Investment Watch Blog

It’s not subtle: Home sales plunge, inventory jumps, prices begin to react. By Steve Saretsky, Vancouver, Canada, Vancity Condo Guide: With National home sales declining by 16% year over year in the month of May, marking the worst year over year decline since May of 2008, we turn our attention to the province of BC where home price growth … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVn2KCW4Nic Ryan Saavedra for the Daily Wire reports, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Wednesday that she didn’t really care about how young migrant children were treated under the Obama administration, saying that she only really cared on a “case by case” basis. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/32102/…

by Michael Snyder  Andrés Manuel López Obrador (otherwise known as “AMLO”) is about to become the next president of Mexico.  He has a seemingly insurmountable lead in the polls, and at this point it would be a complete and utter shock if anyone else were to win on July 1st.  So what he has to say … Read more

by John Rubino As bubbles expand and hot money starts burning holes in corporate pockets, merger and acquisition deal terms begin to leave reality behind. Often one deal of such breathtaking size, scope and hubris is struck that — in retrospect – it heralds the end of the era. The junk bond bubble of the … Read more

by Simon Black In the year 6 AD, the Roman emperor Augustus set up a special trust fund known as the aerarium militare, or military treasury, to fund retirement pensions for Rome’s legionnaires. Now, these military pensions had already existed for several centuries in Rome. But the money to pay them had always been mixed together in … Read more

by Graham Summers of Gains Pains & Capital If you need more evidence that the Fed screwed up during its latest FOMC meeting, take a look at the below chart. This chart shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a stock index comprised of economically sensitive bell-weathers such as Caterpillar) vs. the NASDAQ (a stock index that is heavily … Read more

by DCG Proggies now identifying folk at Trump rallies and slamming them on Twitter While the left continue with their hysterics, Trump’s approval rating has tied the highest point of his presidency, rising three percentage points to 45%. But keep it up with your bullying tactics, lefties. That’s a spot-on approach to winning hearts and minds. From Fox … Read more

by DCG Don’t let the lack of the word “illegal” in this story fool you. Gov. Inslee has, in effect, turned Washington state into a sanctuary state. From MyNorthwest.com: Just hours after President Trump signed an executive order to keep families together at the U.S.-Mexico border, Washington state Governor Jay Inslee called the policy child abuse and announced he will … Read more

by stockboardasset In April, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled “So Long, California. Sayonara, New York,” published by conservative economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore, warned about a provision within the brand- new tax bill that could trigger a mass migration of roughly 800,000 people — fleeing California and New York for low-tax … Read more

BY SRSROCCO After another negative press release this morning, the major cryptocurrencies fell towards crucial support levels.  According to a Zerohedge article, quoting CNBC, Japan’s chief regulator launched a probe of crypto-exchanges, prompting the largest to halt new account creation, thus sending the crypto market considerably lower. The press release stated that Japan’s largest crypto-exchange, Bitflyer, needs … Read more

by Chris Black Andrés Manuel López Obrador is probably the next president of Mexico, and during a speech on Tuesday he called for nothing less than a mass exodus/mass immigration to the US. According to this guy’s twisted (as in globalist, which is internationalist communism rebranded) world-view, free movement of people, wherever one so desires, … Read more

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Market “fixes” fuel wealth/income inequality which feeds political and social instability. There are two Grand Narratives about the U.S. economy and asset markets: the mainstream narrative is that nothing is fundamentally wrong with the economy, and so no structural changes (and the sacrifices such changes entail) are needed. … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The Refugee Crisis in Europe is tearing it apart and all of this began with a unilateral decision by Merkel when her polls declined because of her tough policy on Greece. The refusal to compensate Italy and to demand they take in refugees but denies them the right to send them north proves … Read more

Interview with: Gerald Celente Gerald Celete: Why You Still Need Guns, Gold, and a Getaway Plan… https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-180622-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3  DOWNLOAD MP3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up the one and only Gerald Celente joins me as we discuss the relevance of still having … Read more

THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO! WATCH IT!!! It’s time to reduce the size of the U.S. Federal Government. It’s time to cut Red Tape and make things more simple. It’s time to remove redundancy in our Government and remove leeches in the system! It’s time to Drain the Swamp! (Or at least lessen the bureaucracy!) Pay close attention to … Read more