Escobar: From 9/11 To ‘The Great Reset’ Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Davos types issue a new “with us or against us” ultimatum eerily reminiscent of the old 9/11 world… 9/11 was the foundation stone of the new millennium – ever as much indecipherable as the […]
Big-Tech & Black Gold Battered As Bonds & Bullion Bounce Back Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 16:00 “Margin Calls, Gentlemen!” Stocks are down for the second week in a row with Nasdaq leading the plunge (worst week in almost six months)… The mega-tech heavy index is now down almost 11% from record highs… The Dow […]
Illinois And The Mail-In Voting Election Mess Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 15:45 Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, The Illinois General Assembly held no hearings when it passed legislation this spring to vastly expand mail-in voting in the state. That’s right, no hearings were held on historic changes to the most important element of […]
Budget Deficit Hits Record $3 Trillion As US Spends 100% More Than It Collects YTD Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 15:30 Those who have been following the record surge in US public debt (excluding the roughly $100 trillion in off-balance sheet obligations), which exploded by $3 trillion in the three months following the covid shutdowns […]
No Exit: VMWare Joins Growing Group Of Tech Cos Threatening To Cut Employees Wages For Leaving San Francisco Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 15:09 In an age where gestures of corporate sympathy are paramount, VMware has joined a small, but growing, contingent of Bay Area tech firms on one of the COVID-19 era’s hottest new […]
$41 Billion Lululemon Is Holding Classes On “Resisting Capitalism” While Selling $128 Yoga Pants Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 14:52 There’s no better example of groupthink taking over people’s common sense than $41.7 billion clothing retailer Lululemon, who sells signature yoga pants for $128, holding a seminar on “resisting capitalism”. But, it’s 2020 and so, […]
Buchanan: A Focused Trump Can Still Pull It Out Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 14:35 Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, If Donald Trump loses the election, history will attribute his defeat to a pandemic that killed 200,000 Americans during his reelection campaign, and a historic depression deliberately induced to put the economy in a […]
Bahrain Follows UAE In Establishing Diplomatic Ties With Israel Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 14:19 Bahrain has followed the UAE in becoming the latest Arab nation to normalize ties with Israel as part of a larger diplomatic push by President Trump to strengthen ties between the Jewish state and other Middle Eastern nations, according to […]
Apple Slides After JPM Warns iPhone Sales Are “Moderating Substantially” Ahead Of 5G Launch Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 14:01 Apple is sliding today, dropping as much as 3% after JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee (who is overweight on AAPL with a $150 price target) published a note warning that based on recent surveys from Wave7 […]
NFL Ratings Sacked As Season Opener Fails To Draw Viewers Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 13:46 Last weekend, we noted that primetime ratings for ‘woke’ Major League Baseball dropped over 30% – which joined the ‘woke’ NBA in a ratings disaster. Now, the NFL appears to be suffering as well – with this year’s socially […]
Beijing Says Would Rather See TikTok’s US Business Shuttered Than Sale “Forced” By Trump Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 13:39 Beijing has just upped the ante in its latest game of tit-for-tat brinksmanship with Washington over the fate of TikTok’s US business. President Trump yesterday insisted that ByteDance must agree to sell TikTok’s US business […]
Harvard Prof Uses 9/11 To Blame Trump For COVID Deaths Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 13:28 Authored by Ben Zeisloft via Campus Reform, Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe used the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say that President Donald Trump is “directly responsible” for the coronavirus death toll, which stands at more than […]
SoftBank “Reconsidering” Infamous ‘Gamma Squeeze’ Option Strategy After Stock Losses Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 13:12 Earlier this week, when citing a little noticed Aug 26 conference call held between Morgan Stanley and SoftBank, we reported that the Japanese financial conglomerate had already closed out most of its infamous public investments, which also included various […]
NYSE Signals Plan “To Move Trading Out Of New Jersey” After Governor’s HFT Tax Threat Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 12:55 A week after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signaled his virtue to the ‘social justice’ agenda-watchers by proposing a tax on high frequency trading, no lesser establishment organization than The New York Stock Exchange has […]
A Tale Of Two Housing Markets: Mortgage Delinquencies Spike 450%, Yet Refis Boom With Low-Principal Loans Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 12:41 As we noted last month, the US housing market is reflecting the extremes of the economy right now – between those who can’t make ends meet due to the pandemic, and those who […]
Israeli Warplanes Use American Tanf Base Area To Strike Aleppo Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 12:29 Via AlMasdarNews.com, The U.S. Al-Tanf Zone in southeastern Homs has once again been used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to bomb an area in Syria, a source in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Damascus told Al-Masdar News. According […]
Just 10 Stocks Accounting For Half The August Gains Has Led To “Record Market Fragility” Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 12:10 We have previously shown that the S&P500 is rapidly becoming the S&P5, with just the 5 FAAMG names now accounting for a record 23% of the S&P’s market cap, well above the concentration observed […]
Petition To Prosecute Pelosi Draws Thousands Of Signatures Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 11:55 Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A petition to prosecute Nancy Pelosi for violating Covid-19 regulations by visiting a hair salon in San Fransisco has attracted thousands of signatures in just 24 hours. At time of writing, the petition hosted at media […]
Beirut Residents Warned Toxic Smoke Has Settled Over City Following New Port Fire Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 11:40 Coming a little over a month after the deadly Aug.4 ammonium nitrate blast which destroyed Beirut’s busy port and leveled entire neighborhoods in the surrounding downtown area, Thursday’s fire reportedly centered on an oil and tire […]
Quant Who Correctly Predicted Last Week’s Rout Says Selling Isn’t Over Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 11:20 Back on August 18, a little-followed quant at JPMorgan, Peng Cheng, came out with what may have been the most prophetic (and timely) market analysis in recent months, when he – unlike his “strategist” peers at major banks […]
How Long Will It Take For The Airline Industry To Recover? Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 11:05 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Estimates vary widely from 4 to 9 years depending on the source. Why Airline Traffic Won’t Fully Recover Soon Leeham News discusses Why Airline Traffic Won’t Fully Recover Until the Mid-Late 2020’s. Many […]
UK Strikes Historic Free Trade Deal With Japan As Brussels Threatens To Abandon Talks Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 07:18 After a solid nine-month stretch that was blissfully devoid of major Brexit-related news as the global COVID-19 pandemic raged on, we declared last night that Brexit talks “suddenly matter again” as the drop in the […]
Watch: NFL Opener ‘Racial Unity’ Moment Sees Stadium Erupt In Boos Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 06:58 Who would have thought that sports fans just want to watch… sports? Thursday night’s return of the NFL which saw the Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans began with an “End Racism” message of unity (words which were also […]
Corona “Marshals” Patrol UK Cities To Enforce Social-Distancing Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 05:00 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A new enforcement team of ‘Coronavirus Marshals’ will be employed by the government to patrol cities in order to police social distancing, the UK government has announced. Last night Downing Street unveiled new […]
America’s Post 9/11 Wars Have Forced 37 Million People From Their Homes: New Study Tyler Durden Fri, 09/11/2020 – 04:15 Just ahead of the 19th anniversary commemorating the tragic events of September 11, 2001 when America came under attack, the anti-interventionist thinktank The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has featured a study detailing the millions of people […]
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