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  • China To Slash Tariffs On Some U.S. Imports By 50%

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 7:00am EST

    China To Slash Tariffs On Some U.S. Imports By 50% While global equity futures continue to soar amid a return of the “coronavirus is contained” following reports that new drugs are in the pipeline to treat the deadly disease on Wednesday, China’s economy is expected to print sub-5% GDP in Q1. This has forced an increasingly desperate Beijing to unexpectedly […]

  • Rounding Errors Found In 30% Of Iowa Caucus Worksheets, Could Flip “Significant Number Of Delegates”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 6:32am EST

    Rounding Errors Found In 30% Of Iowa Caucus Worksheets, Could Flip “Significant Number Of Delegates” After an app created by a Democratic digital firm botched the Iowa caucus results, the 1,678 precincts across the state resorted to awarding delegates using a “Caucus Math Worksheet,” causing significant delays in reporting. The worksheet requires caucus workers perform […]

  • A New Space Race? US, China, Russia, & Europe All Plan For Moon Bases

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 5:00am EST

    A New Space Race? US, China, Russia, & Europe All Plan For Moon Bases Authored by Aaron Kesel via TheMindUnleashed.com, One year ago in January, a Chinese robot landed on the dark side of the moon. Since then, the Chang’e 4 probe and the Yutu-2 rover it carried onboard have been busy photographing and scanning […]

  • Trump Admin “Threatened Me” After Rejecting Peace Plan: Erdogan

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 4:15am EST

    Trump Admin “Threatened Me” After Rejecting Peace Plan: Erdogan We noted that immediately after President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s roll out of the ‘deal of the century’ Mideast peace plan on January 28, Turkey was the first country to condemn it internationally, and just days ago Erdogan’s director of communications, Fahrettin Altun, called it “a declaration […]

  • French Teenager Forces Free Speech Debate Over Her Calling Islam A “Religion Of Hate”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 3:30am EST

    French Teenager Forces Free Speech Debate Over Her Calling Islam A “Religion Of Hate” Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in France (here and here and here and here and here and here and here). A teenager has sparked a national debate about blasphemy in France after an Instagram post calling Islam a “religion of […]

  • A Quarter Of Brits Get Annoyed By A Foreign Conversation

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 2:45am EST

    A Quarter Of Brits Get Annoyed By A Foreign Conversation YouGov has released a somewhat disturbing poll highlighting levels of xenophobia and intolerance in post-Brexit Britain. The survey involved 1,461 adults and, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, it found that more than a quarter of them would be very or fairly bothered by hearing people from a non-English […]

  • Building An EU-UK Special Relationship

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 2:00am EST

    Building An EU-UK Special Relationship Authored by Daniel Gros via Project Syndicate, The European Union has lost one of its most important member states. The United Kingdom accounted for around one-sixth of the EU’s population and economy. Without it, the EU will still be one of the world’s premier economic powers, but it will suffer […]

  • Can Muslim Terrorists Be Deradicalized? – Part I

    ZeroHedge - Feb 6th 2020 12:05am EST

    Can Muslim Terrorists Be Deradicalized? – Part I Authored by Denis McEoin via The Gatestone Institute, On Friday November 29, 2019, an Islamist terror attack took place in London. Two young people, both recent Cambridge University graduates, Jack Merritt (25) and Saskia Jones (23), were stabbed and killed by a single attacker. It was a terrible and unnecessary loss […]

  • Just A Little Sloppy Record-Keeping? The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion ‘Accounting Black Hole’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 11:45pm EST

    Just A Little Sloppy Record-Keeping? The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion ‘Accounting Black Hole’ Over the past two weeks of coronavirus headlines and heightened global anxiety, along with impeachment coverage and after over the Super Bowl weekend Americans huddled in living rooms in blissful oblivion, a story which in more normal times would be front and center has […]

  • The Pornification Of America: How Young Girls Are Being Groomed By Sexual Predators

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 11:25pm EST

    The Pornification Of America: How Young Girls Are Being Groomed By Sexual Predators Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The brutal reality is that a predator doesn’t have to be in the same room, building, or even country to abuse a child. And that’s what they’re doing – subjecting children to psychological and […]

  • States That Tax The Most Are Getting The Worst Results Per Dollar

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 11:05pm EST

    States That Tax The Most Are Getting The Worst Results Per Dollar Today in “more definitive proof that the government can’t spend your capital as well as you can” news, it should come as no surprise that states who spend less in taxes are getting better results, per dollar, than similarly sized states who collect […]

  • Matt Gaetz Files Ethics Complaint, Criminal Referral Request Against Nancy Pelosi For Tearing Up SOTU Speech

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 10:45pm EST

    Matt Gaetz Files Ethics Complaint, Criminal Referral Request Against Nancy Pelosi For Tearing Up SOTU Speech Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has written a letter to the House Ethics Committee requesting an investigation into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to tear up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address, arguing that “Her unseemly behavior […]

  • Mysterious Money Transfers Uncovered Between Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate And Secretive Bank

