Investment Watch Blog

According to the latest readings on Yale’s one-year investor confidence indices (so, percentage of respondents who think stocks will be higher a year from now), both the “smart” money and the “dumb” money are now 100% confident that nothing can go wrong (basically – the individual survey is at 98.92): https://heisenbergreport.com/2017/08/06/chart-of-the-day-100-confident/ https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/894287152107970560 Be afraid — everybody seems … Read more

by Mark Angelides A bit of news has come out of Wikileaks that seems to suggest that Robert Mueller had a career in the FBI that doesn’t quite fit what we could consider a “regular role.” Three incidents during his career as FBI Director come across as highly suspect; and it makes one wonder if … Read more

by Mark Angelides Politicians, state workers and the media talk constantly about how we must be doing more to get children into college, especially those from minority backgrounds or poorer families. But what is ignored is the fact that the number of people enrolling is nothing like the number of people graduating; at Cal State, … Read more

by Pamela Williams Jeb Bush has just noticed the Awan Scandal, and he has announced he wants Debbie Wasserman Schultz indicted.  Praise God!  Finally someone with some clout is hearing the Imran Awan story, and is outraged.  Jeb Bush took to Twitter to target follow Floridian, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  He is demanding an explanation for her … Read more

by Pamela Williams Investigator George Webb just did a live streaming video, and I wanted to catch up with what he is doing.  I have been following George a long time, and I believe in him.  I know he has had some bad press, but I believe he is legitimate. He talks about Imran Awan and … Read more

by Michael Snyder Is Donald Trump even going to make it to the 2020 election? The rumors that the deep state is planning to make a big move to try to remove President Trump have become a deafening roar, and if they are ultimately successful they are going to unleash a time of chaos and … Read more

by John Rubino Someday, stock, bond and real estate valuations will matter again. And the mechanism by which this return to sanity is achieved will probably be the torrent of money now flowing in from people who, for various reasons, don’t care about (or understand) the prices they’re paying. Millennials, for instance, seem to have … Read more

By Michael Snyder I am about to share with you one of the strangest things that I have come across in a very long time.  In the late 1800s, author Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a series of novels which appear to have striking parallels to events happening today.  In his first two novels, The Travels and … Read more

by BNI European Council President Donald Tusk believes Poland’s future in the European Union could be in jeopardy over the country’s many disputes with the EU, especially over illegal alien Muslim invaders. Daily Caller  Tusk — who served as the Polish prime minister between 2007 and 2014 — is worried that Poland’s ruling Law and Justice … Read more

https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/893445565459116032 ‘The bull market could continue forever’ — strategist Jim Paulsen outlines conditions Markets ‘got a good gig going’ until inflation rears its head: Jim Paulsen from CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/04/the-bull-market-could-continue-to-forever–strategist-jim-paulsen-outlines-conditions.html   Civilian Unemployment Rate Grey areas = recession pic.twitter.com/0rLszvMweK — Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) August 4, 2017   https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/892783512264335360 https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/893411765379313664 The vast majority of S&P 500 companies … Read more

by Mark Angelides The Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington DC played host to Brexit front man and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage last week. His speech has filled column inches and been dissected by news agencies on both sides of the debate; and he has cemented even further his reputation as a Statesmen, thinker, … Read more

By Michael Snyder Have you ever asked yourself this question? Ever since I decided to run for Congress, I have spent quite a bit of time thinking about how divided our nation is.  Donald Trump has become the most hated person in America, earlier this year a gunman tried to kill as many Republican members … Read more

by Dana Lyons A new take on the issue of diverging transportation stocks – red flag or red herring? After breaking out to all-time highs following last fall’s presidential election, transportation stocks spent the first half of 2017 consolidating that move. Finally, last month, the Dow Jones Transportation Average (DJT) managed to break out to new … Read more

by Disobedient Media Disobedient Media spoke this evening with Suzie Dawson of the New Zealand Internet Party , regarding the upcoming live drafting event of the Anti Spy Bill. Dawson was forced to leave New Zealand due to government sanctioned harassment she received in response to her activism, and now resides in Moscow. The Anti Spy Bill will be drafted live … Read more

When is the crash coming? Internet data mining expert Clif High says, “We are crashing now. That’s the problem. We may not have a big crash down, but we are crashing now in the form of the crack up boom. . . . When your currency is dying, and we saw this with the greenback … Read more

by Jesse Apparently the Banks have been lobbying heavily, and expending significant amounts of money again, leaning on their Congressmen and pressuring regulators, saying that their capital standards need to be relaxed so that they can make more loans to stimulate economic growth. But that, according to the FDIC Vice-Chairman, is utter nonsense. “Hoenig, who … Read more

by Pamela Williams   This should enrage the American people to the point of revolution!  Each day, that Mueller continues the façade of a Russian Interference Probe is another blow to the intelligence of the American people.  Not only that he is destroying the dignity of the office of of the Presidency and making a sham … Read more

by David Haggith One reason I started my own economics blog was because of how tired I was of reading government-regurgitated half truths about the economy. Nothing has changed. As Newsmax and other publications report this week that July was a bumper month for lower-wage earners, I continue to have to sift for myself through all the glitter … Read more

by Mark Angelides Popular Conservative pundit and NRA spokeswoman, Dana Loesch, has released a new video calling out the New York Times for their bias, dishonesty and subservient compliance with the Democrat party. She berates them for being complicit with their “Democrat Overlords” and lets them know that the NRA now firmly has them in … Read more

by Mark Angelides There seems to be a staffing crisis taking place in the White House at present. Every week or so we hear of another appointment or firing, and the media begins its spin machine going again, keeping the 24 hour news cycle fed. What is even more amazing than the staff turnover is … Read more

By Michael Snyder Are we right on the verge of one of the greatest financial collapses in American history?  I have been repeatedly warning that our ridiculously over-inflated stock market bubble could burst at any time, but former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes that the bond bubble actually presents an even greater danger.  When you … Read more

by Pamela Williams You may think this is a strange title for a report, but actually it is meant to be a literal question.  Soon, even if you live in a gated community, or even on your own farm out in the middle of nowhere…you will come to understand what the title means.  Time has speeded … Read more

by Pamela Williams   I know John Podesta has said he wants everyone just to shut up about the Seth Rich murder and investigation, but when you have videos and audios of evidence that should be examined, one must talk about it.   If not, there would be a cover-up wouldn’t there? There have been several … Read more

by BILL BONNER POITOU, FRANCE – This is getting monotonous. Another day, another record high for the Dow… now above the 22,000-point mark for the first time in history. And based on the CAPE ratio – a valuation measure that compares stock prices to the average of the past 10 years of inflation-adjusted earnings – the … Read more

by Dana Lyons This week has seen yet more examples of poor internals despite new highs in the major averages. Last week, we highlighted 2 recent potential examples of a weakening in the “internals” of the stock market rally. Again, by internals, we are referring to the amount of participation in the rally as measured by statistics … Read more