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  • UBS Laying Off Employees Days After Doubling Bonuses To Newly Promoted Associates

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 5:45am EDT

    UBS Laying Off Employees Days After Doubling Bonuses To Newly Promoted Associates On one hand, UBS seems hell bent on keep its new Gen Z employees who have recently been promoted to associate positions. After all, it was just hours ago that we wrote about how the bank was showering these newly promoted employees with $40,000 […]

  • Michel Barnier Calls For 3-5 Year Suspension Of Immigration Into EU

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 5:00am EDT

    Michel Barnier Calls For 3-5 Year Suspension Of Immigration Into EU Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Michel Barnier has called for a 3-5 year suspension of immigration into EU countries, warning that the bloc’s external borders have become a “sieve” for criminals and terrorists. “I think we have to take the time […]

  • ​​​​​​​Mediterranean Diet May “Protect” Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Says

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 4:15am EDT

    ​​​​​​​Mediterranean Diet May “Protect” Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Says The best way to decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease could be a Mediterranean diet that is rich in fish, vegetables, and olive oil, according to a new study.  The research, titled “Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age,” was published in the online issue […]

  • Estonia Becomes Centre Stage Of Anti-Russia Military Exercises

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 3:30am EDT

    Estonia Becomes Centre Stage Of Anti-Russia Military Exercises Authored by Paul Antonopoulos via GlobalResearch.ca, 800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army departed from Fort Bragg in North Carolina last Friday morning for a Swift Response exercise. They were dropped into Estonia in a “joint forcible entry” operation in the early hours of […]

  • Le Pen Warns Macron “Danger Of Civil War” Looms If He Doesn’t Handle Islamist Problem

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 2:45am EDT

    Le Pen Warns Macron “Danger Of Civil War” Looms If He Doesn’t Handle Islamist Problem The French government and much of the public has reacted with outrage after another open letter issued by military personnel has warned that France is headed for “civil war” if it doesn’t handle its Muslim extremism problem. The controversy was further […]

  • UK Plans To Require Voter ID To Ensure Election Integrity

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2021 2:00am EDT

    UK Plans To Require Voter ID To Ensure Election Integrity Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times, The UK government plans to introduce requirements for voters to show photographic ID when casting ballots, in order to ensure the integrity of elections. The Electoral Integrity Bill, which requires voters to show identification before being issued […]

  • How ‘Woke’ May Be Leading Us To Civil War

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 11:25pm EDT

    How ‘Woke’ May Be Leading Us To Civil War Authored by Roger Simon via The Epoch Times, The other day, I wrote that “woke” was the new conformism. It is, of course, but I undersold it. It’s much more than that and more dangerous. As Tal Bachman notes at Steynonline, it’s now our state religion, a state […]

  • China Calls UN Planned Event On Xinjiang “Total Blasphemy”

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 11:05pm EDT

    China Calls UN Planned Event On Xinjiang “Total Blasphemy” China is angrily boycotting and urging the banning of a planned United Nations event because it will highlight human rights and China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The event will be held virtually on Wednesday, and is sponsored by the United States, Germany, and Britain. […]

  • Bovard: Biden’s “America The Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 10:45pm EDT

    Bovard: Biden’s “America The Beautiful” Vision Ignores Feds’ Dreadful Record Authored by James Bovard via The American Institute for Economic Research, Will Biden’s “America the Beautiful” program save America’s environment? On January 27, President Joe Biden issued an executive order proclaiming “the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by […]

  • (Do Not) Let The Games Begin!

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 10:25pm EDT

    (Do Not) Let The Games Begin! Could Japan still cancel the Tokyo Olympics over COVID? As Statista’s Felix Richter notes, recent comments from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga have driven speculation that the Summer Games could be called off. As COVID-19 infections rise in Japan, public support for the Games continues to drop. Just around 70 […]

  • Penn State Administrator Who Failed To Report Sandusky Sex Crimes With Minors Received $330,699 Public Pension

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 10:05pm EDT

    Penn State Administrator Who Failed To Report Sandusky Sex Crimes With Minors Received $330,699 Public Pension By Adam Andzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com, submitted by RealClearPolicy.com, In 2001, Gary Schultz was Penn State’s senior vice president for finance and business when he was told that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had sexually assaulted a boy in the […]

  • Goldman Scrambles To Comfort Its Clients Who Are Freaking Out About China’s Soaring Prices

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 9:45pm EDT

    Goldman Scrambles To Comfort Its Clients Who Are Freaking Out About China’s Soaring Prices It’s hardly a secret that commodity and raw material prices in China have been soaring: this was confirmed by last night’s April PPI inflation print which surprised the market to the upside and reached 6.8% Y/Y, the highest since 2017. The […]

  • The American Cyber Stasi Will Suppress All Digital Dissent In Biden’s Dystopia

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 9:25pm EDT

    The American Cyber Stasi Will Suppress All Digital Dissent In Biden’s Dystopia Authored by Andrew Korybko via OneWorld.press, CNN’s recent report that the US’ security services are considering contracting the services of so-called “researchers” as a legal workaround for spying on average Americans confirms that Biden’s dystopian hellhole is rapidly moving in the direction of […]

