Investment Watch Blog

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Pointing at “excesses,” “distortions,” and “imbalances.” Margin debt in the stock market hit another record, $561 billion at the end of October, up 16% from a year ago, the New York Stock Exchange reported on Tuesday. Margin debt and the stock market move together. And even on an inflation-adjusted basis, the … Read more

by Chris Black As usual, President Trump proved that he’s a Jedi master when it comes to controlling the news cycle (and trolling the MSM), but let me elaborate on that in a jiffy. So, on Wednesday, during what can be described as a regular morning for the president of the United States, Donald Trump … Read more

Tell me about the real estate prices in the city/country you live in. I need to continue to build a global perspective from people in those regions. Real estate in Canada has gone from expensive to unbelievable. In 2017, Canadian real estate appreciated the most globally. Officially becoming the biggest real estate bubble of the … Read more

by Mark Angelides While we have all been watching the southern border and wondering when the wall will finally be built, we have ignored a growing issue with our northern neighbors. As ISIS teams up with Latin American drug cartels to create one of the deadliest threats to US security, we have failed to notice that … Read more

by Michael Snyder Have you ever sat through a very long political speech and realized at the end of it that nothing of any real substance was said the entire time?  This is what professional politicians have been trained to do.  They have been trained to sound good without every really getting very specific about anything.  … Read more

By Michael Snyder This is why North Korea’s test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is so important.  North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe is out of their reach.  In fact, General Mattis is now admitting that “North Korea can … Read more

by howmuch There’s a lot of confusion and misunderstanding out there around the economic impact of illegal immigration in the United States. We decided to bring some clarity around the issue by mapping new numbers on the estimated costs of illegal immigration on a state-by-state basis. Our viz takes data from the Federation for American Immigration … Read more

by Spencer P Morrison, NEE Highlights From Federal Fumbles: 5 Examples of Wasteful Government Spending US Senator James Lankford (R-OK) is a hero for his work exposing wasteful government spending.  For the last three years, the Senator has released a report called Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Government has Dropped the Ball—ie. wasted your tax dollars. Federal Fumbles documents … Read more

The countdown continues. Judicial Watch legal juggernaut caught the FBI red-handed in cover-up of the tarmac records. We forced the FBI to own up to the docs, which are due to us Thursday Nov. 30: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5611564874001/?#sp=show-clips One minute background. Longer discussion: More: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/fbi-finds-30-pages-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-documents-wants-six-weeks-turn-docs/ Because No One is Above the Law!   h/t TFittonJW

by Dana Lyons Consumers’ expectations for stock market gains have never been higher — or more assured. Since the August stock market low, bulls have had it pretty good. Rally participation has been excellent, as has price structure for the most part. Outside of a textbook successful test of The Most Important Level In The Stock Market, … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What, first down-tick in Seattle? The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for September, released today, jumped 6.2% year-over-year (not-seasonally-adjusted). By comparison, consumers’ nominal disposable income (not adjusted for inflation) rose only 2.9%. When population growth is factored in, this disposable income on a “per-capita” basis, hence for consumers as individuals, grew about … Read more

From Jeff Clark, Editor, Delta Report: Cryptocurrency stocks just had their “K-Tel” moment. Those of us who are old enough to know what a record player looks like, or who can reminisce about playing our favorite cassette tape on the car stereo system, remember K-Tel. The company is best known for its compilation music albums, such … Read more

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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent plunge in Chinese stocks. The Chinese blue-chip index suffered the worst day in 17 months after a MASSIVE plunge. Investors cited rising bond yields and regulatory burdens regarding corporate debt following a strengthening but bubbling equities market throughout the majority of the … Read more

by Chris Black This is hardly news, or at least it should not be for the informed reader. We all know that the European Union, a colossus with feet of clay (read Euro) has absolutely no strategy to deal with the consequences of its immigration policy some call suicidal. However, what’s actually very interesting is … Read more

by howmuch National debt levels can be hard to understand, not to mention boring. For example, Puerto Rico is making headlines because it is $74 billion in debt, but the United States is about to reach $20 trillion, and that doesn’t seem like a big deal. How can this make sense, and who cares about all this stuff … Read more

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, Since the 2008 financial crisis, there’s been a growing number of ridiculous, inane, and otherwise nonsensical economic interventions from our central bankers that fill the daily economic headlines. I have gone from the occasional smile to scratching my head now and then to “WTF” moments. All that said, the economists who designed … Read more

The Federal Reserve is good at one thing: Keeping their actions a big secret. Some of their data gets released and we can piece it together. Interest rates have been persistently low for a long period of time. Even with the recent small hikes, they are still well below previous cycles… or are they?   … Read more