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  • Elon Musk Declares Support For Crypto Over Fiat Currencies

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 10:45am EDT

    Elon Musk Declares Support For Crypto Over Fiat Currencies There’s no doubt that Elon Musk is currently at the center of the Bitcoin universe. It was Musk’s public critiquing of Bitcoin mining’s environmental impact that started a chain of events that led to Bitcoin crashing last week, before eventually steadying and paring some of its […]

  • Into The Swarm #2: The Greatest Trick Wall Street Ever Pulled

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 10:20am EDT

    Into The Swarm #2: The Greatest Trick Wall Street Ever Pulled Submitted by Romain of The Swarm Blog, Down The Market Hole The French version of Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short is intitled Le casse du siècle, which literally means the “heist of the century.” This idea is interesting, as going short can be regarded as finding […]

  • Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index Turns Red For First Time In A Year 

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 9:55am EDT

    Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index Turns Red For First Time In A Year  Days ago, we wrote that the Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index was “about to turn red” for the first time since last June.  The Citi US econ surprise index is about to turn red pic.twitter.com/B1JkaPp8k0 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 19, 2021 As […]

  • The End Of Paper Gold & Silver Markets

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 9:20am EDT

    The End Of Paper Gold & Silver Markets Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, This article looks at the likely consequences of the Bank for International Settlements’ introduction of the net stable funding requirement (NSFR) for bank balance sheets, insofar as they apply to their positions in gold, silver and other commodity markets. If they […]

  • Who Let The Bees Out?

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 8:45am EDT

    Who Let The Bees Out? Beekeeping is an ancient cultural practice that dates back 9,000 years and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity over concerns about biodiversity and food security. Taking a long-term look at beekeeping trends in world regions, however, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, it becomes apparent that one continent  – Europe […]

  • Taibbi: Con Of The Week – Greensill Capital

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 8:10am EDT

    Taibbi: Con Of The Week – Greensill Capital Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News substack, For an explanation of the “Con of the Week” feature, click here. When the face of a traditionally low-margin business starts collecting private jets, it’s time to head for the exits Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. There it […]

  • Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory Could Be Delayed To 2022 As Company Faces Mountain Of Legal Woes

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 7:35am EDT

    Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory Could Be Delayed To 2022 As Company Faces Mountain Of Legal Woes While at the same time Elon Musk is dealing with a not-too-happy Chinese Communist Party, he also appears to be hitting roadblocks in Germany.  Since announcing plans for expansion in 2019, Tesla’s proposed factory in Berlin has been “torpedoed by […]

  • Russia Warns US & NATO Over Increased Military Activity In Arctic

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 7:00am EDT

    Russia Warns US & NATO Over Increased Military Activity In Arctic Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced concern over the uptick in US and NATO military activity in the Arctic. The comments were made in a speech at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Reykjavik, Iceland. “We are […]

  • Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under The Government’s New Pre-Crime Program

    ZeroHedge - May 22nd 2021 12:00am EDT

    Total Tyranny: We’ll All Be Targeted Under The Government’s New Pre-Crime Program Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” – James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might […]

  • Watch Postmates Robot In The Wild Of Downtown Los Angeles 

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 11:40pm EDT

    Watch Postmates Robot In The Wild Of Downtown Los Angeles  A new video that surfaced on TikTok showed what appeared to be a Postmates Serve delivery robot cruising down the sidewalk of Los Angeles, dodging a homeless man laying on the pathway, and continued on its route to deliver food to a customer.  If you had to […]

  • Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx’d

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 11:20pm EDT

    Caught Red-Handed: CDC Changes Test Thresholds To Virtually Eliminate New COVID Cases Among Vaxx’d Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated. The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is altering its practices of data […]

  • “Mask Up To Keep It Up” – Study Finds Links COVID To Erectile Dysfunction

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 11:00pm EDT

    “Mask Up To Keep It Up” – Study Finds Links COVID To Erectile Dysfunction A new study published in The World Journal of Men’s Health says aftereffects of contracting COVID-19 could cause erectile dysfunction in men. “Our research shows that COVID-19 can cause widespread endothelial dysfunction in organ systems beyond the lungs and kidneys. The underlying endothelial dysfunction […]

  • Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 10:40pm EDT

    Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters Authored by Rupert Darwall via RealClearEnergy.com, On January 8, 2014, at New York University in Brooklyn, there occurred a unique event in the annals of global warming: nearly eight hours of structured debate between three climate scientists supporting the consensus on manmade […]

  • US Hits Russian Entities With More Nord Stream 2 Sanctions After Removing Them For German Side

