Investment Watch Blog

by Michael Snyder  The level of panic that we witnessed on Wall Street on Wednesday was breathtaking.  After a promising start to the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average started plunging, and at the close it was down another 608 points.  Since peaking at 26,951.81 on October 3rd, the Dow has now fallen 2,368 points, and … Read more

From Birch Gold Group Retirees already have plenty of things to be concerned about. Now, they can add tax planning to the list. Anyone who has taxable income files a tax return each year, and does a certain amount of tax planning throughout their life. Sadly, this process doesn’t end at retirement. When it comes to paying taxes … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Hot air is hissing out of this market. Sales of new single-family houses in September plunged 18% from September a year ago, not-seasonally adjusted, to just 41,000 new single-family houses, according to estimates that the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development jointly reported this morning. In terms of the … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The Egyptian Economist, Abdel Khalik Farouk, is the author of more than 20 books on corruption in the Egyptian economy. His latest book, Is Egypt really poor?  was confiscated by Egyptian authorities last week on the day of publication. The owner of the printing house, Ibrahim El Khatib, was also arrested. Farouk has set out that the … Read more

by Jesse Colombo It was another red day in the markets with the Dow dropping 608.01 points or 2.41% and the S&P 500 dropping 84.59 points or 3.09%, which means that both indices are now down for the year. As someone who is warning about a dangerous stock market bubble (please watch my presentation to learn more), … Read more

by Martin Armstrong I have been warning that the one thing our computer is projecting on all election fronts around the world is that we will see rising violence and we should expect that voting will be rigged. Canada has already put out a warning that they are witnessing threats of violence against candidates as reported in … Read more

by northmantrader “Buy every dip” they told you all summer. Bull after bull came out and told people to buy the dip. That worked well, no really, it worked. The move to new highs looked impressive. In the headlines. And in some indices and in some stocks that is. It didn’t work in many others. At … Read more

Rod Rosensteins closed door meeting with senate officials has been canceled. Judicial watch is now suing the DOJ for conversations of Clinton, Obama and the rest. The illegal immigrants are making their way up to the border this is part of the deep state plan. Packages were sent to Obama, Clinton news orgranizations, Brennan and … Read more

by TFittonJW An exclusive report from our Judicial Watch team in Guatemala: https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/elaborately-planned-caravan-brings-human-traffickers-violent-gangbangers-to-guatemala/ Another JW team report from Guatemala: https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/young-angry-men-gangbangers-march-towards-u-s-yelling-vamos-para-alla-trump/ Here’s another key find (that the leftist media hates) about the ISIS threat in the region: https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/10/100-isis-terrorists-caught-in-guatemala-as-central-american-caravan-heads-to-u-s/ Our recent Judicial Watch discussion:

This article was written by Colin McWey, CFA, Portfolio Manager The recent upward march of yields on the 10-year Treasury bond have brought volatility to growth stocks and growth investors… but may be welcome news to value investors. As you can see in the chart below, after peaking in 2006 yields spent the next 10 years … Read more

via Angry Bear Needless to say, this morning’s report on new home sales was another big miss in the housing sector. Not only were sales a new 12 month low, they were the lowest in nearly 2 years, and are off over -150,000 from their peak 10 months ago: Typically new home sales are down … Read more

RTD News keeps you up to date on what’s happening around the globe. Thanks for watching this important update, “#SEC Commissioner Warns #RetirementCrisis ‘#Tsunami’ Approaching” Here is today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. SEC Commissioner Warns Retirement Crisis ‘Tsunami’ Approaching https://www.newsmax.com/finance/stree… 2. The New American Dream: Retirement Security https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speec… 3. Pension Crisis Escalating … Read more

via Zero Hedge With hedge fund redemption pressures – as a result of what has been largely abysmal performance by the 2 and 20 crowd in both Q3 and 2018 – frequently cited as one of the potential culprits for the recent swoon in markets… … today we got confirmation of just that, when the … Read more

by jessefelder The following is an excerpt from a recent chart book from The Felder Report Premium. In a recent interview for RealVision Stan Druckenmiller spoke about how he realized late in 2000 that rising interest rates (second pane in the chart below), oil prices (third pane) and the dollar (bottom pane) were almost always a recipe for lower … Read more

by John Rubino For the past few years, homeowners just about everywhere have been able to finesse life’s problems by thinking “at least my house is going up.” This home equity accretion allowed them to buy stuff on credit, safe in the knowledge that even as they maxed out yet another credit card their net … Read more

via visualcapitalist: There’s nothing more definitive in the journey to financial freedom than hitting the $1 million mark in retirement savings. A nest egg like that is a near-guarantee that you could surmount any curveball the world throws at you, whether it is an unexpected family emergency or anything else. While $1 million certainly sounds like … Read more