short watch.      

  h/t silverdoctors

Trump Train (Official Music Video) – High Energy! At Dems’ Event on Poverty, No One Talked About Jobs Nine Democratic presidential hopefuls, including front-runners Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, flocked to the Poor People’s Moral Action Congress on Monday, each trying to outpander their rivals and promise the most government handouts. It was … Read more

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS Today’s guest, Darryl Schoon, sits down with Mike Manwell  to share his thoughts on the monetary system and how the game is rigged against the people. During our discussion he outlines how all the prior market crashes were a warm up for what is coming.

By David Stockman    

BY SRSROCCO Few analysts realize that for the past decade, the global economy has been propped up by the U.S. Shale Oil Ponzi Scheme.  Without the huge increase in U.S. shale oil production, the global economy would have peaked and collapsed into a severe depression.  And according to the new data put out in the … Read more

By Rodney Johnson The dark days of 2009 now seem like forever ago. We didn’t know which banks would survive. The Fed made all banks take bailout money so that citizens wouldn’t know which ones were in trouble and then drain them of deposits. The Fed made bank stocks ineligible for shorting so that investors wouldn’t drive their market … Read more

Authored by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I recently wrote a piece that was widely read called “Why You Should Not Underestimate The Severity Of The Coming Recession.” In that piece, I argued that the odds of a recession in the not-too-distant future were increasing rapidly and that mainstream economists are incorrect for assuming that it … Read more

By Harry Dent With all eyes focused on Facebook’s cryptocurrency reveal tomorrow, what the Fed will do this Wednesday, and Slack’s IPO on Thursday, all of which we’ll address in the coming days, let’s turn our attention to another major issue that is silently unfolding: the great baby bust. More than any of the current hot events, … Read more