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  • 100 Million Chinese Back Under Lockdown As Americans, Europeans Flock To Parks & Beaches: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 7:24am EDT

    100 Million Chinese Back Under Lockdown As Americans, Europeans Flock To Parks & Beaches: Live Updates Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 07:24 Summary: 108 million under lockdown in NE China Beaches, parks reopen across US, Europe New Zealand reopens schools Monday Italy plans to reopen most restaurants & businesses by week’s end. New cases in […]

  • A Record Fleet Of 117 Tankers Is Bringing Super Cheap Crude To China

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 6:00am EDT

    A Record Fleet Of 117 Tankers Is Bringing Super Cheap Crude To China Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 06:00 Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, While the rest of the world is tentatively coming out of lockdowns, China is taking advantage of the cheapest crude oil in years to stock up as demand is starting […]

  • Anti-Lockdown Protests Accelerate Across Europe As Second COVID-19 Wave Threat Emerges

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 5:30am EDT

    Anti-Lockdown Protests Accelerate Across Europe As Second COVID-19 Wave Threat Emerges Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 05:30 Anti-lockdown protests were seen in several European cities on Saturday in defiance of social distancing restrictions. From gatherings in London’s Hyde Park to Poland to Germany — people were furious about government-enforced lockdowns. Warmer weather trends, such as a heatwave across […]

  • The US Is Dramatically Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 5:00am EDT

    The US Is Dramatically Overcounting COVID-19 Deaths Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 05:00 Authored by John Lott and Dr. Timothy Craig Allen, op-ed via Townhall.com, Over 86,500 people have reportedly died in the United States from the Coronavirus, and the fear generated by those deaths is driving the public policy debate. But that number is […]

  • Facebook Removes Record Number Of ‘Hate Speech’ Posts

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 4:15am EDT

    Facebook Removes Record Number Of ‘Hate Speech’ Posts Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 04:15 Facebook has released its biannual Community Standards Enforcement Report which shows the number of controversial posts the company has removed from the platform. As Statista’s Niall McCarthy shows below, the social media giant deleted a record number of hate speech posts with 9.6 million pieces […]

  • Another Pandemic? Two Trailblazing COVID-19 Researchers Dead In A Month

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 3:30am EDT

    Another Pandemic? Two Trailblazing COVID-19 Researchers Dead In A Month Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 03:30 Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Academia does not really have a reputation for being riddled with violence and sudden unexplained deaths. Yet at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, two young pioneering researchers from the […]

  • Why The COVID-19 Model That Inspired UK’s Lockdown May Be “The Most Devastating Software Mistake Of All Time”

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 2:45am EDT

    Why The COVID-19 Model That Inspired UK’s Lockdown May Be “The Most Devastating Software Mistake Of All Time” Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 02:45 While Democrats in the US and progressives in the UK continue to push back against efforts to gradually reopen their respective economies, more evidence is emerging that calls into question the […]

  • The 2006 Origins Of The ‘Lockdown’ Idea

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 2:00am EDT

    The 2006 Origins Of The ‘Lockdown’ Idea Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 02:00 Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, Now begins the grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, somehow to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last two months. We didn’t […]

  • Chinese NEV Sales Plunge 43%, Falling For The Tenth Straight Month

    ZeroHedge - May 18th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Chinese NEV Sales Plunge 43%, Falling For The Tenth Straight Month Tyler Durden Mon, 05/18/2020 – 01:00 The auto industry has been under pressure from all angles as a result of the global coronavirus lockdowns. And it looks as though while Elon Musk has been busy melting down, faux-libertarian style, about the re-opening of his California […]

  • China’s Disappeared Heroes & The Silence Of The West

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 11:55pm EDT

    China’s Disappeared Heroes & The Silence Of The West Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 23:55 Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute, Three Chinese internet activists have disappeared and are believed to have been detained by police. They have reportedly been charged with preserving articles that were removed by China’s online censors. Chen Mei, Cai Wei […]

  • Portland To Vote On $2.5 Billion Homeless Aid Tax Amid COVID Economy

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Portland To Vote On $2.5 Billion Homeless Aid Tax Amid COVID Economy Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 23:30 As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring the economy to a screeching halt, progressive cities dealing with a large and growing homeless populations face increased pressure to provide assistance amid budget shortfalls and dwindling or delayed tax […]

  • “Overshoot” – Understanding Our Pandemic-Economy Predicament

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    “Overshoot” – Understanding Our Pandemic-Economy Predicament Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 23:05 Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, The world’s number one problem today is that the world’s population is too large for its resource base. Some people have called this situation overshoot. The world economy is ripe for a major change, such […]

