• Sweden Begins to Abandon Liberal Coronavirus Approach as Deaths Surge

    Paul Joseph Watson - Apr 1st 2020 10:30am EDT

    Having been one of the few European countries in the world not to impose a coronavirus lockdown, Sweden is now abandoning its liberal approach after a surge in deaths. Up until now, Sweden had kept schools, bars, restaurants and cinemas open while only restricting gatherings that were over 50 people. People were encouraged to observe […]

  • Sweden Begins to Abandon Liberal Coronavirus Approach as Deaths Surge

    Infowars - Apr 1st 2020 10:28am EDT

    More fatalities than Denmark, Norway & Finland combined.

  • The Fed Blows Biggest Bond Bubble Ever: March IG Bond Issuance Hits $271BN, An Absolute Record

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 10:26am EDT

    The Fed Blows Biggest Bond Bubble Ever: March IG Bond Issuance Hits $271BN, An Absolute Record When the Fed broke the last frontier of moral hazard – at least until it starts openly purchasing ETFs and single stocks after the next market crash, thereby fully nationalizing the market – and announced it, or rather Blackrock, […]

  • Trader: “Maybe We Can’t Handle The Truth After All”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 10:15am EDT

    Trader: “Maybe We Can’t Handle The Truth After All” Authored by Richard Breslow via Bloomberg, Most of us have lower pain thresholds than we would like to admit. And have developed various coping mechanisms to deal with it. We opt to hear what we want to. This tendency is often accommodated by enablers who long […]

  • US Manufacturing Slumps To Biggest Contraction Since Financial Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 10:05am EDT

    US Manufacturing Slumps To Biggest Contraction Since Financial Crisis After a bloodbath in European PMIs (and a ‘surprise’ surge back to growth in China), and following some serious collapses in regional Fed surveys (and this morning’s tumble in Canadian PMIs), today’s US manufacturing survey data was expected to slide further into contraction (though not as […]

  • LIVE UPDATES: President Trump Says ‘Painful’ 2 Weeks Ahead

    TruNews - Apr 1st 2020 10:00am EDT

    President Donald Trump finally came clean with Americans on Tuesday night, telling them they’re about to face a “painful two weeks.” Speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, he opened a marathon two-hour press conference by announcing: “Our country is in the midst of a great national trial unlike any we have ever […]

  • Rabobank: MMT-rump

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 9:50am EDT

    Rabobank: MMT-rump Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank Another day, another trillion dollars. After noting for the nth time yesterday that not all currencies are equal, and that the Eurodollar system–that is to say, offshore USD liquidity–remains a structural issue regardless of the recent introduction of (too small) Fed swap lines with (too few) central […]

  • Ford Is Delaying North American Production “Indefinitely”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 9:35am EDT

    Ford Is Delaying North American Production “Indefinitely” With what are sure to be ugly March sales numbers looming, Ford has now decided it is cancelling plans to re-start production in the U.S. and Mexico over the next two weeks.  Citing risks associated with the coronavirus, the automaker has said the the suspension is “indefinite” and […]

  • Live Now: Michigan Governor Begs Trump For Hydroxychloroquine After Threatening Docs Who Use It

    Infowars - Apr 1st 2020 9:30am EDT

    State was going to take doctors’ licenses if medicine was used to treat COVID-19.

  • Iranian Gas Line Suddenly Explodes, Tehran Blames ‘Terrorists’

    TruNews - Apr 1st 2020 9:30am EDT

    A key natural gas export pipeline between Iran and Turkey has exploded, according to Turkey’s energy ministry. The Anadolu Agency reports the explosion occurred near the Gurbulak border gate with Iran, in the Agri province. According to TRT Haber, another state-run broadcaster, the cause of the explosion is unknown, adding: “The gas flow on the […]

  • Whiting Petroleum Files For Prepackaged Bankruptcy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 9:20am EDT

    Whiting Petroleum Files For Prepackaged Bankruptcy Talk about a coincidence: just as we were discussing why April would be “apocalyptic” for the oil industry, as Saudi Arabia just unleashed an unprecedented record amount of oil to buyers in a scramble to put its high-priced competitors out of business, warning that “countless oil producers would file […]

  • Celebrity Whines About Being Quarantined In Luxury Mansion

    Paul Joseph Watson - Apr 1st 2020 9:15am EDT

    Multimillionaire celebrity James Corden says he is suffering “anxiety” due to being self-isolated over the coronavirus. Corden lives in an 8,609 square feet $10 million dollar L.A. mansion which is located on a 20,000 square foot estate with a massive garden and swimming pool. Most people would love to be quarantined in there for a […]

  • “It’s Hard To Envision That”: Biden Doubts Democratic National Convention Will Go Forward As Planned

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 9:14am EDT

    “It’s Hard To Envision That”: Biden Doubts Democratic National Convention Will Go Forward As Planned Joe Biden doesn’t think the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee will go off as planned this summer, telling MSNBC “It’s hard to envision that.” “Again, we should listen to the scientists,” he added. On the Democratic National Convention going forward […]

