Investment Watch Blog

"Short-term US Treasury Yields enter the week at their highest levels in 10 years…," h/t @charliebilello pic.twitter.com/MpokXx4xzU — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 30, 2018 "Eurozone slowdown starts to appear in business and consumer surveys," @dlacalle_IA pic.twitter.com/XmwhCil6e4 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 31, 2018 Mind The Red Ponzi: Industrial Production Growth Is Flatlining, Consumer Spending Gains Are Faltering https://t.co/KzWnYf5sct … Read more

h/t @michaellebowitz The market is all air. Not a fundamental in sight h/t @OccupyWisdom The #economic “expansion” feels like a #depression because a depression is sub trend #GDP growth for a sustained period of time. The expansion has been below trend for the vast majority of the time. #QE induced markets ignore this Chart via @charliebilello … Read more

by Michael Snyder Thanks to crashing tech stocks, Americans have lost hundreds of billions of dollars in paper wealth over the past three trading days.  As you will see below, we have just witnessed “the biggest market cap loss in history”, and many analysts believe that this is only just the beginning.  At this point, … Read more

by Michael Snyder If young adults are America’s future, then they better get their act together. Today, over 30 percent of 18 to 34-year-olds live with their parents or other family members. Meanwhile, marriage rates and fertility rates in the United States have both hit record lows in recent years. Instead of coddling these self-absorbed Millennial narcissists well into their adult … Read more

UK household debt is worse than anytime on record. The American intention to purchase a car or a house is declining. Pending homes sales dropped, this falls in line with existing home sales and new home sales, the real estate bubble is popping. Erdogan wants to join BRICS but Turkey was rejected. The BRICS have … Read more

The American people will be shocked when they see the redacted FISA memo on Carter Page. Facebook is being sued. TSA is tracking regular everyday American travelers. There is a new leader in Pakistan, change is in the air. Peace talks are moving forward in Afghanistan, the US is negotiating with the Taliban to bring … Read more

Doing some basic statistics. There are 260 missing persons reports issued in the last year that are still listed as open cases. Throwing out all the familial abductions and everyone over the age of 18 brings it down to 191. Of those, 41% are boys and 59% are girls. The average missing age is 15 … Read more

The lies the MSM spreads to us constantly is fully on display and this is hardly scratching the surface, but is a good sample back to get a taste of exactly what operation Mockingbird is all about h/t swervinsideways

by AMY S. What is a recession, after all? To take some ambiguity away from what a recession really is, let’s define it. A recession is most commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of declines in quarterly real GDP. The National Bureau of Economic Research offers a more detailed definition: “A recession is a significant decline … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER So the savings rate puzzle, where consumption was exceeding income, has now been reconciled with large upward revisions in personal income. And looks like the credit expansion that supplied the income and drove the spending was from non-residents. The next monthly consumption and income releases will bring it all up to date: Highlights … Read more

by stockboardasset via G, P & Capital This move in stocks looks complete. Sentiment is now excessively bullish right as the S&P 500 tests upper resistance from a sharp rally. The S&P 500 should roll over shortly. Particularly when you consider that the Fed’s QT program will hit $40 billion this month. Most of that drain will … Read more

by Spencer P Morrison, NEE Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistophilis. ~Doctor Faustus Spectators claim that Satan himself appeared on stage during the opening performance of Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus (1588)—the grizzly specter drove men mad with fear. Some wanted to demolish the theater, others to hang Marlowe … Read more

by visualcapitalist See the full-size version of this map o see the high resolution version of this map, go here. The United States is a vast place, and every region is markedly different. Usually we look at these differences through lenses like geography, population density, preferences, wealth, and culture – but age is another interesting one to think … Read more

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