investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--A Man That Saw The Catastrophic Events Of 2020 In Advance Is Now Warning About What Will Happen In N

A Man That Saw The Catastrophic Events Of 2020 In Advance Is Now Warning About What Will Happen In November…

A few weeks ago , hardly anyone in America had ever heard of Pastor Dana Coverstone , but now hundreds of thousands of people all over the country are buzzing about him .
He leads a very small church in Burkesville , Kentucky and on June 25th he posted a video on Facebook about some remarkable things that he had seen in some of his dreams .
He probably thought that only a handful of his friends would see the video , but it quickly went viral .
At this point it has been watched by more than a million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that was posted to YouTube has now been viewed more than 600,000 times .
Personally , I have had countless people share his video with me over the past week , and it still hasn ’ t stopped .
But even though this video is spreading like wildfire , the mainstream media has been completely silent about it .
In fact , if you do a search on Google News for “ Pastor Dana Coverstone ” , you won ’ t find a single news story about his video .
What he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and so I expect that they will continue to generally ignore this phenomenon .
So what is it about his video that has people so excited ?
Well , it is because he saw the catastrophic events of 2020 in advance , and he was also shown that more catastrophic events are coming .
Let ’ s start from the very beginning .
In December 2019 , Pastor Coverstone had a dream in which he saw some very unusual things .
The following is from a transcript of his original video that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I woke up , I had a dream .
In that dream I saw a calendar .
Starting January 2020 .
It was being flipped .
I saw January , I saw February , I saw March .
When March came up the hand held it and I saw the thing of finger underline the month of March , and the tap it three times .
So underline the month of March , tapped it three times .
So to me it was emphasis , something ’ s going to happen in March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , June .
When June came , the hand underlined June again and tapped it three times .
Then , in the vision I saw people marching , I saw protests .
I saw people wearing masks , I saw lines going into hospitals .
I saw typical medical doctors with needles or syringes , I saw people on ventilators I saw people who were very , very sick , very , very ill .
I saw newspaper headlines trumpeting thousands of people getting sick .
I saw ambulances , just flying down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on fire .
I saw buildings being burned .
I saw protesters with masks .
I saw people who had their fists in the air , people who were yelling and screaming angry at just at the world .
I saw courthouses , I saw state houses surrounded .
I saw people who were mad at the world .
I saw I saw guns shotguns specifically put in the air , held like this , ( showing above his head ) and I saw barriers within cities .
I told several men in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirm who those men were and they ’ ll confirm what I ’ m telling you is what I told them .
Obviously this is a description of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rioting , looting and violence that erupted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd .
Since Pastor Coverstone posted his video after these things happened , a lot of people out there may think that he just made this dream up .
To head off that sort of criticism , Pastor Coverstone has posted testimonies from two men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shared this dream with them back when he was first given it .
You can find those testimonies right here .
Of course there will be some people that try to claim that those two men are “ making it up ” too .
It amazes me the lengths that some people will go to in order to deny facts that are inconvenient .
As the events of 2020 began to unfold , Pastor Coverstone and members of his church came to realize the importance of that first dream .
Then , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dream that pertains to the second half of this year .
The following is another excerpt from the transcript of his original video that my wife made… With that in mind , on Monday night I had another dream .
It woke me from my bed .
I made notes about it .
I shot some video of myself just making sure to remember .
I saw a calendar .
Start with the calendar .
As I was having this , the calendar was up , a white figure appeared .
To me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Holy Spirit , something pure , something righteous , something true , something Holy because there was nothing sinister about it .
Nothing evil , but I heard the voice say , “ part two , part two ” .
I saw June , go , I saw July .
I saw August , and then I saw September , and I saw the finger underneath the word September and I like like emphasizing it and tap the three times .
Then I saw October come up , and then I saw November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to me in the dream .
I think the intensity for me… when I woke up my heart rate was about 180 .
So that was Monday night , and I woke up not feeling very well at all I was up during the night not feeling well .
But anyway , … The minute the finger underlined November three times instead of tapping it , I saw a fist ball up and it hit the calendar .
And literally , the calendar exploded into the wall , the numbers seem that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There was a cloud of chaos that started in there .
The next thing I saw was I saw I saw armed protesters .
I saw fighting in the streets , I saw people pummeling one another .
I saw businesses shuttered and shut up .
I saw schools close .
I saw school rooms with cobwebs hanging in them and like things like papers falling off the wall and posters… like no one had been in them for months .
I saw banks .
Bank buildings with the roof being taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abduction because money was flying through the roof into some type of like a vacuum cleaner .
It sounds kind of strange , but I was watching wealth , just being taken .
I saw politicians in back rooms , making deals with people .
Patting people on the back and laughing and smiling and smirking .
Considering the fact that “ part one ” ended up being completely accurate , what Pastor Coverstone was shown in “ part two ” should be extremely sobering for all of us .
It appears that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in September , and it appears that November will be some sort of major turning point .
Sadly , Pastor Coverstone is being relentlessly attacked on social media for sharing what he was shown , and that is extremely unfortunate .
We live at a time when there is so much hatred in this country , and it is only going to get worse .
This chapter in American history is going to be a very painful one , and most of the U.S. population still has absolutely no idea what is coming @

by Michael Snyder
A few weeks ago, hardly anyone in America had ever heard of Pastor Dana Coverstone, but now hundreds of thousands of people all over the country are buzzing about him. He leads a very small church in Burkesville, Kentucky and on June 25th he posted a video on Facebook about some remarkable things that he had seen in some of his dreams. He probably thought that only a handful of his friends would see the video, but it quickly went viral. At this point it has been watched by more than a million people on Facebook, and a copy that was posted to YouTube has now been viewed more than 600,000 times. Personally, I have had countless people share his video with me over the past week, and it still hasn’t stopped. But even though this video is spreading like wildfire, the mainstream media has been completely silent about it. In fact, if you do a search on Google News for “Pastor Dana Coverstone”, you won’t find a single news story about his video. What he was shown definitely does not fit their agenda, and so I expect that they will continue to generally ignore this phenomenon.
So what is it about his video that has people so excited?
Well, it is because he saw the catastrophic events of 2020 in advance, and he was also shown that more catastrophic events are coming.
Let’s start from the very beginning. In December 2019, Pastor Coverstone had a dream in which he saw some very unusual things. The following is from a transcript of his original video that my wife put together…
Here’s what happened:
Back in December I woke up, I had a dream. In that dream I saw a calendar. Starting January 2020.
It was being flipped. I saw January, I saw February, I saw March. When March came up the hand held it and I saw the thing of finger underline the month of March, and the tap it three times.
So underline the month of March, tapped it three times.
So to me it was emphasis, something’s going to happen in March.
Then I saw April, May, June. When June came, the hand underlined June again and tapped it three times.
Then, in the vision I saw people marching, I saw protests. I saw people wearing masks, I saw lines going into hospitals. I saw typical medical doctors with needles or syringes, I saw people on ventilators I saw people who were very, very sick, very, very ill. I saw newspaper headlines trumpeting thousands of people getting sick. I saw ambulances, just flying down roads, and then I saw cities on fire.
I saw buildings being burned. I saw protesters with masks. I saw people who had their fists in the air, people who were yelling and screaming angry at just at the world. I saw courthouses, I saw state houses surrounded. I saw people who were mad at the world. I saw I saw guns shotguns specifically put in the air, held like this, (showing above his head) and I saw barriers within cities.
I told several men in my church about this and I can confirm who those men were and they’ll confirm what I’m telling you is what I told them.
Obviously this is a description of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rioting, looting and violence that erupted in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
Since Pastor Coverstone posted his video after these things happened, a lot of people out there may think that he just made this dream up.
To head off that sort of criticism, Pastor Coverstone has posted testimonies from two men from his church that affirm that he shared this dream with them back when he was first given it. You can find those testimonies right here.
Of course there will be some people that try to claim that those two men are “making it up” too. It amazes me the lengths that some people will go to in order to deny facts that are inconvenient.
As the events of 2020 began to unfold, Pastor Coverstone and members of his church came to realize the importance of that first dream.
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Then, it late June, Pastor Coverstone had another dream that pertains to the second half of this year. The following is another excerpt from the transcript of his original video that my wife made…
With that in mind, on Monday night I had another dream.
It woke me from my bed. I made notes about it. I shot some video of myself just making sure to remember.
Here’s what I saw.
I saw a calendar. Start with the calendar. As I was having this, the calendar was up, a white figure appeared. To me, it was a representing God the Holy Spirit, something pure, something righteous, something true, something Holy because there was nothing sinister about it. Nothing evil, but I heard the voice say, “part two, part two”.
I saw June, go, I saw July. I saw August, and then I saw September, and I saw the finger underneath the word September and I like like emphasizing it and tap the three times.
Then I saw October come up, and then I saw November and this is when it got real to me in the dream. I think the intensity for me… when I woke up my heart rate was about 180.
So that was Monday night, and I woke up not feeling very well at all I was up during the night not feeling well.
But anyway,… The minute the finger underlined November three times instead of tapping it, I saw a fist ball up and it hit the calendar.
And literally, the calendar exploded into the wall, the numbers seem that they were 3d and they were falling everywhere.
There was a cloud of chaos that started in there. The next thing I saw was I saw I saw armed protesters. I saw fighting in the streets, I saw people pummeling one another. I saw businesses shuttered and shut up.
I saw schools close. I saw school rooms with cobwebs hanging in them and like things like papers falling off the wall and posters… like no one had been in them for months.
I saw banks. Bank buildings with the roof being taken off. It looked almost that alien abduction because money was flying through the roof into some type of like a vacuum cleaner. It sounds kind of strange, but I was watching wealth, just being taken. I saw politicians in back rooms, making deals with people. Patting people on the back and laughing and smiling and smirking.
Considering the fact that “part one” ended up being completely accurate, what Pastor Coverstone was shown in “part two” should be extremely sobering for all of us.
It appears that things will start to really escalate starting in September, and it appears that November will be some sort of major turning point.
Sadly, Pastor Coverstone is being relentlessly attacked on social media for sharing what he was shown, and that is extremely unfortunate.
We live at a time when there is so much hatred in this country, and it is only going to get worse.
This chapter in American history is going to be a very painful one, and most of the U.S. population still has absolutely no idea what is coming.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Dancing Through the Geopolitical Minefield

