Investment Watch Blog

by Charles Hugh-Smith Normalizing and institutionalizing fraud undermines the foundations of the economy and the financial system. I am indebted to Manoj Samanta (twitter: @flation_debate) for the insightful concept the commoditization of fraud. The first step in the commoditization of fraudis to normalize fraud as Business as Usual (BAU) to the point that it’s no longer viewed as “wrong,” destructive … Read more

Michael Bastasch from The Daily Caller reports, Democratic lawmakers, including one presidential candidate, rallied with environmental activists in Washington, D.C., Monday night calling on Congress to pass the Green New Deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-7z28kaPQ4 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/14/de…    

Despite what we are lead to believe, the economy is not sound. Derivative products are unsettling and will once again wreak havoc within the financial system. Do you think that a bail-out similar to 2008/2009 will be sufficient? Or they will go above and beyond that? There are many reasons why an economy can do … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94as5dK_gl4 As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court. — Roe, 410 U.S. at 221–22 (White, J., dissenting).  

My Federalist article up just NOW!! James Clapper Knew There Was No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion In 2016 https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/24/james-clapper-knew-no-evidence-trump-russia-collusion-2016/  

The march continues and mainstream corporate propaganda stations still do not understand what is happening and refuse to acknowledge it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yYNzkWCvik   h/t salvia_d

He said the worst arteries he has seen had the lowest cholesterol and the best arteries have the highest cholesterol.   AC

by Claudio Grass via Claudiograss.chMainstream analysts and market bulls have some powerful numbers on their side: government-published unemployment figures remain low, America just had the best first quarter of a year for stocks since 1998, and the U.S. dollar is still the world’s reserve currency. But is all of this really indicative of a strong economy and a … Read more

from Zero Hedge Overall, U.S. total cross-border investment was an $8.1 billion outflow in March, consisting of: Foreign net selling of Treasuries at $12.5b Foreign net selling of equities at $23.6b Foreign net buying of corporate debt at $1.1b Foreign net buying of agency debt at $4.7b The biggest seller of Treasuries was our friends to the north … Read more

Supposedly this guy made Anti-Socialism comments on his Facebook and then the NZ Police paid him a visit to discuss this with him, but wouldn’t agree to discussing while on camera. Looks like the precursor to Orwellian Thought Policing live and direct. Scary times folks https://youtu.be/4tKEjSVhj-Q     h/t TalmudGod_Yaldabaoth

by axolotl_peyotl Pepperidge Farms would remember if they hadn’t been wiped out by Monsanto’s poisons. Incredibly, two of the most evil corporations ever created by man, Monsanto and Bayer, have joined forces in some horrific conjunction of anti-human insanity. The pharmaceutical companies are perhaps only matched by the military industrial complex in their genocidal ambitions. Undoubtedly, Big Pharma … Read more

The dangers of any form of internet censorship: https://tinyurl.com/y3d9xok4  

by Michael Snyder Wal-Mart gets approximately one-fourth of all the merchandise that it sells from China, and Wal-Mart’s CFO is warning that “higher tariffs will lead to higher prices for customers”.  In other words, U.S. consumers will soon be feeling a lot of pain.  Over the last several decades, major retailers such as Wal-Mart have … Read more

The Federal Reserve, by manipulating interest rates and creating money out-of-thin air, produces economic bubbles that must always end in painful economic busts. Have you ever noticed that Fed officials never actually acknowledge any of this? They never warn Americans ahead of time and everyone acts surprised when it all comes down. Ron Paul explains … Read more

Specifically, TAC Indices, the premier provider of Air Cargo rates around the world, shows Hong Kong to North America air freight rate in Hong Kong dollars versus per kilogram collapsed -42% from November into early April (a total of 17 weeks of declines). The epicenter of the slowdown is concentrated on routes to and from … Read more

By David Stockman When the Wall Street chart-monkeys get vertigo on steroids—cliff-diving one day and ripping higher the next—they eventually become foaming-at-the-mouth-manic. That’s happening right now. And when the final blow-off mania arrives, that’s exactly when Wall Street bubbles are about to collapse. So it’s time for a plan on how not to become: COLLATERAL DAMAGE. As the markets first … Read more

From Birch Gold Group According to official data provided by the World Gold Council, Central Banks are buying up gold fast. In fact, gold purchases by Central Banks and other institutions increased a whopping 68% year-over-year from Q1 2018. You can see the increase in the chart below: The last time gold was bought at this pace was in 2011, when prices were … Read more