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  • UK Suspects All Kids Using Chat App Are Hackers, Should Be Reported By Parents

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 6:45pm EST

    UK Suspects All Kids Using Chat App Are Hackers, Should Be Reported By Parents Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. UK urges parents to […]

  • US Will No Longer Tolerate Russia’s “Non-Compliance” Of Open Skies Treaty: Esper

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 6:25pm EST

    US Will No Longer Tolerate Russia’s “Non-Compliance” Of Open Skies Treaty: Esper US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has slammed Russia’s longtime “non-compliance” to the Open Skies treaty, months after the Trump administration expressed a desire to nix it along with the recently defunct Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). Esper told reporters at US Strategic Command […]

  • Trump Slams Oscars For Giving Best Picture Award To A Foreign Movie

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 6:05pm EST

    Trump Slams Oscars For Giving Best Picture Award To A Foreign Movie Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, President Trump went off last night on the Oscars for giving its top prize to a foreign movie. During a speech to a crowd in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Trump asked why an American film wasn’t […]

  • “Wake Up You F**kin’ Morons” – Billionaire Blasts Snowflakes “This Is The Eye Of The Biggest Mother-F**king Storm In History”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 5:45pm EST

    “Wake Up You F**kin’ Morons” – Billionaire Blasts Snowflakes “This Is The Eye Of The Biggest Mother-F**king Storm In History” Dan Peña, known as The 50 Billion Dollar Man, has never been one to pulls punches. As Dan Lok noted previously, Peña is quick to tell people to stop blaming family, economics, and circumstances; the […]

  • Weinstein Jury Deadlocked On Predatory Sexual Assault Charge

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 5:25pm EST

    Weinstein Jury Deadlocked On Predatory Sexual Assault Charge The jury in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial ended the week deadlocked over the most serious charge of predatory sexual assault, though they say they’ve reached a unanimous verdict on charges of rape and committing a criminal sex act, according to the Wall Street Journal. The jury […]

  • Bloomberg To Release Three Women From NDAs In Response To Warren Torching

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 5:07pm EST

    Bloomberg To Release Three Women From NDAs In Response To Warren Torching After getting crucified by Liz Warren during the Nevada debate over the question of how many NDAs he has given (and why) to various women over the years, Mike Bloomberg – who apparently is far less witty and impressive when he doesn’t have […]

  • When Bubbles Pop, Only The First Sellers Escape Being Bagholders

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 4:45pm EST

    When Bubbles Pop, Only The First Sellers Escape Being Bagholders Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Hapless bagholders have two options: buy the dip and be destroyed, or hang on hoping for a reversal and be destroyed. One often overlooked characteristic of the current stock market bubble is the extremely small exit for […]

  • Feds Probing If Boeing Pilot Lied To FAA About 737 MAX

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 4:29pm EST

    Feds Probing If Boeing Pilot Lied To FAA About 737 MAX A potentially explosive new twist in the Boeing saga hit the wires late on Friday when the NYT reported that federal prosecutors were examining whether or not aerospace company knowingly misled the FAA while seeking approval for the 737 Max. Several Boeing employees have […]

  • Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion To Settle “Staggering Scope & Duration” Of Illicit Conduct

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 4:11pm EST

    Wells Fargo Pays $3 Billion To Settle “Staggering Scope & Duration” Of Illicit Conduct Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $3 billion to settle U.S. investigations into more than a decade of widespread consumer abuses under a deal that lets the scandal-ridden bank avoid criminal charges. The deal resolves civil and criminal investigations. It includes […]

  • Fed’s Bullard Fumbles After Being Asked “How A Quarter-Point Rate-Cut Will Cure The Flu?”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 3:45pm EST

    Fed’s Bullard Fumbles After Being Asked “How A Quarter-Point Rate-Cut Will Cure The Flu?” St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard was guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning. Soon after sitting down, the indomitable Steve Liesman stunned everyone in the room when he dared to ask the all-knowing Bullard a simple question: “How would […]

  • These Are The 50 Most Popular Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 3:39pm EST

    These Are The 50 Most Popular Hedge Fund Longs And Shorts In what has started off as another woeful quarter for hedge funds, with equity hedge funds generating the worst YTD return of all asset classes tracked by Goldman – at 0% – and the composite Hedge Fund Index returning just 1%, ostensibly due to […]

  • China Forced To Revise Number Of Virus Cases Sharply Higher After Hubei Caught Undercounting New Infections

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 3:15pm EST

    China Forced To Revise Number Of Virus Cases Sharply Higher After Hubei Caught Undercounting New Infections China’s desperate attempts to manipulate coronavirus “data” lower to ease public fears about a runaway pandemic and get more people back to work, are crossing into the outright laughable, if not surreal. As a reminder, earlier this week, China’s […]

  • Bloomberg Team Blames Bernie Supporters In Spate Of Campaign Office Vandalizations

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 3:00pm EST

    Bloomberg Team Blames Bernie Supporters In Spate Of Campaign Office Vandalizations The Bloomberg campaign has lashed out at Bernie Sanders supporters, blaming them for a spate of campaign office vandalizations following a Thursday evening incident in which the billionaire’s Knoxville, Tennessee office was spray painted with “Fuck Bloomberg,” “oligarch,” “classist,” and “Authoritarian” on the door. […]

