Investment Watch Blog

from Zero Hedge The world’s push towards de-dollarization continues to accelerate as Americans go about their daily lives worrying more about blasphemous comedians, participation trophies, and Kim and Kanye’s traitorous behavior. From yuan-denominated oil futures (and soon to be yuan-denominated metals contracts) to Europe’s decision to use Yuan to pay for Iranian oil; and from non-dollar settlement systems for … Read more

by Yojimbo, TBP Patrick Little is peeling off some of the Asian vote in California. Asians are regularly discriminated against in the Ivy League colleges in acceptance rates. They know this, and a lawsuit was filed against Harvard demanding to see their records. Little is brilliantly playing identity politics in an “intersectional” fashion by dropping red … Read more

by TFittonJW The IG report will have some good and bad in it. Trying to tell like in this brief on the IG and the real story on the Clinton emails: We don’t just yap (or rely on IGs), Judicial Watch does the heavy lifting by going to federal court: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fights-state-department-full-accounting-clinton-related-emails-anthony-weiners-laptop/

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003425749808963585 "'We're very focused on Main Street', not Wall Street" Bernanke, 2013 Well… Not Really… pic.twitter.com/YxvYG16AqF — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) June 4, 2018 pic.twitter.com/F7CobpoxK2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 3, 2018 h/t @OccupyWisdom

The jobs numbers that came out last week fail to take into account the fact that a strong plurality of Americans have to work 2 or more jobs to make ends meet. The McJobs that were touted as the engine of the recovery during the Obama administration all paid ridiculously low wages, in effect reducing … Read more

Read more here: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r… Judicial Watch announced that it is fighting the State Department for a full production of records responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the emails found by the FBI on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. According to then-FBI Director James Comey, Weiner’s laptop contained “hundreds of thousands” of emails of … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ENuJXLx6hI Dan Bongino joins Fox & Friends for an interview (6-4-18).

via @Callum_Thomas As the Fed is steadily progressing through its balance sheet normalization plan, it’s worth checking in on a few charts that highlight the path to normalcy… And some of the potential stumbling blocks along the way. The beginning of large scale asset purchases (or QE – Quantitative Easing) in the wake of the financial crisis … Read more

via Bill McBride From the National Center for Health Statistics: Births: Provisional Data for 2017. The NCHS reports: The provisional number of births for the United States in 2017 was 3,853,472, down 2% from 2016 and the lowest number in 30 years. The general fertility rate was 60.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, down 3% from … Read more

by visualcapitalist Every day, we get bombarded with over 5,000 ads or brand messages vying to capture our attention. Most of them get deflected by our unconscious minds and hold little relevance or appeal to our daily lives. But at the same time, a select few of these messages get through to us, and we may … Read more

BY SRSROCCO The total U.S. public debt hit a new record high of $21.145 trillion on the last day in May.  As the U.S. debt increased, so did the interest expense which jumped by more than $26 billion in the first seven months of the fiscal year.  That’s correct; the United States government forked out … Read more

by tehlolman https://kek.gg/i/3zz_vV.png USA has $21 trillion in national debt. USA has 500,000 homeless Americans. Yet, the US government gives $3.3 billion/yr in US tax dollars to Israel, which is a RICH country. This makes the rich country of Israel the #1 recipient of US foreign aid. On a per capita basis, that’s $410 per … Read more

by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe on iTunes here. The past five to ten years have seen many technological breakthroughs that hold an extreme amount of promise for a wide range of commercial, military, and industrial applications. Unfortunately, the world’s current telecommunications framework is largely outdated and too slow a … Read more

by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter In a shocking report, The Guardian (of all places) has released an analysis of figurescompiled by the U.K.’s Sentencing Council that show more than 80 out of 193 terms issued for terrorism-related offenses between 2007 and 2016 will have run out by the end of this year. The Guardian also points out that the number of extremists released may … Read more

The anti-immigrant SDS party of veteran right-wing leader Janez Jansa won Slovenia’s parliamentary election, but now faces a difficult task in courting a coalition partner to govern.   AC

https://youtu.be/LdX3dvB2Wes “You Write About Things That Americans Don’t Care About” Sarah Sanders GOES OFF On Playboy Reporter Today Sarah Sanders Lets This Reporter Know What Up this was taken during white house press conference 6/4/2018 this was during the white house press briefing 6/4/2018 during the white house briefing press secretary sarah huckabee sanders fielded … Read more

by DCG From News.com.au: Victorian councils could ban books and toys from kindergartens, schools and libraries if they don’t meet strict gender guidelines, according to reports. The Herald Sun revealed Manningham and Melbourne City Councils are among those auditing children’s books and urging a ban on the terms “boy” and “girl”. It follows research from the Australian National University that showed children were … Read more