Investment Watch Blog

The job numbers are in and they are not good, jobs are down, remember these are the manipulated numbers. Retail the big loser this time around, not surprising because retailers have been closing stores. The labor participation rate is now down to 62.7%.Credit Suisse is reporting more retail stores closing down this year. Venezuela is … Read more

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/5/18 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, Chief Investment Officer of Bleakley Financial Group and Editor of The Boock Report newsletter https://boockreport.com/, Peter Boockvar. Jason asks Peter about many macro topics including: central bank tightening, a flattening yield curve, the US Dollar, Bitcoin, … Read more

by Jim Quinn I spent most of Obama’s presidency obliterating the jobs recovery narrative every month, as millions supposedly left the workforce because their financial situation was so wonderful. The bullshit shoveled by the BLS was nothing but manipulated misinformation then and it is still bullshit now. Just because the president is now Trump, doesn’t … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkivjhlo_vg Editor’s note: A spokeswoman for the CDC confirmed for Food Safety News on Jan. 3 that one person has died in the U.S., five have been admitted to hospitals and two have developed kidney failure because of HUS as a result of their E. coli infections. http://marygreeley.com/?p=63590

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-_EPMr4Ic Michael Bastasch for the Western Journal reports, While New England’s power grid operator predicted they would have enough energy supplies to meet demand this winter, they admitted there could be problems if record-low temperatures set in. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/waging…

by Chris Martenson bitcoin.com So… in the past week, I’ve been asked for advice on Bitcoin by my brother-in-law, my local realtor, and close friends from as far away as Texas. None of them cared to learn what it actually is. Or how it works. They just wanted to understand why suddenly so many folks they know … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn The State of California is prosecuting Mark Feigin, 41, for posting insulting comments on the Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC)’s Facebook page. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra maintains that Feigin does not have the protection of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment free speech right because his insults are in violation of Cal. Penal Code § 653m(b), which says: Every person … Read more

Do you need any more proof the Fed is manipulating the financial markets? They know exactly what they’ve done and who has benefited.   The Federal Reserve had some shocking admissions in 2012 about their program. Everything is truly coming to light now at this time. It fully documents what we have thought and has … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn Fusion GPS is the opposition research firm that, in 2016, was first hired by unnamed Republican(s) during the GOP primaries to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. After Trump won the GOP primaries to become the Republican presidential nominee, the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign hired Fusion GPS to do the same. Note: … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt87p1cx7Xg California is lowering taxes for rich Democrats http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… https://taxfoundation.org/state-strat…  

The DOJ and congress are looking into the Russian collusion probe, the FBI investigation coverup, Clinton email server and the Comey memo problem. Will this year be the year of justice. A Judge has ordered Fusion GPS to hand over its financial records. The talks between North Korea and South Korea are happening on Jan … Read more

No-Show Judge confronted by Rob Wolchek Hmmmm… doesn’t pay her bills, doesn’t show up to work. Sounds like a real winner, and it appears she lives in Detroit. It’s cool, they can afford it. AC

by Ruby Henley While this is an update I promised to a loyal reader of IWB, it is also a validation of my theory that there is a depopulation event taking place in Chicago.  While the United Nations has designated Chicago its role model city, it fails to recognize the crime taking place in the … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter First decline in its colossal balance sheet since 2012. An amazing – or on second thought, given how central banks operate, not so amazing – thing is happening. On one hand… Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda keeps saying that the BOJ would “patiently” maintain its ultra-easy monetary policy, so too … Read more

by Sam Bocetta, Free Market Shooter The secure ledger technology of the blockchain is something that has been hotly debated by financial experts and prognosticators alike. Some predict that blockchain firms will fail while others are of the mind that crypto investing in the blockchain will be the best path going forward for all investors. As digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have … Read more

From Kim Iskyan, Publisher, Asia Wealth Investment Daily: Keep it, and over time it will be worth less and less. It doesn’t yield anything. Multiple rounds of quantitative easing by the world’s central banks (often described as “printing money”) has made it feel like it’s worth as much as newsprint. If you misplace (or burn) it, … Read more