Bird Flu Is Back – China Faces Yet Another Viral Plague It’s been a tough few months for China… First, they faced food shortages (and soaring food costs) as African Swine Fever swept across the nation cutting China’s pork production in half and slaughtering hundreds of millions of their porcine pals. Then, they faced total […]
What Does Lowest Population Growth In US History Mean For Employment? Authored by Chris Hamliton via Econimica blog, 2019 saw US population growth at its lowest percentage level in US history aside from the pandemic years of 1918/1919 (when the Spanish flu took the lives of nearly 700,000 Americans). The 0.5% annual growth meant US […]
China Outraged As World Cancels Flights And Shuts Borders Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Countries that surround China have closed their border crossings and halted trade this week, air carriers across the world have also suspended flights to and from the country because of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Beijing has responded with outrage, by saying the measures […]
“Definition Of A Rigged System”: DNC Changes Debate Rules for Billionaire Latecomer Mike Bloomberg Authored by Eoin Higgins via CommonDreams.org, After debate rules were changed in favor of allowing billionaire Mike Bloomberg to join the candidates onstage vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign hit back, calling the decision […]
China To Exempt Taxes For Certain U.S. Products To Win Fight Against “Devil Virus” The Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China published a statement Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, noting that tax exemptions for imported products from the U.S. will be enacted to help the country combat the deadly outbreak of coronavirus. According […]
Russian Oil Firm Could Sign Fuel-For-Diamonds Deal In This African Nation Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Russian oil firm Tatneft could strike a deal with Zimbabwe to supply fuel to the crisis-stricken African country in exchange for diamonds, the Zimbabwe Independent reported on Friday, describing the potential deal as ‘murky’ because Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mining, Winston […]
“BOOOO!”: Squadmate Rashida Tlaib Boos Hillary Clinton At Bernie Sanders Event It appears that the progressive wing of the Democratic party is still bitter over the way Bernie Sanders was treated in the 2016 primaries, after WikiLeaks email releases exposed a coordinated effort to hurt the Vermont Senator while helping then-candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton, meanwhile, […]
The Fed’s View Of Valuations May Be Misguided Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve concluded their January “FOMC” meeting and released their statement. Overall, there was not much to get excited about, as it was virtually the same statement they released at the last meeting. However, Jerome Powell made a comment which […]
Brexit: What The European Union Loses 1,317 days since the nation went to the polling booths and voted to leave the European Union, ‘Brexit Day’ is finally here. A lot has been written, forecast and argued about what the effect on the UK will be once it is finally out of the EU, but in […]
‘Calm Before The Storm’ – How Will The Coronavirus Really Impact The Markets? PeakProsperity’s Adam Taggart that, officials, the media, and globalist-driven organisations are downplaying Wuhan coronavirus risk, even as models suggest infections will soon soar. The sudden slowdown in new information coming out of China has Chris Martenson spooked. He walks us through the […]
Second Chinese City Bars Residents From Leaving Their Homes As Hong Kong Workers Demand City Close Border Since our last update Friday evening, the situation on the ground in China has reportedly gone from bad to worse. The true extent of Beijing’s ‘quarantine’ has been exposed – and not just the ridiculously oppressive tactics exercised […]
Angry 17-Year-Old Girl To Trademark Her Name To “Protect” Against Misuse Having failed to stir any of the world’s leader in Davos into anything more than virtue-signaling words, and still refusing to verbally attack the real global polluters – India and China – so-called climate-evangelist Greta Thunberg has decided that the world will no longer […]
On Brexit Day, The Times They Are A’Changing Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, It’s finally here after three and a half years, Brexit Day. The U.K. is formally out of the European Union. And from where I’m sitting it looks like they are only just getting started. For now though, […]
Negative Rates Are Forcing German Banks To Hoard So Much Cash They’re Running Out Of Space The increasingly unstable and unpredictable world isn’t the only reason why betting on safe-makers and security companies might not seem like a bad idea to some savvy investors. But those aren’t the only reasons. In the era of NIRP, […]
UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe In A Mess Authored by Diana Johnstone via ConsortiumNews,com, Whew. Finally, at last, the United Kingdom has formally left the European Union. Here in Paris, the champions of French withdrawal from the EU are celebrating. They see Brexit as the harbinger of a future “Frexit,” a French departure from […]
Are The World Elite Using A Rise In Nationalism To Reassert Globalisation? Authored by Steven Guinness, Putting yourself in the mind of someone who commits an act of illegality is perhaps the only way we can begin to understand the motivation behind the transgression. A common reflex reaction to the most heinous of crimes is […]
The U.S. Cities With The Most Homeless People Over half a million Americans are currently homeless. After a period of progress and decline, Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes that the U.S. homeless population has increased slightly by three percent according to a report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It now stands at 567,715 with […]
Has The FBI Been Lying About Seth Rich? Authored by Craig Murray, A persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on Seth Rich. The FBI has previously given affidavits that it has no records […]
India Rejects That It Spent Years Pumping Fake GDP Data Just as the Indian economy expanded at a much slower pace in 2019, and electricity consumption in the country over the year plunged, there’s new criticism that Indian officials have been publishing phony economic statics to boost growth numbers. Overinflated GDP data started to print […]
Pepe Escobar: China’s Virus Response Has Been “Breathtaking” Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Saker blog, Chinese President Xi Jinping is leading a scientific ‘People’s War’ against the coronavirus… President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic “is a devil and we cannot […]
China’s Crackdown On Pajama-Wearers Sparks Surveillance-State Backlash Avid Zero Hedge readers are probably aware that the Communist Party leadership has managed to construct a surveillance apparatus in the country’s largest cities that tracks its citizens with panoptic precision. Spit your gum out on the sidewalk in Beijing, and your ‘social credit score’ – a government […]
‘Cancel Culture’ Attacks On “White Privilege” Will Trigger Tragedy Down The Road Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Being born White these days comes with a lot of excess baggage. Instead of each human being coming into existence with a clean slate, so to speak, a Caucasian newborn (who exactly qualifies as ‘White’ […]
Watch: How China Is Enforcing The Corona Quarantine By Drone China has found new ways to respond to coronavirus that has shut down at least two-thirds of its economy, taken offline some of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs, and quarantined more than 50 million people. The country is using drones, specifically DJI drones with front-mounted speakers, to […]
Convex Strategies: “A Certain Dichotomy Has Come To Our Attention” Submitted by Convex Strategies A certain dichotomy has come to our attention. The whole ream of senior, past and present, central banking elites kicked off the New Year with a stream of comments about the past successes and the future challenges of monetary policy. We’ve […]
Race-Baiters Ruined As Poll Shows Americans’ Satisfaction With Race-Relations Jumped Since Trump Elected Well this doesn’t fit the mainstream media narrative… In a poll reported by Gallup’s ‘Mood of the Nation’ this week, it turns out that Americans’ satisfaction with race relations has jumped 14% since Trump’s inauguration. As The Daily Caller’s David Krayden notes, […]
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