News From ZeroHedge, Page 2631

RSS

  • 1984? Twitter Mob Cancels English Literature

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 5:20pm EST

    1984? Twitter Mob Cancels English Literature Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. San Francisco Drug Overdoses Outpace COVID Deaths […]

  • “I’m Choosing The Risk Of Getting COVID”: Over Half Of Health Care Workers At California Hospitals Refuse Vaccinations

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 4:55pm EST

    “I’m Choosing The Risk Of Getting COVID”: Over Half Of Health Care Workers At California Hospitals Refuse Vaccinations California’s health workers are refusing to take the new COVID-19 vaccines – with over half of frontline workers at one hospital unwilling to take it, and between 20% and 50% of workers at other facilities who feel […]

  • Adopting A Gold Standard Would Promote Fiscal Discipline

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 4:30pm EST

    Adopting A Gold Standard Would Promote Fiscal Discipline Authored by James Caton via The American Institute for Economic Research, Many are surprised to learn that famed central banker Alan Greenspan has been a longtime supporter of the gold standard. But the record is clear. Greenspan published an essay in support of a gold standard with […]

  • Here Are All The Banks That Paid Janet Yellen $7.3 Million In Speaking Fees In The Past 2 Years

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 4:05pm EST

    Here Are All The Banks That Paid Janet Yellen $7.3 Million In Speaking Fees In The Past 2 Years When openly bribing a politician, financier or any other power figure is too – how should e put it – illegal, there is a well-known loophole that has been used for decades and decades to circumvent […]

  • UK Judge To Give Decision On Assange Extradition On Monday

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 3:40pm EST

    UK Judge To Give Decision On Assange Extradition On Monday Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Monday, January 4th, the British judge presiding over the extradition trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will decide whether or not Assange will be extradited to the US and tried under the Espionage Act for exposing US war […]

  • Senate Overrides Trump Veto Of Defense Bill

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 3:15pm EST

    Senate Overrides Trump Veto Of Defense Bill Meeting for a rare New Year’s Day session, the Senate voted 81-13 on Friday to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which Trump said “fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military’s history, […]

  • LA Deputies File Suit Against New DA As Judge Defies “Sweetheart” Deal In Gang Murder Case

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 2:30pm EST

    LA Deputies File Suit Against New DA As Judge Defies “Sweetheart” Deal In Gang Murder Case Los Angeles County’s new, embattled district attorney, George Gascón, is facing allegations that his special advisor, Mario Trujillo, offered a backdoor “sweetheart” deal in the case of a gang member charged with murder. His office issued a brief reply to […]

  • Wall Street Bonuses To Plunge Up To 40% Despite Buybacks, Record Trading, Dealmaking & Fee Revenue

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 2:00pm EST

    Wall Street Bonuses To Plunge Up To 40% Despite Buybacks, Record Trading, Dealmaking & Fee Revenue Never let a good scapegoat go to waste. For 2020, the excuse that keeps on giving is definitely Covid-19 – perhaps with a side of “wokeness”… These are the excuses that banks are likely to lean on when they […]

  • Five Times This Year The New York Times Accidentally Told The Truth

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 1:30pm EST

    Five Times This Year The New York Times Accidentally Told The Truth Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, The paper of record in 2020 shifted dramatically to the most illiberal stance possible on the virus, pushing for full lockdowns, and ignoring or burying any information that might contradict the case […]

  • US Housing Enters 2021 In A Massive Bubble

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 1:00pm EST

    US Housing Enters 2021 In A Massive Bubble On December 16, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was specifically asked if he is seeing any signs of “valuation pressures” in the US housing market which according to the latest Case Shiller data was surging at the fastest pace in 6 years. Predictably, Powell was not concerned about […]

  • The Most Hopeful Scenario For 2021

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 12:30pm EST

    The Most Hopeful Scenario For 2021 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Choose wisely, America, or the options for a positive outcome will vanish like mist in Death Valley on a clear July afternoon. From the point of view of evolution, the most hopeful scenario for 2021 is the sudden and complete collapse […]

  • Will 2021 Be The Year Of The Bitcoin ETF?

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 12:00pm EST

    Will 2021 Be The Year Of The Bitcoin ETF? As “rat poison squared” continues its move through $29,000 this morning, as we reported earlier today, it looks as though hope for a Bitcoin ETF may not be completely lost heading into 2021. For the last couple of years, the SEC has killed off any ideas […]

  • Chicago Teachers Union Big Shot Says Unsafe To Teach Live… From Her Pool Side In Puerto Rico

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 11:30am EST

    Chicago Teachers Union Big Shot Says Unsafe To Teach Live… From Her Pool Side In Puerto Rico By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints Check out WGN’s story about an executive board member at the Chicago Teachers Union. Hypocrite Sarah Chambers enjoying some time away from the Rona. “As recently as Thursday,” according to WGN, Sarah Chambers “tweeted […]

  • 42 People In West Virginia Mistakenly Given Regeneron Antibodies Instead Of Vaccines

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 11:00am EST

    42 People In West Virginia Mistakenly Given Regeneron Antibodies Instead Of Vaccines In keeping with the news of our flawless national roll-out of various Covid vaccines (which you will now potentially need to do such mundane things such as attend the movies), it was reported yesterday that 42 people in West Virginia actually wound up […]

  • Will The Fed Lose Control In 2021?

