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  • Coronavirus? The Chinese Central Bank Has A “Solution”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 7:10pm EST

    Coronavirus? The Chinese Central Bank Has A “Solution” Authored by Frank Shostak via The Mises Institute, In response to the economic paralysis brought about by the coronavirus, the Chinese central bank has pumped $243 billion into financial markets. On Monday February 3 2020, China’s equity market shed $393 billion of its value. Most experts are of the […]

  • Biden Calls Woman ‘Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 6:45pm EST

    Biden Calls Woman ‘Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier’ What’s the first thing a Democratic presidential candidate should do after suffering a monumental defeat in the first caucus of the season? If you’re Joe Biden, call a woman who introduced herself as “Madison” a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” after she says she’s attended a caucus. After a […]

  • Morgan Stanley: “Bulls Are Still In Charge… But Is it Time To Think About The Other Side Of The Story”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 6:20pm EST

    Morgan Stanley: “Bulls Are Still In Charge… But Is it Time To Think About The Other Side Of The Story” Authored by Michael Wilson, chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley Heading into 2020, sentiment was at a high. In fact, based on data we track, investors hadn’t collectively been that bullish since January 2018, […]

  • ‘Ungrateful Bastard’: Kyle Bass Unloads On CCP Mouthpiece In Coronavirus Twitter Feud

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 5:56pm EST

    ‘Ungrateful Bastard’: Kyle Bass Unloads On CCP Mouthpiece In Coronavirus Twitter Feud As evidence mounts that China’s response to the coronavirus has been as much (if not more) about controlling the narrative than containing the outbreak, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass put CCP mouthpiece Hu Xijin in his place after the Global Times EIC criticized […]

  • Gun Seizures Could Lead To Civil War

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 5:30pm EST

    Gun Seizures Could Lead To Civil War Authored by James Bovard via The Future of Freedom Foundation, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15,” declared “Beto” O’Rourke at a Democratic party presidential candidate debate in September. Compelling Americans to surrender their so-called assault weapons is “the newest purity test” for Democratic presidential candidates, according […]

  • Expect “Cascading Global Impact” As Coronavirus Causes Massive Manufacturing Disruptions Worldwide

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 5:00pm EST

    Expect “Cascading Global Impact” As Coronavirus Causes Massive Manufacturing Disruptions Worldwide China has now placed hundreds of millions of its citizens under quarantine, leaving its economy grinding to a halt. Workers can’t leave their homes. Factories are idle. Most (if not all) of China’s ports are no longer shipping. International flights are increasingly banned from […]

  • Key Witness Told Mueller Team That Russia Collusion Evidence Found In Ukraine Was Fabricated

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 4:30pm EST

    Key Witness Told Mueller Team That Russia Collusion Evidence Found In Ukraine Was Fabricated Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, One of Robert Mueller’s pivotal trial witnesses told the special prosecutor’s team in spring 2018 that a key piece of Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine known as the “black ledger” was fabricated, according to […]

  • Angry Chinese Ambassador Slams US Senator For “Absolutely Crazy” Theory Coronavirus Is Biological Weapon

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 4:06pm EST

    Angry Chinese Ambassador Slams US Senator For “Absolutely Crazy” Theory Coronavirus Is Biological Weapon Shortly after Zero Hedge asked in the last week of January if the nVoC-2019 Coronavirus pandemic was not, as some early reports claimed, the product of a Wuhan seafood market, where people were allegedly eating infected bats (which we now know […]

  • Socialism Always Fails

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 3:40pm EST

    Socialism Always Fails Authored by William Anderson via The Mises Institute, The Nation, which enthusiastically has supported every totalitarian communist regime that has existed in the past century (and that includes Pol Pot’s Cambodia and North Korea) is now firmly riding the Bernie Sanders bandwagon. This article, entitled “Why American Socialism Failed—and How It Could […]

  • Chinese Copper Buyers Cancel Orders Around The Globe As Economy Grinds To A Halt

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 3:15pm EST

    Chinese Copper Buyers Cancel Orders Around The Globe As Economy Grinds To A Halt While Beijing has been doing everything in its power to keep equity markets artificially supported to avoid a collapse in the precious “wealth effect” and investor sentiment, throwing the kitchen sink at equities and in addition to a record liquidity injection… […]

  • The Triumph Of Madness

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 2:50pm EST

    The Triumph Of Madness Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, Viewing the past through the lens of history is unfair to the participants.  Missteps are too obvious.  Failures are too abundant.  Vanities are too absurd.  The benefit of hindsight often renders the participants mere imbeciles on parade. Was George Armstrong Custer really just an arrogant […]

  • New MIT Skull Study Analysis Calls For 70% Chance Of Recession In Next Six Months

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 2:25pm EST

    New MIT Skull Study Analysis Calls For 70% Chance Of Recession In Next Six Months A new index that has been an accurate past indicator of recessions is showing that we are currently at a 70% chance of recession, attributed to weakening industrial production and the slope of the yield curve.  The new indicator is a combination between State […]

