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  • Why This Isn’t 1920…

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 9:45am EDT

    Why This Isn’t 1920… Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 09:45 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Why this isn’t 1920 has everything to do with starting valuations and future returns. While, generally, I’m not too fond of comparisons between today’s markets and the past, Ed Yardeni made a comparison too bombastic to disregard in his blog: […]

  • US Frozen Pork Supplies Plunge To Near Decade Low 

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 9:30am EDT

    US Frozen Pork Supplies Plunge To Near Decade Low  Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 09:30 US frozen pork inventories plunged to a near-decade low in July, reported Reuters, citing a new USDA report.  The decline coincides with China importing a record amount of pork in July following an outbreak of the African swine fever that decimated the country’s […]

  • HCQ All Over Again: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment After Trump Announces Breakthrough

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 9:09am EDT

    HCQ All Over Again: WaPo Trashes Blood Plasma COVID-19 Treatment After Trump Announces Breakthrough Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 09:09 Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, “Blood from people who recover from coronavirus could provide a treatment,” reported the Washington Post on March 27, just a couple weeks after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. […]

  • US Home Price Growth Slowed In June

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 9:06am EDT

    US Home Price Growth Slowed In June Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 09:06 Following May’s unexpected slowdown in growth, analysts expect June’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index to show further deceleration, and it did – but notably worse than expected. The Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price rose 3/46% YoY in June (the latest data), well below […]

  • Rabobank: “So Stocks Went Up Again”

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 8:55am EDT

    Rabobank: “So Stocks Went Up Again” Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 08:55 By Michael Every of Rabobank The ‘conventional’ nature of things So, US stocks went up again. That was about as much of a surprise as there being American flags at the online Republican National Convention, which being the governing party is obviously taking […]

  • African COVID-19 Cases Hit 1.2 Million As Dr. Fauci Urges FDA To ‘Carefully Vet’ Vaccines: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 8:46am EDT

    African COVID-19 Cases Hit 1.2 Million As Dr. Fauci Urges FDA To ‘Carefully Vet’ Vaccines: Live Updates Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 08:46 Summary: Africa COVID cases near 1.2 million Deaths in England + Wales hit 20-week low Germany to extend benefit program German infections remain close to 4-month high Russia reported 4,696 new cases […]

  • Mortgage Delinquencies Soar To Decade High

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 8:35am EDT

    Mortgage Delinquencies Soar To Decade High Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 08:35 Readers may recall last week we outlined the dam of pent up mortgage delinquencies continued to crack, with the share of delinquent Federal Housing Administration’s loans hitting a record high in the second quarter.  With millions of Americans out of work due to the virus-induced recession, […]

  • Previewing Powell’s J-Hole Jawbone: “Buy Gold In Case It All Goes Wrong…”

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 8:15am EDT

    Previewing Powell’s J-Hole Jawbone: “Buy Gold In Case It All Goes Wrong…” Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 08:15 Authored by Bill Slain via MorningPorridge.com, “ There are three ways to make a living on Wall Street; be first, be smarter, or cheat.” As yet another storm batters the UK, I drove she-who-is-Mrs-Blain to the station […]

  • Futures Punch To New Record High After US-China Reaffirm Committment To Trade Deal

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 7:59am EDT

    Futures Punch To New Record High After US-China Reaffirm Committment To Trade Deal Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 07:59 Three things send the market higher these days: i) optimism that Congress will finally renew the fiscal stimulus which expired on July 31; ii) optimism that a covid vaccine will miraculously fix the global economy, and […]

  • “From Cotton To Congress In 1 Generation” – Black Republicans Back Trump During RNC Night 1

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 6:33am EDT

    “From Cotton To Congress In 1 Generation” – Black Republicans Back Trump During RNC Night 1 Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 06:33 Republicans wasted no time during the first night of the Republican National Convention from laying out their vision for America, a vision that rests on the spirit of national revival and unity, standing […]

  • The Anatomy Of A Financial Crisis (& Why We Should All Worry About European Banks)

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 6:00am EDT

    The Anatomy Of A Financial Crisis (& Why We Should All Worry About European Banks) Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 06:00 Authored by Tuomas Malinen via GnSEconomics.com, In this blog, we present the anatomy of a financial crisis. A characteristic feature of a banking crisis is that it tends to follow, more-or-less, the same path […]

  • As Sweden’s COVID-19 Measures Hint At Herd Immunity, US Experts Rethink Lockdown Strategies

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 5:30am EDT

    As Sweden’s COVID-19 Measures Hint At Herd Immunity, US Experts Rethink Lockdown Strategies Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 05:30 As Sweden continues to enjoy a falling COVID-19 infection rate, leading health experts have suggested the country’s decision not to lock down or require masks has resulted in herd immunity, according to MarketWatch. “Strict rules do […]

  • Riot Police Storm Paris Bar Over No Social Distancing

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Riot Police Storm Paris Bar Over No Social Distancing Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 05:00 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Footage out of Paris, France shows riot police storming a bar and beating people with truncheons because they were not properly ‘social distancing’. The incident occurred during the Champions League final between […]

  • WFP Requests $5 Billion In Emergency Funds To Prevent ‘Famine Of Biblical Proportions’