The elites dancing through the minefield all have plans , but how many are prepared for the punch in the mouth ?
Open any newspaper from the past 100 years and you will soon find a newsworthy geopolitical hotspot or conflict .
Geopolitical conflict is the default setting for humanity , it seems , but it does feel as if the minefield of geopolitical rivalries and flashpoints has been thickly sown and many of the players are dancing through the minefield with a worrisomely cavalier confidence that they won ’ t step on mine , i.e .
bad stuff only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The grinding collision of geopolitical tectonic plates : spheres of influence , soft and hard power projection , border conflicts , etc .
2 .
The urgency sparked by the pandemic to take advantage of rival ’ s vulnerabilities and the countering urgency to defend one ’ s key borders/interests .
3 .
The destabilizing forces of elite dominance and wealth inequality within nation-states encourage elites to seek external distractions .
In this context , it ’ s interesting to review Edward Luttwak ’ s three stages of Empire .
Luttwak ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Empire sketches out three stages of Empire that apply equally well to elites within nation-states .
In other words , elites can be said to have conquered their domestic masses politically , socially and economically , much as imperial elites conquer other nation-states .
Luttwak describes the first stage of expansion thusly : “ With brutal simplicity , it might be said that with the first system the Romans of the republic conquered much to serve the interests of the few , those living in the city–and in fact still fewer , those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ second stage spread the benefits of Empire much more broadly : “ During the first century A.D. , Roman ideas evolved toward a much broader and altogether more benevolent conception of empire… men born in lands far from Rome could call themselves Roman and have their claim fully allowed , and the frontiers were efficiently defended to defend the growing prosperity of all , and not merely the privileged.
” The third stage is one of rising inequality : “ In the wake of the great crisis of the third century , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charge on society , a charge unevenly distributed , which could enrich the wealthy and ruin the poor .
The machinery of empire now became increasingly self-serving , with its tax collectors , administrators and soldiers of much greater use to one another than to society at large.
“ That line describes the global situation rather neatly .
Geopolitical blocs , alliances , nation-states with imperial pretensions and nation-states with regional power ambitions are all in a land-rush frenzy to extend and consolidate their influence and power by any means available : financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( cultural imperialism , etc . )
and hard power ( military forces ) before the inherent internal instability of their elites ’ dominance catches up with them .
Understood in this way , we can understand the geopolitical minefield as the conflict ground of various national and regional elites .
What better way to distract restive , exploited and increasingly impoverished home populaces than to whip up a conflict with neighboring rivals / “ enemies ” ?
In the run-up to events that unexpectedly spiral out of control , elites are over-confident @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ naturally ” come out on top of any conflict .
Hence they are dancing through the minefield , confident that they will magically miss all the mines , even the ones that can not be detected .
Recall that the elites at the outbreak of the American Civil War and World War I were confident the war would be over in a few months .
An overweening confidence in one ’ s ability to manage fast-moving crises is the ultimate hubris , and elites are prone to this hubris due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and wealth in their domestic economies and political orders .
The odds of miscalculation increase exponentially as the number of players dancing through the minefield increases .
As Mike Tyson so sagely observed , “ Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
” The elites dancing through the minefield all have plans , but how many are prepared for the punch in the mouth ?

by Charles Hugh-Smith
The elites dancing through the minefield all have plans, but how many are prepared for the punch in the mouth?
Open any newspaper from the past 100 years and you will soon find a newsworthy geopolitical hotspot or conflict. Geopolitical conflict is the default setting for humanity, it seems, but it does feel as if the minefield of geopolitical rivalries and flashpoints has been thickly sown and many of the players are dancing through the minefield with a worrisomely cavalier confidence that they won’t step on mine, i.e. bad stuff only happens to the other players.
The global minefield includes these dynamics:
1. The grinding collision of geopolitical tectonic plates: spheres of influence, soft and hard power projection, border conflicts, etc.
2. The urgency sparked by the pandemic to take advantage of rival’s vulnerabilities and the countering urgency to defend one’s key borders/interests.
3. The destabilizing forces of elite dominance and wealth inequality within nation-states encourage elites to seek external distractions.
In this context, it’s interesting to review Edward Luttwak’s three stages of Empire. Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire sketches out three stages of Empire that apply equally well to elites within nation-states. In other words, elites can be said to have conquered their domestic masses politically, socially and economically, much as imperial elites conquer other nation-states.
Luttwak describes the first stage of expansion thusly:
“With brutal simplicity, it might be said that with the first system the Romans of the republic conquered much to serve the interests of the few, those living in the city–and in fact still fewer, those best placed to control policy.”
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The second stage spread the benefits of Empire much more broadly:
“During the first century A.D., Roman ideas evolved toward a much broader and altogether more benevolent conception of empire… men born in lands far from Rome could call themselves Roman and have their claim fully allowed, and the frontiers were efficiently defended to defend the growing prosperity of all, and not merely the privileged.”
The third stage is one of rising inequality:
“In the wake of the great crisis of the third century, the provision of security became an increasingly heavy charge on society, a charge unevenly distributed, which could enrich the wealthy and ruin the poor. The machinery of empire now became increasingly self-serving, with its tax collectors, administrators and soldiers of much greater use to one another than to society at large.“
That line describes the global situation rather neatly. Geopolitical blocs, alliances, nation-states with imperial pretensions and nation-states with regional power ambitions are all in a land-rush frenzy to extend and consolidate their influence and power by any means available: financial, trade, diplomatic, soft power (cultural imperialism, etc.) and hard power (military forces) before the inherent internal instability of their elites’ dominance catches up with them.
Understood in this way, we can understand the geopolitical minefield as the conflict ground of various national and regional elites. What better way to distract restive, exploited and increasingly impoverished home populaces than to whip up a conflict with neighboring rivals / “enemies”?
In the run-up to events that unexpectedly spiral out of control, elites are over-confident about their ability to control the situation and “naturally” come out on top of any conflict. Hence they are dancing through the minefield, confident that they will magically miss all the mines, even the ones that cannot be detected.
Recall that the elites at the outbreak of the American Civil War and World War I were confident the war would be over in a few months. An overweening confidence in one’s ability to manage fast-moving crises is the ultimate hubris, and elites are prone to this hubris due to the apparent ease of extending their power and wealth in their domestic economies and political orders.
The odds of miscalculation increase exponentially as the number of players dancing through the minefield increases. As Mike Tyson so sagely observed, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” The elites dancing through the minefield all have plans, but how many are prepared for the punch in the mouth?


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Despite New Gigafactory in China, Tesla’s Global Deliveries Drop 4.8% in Q2, Much Worse Than I Expec

Despite New Gigafactory in China, Tesla’s Global Deliveries Drop 4.8% in Q2, Much Worse Than I Expected

Hahahaha , that should have been the universal headline .
Tesla announced this morning – under enormous media hoopla and Wall Street hyperbole – that its global deliveries dropped 4.8 % in the second quarter of 2020 , to 90,650 vehicles .
It doesn ’ t disclose how many of them were delivered in the US .
But this was the second quarter in which Tesla ’ s Gigafactory in Shanghai was operating and selling vehicles in China , the largest auto market and the largest EV market in the world .
And auto sales in China overall are experiencing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ solid recovery .
Yet , all combined , including Tesla ’ s new production and sales in China , Tesla ’ s deliveries still fell 4.8 % compared to the second quarter last year .
OK , there is the pandemic , and Tesla ’ s Fremont factory was closed for a while , and the decline in deliveries needs to be seen in this light .
But hey , as I said yesterday , Tesla “ has become a supernatural phenomenon led by a guy who is regularly seen walking on water @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I expected Elon Musk to perform miracles .
I expected the new production and sales in China to make up for any shortfalls with US production and sales , and for any shortfalls in sales in the rest of the world .
Wasn ’ t the Gigafactory in Shanghai supposed to outproduce and outsell the Fremont factory ?
Since the Gigafactory came on line at the beginning of this year , and wasn ’ t shut down in Q2 , the year over year comparison of both factories combined , even while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Q2 , should have blown last year ’ s deliveries away .
Musk walks on water .
And I believe in him .
I expected at least a little bit of growth .
I expected 100,000 deliveries at an absolute total fiasco minimum in Q2 .
That would have been 5 % growth year-over-year .
Tiny for a miraculous company like Tesla , but it didn ’ t get anywhere near that .
Deliveries instead fell 4.8 % .
I ’ m deeply disappointed in Musk ’ s inability to pull this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What is the Gigafactory in China for , if overall deliveries are now lower than they ’ d been before the Gigafactory was opened ?
But the market doesn ’ t care about what I expected , and my admiration for Musk ’ s ability to get sales going in China .
Some other folks on Wall Street pretended to expect even lower deliveries , despite the new Gigafactory , and Tesla was able to beat those lowered expectations , and Tesla ’ s shares soared 7 % this morning to $ 1,228 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the year ( updated today mid-morning ) that proves beyond reasonable doubt that Tesla ’ s stock is a supernatural phenomenon despite the decline in deliveries and despite the disappointment in the Gigafactory ( share price data via YCharts ) : To mark this moment in the history of insane stock prices where a tiny automaker with a global market share of 0.5 % and a big loss in 2019 became the most valuable automaker in the world .
Read… Double-WTF Chart of the Year Update : Tesla Becomes Most Valuable Automaker @ @ @ @

