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  • A DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip To Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets By 2021

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    A DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip To Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets By 2021 Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 21:40 Authored by Raul Diego via MintPressNews.com, The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine […]

  • Trump ‘Approved’ Assange Pardon In Exchange For Source Of DNC Leaks: Court Testimony

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Trump ‘Approved’ Assange Pardon In Exchange For Source Of DNC Leaks: Court Testimony Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 21:20 A new bombshell came out of the seventh day of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London: President Trump was “aware of and had approved of” a controversial plan that would offer Assange full pardon in […]

  • Are The COVID-Lockdowns An Election 2020 Ransom Note?

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    Are The COVID-Lockdowns An Election 2020 Ransom Note? Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 21:00 Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets.com, “We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November.” Those are the words of a west coast health […]

  • Minneapolis Voters Line Up To Cast Ballots As Early Voting Begins In Several States

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 8:40pm EDT

    Minneapolis Voters Line Up To Cast Ballots As Early Voting Begins In Several States Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 20:40 Minneapolis voters lined up on Friday to cast their ballots ahead of the first presidential debate, as early voting began in several states including Minnesota. In the first 30 minutes alone, some 44 people cast […]

  • Riots Only Help Fuel Urban Impoverishment

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 8:20pm EDT

    Riots Only Help Fuel Urban Impoverishment Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 20:20 Authored by Lipton Matthews via The Mises Institute, In a recent interview Black Lives Matter (BLM) organizer Ariel Atkins argued that lootings are reparations for African Americans. Atkins denounced the suggestion that anything can be gained from peaceful protests. “Winning has come through revolts, winning has […]

  • Chicago Logs Whopping 52% Jump In Homicides From 2019: ‘Five Times Any Prior Year’

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    Chicago Logs Whopping 52% Jump In Homicides From 2019: ‘Five Times Any Prior Year’ Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 20:00 A new disturbing investigation by USA Today this week found that Cook County in Chicago has seen homicides spike by a whopping 52% compared to the same time frame last year. What’s more is that this second largest county […]

  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead At 87

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dead At 87 Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 19:45 Justice Ruth Bader Gisnburg is dead at the age of 87, the Supreme Court announced on Friday, which added that she died of “complications of metastatic pancreas cancer.” Developing…

  • When Government Incompetence And Overreach Turns Deadly

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    When Government Incompetence And Overreach Turns Deadly Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 19:40 Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty and risks to your prosperity. Today, we are starting with […]

  • California Crackdown On Benefits Fraud Sparks 72% Plunge In Pandemic Jobless Claims

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    California Crackdown On Benefits Fraud Sparks 72% Plunge In Pandemic Jobless Claims Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 19:20 The last few weeks have seen improvements in jobless claims data stall at extremely high levels, gravely disappointing those expecting a continued v-shaped recovery back to the old normal… The leading ‘culprit’ for these elevated levels of […]

  • “Inflation” And America’s Accelerating Class War

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 7:00pm EDT

    “Inflation” And America’s Accelerating Class War Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 19:00 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Those who don’t see the fragmentation, the scarcities and the battlelines being drawn will be surprised by the acceleration of the unraveling. I recently came across the idea that inflation is a two-factor optimization problem: inflation is necessary […]

  • Schumer, Warren Introduce Resolution To Cancel $50,000 In Student Loans To “Close Racial Wealth Gaps”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Schumer, Warren Introduce Resolution To Cancel $50,000 In Student Loans To “Close Racial Wealth Gaps” Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 18:40 Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rolled out a proposal on Thursday which calls for the next president of the Untied States to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt in 2021. […]

  • 1920: The Crash That Cured Itself

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 6:20pm EDT

    1920: The Crash That Cured Itself Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 18:20 Authored by Pedro Almeida Jorge via AustrianCenter.com, The Spanish flu of 1918 is an event that, unsurprisingly, is being revisited by many observers today. And yet, at the same time, another major event occurred a century ago which we would also do well […]

  • Daily Briefing – September 18, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 6:10pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – September 18, 2020 Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 18:10 Real Vision CEO and co-founder, Raoul Pal, is joined by senior editor, Ash Bennington, to look forward to the future of markets as well as Real Vision. After they evaluate how the market interpreted the Fed’s latest FOMC meeting, Raoul broadens the conversation […]

  • Angry Judge Slams Bankrupt Hertz’ “Offensive” Attempt To Pay Another $5.2 Million In Management Bonuses

