Investment Watch Blog

U.S. high-yield bond sales are on track to be the lowest for a year since 2009. Another recent shift in performance away from #SmallCaps could start to reverse #FundFlows @WSJ @soberlook @MorningstarInc Stock Outflows Swell as Investors Seek Refuge in Bonds “Flattening curve reengaged!” h/t @TheBondFreak $TLT $TNX Please check out my brand new HUGE … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn For those who don’t know, TPTB = The Powers That Be. 105 years ago, a group of powerful bankers and politicians met secretly on a privately-owned Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia to create a banking cartel — the Federal Reserve Bank. On December 23, 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act … Read more

via ROBIN WIGGLESWORTH Next summer the current US economic expansion will become the longest in history, but it will still pale next to the runs of some other major countries. What nurtures long bouts of growth, and could the US enjoy a similar spell? Concerns that the US economy could keel over either before or soon … Read more

by Michael Snyder Is this the beginning of the fall of Facebook?  After announcing disappointing numbers for the second quarter on Wednesday, Facebook’s stock price plunged more than 20 percent in after-hours trading.  If that decline holds on Thursday, it will be the biggest stock price drop in Facebook’s entire history.  But the truth is that we … Read more

by Dana Lyons While large-cap tech stocks continue to reach new highs, small-caps have struggled to keep up. For much of the post-February rally, we have seen small-cap stocks leading the way. That dynamic has kept much of the possible consternation over “bad breadth” at bay, thus far. In recent days, however, a few developments have … Read more

We’ve had a corporate coup d’etat. Our “leadership” is not beholden to the will of the people. No one on top ever goes to prison for what they do. We have a corrupt legal system. We have 5 major corporations that own the media. No declaration of war has happened since WWII, etc etc, etc … Read more

via thefreethoughtproject: Washington, D.C. – A bombshell report by True Pundit revealed that former FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General Eric Holder colluded with James Comey, who was at the time a general counsel for Lockheed Martin, to shut down an FBI investigation into the international theft of U.S. stealth defense technology from a small Florida … Read more

AN EXPLOSION has reportedly occurred outside the US embassy in Beijing. The US embassy complex is located in Beijing’s Chaoyang District. The Israeli, Indian and South Korean embassies are also nearby. Witnesses have posted images on Twitter of smoke surrounding the building. Another bystander said there had been injuries. According to media reports, a witness … Read more

by Chris Black As you may already know, Michael Cohen just ruined his career and proved to be a real shyster lawyer after releasing an unethical recording of a private  conversation with Trump (then his client), to CNN of all places. Trump’s response was predictable and very common sense: What kind of a lawyer would … Read more

by Michael Snyder A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey has found that 71 percent of all American voters are opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. I must admit that I was rather dismayed when I saw the results of that poll. The pro-life movement in the U.S. has been fighting so hard for so … Read more

Judicial Watch wants the FISA transcript of Carter Page. Obama admin shutdown the investigation into selling weapon technology to foreign powers. EU will now pay countries to take refugees even though the flow of refugees is way down. South Korea will remove troops from the DMZ. Trump ready to make a deal with Iran. Q … Read more

With borrowing costs rising and effects of tax cuts set to wear off, a shock could push the most vulnerable over the edge, and take the recovery with them via Jonathan Spicer  By almost every measure, the U.S. economy is booming. But a look behind the headlines of roaring job growth and consumer spending reveals how … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn If you need yet more evidence that Hillary Clinton is utterly corrupt, here it is. On December 13, 2016, five weeks after she lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, Hillary and her rapist husband, Bill, dined with Harvey Weinstein — the former Hollywood producer who is charged with rape, a … Read more

BY PATRICK WATSON Economists disagree about job automation. Some see imminent doom, others think we can adjust. There’s not a lot in-between. Time will tell who’s right. Meanwhile, the machines are climbing the skill ladder, learning complex tasks only the most skilled humans do now. Surgery is in that category. You might be thinking now that surgeon jobs are … Read more

The amount of global debt has reached a precarious level. In the U.S. alone, federal debt has more than doubled in just the past 10 years. But there’s much more to this dangerously unfolding debt drama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4KhpGhILSA

by visualcapitalist If you’re a college graduate, you likely went to school to pursue an important passion of yours. But as we all know, what we major in has consequences that extend far beyond the foundation of knowledge we build in our early years. Any program we choose to enroll in also sets up a track … Read more

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Keep an eye on the system’s buffers. They look fine until they suddenly collapse. The doom-and-gloomers among us who have been predicting the unraveling of an inherently unstable financial system appear to have been disproved by the reflation of yet another credit-asset bubble. But inherently unstable / imbalanced … Read more