Investment Watch Blog

by TFittonJW I talked last year about the issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhrAdZk38B0 The optimism that drives financial markets higher also drives the pursuit of luxury. This has been evident throughout financial history. Learn how this insight is relevant in 2018.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amcjmkTUKvg Joseph Curl for the Daily Wire reports, A Democratic candidate for a House seat in Arizona has flipped against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, saying she now wants “new leadership” for the party. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/33831/…

Tucker Carlson called on Republican lawmakers to read all of the FISA memos on the House floor. The deep state FBI released the documents to Republican lawmakers last week but the pages were highly redacted to protect Obama and intelligence officials from being exposed. Tucker called on the lawmakers to do what Dianne Feinstein did … Read more

What do you think will happen with China in the short term and long term? Will the TRADE WAR have a major impact? China is a country known for accelerating growth and decades of booming times. Well, along with the rest of the world, the party is soon over. Their growth will accelerate faster than … Read more

by Michael Snyder Warren Buffett’s favorite indicator is telling us that stocks are more overvalued right now than they have ever been before in American history.  That doesn’t mean that a stock market crash is imminent.  In fact, this indicator has been in the “danger zone” for quite some time.  But what it does tell … Read more

by Michael Snyder Before televisions and computers were invented, Americans didn’t spend any time staring at television and computer screens. They worked hard, raised their families, personally interacted with their communities (remember that?), and generally tried to make the world a better place. But now for many of us, the “virtual world” actually seems more … Read more

by Chris Black If you want to take a glimpse into the future of our brave new multicultural world, i.e. what is going to happen to any country formerly dominated by “whitey”, look no further than South Africa. Also, I would strongly recommend you to watch Lauren Southern’s documentary Farmlands, it will red-pill you forever … Read more

Renowned trends researcher Gerald Celente thinks even if the market does not crash, it will keep rolling along but at a slower pace. There are two big things, according to Celente, that could cause big problems. Celente says, “We definitely see a slowdown. Absent two major issues, we don’t see a crash. Issue number one: … Read more

According to Michael Howell, chief executive officer at global research group Crossborder Capital, as monetary policy tightening takes place, there could be strong consequences for credit markets. While the yield curve is signalling upcoming problems, credit market spreads aren’t remaining tight. Howell believes it is just a matter of time until the credit market catches … Read more

from Zero Hedge Over the weekend, we reported that as a result of rising tariffs and escalating trade war, various US companies had passed on rising input costs to consumers, resulting in higher prices, in some cases significantly so, for a variety of products. The first industry hit by higher prices was in discretionary purchases such as recreational … Read more

From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: The price of bitcoin surged above $8,000 last Tuesday for the first time since May after the Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Argentina concluded with little urgency to take regulatory action on cryptocurrencies. In a communiqué, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors expressed confidence that the technology underlying … Read more

by DCG From Fox News: Philadelphia has announced it will end a major information-sharing contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), bowing to intense pressure from activist groups and drawing immediate condemnation from federal officials. The move means that the city will not renew a decade-long arrangement to share real-time arrest information with ICE when it expires at … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn There is honor among thieves. Convicted felons serving time in jail still have a sense of right and wrong. In their hierarchy of crimes, pedophiles rank among the worst, which accounts for why they mete out their own punishment on pedophiles. Lawrence “Larry” Nassar, 54, is the former USA Gymnastics national team doctor and … Read more

via G, P, & C Is the Bank of Japan Finally Losing Control? While we like to focus on the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) because it controls the global reserve currency (the US dollar) and therefore is the most important Central Bank in the world… the fact is that it is Japan’s Central Bank, … Read more

The second-half borrowing estimate of US$769 billion is the highest since US$1.1 trillion in July-December 2008 via scmp The Treasury Department predicted the US government’s borrowing needs in the second half of this year will jump to the most since the financial crisis a decade ago as the nation’s fiscal health deteriorates – despite a … Read more

via Sue Chang John Hussman, president of Hussman Investment Trust, describes himself as an economist, a philanthropist, and a “realist optimist often viewed as a prophet of doom” on his Twitter profile. That last bit may be the one investors care about on Monday as the stock market shows signs of unraveling on the back of … Read more