Investment Watch Blog

by stockboardasset A mysterious economic development project proposed for a commercial site outside Atlanta, which has been rumored to be tied with Amazon, has taken another step forward towards reality Tuesday night. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Gwinnett County planning commissioners unanimously voted to recommend approval of the special-use permit necessary for the code-named “Project Rocket,” a massive (and … Read more

via @stephlandsman The bulls may be treading water. According to Ned Davis Research’s Ed Clissold, there’s a high probability a record year-end rally will give way to a painful 2019. “You could be looking at the first 20 percent-plus decline in the S&P since the financial crisis,” the firm’s chief U.S. strategist said Tuesday on CNBC’s … Read more

via @chlobo_ilo Die-hard fans may love Elon Musk’s freewheeling ways, but when it comes to running a public company, his behavior just isn’t appropriate, corporate governance expert Betsy Atkins told CNBC on Wednesday. Atkins said Musk already behaves like he’s the CEO of a private company, and the board, which also “behaves a lot more like … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Charles Dickens wrote about how corrupt the courts were out of control in Bleak House published back in 1859. He began in his first chapter on Chancery: “This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in … Read more

by Yojimbo, TBP https://youtu.be/bSBVTeYZHLk This is a brilliant short summary to the problem by RamzPaul. Even though Infowars did not play identity politics and distanced themselves from the Alt-Right, they were shut down because they supported Trump on a well-known platform. This means absolutely anyone to the right of them could be shut down as well … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Australia is really rejecting all the basic tenets of civilization and is moving ever closer and closer to simply an authoritarian government. Australia is rejecting the foundation of a FREE SOCIETY by rejecting the presumption of innocence and assuming you are just guilty while shifting the burden to you to prove you are innocent. Australia has … Read more

Survival of our democracy’ depends on banning sites like InfoWars, Dem senator says. And also about establishing precedents for Trump, who they’ve been warning is Hitler, in case he decides to actually act like Hitler. Though to be honest, I don’t know why Trump would want to shut them up when they’re acting this crazy.   … Read more

by visualcapitalist In any large set of data, there are bound to be some interesting outliers. Today’s data visualization comes to us from Reddit user /r/mythicquale and it shows the population growth of every country using data and projections from the United Nations population division. The graph is on a logarithmic scale, which ultimately groups together most growth … Read more

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Before I jump into this subject matter, I should probably address a common misconception among people who are new to liberty movement activism. The first time people hear about the concept of the “false left/right paradigm,” they wrongly assume that this means there is “no left or right ideology,” … Read more

by Michael Snyder America, you officially have a debt problem, and I am not just talking about the national debt.  Consumer bankruptcies are surging, corporate debt has doubled since the last financial crisis, state and local government debt loads have never been higher, and the federal government has been adding more than a trillion dollars a … Read more

via nextgov: A combination of factors will see federal agencies trying to spend as much as 40 percent of their budgets in the final two months of the fiscal year. A government spending spree of potentially historic proportions will play out over the final seven weeks of fiscal 2018, as federal agencies look to spend $140 … Read more

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With the media over the last week screaming the world is frying and scaring the Europeans saying it would be over 50C which is over 125F this all turned out to be false. The hottest in Spain was 46C at one location with a host of others at 45C and everything else below that, and … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz Embrace uncertainty – Anyone who doesn’t follow this momentous maxim in coming years is likely to get one unpleasant shock after the next. Because the stable progression of the world economy since WWII is now coming to an end. What should have been a normal cyclical high in the next year or … Read more

by Chris Black The Democratic party’s projected “blue wave” in the November midterm elections seems like a pipe dream now, after last night’s special election in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District. Sorry, but Ohio stays red:   A great night in Ohio’s 12th Congressional District with Troy Balderson! Troy loves Ohio, and he loves the people … Read more