• 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 […]

  • Stocks Shrug Off Global Pandemic Fears As Gold ETF Holdings Hit Record High

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 4:02pm EST

    Stocks Shrug Off Global Pandemic Fears As Gold ETF Holdings Hit Record High Despite GOOGL’s demise, the exuberance in TSLA sent Nasdaq back to record highs today, shrugging off any anxiety over global pandemics, trade collapses, and the second-largest economy in the world basically closed. But while stocks soared, bonds were not buying it… Source: […]

  • “Strong Push Of Arctic Air” – Polar Vortex To Strike US Next Week

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 3:50pm EST

    “Strong Push Of Arctic Air” – Polar Vortex To Strike US Next Week A polar vortex will strike the US early next week, according to AccuWeather.  AccuWeather Lead Long-Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok said Central states would be the first to experience a blast of Arctic air, excepted to arrive early next week.  “We are anticipating that […]

  • Gordon Chang: “Overwhelmed” Chinese Authorities Are Falsifying Death Toll From Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 3:35pm EST

    Gordon Chang: “Overwhelmed” Chinese Authorities Are Falsifying Death Toll From Coronavirus With at least 425 dead (amid an almost nation-wide community lockdown), one outspoken China expert is saying that the number represents a false estimate fabricated by a country notorious for secrecy and censorship. Gordon Chang, who authored the book “The Coming Collapse of China”, explained on “Tucker […]

  • Surprise! Leftists Blame Russian Bots For Fallout From Iowa Caucus Shambles

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 3:19pm EST

    Surprise! Leftists Blame Russian Bots For Fallout From Iowa Caucus Shambles Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Some leftists are blaming “Russian propaganda accounts” for the embarrassing fallout from the Iowa caucus, fulfilling a prediction by President Trump that they would do precisely that. The results from last night’s caucus were delayed to […]

  • US Head Of SoftBank’s Vision Fund Leaving After Expressing Concerns About “Issues”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 3:00pm EST

    US Head Of SoftBank’s Vision Fund Leaving After Expressing Concerns About “Issues” Back in October, in the aftermath of the historic WeWork fiasco, we asked if the company’s new majority owned and anchor investor SoftBank is the bubble era’s (that would be now, for those unclear) short of the century. While that thesis has yet […]

  • Greta “Put Them Against The Wall” Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 2:41pm EST

    Greta “Put Them Against The Wall” Thunberg Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, 17-year-old Climate alarmist Greta Thunburg has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, prompting the internet to attempt to re-balance the scales of sanity back from bat-shit-crazy. Thunberg has been nominated for the 2020 prize by […]

  • China Unleashes The Bazookas And That’s Just The Start: Here’s What It WIll Do Next

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 2:20pm EST

    China Unleashes The Bazookas And That’s Just The Start: Here’s What It WIll Do Next Earlier this morning we pointed out that with the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of slowing, and in fact claiming its second offshore death, after a surprisingly young, 39-year-old Hong Kong man passed away, US equity futures soared after the […]

  • Clarmond: “Iowa Showed ‘American Democracy’ May Now Be Just Another Developing World Dictatorship”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 2:00pm EST

    Clarmond: “Iowa Showed ‘American Democracy’ May Now Be Just Another Developing World Dictatorship” Authored by Chris Andrew at Clarmond Wealth It strikes me that one of the first actions following our super-duper new free trade agreement with the USA would be to export over to them a large box of British pencils. On the 24th […]

  • Iran To Execute Alleged CIA Spy For Passing Nuclear Secrets

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 1:45pm EST

    Iran To Execute Alleged CIA Spy For Passing Nuclear Secrets Iran announced Tuesday its judiciary is set to execute a man for “spying for the CIA” and attempting to pass information to the US related to Iran’s nuclear program, according to a Fars news agency report cited in Reuters.  Authorities did not give a date for the execution […]

  • Biden Threatens Lawsuit To Halt Release Of Real Iowa Caucus Results

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 1:26pm EST

    Biden Threatens Lawsuit To Halt Release Of Real Iowa Caucus Results The Democratic candidates appear to be headed for an epic court battle to determine who won the Iowa caucus – a court battle that could potentially outlast the entire primary season and ensure that the real winner of Iowa (cough – Bernie Sanders – […]

  • It Ain’t Over Yet… Projecting “Wave 2” And “Wave 3” Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 1:05pm EST

    It Ain’t Over Yet… Projecting “Wave 2” And “Wave 3” Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It’s too early to declare victory and too early to assume the virus can be completely eradicated in a few weeks on the SARS model. Many people are already anticipating the end of […]

  • Tech Firm Whose Half-Baked App Cocked Up Iowa Results Run By Ex-Clinton, Obama Staff

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 12:44pm EST

    Tech Firm Whose Half-Baked App Cocked Up Iowa Results Run By Ex-Clinton, Obama Staff An app developed by a Democratic digital nonprofit group that botched the Iowa caucus results is run by former staffers for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Obama’s presidential campaign, as well as Google, Apple and former DNC employees. The app was created […]

  • WHO Chief Praises China’s “Forceful Measures”, Blasts Rest-Of-World For Causing “Fear & Stigma”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 12:25pm EST

    WHO Chief Praises China’s “Forceful Measures”, Blasts Rest-Of-World For Causing “Fear & Stigma” In yet another stunning statement from the Director-General of the World Health Organization, up is down, war is peace, and caution is dangerous. Having once again earlier denied that the novel coronavirus is a ‘pandemic’, saying instead that it’s an epidemic with […]

  • A Failed Coup Of A Failing Establishment

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 12:15pm EST

    A Failed Coup Of A Failing Establishment Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, It has been a bad few days for the establishment, really bad. In a 51-49 vote, the Senate refused to call witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump and agreed to end the trial Wednesday, with a near-certain majority vote to […]

  • Hyundai, Kia Factories Crippled In South Korea As Part Suppliers In China Remain Closed

    ZeroHedge - Feb 4th 2020 11:53am EST

    Hyundai, Kia Factories Crippled In South Korea As Part Suppliers In China Remain Closed A globalized world is full of complex supply chains that wind in and out of countries. When one country goes offline, the chain breaks, and that’s exactly what’s happening in Asia.  Yonhap News reports that Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister Kia […]