Hahahaha, that should have been the universal headline.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
Tesla announced this morning – under enormous media hoopla and Wall Street hyperbole – that its global deliveries dropped 4.8% in the second quarter of 2020, to 90,650 vehicles. It doesn’t disclose how many of them were delivered in the US.
But this was the second quarter in which Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai was operating and selling vehicles in China, the largest auto market and the largest EV market in the world. And auto sales in China overall are experiencing pent-up demand after the lockdown and a solid recovery.
Yet, all combined, including Tesla’s new production and sales in China, Tesla’s deliveries still fell 4.8% compared to the second quarter last year.
OK, there is the pandemic, and Tesla’s Fremont factory was closed for a while, and the decline in deliveries needs to be seen in this light.
But hey, as I said yesterday, Tesla “has become a supernatural phenomenon led by a guy who is regularly seen walking on water,” and so I expected more.
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I expected Elon Musk to perform miracles. I expected the new production and sales in China to make up for any shortfalls with US production and sales, and for any shortfalls in sales in the rest of the world. Wasn’t the Gigafactory in Shanghai supposed to outproduce and outsell the Fremont factory?
Since the Gigafactory came on line at the beginning of this year, and wasn’t shut down in Q2, the year over year comparison of both factories combined, even while the Fremont factory was partially shut down in Q2, should have blown last year’s deliveries away.
Musk walks on water. And I believe in him. I expected at least a little bit of growth. I expected 100,000 deliveries at an absolute total fiasco minimum in Q2. That would have been 5% growth year-over-year. Tiny for a miraculous company like Tesla, but it didn’t get anywhere near that. Deliveries instead fell 4.8%. I’m deeply disappointed in Musk’s inability to pull this off despite the Gigafactory in China. What is the Gigafactory in China for, if overall deliveries are now lower than they’d been before the Gigafactory was opened?
But the market doesn’t care about what I expected, and my admiration for Musk’s ability to get sales going in China. Some other folks on Wall Street pretended to expect even lower deliveries, despite the new Gigafactory, and Tesla was able to beat those lowered expectations, and Tesla’s shares soared 7% this morning to $1,228.
So here is my double-WTF chart of the year (updated today mid-morning) that proves beyond reasonable doubt that Tesla’s stock is a supernatural phenomenon despite the decline in deliveries and despite the disappointment in the Gigafactory (share price data via YCharts):
To mark this moment in the history of insane stock prices where a tiny automaker with a global market share of 0.5% and a big loss in 2019 became the most valuable automaker in the world. Read… Double-WTF Chart of the Year Update: Tesla Becomes Most Valuable Automaker, Blows by Toyota


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Here is how to earn customers trust when your business has zero sales

Imagine finding a brand ad on your Instagram feed , which was so enticing that you could not take your eyes off it .
Like every shopper , you decided to check online for any proof suggesting that the brand is a reputable one and that their products really do solve problems .
Unfortunately , you found nothing about them online because they ’ re new and haven ’ t made any sales yet .
If you ’ re like most shoppers , the chances are that you ’ d be skeptical about patronizing such a company , let alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is exactly how every shopper feels about your brand when they see that you haven ’ t got any “ social proof ” to go on .
So will you convince them that they can trust you without any proof to show ?
I know a lot of businesses are struggling to find answers to these questions , but we ’ re happy to inform them that we ’ ve got just about the right solutions for them in this post .
Read on to find out about them !
Show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest fear in the minds of prospective customers is whether they can trust your brand .
If they enter their credit card details on your site , won ’ t they regret it ?
If you can provide convincing answers to this question , then you ’ ve just assuaged their greatest fear .
But how will you do this ?
Show them that their security is your priority .
With cyber hackers exploiting even major chains like Target , cybersecurity is a major concern of everyone .
One way to combat this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gateway service like iPayTotal .
But be sure to inform customers by displaying security badges that bear the name of this provider on your store or site .
Customers know that payment gateway services like iPayTotal are world-renowned and boast a great level of recognition on the international level .
They know their money is safe if they pay through a service like them .
And in the event that your products don ’ t turn out to be what they expect , they know that the platform can help them negotiate and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the other benefits that come with running your business payment service through iPayTotal : • • Business banking : In the digital world we live in today , consumers patronize businesses from every corner of the world , which means that the customers you ’ re trying to gain their trust may not live in your jurisdiction .
Payment service platforms like iPayTotal see to it that you get that much sought after business account , without going through much stress .
• Credit card transaction security : they help guarantee payments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ card management policies .
No customers will scam you through falsified credit card details , and no hacker will be able to steal or snoop on customers ’ card details while they are on your store .
• Merchant account : it doesn ’ t matter the country you ’ re currently in , iPayTotal can help you set up the right payment processor for your .
Even if banks and other platforms think your business is too risky , iPayTotal will come through for you .
Share the human side of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distrust a brand at first glance .
But when they listen to the story of how the brand came to be ( the business owner profile ) , they tend to become more interested in what the guy has to offer .
A good place to tell your story is on your site ’ s “ About Us ” page .
Be sure not to talk about your products or offerings , but the major reason why you came into the industry .
Take a look at iPayTotal ’ s website , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the kind of magic a good “ About Us ” section can do .
Sometimes the fear of consumers isn ’ t about putting their money on the line , but about whether your products can really do those “ miracles ” you ’ ve mentioned in your ads .
To prove to them that you really understand what their pain points are , invest your time and money in blogging and start creating content that actually addresses their problems , Soon enough , they ’ ll see that you truly understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re a “ master ” in the industry .
In time , the fact that you have zero sales and no social proof wouldn ’ t matter to anyone anymore .
To appeal to those prospects that are on the fence about making a purchase from your company , highlight an excellent return policy .
A good return policy is seen by many consumers as a show of confidence on the part of the manufacturer .
Not to forget that it also lowers the risk involved in patronizing your “ zero @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your one-month , three-month , or 7-days return policy , create a special page on your store/site for it , have a section dedicated to it on your product pages , display badges to highlight money-back guarantees , and also link to your return policy in the footer of your site .
By and large , place the info about your return policies at strategic locations on your store .
Even with all we ’ ve mentioned above , you might still need to give a few of your products away to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Giving out free samples is no dumb thing to do because it gives you the chance to show those “ doubting Thomas ” what your products could really do .
Therefore , consider offering people your products to use for free and then share their testimonies with the public !
Disclaimer : This content does not necessarily represent the views of IWB .

Imagine finding a brand ad on your Instagram feed, which was so enticing that you could not take your eyes off it. Like every shopper, you decided to check online for any proof suggesting that the brand is a reputable one and that their products really do solve problems. Unfortunately, you found nothing about them online because they’re new and haven’t made any sales yet. If you’re like most shoppers, the chances are that you’d be skeptical about patronizing such a company, let alone trust them with your credit card details.
This is exactly how every shopper feels about your brand when they see that you haven’t got any “social proof” to go on. So will you convince them that they can trust you without any proof to show?
I know a lot of businesses are struggling to find answers to these questions, but we’re happy to inform them that we’ve got just about the right solutions for them in this post.
Read on to find out about them!
Show them that their money is safe
The biggest fear in the minds of prospective customers is whether they can trust your brand. If they enter their credit card details on your site, won’t they regret it? If you can provide convincing answers to this question, then you’ve just assuaged their greatest fear.
But how will you do this?
Show them that their security is your priority. With cyber hackers exploiting even major chains like Target, cybersecurity is a major concern of everyone.
One way to combat this fear is to use a security-boosting payment gateway service like iPayTotal. But be sure to inform customers by displaying security badges that bear the name of this provider on your store or site.
Customers know that payment gateway services like iPayTotal are world-renowned and boast a great level of recognition on the international level. They know their money is safe if they pay through a service like them. And in the event that your products don’t turn out to be what they expect, they know that the platform can help them negotiate and initiate a refund.
Here are some of the other benefits that come with running your business payment service through iPayTotal:
Business banking : In the digital world we live in today, consumers patronize businesses from every corner of the world, which means that the customers you’re trying to gain their trust may not live in your jurisdiction. Payment service platforms like iPayTotal see to it that you get that much sought after business account, without going through much stress. Credit card transaction security: they help guarantee payments on your store through end-to-end high-risk credit card management policies. No customers will scam you through falsified credit card details, and no hacker will be able to steal or snoop on customers’ card details while they are on your store.
Merchant account: it doesn’t matter the country you’re currently in, iPayTotal can help you set up the right payment processor for your high-risk merchant account . Even if banks and other platforms think your business is too risky, iPayTotal will come through for you.
Share the human side of your business
People generally have a tendency to distrust a brand at first glance. But when they listen to the story of how the brand came to be (the business owner profile), they tend to become more interested in what the guy has to offer. A good place to tell your story is on your site’s “About Us” page.
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Be sure not to talk about your products or offerings, but the major reason why you came into the industry. Take a look at iPayTotal’s website, and you’ll have a good grasp of the kind of magic a good “About Us” section can do.
Build relationships through content
Sometimes the fear of consumers isn’t about putting their money on the line, but about whether your products can really do those “miracles” you’ve mentioned in your ads.
To prove to them that you really understand what their pain points are, invest your time and money in blogging and start creating content that actually addresses their problems,
Soon enough, they’ll see that you truly understand the details of their problem and that you’re a “master” in the industry. In time, the fact that you have zero sales and no social proof wouldn’t matter to anyone anymore.
Emphasize a strong return policy
To appeal to those prospects that are on the fence about making a purchase from your company, highlight an excellent return policy. A good return policy is seen by many consumers as a show of confidence on the part of the manufacturer. Not to forget that it also lowers the risk involved in patronizing your “zero sales” business.
To emphasize on your one-month, three-month, or 7-days return policy, create a special page on your store/site for it, have a section dedicated to it on your product pages, display badges to highlight money-back guarantees, and also link to your return policy in the footer of your site.
By and large, place the info about your return policies at strategic locations on your store.
Consider giving away samples
Even with all we’ve mentioned above, you might still need to give a few of your products away to get those first few customers you so crave. Giving out free samples is no dumb thing to do because it gives you the chance to show those “doubting Thomas” what your products could really do.
Therefore, consider offering people your products to use for free and then share their testimonies with the public!
Disclaimer: This content does not necessarily represent the views of IWB.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-04--FOX: “Woman claims Ghislaine Maxwell raped her ’20-30 times’ at 14yo; willing to testify: ‘just as e

