Investment Watch Blog

by Dana Lyons According to one survey, active investment managers are presently more than 100% invested, on average. With the popular averages still well below their January highs, we’ve been wondering if investors noticed the recent strength in other segments of the equity market. For example, groups like small-caps and technology stocks have recovered their entire … Read more

by Ruby Henley President Trump is live on air speaking about signing an Executive Order concerning illegal immigration and child/parent separation at the border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i6bIe3pohA Published on Jun 20, 2018 President Trump said this morning he will be “signing something” to stop family separation at the border. The policy of separating children from parents has … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJbREfBSAr8 California is the product of insest and liberal insanity run amok! AC

Using Available Resources If you’re going to make breakthroughs in your lab, you’ll need to optimize such that there is no operational “fat”, as it were, dragging your efforts down. Science has become competitive today; especially in medical, chemical, and technological industries. This kind of science has direct application, and parses between that which is … Read more

by howmuch We recently released a new visualization highlighting companies with the largest pay gaps between their CEOs and their average worker. The latest SEC rule requiring companies to publish these figures doesn’t always mean that a company is put in a negative light. In fact, the figures also indicate the companies where the average Joe and a CEO … Read more

Via @StockBoardAsset The current high-yield spread is inconsistent with the corporate debt levels as a percentage of the GDP https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2018/06/19/the-daily-shot-volatility-is-back/ 2018 total returns… Micro-cap stocks: +14% (all-time high today) Dow: +0.6% (6.5% below Jan all-time high) $IWC $DIA pic.twitter.com/rYg0Kzsq67 — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) June 20, 2018  

https://twitter.com/dlacalle_IA/status/1009409847811624962 h/t @dlacalle_IA

A FLOW CHART OF SIX POSSIBLE OUTCOMES, ORIGINATING FROM (2) #MONETARY SCENARIOS…. Please debate below Concept borrowed from the work of economist J. Adams https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1009404512648466432 Time frames are impossible – and economic shock can be literally anything. A bank failure, bankruptcy, stock sell off – whatever. An unknown quantity h/t @OccupyWisdom

via Mauldin Economics: New Jersey recently surrendered a title it was happy to lose. For the first time in six years, it was not the state that saw the highest percentage of its residents leaving to live somewhere else. The new owner of this dubious distinction? Illinois. New Jersey was #2. When your state finds itself … Read more

via US Funds: Wall St. banks primarily exist to enrich their executives, to make as much money as them as they can. If that behavior should happen to make money for shareholders, that’s a positive side effect, as it can help these executives keep their jobs for as long as possible, enabling them to enrich themselves to … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Citigroup has issued a press release back in March stating that it will penalize banking clients who engage in gun sales even though they comply with federal, state, and local laws. Citigroup’s new policy tells businesses what kind of firearms and accessories they can stock in their stores, and who they can … Read more

by Yojimbo https://youtu.be/rGGdYdEQFr0 Listen to this beautifully spoken essay with deep, abiding truths about  land, blood, nationalism, and how our traitorous elites pervert these so that we kill for them. Paddy Tarleton is the Woody Guthrie of the Alt-Right. And Byron de la Vandal is the a cappella singer of the Alt-Right. https://youtu.be/4ao_8cUSals  

Financial writer and precious metals expert Craig Hemke warns, “It’s pretty obvious to anyone that we are in this parabolic Ponzi scheme. The debt is now increasing globally at such an exponential rate that, at some point, it becomes unserviceable. Then, at that point, you get this reset they’ve been talking about. Hemke warns that … Read more

by Thinker Nothing says ‘guilty’ quite like refusing to testify and pleading the Fifth. That’s what happened with Comey, McCabe and Lynch in front of the House Intel Committee yesterday. They were no-shows and that pretty much tells you everything you need to know right there. Comey just plain refused to appear and McCabe took … Read more

via confoundedinterest: Affordable housing policy in the US is a mess.  As I mentioned at the American Action Forum meeting on the future of the GSEs yesterday, the housing market today reminds me of the housing market from the 2000s … where home price growth was over twice that of earnings growth for most households. The … Read more

A-list also allows premium formats, same day viewing as long as there’s a 2 hour gap, rewatch same movies, but must bring a valid ID that matches the card. A-List is an upgrade of the Premier card, so it has everything that a Premiere card does, but with movies. Only available online, not in theater, … Read more