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  • Pelosi Joins Call To Boycott 2022 Winter Games Over China’s Human Rights Abuses

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 9:45pm EDT

    Pelosi Joins Call To Boycott 2022 Winter Games Over China’s Human Rights Abuses With the Tokyo Summer Olympics expected to be the most underwhelming event in the history of the modern games (that is, if safety officials from the IOC ultimately allow it to continue), pressure for an international boycott of the 2022 Winter Games […]

  • The $392,000 Lifeguard: “Baywatch” As Union Shop

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 9:25pm EDT

    The $392,000 Lifeguard: “Baywatch” As Union Shop Submitted by Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, Being a lifeguard isn’t easy, but in Los Angeles it can be lucrative. Auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found 82 county lifeguards earning at least $200,000 including benefits and seven making between $300,000 and $392,000. Thirty-one lifeguards made between $50,000 and […]

  • ‘Sickcare’ Is The Knife In The Heart Of Employment… And The Economy

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 8:45pm EDT

    ‘Sickcare’ Is The Knife In The Heart Of Employment… And The Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We need to change the incentives of the entire system, not just healthcare, but if we don’t start with healthcare, that financial cancer will drag us into national insolvency all by itself. American Healthcare is […]

  • Silicon Chip Shortage Leads To Potato Chip Shortage: Farmers Halt Equipment Shipments To Dealers

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 8:25pm EDT

    Silicon Chip Shortage Leads To Potato Chip Shortage: Farmers Halt Equipment Shipments To Dealers Readers have been briefed on the ongoing semiconductor shortage that may last a “couple of years.” The auto industry has grabbed the spotlight as the hardest-hit industry, with some of the world’s biggest manufacturers restricting production.  According to a new report, […]

  • BLM Founder Who Went On Property-Buying-Spree Complains About “White Supremacy” In Housing Market

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 8:05pm EDT

    BLM Founder Who Went On Property-Buying-Spree Complains About “White Supremacy” In Housing Market Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, After going on a personal home buying spree, including one property located in one of the whitest areas of California, BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors is now complaining about “white supremacy” in the housing market. […]

  • Predatory Lenders Charging Up To 589% Interest Posted Record Profits In 2020 Thanks To “Stimulus”

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 7:45pm EDT

    Predatory Lenders Charging Up To 589% Interest Posted Record Profits In 2020 Thanks To “Stimulus” “I can’t even think about how much money I just paid in interest,” 44 year old Jamie Johnson said, thinking back to a payday loan he took out in April 2020. His $5,000 loan – which eventually accrued interest at […]

  • Lumber, Labor, & Gas Markets Tell SAD Stories

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 7:25pm EDT

    Lumber, Labor, & Gas Markets Tell SAD Stories Authored by Art Carden via The American Institute for Economic Research, The hits just keep coming. First, lumber prices exploded. Second, there was a terrible jobs report. Third, there was a gas shortage. These are all SAD stories–Supply And Demand. They are also, of course, stories about adaptation, adjustment, resilience, and […]

  • China Furious As Japan Refuses To Address Its Radioactive Fukushima Water Dumping Concerns

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 7:05pm EDT

    China Furious As Japan Refuses To Address Its Radioactive Fukushima Water Dumping Concerns Angry that Japan has yet to respond directly to the concerns of the international community, China again urged Japan on Monday to face up to its responsibility and refrain from “wantonly” disposing the radioactive, polluted Fukushima water before reaching consensus with all […]

  • PBS Journalist Implies That Ending Mask Mandates Is Racist

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 6:45pm EDT

    PBS Journalist Implies That Ending Mask Mandates Is Racist Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, During a White House press briefing, a PBS journalist suggested that ending mask mandates was racist. Yes, really. Last week, the CDC disappointed face diaper extremists by lifting restrictions on mask wearing in numerous settings. This prompted a […]

  • Steve Mnuchin Takes 21% Haircut On Selling His $25 Million Manhattan Co-Op

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 6:25pm EDT

    Steve Mnuchin Takes 21% Haircut On Selling His $25 Million Manhattan Co-Op Not even being former Treasury Secretary of the United States can help your real estate appreciate in Manhattan right now, as Steven Mnuchin just found out the hard way. Mnuchin just sold his Manhattan co-op for a “deep discount”, according to Bloomberg, reportedly […]

  • Quinn: This Was A Test… And We Failed

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 6:05pm EDT

    Quinn: This Was A Test… And We Failed Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson I think Hunter S. Thompson is being proven right by revelations becoming obvious daily. I’m a […]

  • Texas Gov. Abbott: Border Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every New Yorker

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 5:45pm EDT

    Texas Gov. Abbott: Border Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every New Yorker Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Fox News the amount of fentanyl seized at the southwest border could kill everyone in New York.  Abbott said US border agents intercepted a mindboggling 800% increase in fentanyl shipments in April versus the same time last year.  […]

  • “A Fact Too Good To Check” – WaPo Admits That Claimed Descendant Who Denounced Gen. Lee Was Not A Descendant

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 5:25pm EDT

    “A Fact Too Good To Check” – WaPo Admits That Claimed Descendant Who Denounced Gen. Lee Was Not A Descendant Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is an extraordinary column in the Washington Post from Glenn Kessler on a key figures in past coverage on the removal of Confederate statues. The Post ran a widely cited article […]

