Investment Watch Blog

by DCG The students are happy with this decision. Duh. Guess that’ll give them more time to enjoy their smart phones… From Yahoo: It’s no secret that homework is stressful. But in recent decades, researchers have begun to wonder whether the anxiety it produces outweighs its benefits. A myriad of research suggests that indeed, the bad may … Read more

by DCG Tax dollars at work. From NY Post: It’s a loophole big enough to squeeze a pension through. Joe Percoco, the disgraced former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be able to cash in once again on his time in government and collect his pension — despite three felony convictions on corruption charges. Voters gave judges the … Read more

by Tom McClellan Make me Emperor for a day, and I would compel the FOMC to outsource interest rate policy to the bond market.  Why should we pay 12 experts, most with expensive Ivy League PhD degrees, to do what the bond market can do far more efficiently (and cheaply)? This week’s chart compares the 2-year … Read more

by Thinker In the U.S., U.K., Israel, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, and China citizens from all these nations live, work, and many own businesses and property in those not their birth nations. So how is it that the people are all getting along and the leaders of these nations are making accusations and dropping bombs … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park returns… The stock markets are in transition from ABB (Always be buying) to ABS (Always be selling). Unfortunately there’s going to be a lot of collateral damage along the way. Even if the markets don’t decide to finally come down now, it’s a certainty that that day is coming soon. So … Read more

from Financial Survival Network Heather Wagenhals joined us again to talk about the FBI scam. Scammers got a hold of the FBI’s identity theft reporting data base. Then they started a sophisticated campaign to convince those already victimized people to disclose financial information and scammed them yet again. The people thought they were communicating with the FBI, … Read more

by Thinker Former FBI Director Comey talking about questionable tapes about the president and golden showers? What happened to integrity? Not in the land filled with pedophiles, liars, and thieves. How do you own someone? Get them in a position they would never be caught in and have it recorded? What would you do to … Read more

By John Murphy JP MORGAN CHASE SUFFERS DOWNSIDE REVERSAL ON FRIDAY… Friday had to be a very discouraging day for investors in bank stocks. After reporting first quarter earnings that were much higher than expected, bank stocks opened higher before plunging in heavy trading. Chart 1 shows JP Morgan Chase (JPM) suffering a big downside reversal (in very … Read more

by Martin Armstrong   Konstantin Kosachev, the head of International Affairs for Russia’s Federal Assembly, publicly stated: “There can be only one political assessment: It is a blatant violation of international law and it is an attack on a sovereign state without proper grounds.” Strangely, he is correct. International Law under agreements in the United Nations does not … Read more

Wow he goes off…like OFF I’ve never seen him do anything like this ever. https://youtu.be/c3QftFpihPE AC

via Brad DeLong CRISIS, RINSE, REPEAT: Key economic data from the periods following the 1929 stock-market crash and the 2007-2008 financial crisis suggest that the current recovery has been unnecessarily anemic. If policymakers refuse to heed the lessons of the New Deal era, then the next crisis is destined to be as prolonged as the last. When … Read more

by stockboardasset While Chicago continues to hemorrhage residents for a third consecutive year, a small community 25-miles outside city limits has unleashed an innovative marketing campaign, using comic strips to lure in city dwelling millennials. In a new comic-strip ad campaign, Homewood, Illinois, promotes itself as a “hip, diverse, urban neighborhood that Millennials can afford,” said CityLab. … Read more

by KneelB4Zod! Just wow: Columbia professor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on Syria https://youtu.be/v8wrp0A2zIE “They sent in the CIA to overthrow Assad.” “We have made a proxy war in Syria it’s killed 500,000 people, displaced 10 million.”