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  • Mapping Every Object In Our Solar System

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 11:45pm EST

    Mapping Every Object In Our Solar System The path through the solar system is a rocky road. Asteroids, comets, planets and moons and all kinds of small bodies of rock, metals, minerals and ice are continually moving as they orbit the sun. As Visual Capitalist’s Nicholas LePan points out, in contrast to the simple diagrams […]

  • Airbnb Gives Renters Secret Risk Assessments And Personality Tests

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 11:25pm EST

    Airbnb Gives Renters Secret Risk Assessments And Personality Tests Via Mass Private I blog, What does the Church of Scientology and Airbnb have in common? If you answered secret risk assessments and personality tests, then give yourself a gold star. If you have rented an Airbnb in the past six years, the odds are pretty high that you […]

  • China Car Sales Crash 80% As Virus Paralyzes Auto Industry

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 11:05pm EST

    China Car Sales Crash 80% As Virus Paralyzes Auto Industry Car sales in China fell 80% YoY in February, the sharpest monthly decline in nearly two decades amid the Covid-19 epidemic kept consumers away from dealerships, according to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). The outbreak of the virus has had a significant impact on […]

  • The Multipolar Alliance Induces Rumpelstiltskin’s Self-Destruction

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 10:45pm EST

    The Multipolar Alliance Induces Rumpelstiltskin’s Self-Destruction Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, There are several versions of the old German folk tale of Rumpelstiltskin. The story begins with greedy king who is told by a foolish old miller that a young girl (the miller’s daughter) had the ability to spin hay into […]

  • IMF Head Announces $50 Billion Aid Program For Covid-19 Relief

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 10:25pm EST

    IMF Head Announces $50 Billion Aid Program For Covid-19 Relief IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC’s “Squawk Ally” Wednesday that it would launch a $50 billion aid package “immediately” dedicated to combating Covid-19 outbreaks in emerging market countries. This announcement comes after the World Bank said it would fund a $12 billion program on Tuesday to fight the […]

  • Covid-19 Vs. The Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses The Greater Threat?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 10:05pm EST

    Covid-19 Vs. The Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses The Greater Threat? Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, […]

  • Berkshire Says Its Annual Meeting Is A Go For May 2, Despite Coronavirus Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 9:45pm EST

    Berkshire Says Its Annual Meeting Is A Go For May 2, Despite Coronavirus Outbreak Berkshire’s Warren Buffett has said that the company’s annual shareholder meeting, scheduled for May 2, is going to take place as planned, despite the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. Some of the surrounding events around the meeting may wind up being […]

  • A Beijing Hospital Confirms Covid-19 Attacks Central Nervous System

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 9:25pm EST

    A Beijing Hospital Confirms Covid-19 Attacks Central Nervous System Via CNTechPost.com, Beijing Ditan Hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University said on March 4 that the first patient with novel coronavirus pneumonia complicated with encephalitis was discharged from the hospital on February 25. Liu Jingyuan, director of the ICU at the Hospital, presided over the treatment of […]

  • Operations Suspended At F-35 Stealth Jet Factory In Japan Due To Virus Fears

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 9:05pm EST

    Operations Suspended At F-35 Stealth Jet Factory In Japan Due To Virus Fears America’s F-35 stealth aircraft factory in Japan shuttered operations for a week due to new concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak, reported Defense News. The closure of the F-35 stealth factory comes as Covid-19 infections in Japan rose above 1,000 on Wednesday, most […]

  • “It’s Getting ‘The Ugly'” – What Can We Really Do About Covid-19?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 8:45pm EST

    “It’s Getting ‘The Ugly'” – What Can We Really Do About Covid-19? Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank Summary Covid-19 has broken out of China and become a key global concern: most countries are now preparing for a serious virus epidemic. All governments are faced with a series of unpalatable options over their next steps […]

  • Apple Issues Warning Over iPhone Replacement Shortage

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 8:25pm EST

    Apple Issues Warning Over iPhone Replacement Shortage Apple has warned their retail employees that there may be a shortage of replacement iPhones, in yet another example of a supply chain affected by the coronavirus. According to Bloomberg, the company recently told tech support staff that heavily damaged devices might not be able to be replaced […]

  • DNC Scrambles To Change Debate Threshold After Gabbard Qualifies

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 8:05pm EST

    DNC Scrambles To Change Debate Threshold After Gabbard Qualifies Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, On a CNN panel on Monday, host John King spoke with Politico reporter Alex Thompson about the possibility of Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard qualifying on Super Tuesday for the party’s primary debate in Phoenix later this month. “I will note this, she’s from Hawaii,” […]

  • Jet Fuel Prices Dive Amid Stalling Aviation Industry; Global Tourism Bust Imminent