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 10:20pm EDT

    US Hits Russian Entities With More Nord Stream 2 Sanctions After Removing Them For German Side In the continuing saga of contradictory US efforts to thwart the Russia to Germany natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, the US Treasury on Friday hit Russia with more sanctions – specifically announcing that three more Russian entities and 13 […]

  • 14 Cities In LA County Issue No-Confidence Resolutions Against Soros-Backed DA

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 10:00pm EDT

    14 Cities In LA County Issue No-Confidence Resolutions Against Soros-Backed DA Authored by Vanessa Serna via The Epoch Times, Fourteen cities in Los Angeles county have issued no-confidence resolutions against District Attorney George Gascon, claiming his reforms went too far. Diamond Bar’s city council passed a no-confidence motion during its May 18 meeting, with some […]

  • “Xi Who Must Not Be Named”: Ordinary Chinese Are Increasingly Afraid To Talk About Their Leader

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 9:40pm EDT

    “Xi Who Must Not Be Named”: Ordinary Chinese Are Increasingly Afraid To Talk About Their Leader It’s a dynamic familiar to fans of the Harry Potter franchise: a villain so powerful that ordinary people fear to even mutter his name aloud. In Harry Potter world, characters use phrases like “You Know Who” to reference the […]

  • Rochester Mayor Vowed To Take “Illegal Guns Off The Street”; Police Just Found One In Her Home

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 9:20pm EDT

    Rochester Mayor Vowed To Take “Illegal Guns Off The Street”; Police Just Found One In Her Home By Cam Edwards of BearingArms, Rochester, New York Mayor Lovely Warren is a typical Democrat politician when it comes to gun control. She’s complained about the number of “illegal guns on the streets” of the city, supported the state’s […]

  • US Special Forces Seek Amphibious Transport Plane For Pacific Combat

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 9:00pm EDT

    US Special Forces Seek Amphibious Transport Plane For Pacific Combat The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) explores options for transforming Lockheed Martin’s C-130 Hercules four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft into an amphibious plane that would support operations in the Indo-Pacific area as great power competition between China continues to gain steam, according to military intelligence […]

  • Georgia Gov. Urges Educators Not To Teach Critical Race Theory’s ‘Dangerous Ideology’

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 8:40pm EDT

    Georgia Gov. Urges Educators Not To Teach Critical Race Theory’s ‘Dangerous Ideology’ Authored by Isabel Van Brugen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Thursday wrote a letter to the state Board of Education opposing the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its “dangerous ideology” in public schools. “This […]

  • Police Recruiting Plummets Ahead Of Violent Summer

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 8:20pm EDT

    Police Recruiting Plummets Ahead Of Violent Summer Police departments across the country fail to attract new recruits after a year of social justice warriors and liberal-run city councils defunding police and the leftist media throwing the men and women in blue under the bus.  Recruiting deficits come ahead of what is expected to be another violent summer. […]

  • Two Ways To Push Back Against The Cultural Revolution

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 8:00pm EDT

    Two Ways To Push Back Against The Cultural Revolution Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Fourteen year old Gao Yuan was attending a boarding school in China when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966. And that’s when his life changed forever. Even though the communists had won the Chinese Civil War and been in […]

  • Handful Of Black COVID Survivors Experience Massively Enlarged Tongues

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 7:40pm EDT

    Handful Of Black COVID Survivors Experience Massively Enlarged Tongues Doctors in Houston, Texas are scratching their heads after a handful of COVID-19 survivors developed massively enlarged tongues. The condition, called macroglossia, makes it impossible for patients to eat, drink or talk. Last fall, KHOU reported that there were two documented cases in the United States, […]

  • The Government’s Emergency Powers Myth

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 7:20pm EDT

    The Government’s Emergency Powers Myth Authored by Andrew Napolitono, originally published at Creators.com, “The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious […]

  • Afternoons Running Errands In The Suburbs Are The New “Rush Hour”

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 7:00pm EDT

    Afternoons Running Errands In The Suburbs Are The New “Rush Hour” With everybody moving out of cities and into the suburbs to work from home during the pandemic, there’s officially a “new rush hour”. Gone are the days of waiting on the interstate to get in and out of your local metro area around the […]

  • Watch: Rep. Jordan Exposes Democrats’ Efforts To Stifle COVID Origin Investigation

    ZeroHedge - May 21st 2021 6:40pm EDT

    Watch: Rep. Jordan Exposes Democrats’ Efforts To Stifle COVID Origin Investigation Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, During a hearing Wednesday in the House, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan succinctly highlighted how everyone EXCEPT House Democrats wants answers to legitimate questions regarding the possibility of the coronavirus leaking from a Chinese lab. Republican lawmakers, intelligence […]