  • Coronavirus Ignored To Protect Stock Market Rally

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 2:00pm EST

    Coronavirus Ignored To Protect Stock Market Rally Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, It appears an effort to mask the danger of the coronavirus from the American people may be in play. This could be an attempt to protect Trump’s all-important stock market rally. It has become very apparent that the President values […]

  • How Trump’s and Obama’s Approval Ratings Compare

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 1:35pm EST

    How Trump’s and Obama’s Approval Ratings Compare Comparing President Barack Obama’s and President Donald Trump’s approval ratings in relation to the time they’ve been in office, both came pretty close of each other in their third year. Most recently, as Statista’s Katharine Buchholz notes, Trump’s ratings have picked up, hitting 49 percent at the end of […]

  • Bitcoin Tops $10,000 As “Digital Gold” Narrative Gains Momentum

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 12:45pm EST

    Bitcoin Tops $10,000 As “Digital Gold” Narrative Gains Momentum For the first time since October 25, 2019, Bitcoin has traded above the Maginot Line of $10,000… and is holding for now (as opposed to the last time which saw a brief spike). Source: Bloomberg And even more impressively, Ethereum is up 75% YTD – its […]

  • Can The Coronavirus End The Trade War?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 12:20pm EST

    Can The Coronavirus End The Trade War? Authored by Bruce Tandle via The American Institute for Economic Research, CNN headline read: “China halves tariffs on $75 billion of US Goods as Coronavirus Outbreak Escalates.” Once again, it seems, a deadly virus is accelerating a daunting achievement – in this case, one that has frustrated U.S.- China trade […]

  • Econ Major Ocasio-Cortez Cites Non-Existent Economist ‘Milton Keynes’ In Regurgitation Fail

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 11:55am EST

    Econ Major Ocasio-Cortez Cites Non-Existent Economist ‘Milton Keynes’ In Regurgitation Fail Anyone who took High School economics remembers the names Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. And anyone who majored in Economics would have had their names seared into their memory as common knowledge, never to be forgotten or confused. Not econ major Rep. Alexandria […]

  • Market Vaccine For Virus Is More Fed’s “NotQE”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 11:30am EST

    Market Vaccine For Virus Is More Fed’s “NotQE” Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market Vaccine For Virus Is More Fed  Last week, I asked the question of whether the “correction was over?” To wit: “On a very short-term basis, there is a potential for a reflexive bounce. If your ‘investment duration,’ or rather your ‘investment holding period’ […]

  • Ready For Impeachment Round 2? NYT Says Republican Senators Begged Trump Not To Fire Sondland

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 11:00am EST

    Ready For Impeachment Round 2? NYT Says Republican Senators Begged Trump Not To Fire Sondland Most Americans probably tuned out after President Trump’s soaring State of the Union address Tuesday night (at an hour and 18 minutes, the speech tied President Clinton’s 1999 SOTU for fifth-longest in modern history)… Courtesy of Forbes and Statista …but […]

  • The Mysterious Origin Of The Wuhan Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 10:30am EST

    The Mysterious Origin Of The Wuhan Coronavirus Authored by Xiang Zhang via The Epoch Times, China continues to refuse to release animal sampling testing data It has been two months since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan and its spread has shown no signs of slowing down in China. More than 35 Chinese cities […]

  • “We’re Totally In The Dark” – Japan Not Doing Enough To Contain Outbreak, ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Warn

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 10:19am EST

    “We’re Totally In The Dark” – Japan Not Doing Enough To Contain Outbreak, ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Warn Summary: Virus death toll surpasses SARS (total: 813) New cases confirmed in UK, Spain, Singapore Passengers aboard ‘Diamond Princess’ warn authorities aren’t doing enough to protect them – and others Officials in Shenzen say they won’t block Foxxconn […]

  • Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public, Cybersecurity Expert Warns

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 9:55am EST

    Don’t Get ‘Juice Jacked’ While Recharging In Public, Cybersecurity Expert Warns Do you plug your phone into free public charging stations? Be careful! According to NBC News, you may get ‘juice jacked’ by hackers who have installed malware that can tunnel and copy your sensitive personal information! Cybersecurity expert Jim Stickley demonstrates how a hacker […]

  • Game Over? Is There Any Political Risk For Stocks In This Election Year?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 9:20am EST

    Game Over? Is There Any Political Risk For Stocks In This Election Year? Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Is there any political risk for equities in this election year? The 2016 US election has been a nirvana for US corporations who benefited the tremendously from the Republican led 2017 tax cuts that went into […]

  • Chinatown Restaurant And Tourism Sales Plunge Over Coronavirus Fears

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 8:45am EST

    Chinatown Restaurant And Tourism Sales Plunge Over Coronavirus Fears Despite the fact that there have been no confirmed cases of coronavirus in NYC, sales at Chinatown restaurants have plunged amidst the outbreak, which is looking more like a potential global threat with each passing day. Now Wah Tea Parlor’s owner, Wilson Tang, said that on […]

  • German TV Exposes The Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange

    ZeroHedge - Feb 9th 2020 8:10am EST

    German TV Exposes The Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange Authored by Ray McGovern via ConsortiumNews.com, Truth has broken through for those confused about how a publisher ended up in a maximum security prison in London with a one-way extradition ticket to court in the U.S. and the rest of his life behind bars. One of […]