Investment Watch Blog

by DCG KTVZ reports that Oregon has become the first in the nation to impose statewide rent control upon landlords. From their report: “Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed the first mandatory statewide rent control bill for the U.S. as the economically booming state struggles to control a spiraling housing crisis. The Democratic governor at a signing ceremony … Read more

by Martin Armstrong One of the secret tools government pulls is to deny the people the right to vote on key issues they want that are often cloaked in backroom deals. Seattle is a great example of how the local government pulls every trick in the book to hide the truth about what they are really up to. … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is desperately trying to prevent the Labour Party from fracturing and splitting into two parties. Most Labour Party members want a second referendum in the hope that the people would vote to Remain this time around. Many Labour members remain under the impression that the policy … Read more

Via Quartz A wide swath of white American men are down in the dumps, their dire mood showing up in everything from mortality statistics to national politics. Working-age men who have dropped out of the US workforce were found to be more stressed and sadder than their peers in both poor and rich countries, according to … Read more

It would take a constitutional Convention to do away with the Electoral College. If the US split apart it could look like this.   h/t supporter

By Jared Dillian Headline in Bloomberg the other day: “Millennials Are Facing $1 Trillion in Debt.” A trillion always sounds like a lot. It is a lot. But while the absolute number is large, that is not the issue. The issue is what makes up this millennial debt. It’s mostly student loans, and a staggeringly high amount of these loans … Read more

via thefreethoughtproject: Ashland City, TN — Last August, Mark Campbell was sitting in his house when two strangers showed up at his door. These two strangers lightly knocked and told Campbell that they had guns. Moments later, bullets came flying through Campbell’s door and nearly killed him and his wife. Instead of the two strangers getting … Read more

by DCG I guess peek-a-boo is just not enough entertainment for some adults these days… From NY Post: Instead of telling babies to say “cheese” for the camera, people on Twitter are now literally throwing slices of cheddar at them. The quirky Twitter trend, which has been called the “cheesed challenge,” was started by user @unclehxlmes on Thursday. … Read more

In this informative video, Patriot Nurse discusses the coming civil war and the influence of communist infiltration into the American church, as well as the obvious signs of impending conflict in the United States. The Left has steadily shown that they intend to continue taking away the rights of citizens, all the while attempting to … Read more

He says it’ll bring in 2.5 billion per year. Immigrants would fund the wall, not us.     h/t Voluntaryist

BREAKING: Two PACs founded by AOC's top aide funneled $1+ million in political donations into two of his own private companies, new FEC complaint says AOC also enacted a policy for her office that allows her staff to avoid public financial disclosure lawshttps://t.co/2rq7fQFb3r — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) March 4, 2019 BREAKING: Two PACs founded by … Read more

Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube … Read more

by Troy It’s been almost 10 years since this bull market began. What an incredible run. Despite all the doom-and-gloom news reports, this bull market has been impressive. (And no, it’s not because of “evil government manipulation”). To put this into perspective, someone who bought at the top in 2007 would still have doubled their … Read more

The creation of the derivative has been wrong from the beginning. There’s no good reason for this to exist. Only that which is real should be allowed to be gambled on. Derivatives based on low-rated, high-risk debt? And they expect that it won’t fail? Are they out of their minds? Whatever. Here we go again… … Read more

Collin Rugg from I Love My Freedom reports, On Thursday morning, the hashtag “#TrumpFail” was trending on Twitter in response to President Trump’s summit in Vietnam with Chairman Kim Jong Un. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATF-v6ELHv0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://ilovemyfreedom.org/hell-freez…    

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Residential Construction Skids, Nonresidential Construction Stagnates. The delay gave markets a break from lousy data. OK, it looks like GDP growth, released last week for the fourth quarter (+2.6% annualized rate), will be revised lower on March 28, given today’s data on construction spending for December, which had been delayed due … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The Fed is the mortal enemy of the young generations, and thus of the nation itself. “The wealth effect” generated by rising stock and housing prices has long been a core goal of the Federal Reserve and other central banks. As Lance Roberts noted in his recent commentary So, The Fed Doesn’t Target … Read more

by Michael Snyder  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to come up with new ways to bankrupt America, but meanwhile we have now learned that her mother actually moved out of New York because the taxes were too high.  When AOC’s father Sergio died, things got very tough financially for the family, and at one point Blanca Ocasio-Cortez was … Read more