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  • Central Banks Add More Gold To Their Reserves

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 8:00am EDT

    Central Banks Add More Gold To Their Reserves Via SchiffGold.com, Central banks continued their gold-buying spree in February, although the pace of gold purchases has slowed compared to last year’s near-record purchases. On net, central banks globally added another 36 tons of gold to their reserves in February, according to the latest data released by the […]

  • JPMorgan Profit Plunges To 7 Year Low On Billions In Loan Losses As Dimon Warns Of “Severe Recession”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 7:43am EDT

    JPMorgan Profit Plunges To 7 Year Low On Billions In Loan Losses As Dimon Warns Of “Severe Recession” And so the worst quarterly earnings season since the financial crisis (at least until the catastrophic Q2 earnings) is off, when moments ago JPMorgan reported that it missed expectations, with earnings plunging from a year ago, reporting […]

  • US Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 25k As Slowdown In New Cases Continues In Europe: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 7:30am EDT

    US Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 25k As Slowdown In New Cases Continues In Europe: Live Updates As groups of states on the West and East Coast promised to release plans for reopening the economy in the coming days, while President Trump continued to insist that the decision of when to reopen the economy rests with […]

  • Futures Jump As Chinese Trade Data Unexpectedly Outperforms; All Eyes On Bank Earnings

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 7:04am EDT

    Futures Jump As Chinese Trade Data Unexpectedly Outperforms; All Eyes On Bank Earnings Global stocks jumped and US equity futures traded just around 2,800 on Tuesday after Chinese trade data came in better than expected and some countries tried to restart their economy by partly lifting restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak. Wall Street […]

  • Visualizing What COVID-19 Does To Your Body

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 6:35am EDT

    Visualizing What COVID-19 Does To Your Body By now, researchers and health experts have gained a better understanding of the range of symptoms caused by COVID-19, which include fever, a dry cough, and of course, the dangerous inflammation of the respiratory system. Most of us know that COVID-19 can be much more severe than a […]

  • Half Of American Workers Would Rather Work From Home Forever

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 6:10am EDT

    Half Of American Workers Would Rather Work From Home Forever Submitted by Zippia Summary: Two thirds of all American workers are able to work from home 75% of baby boomers want to work from home forever Half of all Americans want to continue working from home following the coronavirus The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has more […]

  • PC Shipments Plunge Most In Four Years As ‘Global Recession Begins’ 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 5:45am EDT

    PC Shipments Plunge Most In Four Years As ‘Global Recession Begins’  A new report from research firm Canalys shows global PC shipments plunged 8% YoY for the first quarter, a drop of 4.6 million units from 58.3 million in 1Q19 to 53.7 million in 1Q20. The decline in PC shipments was the steepest since the […]

  • Migrant Youths Riot In Belgium Despite Coronavirus Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 5:20am EDT

    Migrant Youths Riot In Belgium Despite Coronavirus Lockdown Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Migrant-background youths staged a riot in Anderlecht, Belgium during which they trashed police vehicles and fired guns despite the city being under a coronavirus lockdown. The unrest was triggered by an incident in which a 19-year-old identified as ‘Adil’ […]

  • Private Army: Mark Zuckerberg’s Security Cost Facebook A Whopping $23 Million Last Year

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 4:55am EDT

    Private Army: Mark Zuckerberg’s Security Cost Facebook A Whopping $23 Million Last Year Mark Zuckerberg, like a number of wealthy CEOs desiring to recieve “humble” compensation, has an official salary of just $1 a year.  However, according to a financial filing published last Friday, Facebook racked up a whopping $23 million for the company founder’s personal […]

  • A Comparison Of Lockdown UK With Non-Lockdown Sweden

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 4:20am EDT

    A Comparison Of Lockdown UK With Non-Lockdown Sweden Update (0400ET): Stefan Lofven, Sweden’s prime minister, said today that after taking a “flexible” approach to restricting movements within its borders, the country’s coronavirus measures were “not good enough.” Lofven, who has been PM since 2014 as part of a various coalitions, said previous governments and parties […]

  • COVID-19 Could Push An Extra Half A Billion People Into Poverty

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 3:45am EDT

    COVID-19 Could Push An Extra Half A Billion People Into Poverty Charity group Oxfam has warned that a global recession caused by Covid-19 could push an extra half a billion people into poverty – 8 percent of the world’s population – unless urgent action is taken. Conducted by King’s College London and the Australian National University, the research gauged […]

  • UK Cops Brag About “Hiding In The Shadows” To Catch Picnic-Goers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 3:10am EDT

    UK Cops Brag About “Hiding In The Shadows” To Catch Picnic-Goers Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A police force in the UK has bragged that its officers may be ‘hiding in the shadows’ ready to catch people who have picnics in rural locations. The Central Community Team, which represents Bedfordshire Police, tweeted […]

  • Pot Use Reaches All-Time High In March

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 2:35am EDT

    Pot Use Reaches All-Time High In March We noted on Thursday, Americans have resorted to “watching porn, drinking beer, smoking pot, and or devouring chocolate” to cope with their fears of a pandemic. In the report, we noted how cannabis sales in California, Colorado, Oregon, and Alaska jumped 50% during the March 16-22 period, but it […]