  • BofA Is “So Bearish, It’s Bullish”, But Here Are The Signs The Top Is Near

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 2:52pm EST

    BofA Is “So Bearish, It’s Bullish”, But Here Are The Signs The Top Is Near One week after BofA CIO Michael Hartnett pointed out the biggest asset bubble in the central bank era, where so-called tech “disruptors” (which we previously called e-commerce) have now surpassed the relative performance of most prior bubble assets including housing, […]

  • Ex-Sanders Criminal Justice Adviser Arrested After Plotting Violent Jailbreak

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 2:30pm EST

    Ex-Sanders Criminal Justice Adviser Arrested After Plotting Violent Jailbreak A former consultant to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign was arrested after he allegedly planted loaded weapons and ammunition inside a soon-to-be-opened Tennessee prison, according to authorities. On Wednesday, Nashville police said that prison reform advocate Alex Friedmann – who helped shape Sanders’ criminal justice agenda […]

  • Russia Hoaxers Launch New Russia Hoax

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 2:15pm EST

    ‘The Russians Are Coming…Again’ – Exposing The Resistance’s Poverty Of Imagination Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, We’re reminded this morning by The New York Times, America’s official psychotic fantasy generator, that the Russians are coming (again!) as an ad hoc arm of the committee to re-elect Mr. Trump. You have to ask yourself: Does Mr. […]

  • “Jeffrey And I Had Everyone On Videotape” Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Told Socialite

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 1:56pm EST

    “Jeffrey And I Had Everyone On Videotape” Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Told Socialite Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘madam’ told a former acquaintance that she and the now-dead pedophile had “everything on videotape,” according to The Telegraph. The acquaintance, socialite and distant relative to the royals Christina Oxenberg, said that Maxwell also told her that Epstein bought a […]

  • Turkey Requests US Jets Patrol Near Idlib To Halt Russian Air Power

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 1:48pm EST

    Turkey Requests US Jets Patrol Near Idlib To Halt Russian Air Power It’s not just Patriot anti-air defense missile systems that Turkey is requesting from Washington, apparently, in order to halt Russian air power over Idlib.  A bombshell report in Middle East Eye has cited Turkish defense officials who say Turkey’s government has asked the US to […]

  • Are They Going To Impeach Trump Again?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 1:25pm EST

    Are They Going To Impeach Trump Again? Authored by Jim Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, The Democratic candidates held another debate last night. Michael Bloomberg took a lot of heat from the others, and he did not handle it well. He showed real weakness for the first time. Joe Biden, meanwhile, put in a strong […]

  • Chinese Coronavirus Patient Reinfected 10 Days After Leaving Hospital

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 1:05pm EST

    Chinese Coronavirus Patient Reinfected 10 Days After Leaving Hospital As we reported on Monday, shortly after the US decided to break the quarantine barrier surrounding the Diamond Princess cruise ship which had emerged as the single-biggest locus of coronavirus cases outside of China, more than a dozen buses sat on the tarmac at Tokyo’s Haneda […]

  • Did The Fed Just Reveal Its Plans For A Digital Dollar Replacement?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 12:45pm EST

    Did The Fed Just Reveal Its Plans For A Digital Dollar Replacement? Via Birch Gold Group, Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the idea that you can go into a store and anonymously purchase something with cash might soon be obsolete. Why? Because they’re developing something called Fedcoin, which would be based on blockchain technology. If you’re […]

  • Peter Schiff: Gold Is Your Only Alternative

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 12:05pm EST

    Peter Schiff: Gold Is Your Only Alternative Via SchiffGold.com, Which will outperform in 2020? Gold? Or Equities? Peter Schiff joined a moderated debate on the subject at the Orlando Money Show. Peter teamed up with Rick Rule to argue for gold, against Louis Navellier and Jeffrey Saut, who contend the stock market is still the […]

  • Pentagon ‘Accidentally’ Tells The Truth About Idlib

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 11:44am EST

    Pentagon ‘Accidentally’ Tells The Truth About Idlib The Pentagon has in a rare moment gone off the mainstream narrative script concerning Idlib.  The UK’s Sky News interviewed US coalition spokesman Col. Myles Caggins as part of its coverage focusing on Syrian and Russian forces “indiscriminately” attacking civilians and “bombing hospitals” — however, the Army colonel gave a counter angle, instead focusing […]

  • Why It’s So Hard To Escape America’s “Anti-Poverty” Programs

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 11:25am EST

    Why It’s So Hard To Escape America’s “Anti-Poverty” Programs Authored by Justin Murray via The Mises Institute, One of the most common debates that has occurred in the United States for the past six decades is the discussion of the poverty rate. As the narrative goes, the US has an unusually high poverty rate compared to […]

  • UCLA Backtracks On Facial Recognitions Plans

    ZeroHedge - Feb 21st 2020 10:50am EST

    UCLA Backtracks On Facial Recognitions Plans Authored by Celine Ryan via Campus Reform, Students nationwide raised concerns about universities using biometric surveillance, or facial recognition, on students. Campus Reform reported last month that at least three California campuses had implemented the software. At the time, the University of San Francisco, the University of Southern California, and Stanford […]