Investment Watch Blog

BY JOHN MAULDIN This week, the Congressional Budget Office released its 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook. Like everyone, the CBO makes assumptions, so it’s fair to be skeptical of its estimates. In fact, we had all better hope they are too pessimistic because we’re in deep trouble otherwise. Because the CBO thinks federal spending will grow significantly faster … Read more

From the Washington Post: Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some ways, it is the era of the very old worker in America. Overall, 255,000 Americans 85 years old or older were working over the past 12 … Read more

Do you believe that people have financed their lives with maximal debt? Is this sustainable? The financial system is at risk. The regulatory agencies have once again looked the other way. They have stepped aside while mega corporations have ballooned up, far beyond our imagination. All the while, the middle class has been evaporated, erased … Read more

Cover image courtesy of @ConservativeVcs on Twitter   By Bob Shanahan   African Americans and free thinkers are finally leaving the left in droves.   Candace Owens, director of Turning Point USA, has been the victim of vicious liberal attacks because she is a black woman who supports President Trump.   On a recent Fox … Read more

by DCG By design, many Americans were “Grubered.” From SF Gate: A $13,000 tax bill was the last thing Bill and Cathy Stapp expected when they signed up for Covered California health insurance in late 2013. The Stapps estimated that their combined income would be less than $63,000 in 2014 — making them eligible under the Affordable Care … Read more

by Thinker Jason Goodman brings us this jaw-dropping lecture by former CIA Counterintelligence Officer, Kevin Shipp, which I have set to the midpoint, when he begins to talk specifically about this incredible phenomenon that we’ve all been witnessing, of the soft coup by the shadow government and the intelligence agencies against a sitting president of … Read more

Blame Russian bots! Using two websites, created after the 2016 election, one by a group of NeverTrumpers and another by a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter who has an extreme hatred and bias against anything “Russia” related, Arc Digital Media declared the #WalkAway movement was a “deceptive propaganda campaign,” being pushed by Pro-Trump and Russian-linked Twitter … Read more

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I thought you would be wrong on the pound. I will yield to your forecasts. I do not know how you do it forecasting so many things around the world and getting them right no less. Reading between the lines who have written, on the one hand, you have said … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn You may have seen reports of millionaires fleeing California because of tax increases on the wealthy. An example is an article by Steve Straub in The Federalist on July 6, 2018, in which Straub claims a direct cause-and-effect relationship between Prop. 30 and millionaires leaving the state: According to new research released by Charles Varner, associate … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjwZ3kjfIUk Twitter is cracking down on accounts deemed to be fake and in the months of May and June, the company reportedly deleted some 70 million users from its site. That’s equal to roughly 20% of the site’s monthly tweeters. The move came following pressure from lawmakers on capitol hill who charge that so-called russia-linked … Read more

They said it should become a hurricane today. http://ussanews.com/News1/2018/07/09/dml-tv-tropical-storm-chris-gaining-strength-in-the-atlantic/ h/t Jwnlwplus4

From Frank Holmes at Frank Talk: Satori is a distributed, decentralized AI “mesh.” That probably doesn’t mean anything to you right now, but Gabe believes it could change the world in a number of ways. In short, Satori aims to aggregate the world’s public information feeds – from Twitter to weather sensors – and distribute them in … Read more

by howmuch We all know it costs money to make money, but is there a direct correlation between income and overall personal wealth? If there is, we would expect to see the relationship in our new visualization comparing accumulated wealth and disposable income at the household level across the OECD. We got our numbers directly from … Read more

Leveraged-Loan Risks Are Piling Up Rising interest rates have a peculiar effect. US junk-bond issuance in June plunged 31% from a year ago to just $14.5 billion, the lowest of any June in five years, according to LCD of S&P Global Market Intelligence. During the first half of the year, junk bond issuance dropped 23% from a … Read more

In this edition of Probable Cause Newsbud’s founder and editor Sibel Edmonds is joined by Spiro Skouras, as Edmonds reveals information obtained by multiple insider sources about a secret deal that was made to remove Iran’s current government by force! You will not hear this anywhere else! Stay tuned for related coverage exclusively for members … Read more