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 4:15am EDT

    WFP Requests $5 Billion In Emergency Funds To Prevent ‘Famine Of Biblical Proportions’ Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 04:15 Readers may recall we outlined months back how the COVID-19 pandemic increased the risk of famine across the world’s more impoverished regions (see: Hunger Pandemic: Visualizing COVID-19’s Effect On Global Food Insecurity).  While virus cases and deaths dominate headlines, other humanitarian […]

  • Risks From Missing School Are Worse For Kids Than Virus: UK Medical Officers

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 3:30am EDT

    Risks From Missing School Are Worse For Kids Than Virus: UK Medical Officers Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Alexander Zhang via The Epoch Times, Missing out on their education poses much bigger risks to children than catching the CCP virus, the UK’s chief medical officers have said in a joint statement in […]

  • 1 In 3 Cars Worldwide Is Produced In China

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 2:45am EDT

    1 In 3 Cars Worldwide Is Produced In China Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 02:45 Almost one in three – or 32 percent – of all cars produced worldwide in 2019 came out of China. As shown in numbers by the automobile manufacturers’ association OICA, the world manufactures less cars than it did in 2014, but, as Statista’s […]

  • “This Is Insane”: Kenosha Melts Down As Cars Smashed, Buildings Torched And Looters Run Wild In Second Night Of Unrest

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 2:30am EDT

    “This Is Insane”: Kenosha Melts Down As Cars Smashed, Buildings Torched And Looters Run Wild In Second Night Of Unrest Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 02:30 Anarchy broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin Monday as protesters squared off with National Guardsman in the second night of unrest over the shooting of a reportedly […]

  • Belarus ‘Apocalypse Now’: Gun-Toting Lukashenko Goes Full Colonel Kurtz As Protests Grow

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Belarus ‘Apocalypse Now’: Gun-Toting Lukashenko Goes Full Colonel Kurtz As Protests Grow Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 02:00 Via Southfront.org, On August 23rd, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko began presumably cosplaying Colonel Walter E. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now (or presumably Kurtz from the novel Heart of Darkness, depending on preference). With protesters in front of the presidential palace and calling for […]

  • Women Beaten By Spanish Cops For Not Properly Wearing Face Masks

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Women Beaten By Spanish Cops For Not Properly Wearing Face Masks Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 01:00 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video clip out of Spain shows a police officer beating two woman with a truncheon because they are not properly wearing their face masks. The footage shows two women […]

  • The Quiet American Reset

    ZeroHedge - Aug 25th 2020 12:05am EDT

    The Quiet American Reset Tyler Durden Tue, 08/25/2020 – 00:05 Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The great de-coupling is here. The U.S. now has plan a to purge Chinese tech companies fully from America’s internet, creating what the Trump administration has dubbed the Clean Network. It mirrors the White House’s existing 5G Clean […]

  • “Capable Of Hitting Targets In Space”: Russia Kicks Off Final Testing Of S-500 ‘Prometheus’ System

    ZeroHedge - Aug 24th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    “Capable Of Hitting Targets In Space”: Russia Kicks Off Final Testing Of S-500 ‘Prometheus’ System Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2020 – 23:45 The Pentagon and US intelligence community will be closely observing Russia’s most advanced anti-air missile system as it enters state trials before eventually being delivered to Russia’s military. The cutting edge system, nicknamed Prometheus (and formally […]

  • Send In The Clowns For The Circus Is In Town

    ZeroHedge - Aug 24th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Send In The Clowns For The Circus Is In Town Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2020 – 23:25 Authored by Edward Curtin via Off-Guardian.org, Don’t bother, they’re here, already performing in the center ring under the big top owned and operated by The Umbrella People… Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et […]

  • Taiwan’s “Bandit Phone King” Becomes An Unintended Casualty Of Trump’s War On Huawei

    ZeroHedge - Aug 24th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Taiwan’s “Bandit Phone King” Becomes An Unintended Casualty Of Trump’s War On Huawei Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2020 – 23:05 Lofty expectations for 5G-driven sales have finally started to offer the shares of global chipmkers some respite from the doldrums, as their shares have lagged the Nasdaq’s ‘Big Tech’-driven rally, with companies based in Taiwan and […]

  • Meet “Prosthesis” – The 9,000-lb All-Terrain, Exo-Bionic Mech-Suit You Can Pilot

    ZeroHedge - Aug 24th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    Meet “Prosthesis” – The 9,000-lb All-Terrain, Exo-Bionic Mech-Suit You Can Pilot Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2020 – 22:45 Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, Massive, hulking exoskeleton or mech suits are usually the type of thing one would encounter in a science fiction movie, whether it’s the low-budget classic Robot Jox or the American kaiju blockbuster Pacific Rim. However, engineering firm […]

  • China Arms Pakistan With ‘Advanced Warships’ As Threats Of Nuclear War With India Escalate

    ZeroHedge - Aug 24th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    China Arms Pakistan With ‘Advanced Warships’ As Threats Of Nuclear War With India Escalate Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2020 – 22:25 When the Trump administration withheld billions of dollars in security aid to Pakistan in 2018, the logic then was that the Pakistani military would be forced to form greater ties with the US and surrounding allies to reclaim lost […]