Investment Watch Blog

by Pamela Williams   “This project has stable funding, creates sufficient jobs and guarantees the safety of investors’ money,” one description reads.  Are we talking about government here or big business?  Is this not what we seek in government and big business?  Politicians are making big money behind closed doors, and we all know it.  Why … Read more

By Gabrielle Seunagal In recent new, occurrences of female genital mutilation (FGM) taking place in America have come to light. A few weeks ago, two Michigan Muslim doctors (Jumana Nagarwala and Fakhruddin Attar) were arrested for mutilating the genital of young girls. FGM is a disgusting and barbaric act involving the mutilation or removal of … Read more

French Interior Ministry Live maps and data tables – http://elections.interieur.gouv.fr/presidentielle-2017/ Live TV coverage France24 (English) http://www.france24.com/en/ Rightside Broadcasting (English) BFMTV (French) Political Analysis Tim Pool – The French Election – Macron V. LePen Tim Pool – Meeting a LePen supporter in Paris Technical Analysis Marine Le Pen can breach her glass ceiling: The drastic effect … Read more

SNB goes on buying spree and loads up on Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft stock. Picture [W]e are long beyond the point of debating the central bank intervention in equity markets (we do want to remind readers that until several years ago, it was considered “fake news” to even mention it, and those who accused central bankers … Read more

by Pamela Williams IWB wants all readers to know if you are blocked, it is a mistake!  If this does happen, please contact us via “contact.” We are under a massive DDos attack at this time.  We have to keep blocking malicious ip addresses in order to stay up and running.  It is a nightmare to … Read more

by Pamela Williams http://www.orlandosentinel.com/health/os-florida-blue-payment-problems-20170501-story.html Prepare yourself to read about a nightmare that most likely many of us have had, including myself.  Picture this:   Great weekend planned ahead, Last minute withdrawal from your bank, Ready to go, packed, and excited to finally get away, Standing at ATM, BOOM! Bank account frozen from lack of funds,  What? … Read more

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launches a four-day listening tour on Sunday to gather input on whether or not to do away with some of former President Barack Obama’s more controversial decisions on expanding national monuments. The listening tour will begin in Utah at the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in … Read more

by Robert Carbery Hiring increased in April, encouraging signs that the economy is rebounding after a slogging first quarter. Strong gains in business services and healthcare have helped the economy expand into the Spring months of 2017.     Will there be more or similar growth to come in May and June? With unemployment this … Read more

By Michael Snyder Venezuela and Yemen were both once very prosperous nations, but now parents are literally watching their children starve to death as the economies of both nations continue to utterly collapse.  Just like so many here in the United States, most of those living in Venezuela and Yemen would have called you completely … Read more

by Robert Carbery While we are all busy discussing a healthcare bill that was passed by the Republican-held House of Representatives on Thursday that could very well doom the GOP, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking believes our planet is already doomed.   Hawking has been discussing the impending expiration of the human race for years now … Read more

You can find many timelines that follow allegations of Russia tampering in the U.S. election and alleged involvement of Trump officials. But I couldn’t find any comprehensive timelines cross-referencing Obama-era surveillance of whistleblowers, journalists and other U.S. citizens with Russia surveillance allegations. So I built one. Please note: temporal proximity of events doesn’t necessarily imply … Read more

circa.com reports: Circa has formally requested that the Trump administration declassify records showing how often government officials have searched National Security Agency intercepts for intelligence on U.S. presidential candidates, members of Congress, journalists, clergy, lawyers, federal judges and doctors and how often such Americans had their identities unmasked by the intelligence community after Barack Obama made … Read more

The US and China’s manufacturing activity seem to be synchronized – and both are slowing…#recession2017? #igwt2017 pic.twitter.com/3eUtruyVRp — Ronnie Stoeferle (@RonStoeferle) May 4, 2017 Global recession risk rises as the US and China tighten into the storm Equity investors across the world are positioned for the nirvana of synchronised and accelerating global expansion led by China … Read more

by Mark Angelides As the disastrous Obamacare expensively crashes, and the new Health Care Act comes into play (probably just as expensively), many Americans are wondering why the US has not gone “Full-Brit” and created a National Health Service (NHS). A full health care system, paid for through general taxation, and free at the point … Read more

by Mark Angelides Whatever the final result of the budget bill was, both sides were planning on spinning it as a victory for themselves and a defeat for the opposition; this is the nature of modern politics and is frankly irrelevant to most people who will just look at what the sums are assigned to. … Read more

By Michael Snyder On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives finally approved a bill that would repeal and replace significant portions of the law that created Obamacare.  But it was a very close vote.  On Donald Trump’s 105th day in the White House, 217 members of the House voted in favor of the bill, and … Read more

by Robert Carbery This is a big day for Republicans in Congress. The GOP is again putting forward The American Health Care Act, the alternative to Obamacare, today in the House of Representatives. Will this be another embarrassing defeat? Or will the bill be given a chance and sent to the Senate? Republicans are now … Read more