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  • Iran Says US B-52 Flyover Part Of Trump’s “Plot To Fabricate Pretext For War”

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 6:55pm EST

    Iran Says US B-52 Flyover Part Of Trump’s “Plot To Fabricate Pretext For War” Authored by Jake Johnson via CommonDreams.org, Hours after the U.S. flew two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over the Persian Gulf for the second time this month, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed Thursday that he is aware of intelligence suggesting that President Donald Trump’s administration […]

  • Pfizer, GSK & Others Quietly Hike Prices On 100s Of Drugs

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 6:30pm EST

    Pfizer, GSK & Others Quietly Hike Prices On 100s Of Drugs With just hours to go until the new year, Reuters reports that a group of the world’s largest drug companies is preparing to hike drug prices, defying President Trump to issue a last-minute rebuke, as he has done in the past. Drugmakers including Pfizer […]

  • 2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 6:10pm EST

    2020: The Year Things Started Going Badly Wrong Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, How today’s energy problem is different from peak oil Many people believe that the economy will start going badly wrong when we “run out of oil.” The problem we have today is indeed an energy problem, but it […]

  • Eastern Caribbean Issues Rare Volcano Alert 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 5:50pm EST

    Eastern Caribbean Issues Rare Volcano Alert  Rarely do we hear about volcanoes in the eastern Caribbean, but this week, rumblings from down under prompted officials to issue volcanic alerts in Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  On Tuesday, warnings were issued for La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines after tremors, powerful […]

  • 2020 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 5:10pm EST

    2020 Greatest Hits: The Most Popular Articles Of The Past Year And A Look Ahead One year ago, when looking at the 20 most popular stories of 2019, we pointed to a certain undertone of artificial stability permeating capital markets and society, with the economy firing on all cylinders (thanks to the massive dual deficits […]

  • Georgia Judge (Sister Of Top Democrat) Reverses Order To End Voter Roll Clean-Up

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 4:52pm EST

    Georgia Judge (Sister Of Top Democrat) Reverses Order To End Voter Roll Clean-Up As we detailed previously, U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner attracted considerable criticism when she declined to recuse herself from a challenge over voter eligibility.  Gardner is the sister of Stacey Abrams who has led the effort to register voters in the […]

  • Perdue In Quarantine Days Before Critical Georgia Runoff

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 4:40pm EST

    Perdue In Quarantine Days Before Critical Georgia Runoff With just days to go until the special election vote in Georgia where he – alongside Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who is facing her own opponent – will face off against Democrat Jon Ossoff, Republican Sen. David Perdue is being forced to quarantine, alongside his family, after coming […]

  • Charting 2020 – A Year Of Speculative Mania

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 4:25pm EST

    Charting 2020 – A Year Of Speculative Mania Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As we prepare to wrap up the year, 2020 will go down in the record books as a year of the “unexpected.” While no one expected the world to get besieged by a raging pandemic, equally, no one expected the year to end […]

  • $15 Trillion Cashnami Crashes Dollar In 2020, Sparks Gold’s Best Year In A Decade

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 4:00pm EST

    $15 Trillion Cashnami Crashes Dollar In 2020, Sparks Gold’s Best Year In A Decade Global stocks added around $15 trillion in market cap in 2020 (pushing above $100 trillion for the first time ever)… Source: Bloomberg Which is an oddly coincidental number given that global liquidity has soared around $15 trillion in 2020… Source: Bloomberg […]

  • Pentagon Orders Aircraft Carrier Out Of Gulf In Potential Iran De-Escalation

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 3:40pm EST

    Pentagon Orders Aircraft Carrier Out Of Gulf In Potential Iran De-Escalation In a first hopeful sign of potential US de-escalation in the Persian Gulf, where there’s been a recent build-up of US forces as threats continue to be exchanged between Washington and Tehran, the Pentagon has announced it is bringing its only supercarrier in the gulf home.  […]

  • Getting Out Before The Crash…

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 3:20pm EST

    Getting Out Before The Crash… Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Markets have extreme emotions. They can go from irrational exuberance—where it seems everyone is swinging from the chandeliers—to a bottom-of-the-barrel bear market where people don’t even want to look at the business section. Why is assessing the psychology of the market so […]

  • Human-Run Hedge Funds Beat Quants In Pandemic 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 3:00pm EST

    Human-Run Hedge Funds Beat Quants In Pandemic  Hedge funds that use complex, automatic-trading strategies have been beating human stock-pickers for several years. But that all seemed to change in 2020, as wild market swings in all asset classes, driven by the virus-pandemic, along with an unprecedented flood of central bank money into capital markets has […]

  • Quinn: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me A Face-Diaper

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 2:40pm EST

    Quinn: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me A Face-Diaper Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, One month ago I wrote an article – Silent Obedient Consent – about our day in Cape May Lighthouse State Park and my disappointment in seeing so many perfectly healthy young people obediently wearing their face muzzles, as dictated […]