FOX: “Woman claims Ghislaine Maxwell raped her ’20-30 times’ at 14yo; willing to testify: ‘just as evil as Epstein’

EXCLUSIVE — A woman who claims Ghislaine Maxwell raped her dozens of times – beginning when she was just 14 @ @ @ @ @ is willing to take the stand and testify against Jeffrey Epstein ’ s ex-girlfriend .
@ @ @ @ @ Fox News , Jane Doe , who wishes to protect her identity , said Maxwell @ @ @ @ @ 1991 in Florida .
She said the abuse continued until she was 16 .
Maxwell @ @ @ @ @ charges for facilitating and participating in sexual abuse acts with minors , “ She did @ @ @ @ @ say it ’ s more than 20 or 30 times , ” she said .
@ @ @ @ @ evil as Jeffrey Epstein … She is a rapist.
” Jane Doe claims years of @ @ @ @ @ end only after she became pregnant with Jeffrey Epstein ’ s baby .
At age @ @ @ @ @ abortion .

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EXCLUSIVE — A woman who claims Ghislaine Maxwell raped her dozens of times – beginning when she was just 14 years old – says she is willing to take the stand and testify against Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Jane Doe, who wishes to protect her identity, said Maxwell sexually abused her beginning in 1991 in Florida. She said the abuse continued until she was 16.
Maxwell was arrested Thursday on federal charges for facilitating and participating in sexual abuse acts with minors,
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“She did rape me. I would say it’s more than 20 or 30 times,” she said. “She is just as evil as Jeffrey Epstein … She is a rapist.”
Jane Doe claims years of sexual abuse came to an end only after she became pregnant with Jeffrey Epstein’s baby. At age 16, she had an abortion.
www.foxnews.com/us/ghislaine-maxwell-rape-testify-evil-epstein


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-04--Canada’s 5 big banks go full retard and join anti-hate advertising boycott of Facebook

All five of Canada ’ s biggest banks are joining an international boycott of Facebook over concerns that the platform is complicit in promoting racism , violence and misinformation .
Scotiabank , RBC , CIBC , BMO and TD have pledged to stop purchasing ads on the site for the month , aligning themselves with brands such as Lululemon Athletica and Mountain Equipment Co-op in signing onto the StopHateForProfit campaign .
The initiative , spearheaded by organizations like the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League , began in response to growing anti-Semitic and anti-Black rhetoric found on the social media platform @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the platform for the month of July .
Scotiabank announced its intentions on Tuesday , while the four other banks confirmed on Wednesday that they would follow suit .
A spokesperson for RBC said the company understands that systemic racism has disadvantaged Black people , Indigenous people and people of colour , and the bank intends to combat that .
“ One way we can do that is by standing against misinformation and hate speech , which only make systemic racism more pervasive , ” AJ Goodman said .
A spokesperson for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bank “ will pause its advertising on Facebook and Instagram during the month of July , while continuing our ongoing dialogue with Facebook on changes they can make to their platforms to reduce the spread of hate speech.
” TD said it had also “ paused ” its advertising for the month and added that the bank is “ committed to the fight against racism and hate speech and to the work needed to help create a safer and more inclusive society .
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All five of Canada’s biggest banks are joining an international boycott of Facebook over concerns that the platform is complicit in promoting racism, violence and misinformation.
Scotiabank, RBC, CIBC, BMO and TD have pledged to stop purchasing ads on the site for the month, aligning themselves with brands such as Lululemon Athletica and Mountain Equipment Co-op in signing onto the StopHateForProfit campaign.
The initiative, spearheaded by organizations like the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, began in response to growing anti-Semitic and anti-Black rhetoric found on the social media platform.
Participating brands will suspend all advertising on the platform for the month of July.
Scotiabank announced its intentions on Tuesday, while the four other banks confirmed on Wednesday that they would follow suit.
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A spokesperson for RBC said the company understands that systemic racism has disadvantaged Black people, Indigenous people and people of colour, and the bank intends to combat that.
“One way we can do that is by standing against misinformation and hate speech, which only make systemic racism more pervasive,” AJ Goodman said.
A spokesperson for Bank of Montreal told CBC News that the bank “will pause its advertising on Facebook and Instagram during the month of July, while continuing our ongoing dialogue with Facebook on changes they can make to their platforms to reduce the spread of hate speech.”
TD said it had also “paused” its advertising for the month and added that the bank is “committed to the fight against racism and hate speech and to the work needed to help create a safer and more inclusive society.”
www.cbc.ca/news/business/facebook-canada-big-banks-advertising-boycott-1.5634395


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-04--1 million dead people received federal bailout checks

Are you ready for this week ’ s absurdity ?
Here ’ s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty , risks to your prosperity… and on occasion , inspiring poetic justice .
In response to coronavirus lockdowns , a tanking economy , and millions out of work , the US government sent $ 1,200 stimulus checks to most Americans .
Over 1.1 million of those checks ended up going to people who had already passed away .
The total amount of money which was sent to dead people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to a report from the Government Accountability Office .
That ’ s because , in an effort to rush the checks out the door , the IRS used old data that did not include information from the Social Security office about recently deceased .
Currently the government has no plan in place to recover the money , other than simply saying anyone who receives one of these checks meant for dead people should return them .
But they have no plans to tell anyone how to return the checks .
Click here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Judge forced to resign for calling his clerk “ street smart ” The chief judge of the 9th U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held a webinar with attorneys in California recently to discuss new Covid procedures and provide general updates about the court .
It should have been a pretty mundane webinar .
At one point , the judge praised his clerk , saying “ we have just a fabulous clerk of the court in Kiry Gray .
She ’ s so street-smart and really knows her job.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ street smart ” is a demeaning , racist comment .
And the Twitter mob piled on the heat , calling out the judge ’ s obvious white supremacy .
He has now resigned from his post .
Click here to read the full story .
Priyamvada Gopal , a professor at Cambridge University in Great Britain went on Twitter to declare that “ white lives don ’ t matter ” and “ abolish whiteness ” .
That sounds pretty hateful and perhaps even borderline violent .
Twitter agreed , and actually banned Gopal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mob came out in defense of the professor .
When confronted with a petition against her comments , Gopal did not back down , but doubled down , defending her position .
And Cambridge University not only stood by the professor ; they promoted her !
Cambridge then issued a statement which said , “ The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial.
” As many people have pointed out , Cambridge does not always defend the right of academics to express @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why they revoked a visiting professorship from Jordan Peterson when the Twitter mob came for him .
Academia only cares about protecting certain types of controversial free speech– and it isn ’ t the ones based on science or research .
They punish calls for academic freedom , and reward race-baiting with no academic value .
This is the education people go into debt for– at a prestigious university like Cambridge , no less .
Click here to read the full story .
Meanwhile .
.
.
college dean fired for suggesting that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the dean of the nursing school at a Massachusetts university , sent an email to her colleagues at the nursing school recently , condemning “ acts of violence against people of color.
” The email went on to say “ Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country .
I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone .
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
” So wait , you might be thinking , what ’ s the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Because after writing “ BLACK LIVES MATTER , ” Leslie then committed a heinous crime by stating , “ but also , EVERYONE ’ S LIFE MATTERS.
” Even still , the email continued , saying “ No one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe.
” Except , of course , if you believe that everyone ’ s life matters .
Leslie concluded by asking the students to “ care for everyone regardless of race , creed , color @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gender preference.
” But it didn ’ t matter , the damage was done .
Three words .
Everyone ’ s .
Life .
Matters .
It only took one student to say that she was upset by Leslie ’ s comment… and poof , Leslie was fired .
Click here to read the full story .

