Investment Watch Blog

by stockboardasset According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is considering plans to transfer heavily armed, versatile Marine Corps Expeditionary Units (MEU) to East-Asia, citing the rapidly expanding Chinese influence in the region. After 16-years of military embarrassments in the Middle East, the Pentagon has finally regained consciousness, realizing its misfortunes in … Read more

via Adapt 2030 New article out from the Weather Channel states that our Earth will undergo a 50 year cool cycle caused by our Sun, and shockingly IPCC scientists are just now understanding the effects of decreased UV on our climate system. BY the way CO2 is plant food and CO2 trails temperature, not leads it. … Read more

by northmantrader Have they all lost their collective minds? Look I get that some people are leaning Democrat versus Republican and vice versa and that’s fine, but what exactly are voters getting? If, on the one hand, you think Democrats tax and spend too much you get Republicans on the other hand who cut taxes with … Read more

by Martin Armstrong In a 1992 case, the Supreme Court refused to require that mail-order retailers collect sales taxes from buyers in other states. For a quarter-century, that has given the online retailers a competitive advantage over brick-and-mortar stores. The States are broke and they are pushing to compel everyone online to collect sales taxes for … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The illusion that risk can be limited delivered three asset bubbles in less than 20 years. Has anything actually changed in the past two weeks? The conventional bullish answer is no, nothing’s changed; the global economy is growing virtually everywhere, inflation is near-zero, credit is abundant, commodities will remain cheap for the foreseeable … Read more

by David Haggith Talk about the market busting a move … and a lot of people! In less than half a month, the Trump Rally lost a third of the height it had developed over a period of sixteen months — the worst two-week drop since February 2009. (The market’s moves are so extreme by … Read more

by Dave Here’s a long term valuation chart – total market cap of all US equities divided by GDP.  It suggests that, from a valuation standpoint, we haven’t exceeded 2000 quite yet.  That’s because GDP has doubled from 2000 to today. But you probably can’t call this market cheap either.

by Adam Commodities are at their lowest relative valuation compared to stocks than at any other time in the past half-century. For many reasons, that imbalance can’t last. And it will likely be correct by both equities falling AND commodity prices rising. I do worry that, in the near term, a market melt-down may send … Read more

by John Rubino Critics of “New Age” monetary policy have been predicting that central banks would eventually run out of ways to trick people into borrowing money. There are at least three reasons to wonder if that time has finally come: Wage inflation is accelerating Normally, towards the end of a cycle companies have trouble … Read more

by Ruby Henley The Grassley and Graham Memo has just been released, but the Democrats do not want the public to know.  Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham have been working tirelessly to uncover the truth concerning  the Trump dossier/FISA Warrant debacle. The Mainstream News Media does not seem to be reporting on it.  You will … Read more

by Ruby Henley There is more strangeness coming out of Las Vegas with each new day.  Stephen Paddock told a prostitute he feared he was an “experiment.”  He, also, told her he was born with  “bad blood.”  She went on to say he performed bizarre sexual acts on her, and now she is missing.  She … Read more

Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu NEW YORK (AP) — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday shows 1 of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was … Read more

Senator Paul: If you were against president Obama’s deficits, and now you’re for the Republican deficits, isn’t that the very definition of hypocrisy? https://youtu.be/RgI7eJX5dQE Folks, Congress has spent us into oblivion over the last 9 years. It now appears that there’s just no coming back from it. Out-of-control spending is going to sink the country. … Read more

by Egon von Greyerz Virtually no investor studies history and the few who do always think it is different today. The most important lesson is that people never learn. If they did, they wouldn’t be invested in a stock market that on any criteria is now at a bubble extreme. And they wouldn’t be invested in a … Read more

There has been incremental but immaterial improvement since this interview. The Deep State constitutional crisis continues…. JW President Tom Fitton discusses the challenges and obstacles Judicial Watch faces in its many battles against the Deep State, including getting to the truth about the targeting and spying on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. This … Read more

by Elizabeth Vos, Disobedient Media As new charges are brought against South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye, the Chairman of Samsung has been named a suspect in a multi-million-dollar tax-evasion case. The latest developments represent the continuation of previous scandals that ultimately saw Park ousted from the South Korean Presidency and the heir of Samsung jailed for over a … Read more

via Forex Live  Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn will invest USD 18 million in a cryptocurrency merchant bank private placement of Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. This is a Canadian shell company that will own the crypto bank being set up by a former Goldman Sachs partner, Mike Novogratz Bradmer announced last month that it planned to raise $200 … Read more