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  • COVID Deaths Plummet As Excess Mortality Falls To Pre-Pandemic Levels

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 5:30pm EDT

    COVID Deaths Plummet As Excess Mortality Falls To Pre-Pandemic Levels Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In any given year during the past decade in the United States, more than 2.5 million Americans have died – from all causes. The number has grown in recent years, climbing from 2.59 million in 2013 to […]

  • 3 Reasons Why Goldman Now Sees Almost No Upside For Stocks In 2021

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    3 Reasons Why Goldman Now Sees Almost No Upside For Stocks In 2021 Just over a month ago, in our preview of earnings season, we said that “Q1 earnings will be stellar, but are fully priced in and only guidance will matter“, and sure enough the broader market is now below where it was a […]

  • “This Is All About Stagflation… The U.S. Is Walking Into The Early Stages Of The Fourth Turning”

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 4:35pm EDT

    “This Is All About Stagflation… The U.S. Is Walking Into The Early Stages Of The Fourth Turning” By Larry McDonald of The Bear Traps Report We believe the U.S. is walking into the early stages of the Fourth Turning, a subject entertained below. In this note we break down the ideal 2020-2030 portfolio and why […]

  • Karl Marx’s Road To Hell Is Paved With Fake Money

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 3:45pm EDT

    Karl Marx’s Road To Hell Is Paved With Fake Money Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “The way to Hell is paved with good intentions,” remarked Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The devious fellow was bemoaning evil capitalists for having the gall to use their own money for the express purpose of making more money. Marx, a […]

  • Concept App Pays Users In Crypto To Name-Drop Brands 

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 3:20pm EDT

    Concept App Pays Users In Crypto To Name-Drop Brands  Readers have all experienced the moment when an advertisement has creepily shown up on their social media feed after talking about it. And while companies swear they’re not using smartphone apps to tap into your conversations for advertising purposes, there’s a concept app that throws fuel on […]

  • Fauci Admits Only Around Half Of His Agency’s Staff Are Vaccinated

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 2:55pm EDT

    Fauci Admits Only Around Half Of His Agency’s Staff Are Vaccinated Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said that about 40 percent of his agency’s employees have not received the COVID-19 vaccine, while a deputy at the U.S. […]

  • QE Can Widen Wealth Inequality, Bank Of Canada Finally Admits

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 2:30pm EDT

    QE Can Widen Wealth Inequality, Bank Of Canada Finally Admits The Bank of Canada appears to be on to the scent of its own bullsh*t.  The central bank of Canada admitted on Thursday of last week that “some of the monetary policy tools it is using to address the COVID-19 pandemic, such as quantitative easing […]

  • The Market Is Looking Through Hot Inflation, For Now

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 2:13pm EDT

    The Market Is Looking Through Hot Inflation, For Now Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, This week saw some doozy inflation readings beginning on Wednesday with the CPI reading and then again on Thursday with the PPI. CPI came in at 4.2% year-over-year, but a whopping 0.8% month-over-month. For context, 0.8% MoM […]

  • New Ford Patent To Blast Billboards On Car’s Infotainment Display

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 1:40pm EDT

    New Ford Patent To Blast Billboards On Car’s Infotainment Display We’ve all experienced the intrusive moment when an advertisement has creepily shown up on our social media feed after talking about it. This is super annoying in a world where corporate America spies on users via smartphone sensors. What’s even more intrusive is Ford Motor […]

  • Inflation… Or Deflation

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 1:15pm EDT

    Inflation… Or Deflation Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via The Daily Reckoning, I see the same question in forums, threads, articles and emails: what can I do to protect myself and my family from whatever lies ahead? Given the uncertainties and extremes that are so evident, recognizing risk is a useful first step, a recognition […]

  • Toronto Cancels Entire Summer Of Events Despite 1.6 Million Of City’s 3 Million Residents Being Vaccinated

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 12:50pm EDT

    Toronto Cancels Entire Summer Of Events Despite 1.6 Million Of City’s 3 Million Residents Being Vaccinated Despite widespread vaccination availability and even the U.S. CDC saying that vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks, Toronto has decided to cancel an entire summer’s worth of social functions. The city has cancelled “all major in-person events […]

  • Praise The 1%! They Provide Improving Standards Of Living For The 99 Percent

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 12:25pm EDT

    Praise The 1%! They Provide Improving Standards Of Living For The 99 Percent Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Standards of living have taken enormous leaps forward. Don’t credit or praise the Socialists… Praise the 1%!  Twisted minds like that of Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and the Progressive Left in general are taking shots at […]

  • Still Time To Get On The Trade Of The Decade

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 10:45am EDT

    Still Time To Get On The Trade Of The Decade Alongside some observations we made earlier on tech stocks vs commodities, Deutsche Bank credit strategist Jim Reid writes that while inflation and commodities have dominated the financial airways this week, “although commodities prices have been a big part of the current inflation scare, they have […]