  • America’s Armpit Is Now Also Socialist Hell: New Jersey Residents To Pay The Most Taxes Over Their Lifetime

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 5:05pm EDT

    America’s Armpit Is Now Also Socialist Hell: New Jersey Residents To Pay The Most Taxes Over Their Lifetime When it comes to living in the US, New Jersey isn’t seen as the worst state of the bunch… but it’s close: according to a recent YouGov poll, the Garden State ranks 3rd from the bottom, only […]

  • White House Visitor Logs Reveal Fauci-Klain Situation Room Meeting After Gain Of Function Moratorium

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 4:45pm EDT

    White House Visitor Logs Reveal Fauci-Klain Situation Room Meeting After Gain Of Function Moratorium Authored by Mike McCormick via The National Pulse A National Pulse review of White House Visitors Logs from November 2014 reveals a meeting in the White House Situation Room, chaired by then-Ebola Czar Ron Klain. The meeting appears to have been […]

  • WTI Extends JCPOA Whipsaw Losses After Small Crude Build

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 4:40pm EDT

    WTI Extends JCPOA Whipsaw Losses After Small Crude Build A volatile in the energy complex as Iran nuke deal headlines (first optimism, then pessimism) sparked a dump-n-pump in crude prices (after Brent tagged $70 earlier in the day). “I said that significant progress have been achieved, in my view,” Ulyanov said in the tweet. “That […]

  • Peak Wall Street Optimism Is Now Behind Us: It’s All Downhill From Here

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 4:20pm EDT

    Peak Wall Street Optimism Is Now Behind Us: It’s All Downhill From Here While we previously shared our thoughts on the noise value of the latest BofA Fund Manager Survey, which again “found” that being long bitcoin is the most crowded trade on Wall Street, when in reality it is anything but, it’s worth pointing […]

  • Gold Gains As Dollar, Commodities, Crypto, & Stocks Slump

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 4:00pm EDT

    Gold Gains As Dollar, Commodities, Crypto, & Stocks Slump The US cash open sparked a buying panic in stocks (after Nasdaq had given up all its overnight gains accelerating lower after the dismal housing data) and then again as 1430ET (margin call time) loomed, the broad market took a big hit. The ubiquitous dip was […]

  • Buchanan: Bibi & Hamas – Only Winners In Gaza War

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 3:45pm EDT

    Buchanan: Bibi & Hamas – Only Winners In Gaza War Authored by Pat Buchanan, “Israel is Winning Battles, Hamas is Winning the War.” So ran the headline in the Jerusalem Post atop an analysis of the Gaza war, which began: “The IDF is registering great achievements in Operation Guardian of the Walls, but meanwhile the […]

  • Tesla On “Autopilot” Strikes Washington Sheriff’s Vehicle 

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 3:30pm EDT

    Tesla On “Autopilot” Strikes Washington Sheriff’s Vehicle  Everyone is focused on the Tesla Model X that reportedly killed one Chinese policeman while injuring another in a collision in the Chinese city of Taizhou, in Zhejiang province on Monday. Meanwhile, another Tesla accident was on the opposite side of the world, in Washington state, that struck a police car while […]

  • Bitcoin Used In A Crime… Yada Yada Yada… Bitcoin Bad

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 3:10pm EDT

    Bitcoin Used In A Crime… Yada Yada Yada… Bitcoin Bad Authored by Omid Malekan, Here we go again. The Colonial Pipeline attack involved a ransom paid in crypto, so the usual suspects are on the attack. If you are an investor or business leader who has contemplated adopting bitcoin, you have already been bombarded with […]

  • “The Biggest Reduction In History”: Wells Fargo’s Mayo Predicts 200,000 Banking Jobs Lost Over Next Decade

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 2:55pm EDT

    “The Biggest Reduction In History”: Wells Fargo’s Mayo Predicts 200,000 Banking Jobs Lost Over Next Decade Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo sees a major change coming in the world of U.S. banks. In fact, he predicts that they could wind up doing away with 200,000 jobs, or 10% of the industry’s total employee count, over […]

  • Texas Lawmakers Propose Annual Driving Tax For Tesla Owners  

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 2:34pm EDT

    Texas Lawmakers Propose Annual Driving Tax For Tesla Owners   Texas lawmakers have proposed Senate Bill 1728 (SB 1728) to slap Tesla owners with annual taxes between $240 and $400. Lawmakers claim EV owners need to “pay their fair share” and “make up for” fuel taxes they don’t pay at the pump that supports the state’s […]

  • “It’s Gotten Out Of Control”: Supply Shortages Plaguing Global Economy Expected To Last A Long Time

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 2:15pm EDT

    “It’s Gotten Out Of Control”: Supply Shortages Plaguing Global Economy Expected To Last A Long Time Stocks are selling off again on Monday as worries about inflation persist, as the market is increasingly coming around to Morgan Stanley’s view that inflation will be an endemic phenomenon of the V-shaped recovery engineered by the Fed and […]

  • Joe Rogan Warns Cancel Culture Will Lead To “Straight White Men Not Being Allowed To Talk Or Go Outside”

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2021 1:55pm EDT

    Joe Rogan Warns Cancel Culture Will Lead To “Straight White Men Not Being Allowed To Talk Or Go Outside” Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Podcast giant Joe Rogan has warned that the logical conclusion of ‘woke’ cancel culture is that all straight white men will be forbidden from talking or even leaving their […]