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 7:45pm EST

    Jet Fuel Prices Dive Amid Stalling Aviation Industry; Global Tourism Bust Imminent Airlines have canceled more than 200,000 flights as Covid-19 is nearing pandemic status. More than 92,300 people have been infected by the virus, which has killed about 3,100 people. Many of the cases are in China, but recent cases ex-China have been surging, especially in […]

  • Globalization And Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 7:25pm EST

    Globalization And Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains Authored by F. William Engdahl via New Eastern Outlook, The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly clear as the ongoing health emergency across China threatens vital world supply chains from China […]

  • Can The Fed Save Us From Climate Change?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 6:45pm EST

    Can The Fed Save Us From Climate Change? Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & prosperity, The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Act requires the Federal Reserve to “promote” stable prices and full employment. Of course, the Fed’s steady erosion of the dollar’s purchasing power has made prices anything but stable, while the […]

  • “People Have Just Gone Nuts”: Wealthy NY Suburb Gripped By Hysteria After Local Family Diagnosed With Covid-19

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 6:25pm EST

    “People Have Just Gone Nuts”: Wealthy NY Suburb Gripped By Hysteria After Local Family Diagnosed With Covid-19 New Rochelle, NY is offering the rest of America a glimpse into what happens once Covid-19 has arrived in your home town. New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir visited New Rochelle yesterday and started reporting. She wandered […]

  • Gold Is A Chameleon

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 6:05pm EST

    Gold Is A Chameleon Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckonig, Is gold a commodity, an investment, or money? The answer is… Gold is a chameleon. It changes in response to the environment. At times, gold behaves like a commodity. The gold price tracks the ups and downs of commodity indices. At other times, […]

  • US Attacks Taliban Positions In First Strike After Much-Hyped Truce Deal

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 5:45pm EST

    US Attacks Taliban Positions In First Strike After Much-Hyped Truce Deal It appears the official death of the so-called ‘historic’ peace deal between the United States and the Taliban, as the US military has bombed Taliban positions Wednesday in the first such strike after the truce deal, and the first attack in nearly two weeks. As we […]

  • Ukrainian Court Throws Wrench Into Joe Biden’s 2020 Election Plans

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 5:25pm EST

    Ukrainian Court Throws Wrench Into Joe Biden’s 2020 Election Plans Authored by John Solomon via JustTheNews.com, A Ukrainian court has ordered an investigation into whether Joe Biden violated any laws when he forced the March 2016 firing of the country’s chief prosecutor. The ruling could revive scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s lucrative relationship with an energy […]

  • Chief Justice Slams Shumer For Threatening Gorsuch And Kavanaugh Over Abortion Case

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 5:05pm EST

    Chief Justice Slams Shumer For Threatening Gorsuch And Kavanaugh Over Abortion Case First Chuck Schumer threatened President Trump when he said the intelligence community has “six ways from Sunday” of getting back at him. Now it’s Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch – who will “pay the price” and “won’t know what hit […]

  • How The Pandemic Crisis Will Probably Develop Over The Next Year

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 4:45pm EST

    How The Pandemic Crisis Will Probably Develop Over The Next Year Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, For a while now I have been hearing it said that Americans are “in a panic” over the coronavirus outbreak in the US, and that mainstream media outlets are “feeding the fear”.  This is an odd conclusion to […]

  • What Happens To The S&P500 After An Emergency Fed Rate Cut

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 4:25pm EST

    What Happens To The S&P500 After An Emergency Fed Rate Cut There is a reason why the stock market freaked out yesterday when the Fed announced its emergency rate cut: traditionally when the Fed engages in such an unexpected move, it means that the economy (or markets, or both) are already in freefall, and the […]

  • ‘Joementum’ Sparks Stock Buying-Panic, Rate-Cut Hopes Soar

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 4:01pm EST

    ‘Joementum’ Sparks Stock Buying-Panic, Rate-Cut Hopes Soar Some success, after weeks of doldrums, for Joe Biden’s campaign sparked a massive surge in prediction markets’ view of his likelihood of getting the Democratic nomination surged to record highs (as Bernie and Bloomberg crashed)… Source: Bloomberg And it is this phoenix-like rise that is being proposed as […]

  • Six Reasons Why Covid-19 Fails The Sniff Test

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 3:20pm EST

    Six Reasons Why Covid-19 Fails The Sniff Test Authored by Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com, Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that’s fear. – Dan Brown, Inferno It appears reaction to Coronavirus has wreaked more carnage globally than the virus itself. Although a 2-3% mortality rate is nothing to sneeze at, it’s not exactly a […]

  • When Will US Rates Turn Negative? One Trader Is Convinced They Know The Answer

    ZeroHedge - Mar 4th 2020 3:05pm EST

    When Will US Rates Turn Negative? One Trader Is Convinced They Know The Answer Earlier today, when discussing the impending inevitability of negative rates in the US according to BMO rates strategists, we said that the question is not if but “when.” Now, according to at least one intrepid trader, the answer is that in […]