American College Students Are More Reasonable Than We Think Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 15:20 Authored by Samuel Abrams via RealClearPolicy.com, With colleges and universities opening to some degree in just a few short weeks, I was recently asked if I thought that the campus culture wars would continue despite the rise of distance education. […]
Cryptos Are Spiking Again: Ether At 2-Year Highs, Bitcoin “Perfectly On Track” For $100k Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 14:55 The incessant fall in the dollar and surge in global negative-yielding debt appears to continue to push the global citizenry into alternative assets, such as precious metals and cryptos. Source: Bloomberg And, as CoinTelegraph’s Michael […]
NY Bar Says Liquor License Suspended Over “F*CK CUOMO” Menu Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 14:30 A bar in Western New York says the state suspended their liquor license over a satirical menu which spells out “FUCK CUOMO” – meant to mock the governor over his executive order requiring customers to purchase food with alcohol, […]
Russell Napier: Central Banks Have Become Irrelevant Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 14:00 Two weeks ago, we wrote that one by one the world’s legendary deflationists are taking one look at the following chart of the global money supply (as shown most recently by DB’s Jim Reid) and after seeing the clear determination of central […]
Alleged Russian Satellite Weapon Test Has Put US Space Force On ‘High Alert’ Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 13:30 FT is out with this alarming and intriguing headline: “Russia satellite weapon test reignites space arms race fears,” and meanwhile FOX writes that the latest ‘mysterious’ Russian test of an anti-satellite weapon in orbit has put the […]
The Dual Mandate Of The Fed “Appears To Be The S&P 500 And Nasdaq” Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 13:00 Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, With a furious rally in the last hour (when else?) markets closed the month of July slightly above the June highs bringing the S&P 500 to green on the […]
Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt from COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 12:35 Last week we warned readers to be cautious about new COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting how key parts of the clinical trials are being skipped as big pharma will not be held accountable for adverse side effects for […]
Supreme Court Sides With Trump, Denies Request To Halt Border Wall Construction Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 12:10 Authored by Allen Zhong via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request to halt the construction of the border wall along the US-Mexico border. In a 5-4 ruling on ideological lines, with five conservatives […]
Pompeo Vows US To Take “Necessary Action” If UN Arms Embargo On Iran Ends Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 11:45 For months the US has been in a full court diplomatic press on fellow UN Security Council members in an attempt to ensure that a UN arms embargo against Iran does not expire. The embargo […]
US COVID-19 Deaths Top 1k For 5th Day As US Outbreak Slows, Europe Accelerates: Live Updates Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 11:33 Summary: Florida deaths top 7k Poland suffers 3rd record jump in COVID-19 cases Germany sees “R” rate hit 1.06 Tokyo reports 472 Russia hopes to start mass vaccinations in October * * * […]
Memo From Insiders: Dear Bagholders, Thanks For Buying Our Shares At The Top Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 11:20 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The self-sustaining recovery is a fantasy that’s evaporated. What looks like a powerful, can’t-lose rally to newbies is recognized as distribution by old hands. In low-volume markets (as in the past […]
ByteDance Caves To Trump, Agrees To Sell 100% Of TikTok To Microsoft Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 10:55 President Trump’s insistence that the White House will ban the social-media app TikTok from the US triggered a wave of hysteria among users of the app: whatever will the American teens who built enormously valuable brands sharing […]
The Dark Side Of The Cashless Society Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 10:30 Authored by Addison Wiggin via The Daily Reckoning, Real quick, grab a $100 bill from your wallet. OK, humor me, any bill will do. What do you see? I’d tell you what I see, but when I grab my Book Book, which […]
US Africa Command Ordered To Leave Germany As Part Of Troop Draw Down Fallout Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 10:08 “U.S. Africa Command has been told to plan to move,” AFRICOM commander Army Gen. Stephen Townsend said in a new statement. Part of the fallout to Trump’s controversial order to move some 12,000 troops from […]
Politics, Not Science, Is Keeping Schools Closed Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 09:20 Authored by Yinon Weiss via RealClearPolitics.com, Politicians speak about following the science to set COVID-19 policy, but their decisions are more about political objectives than they are about medical efficacy. Why else did California Gov. Gavin Newsom shut down retail businesses in […]
English Ignore Social Distancing Pleas And Pack Beaches On Hottest Day Of Summer Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 08:45 Millions of Britons across northern England have been placed under partial lockdown as a handful of hotspots have emerged in Manchester and other areas. But despite a pervasive sense of trepidation as outbreaks in Catalonia, Poland […]
The Eurozone’s Financial Disintegration Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 08:10 Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Introduction The Euro Crisis Monitor (below) shows the increasing imbalances in the TARGET2 settlement system between all its members: the ECB (itself with a €145bn deficit) and the national central banks in the Eurozone. Other than minor differences reflecting […]
Hurricane Isaias Barrels Towards Virus-Infected South Florida Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 07:37 Hurricane Isaias has maximum sustained winds of around 85 mph Saturday morning, and strengthening is possible through the day as the storm barrels towards South Florida. The storm is slated to move up the East Coast later this weekend into next week, potentially […]
Crossing The Rubicon: The UK Slips Into A Repressive State Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 07:00 Authored by Mark Chapman via Off-Guardian.org, Julius Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon River in 49 BC in defiance of Roman law placed him and his army on a direct collision course with Rome, leading to the Civil War which established […]
Smith: Martial Law Is Unacceptable Regardless Of The Circumstances Tyler Durden Sat, 08/01/2020 – 00:05 Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Back in 2014, hundreds if not thousands of conservatives and liberty movement activists converged on a farm in rural Clark County, Nevada. The purpose was to protest the incursion of federal government agents onto […]
Xi Hails Now “Fully Operational” China-Controlled Satellite Navigation System Which Rivals GPS Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2020 – 23:45 Multiple official statements have come out of China that reveal, predictably enough, that the US pressure and sanctions campaign are not at all curbing its global ambitions or efforts at rapid defense technology modernization. Actually Washington’s hawkish stance […]
Susan Rice’s Testimony On Being Out Of Russiagate Loop Doesn’t Add Up Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2020 – 23:25 Authored by Eric Felten via RealClearInvestigations.com, Susan Rice, the vice presidential contender with a high-profile history of questionable public statements, has another dubious claim in her past that until now has escaped scrutiny. Rice swore under oath […]
In 3rd Intercept This Week, Russia Scrambles Fighter Jet Against US Spy Plane Over Black Sea Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2020 – 23:05 The tit-for-tat probing of borders and airspace between the US and Russia has continued, and now this week there’s been no less than three Russian intercepts of American spy planes over the Black Sea. […]
Escobar: The Heart Of The Matter In The South China Sea Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2020 – 22:45 Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, When the Ronald Reagan and Nimitz carrier strike groups recently engaged in “operations” in the South China Sea, it did not escape to many a cynic that the US Pacific […]
Ford Uses Robot Dogs To Map Plant, Human Surveyors No Longer Needed Tyler Durden Fri, 07/31/2020 – 22:25 Ford Motor Company is set to abandoned traditional human surveyors for robot dogs with sensors to laser map a production plant ahead of retooling. Ford partnered with Boston Dynamics to digitally map its Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Michigan. The data will enable engineers to […]
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