Investment Watch Blog

by Dr. Eowyn My friend Mark S. McGrew is among a handful who first wrote on Barack Obama being a fraud. In 2008, he sent his first article on Obama to hundreds of newspapers in the United States, both national and local, but none would accept it. So Mark turned to international foreign news outlets. Pravda was the … Read more

by Tom McClellan Since the early 1990s, there has been a pretty good correlation between the movements of the DJIA and the spread between the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield and the equivalent yield for German sovereign debt.  The German bonds are commonly referred to as “bunds”, shorthand for the German word “bundes”, meaning federal. This Treasury-Bund … Read more

by Brandon Smith There has been a longstanding narrative in economic circles that no matter what crisis occurs the U.S. dollar is essentially invincible.  I have never been one to buy into this assumption. Reason 1: Because I remember distinctly just before the derivatives and credit crisis in 2007/2008 the majority of mainstream economists were so … Read more

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by Martin Armstrong The State of New Jersey just keeps making it more expensive to operate a business in the state. New Jersey has now become the 10th state to adopt mandatory paid sick leave. It goes into effect on October 29, 2018. Giving sick leave to employees has been generally a standard in America. What … Read more

Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter – Authored by Jon Hall Last week, CNN debuted Cuomo Prime Time – a show hosted by Fake News flunky and network “superstar”, Chris Cuomo. Despite the show being labeled as nonpartisan – it’s, of course, anything but. CNN head, Jeff Zucker said of Cuomo’s new show and their competitors: One of them has already convicted Donald Trump … Read more

by WARREN MOSLER Just a reminder (from 2015) as to why claims are this low: This is not population adjusted: We haven’t yet to recover from the last recession, in my opinion due to an ongoing lack of demand: Highlights The FOMC said yesterday that household spending has picked up and indeed it has. Retail … Read more

Authored by Brendan Brown via The Mises Institute, Demand for financial engineers rises and falls with asset inflation. So there is nothing odd about these professionals now enjoying a good market for their services. But why is Big Tech such a large recruiter? The art (not science) of financial engineering – camouflaging a rise in … Read more

via news.com.au: In 1870, gold was worth, on average that year, $18.93 per ounce. Today the gold price is chopping around the $1,300 per ounce level. That’s a 6,767% total gain. Impressive, sure, but that’s over a long time, almost 150 years. How has an investment with gold kept pace with inflation? According to the Bureau of … Read more

by Chris Black President Trump tweeted yesterday that the news coverage by the “usual suspects” (read WaPo, CNN, ABC, CBS, NYT etc.) of the Singapore summit with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un has been so negative, so dishonest and so distorted, that he said: enough is enough. He further tweeted that the biggest enemy America … Read more

by Simon Black This morning I had the pleasure of being buried in a mountain of paperwork– the penalty for trying to do basically anything in the financial system these days. It seems that everything, from sending a wire transfer to establishing a new account, comes with endless bureaucratic hoops to jump through as you’re forced … Read more

12 Things You Need To Know About The Inspector General’s DAMNING Report on The FBI’s Hillary/Trump Conduct. FBI Agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok Texted About Stopping Trump. As already reported, Strzok texted Page that he would “stop it” – it being Trump’s election. This is a damning indictment of his political bias. The IG report found that … Read more

BY JOHN MAULDIN The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has released a worrisome report about the state of global debt, which includes this note about US corporate debt: US non-financial corporate debt hit a post-crisis high of 72% of GDP: At around $14.5 trillion in 2017, non-financial corporate sector debt was $810 billion higher than it … Read more

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION:  Hi Marty, Two questions: 1. When the Canadians said they never look at “those things,” what “things” are they talking about? 2. I always like lowering taxes, if the remaining revenue will be spent wisely. (In our dreams). But as a lawyer in the Austin area, I can assure you that … Read more