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  • France Remains The World’s Most Nuclear-Dependent Nation

    ZeroHedge - Aug 3rd 2020 2:45am EDT

    France Remains The World’s Most Nuclear-Dependent Nation Tyler Durden Mon, 08/03/2020 – 02:45 France is getting greener. A series of measures have been announced aimed at making the economy more environmentally friendly such as a ban on outdoor heaters at bars and restaurants, more efficient domestic heating systems and two regional parks. Most importantly though, […]

  • US Troop Removal From Germany: A NATO-Skeptic POTUS Always Wins

    ZeroHedge - Aug 3rd 2020 2:00am EDT

    US Troop Removal From Germany: A NATO-Skeptic POTUS Always Wins Tyler Durden Mon, 08/03/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Is there any good reason why Germany is still occupied by the United States? After 75+ years one could make a strong argument that the Nazi threat is over. Donald […]

  • Macau’s Gaming Revenues Crash 94.5% In July As Recovery Hopes Dim 

    ZeroHedge - Aug 3rd 2020 12:45am EDT

    Macau’s Gaming Revenues Crash 94.5% In July As Recovery Hopes Dim  Tyler Durden Mon, 08/03/2020 – 00:45 Casino stocks roared back to life in early July on prospects of easing Chinese travel restrictions for Macau would lead to booming tourism in the world’s largest casino hub. But as we found out Saturday morning, via Reuters, that’s wasn’t the case […]

  • How The Billionaires Control American Elections

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 11:40pm EDT

    How The Billionaires Control American Elections Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 23:40 Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The great investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald gave an hour-long lecture on how America’s billionaires control the U.S. Government, and here is an edited summary of its opening twenty minutes, with key quotations and assertions […]

  • Mysterious Drone Swarm Breached Secure Airspace Over Largest Nuclear Power Plant In US

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 11:15pm EDT

    Mysterious Drone Swarm Breached Secure Airspace Over Largest Nuclear Power Plant In US Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 23:15 A mysterious incident related to a serious breach of secure airspace over America’s largest nuclear power plant has been unearthed through Freedom of Information Act documents gained from the government. It’s leading to new fears that America’s energy […]

  • Cover-Up Continues: Revisiting The Incident At Benghazi 

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 10:50pm EDT

    Cover-Up Continues: Revisiting The Incident At Benghazi  Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 22:50 Authored by Carlton Meyer via AntiWar.com, Chris Stevens was an ambitious US State Department employee who volunteered to participate in the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011. He covertly arrived in Libya in early 2011 aboard a Greek cargo ship with […]

  • More Than 60% Of Global Debt Now Yields Less Than 1%

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 10:25pm EDT

    More Than 60% Of Global Debt Now Yields Less Than 1% Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 22:25 For all its monetary generosity, despite injecting $3 trillion reserves into the banking system (if not the economy), the Fed remains stuck with two big problems. The first one, as we touched on earlier, is that the newly […]

  • From Lockdowns To “The Great Reset”

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 10:00pm EDT

    From Lockdowns To “The Great Reset” Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 22:00 Authored by Anthony Mueller via The Mises Institute, The lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the implementation of long-held plans to establish a so-called new world order. Under the auspices of the World Economic Forum (WEF), global policymakers are advocating for a “Great […]

  • Xi’s Decision To Turn Inward Is Dangerous For Trade

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 9:35pm EDT

    Xi’s Decision To Turn Inward Is Dangerous For Trade Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 21:35 By Ye Xie, Bloomberg macro commentator Three things we learned last week: 1. A major pivot by Xi has China turning inward At the Politburo meeting on Thursday, President Xi Jinping reiterated his recent call for “dual circulation,” emphasizing self-sufficiency in supply […]

  • Vaccine Hunt: Is Injecting Human Volunteers With COVID-19 Ethical?

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 9:10pm EDT

    Vaccine Hunt: Is Injecting Human Volunteers With COVID-19 Ethical? Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 21:10 In the race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, an ethical debate is brewing over whether it’s justifiable to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the disease in the hopes of achieving a scientific breakthrough sooner, according to the South China […]

  • Millions Locked Down Under Draconian Covid Rules in Australia

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 8:59pm EDT

    Millions Locked Down Under Draconian Covid Rules in Australia Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 20:59 Submitted by Mish Shedlock of MishTalk To combat a Covid outbreak, Melbourne initiated its most severe restrictions yet. Victoria, Australia Declares ‘State of Disaster,’ Locking Down Millions in Melbourne. The premier of Victoria plunged the region into a “state of […]

  • Tech Stock Buybacks Are Surging

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 8:46pm EDT

    Tech Stock Buybacks Are Surging Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 20:46 Two months ago, we showed that contrary to conventional wisdom and corporate reps and warrants that buybacks had effectively been put on hold for the duration of the covid pandemic, not only were companies still repurchasing their shares but it was the tech names […]

  • One Of The First Ships To Resume Cruising Is Having A COVID Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 8:20pm EDT

