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  • Prelude To A Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 10:25pm EST

    Prelude To A Crisis Authored by John Mauldin via Everggreen Gavekal blog, “The Federal Reserve is running the risk of fomenting an eventual financial crisis by easing banking regulations at the same time that it’s cut interest rates…say some former Fed officials, including ex-Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and financial stability experts Daniel Tarullo and Nellie […]

  • Russian Evacuees From China To Be Quarantined In Remote Siberian Region

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 10:05pm EST

    Russian Evacuees From China To Be Quarantined In Remote Siberian Region The Russian Air Force on orders from President Vladimir Putin is currently in the midst of evacuating some over 150 Russian nationals from China and sending them to be “monitored” for coronavirus symptoms in a region of Western Siberia. “Russian citizens and people from other countries […]

  • Trump Snubs Pelosi Handshake During State Of The Union

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 9:54pm EST

    Trump Snubs Pelosi Handshake During State Of The Union One year after Nancy Pelosi’s famous SOTU 2019 handclap… Do not lose Nancy Pelosi’s point. She is clapping back at Trump for his call to an end to “revenge politics.” pic.twitter.com/tZNCFGkjq8 — Hillary Warned Us About Caucuses (@HillaryWarnedUs) February 6, 2019 … and one failed impeachment […]

  • Unraveling California’s Quick, But Complete Demise

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 9:45pm EST

    Unraveling California’s Quick, But Complete Demise Authored by Joe Guzzardi via Patch.com, Through incredibly good fortune, I’ve been unable to watch the tedious impeachment trial. I’m traveling and my destinations don’t have television. I can’t report having the same luck, however, with the daily immigration news. Bulletins pour into my email inbox, and since immigration […]

  • Huffington Post Investigation Exposes Rampant Sexism At The Washington Post

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 9:25pm EST

    Huffington Post Investigation Exposes Rampant Sexism At The Washington Post The fury of twitter blue checkmarks over the Washington Post’s decision to suspend female reporter Felicia Sonmez has manifested in a #MeToo-style hit piece directed at the Washington Post. In a laughable piece by reporter Emily Peck, the Huffington Post relies on anonymously sourced quotes […]

  • An ‘Orwelexicon’ For Bias And Dysfunction In Psychology And Academia

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 9:05pm EST

    An ‘Orwelexicon’ For Bias And Dysfunction In Psychology And Academia Authored by Lee Jussim via Quillette.com, In this essay, I introduce a slew of neologisms – new words – to capture the tone and substance of much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and bias in academia and psychology. It’s partly inspired by an article entitled ‘Lexicon for […]

  • Elizabeth Warren Tries Disappearing Act After Being Caught Exiting Private Jet

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 8:55pm EST

    Elizabeth Warren Tries Disappearing Act After Being Caught Exiting Private Jet Native-American? Woman of the people? Billionaire-bludgeoner? Climate-change alarmist? It would appear, by the looks of this latest clip catching Senator Elizabeth Warren exiting a private jet, that not everything she says is true (allegedly)! By far the most entertaining part of the brief video […]

  • Watch Live: Trump Delivers Third State Of The Union Address

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Watch Live: Trump Delivers Third State Of The Union Address With Democrats on the back-foot following the twin catastrophes of the Iowa Caucus and their unsuccessful push to call John Bolton as a witness in Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, which is expected to end Wednesday with a resounding acquittal and Trump’s approval rating at record […]

  • Former Co-Head Of Investment Banking At Goldman Asia Banned For Life By The Fed

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 8:25pm EST

    Former Co-Head Of Investment Banking At Goldman Asia Banned For Life By The Fed Former Goldman Sachs partner Andrea Vella has been barred from the industry over his involvement in the Malaysian investment fund scandal known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a press release from the Federal Reserve said Tuesday.  Vella, a former the Goldman Sachs’ co-head […]

  • “Made In China” Economic Hit Coming Right Up

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 8:05pm EST

    “Made In China” Economic Hit Coming Right Up Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Economic contagion due to the coronavirus is underway. Hyundai halted production. Sony, Apple, and Ford issued warnings. If you can’t get parts, you can’t build cars. And due to a coronavirus-related manufacturing halt in China, Hyundai to Shut Down Some Production. Hyundai, […]

  • Macy’s To Cut 2,000 Jobs And Shutter 125 Stores Amid “Significant Structural Change”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 7:45pm EST

    Macy’s To Cut 2,000 Jobs And Shutter 125 Stores Amid “Significant Structural Change” Macy’s announced Tuesday that it had adopted a three-year plan designed to stabilize profits and continue company growth. The new plan calls for a radical $1.5 billion cost-cutting program that will axe upwards of 2,000 jobs and shutter 125 stores across the US. The […]

  • Irrational Fears Of Deflation

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 7:25pm EST

    Irrational Fears Of Deflation Authored by Alasdair Macelod via GoldMonmey.com, The benefits of a deflation of prices brought about by a combination of sound money and markets free from government intervention have been demonstrated to be the best economic environment, the denial of which in favour of inflationary financing has led to repeated monetary and […]