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 5:05pm EST

    Mysterious Money Transfers Uncovered Between Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate And Secretive Bank Estate records reveal that millions of dollars were transferred from the estate of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a secretive bank he established in the Virgin Islands six years ago, according to the New York Times. The bank, Southern Country International, was one […]

  • When China’s Supply Chains Break, So Will The Delusion The US Economy Is Invulnerable

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 4:45pm EST

    When China’s Supply Chains Break, So Will The Delusion The US Economy Is Invulnerable Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Was it ever plausible that China’s economy could grind to a halt and there wouldn’t be any consequences for the U.S. economy? No. Many commentators talk about supply chains in China, but how […]

  • Peloton Plummets After Cutting Revenue Guidance

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 4:23pm EST

    Peloton Plummets After Cutting Revenue Guidance Any retail investors who had just gotten long Tesla in the past 24 hours, had a terrible day following the biggest one day drop in the EV-automaker’s history. Yet if those same investors were consoling themselves that their momo long in Peloton would offset their P&L losses, were in […]

  • Record Surge In Global Virus Cases Sparks Panic-Bid For Stocks To All-Time Highs

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 4:00pm EST

    Record Surge In Global Virus Cases Sparks Panic-Bid For Stocks To All-Time Highs What better catalyst is there for buying US equities with both hands and feet that the Director-General of The World Health Organization – who has been down-playing the pandemic for days – admitting that the last 24 hours saw the biggest surge […]

  • Watch Live: Senate Votes On Trump Impeachment

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 3:50pm EST

    Watch Live: Senate Votes On Trump Impeachment After an afternoon of podium-pounding and bloviating, the US Senate will vote to acquit or convict President Trump at 4 p.m. ET. Watch live: Earlier Wednesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) broke ranks with his party and said he would vote to convict President Trump on one impeachment charge […]

  • WeSleep?  Casper Lowers IPO Range Amid No Love For Unicorns

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 3:30pm EST

    WeSleep?  Casper Lowers IPO Range Amid No Love For Unicorns Update (Feb. 05):  Casper Sleep Inc. reminds us of the WeWork implosion late last summer when the shared workspace company failed to IPO, ran out of cash, and was then bailout out. The unicorn mattress retailer slashed its IPO price in the latest filing, now between […]

  • “Pretty Much Every Client We Talk To Wants To Buy The Dip, And That Is Not Comforting”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 3:12pm EST

    “Pretty Much Every Client We Talk To Wants To Buy The Dip, And That Is Not Comforting” In the past few days there has been much speculation that in light of the violent reversal in stocks following the early Coronavirus scare and subsequent rebound, that investors were positioned extremely bearishly and were caught offside, forced […]

  • YouTube Says It Will Ban “Manipulated” Election Content

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 2:50pm EST

    YouTube Says It Will Ban “Manipulated” Election Content The left seems to not understand that the more they try to micromanage our freedom – whether it be from taxes, social media censorship, subsidies or any other brilliant ideas they have – the worse things get. Take Monday’s unmitigated Iowa caucus shitshow, for example. But that hasn’t stopped […]

  • Do We Need The First Amendment?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 2:30pm EST

    Do We Need The First Amendment? Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, Many years ago, I was giving a lecture on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a class at a public high school here in Virginia. During the course of my talk, I made the following statement: “The […]

  • Mitt Romney To Vote To Impeach Trump On One Charge

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 2:13pm EST

    Mitt Romney To Vote To Impeach Trump On One Charge In what is likely a surprise to no one, and solidifies his virtue-signaling to his home state, Senator Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he would vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power, making him the first Republican to support removing Mr. Trump for his […]

  • An Unexpected Catalyst Emerges To Push Stocks To Fresh All Time Highs

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 2:10pm EST

    An Unexpected Catalyst Emerges To Push Stocks To Fresh All Time Highs Over the past month, as stocks soared to all time highs (as they are on the verge of doing again today), we discussed on several occasions that virtually all investors classes – from retail investors, to institutions, to systematic quants, CTAs and Risk […]

  • “We’re On A Very Dangerous Path” – Pelosi’s Page-Ripping ‘Resistance’ Is Harbinger Of Things To Come

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 1:50pm EST

    “We’re On A Very Dangerous Path” – Pelosi’s Page-Ripping ‘Resistance’ Is Harbinger Of Things To Come Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, It is a rare thing to witness a truly iconic moment happen on live television, but that is precisely what tens of millions of Americans had the opportunity to do on Tuesday night. […]

  • As Rich Dump To The Poor, Tesla Daytrading Millennials Dream Of Untold Riches

    ZeroHedge - Feb 5th 2020 1:30pm EST

    As Rich Dump To The Poor, Tesla Daytrading Millennials Dream Of Untold Riches If you have found yourself recently wondering what stage of this record-long, Fed-induced bull market we are in, here is the answer: the “dump to the masses” stage. Indeed, we are in that delightful time where the hype surrounding the stock market, […]