by Simon Black
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
A million dead people received stimulus checks totalling $1.4 billion
In response to coronavirus lockdowns, a tanking economy, and millions out of work, the US government sent $1,200 stimulus checks to most Americans.
Over 1.1 million of those checks ended up going to people who had already passed away.
The total amount of money which was sent to dead people came to about $1.4 billion, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
That’s because, in an effort to rush the checks out the door, the IRS used old data that did not include information from the Social Security office about recently deceased.
Currently the government has no plan in place to recover the money, other than simply saying anyone who receives one of these checks meant for dead people should return them.
But they have no plans to tell anyone how to return the checks.
Click here to read the full story.
Federal Judge forced to resign for calling his clerk “street smart”
The chief judge of the 9th U.S. District Court for the Central District of California held a webinar with attorneys in California recently to discuss new Covid procedures and provide general updates about the court.
It should have been a pretty mundane webinar.
At one point, the judge praised his clerk, saying “we have just a fabulous clerk of the court in Kiry Gray. She’s so street-smart and really knows her job.”
THE HORROR!
Yes, apparently describing someone as “street smart” is a demeaning, racist comment. And the Twitter mob piled on the heat, calling out the judge’s obvious white supremacy.
He has now resigned from his post.
Click here to read the full story.
Cambridge promotes professor after “White lives don’t matter” tweet
Priyamvada Gopal, a professor at Cambridge University in Great Britain went on Twitter to declare that “white lives don’t matter” and “abolish whiteness”.
That sounds pretty hateful and perhaps even borderline violent.
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Twitter agreed, and actually banned Gopal initially. But Twitter backtracked once the mob came out in defense of the professor.
When confronted with a petition against her comments, Gopal did not back down, but doubled down, defending her position.
And Cambridge University not only stood by the professor; they promoted her!
Cambridge then issued a statement which said, “The University defends the right of its academics to express their own lawful opinions which others might find controversial.”
As many people have pointed out, Cambridge does not always defend the right of academics to express their views freely.
That’s why they revoked a visiting professorship from Jordan Peterson when the Twitter mob came for him.
Academia only cares about protecting certain types of controversial free speech– and it isn’t the ones based on science or research. They punish calls for academic freedom, and reward race-baiting with no academic value.
This is the education people go into debt for– at a prestigious university like Cambridge, no less.
Click here to read the full story.
Meanwhile. . . college dean fired for suggesting that all lives matter
Ms. Leslie Neal-Boyan, the dean of the nursing school at a Massachusetts university, sent an email to her colleagues at the nursing school recently, condemning “acts of violence against people of color.”
The email went on to say “Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country. I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER.”
So wait, you might be thinking, what’s the issue? Why did she get fired?
Because after writing “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” Leslie then committed a heinous crime by stating, “but also, EVERYONE’S LIFE MATTERS.”
Even still, the email continued, saying “No one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe.” Except, of course, if you believe that everyone’s life matters.
Leslie concluded by asking the students to “care for everyone regardless of race, creed, color, religion, ethnicity, ability or gender preference.”
But it didn’t matter, the damage was done. Three words. Everyone’s. Life. Matters.
It only took one student to say that she was upset by Leslie’s comment… and poof, Leslie was fired.
Click here to read the full story.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-04--Is America Heading For Civil War? Of Course It Is…

In last week ’ s article I discussed the issue of American “ balkanization ” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology .
In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states .
Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns .
Others are here because they can ’ t stand the hostility of identity politics , cancel culture and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences .
Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do , especially in the middle of a pandemic .
For many people , such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few years ago .
Believe me , moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy transition for most .
Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maybe they don ’ t realize yet how tough it is here ; maybe they know and don ’ t care .
That ’ s how bad the situation has become – Rational and reasonable people are willing to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom .
In my view it is clear that the political left has gone so far off the rails into its own cultism that there is no coming back .
There can be no reconciliation between the two sides , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must fight .
I advocate for separation first for a number of reasons : First and foremost , conservatives are the primary producers within American culture .
If we leave the leftists to their own devices there is a chance they will simply implode in on themselves and eat each other because they have no idea how to fill the production void .
The recent developments in the defunct CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone are a perfect example .
Those people don ’ t have the slightest clue what they are doing and it shows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provides a buffer that helps defuse future random conflicts .
When you force the two sides into a box together eventually they will find a reason to try to kill each other .
Putting some distance between them and us reduces the angst .
Third , if the leftists decide they don ’ t like that we have separated and are thriving on our own , and they attempt to antagonize or attack us where we live , then we hold the clear moral high ground when we smash them to pieces in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ third outcome is the most likely .
War is probably inevitable .
Why ?
Because collectivists and narcissists are never satisfied .
They desire unlimited control over the lives of others and they will use any means to get that control no matter how destructive .
Separating from them is only a stop-gap that allows us to take the superior position .
Through peaceful migration , we set the pace of the conflict .
Eventually they will come after us , and there will be no doubt about our response then .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result in their favor , no way for them to play the victims .
Some people might question if we are actually to the point of open conflict ; they might accuse me of “ doom mongering ” .
Others may argue that conservatives are acting “ passive ” and that we will never take any action .
These assumptions are common right now because such people do not understand how history progresses and how group psychology evolves .
Domestic war is not something pursued lightly , or haphazardly .
The average person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better to seek resolution or to remain patient as events unfold .
Conservatives aren ’ t stupid ; we know that before any civil war there is first a culture war .
And , we know that the cards are stacked against us and that if we act rashly in any way we will lose position in that culture war .
So , we let the leftists spit and rage like madmen for a little while .
Each day people who were on the fence when it comes to the culture war are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side because we ’ re the only side that is sane .
The drawback is , there comes a point in which calm professionalism might be wrongly perceived as weakness .
And when people sense weakness among conservatives , they might run into the arms of the extreme left thinking that it ’ s safer to join the “ winning team ” .
I think conservatives have not been sucked into a reactionary stance yet because they are thinking logically and refusing to play the game for now .
In some ways it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is more important than the fight itself .
To understand why , we have to look at the bigger picture beyond the left/right conflict .
As I noted last week , the political left is a tool for a greater agenda .
They are being used as a weapon of chaos by globalist interests .
This is not “ conspiracy theory ” , this is conspiracy fact .
Millions of dollar have poured into Antifa and BLM related groups through elitist donors like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation as well as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these have been influencing the extreme left and promoting identity politics for DECADES .
This is openly admitted .
What we are witnessing in 2020 is simply the culmination of a half-century long propaganda campaign that created the modern feminist movement , victim group status , entitlement culture , etc .
The reason for the agenda should be obvious : Chaos creates fear .
Fear creates division and crisis .
And , crisis creates opportunity ( as globalist Rahm Emanuel once bragged ) .
Meaning , the extreme left is going to start @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the global elites created them for .
Now , some might suggest that this places conservatives in a Catch-22 position ; if we don ’ t fight back then we will look weak .
We will be culturally isolated and eventually overrun and wiped from the history books .
If we do fight back we will be giving the globalists what they want – A civil war that will tear America apart .
The suggestion by certain special interests will be that there is only one way out ; use government power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In other words , institute martial law .
I don ’ t really see it that way .
Once we understand that a fight is coming regardless , our task is to position ourselves with the most advantage possible while keeping our culture and our principles intact .
This includes our belief in constitutionalism , civil liberties and opposition to tyranny in ANY form .
Winning the fight is important , but maintaining our principles in the process is more important .
Becoming a monster to fight the monster is the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for us ( and they will ) , the fight has to be won by us , not government .
We can not hand even more power to government in the name of security .
We can not become the fascists the leftists accuse us of being .
I am often asked these days about my view of the 2020 election and how it will turn out .
I did predict Trump ’ s election win in the summer of 2016 based on the idea that Trump ’ s presence in the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as give the globalists a perfect “ conservative ” scapegoat for the economic collapse they had been engineering since at least 2008 .
Trump ’ s cabinet of global elitists suggests his complacency in this plan .
We still live under a one party system pretending as if it is a two party paradigm .
Furthermore , I am not convinced there will even be an election in November .
With pandemic lockdowns surely returning as infections spike once again , the US economy will be in ruins by winter .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ difficult or restricted in some states .
And , mail-in or digital ballots will not be accepted by most conservatives because of their history of being used to rig election outcomes .
Look at it this way : If Trump “ wins ” , or delays the election , the left will riot and a civil war will be triggered .
Conservatives will have to deal with the violence of the left while also dealing with the potential for martial law ( which we can not tolerate or support either ) .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be perceived by many conservatives who still think elections matter as a stolen presidency engineered through fraudulent ballot practices .
To summarize , if Trump is still in the White House in 2021 , get ready to fight back against leftist mobs as well as martial law measures .
If you believe in freedom , realize that fake conservatives that support government tyranny will be as much a problem as Marxist lefties .
If Biden enters the White House , expect him to immediately implement unconstitutional policies including medical tyranny , gun confiscation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it ends in war .
It ’ s also the classic false choice narrative : You can choose Marxism and communism , or you can choose fascism .
Communism being the elevation of the weak and the oppression of the strong in the name of arbitrary “ equality ” , and fascism being the elimination of the weak or less fortunate in the name of making more room for the strong .
Both sides rely on totalitarian government to assert dominance , and both sides benefit the elitist establishment .
The great con @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , when there is ; the non-aggression principle , citizen defense , voluntarism and freedom .
Frankly , I almost prefer a scenario in which Biden and the left are perceived as stealing the election .
At least then conservatives will be fully united once again and ready to fight , instead of passively relying on a Pied Piper like Trump to save them .
The truth is , in 2020-2021 we stand at a massive nexus point in human history .
We are spiraling into a decade and a fight that will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ century or more .
On one side stands the global elites and the useful idiots on the hard left .
They will push for a collectivist system that erases all memory of the Constitutional Republic we once new , and they will get help from fake conservatives that value power over principle .
On the other side stands the people that just want to be left alone ; the free minds , the people that don ’ t need or desire to have power over anybody .
If humanity is to have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must continue to exist and prosper .
They are the wellspring that feeds us , that gives us something to hope for .
If the elites and the social justice mob take control , there can be no future for our species .
They desire what they can not and should not have .
They value only what they can take from others .
They have a hunger that can never be satiated .
They will devour the world until there is nothing left while claiming they stand for the “ greater good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with such people ; the only question is , will liberty minded people stay the course and stick by their principles or will they fall to their darker impulses to ensure victory ?