  • Taibbi: On The Hypocrites At Apple Who Fired ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Author

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 10:20am EDT

    Taibbi: On The Hypocrites At Apple Who Fired ‘Chaos Monkeys’ Author Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News, I’m biased, because I know Antonio Garcia-Martinez and something like the same thing once happened to me, but the decision by Apple to bend to a posse of internal complainers and fire him over a passage in […]

  • JPMorgan Already Has 30 To 40 Investment Bankers Traveling Daily Again

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 9:55am EDT

    JPMorgan Already Has 30 To 40 Investment Bankers Traveling Daily Again Investment bankers at J.P. Morgan are back to flying the friendly skies. Amid debate as to whether or not business travel would eventually pick back up to pre-Covid levels, it appears as though the largest lender in the U.S. is doing its part to […]

  • “Go Back To England” – Prince Harry Elicits Backlash After Criticizing “Bonkers” First Amendment

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 8:45am EDT

    “Go Back To England” – Prince Harry Elicits Backlash After Criticizing “Bonkers” First Amendment Prince Harry is still new to North America, and perhaps is still adjusting to some of its customs. For example, the First Amendment, which he dismissed as “bonkers” during a recent interview. The comments inspired backlash online, with some critics calling […]

  • 78% Of UK Businesses Have No Plan To Require Vaccine Certificates, Survey

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 8:10am EDT

    78% Of UK Businesses Have No Plan To Require Vaccine Certificates, Survey Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, Seventy-eight percent of businesses in the UK have no plans to check evidence of vaccination, a new study indicates. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) Thursday published the results of its survey of more than […]

  • Macleod: The End Of The LBMA Is Nigh

    ZeroHedge - May 15th 2021 7:00am EDT

    Macleod: The End Of The LBMA Is Nigh Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Basel 3 is on course to regulate the LBMA out of existence. And with it will go all the associated arbitrage business and position-taking on Comex, because most bullion bank trading desks will cease to exist. The only supply to buy-side […]

  • Vaccine Virtue Signaling And The Cult Of Woke

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 11:40pm EDT

    Vaccine Virtue Signaling And The Cult Of Woke Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, All tyrannical systems need a large contingent of cheerleaders in order to survive and thrive; a group of exploitable and devout acolytes that will carry the torch and evangelize the masses with the ideology of control. Without this aggressive percentage of […]

  • Trudeau Begins Planning To Reopen US-Canada Border After More Than A Year

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 11:20pm EDT

    Trudeau Begins Planning To Reopen US-Canada Border After More Than A Year For months now, as most US states have largely reopened their economies (with even hard-hit NYC preparing to be “fully reopened” by July1), Canada has lagged behind, leaving restrictions on travel and businesses in place, while the pace of the country’s vaccination campaign […]

  • American Medical Association Embraces Critical Race Theory, Rejects Meritocracy

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 11:00pm EDT

    American Medical Association Embraces Critical Race Theory, Rejects Meritocracy Authored by GQ Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) Doctors and nurses confer in a hospital in Leonardtown, Md., on April 8, 2020. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest national organization representing physicians and medical students in the United States, says […]

  • Biden’s Green “No” Deal Exposes Virtue-Signaling Americans’ NIMBY Views On Wind Power

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 10:40pm EDT

    Biden’s Green “No” Deal Exposes Virtue-Signaling Americans’ NIMBY Views On Wind Power The Biden administration’s infrastructure proposal layouts 100% carbon-free or clean electricity by 2035. Such an ambitious goal will require a massive new workforce, hundreds of billions of dollars in funding, and community support. But all is not kosher as wind turbine projects across […]

  • The Age Of Fear: A Graduation Message For Terrifying Times

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 10:20pm EDT

    The Age Of Fear: A Graduation Message For Terrifying Times Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for […]

  • Restaurateurs Begin To Automate Amid Labor Shortage 

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 10:00pm EDT

    Restaurateurs Begin To Automate Amid Labor Shortage  Restaurant owners are blaming generous unemployment benefits for the current labor shortage. Ahead of the busy summer season, some restaurateurs are warning they might have no other choice but to use robots.  According to Andrew Gruel, founder and CEO of Slapfish seafood, with 11 locations in the Southwestern US and new ones […]

  • Flaws Found In Australian Electronic Voting Software

    ZeroHedge - May 14th 2021 9:40pm EDT

    Flaws Found In Australian Electronic Voting Software Authored by Daniel Teng via The Epoch Times, Four cyber and electoral system researchers have identified three flaws around the use of electronic voting at the 2020 election for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government. The researchers said the issues did not affect the outcome of the most […]