  • Apple Removes 39K Games From Chinese App Store Ahead Of Deadline

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 2:20pm EST

    Apple Removes 39K Games From Chinese App Store Ahead Of Deadline When historians look back to write the story of 2020, the CCP’s ruthless crackdown on dissent (both on the mainland, and abroad) will  almost certainly be remembered as one of the year’s most prominent themes, and perhaps a major inflection point. From the skirmishes […]

  • The Marshmallow Test: 3 Stories About 2020 & 2021

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 2:00pm EST

    The Marshmallow Test: 3 Stories About 2020 & 2021 Via DataTrekResearch.com, Here are 3 stories for your consideration: Markets Story: Deferring gratification is nurture AND nature. The Marshmallow Test is one of the most replicated studies in behavioral psychology and all the more notable because it is explicitly designed to assess very young children. Developed by […]

  • “Queen’s Gambit Capital” SPAC Shamelessly Names Itself After Trendy Netflix Movie

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 1:44pm EST

    “Queen’s Gambit Capital” SPAC Shamelessly Names Itself After Trendy Netflix Movie You know we might be heading toward peak SPAC hysteria when blank check companies start naming themselves after whatever trend is being talked about in the news that day – even Netflix movies.  Which is why the reaction from social media this week was […]

  • Dozens Of Republicans Planning To Challenge The Electoral College Results

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 1:20pm EST

    Dozens Of Republicans Planning To Challenge The Electoral College Results Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks to reporters in Washington on April 21, 2020. Gaetz is one of dozens of Republcian lawmakers who plan on contesting electoral votes during the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of […]

  • The Greatest Short Squeeze In History

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 1:08pm EST

    The Greatest Short Squeeze In History From the lows in March, the “most shorted” stocks in the market are up a stunning 207% – by far the largest such surge in the history of the data… Source: Bloomberg But that is nothing compared to the short-soul-crushing damage that Elon Musk’s Tesla has wrought in markets […]

  • The Curse Of The Third 10%-Plus Year

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 12:40pm EST

    The Curse Of The Third 10%-Plus Year Via DataTrekResearch.com, The Third Year Curse Jessica has written several times about the seeming market anomaly that the S&P 500 rarely posts three or more consecutive +10 percent years.  Since 1928 (93 years), it’s happened only 5 times: World War II (4 years): 1942 (+19 pct), 1943 (+25 […]

  • Restaurants Prepare For “Dramatic Loss Of Revenue” As New Year’s Eve Celebrations Are Canceled 

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 12:20pm EST

    Restaurants Prepare For “Dramatic Loss Of Revenue” As New Year’s Eve Celebrations Are Canceled  As the world bids goodbye to 2020, restaurants and bars will have a nightmarish New Year’s Eve as many shops grapple with indoor seating limits, early curfews, and, in some parts of the U.S., a complete ban on indoor dining.  New Year’s […]

  • FBI Investigating The Intentional Destruction Of 500 Doses Of The Moderna Vaccine

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 12:00pm EST

    FBI Investigating The Intentional Destruction Of 500 Doses Of The Moderna Vaccine Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing curious Covid-related offenses this year, but a Wisconsin controversy raises a particularly challenging such question. Advocate Aurora Health has admitted that an employee intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration.  The intentional act, originally claimed to […]

  • China’s Clampdown On COVID-19 Origins Exposed As AP Journalists Tailed, Samples Seized

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 11:40am EST

    China’s Clampdown On COVID-19 Origins Exposed As AP Journalists Tailed, Samples Seized As the World Health Organization and other China puppets struggle to assemble a ‘natural origin’ theory for COVID-19, the CCP has been going to great lengths to quash non-sanctioned investigations that may instead point to a lab escape from research facilities which made […]

  • Trans-Pacific Shipping Rates Just Popped To New All-Time High

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 11:20am EST

    Trans-Pacific Shipping Rates Just Popped To New All-Time High By Greg Miller of FreightWaves, Is this the end of the mysterious trans-Pacific rate plateau? The good news for ocean carriers – and bad news for shippers – is that rates are rising yet again. Base spot rates for container shipments from Asia to the U.S. […]

  • Visualizing 2020’s Endless News Cycle

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 11:00am EST

    Visualizing 2020’s Endless News Cycle If 2020 seems like a blur, it was. Amid the backdrop of a global pandemic, ensuing lockdowns, and an election year, dozens of competing narratives overlapped to provide nothing short of information overload. To help visualize this roller coaster, Axios is out with their fourth annual Google Trends chart. “We […]

  • “Contempt!” – Texas AG, Governor Blast Austin Mayor’s ‘Illegal’ COVID Crackdown

    ZeroHedge - Dec 31st 2020 10:40am EST

    “Contempt!” – Texas AG, Governor Blast Austin Mayor’s ‘Illegal’ COVID Crackdown Authored by Bryan Preston via PJMedia.com, With COVID-related hospitalizations on the rise, but with little to no data demonstrating that shutdowns actually help slow the spread of the virus, Austin Mayor Steve Adler (D) has ordered a partial restaurant and bar shutdown across the […]