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 10:30am EST

    Will The Fed Lose Control In 2021? Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, The most important event in the new year is likely to be the Fed losing control of its iron grip on markets. The dollar’s declining trend is already well established against other currencies and commodities, leading to this outcome. Events in 2021 […]

  • Putin Signs Law Enabling Sanctions On US Social Media Giants That ‘Label’ & Restrict Russian Content 

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 9:55am EST

    Putin Signs Law Enabling Sanctions On US Social Media Giants That ‘Label’ & Restrict Russian Content  During this holiday period while not many in the West are watching, Russia’s Vladimir Putin just punched back against major US social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook for prior censorship targeting Russia, including shadow banning and labeling Russian sources like […]

  • NYSE To Delist Three Chinese Telecom Giants On Trump Executive Order

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 9:39am EST

    NYSE To Delist Three Chinese Telecom Giants On Trump Executive Order The New York Stock Exchange said late on Thursday it would delist three Chinese telecom giants to comply with a US executive order that restricted the public listing of companies identified as “affiliated with the Chinese military”. China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom Hong […]

  • 2021 Could Be The Opposite Of 2020: Economy Up, Equities Down

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 9:20am EST

    2021 Could Be The Opposite Of 2020: Economy Up, Equities Down Authored by Joe Carson, former chief economist and director of research at Alliance Bernstein, 2020 has proved to be a wild ride for the economy and finance. The economy posted its sharpest one-quarter decline to be followed by the largest quarterly gain. Meanwhile, the […]

  • Mapping The Global Lockdown: Where Air Travel Is Partially Open And Where It’s Fully Closed

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 8:45am EST

    Mapping The Global Lockdown: Where Air Travel Is Partially Open And Where It’s Fully Closed In a world gripped by partial (or full) lockdowns, the map below from Bank of America provides real-time data on the current state of air travel restrictions. It shows that 92 countries are currently partially open, 74 countries have no […]

  • A New Year Every Two Months? Year-End Celebrations Around The World

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 7:35am EST

    A New Year Every Two Months? Year-End Celebrations Around The World In August, Muslim countries rang in a new year on the Islamic calendar. 1442 AH will last from Aug 20, 2020, to approximately Aug 8, 2021 – twelve days shorter than the 365 days of the Gregorian year. The date set by Saudi Arabia is based […]

  • The Kafkaesque Imprisonment Of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom And Tyranny

    ZeroHedge - Jan 1st 2021 7:00am EST

    The Kafkaesque Imprisonment Of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom And Tyranny Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com, Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed […]

  • 2020’s Bio-Economic World War: Communist China Lied; Millions Of Humans Died

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 11:30pm EST

    2020’s Bio-Economic World War: Communist China Lied; Millions Of Humans Died Authored by Austin Bay via The Epoch Times, The Chinese Communist Party’s COVID-19/Wuhan virus disinformation campaign (cover-up) rates as 2020’s biggest Big Lie. By any measure, especially body count, the CCP committed 2020’s most consequential and deadliest falsehood. The following analysis summarizes decisions and actions by China’s […]

  • America’s Top New Year’s Resolutions For 2021

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 11:05pm EST

    America’s Top New Year’s Resolutions For 2021 For many, 2020 has been ‘a year’, which makes getting a fresh start in 2021 feel very appealing. The turn of the calendar brings both the opportunity to reflect on the last 12 months and, as Statista’s Claire Jenik notes below, the chance to begin planning for the […]

  • Fake Pastors Swindle Churchgoers In $28 Million FX/Crypto Ponzi Scheme 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 10:15pm EST

    Fake Pastors Swindle Churchgoers In $28 Million FX/Crypto Ponzi Scheme  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against two Maryland companies and their principals allegedly defrauding more than 1,000 investors in a $28 million Ponzi scheme.  The SEC first filed the complaint against 1st Million LLC and Smart Partners LLC, and their principals, Dennis […]

  • Military And Political Trends Of 2020 That Will Shape 2021

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 9:50pm EST

    Military And Political Trends Of 2020 That Will Shape 2021 Via South Front, 2020 was a year full of surprises. It marked the advent of a new reality which may, with an equal probability, lead humanity to a new dark age or to a global digital dystopia. In this context, there is little room for […]