Investment Watch Blog

by Pamela Williams The State Department announced Tuesday that it will review the last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million to the Palestinians last week over the objections of congressional Republicans.  Obama and Kerry had to defy Congressional Republicans by using American tax payer money to finance Palestinians.  Of course, they knew President … Read more

by Viraj Shah Central Banks across the world started investing in equities when yields fell. These way even conservative investors were forced to start investing in equities in order to earn higher returns. Central banks changed their policies to allow this shift to happen. Countries like Russia, Turkey, South Africa, or Switzerland, banks are now … Read more

by Viraj Shah   Investors looking for safe havens may find solace in precious metals. If Marc Faber is to be believed, gold will shine in the next 3-6 months. The legendary investor, known as Doctor Doom, is predicting a bright future for gold in the next two quarters. A strengthened dollar is making trade … Read more

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By Michael Snyder One of the primary reasons why Donald Trump is in the White House today is because he didn’t act like a typical wimpy politician during the campaign.  The American people were hungry for someone who is strong, someone who is a fighter and someone who will stand up for what he believes.  … Read more

by Amna El Tawil According to the latest reports for November, China’s holdings of the US Treasuries decreased for the sixth month in a row. More precisely, China’s holdings declined to $1.049 trillion, a drop of about $66 billion, data from the U.S. Treasury Department showed on Wednesday. November’s drop in China’s holdings was the … Read more

by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, No difficult economic terms, no tough charts, just simple math. 1 – The worlds population of under 40 year olds (excluding Africa) has essentially peaked (chart below…bars represent 0-40yr/old population, dashed lines UN future estimates).  What is interesting about the under 40 year old population is that they are … Read more

by Umar Farooq   A $90 billion wave of maturing commercial mortgages, leftover debt from the 2007 lending boom, is revealing the weaker links in the U.S. real estate market. “There are a lot more problem loans out there than people think,” said Ray Potter, founder of R3 Funding, a New York-based firm that arranges … Read more

by Umar Farooq   China, which still is the biggest contributor to global growth, has been looking shaky for a couple of years now. Growth is down from insanely fast to moderately fast. The stock market rose and crashed. Liquidity problems have been common in the banking sector, and a lot of money has flowed out of the country. … Read more

by Pamela Williams I think what the American people need to realize right now, President Trump and his Team mean business…to say when they speak they mean it. I think we have become accustomed to lack of action in the Obama Presidency. That is until the end of Obama’s Presidency, and then we saw Obama … Read more

by Amna El Tawil   ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is quite common in American kids as well as in children in other parts of the world. Although scientists still don’t know the exact cause of this disorder, they have successfully identified some factors that contribute to it. Based on the fact that large … Read more

By Michael Snyder One of the primary things that Trump’s presidency will be judged upon is his ability to encourage the creation of good paying jobs for American workers, and so far the results have been quite promising.  Since Trump’s surprise election victory in November, a whole bunch of companies have either promised to bring … Read more

by Pamela Williams It is all starting to unravel for the Clinton Camp. I truly don’t think they are going to get away with breaking all the rules of law during her campaign for the Presidency of 2016. Peter Kadzik was especially appointed by the Department of Justice aka Loretta Lynch to investigate Hillary Clinton’s … Read more

by Pamela Williams I had just reported recently that Obama had admitted to the American Center for Law and Justice that his State Department under Hillary Clinton had colluded with the Clinton Foundation. Cheryl Mill, Clinton’s lawyer, had asked that a “friend” be given a job at Gitmo as a “favor”…Obama complied. The name of … Read more

by Amna El Tawil   Police in Uppsala, Sweden arrested three men on suspicion of gang rape after they have been alerted that perpetrators are live-streaming their horrific act on Facebook. According to media reports, the crime took place on Sunday morning and men decided to share everything with members of a closed group on … Read more