Investment Watch Blog

by Chris According to the Swiss bank’s calculations, on a unit basis, approximately 2,880 store closings were announced YTD, more than twice as many closings as the 1,153 announced during the same period last year. Historically, roughly 60% of store closure announcements occur in the first five months of the year. By extrapolating the year-to-date … Read more

Financial expert Bill Holter says the financial markets are being propped up by “fraud,” and the global financial markets are nothing more than “Ponzi schemes.” He says many people are surprised it all did not unravel years ago and points out, “I didn’t see it getting past the end of 2016. It could collapse anytime. … Read more

Wells Fargo corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California Wells Fargo fails US bankruptcy test for a second time The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said that Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, JP Morgan Chase, and State Street, whose living wills were also deemed deficient in April, had now adequately addressed … Read more

by KneelB4Zod! Voters on Sunday are casting their ballots in the first election in France’s modern history to take place under a state of emergency. Security has been tightened across the country with many polling stations guarded by armed police and soldiers. http://www.france24.com/en/20170421-security-heightened-french-polling-stations-amid-terror-fears-france Online news about ongoing electgion (in French): http://www.lemonde.fr/election-presidentielle-2017/ The Spectator Index‏ @spectatorindex 60 … Read more

by Pamela Williams WE THE PEOPLE are sometimes left standing alone questioning what is happening around us.  Sure we have the news, but even Mainstream News Media is not trustworthy.  In the case of the Government Exercise Gotham Shield, which began on April 18 and will end on May 5, we have received no outreach from … Read more

by Bill Holter & filed under Bill Holter. Zerohedge put out an interesting article yesterday: Why “Nothing Matters”: Central Banks Have Bought A Record $1 Trillion In Assets In 2017. Please note this is $3.6 trillion annualized rate so far this year. Of particular note is this chart: What jumps out at you should be … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal Liberal billionaire George Soros is widely regarded as a highly dangerous individual, especially among right wingers, conservatives, Independents, Libertarians, and Republicans. Soros is infamous for his plethora of large donations to left wing, liberal causes, politicians, and protests. It is no secret that Soros backed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and contributed … Read more

by Pamela Williams I am in acceptance at this time that the power outages of April 21, 2017 in San Francisco, New Jersey, and New York were terror related.  Think about this first and foremost:  San Francisco’s power supply is controlled by Pacific Gas and Electric, most of Los Angeles is controlled by the Los Angeles … Read more

by Chris Martenson Audy39/Shutterstock Central banks around the world have colluded, if not conspired, to elevate and prop up financial asset prices.  Here we’ll present the data and evidence that they’ve not only done so, but gone too far. When wee discuss elevated financial asset prices we really are talking about everything. we’re talking not … Read more

by Mike Ehrmantraut If you study history, or more importantly the “Art of War”, every civil war throughout time has started with exploratory “confrontations” and limited engagements. This is exactly what we saw in Berkley a few days ago. Each side is carefully sizing up the other, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. Tactics are being reevaluated … Read more

by Pamela Williams The following tweets will let you know immediately why President Trump just fired Dr. Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General. Tired of politicians playing politics w/ guns, putting lives at risk b/c they're scared of NRA. Guns are a health care issue. #debatehealth — Vivek Murthy (@vivek_murthy) October 17, 2012 Obamacare sets us on … Read more

by Robert Carbery Theodore Postol, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), released a three-report series in response to the White House’s claim that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad attacked his own people with sarin gas, in which he concluded that the attack in Syria was staged.     Postol declared that the US … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal It appears as though Democratic leaders are determined to exhaust every option as a means of removing President Trump from his rightful place in office. A House Democrat recently introduced a piece of new legislation which would amend the Constitution and make the removal of Presidents considerably easier and less secure. On … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter How big is margin debt really, and how much of a threat is it to the stock market and to “financial stability,” as central banks like to call their concerns about crashes? Turns out, no one really knows. What we do know: Margin debt, as reported monthly by the New York … Read more

by Umar Farooq   Oil prices tumbled on Friday, on track for the biggest weekly drop in a month on renewed concerns that increasing U.S. production and high inventories will thwart OPEC’s attempts to reduce the global crude glut. U.S. crude futures fell below $50 a barrel for the first time in two weeks, with … Read more

by Pamela Williams This is a breaking news story, and it will be written in a rough form as I get the news.  First of all, we have the AP saying:  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A power outage struck a wide area of San Francisco on Friday, blacking out about 90,000 utility customers, snarling traffic … Read more

by Simon Black A few days ago Charles Schwab, the investment brokerage firm, announced that the number of new brokerage accounts soared 44% during the first quarter of 2017. More specifically, Schwab stated that individual investors are opening up stock trading accounts at the fastest pace the company has seen in 17 years. 17 years. Anyone … Read more

by Mark Angelides   The Criminal Super Gang, MS-13, has a 30 year history in the US and yet Donald Trump appears to be the first President to attempt a serious take-down. Under Barrack Obama, several “fiscal targeting operations” were attempted to reduce their money supply, and massive operations put in place against “some” of … Read more

by Mark Angelides ISIS has just released a pamphlet (above), that shows exactly how much they are selling captive Christian and Yazidi females for. It is a sliding scale based on the woman’s age, and the younger the girl, the more expensive she is. These women and girls are being sold into sex slavery and … Read more