Investment Watch Blog

via Annie Pei The bond market is getting slaughtered as the U.S. 10-year yield hits its highest level since July 2011. The move has TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon predicting that a key technical pattern is about to be broken. Looking at a chart of the TLT long-dated treasury ETF, Gordon told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” that recent weakness has the … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter TV falls further behind, suffers first ad revenue decline since the Financial Crisis. You might think you never look at these ads or click on them, and you might think they’re the biggest waste of money there ever was, but reality is that internet advertising revenues in the US are surging, … Read more

By Bob Shanahan Image courtesy of PJ Media There’s something tragic and unequivocally devastating happening to men in America today. During this #MeToo era, men are seen as rapists and misogynists when in fact most are gentlemen. Sadly, men are literally a dying breed. Masculinity is dismissed in favor of the feminization of males in … Read more

by visualcapitalist The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. As you read this, know that you are not alone. Statistically speaking, over 50% of people are consuming media in some form at this given moment. In fact, the latest data shows that Americans spend over 12 hours per day consuming media in various forms. This means … Read more

by Michael Snyder The worst Ebola outbreak in a number of years has health officials on high alert, and the fact that a case is now being reported in a major city is extremely concerning.  As we have seen during past outbreaks, Ebola can spread very rapidly, and the mortality rate during an outbreak is … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz We are now in the final stages of a journey which by future historians will be seen as unreal as Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Just like Alice called the “Mad Tea Party”, “the stupidest tea party she had ever been to”, the last 100 years could be called the Craziest Extravaganza … Read more

by stockboardasset Coined shortly after the great financial crisis of 2007–2009, the so-called “gig economy” or “sharing economy” refers to the increasing list of companies like Airbnb, Doordash, Etsy, Lyft, Postmates, TaskRabbit, and Uber–platforms that hire temporary workers who provide an array of on-demand services: delivery, ridesharing, home rentals, and odd jobs. The “gig economy” in … Read more

Ever wonder about the signals going in and out of your phone and internet modem at home ? Check this video , this guy has a emf meter and shows how bad this stuff is for us. Cell phone Wifi h/t sranjesuper

In a SHOCKING admission on Wednesday The New York Times reported the FBI opened an investigation dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” into Trump’s campaign 100 days before the Presidential election. The FBI was spying on the opposition party’s campaign 100 days before the election. The spying was based on a phony Russian dossier that was paid for … Read more

by Daniel Carter Humans have had a great ride. We’ve overcome vicious predators, drastic shifts in climate, diseases, large-scale warfare and many other things that would have put an end to lesser species. These days, life is so comfortable and sheltered for many of us that we often take the survival of our species for … Read more

via Tom Bowley yesterday.  The 10 year treasury yield ($TNX) closed at 3.08%, its highest close in the past 7 years.  It’s very significant in my view because it’s occurred after a double bottom printed and it sure seems to be giving us a signal like we haven’t seen in 35-40 years.  In my opinion, we are now … Read more

An entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we face today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout history have warned us and fought against the current financial system we have in America today. h/t zhanli