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    Angry Judge Slams Bankrupt Hertz’ “Offensive” Attempt To Pay Another $5.2 Million In Management Bonuses Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 18:00 It’s not exactly clear what the lawyers of bankrupt Hertz were thinking but the first time the company spent a whopping $16.2 million on corporate retention bonuses just one day after it announced it […]

  • A Textbook Case Of Treason

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 5:40pm EDT

    A Textbook Case Of Treason Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 17:40 Authored by Mike Whitney, “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those […]

  • South Dakota: America’s Sweden

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 5:00pm EDT

    South Dakota: America’s Sweden Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 17:00 Authored by Amelia Janaskie via The American Institute for Economic Research, Most people know South Dakota for the distinguished faces carved onto the side of the Black Hills mountain. Mount Rushmore reminds us of four American leaders who instilled values of freedom and hope in […]

  • First CMBS Mega-Casualty On Deck: $700MM Starwood Portfolio On Verge Of Default

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 4:47pm EDT

    First CMBS Mega-Casualty On Deck: $700MM Starwood Portfolio On Verge Of Default Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 16:47 Over the past 6 months we have repeatedly discussed the plight of commercial real estate which unlike most other financial assets, failed to benefit from a Fed bailout or backstop (but that may soon change). It culminated […]

  • “We House-Arrested Some Folks!”

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 4:20pm EDT

    “We House-Arrested Some Folks!” Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, Being a vandal and a politician, but I repeat myself, means having zero shame. Case in point the leadership of the City of Nashville. They were caught red-handed suppressing the data of COVID-19 transmissions to […]

  • Stocks Suffer Longest-Losing Streak In Over A Year As Dollar Dump Continues

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 4:00pm EDT

    Stocks Suffer Longest-Losing Streak In Over A Year As Dollar Dump Continues Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 16:00 Stocks are down for the 3rd week in a row – yeah we know!!! – leaving levered-call-buying RH’ers facing something they likely haven’t seen in their trading careers (this is the longest losing streak since August 2019)… […]

  • “Absolutely Terrified” Democrats Demand Emergency Investigation Into Durham Probe

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 3:50pm EDT

    “Absolutely Terrified” Democrats Demand Emergency Investigation Into Durham Probe Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 15:50 In August, Attorney General William Barr refused to commit to withholding any report by DOJ watchdog John Durham before the November election – causing Congressional Democrats to froth at the mouth over an “October surprise” meant to hurt Joe Biden. […]

  • Bitcoin & The Tragedy Of Monopolized Fiat Money

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 3:35pm EDT

    Bitcoin & The Tragedy Of Monopolized Fiat Money Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 15:35 Authored by Jeffrey Wernick, op-ed via CoinTelegraph.com, Why the government should make a monetary transition to Bitcoin, and the problems that cryptocurrency would help solve, such as preemptive war and national debt. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph As an anarcho-capitalist, I hold […]

  • Facebook Sued In Federal Court For “Spying” On Instagram Users Through Camera 

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 2:50pm EDT

    Facebook Sued In Federal Court For “Spying” On Instagram Users Through Camera  Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 14:50 In August, Facebook was accused of illegally harvesting the biometric data of users from its photo-sharing app Instagram. Now the social media giant is being sued again, this time for spying on Instagram users through their smartphone cameras, reported Bloomberg. […]

  • Goldman Made $100 Million Trading Tesla Options, Bonds In Recent Months

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 2:30pm EDT

    Goldman Made $100 Million Trading Tesla Options, Bonds In Recent Months Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 14:30 Over the last 6 months, extra special attention has been paid to Tesla and – more specifically – very optimistic looking call buying in the name that has undoubtedly helped propel a gamma squeeze that has seen Tesla’s […]

  • Peter Schiff: When Exactly Are They Going To Deal With The Debt?

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 2:18pm EDT

    Peter Schiff: When Exactly Are They Going To Deal With The Debt? Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 14:18 Via SchiffGold.com, Even as the fiscal 2020 budget deficit surged past $3 trillion, more than double the previous record deficit, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called for more federal spending, saying   “now is not the time to worry […]

  • Massive Sell Program Slams S&P500 Below 3300

    ZeroHedge - Sep 18th 2020 1:59pm EDT

    Massive Sell Program Slams S&P500 Below 3300 Tyler Durden Fri, 09/18/2020 – 13:59 Just as we brought readers a warning from BMO’s Russ Visch that a drop below 3,310 in the S&P would breach the mid-September support and open a door for retesting the next support at 3,233… … a massive selling program hit, which […]