  • S o T o S p e a k | Ep. 401 | Joe Exotic and the N Word

    - Apr 1st 2020 9:05am EDT

    Joe Exotic is basically a walking lolbert meme. The guy loves guns, drugs, fudging financial documents, black market tiger trafficking, polygamy, and butt stuff, though not necessarily in that order. None of that was a deal breaker for the Netflix studio that produced a docuseries about him or the woke social justice mob on blue […]

  • A Long Way Down To Value Still

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 9:00am EDT

    A Long Way Down To Value Still Via Global Macro Monitor, Summary The stock market has completed the first phase of a bear market with a rapid and sharp Q1 sell-off caused by massive deleveraging Stocks still need to deal with its valuation problem as well as discounting the long-term financial and economic impact of […]

  • 6.5M Earthquake Rattles Idaho, 6 Surrounding States

    TruNews - Apr 1st 2020 9:00am EDT

    A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook central Idaho’s Treasure Valley on Tuesday night, rattling homes and businesses and shaking the nerves of local residents. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the temblor began at 5:52 p.m. local time (7:52 p.m. EDT) about 45 miles west of Challis. There was a delay in reporting the quake due to social […]

  • “Apocalyptic April”: Trump Fails To End Oil Price War As Saudis Unleash Oil Tsunami On The World

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 8:49am EDT

    “Apocalyptic April”: Trump Fails To End Oil Price War As Saudis Unleash Oil Tsunami On The World Oil held steady near $20 on Wednesday, after President Trump’s pledge to meet with feuding producers Saudi Arabia and Russia (whose real feud is with US Shale producers) to support the market failed to bolster prices after their […]

  • Russia Sends “Very, Very Large Planeload” Of Masks, Medical Equipment To US

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 8:46am EDT

    Russia Sends “Very, Very Large Planeload” Of Masks, Medical Equipment To US Reporters hounded President Trump during yesterday’s White House press conference about a Monday phone conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, where the two leaders agreed to hold talks about the chaos in the oil market. And in a gesture of goodwill, […]

  • Tucker Carlson: The WHO Helped China Cover-Up COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 8:30am EDT

    Tucker Carlson: The WHO Helped China Cover-Up COVID-19 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Tucker Carlson exposed during a powerful monologue last night how the World Health Organization helped China cover-up the severity of coronavirus and how the U.S. media turned a blind eye. The Fox News host noted how World Health Organization […]

  • Small Businesses Lost Most Jobs Since Financial Crisis, ADP Reports

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 8:18am EDT

    Small Businesses Lost Most Jobs Since Financial Crisis, ADP Reports Despite last week’s mind-numbing explosion in initial jobless claims, expectations were for a rather modest 150k drop in ADP employment in March… and in a shocking turn of events – ADP employment dropped a mere 27k jobs!?? Source: Bloomberg Both Goods and Services firms saw […]

  • Futures Tumble As Bear Market Rally Ends; Gundlach, Marks Expect New Lows

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 8:09am EDT

    Futures Tumble As Bear Market Rally Ends; Gundlach, Marks Expect New Lows With the only question on traders’ mind whether the March 20 liquidation cascade was the market low, the market itself may be ready to give us the answer, because on the first day of the new month and new quarter – when the […]

  • Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National Socialism by Lawrence Birken

    Amerika.org - Apr 1st 2020 8:02am EDT

    Hitler as Philosophe: Remnants of the Enlightenment in National-Socialism by Lawrence Birken Praeger, 1995. 128 pages. $45 The topic of Hitler, even beyond National Socialism itself, is perhaps only on par to what the Devil and Witches used to be during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Few are able to approach the […]

  • End The Shutdown!

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 7:56am EDT

    End The Shutdown! Via The Editors of The Mises Institute, The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people – individuals, families, businesses – must decide for themselves how and when to […]

  • 15 Times Infowars Predicted A Bioweapon Release Would Turn Into Worldwide Tyranny

    Infowars - Apr 1st 2020 7:44am EDT

    Infowarrior Sean Miller complied a short list of times Alex Jones and other Infowars hosts predicted that a bioweapon release would be used to usher in medical tyranny and destroy the remaining free world while global elites flee to their bunkers on remote islands. Visit https://operationwin2020.com/ to sign our petition to send Trump a message. […]

  • Q2 Begins On The Back Foot

    ZeroHedge - Apr 1st 2020 7:35am EDT

    Q2 Begins On The Back Foot Submitted by Saxo Bank’s Elizabeth Creagh With the slate cleared of month/quarter end flows and pension fund rebalancing, Asia equity markets begin mixed. At the time of writing, ASX 200 +1.71%, Nikkei 225 -1.14%, KOSPI +0.40% and US futures heading lower on light volumes in the Asia session. This […]