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  • In Major Shift, Dems Plan To Fight Trump Over Small Business Funding Expansion, ‘Pt. 4’ Stimulus Plan

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 8:00am EDT

    In Major Shift, Dems Plan To Fight Trump Over Small Business Funding Expansion, ‘Pt. 4’ Stimulus Plan For hundreds of thousands of small business owners, the early days of the ‘Paycheck Protection Program’ – the $350 billion pool of federal money that the big banks are doling out in low-interest (but not as low as […]

  • Eurogroup Fails To Agree On Coronavirus Stimulus After Feud Erupts Between Italy And Netherlands

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 7:51am EDT

    Eurogroup Fails To Agree On Coronavirus Stimulus After Feud Erupts Between Italy And Netherlands Three things are guaranteed in life: death, taxes and the Eurogroup failing to reach an agreement. At exactly 2am ET, the EURUSD tumbled in a flashback to the dark eurozone sovereign debt crisis days of 2010-2015, when news broke that European […]

  • Coronavirus Cases Pass 1.4 Million As Scientists Discover Reinfection Risk For Patients Much Higher Than Expected: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 7:31am EDT

    Coronavirus Cases Pass 1.4 Million As Scientists Discover Reinfection Risk For Patients Much Higher Than Expected: Live Updates Though the coronavirus outbreak figures reported out of Europe yesterday were probably more mixed than health officials would have liked, there was, apparently, enough to keep the resurgence of optimism that has fueled market gains in recent […]

  • Lacalle: Is Now The Time To Buy Gold?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 6:30am EDT

    Lacalle: Is Now The Time To Buy Gold? In this interview Daniel Lacalle explains why the fundamentals for gold are stronger each day, and why silver and palladium should not be ignored in the current crisis. Central banks keep buying more gold and will need even more as massive liquidity measures drive their balance sheets higher. Supply challenges remain with some […]

  • More People Died Of Suicide Last Week In Tennessee Than COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 6:00am EDT

    More People Died Of Suicide Last Week In Tennessee Than COVID-19 Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, As we previously warned, this pandemic will bankrupt and kill more people from suicide than the virus will. When you sacrifice people’s livelihoods, you create a difficult situation of desperation for many who will see no other way […]

  • US Army Officer Reportedly Killed In Deir Ezzor Ambush: Syrian Media

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 5:30am EDT

    US Army Officer Reportedly Killed In Deir Ezzor Ambush: Syrian Media Syrian state media is reporting that a US Army officer was killed during an ambush of a convoy of military vehicles the eastern part of the country Monday. The reported attack took place in the town of Al-Sour, in the northeast of Deir Ezzor, reported SANA News […]

  • “Social Distancing” Just Made Accessing Your Cash A Lot Harder

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 5:00am EDT

    “Social Distancing” Just Made Accessing Your Cash A Lot Harder Authored by Steven Guinness, Keeping your distance from a discernible or imperceptible threat to your wellbeing is not a difficult concept to understand. If you approach a dog and the owner warns you that the dog bites, a natural instinct for some would be to […]

  • Chernobyl Radiation Levels Suddenly Surge 17x

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 4:30am EDT

    Chernobyl Radiation Levels Suddenly Surge 17x Radiation across the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone spiked 17x as firefighters over the weekend battled a 250-acre forest fire, reported NBC News.  More than 100 firefighters, several Antonov AN-32P Firekiller air tankers, and a Mil Mi-8 helicopter were dispatched near the village of Vladimirovka to fight the fire. Ukrainian emergency services […]

  • Most UK Property Mutual Funds Suddenly “Gated” As Lockdown Slams Retail Landlords & Their Investors

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 3:55am EDT

    Most UK Property Mutual Funds Suddenly “Gated” As Lockdown Slams Retail Landlords & Their Investors Authored by Nick Corbishley, via WOLF STREET, Against this backdrop of unprecedented uncertainty, as tenants of shops, bars, restaurants and offices refuse to pay their rents en masse and almost all commercial property deals fall through, it’s all but impossible to […]

  • World’s First F-Bomb Was Dropped By Bored 16th Century Scottish Student, Locked-Down By Plague

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 3:20am EDT

    World’s First F-Bomb Was Dropped By Bored 16th Century Scottish Student, Locked-Down By Plague Experts have found the origin of the F-word can be traced back to a Scottish manuscript penned by a student who was in lockdown due to a plague in the 16th century, reported The Scotsman.  An hour-long BBC Scotland documentary, which airs […]

  • Will COVID-19 Derail The African Century?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 2:45am EDT

    Will COVID-19 Derail The African Century? Authored by Michael Wilkerson via Project Syndicate, In The Fortunes of Africa, author Martin Meredith describes a Dutch sailing ship that dropped off a load of laundry for the Khoikhoi, the local inhabitants of the southwestern cape of Africa whom Europeans called Hottentots. The year was 1713. The Khoikhoi washed […]

  • China Forces Italy To Buy Back PPE It ‘Donated’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 2:10am EDT

    China Forces Italy To Buy Back PPE It ‘Donated’ China has distributed nearly 4 billion masks to foreign countries as it ramps up production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), a move to restore its image as a global leader focused on humanitarian relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic that originated in its country and spread across the world.  […]