  • “We Weren’t Prepared” For COVID-19: Macron Admits A French Disaster

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 2:00am EDT

    “We Weren’t Prepared” For COVID-19: Macron Admits A French Disaster Update (0200ET): France will remain locked down until at least May 11, PM Emmanuel Macron has revealed, calling on citizens to continue to respect the rules his government has imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus. #MACRON20H02 L’épidémie commence à marquer le pas. Les résultats […]

  • Cops Arrest Couple For Breaking Quarantine As Hawaii Embraces Mass Surveillance

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Cops Arrest Couple For Breaking Quarantine As Hawaii Embraces Mass Surveillance The exhausting effort required to contain an outbreak of the novel coronavirus – contact tracing, quarantine enforcement etc. – are giving regimes from the US to China to a handful of European nations an unprecedented opportunity to test technologies designed to infringe on human […]

  • Whistleblower: COVID-19 Patients Need Oxygen Therapy Not Ventilator

    ZeroHedge - Apr 14th 2020 12:05am EDT

    Whistleblower: COVID-19 Patients Need Oxygen Therapy Not Ventilator Via Great Game India, Another whistleblower, a doctor treating Coronavirus patients himself has come out with a startling disclosure saying COVID-19 patients need Oxygen therapy not Ventilator and that we may be treating the wrong disease. He says the patients symptoms resemble High Altitude Sickness and not Pneumonia. Dr. […]

  • What To Look For In Bank Earnings: All Eyes On Loan Losses

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    What To Look For In Bank Earnings: All Eyes On Loan Losses Tomorrow JPMorgan and Wells Fargo will usher in a historic earnings cycle, one which will see S&P500 earnings plunge the most since the (first) financial crisis… … which in turn is a walk in the park compared to the -30% EPS crash expected […]

  • Wealthy Preppers Are Riding This Out In Multimillion-Dollar Bunkers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Wealthy Preppers Are Riding This Out In Multimillion-Dollar Bunkers Authored by Sarah Begley via Medium.com, Cold War backyard bunkers are out. Subterranean communes are in… In a sense, all of us are preppers right now: stocking up on toilet paper and nonperishable goods, hunkering down, and avoiding social contact. But then, of course, there are the actual […]

  • Success During “Hard” Times: Sex Toy Company Sees Sales Rocket 38% Since COVID-19 Lockdown Started

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Success During “Hard” Times: Sex Toy Company Sees Sales Rocket 38% Since COVID-19 Lockdown Started Today in “capitalism works” news, a British sex toy company is having its best month since 2017 as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. It’s almost as if demand fluctuates for items based on market conditions. Weird. Don’t tell the Central […]

  • “The Illusions Are Exhausted” – What Are You Gonna Do About It?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    “The Illusions Are Exhausted” – What Are You Gonna Do About It? Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, “Tucked into the recent recovery bill was a provision granting the Federal Reserve the right to set up a $450 billion bailout plan without following key provisions of the federal open meetings law, including announcing […]

  • ‘You’ll See Bodies In The Streets Of Africa’ Warns Melinda Gates; Says Vaccine Is ‘Ultimate Solution’ To COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    ‘You’ll See Bodies In The Streets Of Africa’ Warns Melinda Gates; Says Vaccine Is ‘Ultimate Solution’ To COVID-19 Melinda Gates says that COVID-19 is going to “be horrible in the developing world,” and that we’re going to see ‘bodies in the streets of Africa’ like what’s happening in Ecuador. “Look at Ecuador,” said Gates, adding […]

  • Morgan Stanley: “The Bad Actors Of The Last Cycle Are Getting Bailed Out”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Morgan Stanley: “The Bad Actors Of The Last Cycle Are Getting Bailed Out” There is a certain paradox behind the coronavirus crisis. On one hand it is a human, social and economic tragedy of unprecedented proportions, with tens of thousands of people dead around the globe, millions infected, tens of millions unemployed, small and medium […]

  • Coronavirus Socialism: Power To ‘Some’ People

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Coronavirus Socialism: Power To ‘Some’ People Authored by Patrick Watson via MauldinEconomics.com, When (hopefully soon) we all get out of coronavirus lockdown and try to resume normal life, we will probably find a different “normal.” The best-case outcome: scientists discover a “magic bullet” treatment that quickly restores the most serious cases to health. We could […]

  • “It’s The Perfect Storm” – SoftBank Reports Staggering $25 Billion Q1 Loss

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    “It’s The Perfect Storm” – SoftBank Reports Staggering $25 Billion Q1 Loss In an announcement that should surprise absolutely nobody who has been paying attention, SoftBank announced in a corporate filing on Monday that the Japanese telecom conglomerate with a VC arm expected to report the biggest loss in its nearly 40-year history. For Q1, […]

  • Caitlin Johnstone Rages “This Absolute Bullshit Would Not Be Possible Without Propaganda”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Caitlin Johnstone Rages “This Absolute Bullshit Would Not Be Possible Without Propaganda” Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, So as of right now it’s Trump versus Biden. An incompetent plutocrat president selling himself as an anti-establishment people’s champion while simultaneously advancing garden variety Republican sociopathy, versus a warmongering authoritarian who is too demented to string a coherent sentence together and who is looking […]