Investment Watch Blog

via overlawyered: How efficient is social media in spreading viral-junk misinformation about the law? Well, the following post about Tuesday’s two-page Supreme Court ruling in Brakebill v. Jaeger, a case about voting procedures in North Dakota, has gotten more than 18,000 shares as of this morning: Let’s take a look at its errors, or at least the … Read more

Establishment Media goes into full on Conspiracy mode Part 2 (Link to article below) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion…

Financial complacency is inevitably followed by its opposite. That’s not an opinion. It’s historical fact. With that in mind, global investors need to reflect on the message conveyed by these three financial measures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-FBoUyp21A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZdw0pL5kho An Israel court has ordered two New Zealand women to pay damages for harming the “artistic welfare” of three Israeli teenagers after the pop star Lorde cancelled a planned performance in Tel Aviv. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/12/israel-fines-new-zealand-teenagers-18000-for-urging-lorde-concert-boycott

Michigan State Economics Professor Mark Dr. Skidmore says there is a limit to money printing even when all the global central banks are doing it. Skidmore says, “What does it mean when a central bank is buying equities, or buying debt with printed money in order to suppress interest rates and keep this game going? … Read more

by Martin Armstrong Jeff Bezos of Amazon loses about $80 million for every dollar the stock goes down.  No billionaire was hit as hard by the drop this week in the share market than Jeff Bezos. During the Wednesday selloff alone, the Amazon founder and CEO lost more than $9 billion. This is how they measure people’s worth … Read more

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about recent news out of the Federal Reserve as the Fed basically threatens to restrain growth. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve said that the Fed will raise interest rates eventually to a level that restrains growth, though it may still be some time … Read more

by TraderStef of CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) Are you tired of the boring 1988 Economist magazine cover art depicting a new world currency in 2018? Me too, so I gave it a slight overhaul with a golden (pun intended) halo of the sun and Earth in today’s headline graphic. Today is ground zero if you extrapolated the date … Read more

by Thinker Finally, after mounds of evidence of betrayal to the American people, Hillary loses her security clearance…Bill too??? After so much history, from the Clinton Chronicles to the flying commercial, not to many good things popping up to smile about. In the last week Hillary Clinton called for mass violence, which for many Americans … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMNd8rDExM Evie Fordham for the Western Journal reports, President Donald Trump signed a law that ends insurance companies’ pharmacist gag clauses in an effort to lower drug prices Wednesday. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z–Tt-eu6JM Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul revealed on Wednesday that the media largely ignored a key detail from the attempted mass murder of Republican lawmakers last year at a baseball field in Virginia. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/36994/…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYdlbXyTtCI More than 1,000 people, including families and women carrying babies, set off from Honduras toward the United States on Saturday, days after the United States urged Honduras’ president to halt mass migration. http://marygreeley.com/?p=76529

by John Rubino The gold and silver futures markets got even more unbalanced in the week that ended Tuesday October 9, with speculators (who are usually wrong at the extremes) going as short as they’ve ever been and commercials going even more long. Here’s the gold data in chart form: These are historically huge imbalances … Read more

via visualcapitalist: Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, who are now more likely to die from a drug overdose than from car accidents or firearms. The United States has the dubious distinction of having the highest percentage of drug-related deaths in the world. While opioid abuse is … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Looks like it’s turned up a bit with the tax cuts? Looks like this source of private sector deficit spending has gone flat again: Looks to me a lot more like a deficiency of demand than a demographic shift: This is a source of $US deficit spending that ‘offsets’ unspent incomes: China to … Read more

From Birch Gold Group On Wednesday, the Dow tanked 832 points. It represents the 3rd largest one-day point collapse of the Dow in history, and it doesn’t seem like we’re finished yet. On Thursday, the Dow toppled further, closing down another 545 points. You can see the initial carnage at the end of the chart line below: Also note … Read more