Investment Watch Blog

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter But prices are surging. Freight shipment volume across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – rose 8.2% in September, compared to a year earlier, according to the Cass Freight Index. While this is still a big jump, it’s down from the five double-digit increases earlier this year. The index covers … Read more

But outside Italy, credit markets are sanguine, and no one says, “whatever it takes.” By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Italy’s government bonds are sinking and their yields are spiking. There are plenty of reasons, including possible downgrades by Moody’s and/or Standard and Poor’s later this month. If it is a one-notch … Read more

by Michael Snyder We haven’t had an October like this in a very long time.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down another 327 points on Thursday, and overall the Dow is now down close to 1,500 points from the peak of the market.  Unlike much of the rest of the world, it is still … Read more

by Michael Snyder One day it will happen.  With little or no warning, the Cascadia Subduction Zone will produce a catastrophic earthquake and accompanying tsunami that will essentially destroy everything west of Interstate 5 in the Pacific Northwest.  It will be the worst natural disaster up to that point in American history, and as you … Read more

We are now seeing leakers being arrested and these leakers are tracking right back to Obama and Clinton and the Mueller investigation. Federal Judge says he was tricked on the Hillary case because information was withheld from him. The deep state is panicking, they know the declas is coming and they need to push their … Read more

Note the difference in reaction between telling someone you’re going to college (congratulations and warm wishes) and telling someone you’re taking a different path (skeptical line of questioning). T.K. Coleman joins me to smack down the typical line of questioning.

via CNBC: Housing stocks are getting crushed. Two major homebuilder stock-tracking ETFs, the ITB and the XHB, are on track to post their worst years since 2008 — and some strategists see further downside. Lennar and KB Home fell more than 2 percent Wednesday after Credit Suisse downgrades, along with Home Depot and Lowe’s. The firm was particularly bearish on the group given weak housing … Read more

Start the video at 2:10 mark. He doesn’t say much but its one of the only times i’ve heard anybody publically speak about it. This is from last week on the Kennedy show h/t Jake

The timing of this incident is rendered even more suspicious, as even some MSM outlets are now picking up on the efforts of Rossmann and the deception from Apple. Hopefully, increased visibility will bring greater awareness to this situation and the people at Apple can be held accountable. h/t axolotl_peyotl

via Declan Fallon of FallonDPicks Since the last update indices got their bounce but the last couple of days have seen these gains gradually erased. Over the course of the week, the entire bounce has the look ‘bear flags’ as part of larger measured moves lower. Should this emerge then indices will be close to offering the long-term ‘buy’ signals … Read more

by SP I thought that the ariticle posted today by a trauma surgeon /  prepper was very good and overlaps many of the things that I have been pondering.  I will repeat several main points and add my 2 cents. His article is recommended! 1.  Trauma care will be minimal.  There is no operating room, anesthesiologist … Read more

Why is the meme powerful? Because the truth hurts! YOU CANT MAKE THIS SH*T UP  CNN post article – “Memes lead to teenage obesity, lawmakers told” “Now, academics have told British lawmakers that internet memes may be contributing to the UK obesity crisis and doing harm to teenagers on a significant scale.”

by Geoffrey Grider We’re three weeks out from the 2018 midterm election, and Hillary Clinton is popping up again like a Halloween ghoul who keeps rising from the grave to terrorize the American public; only this time accompanied by the increasingly #MeToo uber-villain, Bubba. In over 6,000 articles since 2009, I don’t think we have … Read more

NANCY PELOSI Told to get the f*ck out in Miami. https://youtu.be/-0CdA5rpRfA h/t bane187

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=helvGgZ8LOQ October 18, 2018 – Rain will continue to fall in parts of flood-weary Texas through Saturday as dam releases on the rain-swollen lower Colorado River alleviate pressure from torrential rain earlier in the week. http://marygreeley.com/?p=76658

by Chris Black It looks like the “Meskin” government actually listens to President Trump’s words, and does what he says, unlike most branches of the US “feral gummint”. You think I am kidding, I know. Yet, judging from what happened today, the POTUS has more control over the governments of Latin America, with an emphasis … Read more

Join Mike Maloney as he analyzes the recent stunning news from the Hungarian Central Bank – an absolutely massive shift in their gold reserves.

By Harry Dent I’ve been waiting for the recent spike in T-bonds in the U.S. A similar spike occurred in the early 1930s crash. Ten-year yields first jumped from 4.5% to 5.5% in 1931 and then fell all the way down to 2% – to the lowest level ever until recent years. Imagine locking in … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn Touting themselves as environmentalists, Obama and the Democrats had eight years to do it, but they didn’t — leaving the problem to grow into truly monstrous proportions. But the GOP-majority Congress is doing something about it, and President Trump, reviled and trashed by environmentalists, is championing it. What is it? It’s the Save … Read more