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  • Rand Paul Responds To Death Threat, Suspicious Package Of White Powder Sent To Home

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 11:00am EDT

    Rand Paul Responds To Death Threat, Suspicious Package Of White Powder Sent To Home Authored by Janita Kan via The Epoch Times, Sen. Rand Paul has denounced threats to him and his family after a suspicious package containing white powder was delivered to his home on Monday. “I take these threats immensely seriously. As a repeated target […]

  • Chinese Banks Buy Dollars To Weaken Yuan In Latest Intervention

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 10:45am EDT

    Chinese Banks Buy Dollars To Weaken Yuan In Latest Intervention Just days after senior PBOC officials spoke up about moving to stabilize the yuan as it continued to strengthen against the dollar, Chinese banks have reportedly stepped in to buy dollars and sell the yuan in the open market, the latest in a series of […]

  • Epic Games Vs Apple, Did We Learn Anything From The Judge’s Questions?

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 10:30am EDT

    Epic Games Vs Apple, Did We Learn Anything From The Judge’s Questions? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The bench trial concluded yesterday but the ruling might take months. Which way does it lean? After three weeks of testimony, the Bench Trial Between Apple and Epic Games is over but a decision may be months […]

  • Conference Board Confidence Stagnates In May As ‘Hope’ Evaporates

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 10:20am EDT

    Conference Board Confidence Stagnates In May As ‘Hope’ Evaporates The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence index disappointedly slipped lower in May from a revised lower 117.5 to 117.2 (well below the 118.8 exp), still well below the pre-COVID levels of exuberance. Source: Bloomberg The driver is clear as ‘current conditions’ surge from 131.9 to 144.3, ‘hope’ […]

  • Biden To Meet With “Killer” Putin During June 15 Summit In Geneva

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 10:15am EDT

    Biden To Meet With “Killer” Putin During June 15 Summit In Geneva Just after the Biden Administration invited backlash from Russia hawks by waiving sanctions on a Russian firm involved in the construction of the controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, it looks like President Biden has finally settled on a date for a […]

  • US New Home Sales Plunge After Massive Downward Revision As Prices Soar

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 10:11am EDT

    US New Home Sales Plunge After Massive Downward Revision As Prices Soar With home prices soaring at their fastest pace since 2005 in March, and existing home sales unexpectedly tumbling for the 32rd straight month in April, analysts expected new home sales to finally fall prey to the affordability crisis in April (after screaming 20.7% […]

  • EU Sanctions Belarus For “State Terrorism” – National Airline Now Banned From Europe’s Airspace

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 9:47am EDT

    EU Sanctions Belarus For “State Terrorism” – National Airline Now Banned From Europe’s Airspace As we noted on Monday European countries, following the example of Lithuania and the UK, are now effectively imposing a ban on European carriers flying through Belarusian airspace after Sunday’s Ryanair incident where the Ireland-based airliner was forcibly diverted from its flight path to land in […]

  • Fed To Treasury Dealers & Congress: We Can’t Count On You, We’re Taking Charge

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 9:35am EDT

    Fed To Treasury Dealers & Congress: We Can’t Count On You, We’re Taking Charge Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Fed sees itself as trapped by the incompetence and greed of the other players and by its own policy extremes that were little more than expedient “saves” of a system that is […]

  • US Home Prices Explode At Fastest Pace Since 2013

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 9:05am EDT

    US Home Prices Explode At Fastest Pace Since 2013 “In real terms, home prices have never been so high. My data goes back over 100 years, so this is something,” Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” earlier this week and according to Case-Shiller’s latest data (for March) released today, home prices in America […]

  • “Time To Move On” – Bipartisan Infrastructure Talks On Life Support 

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 8:54am EDT

    “Time To Move On” – Bipartisan Infrastructure Talks On Life Support  While infrastructure modernization and investment are in dire need from the federal government, bipartisan “infrastructure” talks between Senate Republicans and the White House quickly broke down. All the squawking from the White House about “bipartisan cooperation” was merely a facade as President Biden’s initial $2.3 […]

  • Don’t Let The Media Get Away With U-Turning On The Lab Leak Theory

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 8:35am EDT

    Don’t Let The Media Get Away With U-Turning On The Lab Leak Theory Authored by Stephen L. Miller via Spectator.us (emphasis ours), The theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory has completed its year-long trudge — from fringe nutjob idea to mainstream and expert-approved opinion. Right all along? Sen. Tom Cotton was denounced as […]

  • Elizabeth Warren Bill Would Force Banks To Reveal ‘Account Flows’ To Catch Wealthy Tax Cheats, Focus On ‘Racial Inequities’

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 8:15am EDT

    Elizabeth Warren Bill Would Force Banks To Reveal ‘Account Flows’ To Catch Wealthy Tax Cheats, Focus On ‘Racial Inequities’ New legislation proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would supercharge the IRS’s ability to catch wealthy tax cheats, as well as “do more to focus on racial and income inequities in the IRS enforcement process,” according […]

