Investment Watch Blog

via Daniel Lacalle: The G20 deal should not divert our attention from the reality of: Disinflationary pressures Rising spreads Global slowdown Countries wanted to “copy the Fed” and the US deficit spend. The trap: Markets are a relative game. Now the US 10-year bond is the safest asset. And it is draining liquidity off any other risky … Read more

by DCG Renton, a city south of Seattle, has asked citizens and businesses to register their surveillance cameras with the police department so they can get access to thousands of private cameras installed throughout the city. From the MyNorthwest.com story: “It’s called the Camera Registration Program. Since it launched Thursday, more than 40 homeowners and business owners … Read more

https://www.therebel.media/threat-of-… On Friday’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Allum Bokhari, senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, joined me to discuss why people are growing more concerned about threats to their free speech from Silicon Valley big tech companies.      

  They openly proclaim that pretty much everything Trump has ever done and everyone he’s ever talked to is under some sort of investigation: https://web.archive.org/web/20181216132810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mounting-legal-threats-surround-trump-as-nearly-every-organization-he-has-led-is-under-investigation/2018/12/15/4cfb4482-ffbb-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.44a3a313ebc3      

Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver may not be the most popular guy in Arizona these days, but I’d venture to guess that not many people hate his guts more than Greta Rogers. Rogers has quickly become an internet sensation thanks to her merciless evisceration of Sarver at a Phoenix city council meeting this week. One … Read more

by TheAngryHippii Misleading information is the bane of all who are undergoing the process of self-actualization. Or as some refer to it, awakening. The problem therein lies the fact that we are forced to interpret our past based off of our perception. And, our perception can be manipulated by those who pose themselves to be … Read more

via TVUmK:   Data was provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, found here. I used the ggplot2 and gganimate R libraries for the visualization. The code is available on Github.            

by Thinker On December 3, the Center for Security Policy held its annual Freedom Flame Award Dinner in honor of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Joe diGenova, founding partner of diGenova & Toensing, LLP and former United States Attorney, District of Columbia, introduces Freedom Flame Award recipient Tom Fitton. Well, once again it looks like justice … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW13I0iXJM   So what do you think? Will it start on the 22, 24, 28? This year? Next? Before Jan 3rd? Actually the best Christmas gift is unsealed indictments beginning on the 22nd.     h/t Proud Trump Supporter

by Thinker History shows the people who choose to seek it out, that most wars, corruption, blackmail, theft, dishonor, comes from an individual without honor, pride, and a content of character they want to hide. If your an American over the age of fifty and have watched the corruption as it grew after the murder … Read more

via northmantrader: Oh dear. Ten trading days left in the year and things are looking grim. Last week’s 100 handle rip off of the Monday lows was sold again amid relentless fund outflows producing the lowest weekly close on $ES in 2018. Many sectors made new yearly lows including banks, transports and small caps. The 2009 bull … Read more

via Sunny Oh Investors fled U.S. equity funds at the fastest pace on record in the week ended Wednesday, according to data from Lipper. More than $46 billion was redeemed from U.S. stock mutual funds and ETFs between Dec. 5 and 12, the largest weekly outflow since Lipper began tracking weekly flows in 1992. The … Read more

via Colby Smith In the decade since the financial crisis, central bankers around the world have taken on the mantle of reinvigorating the global economy. By keeping interest rates low and buying up trillions of dollars’ worth of government bonds and other assets, these institutions helped to prop up growth at a time when the world … Read more