In last week’s article I discussed the issue of American “balkanization” and the rapid migration of conservatives and moderates from large population centers and states that are becoming militant in their progressive ideology. In my home state of Montana there has been a surge of people trying to escape the chaos and oppression of leftist states. Some are here because of the pandemic and the harsh restrictions they had to endure during the first lockdowns. Others are here because they can’t stand the hostility of identity politics, cancel culture and race riots. Either way, they are fleeing places with decidedly leftist influences.
Uprooting and moving to an entirely new place is not an easy thing to do, especially in the middle of a pandemic. For many people, such an idea would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Believe me, moving to a place like the Rocky Mountain Redoubt is not an easy transition for most. Hopefully these people understand that they will have to make extensive preparations for the rough winter and be ready to work hard in the spring and summer months to survive. Maybe they don’t realize yet how tough it is here; maybe they know and don’t care.
That’s how bad the situation has become – Rational and reasonable people are willing to leave behind their old life and risk it all to keep a margin of freedom.
In my view it is clear that the political left has gone so far off the rails into its own cultism that there is no coming back. There can be no reconciliation between the two sides, so we must separate, or we must fight. I advocate for separation first for a number of reasons:
First and foremost, conservatives are the primary producers within American culture. If we leave the leftists to their own devices there is a chance they will simply implode in on themselves and eat each other because they have no idea how to fill the production void. The recent developments in the defunct CHAZ/CHOP autonomous zone are a perfect example. Those people don’t have the slightest clue what they are doing and it shows.
Second, if conservatives separate it provides a buffer that helps defuse future random conflicts. When you force the two sides into a box together eventually they will find a reason to try to kill each other. Putting some distance between them and us reduces the angst.
Third, if the leftists decide they don’t like that we have separated and are thriving on our own, and they attempt to antagonize or attack us where we live, then we hold the clear moral high ground when we smash them to pieces in response.
I fully realize that the third outcome is the most likely. War is probably inevitable. Why? Because collectivists and narcissists are never satisfied. They desire unlimited control over the lives of others and they will use any means to get that control no matter how destructive. Separating from them is only a stop-gap that allows us to take the superior position. Through peaceful migration, we set the pace of the conflict. Eventually they will come after us, and there will be no doubt about our response then. There will be no way to spin the result in their favor, no way for them to play the victims.
Some people might question if we are actually to the point of open conflict; they might accuse me of “doom mongering”. Others may argue that conservatives are acting “passive” and that we will never take any action. These assumptions are common right now because such people do not understand how history progresses and how group psychology evolves.
Domestic war is not something pursued lightly, or haphazardly. The average person knows at least subconsciously that it is better to seek resolution or to remain patient as events unfold. Conservatives aren’t stupid; we know that before any civil war there is first a culture war. And, we know that the cards are stacked against us and that if we act rashly in any way we will lose position in that culture war.
So, we let the leftists spit and rage like madmen for a little while. Each day people who were on the fence when it comes to the culture war are witnessing this and come over to our side because we’re the only side that is sane. The drawback is, there comes a point in which calm professionalism might be wrongly perceived as weakness. And when people sense weakness among conservatives, they might run into the arms of the extreme left thinking that it’s safer to join the “winning team”.
I think conservatives have not been sucked into a reactionary stance yet because they are thinking logically and refusing to play the game for now. In some ways it is how we enter the fight that is more important than the fight itself. To understand why, we have to look at the bigger picture beyond the left/right conflict.
As I noted last week, the political left is a tool for a greater agenda. They are being used as a weapon of chaos by globalist interests. This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is conspiracy fact. Millions of dollar have poured into Antifa and BLM related groups through elitist donors like George Soros and his Open Society Foundation as well as the Ford Foundation. Globalist institutions like these have been influencing the extreme left and promoting identity politics for DECADES. This is openly admitted. What we are witnessing in 2020 is simply the culmination of a half-century long propaganda campaign that created the modern feminist movement, victim group status, entitlement culture, etc.
The reason for the agenda should be obvious: Chaos creates fear. Fear creates division and crisis. And, crisis creates opportunity (as globalist Rahm Emanuel once bragged). Meaning, the extreme left is going to start a war because that’s exactly what the global elites created them for.
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Now, some might suggest that this places conservatives in a Catch-22 position; if we don’t fight back then we will look weak. We will be culturally isolated and eventually overrun and wiped from the history books. If we do fight back we will be giving the globalists what they want – A civil war that will tear America apart.
The suggestion by certain special interests will be that there is only one way out; use government power to turn the tide to our advantage. In other words, institute martial law. I don’t really see it that way.
Once we understand that a fight is coming regardless, our task is to position ourselves with the most advantage possible while keeping our culture and our principles intact. This includes our belief in constitutionalism, civil liberties and opposition to tyranny in ANY form. Winning the fight is important, but maintaining our principles in the process is more important. Becoming a monster to fight the monster is the same as losing.
When the left comes for us (and they will), the fight has to be won by us, not government. We cannot hand even more power to government in the name of security. We cannot become the fascists the leftists accuse us of being.
I am often asked these days about my view of the 2020 election and how it will turn out. I did predict Trump’s election win in the summer of 2016 based on the idea that Trump’s presence in the White House would drive the left insane, as well as give the globalists a perfect “conservative” scapegoat for the economic collapse they had been engineering since at least 2008.
Trump’s cabinet of global elitists suggests his complacency in this plan. We still live under a one party system pretending as if it is a two party paradigm.
Furthermore, I am not convinced there will even be an election in November. With pandemic lockdowns surely returning as infections spike once again, the US economy will be in ruins by winter. Voting in a traditional fashion will be difficult or restricted in some states. And, mail-in or digital ballots will not be accepted by most conservatives because of their history of being used to rig election outcomes.
Look at it this way: If Trump “wins”, or delays the election, the left will riot and a civil war will be triggered. Conservatives will have to deal with the violence of the left while also dealing with the potential for martial law (which we cannot tolerate or support either). If Biden “wins”, it will be perceived by many conservatives who still think elections matter as a stolen presidency engineered through fraudulent ballot practices.
To summarize, if Trump is still in the White House in 2021, get ready to fight back against leftist mobs as well as martial law measures. If you believe in freedom, realize that fake conservatives that support government tyranny will be as much a problem as Marxist lefties. If Biden enters the White House, expect him to immediately implement unconstitutional policies including medical tyranny, gun confiscation and martial law. Either way, it ends in war.
It’s also the classic false choice narrative: You can choose Marxism and communism, or you can choose fascism. Communism being the elevation of the weak and the oppression of the strong in the name of arbitrary “equality”, and fascism being the elimination of the weak or less fortunate in the name of making more room for the strong. Both sides rely on totalitarian government to assert dominance, and both sides benefit the elitist establishment. The great con is that there is no third option, when there is; the non-aggression principle, citizen defense, voluntarism and freedom.
Frankly, I almost prefer a scenario in which Biden and the left are perceived as stealing the election. At least then conservatives will be fully united once again and ready to fight, instead of passively relying on a Pied Piper like Trump to save them.
The truth is, in 2020-2021 we stand at a massive nexus point in human history. We are spiraling into a decade and a fight that will decide the fate liberty for the next century or more. On one side stands the global elites and the useful idiots on the hard left. They will push for a collectivist system that erases all memory of the Constitutional Republic we once new, and they will get help from fake conservatives that value power over principle. On the other side stands the people that just want to be left alone; the free minds, the people that don’t need or desire to have power over anybody.
If humanity is to have a future at all, the second group must continue to exist and prosper. They are the wellspring that feeds us, that gives us something to hope for. If the elites and the social justice mob take control, there can be no future for our species. They desire what they cannot and should not have. They value only what they can take from others. They have a hunger that can never be satiated. They will devour the world until there is nothing left while claiming they stand for the “greater good”. War cannot be avoided with such people; the only question is, will liberty minded people stay the course and stick by their principles or will they fall to their darker impulses to ensure victory?


