Investment Watch Blog

by Michael Snyder Are you ready for the second coming of Speaker Pelosi? As a result of the recent Obamacare debacle, the American people are deeply frustrated with the Republicans in Congress. And having nowhere else to go, many voters are considering turning to the Democrats for answers. As you will see below, one recent survey found … Read more

By Michael Snyder The Dow hit the 22,000 mark for the first time ever on Wednesday, and investors all over the world greatly celebrated.  And without a doubt this is an exceedingly important moment, because I think that this is a milestone that we will be remembering for a very long time.  So far this … Read more

by Robert Carbery Don’t sleep on Barry O!   Former President Barack Hussein Obama is doing what most presidents do not do. He is staying very much involved in the goings-on of Washington DC politics. He will be choosing the frontrunner for the 2020 resistance candidate to oppose Trump and he is working day after … Read more

by David Haggith With 60% of stocks now being traded by bots that fake each other out in order to create buying opportunities, stock exchanges have lost their connection to the reason markets are created in the first place. The exchanges no longer exist as places for people to buy and sell ownership in a corporation. … Read more

by John Ward Insane stock market levels, artificial interest rates, manipulated commodity prices, gargantuan debt and the crushing of mass spending power simply cannot exist together. While the Draghis of this world suggest a monetarist symphony is in play, the majority of discerning observers know full well that a pack of Bali monkeys has hijacked the … Read more

by howmuch   Most of us become aware of our electricity costs during the summer when the weather is hot and our air conditioners are on full blast. In fact, the bulk of most American homes electricity costs come from central air conditioning and electrical heating pumps. The average cost to use central air or an electrical heating … Read more

by Mark Angelides As part of an effort to teach Artificial Intelligence robots to be able to “barter” with humans, Facebook discovered that their two subjects had created a new language form and were using it to communicate with each other. The language, although using English for the actual words, was unintelligible, but in many … Read more

by Michael Snyder You may be quite surprised by how people answered this question on Facebook. Earlier today, I posted the question in the headline to my Facebook profile, and I got dozens of responses. Obamacare has resulted in much higher insurance premiums, lower quality care and more red tape, and I have talked to so … Read more

By Michael Snyder You can either follow the herd of you can decide to find your own path.  One of the things that greatly frustrates me is that so many Americans allow other people to do their thinking for them.  We have become a nation of sheeple, and the vast majority of the shepherds that … Read more

by John Rubino The dollar has been falling lately, which isn’t what a lot of people expected with the Fed being the only major central bank that’s raising interest rates. Higher yields on dollar balances should, according to basic economics, have attracted foreign capital to Treasury paper, thus putting upward pressure on the dollar. Didn’t … Read more

by Robert Carbery Seattle, Washington, with its highest-in-the-nation minimum wage, has discovered how high is too high.   In January 2016, Seattle’s minimum wage jumped to $13 an hour from $11 for large companies. New research released in late June by a team of economists at the University of Washington points to the wage hike … Read more

by Mark Angelides The Washington Post’s shiny new story about the possibility of Donald Trump having mislead the American people by stage-managing the whole response to the “Russian Lawyer” meeting of Don Jr. is as inventive a piece of fiction as they can legally get away with. The use of “Anonymous sources” YET AGAIN, is … Read more

by Robert Carbery An alt-right event in Charlottesville, Virginia set for August 12th is drawing attention from political activists on both sides of the aisle. The Unite the Right Free Speech Rally is in response to the Antifa mobs cracking down on Americans’ First Amendment rights at the peaceful demonstration in support of a Robert … Read more

by LightBringerFlex I did 3 years in the Army and saw this first hand. At first, I thought the scam only involved the retailers but now I realize that the US Army was in on the scam. The people getting robbed are the US taxpayers. Here’s how it works: The military has a “lowest bid” policy … Read more

by Michael Snyder The spineless Republicans in Washington have been compromising for so long that it seems like many of them don’t really stand for much of anything these days. I was 10 years old when Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election, and ever since that day I have considered myself to be a conservative. … Read more

BY JOHN MAULDIN Exactly 10 years ago, we were months way from a world-shaking financial crisis. By late 2006, we had an inverted yield curve steep to be a high-probability indicator of recession. I estimated at that time that the losses would be $400 billion at a minimum. Yet, most of my readers and fellow analysts told me I … Read more

By Michael Snyder Analysts at Goldman Sachs are saying that it is next to impossible for stock prices to keep going up like they have been recently.  Ever since Donald Trump’s surprise election victory in November, stocks have been on a tremendous run, but this surge has not been matched by a turnaround in the … Read more

by Mark Angelides At long last there is a chance that some kind of investigation will be held into the crimes committed by high level Democrats not just in the run up to the election, but also spreading further back to the “Russian Uranium” scandal. Judiciary Committee Republicans voted 16 to 13 to start gathering … Read more

https://youtu.be/CJLkoa99IM0 HILLARY JUST HUNG HERSELF: Collaboration with FOREIGN Governments In Order To Destroy Trump and Sway https://youtu.be/bBqRZvutq5Q   TRUMP PROTESTS: PUPPET HILLARY & Globalist GEORGE SOROS EXPOSED in ‘US Color Revolution’ https://youtu.be/KdJBMzckmkw   Thinker  

Source The difference between a successful investor and one who makes consecutive losses is the ability to make timely sales and purchases using appropriate trading methods. Of course, leveraging any additional information gives someone an advantage over other traders but currency trading requires more than insider information. With markets becoming volatile and expensive, traders need … Read more

Tess Pennington Ready Nutrition  For years there has been a lot of financial noise. While many of us are novices at understanding stocks and economics, one thing is for certain, things are not right. In fact, our economy has not been right since the government’s rescue attempts on the “too big to fail” corporations and … Read more

By Michael Snyder We are just inches away from the outbreak of World War III, and yet most Americans seem completely oblivious to what is happening.  On Friday, North Korea conducted a missile test which proved that it now has the capability of hitting major U.S. cities in the western half of the country.  Every … Read more

by Mark Angelides The very premise of Obamacare was flawed, and in fact, it was never even designed to work for an extended period of time. But now that Congress has failed to do away with it, the president is going “Full-Tilt” in his plans to make the “No” voters pay. On Saturday, he Tweeted: … Read more

by Mark Angelides When former President Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump for suggesting that there could even be such a thing as voter fraud: “What? What does that even mean?” It was clear to all those who had not drunk the Kool-Aid that not only was it possible, but that it was likely, and likely … Read more