Investment Watch Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTDbbDwy_o Freedom Caucus Members Push To Hold Hillary and the FBI Accountable During Powerful Press Conference. ~~ Links: 1) http://thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/f… 2) Thumbnail image – Rep Matt Gaetz.jpg Fox News, http://thegatewaypundit.com 3) Music – Youtube Audio Library “Ambient Ambulance” https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/ VIDEO: 8 Congressmen hold live Clinton ‘Special Treatment’ Press Conference demanding investigation Congressmen Gaetz, Jordan, Meadows, … Read more

By Michael Snyder Either the Republicans are going to give Democrats virtually everything that they want, or the federal government will shut down at the end of the day on Friday.  We have been through this process time after time, and in every single instance the Republicans have always folded like a 20 dollar suit.  … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mZ-SPCFC8 Trump Just Uncovered Elizabeth Warren Stole $5 BIL From Taxpayers – What She Did With It Will Make You SICK! ~~ Links: 1) https://freedomdaily.com/trump-just 2) Thumbnail image – 1-17-1200×630 (1).jpg Warren, https://freedomdaily.com 3) Music – Youtube Audio Library “Ambient Ambulance” https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/  

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Accounting irregularities” If you’re holding shares or bonds of a company, such as Steinhoff International Holdings — which acquired Mattress Firm Holding in 2016, Sherwood Bedding in 2017, and a bunch of other companies — well, you don’t want to get this kind of corporate announcement, even if you’re the ECB … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn The Congressional Accountability Act (CAA) of 1995 requires Congress and legislative branch entities to follow many of the same employment and workplace laws applied to private business and the rest of the Federal Government. In all, 13 civil rights, labor, and workplace safety laws are applied by the CAA: Occupational Safety and Health Act … Read more

The complete failure of this system is being exposed. The amount of leverage has always, every single time, caused a crisis to expand faster and harder then originally thought. There are no soft landings, Janet Yellen. Only crashes, loss of pension funds, and savings evaporated. You saw it during the Financial Crisis and you’re seeing … Read more

By Chris Black   Eastern Europeans have a saying: we’ve just got out communism, after 45 years of Hell, only to discover that the West is marching (this time benevolently) into the same hellhole we’ve just managed to escape from. And this is not a joke either. The West’s essential institutions are pathologically corrupted by … Read more

Quantitative Easing (QE) and Equity and Credit Performance pic.twitter.com/bPE6kXGSiN — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 5, 2017 CenBanks are the biggest risk to asset prices and the global economy. El-Erian's preview of major central banks in 2018. https://t.co/AxLEEKmMbk pic.twitter.com/2UtGcN3VH9 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) December 6, 2017 Why The Shift To QT Will Cause The Mother Of All … Read more

Market analyst Lynette Zang predicts in the next crash, “real estate, stocks and bonds will all crash.” When will this happen? Zang says, “Enjoy your Christmas,” but in 2018, all bets are off. Zang explains, “In 2018, I don’t think they can hold these things together. I think we will see a major market correction … Read more

by Michael Snyder At one elementary school in California, 96 percent of the students are not proficient in either English or math.  How is that even possible?  Unfortunately, the more the federal government gets involved in education, the worse it seems to get.  At one time the United States had the greatest system of public education on the … Read more

By Michael Snyder It should upset you that virtually everything stocking the shelves of our major retailers seems to have been made somewhere else.  As a nation, we are consuming far more wealth than we are producing, and that is a recipe for national economic suicide.  This week we learned that imports from China hit … Read more

by Chris Black If you’re not up to date with the politically correct lingo, you should know that the concept of protected classes was created by leftists and it’s pretty much similar with the notion of identity politics. Basically, a protected class, whether we’re talking about minorities (blacks, Hispanics, “people of color”) or women/transgenders/gays/lesbians/whatever sexual … Read more

by Anthony B Sanders Another day in the land of Central Bank bubbles. According to Bloomberg, transportation stocks have rallied more than 8 percent in a week, realigning them with industrials at new highs in a coupling that is one of the market’s oldest bullish technical indicators. According to the century-old Dow Theory, simultaneous records in … Read more

In your opinion, how can it possibly be considered that this is a good economy when the bank literally gives you money to buy a home?! Mortgage   When credit flows easily, people will take it. Payday loans. Cash Money. Cash Advance. These are successful business models because people can find a way to buy … Read more

by John Ward The media’s macro portrait of ‘everything’s alright really’ looks like the daubings of an infant when you get closer to the canvas. Nowhere is this more apparent than than in the micromadness of the US Car sector.   One of the things long-distance relocation brings to the party is just how different things … Read more

h/t David Stockman Rather than attempting to "justify" or dismiss valuations, it's better to accept that speculative pressures (we read via market internals) can allow enormous, temporary deviations from valuation norms over portions of the cycle. Just don't imagine those deviations are permanent. pic.twitter.com/cBJQ59i3Pd — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) December 4, 2017 The Fed Is … Read more

By Michael Snyder This is what can happen when you go to a socialized healthcare system.  A lot of people out there believe that the United States has a free market healthcare system, but that is actually not true.  The percentage of the population that receives government-subsidized healthcare is rapidly approaching 50 percent, and the … Read more

by Chris Black It’s an undeniable fact that Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, also known as Mutti Merkel (Mother of Refugees), is one of the persons accountable for European Union’s (failed) open borders policies. The thing is, back in 2015, Chancellor Merkel took the decision to open-wide Germany’s borders and allowed over one million (nobody knows … Read more

by Mark Angelides Once again the story about the baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple is in the ages of our newspapers. We are being asked to look at it as though the baker, Masterpiece Cakeshop, was asking for “the right to discriminate” (LA Times) and that their refusal is akin … Read more