  • Brian Stelter Crowned King Of ‘Liberal Hack’ Tournament

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 7:05pm EST

    Brian Stelter Crowned King Of ‘Liberal Hack’ Tournament CNN talking head Brian Stelter took first place in a “Liberal Hack” tournament that pitted the left’s most rabid media conspiracy theorists against each other in a ‘March Madness-style’ competition.  VOTING BEGINS NOW FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH OF THE FIRST ANNUAL SMUG INDUSTRIES LIBERAL HACK TOURNAMENT (1) […]

  • US Government Wants To Ban Encryption In The Name Of Protecting Children

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 6:45pm EST

    US Government Wants To Ban Encryption In The Name Of Protecting Children Authored by Aaron Kesel via TheMindUnleashed.com, In the name of protecting the children, U.S. lawmakers and the Department of Justice want to ban end-to-end encryption, opening Internet users to a host of attacks on their privacy by not only the government but also […]

  • Will Dyson’s New Air-Purifying-Headphones Save The World From Coronavirus?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 6:25pm EST

    Will Dyson’s New Air-Purifying-Headphones Save The World From Coronavirus? At a time when coronavirus is spreading across Asia and other parts of the world, Dyson has patented a wearable air purifier that can also be used as headphones, reported Bloomberg. The patent specifies, that the headphones will filter the air to the user. It noted […]

  • Trump To Award Limbaugh Presidential Medal Of Freedom

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 6:14pm EST

    Trump To Award Limbaugh Presidential Medal Of Freedom President Trump will award Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the country, after the conservative radio icon announced that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, according to Politico. Limbaugh, 69, shocked his fans on Monday with the news, […]

  • 7 Tipping Points For The 2020s

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 6:05pm EST

    7 Tipping Points For The 2020s Authored by Michael Johnston via Evergreen Gavekal blog, “To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” – Oscar Wilde “Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” – Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC Chinese Poet A century ago, the Roaring Twenties were an era marked […]

  • ‘Expect The Worst’: Transparency Group Warned Against Using App That Botched Iowa Caucus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 5:45pm EST

    ‘Expect The Worst’: Transparency Group Warned Against Using App That Botched Iowa Caucus The more we learn about how the Iowa Democratic Party handled the 2020 Iowa Caucus, the more we suspect that this massive malfunction wasn’t simply an accident. First, as we reported earlier, the New York Times revealed that the IowaReporterApp (as it […]

  • 1919 vs. 2019…Last Time US Under-65-Year-Old Population Declined Was A Global Pandemic…And Now?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 5:25pm EST

    1919 vs. 2019…Last Time US Under-65-Year-Old Population Declined Was A Global Pandemic…And Now? Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog, What is happening in China is really scary, both for those currently at risk and for the rest of us due to the lack of transparency.  Whether this is contained or metastasizes seems to really […]

  • Buttigieg Funded Voting App Declares Buttigieg Iowa Caucus Winner

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 5:12pm EST

    Buttigieg Wins Iowa Delegate Count, But Bernie Tops Popular Vote Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg won Monday’s Iowa caucus with 26.9% of the state delegates, followed by Sens. Bernie Sanders in second (25.1%) and Elizabeth Warren in third (18.3%) according to Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) Chair Troy Price, after 62% of statewide precincts were […]

  • UC Professor Attacks “Racist, Evil” Rush Limbaugh Hours After Cancer Announcement

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:45pm EST

    UC Professor Attacks “Racist, Evil” Rush Limbaugh Hours After Cancer Announcement Authored by Jon Street via Campus Reform, Hours after conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh announced he has lung cancer, University of California-Riverside Professor Reza Aslan took to Twitter to imply that the world would be a “better place” without Limbaugh in it.  “Ask yourself this […]

  • WTI Holds Losses Below $50 After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude Build

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:35pm EST

    WTI Holds Losses Below $50 After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude Build Oil prices plunged to one-year lows, with WTI back below $50 for the first time since Jan 2019 as global demand concerns trumped OPEC+ jawboning that they could do something to stall the decline. “We’re getting close to the bottom and it’s clear OPEC is not […]

  • Meet The Billionaire Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App: Buttigieg-Backer Seth Klarman

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:32pm EST

    Meet The Billionaire Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App: Buttigieg-Backer Seth Klarman Authored by Max Blumenthal via TheGrayZone.com, Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Sanders billionaires. Its top donor, Seth Klarman, is a Buttigieg backer who has dumped money into pro-settler Israel lobby groups. At the time […]

  • Baby Yoda A Huge Hit As Disney Reports 26.5 Million Disney+ Subs, Smashing Expectations

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:27pm EST

    Baby Yoda A Huge Hit As Disney Reports 26.5 Million Disney+ Subs, Smashing Expectations Investors were eagerly looking forward to Disney’s results today, not so much for the actual earnings, but to see how successful Disney has been in grabbing streaming TV market share from Netflix and other established streamers such as Amazon, for its […]

  • Tesla Stock Suddenly Plunges As Much As $100 In Seconds

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:07pm EST

    Tesla Stock Suddenly Plunges As Much As $100 In Seconds Having traded as high as $969, a move of almost $200 higher on the day, and hitting a market cap of $175 billion, Tesla stock suddenly collapsed just around 3:50pm, dropping as much as $100 from $960 to $860 in seconds, in what can only […]