Investment Watch Blog

by John Coumarianos We’ve all been conditioned to think the balanced portfolio is a touchstone of investing. For many investors, it provides enough exposure to the stock market (60%) to produce a healthy return and enough exposure to the bond market (40%) to provide ballast and a little income to a portfolio. Along the way, … Read more

via Jeremiah Johnson: Ready Nutrition readers, this piece stresses the importance of finding drinking vessels that will not leach chemicals out of their very walls and poison you. Yeah! Sounds problematic, doesn’t it? Well, it is. BPAs (Bisphenol-A, a chemical used in plastics for the past 60 years). BPAs are found in both epoxy (used in food cans … Read more

by Michael Snyder It is really happening.  At one time, the idea that large numbers of people would willingly allow themselves to have microchips implanted into their hands seemed a bit crazy, but now it has become a reality.  Thousands of tech enthusiasts all across Europe have already had microchips implanted, and now a Swedish company … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Despite intense public pressure from President Trump, the Fed is getting increasingly hawkish on interest rates and the QE unwind. But in another, even more important area, the Fed has totally caved. Has the Fed made a deal with Trump? Like: We rule over here, and in return, you get what … Read more

by Michael Snyder California has been absolutely devastated by horrific wildfires in recent years, but the state has never seen anything quite like this.  At this moment, three major wildfires are raging, and the Camp Fire in Butte County is already officially the most destructive wildfire in California history.  Thousands of firefighters are desperately trying … Read more

by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC The widely-held mega-cap stocks that dominate the US markets are just wrapping up another blockbuster earnings season.  Sales and profits soared largely due to Republicans’ massive corporate tax cuts.  Still these lofty stock markets are vulnerable to serious downside, as October’s brutal plunge proved.  Such extreme revenue and earnings growth cannot persist, … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Italy is arguing that it will retain its budget and refers to how both France and Germany exceeded their budgets and the Commission disregard the Maastricht treaty rules in the case of both countries. In the budget dispute, the Italian government was not deterred by the threat of penalties from the European … Read more

by Martin Armstrong In Germany, the SPD is now pushing for a revolution in Europe for all member states to surrender their sovereignty to Brussels. They are arguing to federalize Europe and thereby create an integrated Europe of one government. It was the SPD that really won in the German 1918 Revolution. Under Weimar, the … Read more

by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter In May of this year, Netflix announced that Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle, had struck a multi-year deal with the company to produce “films and services” for their streaming service. Notably, alongside the announcement, the Obamas also started a new production company called “Higher Ground Productions“. In a statement when … Read more

Brenda Snipes’ office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones… Broward’s elections supervisor accidentally mixed more than a dozen rejected ballots with nearly 200 valid ones, a circumstance that is unlikely to help Brenda Snipes push back against Republican allegations of incompetence. Broward officials faced further headaches after acknowledging the county mistakenly counted 22 absentee … Read more

by Hollywood Rob Yeah sure it’s long.  But you know what, these guys are discussing what you will be seeing here in very short order. https://youtu.be/obvOCp-4QZY      

Via Crime Research Twelve people were murdered and 18 injured at a bar in Ventura County last week. Our hearts go out to those who lost loved family members or friends in the attack. We can’t imagine what is going through the minds on parents. California issues very few concealed handgun permits and Ventura County is … Read more

Make up your own mind this is only 12 minutes or so. The second half of this important update may shock some of you to your core. The “camp fire” in California, like the Sebastopoll and Santa Rosa wildfires that came before it appears to have the hallmarks of something far more sinister than what … Read more