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  • The Fed Has Created A Monster Bubble It Can No Longer Control

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:15am EST

    The Fed Has Created A Monster Bubble It Can No Longer Control Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Fed must now accept responsibility for what happens in the end-game of the Moral-Hazard Monster Bubble it created. Contrary to popular opinion, the Federal Reserve didn’t set out to create a Monster Bubble that […]

  • White House Plans To Cut Off Sales Of American Chip Technology To China

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:57am EST

    White House Plans To Cut Off Sales Of American Chip Technology To China Just hours after Beijing lifted more trade-war restrictions on importing US farm products due to the outbreak… Reuters: CHINA APPROVES IMPORTS OF ALL POULTRY, POULTRY PRODUCTS FROM U.S. – AGRICULTURE MINISTRY — Vincent Lee (@Rover829) February 17, 2020 ReuterS: BEIJING, Feb 17 […]

  • 14 ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Test Positive During Flight Back To US; Tokyo Marathon Cancelled

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 7:34am EST

    14 ‘Diamond Princess’ Passengers Test Positive During Flight Back To US; Tokyo Marathon Cancelled It’s like the ‘Alien’ franchise: The evacuation ship always carries the monster. Unfortunately, in this instance, the monster is an invisible, inaudible yet highly infectious virus. And instead of the Nostromo, we have two chartered Boeing 747s. According to the New […]

  • Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 6:15am EST

    Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods Looks like the sh*t is really about to hit the fan in Hong Kong…and we mean that literally. In a shocking indication of just how bad shortages of basic goods have gotten as mainland China expands its lockdown to […]

  • 24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:57am EST

    24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted Gunmen killed at least 24 people and wounded 18 more during an attack on a protestant church in the village of Pansi, in the north of Burkina Faso, announced the governor of the Sahel region, Colonel Salfo Kaboré. A group of “armed […]

  • Escobar: It’s Time To Reclaim Syria’s Road To Recovery

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 5:00am EST

    Escobar: It’s Time To Reclaim Syria’s Road To Recovery Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Erdogan de facto supports al-Qaeda remnants while facing either humiliating retreat from or total war against Syria Recep Tayyip Erdogan, neo-Ottoman extraordinaire, is not exactly inclined to commit seppuku, the Japanese act of ritual suicide. But if not through […]

  • US Says Latest Sanctions Have Finally Thwarted Russia-Germany NS2 Gas Pipeline

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 4:15am EST

    US Says Latest Sanctions Have Finally Thwarted Russia-Germany NS2 Gas Pipeline The Trump administrated is claiming to have successfully thwarted the multi-billion dollar Russia-Germany gas pipeline known as Nord Stream 2, after US sanctions in December took direct aim at the European and international companies and their executives assembling the controversial 760-mile long project that would allow Russia […]

  • Chinese Banks Are Quarantining Cash, Destroying ‘Dirty’ Money

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 3:30am EST

    Chinese Banks Are Quarantining Cash, Destroying ‘Dirty’ Money Authored by Mitchell Blatt via NationalInterest.org, China’s widespread quarantine policy thanks to the coronavirus had been expanded from the city of Wuhan to a dozen other cities in Hubei province, to community quarantines for people returning from holiday, and now even inanimate objects must be quarantined. Paper currency, that […]

  • UN Says Libya Arms Embargo “A Joke” As Oil Export Blockade Reaches One Month

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:45am EST

    UN Says Libya Arms Embargo “A Joke” As Oil Export Blockade Reaches One Month The fighting in Libya as well as the external arms supplies fueling both sides of the conflict has become so bad that the United Nations has called an arms embargo recently in place “a joke”.  “The arms embargo has become a joke, we all […]

  • The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 2:00am EST

    The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe Authored by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute, A new report, “What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security”, by Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, describes the extent to which terrorists disguised as migrants have entered the European […]

  • The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 3: Population Control & The Doomsday Vault

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 12:00am EST

    The Geopolitics Of Biological Weapons, Part 3: Population Control & The Doomsday Vault Authored by Larry Romanoff via GlobalResearch.ca, Read Part 1 here… Read Part 2 here… GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This […]

  • “This Is Just Chauvinism”: Oklahoma Woman Upset After Being Thrown Out Of All-Male Barbershop

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 11:30pm EST

    “This Is Just Chauvinism”: Oklahoma Woman Upset After Being Thrown Out Of All-Male Barbershop Today in “private business owners are allowed to do whatever they want at their own business and tough sh*t if you don’t like it” news… An Oklahoma woman took her story to the media when she was asked to leave an […]

  • Mapping Out The Banking Elite’s Goal For A Cashless Monetary System, Part 1

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 11:00pm EST

    Mapping Out The Banking Elite’s Goal For A Cashless Monetary System, Part 1 Authored by Steven Guinness, Back in 2014 the Bank of England became the first central bank to publish research on digital currencies through their quarterly bulletin (Innovations in payment technologies and the emergence of digital currencies). A leading focus was on the […]