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-04--Herd Immunity Here? So Why Are They Feeding The Panic?

by Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report Several recent studies suggest that we are closer to @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 than previously thought .
Former CDC head Scott Gottleib said Covid would be gone @ @ @ @ @ will have been exposed .
Yet officials across the country are implementing policies that PREVENT @ @ @ @ @ are trying to keep healthy people apart .
What ’ s their game .
Plus @ @ @ @ @ : We will tell you why Texas is seeing an increase in cases – it @ @ @ @ @ ’ s time for a new “ Villain of the Week !
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by Daniel McAdams and Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Several recent studies suggest that we are closer to “herd immunity” for Covid-19 than previously thought. Former CDC head Scott Gottleib said Covid would be gone by January because most people will have been exposed. Yet officials across the country are implementing policies that PREVENT this needed immunity! They are trying to keep healthy people apart. What’s their game. Plus in today’s program: We will tell you why Texas is seeing an increase in cases – it will shock you. Finally…it’s time for a new “Villain of the Week!”


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Fed shifts to propping up consumption by businesses and governments, and away from propping up asset

Fed shifts to propping up consumption by businesses and governments, and away from propping up asset prices.

The Fed added some assets and shed other assets , and the net effect on the balance sheet for the week ended July 1 , released Thursday afternoon , was that total assets dropped by $ 76 billion , after having dropped by $ 12 billion a week ago , and by $ 74 billion two weeks ago .
That three-week drop of $ 163 billion was far faster than any three-week decline during the official QE unwind from late 2017 into 2019 : The chart above shows how the Fed front-loaded QE when the crisis erupted , throwing $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four weeks , when financial markets came unglued and when credit was freezing up , and when investors in overleveraged hedge funds , mortgage-REITs , and other risk-takers were about to learn a lesson about capitalism – which the Fed ’ s bailout made sure they didn ’ t have to learn .
The $ 163-billion decline in total assets over the past three weeks brought the Fed ’ s assets down to a still mind-blowing $ 7.01 trillion .
The curve in the chart below shows the sudden ramp-up , the fairly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the past three weeks the drop .
This was planned from the beginning : Give it all up-front but don ’ t let it drag out for years as last time : The Fed ’ s “ dollar liquidity swap lines ” with other central banks fell by $ 50 billion in the week ended July 1 to $ 225 billion , the third week in a row of declines .
They have now dropped by half over those three weeks .
To enter into a swap , the Fed lends newly created @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their newly created domestic currency as collateral .
The swap lines drop when swaps mature and the Fed gets its dollars back .
The fact that maturing swap aren ’ t rolled over into new swaps shows that other central banks don ’ t need the dollars any longer : Fed Alphabet-Soup of SPVs edged up by $ 3 billion , from Sept. 18 low .
The Fed has by now created 10 of these Special Purpose Vehicles ( SPVs ) , that , as it says , are authorized under Section 13 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as amended by the Dodd-Frank Act , which is why Jerome Powell calls them “ thirteen-three facilities.
” Nine of these 10 SPVs were active on the current balance sheet : The Treasury Department puts equity capital – taxpayer money – into each of these SPVs as loss protection for the Fed .
The Fed lends to the SPV at a leverage ratio of 10 to 1 .
The SPV then buys securities .
All those SPVs combined now carry a balance of $ 214 billion , up $ 3 billion from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : • PPPLF ( red column in the chart below ) , which buys PPP loans from banks .
It grew by $ 6 billion last week to $ 68 billion , accounting for 32 % of the total alphabet soup .
• CCF ( yellow ) rose a smidgen to $ 42 billion , accounting for 20 % of the alphabet soup .
This SPV buys corporate bonds , bond ETFs , and corporate loans .
• MSLP ( baby-blue ) remained flat at 37.5 billion , accounting for 18 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from banks that banks have extended to small and medium-size businesses .
• MMLF ( dark-blue ) , the money-market bailout SPV , has declined from $ 53 billion in early April to $ 21 billion now , accounting for 10 % of the total .
The big three SPVs in March are fading away .
But new SPVs have sprung up .
The latest creation is the resurrection of TALF two weeks ago ( top purple ) .
It has stayed flat at $ 8.8 billion .
This SPV lends to investors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subprime credit card ABS and other structured assets on a non-recourse basis .
If this bet blows up , investors wash their hands off it , and the SPV eats the debris .
But the astounding thing about all these 10 SPVs is this : After three months of ceaseless hype in the media about the hundreds of billions of dollars would purchase , amounting to trillions of dollars in total , those SPVs now only hold $ 214 billion in assets combined .
They just haven ’ t bought much : The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21 billion during the week , to $ 4.2 trillion .
Over the past six weeks , the balance increased in the same range between $ 9 billion and $ 26 billion a week .
Note the front-loading of QE : The curve of the total amount of Treasuries on the Fed ’ s balance sheet has gone from crazy-steep in March and April back to the same slope that it had in January and February before the Everything-Bubble bailout mania : Repo balances ticked up $ 5 billion , still at Sep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theoretically huge amounts of repurchase agreements every day , but it has made its offering terms less attractive , and now there ’ s little appetite for them .
What ’ s left on the balance sheet are mostly older term repos that disappear when they mature .
And few are getting rolled over .
The total repo balance ticked up by $ 5 billion to $ 75 billion , after having dropped by $ 8 billion last week , and by $ 88 billion the week before : Mortgage-backed securities – by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the Fed ’ s balance sheet for two reasons .
One , holders receive pass-through principal payments as the underlying mortgages are paid down or are paid off .
The current boom in refis due to record low interest rates has created a torrent of pass-through principal payments that reduce the Fed ’ s balance of MBS , and the Fed would have to regularly buy a big chunk of MBS just to keep the balance level flat .
Two , MBS trades take a month or two to settle .
For @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the end of June will settle in July and August .
And the Fed books MBS trades after they settle .
On this week ’ s balance sheet , MBS fell by $ 32 billion , to $ 1.91 trillion , not because the Fed sold MBS – it doesn ’ t sell them – but mostly because of the pass-through principal payments , which gives you a feel for how big they are from the $ 1.91-trillion portfolio .
The Fed continues to buy MBS to replace the pass-through principal payments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or two away never match the pass-through principal payments .
So you get this erratic chart below .
The Fed ’ s huge MBS buying binge in March didn ’ t show up on its balance sheet until April and dragged into late May , by which time the Fed had already drastically slashed its MBS purchases .
The purchases now showing up reflect trades of a month or two ago : I didn ’ t expect the Fed to start unwinding its balance sheet this soon .
When I first started pointing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was drastically cutting its massive QE binge , and as I kept pointing out this trend , I expected the Fed to bring the growth of its assets to zero , as it had done in January and February this year , after the repo market bailout – in other words , that it would only buy enough to replace maturing securities and pass-through principal payments , with no net-change in the balance of its assets .
But now , we see this QE unwind : $ 163 billion in three weeks is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the official QE unwind that started in late 2017 and lasted into 2019 .
And we see a shift – much of the new activity is geared toward propping up consumption by businesses and governments – the PPP facility , the municipal liquidity facility , the main-street lending facility , etc .
– rather than propping up asset prices .