  • COVID-19 & The Looming Collapse Of Europe’s Single Currency

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 1:35am EDT

    COVID-19 & The Looming Collapse Of Europe’s Single Currency Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, As the coronavirus unleashes economic shockwaves across Europe, the European single currency, the most visible symbol of European unification, is facing collapse. The eurozone – a monetary union of 19 of the 27 Member States of the European […]

  • Putin Tested Regularly For COVID-19, Controversially Resumes In-Person Meetings

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Putin Tested Regularly For COVID-19, Controversially Resumes In-Person Meetings Russia saw its single biggest one-day spike in COVID-19 cases Monday, at 954 new cases – amid a current total of 7,497 confirmed cases and 59 deaths – most centered in Moscow. Despite the Russian capital by far seeing most cases, nearly all of Russia’s 140 million plus citizens […]

  • Government To Decide What Items Are Essential Purchases And What Things You’re Not Allowed To Buy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 11:40pm EDT

    Government To Decide What Items Are Essential Purchases And What Things You’re Not Allowed To Buy Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Living under lockdown restrictions, prevalent in nearly every state, is about to get a whole lot worse. The government in the United States and Canada has decided to take away the […]

  • “Historic Moment” – Robo Van Shuttles COVID-19 Tests At Mayo Clinic In Florida 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    “Historic Moment” – Robo Van Shuttles COVID-19 Tests At Mayo Clinic In Florida  At a time when America’s hospital systems are overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases and deaths, one hospital system in Florida is using autonomous vehicles to transport medical supplies and test kits. The Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, recently announced that self-driving shuttles would transport COVID-19 tests […]

  • Why Did Fauci Cheer Use Of ‘Untested’ Drug For Coronavirus In 2013… But Now He’s Skeptical

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Why Did Fauci Cheer Use Of ‘Untested’ Drug For Coronavirus In 2013… But Now He’s Skeptical Authored by Victor Rantala via BizPacReview.com, It’s been found that seven years ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed that he was encouraged by lab tests involving a combination of drugs that included hydroxychloroquine in antiviral experiments on a SARS-like coronavirus that had […]

  • “I’d Rather Stay Unemployed Than Risk My Life” – Grocery Store Workers Strike As COVID-19 Deaths Soar

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    “I’d Rather Stay Unemployed Than Risk My Life” – Grocery Store Workers Strike As COVID-19 Deaths Soar As we’ve been warning over the last several weeks, the beginning innings of social unrest in the Western world could be developing. Millions of people have just lost their jobs, the economy has crashed, and suicides and domestic violence are increasing, this is all […]

  • Here Comes The Second Wave: Wuhan Lockdown Ends And Tens Of Thousands Are About To Flee The City

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 10:21pm EDT

    Here Comes The Second Wave: Wuhan Lockdown Ends And Tens Of Thousands Are About To Flee The City Last week we reported that even as the world’s attention had shifted to the new global coronavirus outbreak epicenters of New York, Italy, Spain and other western nations, China – which rushed to restart its economy at […]

  • Eyes Wide Open: Will The “Masters Of The Universe” Notice No One Takes Them Seriously Anymore?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Eyes Wide Open: Will The “Masters Of The Universe” Notice No One Takes Them Seriously Anymore? Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The intrusion of some wholly extraneous event – like a pandemic – into any given status quo doesn’t necessarily break it, in and of itself. But it exposes cruelly the […]

  • “Sickest Part Of A Sick America”: The Region Where Health Officials Fear The Worst COVID-19 Devastation

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    “Sickest Part Of A Sick America”: The Region Where Health Officials Fear The Worst COVID-19 Devastation After New Orleans last month emerged as the United States’ new southern epicenter for the coronavirus pandemic, threatening other states across the region, a review in Bloomberg Law of how the South as already “the sickest part of America” could […]

  • Max Keiser: Selling Bitcoin Now For “Fiat Debt-Coupons” Is A Crime

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Max Keiser: Selling Bitcoin Now For “Fiat Debt-Coupons” Is A Crime Authored by William Suberg via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin will be the only exit from the “global reset” of finance which will allow central banks to even destroy the banking system itself. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph That was just one conclusion from Simon Dixon, CEO of […]

  • Yale Students Demand Automatic ‘Pass’ Due To COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Yale Students Demand Automatic ‘Pass’ Due To COVID-19 Students at Yale are demanding a “universal pass” this semester due to coronavirus, after the college switched to virtual classes. This means no grades, deadlines or benchmarks for the Ivy League students, according to Yale grad Esteban Elizondo in a New York Post Op-Ed. As representatives of […]

  • US Confirms Deployment Of Patriot Missiles In Iraq

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    US Confirms Deployment Of Patriot Missiles In Iraq Via Southfront.org, On April 5, a series of large explosions rocked the village of al-Kastan in southwestern Idlib injuring 8 people, including 3 members of the so-called White Helmets. According to local sources, an ammunition depot located in the civilian area inside the city became the source […]

  • Millions Of Workers Fired Over Zoom As ‘Remote Layoffs’ Become Part Of America’s ‘New Normal’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 7th 2020 8:40pm EDT

    Millions Of Workers Fired Over Zoom As ‘Remote Layoffs’ Become Part Of America’s ‘New Normal’ A movie like the George Clooney-starring, Anna Kendrick-supported “Up In The Air” could have only been made during the depths of an economic crisis. The film focuses on a consulting firm that handles ‘firings’ mostly for large corporate clients. Most […]