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  • American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants

    ZeroHedge - Apr 26th 2020 8:45am EDT

    American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants A significant concern that readers should have during an economic collapse and pandemic is food security. We’ve noted over April that troubling news is developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting shortages and rapid food inflation could be ahead. The […]

  • The COVID-19 Crisis Is Driving The EU To The Brink

    ZeroHedge - Apr 26th 2020 8:10am EDT

    The COVID-19 Crisis Is Driving The EU To The Brink Authored by Philipp Bagus via The Mises Institute, The eurozone is a gigantic machine of monetary redistribution. Several independent governments can finance their expenditures through deficits that are monetized directly or indirectly by one printing press. More specifically, the European Central Bank (ECB) may buy eurozone […]

  • Are European Countries Flattening The Curve?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 26th 2020 7:35am EDT

    Are European Countries Flattening The Curve? As the coronavirus spreads rapidly around the world, Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes that some European countries have begun flattening the curve of infections. According to numbers by Johns Hopkins collected by the website Worldometers, the start to a flattening is especially visible in Germany, where a total of around 150,000 cases had […]

  • Will China Use Economic Insecurity To Buy Up Stakes In US & Europe?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 26th 2020 7:00am EDT

    Will China Use Economic Insecurity To Buy Up Stakes In US & Europe? Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, It’s no secret that the Western World is dealing with an economic crisis of epic proportions right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is believed to have begun in Wuhan, China. Here […]

  • Pandemic Exposes Liberalism’s Free Trade, Open Borders Road To National Suicide

    ZeroHedge - Apr 26th 2020 12:00am EDT

    Pandemic Exposes Liberalism’s Free Trade, Open Borders Road To National Suicide Authored by Martin Sieff via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Open Borders and Free Trade induce national suicide slowly and gradually, without the victims waking up to what is going on until it is too late. But the coronavirus has brought home with global clarity […]

  • Unprecedented Pace Of Corporate Debt Issuance Has Crippled Corporate Fundamentals

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 11:33pm EDT

    Unprecedented Pace Of Corporate Debt Issuance Has Crippled Corporate Fundamentals When the Fed breached a monetary taboo even Ben Bernanke did not violate when Jerome Powell announced last month he would buy investment grade bonds, it was clear that the Fed’s only solution to avoiding the bursting of the corporate debt bubble was to make […]

  • Visualizing How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, By Generation

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Visualizing How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, By Generation As the coronavirus outbreak continues to wreak havoc across the globe, people’s time that would have otherwise been spent perusing malls or going to live events, is now being spent on the sofa. During this period of pandemic-induced social isolation, Visual Capitalist’s Katie Jones notes it’s […]

  • Twitter CEO Unveils Feature To “Editorialize” Trump’s Tweets As Election Looms

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Twitter CEO Unveils Feature To “Editorialize” Trump’s Tweets As Election Looms Authored by Cindy Harper via ReclaimTheNet.org, A handful of companies are controlling the majority of the world’s conversations, subtly introducing rules to close the gap of what ideas they find acceptable and slowly edging out those they don’t. One of the most prominent ways […]

  • Singapore Man Jailed For 6 Weeks After Violating Quarantine Over “Irresistible Urge” For Pork Soup

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Singapore Man Jailed For 6 Weeks After Violating Quarantine Over “Irresistible Urge” For Pork Soup Sometimes, you just want a bowl of pork soup, or bak kut teh, as it’s called in Singapore. And sometimes, that is an itch that overrides all common sense until you can scratch it accordingly. Nobody knows this better than Alan Tham […]

  • What War Between The US & Iran Could Look Like

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    What War Between The US & Iran Could Look Like Via Southfront.org, The US-Iranian standoff in the Persian Gulf has once again entered an acute phase… On April 22, US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats that follow or harass US ships. In […]

  • Even Warren Buffett’s Portfolio Isn’t “Immune” To The COVID-19 Shutdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 9:30pm EDT

    Even Warren Buffett’s Portfolio Isn’t “Immune” To The COVID-19 Shutdown When Warren Buffett has been mentioned over the last 2 months, it’s been in the context of wondering when he’s going to deploy some of the $128 billion in (depreciating) cash he has sitting around. So far, he has yet to do that. At the same […]

  • China Continues To Flood The World With Defective Medical Supplies

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    China Continues To Flood The World With Defective Medical Supplies Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, More than a dozen countries on four continents recently disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects. Defective Chinese […]

  • Goldman Was Furiously Buying Mortgage Bonds In The Days Before The Fed’s Massive Bailout

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 8:30pm EDT

    Goldman Was Furiously Buying Mortgage Bonds In The Days Before The Fed’s Massive Bailout Goldman Sachs had itself one of those patented bouts of good luck that you only see on Wall Street – for one reason or another.  The investment banking giant reportedly was in the market buying up mortgage bonds during the panic […]