The Fed added some assets and shed other assets, and the net effect on the balance sheet for the week ended July 1, released Thursday afternoon, was that total assets dropped by $76 billion, after having dropped by $12 billion a week ago, and by $74 billion two weeks ago. That three-week drop of $163 billion was far faster than any three-week decline during the official QE unwind from late 2017 into 2019:
The chart above shows how the Fed front-loaded QE when the crisis erupted, throwing $1.5 trillion at it in the first four weeks, when financial markets came unglued and when credit was freezing up, and when investors in overleveraged hedge funds, mortgage-REITs, and other risk-takers were about to learn a lesson about capitalism – which the Fed’s bailout made sure they didn’t have to learn.
The $163-billion decline in total assets over the past three weeks brought the Fed’s assets down to a still mind-blowing $7.01 trillion.
The curve in the chart below shows the sudden ramp-up, the fairly quick taper, and then, over the past three weeks the drop. This was planned from the beginning: Give it all up-front but don’t let it drag out for years as last time:
Central-bank liquidity-swaps dropped by $50 billion.
The Fed’s “dollar liquidity swap lines” with other central banks fell by $50 billion in the week ended July 1 to $225 billion, the third week in a row of declines. They have now dropped by half over those three weeks.
To enter into a swap, the Fed lends newly created dollars to another central bank and takes their newly created domestic currency as collateral. The swap lines drop when swaps mature and the Fed gets its dollars back. The fact that maturing swap aren’t rolled over into new swaps shows that other central banks don’t need the dollars any longer:
Fed Alphabet-Soup of SPVs edged up by $3 billion, from Sept. 18 low.
The Fed has by now created 10 of these Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), that, as it says, are authorized under Section 13 paragraph 3 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended by the Dodd-Frank Act, which is why Jerome Powell calls them “thirteen-three facilities.” Nine of these 10 SPVs were active on the current balance sheet:
PMCCF: Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility
SMCCF: Secondary Credit (not active yet)
PDCF: Primary Dealer Credit Facility
MMLF: Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility
PPPLF: Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility
CPFF: Commercial Paper Funding Facility
CCF: Corporate Credit Facility
MSLP: Main Street Lending Program
MLF: Municipal Liquidity Facility
TALF:Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility
The Treasury Department puts equity capital – taxpayer money – into each of these SPVs as loss protection for the Fed. The Fed lends to the SPV at a leverage ratio of 10 to 1. The SPV then buys securities.
All those SPVs combined now carry a balance of $214 billion, up $3 billion from a week ago. The largest are:
PPPLF (red column in the chart below), which buys PPP loans from banks. It grew by $6 billion last week to $68 billion, accounting for 32% of the total alphabet soup.
CCF (yellow) rose a smidgen to $42 billion, accounting for 20% of the alphabet soup. This SPV buys corporate bonds, bond ETFs, and corporate loans.
MSLP (baby-blue) remained flat at 37.5 billion, accounting for 18% of the total. This SPV buys loans from banks that banks have extended to small and medium-size businesses.
MMLF (dark-blue), the money-market bailout SPV, has declined from $53 billion in early April to $21 billion now, accounting for 10% of the total.
The big three SPVs in March are fading away. But new SPVs have sprung up. The latest creation is the resurrection of TALF two weeks ago (top purple). It has stayed flat at $8.8 billion. This SPV lends to investors against asset backed securities, such as subprime credit card ABS and other structured assets on a non-recourse basis. If this bet blows up, investors wash their hands off it, and the SPV eats the debris.
But the astounding thing about all these 10 SPVs is this: After three months of ceaseless hype in the media about the hundreds of billions of dollars each would purchase, amounting to trillions of dollars in total, those SPVs now only hold $214 billion in assets combined. They just haven’t bought much:
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Treasury securities rise by $21 billion
The balance of Treasury securities rose by $21 billion during the week, to $4.2 trillion. Over the past six weeks, the balance increased in the same range between $9 billion and $26 billion a week. Note the front-loading of QE:
The curve of the total amount of Treasuries on the Fed’s balance sheet has gone from crazy-steep in March and April back to the same slope that it had in January and February before the Everything-Bubble bailout mania:
Repo balances ticked up $5 billion, still at Sep 18 Low.
The Fed is offering theoretically huge amounts of repurchase agreements every day, but it has made its offering terms less attractive, and now there’s little appetite for them. What’s left on the balance sheet are mostly older term repos that disappear when they mature. And few are getting rolled over. The total repo balance ticked up by $5 billion to $75 billion, after having dropped by $8 billion last week, and by $88 billion the week before:
MBS dropped by $32 billion.
Mortgage-backed securities – by their nature – are an erratic element on the Fed’s balance sheet for two reasons.
One, holders receive pass-through principal payments as the underlying mortgages are paid down or are paid off. The current boom in refis due to record low interest rates has created a torrent of pass-through principal payments that reduce the Fed’s balance of MBS, and the Fed would have to regularly buy a big chunk of MBS just to keep the balance level flat.
Two, MBS trades take a month or two to settle. For example, the MBS the Fed bought at the end of June will settle in July and August. And the Fed books MBS trades after they settle.
On this week’s balance sheet, MBS fell by $32 billion, to $1.91 trillion, not because the Fed sold MBS – it doesn’t sell them – but mostly because of the pass-through principal payments, which gives you a feel for how big they are from the $1.91-trillion portfolio.
The Fed continues to buy MBS to replace the pass-through principal payments, but the settlement dates a month or two away never match the pass-through principal payments. So you get this erratic chart below. The Fed’s huge MBS buying binge in March didn’t show up on its balance sheet until April and dragged into late May, by which time the Fed had already drastically slashed its MBS purchases. The purchases now showing up reflect trades of a month or two ago:
I didn’t expect the Fed to start unwinding its balance sheet this soon. When I first started pointing out on April 9 that the Fed was drastically cutting its massive QE binge, and as I kept pointing out this trend, I expected the Fed to bring the growth of its assets to zero, as it had done in January and February this year, after the repo market bailout – in other words, that it would only buy enough to replace maturing securities and pass-through principal payments, with no net-change in the balance of its assets.
But now, we see this QE unwind: $163 billion in three weeks is far faster than anything in the period of the official QE unwind that started in late 2017 and lasted into 2019.
And we see a shift – much of the new activity is geared toward propping up consumption by businesses and governments – the PPP facility, the municipal liquidity facility, the main-street lending facility, etc. – rather than propping up asset prices.


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Common Sense Is Hard…

Common Sense Is Hard…

People go to pubs without a mask , then shop without a mask , pump gas without a mask , @ @ @ @ @ , infect others without a mask , then fill up hospitals at taxpayer expense t.co/tF3g5zds8a @ @ @ @ @ days , the US has had 108k confirmed new cases .
That is more than @ @ @ @ @ that Canada has had to date ( 105k ) .
In fact , it is @ @ @ @ @ of cases of all but 17 countries.t.co/DSXMPUNKpP pic.twitter.com/aVZpupX6Ov

People go to pubs without a mask, then shop without a mask, pump gas without a mask, get sick without a mask, infect others without a mask, then fill up hospitals at taxpayer expense t.co/tF3g5zds8a
In just the last two days, the US has had 108k confirmed new cases. That is more than the total number of cases that Canada has had to date (105k). In fact, it is more than the total number of cases of all but 17 countries.t.co/DSXMPUNKpP pic.twitter.com/aVZpupX6Ov
— Anil (@anilvohra69) July 3, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--“Modern monetary theory went from dream to reality in the space of 14-15 months.”

“ Modern monetary theory went from dream to reality in the space of 14-15 months.
” @ LeutholdGroup ’ s @ @ @ @ @ traditional warning sign valuation metrics still hold true in an economic setting where money printing @ @ @ @ @ off a recession :

“Modern monetary theory went from dream to reality in the space of 14-15 months.”@LeutholdGroup’s Doug Ramsey assesses whether the traditional warning sign valuation metrics still hold true in an economic setting where money printing has been crucial in holding off a recession:
— TD Ameritrade Network (@TDANetwork) July 2, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Insanity time in the markets coming up

Insanity time in the markets coming up

Growth vs. Value Stocks in a Recession – GDP – forget that, we got POMO and a pocket full of FAAMNG stocks. Insanity time in the markets coming up. pic.twitter.com/McflTqRlhD — David Larew (@ThinkTankCharts) July 3, 2020
This marks the third straight week of contraction, this time around of around 1%. As of July 1, the Fed’s total balance sheet size declined by about $74 billion to $7.06 tn 2/ pic.twitter.com/Uq5bZ1waD2 — Jonathan Fortun (@econchart) July 2, 2020
VIX still high relative to rally pic.twitter.com/H3gjUNZ3uM — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) July 2, 2020
Just to put things into perspective: Combined mkt cap of #FANGMAN (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia) hit fresh ATH at $6.75tn, equal to combined GDP of Germany and the UK. pic.twitter.com/CSTNAtrpYk — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) July 2, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet changes as of July 2, 2020

Scroll down to : 5 .
Consolidated Statement of Condition of All Federal Reserve Banks The new asset change was @ @ @ @ @ week .
The balance sheet gets smaller for a fourth consecutive week .
The Fed @ @ @ @ @ Treasuries last week .
The Fed sold $ 32B in MBS last week The Fed @ @ @ @ @ currency to foreign central banks under the Central Bank Liquidity Swap Mechanism

by Annapurna__
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/
Scroll down to: 5. Consolidated Statement of Condition of All Federal Reserve Banks
Key takeaways
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The new asset change was -$73B week over week. The balance sheet gets smaller for a fourth consecutive week.
The Fed bought $15B in US Treasuries last week.
The Fed sold $32B in MBS last week
The Fed returned $49B in foreign currency to foreign central banks under the Central Bank Liquidity Swap Mechanism
Insane: The ECB balance sheet is now 52.8% of GDP!!! 6.2 trillion euro. It started the year at 39.4%, 4.6 trillion. Fed is 32.6% of GDP. pic.twitter.com/eAXyEYMURz — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) July 3, 2020


investmentwatchblog--2020-07-03--Fed official warns COVID-19 bankruptcies could trigger a financial crisis… The CBO is predicting tha

Fed official warns COVID-19 bankruptcies could trigger a financial crisis… The CBO is predicting that without more fiscal stimulus, we’ll have another lost decade.

St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank president James Bullard has warned that a growing number of bankruptcies due to the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a financial crisis , the Financial Times reported .
“ Without more granular risk management on the part of the health policy , we could get a wave of substantial bankruptcies and [ that ] could feed into a financial crisis , ” Mr. Bullard said in an interview with the newspaper on Wednesday .
He warned of “ twists and turns ” in the health crisis and said “ it ’ s probably prudent to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now , even though it ’ s true that liquidity has improved dramatically in financial markets.
” New U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday , according to a Reuters tally , marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic .
The surge in cases across the country , including the populous states of California , Florida and Texas , threaten the budding recovery .
Mr. Bullard said that it is possible that the country could “ take a turn for the worse at some point in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not his base case , according to the report .

via theglobeandmail:
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank president James Bullard has warned that a growing number of bankruptcies due to the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a financial crisis, the Financial Times reported.
“Without more granular risk management on the part of the health policy, we could get a wave of substantial bankruptcies and [that] could feed into a financial crisis,” Mr. Bullard said in an interview with the newspaper on Wednesday.
He warned of “twists and turns” in the health crisis and said “it’s probably prudent to keep our lending facilities in place for now, even though it’s true that liquidity has improved dramatically in financial markets.”
New U.S. COVID-19 cases rose by nearly 50,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, marking the biggest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. The surge in cases across the country, including the populous states of California, Florida and Texas, threaten the budding recovery.
Mr. Bullard said that it is possible that the country could “take a turn for the worse at some point in the future,” but added that it was not his base case, according to the report.