  • Bezos. Jeff Bezos

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 8:00am EDT

    Bezos. Jeff Bezos By Michael Every of Rabobank Who Has Got Any Talent? Amazon is going to buy MGM studios for USD9bn. Not for love of ‘Ars’ or ‘Artis’, but for the gratis intellectual property that can be switched to its streaming service. Coverage of this deal is accompanied by pictures of James Bond, because […]

  • Futures, Tech Stocks Jump After Fed Officials Talk Down Inflation Risks

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 7:44am EDT

    Futures, Tech Stocks Jump After Fed Officials Talk Down Inflation Risks US equity futures and tech stocks gained for a second day, rising alongside European and Asian stocks after Fed officials on Monday played down the risk of “non-transitory” inflation easing bond yields for the fourth straight day, as investors waited for consumer-confidence data.  At […]

  • Another Coup Erupts In Mali As Military Arrests President And Other Top Officials

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 7:01am EDT

    Another Coup Erupts In Mali As Military Arrests President And Other Top Officials Last year’s coup in the embattled North African nation of Mali – where France is finally withdrawing military forces after a nearly decade-long “unwinnable war” against Islamists operating within the country’s borders – is already crumbling as military officials once again move […]

  • Pick Your Fed Poison: Tanking Markets Or Fatal Inflation?

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 6:30am EDT

    Pick Your Fed Poison: Tanking Markets Or Fatal Inflation? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Below we look at the dark corner in which the Fed has placed themselves and investors: A one-way path toward tanking markets or crippling inflation. Alas: Pick your poison. For us, the antidote is as good as gold. More Inflation […]

  • “Decided To Divide” – Chicago Segregates Restaurants For Un-Vaxx’d

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 5:45am EDT

    “Decided To Divide” – Chicago Segregates Restaurants For Un-Vaxx’d If you want any more evidence COVID-19 has been a pandemic of inequality – take, for example, Chicago restaurant owners, who plan to introduce vaccinated and non-vaccinated sections, according to CBS Chicago. This brings us back to the 1990s when there were restaurants offering smoking and smoke-free […]

  • UK Government Says WHO Needs To “Explore All Possible Theories” On COVID Origins

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 5:00am EDT

    UK Government Says WHO Needs To “Explore All Possible Theories” On COVID Origins Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, The World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus must be “robust, transparent, and independent,” and needs to “explore all possible theories,” the UK government said on Monday. The […]

  • Big Pharma Is Already Preparing Vaccines For The Next Global Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 4:15am EDT

    Big Pharma Is Already Preparing Vaccines For The Next Global Pandemic Now that Pfizer and Moderna have demonstrated just how profitable a vaccine business can be during a global pandemic, drug companies around the world are rushing to prepare for either a resurgence of mutant COVID-19, or perhaps some new virus, as Dr. Anthony Fauci […]

  • Lithuania’s Heroic Stand Against China: The World Should Listen

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 3:30am EDT

    Lithuania’s Heroic Stand Against China: The World Should Listen Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, Lithuania is a small Baltic country of population 2.8 million and land area 65,300 square kilometers. Compare that to China’s 1.4 billion population and 9.6 million square kilometers. Yet, Lithuania has taken a series of steps against the Chinese […]

  • Russian Vessel Enters German Waters For Last Leg Of Nord Stream 2 Pipelaying

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 2:45am EDT

    Russian Vessel Enters German Waters For Last Leg Of Nord Stream 2 Pipelaying Late last week the Biden administration slapped yet more sanctions on Russian entities, including 13 vessels and their owners, which are in the final stretch of laying the Russia to German natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 (said to be well over 90% […]

  • UK Health Secretary Suggests Critics Of Vaccine Passports Are “Crazies”

    ZeroHedge - May 25th 2021 2:00am EDT

    UK Health Secretary Suggests Critics Of Vaccine Passports Are “Crazies” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested critics of the vaccine passport policy were “crazies” after he retweeted a post which disparaged those who have security and privacy concerns about the program. Mail on Sunday commentator Dan Hodges […]

  • Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support For BLM Agenda

    ZeroHedge - May 24th 2021 11:50pm EDT

    Leaked State Department Memo Indicates Official Support For BLM Agenda Authored by Jack Posobiec via HumanEvents.com, A source within the Biden State Department wishing to remain anonymous has shared with Human Events News a document that indicates that all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on […]

  • Wisconsin Police Tell Residents “Do Not Call 911” When Starlink Satellite Train Passes By

    ZeroHedge - May 24th 2021 11:30pm EDT

    Wisconsin Police Tell Residents “Do Not Call 911” When Starlink Satellite Train Passes By The Outagamie County Sheriff’s office told residents of Appleton, a city just north of Lake Winnebago, to avoid calling the police when a train of lights appears in the night sky because they’re just satellites.  “We have seen a lot of questions […]

  • The Real Big Lie: You Can’t Question Elections

    ZeroHedge - May 24th 2021 11:10pm EDT

    The Real Big Lie: You Can’t Question Elections Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics.com, Liz Cheney doesn’t get to decide what is true for the rest of us; neither, as hard as it is for some of them to believe, do the media pundits and philosopher-kings whom our society breeds like rats in a junkyard. […]