    One Of The First Ships To Resume Cruising Is Having A COVID Outbreak Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 20:20 By Gene Sloan of ThePointsGuy On second thought, maybe it was too soon. One of the first cruise ships in the world to resume sailing since the coronavirus-caused worldwide halt to cruising in March is experiencing […]

  • Another Market Top Indicator: “Blank Check” IPO Issuance Explodes

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 7:55pm EDT

    Another Market Top Indicator: “Blank Check” IPO Issuance Explodes Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 19:55 The similarities with the housing bubble boom-bust are growing by the day. Not only are stocks at all time highs, to which we can now add record low yields and an all time high gold price as the 10Y real […]

  • Microsoft Says Talks To Buy TikTok Are Back On As White House Ups Pressure

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 7:44pm EDT

    Microsoft Says Talks To Buy TikTok Are Back On As White House Ups Pressure Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 19:44 Word on the street – according to WSJ – is that Microsoft and TikTok-owner ByteDance were on the cusp of a deal for the software giant to buy TikTok’s business (which encompasses all global markets […]

  • Stockman Slams “Lockdown Lunacy” – Your Government Ordered Depression Has Arrived

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 7:30pm EDT

    Stockman Slams “Lockdown Lunacy” – Your Government Ordered Depression Has Arrived Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 19:30 Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, Well, the Virus Patrol sure has done it. In a fit of reckless overkill they have managed to vaporize six years of economic growth during the last 90 days. And […]

  • Deutsche Bank Launches Investigation Into Personal Banker To Trump, Kushner Over 2013 Transaction

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 7:05pm EDT

    Deutsche Bank Launches Investigation Into Personal Banker To Trump, Kushner Over 2013 Transaction Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 19:05 Deutsche Bank has launched an internal investigation into Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime personal banker of President Trump and Jared Kushner – after a Friday disclosure by Trump’s son-in-law revealed what may have been an inappropriate real […]

  • Democrats Urging Biden Not To Debate Trump

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Democrats Urging Biden Not To Debate Trump Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 18:40 Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.ocm, Democrats around the country have begun to pressure the Biden campaign to call off all debates with Donald Trump due to the coronavirus pandemic, they say. In truth, the reason they don’t want Biden to debate […]

  • China’s Volatile Markets Are Being Fueled By Retail Speculation And High-Frequency Day-Traders

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 6:15pm EDT

    China’s Volatile Markets Are Being Fueled By Retail Speculation And High-Frequency Day-Traders Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 18:15 If you thought the retail bubble in U.S. stocks was out of control, take a look at China. The country’s market has ballooned to a record $10 trillion in value with daily average volume of $214 billion […]

  • Morgan Stanley: Brace For A Spike In Inflation As Congress Is Now In The Money Supply Driver’s Seat

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 5:50pm EDT

    Morgan Stanley: Brace For A Spike In Inflation As Congress Is Now In The Money Supply Driver’s Seat Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 17:50 Just days after the famous (former) deflationista (turned reflationist) Russell Napier explained why he believes that central banks have “become irrelevant” in a world in which governments have taken control of […]

  • The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In The Next Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 5:24pm EDT

    The Fed Is Planning To Send Money Directly To Americans In The Next Crisis Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 17:24 Over the past decade, the one common theme despite the political upheaval and growing social and geopolitical instability, was that the market would keep marching higher and the Fed would continue injecting liquidity into the […]

  • College Expels Student For “Racist” Social Media Post, Then Discovers What Actually Happened

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 5:00pm EDT

    College Expels Student For “Racist” Social Media Post, Then Discovers What Actually Happened Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 17:00 Authored by Dean Barker via Campus Reform, A student at Georgia’s Wesleyan College was reinstated after initially being expelled for social media posts that the school says it now realizes she did not make. After an […]

  • JPM Explains Why A Return To Lockdowns Isn’t A Smart Strategy For Suppressing COVID-19’s “Second Wave”

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 4:35pm EDT

    JPM Explains Why A Return To Lockdowns Isn’t A Smart Strategy For Suppressing COVID-19’s “Second Wave” Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 16:35 A team of macro analysts from JP Morgan’s sell-side research desk published a lengthy paper aggregating all of their COVID-19-related findings. And while perusing the note, one particular finding caught our eye. In […]

  • Are You Loving Your Servitude?

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 4:10pm EDT

    Are You Loving Your Servitude? Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 16:10 Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they […]

  • Iran’s Supreme Leader: Fresh Talks With US Would Only Boost Trump Ahead Of November

    ZeroHedge - Aug 2nd 2020 3:45pm EDT

    Iran’s Supreme Leader: Fresh Talks With US Would Only Boost Trump Ahead Of November Tyler Durden Sun, 08/02/2020 – 15:45 It appears the door has now been fully and finally shut on any Trump administration hopes of a complete ‘re-do’ of the Iran nuclear deal.  Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during his annual Eid al-Adha […]