Investment Watch Blog

by GoldCore Women’s Pension Crisis Highlights Dangers To Savers – International Women’s Day highlights the underreported UK Women’s pension crisis – 2.66 million affected by UK government’s change to state pension act – Women’s pension crisis is one of many in the UK, where there is a £710bn deficit for prospective retirees – Changes by … Read more

by Dave Below is the “net change w/w” in the total outstanding bank credit for all commercial banks in the US.  When the black line drops below 0, that means a decline in the amount of credit vs the previous week. TOTBKCR is the most frequently updated bank credit timeseries, and has a 2 week … Read more

by Ruby Henley In 2014, Fox News warned us of what was to come, but that was in 2014.  Now it is 2018, and Internet Censorship is indeed occurring. There is much more to this story, and I have gone back in time to research the many facets of this complex manifestation.  It is shocking, … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz Central bank heads have been at it again last week. And they have clearly all been singing from the same hymn sheet. The messages have been very similar from the bosses of the Fed, ECB and BOJ. The head of the Swedish Riksbank had a different and much more interesting message. … Read more

by West of Westpacific Trend Trading The Collapse Looms and Everyone Is Like Deer in the HEADLIGHTS ! Confidence is such a game. Everyone is so used to a rosy stock market that constantly charges higher, even after a decade. What if I told you that’s all about to change? Will not say much here. I’m not … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryF35pESVIg Cillian Zeal for the Conservative Tribune reports, For many conservatives, the president’s decision last week to impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and 10 percent on imported aluminum was where they decided to get off the Trump train. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://conservativetribune.com/tarif…

THE DISHONEST CPI DILEMMA   h/t @OccupyWisdom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI-coUrc6O4 While many people have celebrated gains in the stock market and government employment numbers which paint a rosy economic picture – America’s economic future is not good. Stefan Molyneux looks at the economic Sword of Damocles which hangs over the head of every American and the tragic amount of suffering that will occur when … Read more

by Martin Armstrong CNN Money is reporting the headline “A top JPMorgan Chase executive is warning that stocks could fall as much as 40% in the next few years.” CNN reports that Daniel Pinto, JPMorgan’s co-president, said on Bloomberg Television he believed that market gains should continue for the next year or two. However, he added that investors … Read more

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Has interbank lending collapse due to a lack of confidence concerning counter-party risk? Thank you for being a rare source with experience ER ANSWER: Yes that is a correct statement. The failure of Lehman and Bear Sterns was the result of interbank lending when they could not make good on the collateral … Read more

via Zero Hedge  The Strategic Investment Conference 2018 kicked off in San Diego with a keynote speech from David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff titled, “Year of the Dog: Will It Bark or Bite?” (Spoiler: The latter). Rosenberg began by running through a list of his own metrics: forward P/E, price/sales, price/book value, enterprise value/EBITDA. Not … Read more

by Dave A close below the previous low of 9260 will confirm the double top.  That would be in line with the current longer term bitcoin downtrend. Currently bitcoin is trading at 9000. More likely than not, we retest 6000.

Are Pension Funds Embracing Too Much Risk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GIF36r6IM Alarming: This huge pension fund loses 5% of its assets in just 11 trading days. Is the worst yet to arrive? According to EWI’s analysis, ALL investors need to learn how to get “financially safe.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkxRQl6tJI Police are too busy being social workers.

via Mike Mish Shedlock “Will there be a mismatch between what the U.S. wants to sell (Treasuries) and what the world wants to buy?” Brad Setser asks the above question in his “Follow the Money” post How Will the U.S. Fund its Twin Deficits? In the past few years, the U.S. Treasury has needed to, on net, … Read more

via Sid Verma HSBC’s famed bond bull Steven Major has a bearish warning as short-term dollar funding costs swell to levels last seen in the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening will increase yields on Treasury bills further and weigh on financial conditions, testing appetite for assets sensitive to the discount rate, he says. “Higher Treasury … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNsiMhTRQs Synopsis: Mark Stein tonight did a great exposé on how off the wall Louis Farrakhan is, and how the Democrats are desperate for the MSM not to cover their connections to him. [insert]