  • More From The “New Normal” (In 50 ‘Darker’ Headlines)

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    More From The “New Normal” (In 50 ‘Darker’ Headlines) Via Off-Guardian.org, Despite the concise, well-intentioned and unavoidably ubiquitous nature of our previous Message, it seems some are still withholding their consent for necessary change. Though all our Responsible Media Outlets are doing their duty, it appears some members of the public do not yet understand the […]

  • In 2020 Oil-Exporters’ Income Will Plunge By Over $1 Trillion, Forcing Widespread Stock Liquidations

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 7:30pm EDT

    In 2020 Oil-Exporters’ Income Will Plunge By Over $1 Trillion, Forcing Widespread Stock Liquidations While any other time the plunge of WTI prices into negative territory last Monday would have been the story of the year, the fact that the financial press has already moved on and is focusing on whatever 100-sigma event du jour […]

  • ‘Capitalism’ On Life Support… Time For A Cure

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 7:00pm EDT

    ‘Capitalism’ On Life Support… Time For A Cure Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Covid-19 pandemic is unleashing obscene bailouts of Western industries and companies, as well as lifelines for billionaire business magnates. It is grotesque that millions of workers are being laid off by corporations which are in turn receiving taxpayer funds. Many of […]

  • Every Landlord Needs To See This Shocking Chart Before May 1st

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 6:30pm EDT

    Every Landlord Needs To See This Shocking Chart Before May 1st Last week we identified a potential rent strike brewing among the working poor in New York City. Many of these folks are planning to skip out on May 01’s rent payment to their landlords: “With so many New Yorkers unable to pay rent for the foreseeable […]

  • An Egregious Statistical Horror Story

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    An Egregious Statistical Horror Story Authored by George Gilder via The American Institute for Economic Research, With the latest reports of plummeting death rates from all causes, this crisis is over. The pandemic of doom erupted as a panic of pols and is now a comedy of Mash-minded med admins and stooges, covering their ifs, […]

  • “They’ve Got To Feed Their Children” – Cash-Strapped Businesses Reopen In Georgia As 16 States Join Push To End Lockdowns

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 5:35pm EDT

    “They’ve Got To Feed Their Children” – Cash-Strapped Businesses Reopen In Georgia As 16 States Join Push To End Lockdowns Across the US, 16 states are moving to reopen more nonessential businesses as thousands protest around the country demanding that the country be reopened now, even as governors like Andrew Cuomo advise that a recent […]

  • How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing The Economy, Even When They’re Over

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 5:10pm EDT

    How Shutdowns Will Keep Killing The Economy, Even When They’re Over Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Imagine what it is like right now to plan for the future as a business owner. The owner doesn’t know if he or she will even be allowed to be open for business two weeks from […]

  • “It’s ’08 All Over Again” – Carl Icahn Warns Investors “Be Extremely Careful”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    “It’s ’08 All Over Again” – Carl Icahn Warns Investors “Be Extremely Careful” Some people are intentionally hoarding toilet paper; others are stockpiling hand sanitizers and masks; and the glut of oil around world grows concerningly higher day after day. But, while stock markets rebound by the most ever (after their fastest collapse ever), there […]

  • With Kim Jong Un Reportedly On His Death Bed, These Are The Most Likely Heirs To The North Korean Throne

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 4:20pm EDT

    With Kim Jong Un Reportedly On His Death Bed, These Are The Most Likely Heirs To The North Korean Throne Earlier this week, when we first heard the reports about Kim Jong Un possibly being dead, or close to it, followed by Yonhap’s denial – which simply stated that one official who spoke with a […]

  • “The Math Is Not Pretty” – COVID Concerns Spark “Existential Threat” For Many Colleges

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 3:55pm EDT

    “The Math Is Not Pretty” – COVID Concerns Spark “Existential Threat” For Many Colleges Colleges across the country are trying to figure out whether they can reopen campus this fall. Right now, it’s a 50/50 shot. No one knows, and with a second coronavirus wave looming later this year, face-to-face classes might not be seen […]

  • What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About The Toilet Paper Shortage

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 3:30pm EDT

    What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About The Toilet Paper Shortage Authored by Will Oremus via Marker.Medium.com, It isn’t really about hoarding. And there isn’t an easy fix… Around the world, in countries afflicted with the coronavirus, stores are sold out of toilet paper. There have been shortages in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the […]

  • “Like A Black Mirror Episode”: Company Laid Off 406 People In 2-Minute Zoom Call

    ZeroHedge - Apr 25th 2020 3:05pm EDT

    “Like A Black Mirror Episode”: Company Laid Off 406 People In 2-Minute Zoom Call A California-based startup that’s seen recent success as a popular electric scooter rental service in cities across the nation appears to have set a record in terms of number of employees laid off on the spot in the least amount of time. Bird, which […]