  • Buzzkill: Many Public Marijuana Companies Have Just Several Months Worth Of Cash Left

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 10:30pm EST

    Buzzkill: Many Public Marijuana Companies Have Just Several Months Worth Of Cash Left While the idea of marijuana companies has certainly been a hot topic in the public market space – especially since Tilray’s epic short squeeze in late 2018 – companies in the sector have been silently burning through their war chests of cash, leaving […]

  • Are Web Traffic Trends The Best Way To See What’s Happening In The World?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 10:00pm EST

    Are Web Traffic Trends The Best Way To See What’s Happening In The World? Submitted by Market Crumbs For most people, it’s hard to imagine a day going by without using the internet. Without it, you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s estimated that nearly 4.8 billion people, or about 61% of the world’s population, currently […]

  • “It’s Winter-Time For Capital Flow” – Outbreak Sparks Collapse In Chinese Tech Venture Funding 

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 9:30pm EST

    “It’s Winter-Time For Capital Flow” – Outbreak Sparks Collapse In Chinese Tech Venture Funding  Hundreds of startups in China failed in 2019 as macroeconomic headwinds flourished. But now, the Covid-19 outbreak in the country crippled the already deteriorating venture capital industry, as funding freezes last month, according to Bloomberg, citing a new report from London-based consultancy […]

  • Fedophilia: The Intellectual Disease And Cure

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 9:00pm EST

    Fedophilia: The Intellectual Disease And Cure Authored by George Selgin via Alt-M.org, Although the movement to “End the Fed” has a considerable popular following, only a very tiny number of economists—our illustrious contributors amongst them—take the possibility seriously. For the rest, the Federal Reserve System is, not an ideal currency system to be sure (for […]

  • China Central Bank Orders Lenders To “Tolerate” Higher Bad Debt Levels To Avoid Financial Cataclysm

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 8:30pm EST

    China Central Bank Orders Lenders To “Tolerate” Higher Bad Debt Levels To Avoid Financial Cataclysm Last week we reminded readers that unless Beijing manages to contain the coronavirus epidemic, China faces a fate far worse than just reported its first ever 0% (or negative) GDP print in history. For those who missed it, here it […]

  • Japan Unexpectedly Reports Terrible GDP As It Slides Into Recession

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 8:22pm EST

    Japan Unexpectedly Reports Terrible GDP As It Slides Into Recession One look at the latest GDP print out of Japan, and one would think the country’s economy was already being ravaged by the coronavirus: at -1.6% Q/Q and a whopping -6.3% annualized – nearly double the 3.8% estimated drop – this was the second worst […]

  • Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 8:00pm EST

    Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged? Authored by Andrew McCarthy via National Review.com, The proof that he willfully deceived investigators appears strong, but the Justice Department likely felt there were too many obstacles to convicting him. The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his […]

  • Venezuela Stages Massive Live-Fire War Drill Amid Invasion Threats

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 7:30pm EST

    Venezuela Stages Massive Live-Fire War Drill Amid Invasion Threats A week after President Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó at the White House and reiterated his support to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power, Venezuela’s armed forces and civilian militias staged a massive war drill over the weekend, reported Telesur.  The meeting between Trump […]

  • Real Energy Independence Is An Illusion

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 7:05pm EST

    Real Energy Independence Is An Illusion Authored by Anes Alic via OilPrice.com, Ultimately, energy independence is an illusion in the era of globalization because the hyper connectedness of the market makes it impossible. Still, it’s a never-ending battle cry that ends up being an argument of semantics, the outcome of which depends on how you […]

  • It’s “The 1%” vs Everyone Else: FAAMG Earnings Soar As Russell 2000 EPS Growth Craters

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 6:48pm EST

    It’s “The 1%” vs Everyone Else: FAAMG Earnings Soar As Russell 2000 EPS Growth Craters The earnings recession which lasted for all of 2019, is finally coming to an end. According to Factset, with a majority of companies reproting, the blended earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 for the fourth quarter is 0.7% as […]

  • Pento: Maniacal Money Printers Have Gone Mad Fighting China Virus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 6:15pm EST

    Pento: Maniacal Money Printers Have Gone Mad Fighting China Virus Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Money manager Michael Pento has long warned about China’s rapid accumulation of debt that now stands at $40 trillion. The coronavirus coming out of China is only going to make China’s problems far worse. Pento explains, “China has the biggest amassing of […]

  • Can Sanders Beat Trump In Capitalist America?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 16th 2020 5:25pm EST

    Can Sanders Beat Trump In Capitalist America? Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, The Democrats are searching for the candidate best able to defeat Trump in the forthcoming Presidential race. The question on the mind of many democrats is whether Bernie Sanders can beat Trump in a capitalist America? Considering the surge in inequality […]