Investment Watch Blog

by Mark Angelides This has been a truly terrible week for former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. She has not only shown herself to be against proper democracy and blind to reality, but also that she is morally bankrupt and addicted to the idea of a free people. In an interview with CNN, Clinton said that … Read more

by Mark Angelides Black Lives Matter students and staff at UVA have denounced the statue of the university founder, Thomas Jefferson, and rather unsurprisingly released a list of demands. As with all of these demands, there is a fair amount of idiocy thrown in with some of the more reasonable ones. But it seems that … Read more

Last Wednesday was another good day to make money on Wall Street: Stocks pushed up, interest rates were at rock bottom and the VIX gauge of investor unease was again trending downward. But as investors celebrated yet another bounce-back from a market slip, Christopher Cole, a trader who runs a hedge fund here that makes … Read more

by gavypavl  To start with, we’re going to have to take something as an axiom. It should be self-evident, but it’s safer to state it: that Clinton should know that when something is marked “classified,” it means it’s classified. Similarly, we have to assume that she knows that stripping classified headers of an email and redistributing … Read more

by Samvel Z. Harutyunyan   Yes, America is the greatest country indeed, a superpower, democracy number one in the world.  All the more so, it’s a high time to stop that monumental romp, and stop it as soon as possible. Usually, a practice of erecting the monuments comes from the ancient times. Emperors and empresses, kings, … Read more

by Ruby Henley First they suppress our free speech and our publications, and next they come for us. We have reached a serious crossroads in censorship by Paypal, Facebook, and Google. Have you noticed that “anti-Islamic” references have been suppressed by our media and even our President as of late?  I have noticed it, and … Read more

Signs of an epic financial top in the making! ICOs may well be the most popular investment craze since the dotcom boom of 1999-2000 HERE is the deal. You can buy an entry in a computer ledger issued by a startup company on the basis of an unregulated prospectus. It is called an “initial coin … Read more

By Michael Snyder Should you get free money from the U.S. government every month simply for being alive?  That may sound like a crazy idea to many of us, but the truth is that this will likely be one of the biggest political issues in the 2020 presidential election.  At this point, 40 percent of all Americans … Read more

by Robert Carbery We have been at war for far too long. Afghanistan is a war that cannot be won. We are not there because of 9/11. We are there to expand the empire and it should not be allowed to continue. So much money is being wasted and one senator has had enough.   … Read more

Historical Debt Outstanding – Annual 1900 – 1949 The first fiscal year for the U.S. Government started Jan. 1, 1789. Congress changed the beginning of the fiscal year from Jan. 1 to Jul. 1 in 1842, and finally from Jul. 1 to Oct. 1 in 1977 where it remains today. To find more historical information, … Read more

America’s middle class had its highest-earning year ever in 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median household income in America was $59,039 last year, surpassing the previous record of $58,655 set in 1999, the Census Bureau said. The figure is adjusted for inflation and is one of the most closely watched indicators of how the middle class is faring … Read more

The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration. Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center analysts have reviewed every mention of President Trump and top administration officials on ABC’s World News … Read more

By Michael Snyder When will America finally wake up?  The borrower is the servant of the lender, and we now have a colossal 20 trillion dollar chain around our collective ankles.  We have willingly enslaved ourselves, our children and our grandchildren, and yet our addiction is so insatiable that we continue to add more than … Read more

by Geoffrey Grider KEEP THESE NUMBERS IN MIND: 316 TO 90 AND 80 TO 17. THEY WERE THE LOPSIDED VOTES IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEAL PRESIDENT TRUMP MADE WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ON STORM AID, THE DEBT LIMIT AND GOVERNMENT FUNDING. EDITOR’S NOTE: From the way the GOP in Washington are acting, you would think … Read more

By Michael Snyder Two major hurricanes, unprecedented earthquake swarms and wildfires roaring out of control all over the northwest United States – what else will go wrong next?  When I originally pointed to the month of September as a critical time, I had no idea that we would see so many catastrophic natural disasters during this … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter For years, individual investors in the US have been a dreary bunch, as stocks soared relentlessly since bottoming out in 2009. But 18 months ago, in February 2016, they finally caught the bug, and now optimism has surged at a record pace. Optimism about the stock market in particular has reached … Read more

Analyst/trader Gregory Mannarino says, “Gold has just hit a high for the year, and that is also a trajectory that will continue. Why will this keep going? Let’s go back to the dollar. Investors don’t want anything to do with the dollar. They are dumping their dollars here. We are going to get, at some … Read more

https://youtu.be/I8_xgHnNV3Y   passed 80 to 17 no votes..all 17 were GOP NO VOTES… Published September 08, 2017 Fox News NOW PLAYING Senate approves spending package on debt, Harvey relief Close President Trump on Friday signed a $15 billion Hurricane Harvey relief bill that includes a short-term suspension of the debt ceiling and funding to keep … Read more

By Michael Snyder I was absolutely floored when I learned what had happened.  On Saturday night I was going through my emails, and I discovered that one of my supporters had sent me a message informing me that Ann Coulter had mentioned me in a tweet.  I wondered if that could possibly be true, so … Read more

by Ruby Henley It is September 9, 2017, and the nightmare of Hurricane Irma is closing in on Floridians and those in the path of Hurricane Irma.  The path of Irma is moving westward, which takes it off Miami and on Tampa.  The pressure of those in Florida as they evacuate is unimaginable, but it … Read more

by Mark Angelides The Messed Up Media are so desperate to run down the President and , more importantly, show themselves to be the arbiters AND reflectors of truth, that they have taken to using the most biased information available if it backs up their point. The problem is that people don’t look at the … Read more

The chart nobody on Wall Street wants you to see. We can lose a decade. At least: pic.twitter.com/otLGZt8VXD — Scott Sherman (@scottsherman) September 9, 2017 The Fed says ignore this, we say it's a causation for every Recession. You've been warned. pic.twitter.com/cuHj4FqyGY — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) September 9, 2017 US 10 year Yields: SocGen’s Albert Edwards … Read more

Cracks Emerge in Corporate Debt Confidence Investors are starting to get worried about the $7.2 trillion U.S. investment-grade bond market. Yes, they are still pouring money into this debt and accepting near-record low yields to own it. But look a little closer and it’s clear these bond buyers are starting to show some signs of … Read more

Ron Paul on the Fed, China and Whats Happening With Gold Dr. Ron Paul discusses the Fed and China having their currency convertible to gold in trading for oil and that its a serious change for the U.S. Gold will go much higher on this event.   Gold Trading at Record Volume as it Rallies … Read more