Investment Watch Blog

via UPFINA: Witness the charts below that show how the current statistical “recovery”, benefiting the very few by inflating the price of risk assets, has come at the expense of the very many. Almost nobody is a mental health facility because there is no funding for mental health facilities. The poor and mentally ill are homeless … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Lawyers have brought a lawsuit against towns in Georgia for using tickets as the major revenue source to fund their pensions and budgets. The City of Doraville, Georgia is facing a federal lawsuit that alleges the city is illegally making millions of dollars preying on residents and visitors in a deliberate scheme to write tickets and … Read more

from Zero Hedge Adding insult to ruinous injury, just hours after Deutsche Bank stock crashed to all time lows after it was revealed that it had been put on the Fed’s “secret” probation list one year ago, overnight S&P downgraded Deutsche Bank’s credit rating by one notch to BBB+ from A-, just three away from junk, … Read more

by Disobedient Media Source: ZeroHedge, The Council On Foreign Relations Says Domestic Propaganda Is Necessary One year ago, a State Department press event included quite possibly the most epic “deer in the headlights” moment in all of government press briefing history. During the final press briefing in May of 2017, the State Department put high level … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wyIn_GWTXM The “Roseanne” revival was abruptly canceled by ABC Tuesday following crude, racist tweets sent by show star Roseanne Barr about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. And while there’s absolutely no excuse for Barr’s tweets, it’s extremely hypocritical of ABC to continue airing “The View” given all the abhorrent things the co-hosts have said

By Lance Gaitan When long-term Treasury yields started to climb mid-month and closed at a high of 3.24%, I didn’t see fundamental evidence to suggest that higher inflation was on the way. Recent economic and market developments haven’t changed my view. The 10-year Treasury yield rose to more than 3.11% early last week, while long-term … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz In 1980, global assets, including property, were less than $20 trillion. Today almost 40 years later they have grown to $524 trillion. That is a compound annual growth rate of 9% which is quite remarkable for a 38 year period. Global assets have gone up 26 fold during this period. In … Read more

Check out this raw video on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100011305921547/videos/574791919574334/ There’s a snippet about it in this YouTube video starting at 1:33. Hawaii local, John Hubbard, opens fire on neighbor, Ethan Edwards, for trespassing. It seems clear that Mr. Hubbard was trying to scare Edwards off and not hit him, but he does point the gun at … Read more

Begging for corrupt money. Disgusting. AC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4684&v=fEGIkT4WD1A Rush Limbaugh Video May 29 2018 | Rush Limbaugh Show 5/29/18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfhejXIf_0 The Patriot Beat reports, Unprofessional, anti-Trump CNN analyst April Ryan has landed herself in more hot water. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://patriotbeat.com/2018/05/29/ap…

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Chicago’s rents in free-fall, Washington DC’s suddenly plunge, New York’s fall to third place. But rents soar in Southern California and other parts. Bay Area and Seattle “mixed.” Four observations first: One, New York City’s median asking rent for two-bedroom apartments – long the second-highest in the country, after San Francisco … Read more

The market is weak. But have no fear because the Fed will step in. No wait, this time is different. No wait, the economy is doing well… Hmmmm… What do you think is really going on? The stock market should be robust. It should be able to handle major shocks. But look at how fragile … Read more

BY JARED DILLIAN I’ve said this many times. When rates go up sharply, stuff blows up because lots of people are negatively exposed to higher rates. Households, corporations, and governments are all negatively exposed to higher rates—in different degrees. Back in 1994, we found that it was Mexico, Procter & Gamble, and Orange County, California who all … Read more

by stockboardasset Vladimir Dorofeyev, CEO of Russia’s Malakhit Marine Engineering Design Bureau, told TASS in 2015 that “the work on the fifth-generation of submarines is already underway.” Now an anonymous source deep within the Russian defense sector told TASSon Thursday that the Husky-class fifth-generation nuclear-powered submarine will be armed with Zircon hypersonic missiles with a deployment date … Read more

by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter Recently the troubled USS Gerald R. Ford has been making headlines, in yet another embarrassing moment for the US Navy’s troubled acquisition process: The previously undisclosed problem with a propulsion system bearing, which occurred in January but has yet to be remedied, comes as the Navy is poised to request approval … Read more

by Tom McClellan 10 years ago in June 2008, oil prices were making a top above $140/barrel, which turned out to be an exhaustive blowoff top.  A steep collapse ensued, taking oil prices down to below $40 in January 2009. Crude oil gives us a 10-year leading indication for what the stock market is going to … Read more

via The Week Is another global financial crisis on the horizon? Investors are increasingly worried that an escalating political crisisin Italy could lead to a populist, euroskeptic government taking power. As a result, there’s rising uncertainty about whether the country might eventually abandon the euro currency zone or default on its giant debt pile. To make things … Read more