Investment Watch Blog

by Michael Snyder Nobody can defy the laws of economics forever.  Whether it is an individual, a company or the nation as a whole, reality always catches up with everyone eventually.  For years, I have been warning that Sears was eventually going to zero, but of course it didn’t happen immediately.  Sears CEO Eddie Lampert kept … Read more

by Chris Black Have you ever noticed that it’s only “alternative news” (as in non-establishment) outlets that get deplatformed by social media/payment processors/Internet domain registrars et al for spreading “fake news” and/or “hate speech”, whatever those Orwellian terms mean? And today, just in time for midterms, we got word that social media giants decided to … Read more

by Lance Roberts Despite the recent angst in the market over increasing interest rates, there has been little evidence of concern by investors overall. A recent report showed that investors have the LEAST amount of cash in their investment accounts…EVER. “Individual investors drew down cash balances at brokerage accounts to record lows as the S&P 500 surged … Read more

by DCG This story is from August 2017 yet it is relevant to what happened to Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation circus. One woman (and the media) cannot play “judge and jury.” From Daily Mail: A jury has ordered a female blogger to pay an Army colonel she accused of rape a total of $8.4million in damages. Susan … Read more

via @MFoxCNBC Investors should brace themselves for a significant stock market correction, as well as a recession in the first half of next year, warns investor Mark Yusko. In fact, he says, fair value for equities would be down about 40 percent to 50 percent. “It’s just going to be painful for a while to adjust … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy-uBg0G-uM Trump talked with Jeff Sessions’s own chief of staff about replacing him as attorney general https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/… Trump’s potential new attorney general once mused about a new attorney general defunding Mueller https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFCERnyiG-Y Anya Parampil breaks down a new effort by Facebook to stop what it calls political spam from circulating on its site. Facebook used the opportunity to remove very popular alternative media pages such as the Free Thought Project, the Anti-Media, Cop Block, Filming Cops, and even RT America’s very own Rachel Blevins. Rachel then … Read more

We’ve finally found a way for people around the world to get out of debt! You just have to take the first steps and follow through! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1NyVFaWRas

via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. What comes to mind when you think about Spain or Japan? Just like anything else, our brains tend to associate certain images and attributes with a given country in order to form a unique mental perception. In a global marketplace, a country’s … Read more

by Dana Lyons Nasdaq New Highs are at a cycle low and New Lows are at a cycle high; what is this odd set of circumstances telling us? It has certainly been a monumental weak in the stock market. Moves in both stock prices as well as market-based indicators have been interesting and, in some cases, … Read more

by Thinker As I continue to say, the content of the character is easy to see when your a politician or come with an old name, and with Trey Gowdy there isn’t any difference. A congressman who came to Washington D.C. and one of the few with “HISTORY” that speaks for itself as to the … Read more

by Thinker There are politicians who do believe in the oath they’ve taken and aren’t afraid to speak the “TRUTH.” The failure to investigate crimes against the American people, and the world by the very organizations set up to do so, in the United States is a clear sign that the corruption Trump claims in … Read more

by Thinker Everyone comes with history of their words and actions…what in history have the Clinton’s done that has been good for the people and the nation??? The “Clinton Chronicles” documentary takes the viewer all the way back to Arkansas, and the people who lived around the Clinton’s telling their stories of crime and corruption … Read more

by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter Keith Palmer. In a startling report, it’s been revealed that the acting commissioner of the Metropolitan Police was present at the scene of the Westminster terror attack in 2017, but locked his car doors and stayed in his vehicle as it happened. Sir Craig Mackey, now deputy commissioner, had been leaving Westminster Palace … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn The latest in a long string of hate-crime hoaxes by the Left comes from Ohio University, where a lesbian journalism student was arrested by police on Oct. 8, 2018, for fake death threats that she’d sent to herself. The university’s student paper The Post identifies the student, Anna Ayers, as “an LGBTQ”, member of the … Read more

by Dana Lyons Relative volume in inverse ETF’s hit an all-time high yesterday. Perhaps one of the reasons for the swiftness in the present stock market selloff is the fact that traders were totally unprepared for it. At least, their investment allocation would suggest that as the level of protective hedges was extremely low by most … Read more