  • China Sees Slowest Population Growth In Decades Raising Concerns About Aging Labor Force

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 9:05pm EDT

    China Sees Slowest Population Growth In Decades Raising Concerns About Aging Labor Force A few weeks ago, we reported that China, the world’s largest country, reported a shrinking population for the first time in 70+ years, a sign that the global economy might struggle with long-term structural deflation as the population across the developed world […]

  • Japanese Investors Panic After Stocks Tumble And BOJ Does Not Buy ETFs

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 8:45pm EDT

    Japanese Investors Panic After Stocks Tumble And BOJ Does Not Buy ETFs Something took place on Tuesday that has happened just once since 2016: Japan’s Topix index (which is widely viewed as more representative of Japanese equities than the Nikkei) tumbled by 2% in the morning session…. and the BOJ did not intervene. Why is […]

  • World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Sees Active COVID Cases Double In Under A Week

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 8:25pm EDT

    World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Sees Active COVID Cases Double In Under A Week The situation in the Seychelles, an island nation that has suffered from a recent surge in COVID-19 cases despite boasting the world’s highest vaccination rate, is going from bad to worse. Since we last reported on the Seychelles one week ago, the […]

  • Is ‘GosFed’ Looming At The Eccles Building?

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 8:05pm EDT

    Is ‘GosFed’ Looming At The Eccles Building? Via The American Institute for Economic Research, Economist Judy Shelton had a crackerjack column in last week’s Wall Street Journal on the lack of intellectual and policy diversity at the Federal Reserve. She points out that during the entire term of Chairman Jerome Powell and his predecessor, Janet Yellen, not […]

  • Wild Tiger On The Loose In Houston Area Belongs To Murder Suspect Out On Bond Since 2017

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 7:45pm EDT

    Wild Tiger On The Loose In Houston Area Belongs To Murder Suspect Out On Bond Since 2017 A tiger that was seen roaming loose in a Houston area neighborhood over the weekend has yet to be located – but its owner has been identified and arrested. The exotic animal reportedly belongs to a man named Victor […]

  • Professor Explains Flaw In Many Models Used For COVID-19 Lockdown Policies

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 7:25pm EDT

    Professor Explains Flaw In Many Models Used For COVID-19 Lockdown Policies Authored by Andrew Chen via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Economics professor Doug Allen wanted to know why so many early models used to create COVID-19 lockdown policies turned out to be highly incorrect. What he found was that a great majority were based […]

  • NRA In Peril After Judge Rejects Bankruptcy Filing

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 7:05pm EDT

    NRA In Peril After Judge Rejects Bankruptcy Filing The NRA was dealt a serious blow on Tuesday after a Texas judge tossed the gun rights organization’s bid to declare bankruptcy, saying it was filed in “bad faith” in an effort to dodge litigation in New York. Judge Harlin Hale tossed the case after New York […]

  • Three Places Where “Permanently” Higher Inflation Could Come From

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 6:45pm EDT

    Three Places Where “Permanently” Higher Inflation Could Come From Tomorrow we get a CPI number which according to consensus at least, will be historic: it will be the first 0.3% sequential increase in core (not the much higher headline) prices this century… … a talking point which will merely underscore the recent surge in inflation […]

  • Hedge Funds Descend On Puerto Rico As Biden Tax Threat Looms

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 6:25pm EDT

    Hedge Funds Descend On Puerto Rico As Biden Tax Threat Looms With President Biden and the Democrats on the warpath to separate the richest Americans from their income, hedge funds managers are starting to expand into Puerto Rico – leaving open the possibility of relocating to the island to obtain huge tax breaks, according to […]

  • Marked-to-Marxist: Weighting Chinese Stocks

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 6:05pm EDT

    Marked-to-Marxist: Weighting Chinese Stocks Authored by Nick Schmitz via Verdad Capital The three largest economies by GDP are the US, China, and Japan. These are also the largest country stock markets by aggregate market cap. By our count, US-headquartered stocks add up to $44T in equity value, Chinese (and Hong Kong) stocks add up to […]

  • Asia, LatAm Companies Are Embracing Bitcoin, Ether To “Maintain The Purchasing Power” Of Their Assets

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 5:45pm EDT

    Asia, LatAm Companies Are Embracing Bitcoin, Ether To “Maintain The Purchasing Power” Of Their Assets While Elon Musk (Tesla), Jack Dorsey (Square), and Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) have made headlines with their adoptions of cryptocurrencies as part of their company’s reserves, many other American companies have begun to embrace the decentralized payments system. This is The […]

  • Arizona Governor Signs Law Designating Gun Stores As Essential Firms

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2021 5:25pm EDT

    Arizona Governor Signs Law Designating Gun Stores As Essential Firms Authored by Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) has signed into law legislation that designates gun stores as essential businesses allowed to remain open during an emergency—a move that will further protect gun stores, manufacturers, and trade associations from lawsuits. […]