  • Can’t Make This Up: Beijing Begins Construction Of A P-3 Biolab

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 10:56pm EDT

    Can’t Make This Up: Beijing Begins Construction Of A P-3 Biolab Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 22:56 As the new trade/tech/diplomatic/cultural (in fact, everything but kinetic) war between the US and China is heating up by the hour, one would think that China would do everything in its power to defuse one of the core […]

  • The Top 4 Themes And Trends From Q1 Earnings Conference Calls

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    The Top 4 Themes And Trends From Q1 Earnings Conference Calls Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 22:40 Every quarter, Goldman Sachs published its so-called Beige Book (not to be confused with the Fed’s publication by that name) in which the bank gathers anecdotal evidence of fundamental and thematic trends from the earnings transcripts of companies […]

  • The US Is Caught In An Economic Death Spiral, And One Group Is Being Hit Particularly Hard…

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 10:15pm EDT

    The US Is Caught In An Economic Death Spiral, And One Group Is Being Hit Particularly Hard… Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 22:15 Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Many have been warning for years that our economic bubble would eventually burst and that a collapse was inevitably coming, but the ferocity […]

  • US Headed For Another ‘Tanker War’ With Iran – This Time Off Venezuela’s Coast

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    US Headed For Another ‘Tanker War’ With Iran – This Time Off Venezuela’s Coast Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 21:50 Iranian state TV has announced at least five least five Iranian-flagged tankers are transporting fuel to Venezuela through the Atlantic Ocean and plan to break the American blockade on the Latin American country. Iran has warned […]

  • “Dying Economy, Fed Incompetence” – Robert Kiyosaki Sees Bitcoin At $75k In 3 Years

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    “Dying Economy, Fed Incompetence” – Robert Kiyosaki Sees Bitcoin At $75k In 3 Years Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 21:25 Authored by Jeffrey Albus via CoinTelegraph.com, Robert Kiyosaki predicts that Bitcoin’s price will rise nearly 100% per year over the next three years. Image courtesy of CoinTelegraph Robert Kiyosaki, businessman and best selling author of […]

  • Goldman Quietly Cuts Q3, Q4 EPS Forecasts, Now “Values” Market Off 2023 Earnings

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 9:19pm EDT

    Goldman Quietly Cuts Q3, Q4 EPS Forecasts, Now “Values” Market Off 2023 Earnings Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 21:19 So much for the V-shaped recovery. With even Jerome Powell warning that the US economy won’t fully recover until the end of 2021 (assuming no second infection wave; should that happen it’s pretty much game over), […]

  • ‘Most Isolated Person On Planet’: Sailor Emerges After 9-Month Solo Trip To Find COVID-Altered World

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    ‘Most Isolated Person On Planet’: Sailor Emerges After 9-Month Solo Trip To Find COVID-Altered World Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 21:00 Dubbed the “safest man on the planet,” Canadian sailor Bill Norrie has been on a solo yachting expedition for the past nine months. And since a brief resupply stop off South Africa three months ago he’s […]

  • The Silver Lining…

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 8:35pm EDT

    The Silver Lining… Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 20:35 Authored by Robert Gore via StraightLineLogic.com, Who will fight for your rights? …we are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage […]

  • First Wave Out, Second Wave In: Where The World Is On The Corona Curve

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 8:10pm EDT

    First Wave Out, Second Wave In: Where The World Is On The Corona Curve Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 20:10 Global infection growth slowed from 20% W/W to 16% W/W last fortnight (total infections: 4,443,986, deaths: 302,468, 6.8% mortality rate). And as the rate of new infections is slowing, concerns emerge about a second wave […]

  • An Anatomy Of Long-Term US Dollar Cycles

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    An Anatomy Of Long-Term US Dollar Cycles Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 19:40 Authored by Viraj Patel, FX & Global Macro Strategist at Arkera, originally posted by the author’s Medium page. Over the last 45 years, a typical US dollar trend cycle has lasted around 6 to 7 years — with the Broad Real Dollar […]

  • US And Its Allies Will Confront China, Demand Investigation During Tomorrow’s Annual WHO Summit

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 7:15pm EDT

    US And Its Allies Will Confront China, Demand Investigation During Tomorrow’s Annual WHO Summit Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 19:15 Since the coronavirus outbreak, the profile of the World Health Organization has skyrocketed, and so have suspicions about its motives and alliances. Which is why this year’s annual meeting of the organization’s members – which […]

  • The S&P500 Committee Is Facing A Stark Choice: How To Reshape The World’s Most Important Index After The COVID Shock

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 6:50pm EDT

    The S&P500 Committee Is Facing A Stark Choice: How To Reshape The World’s Most Important Index After The COVID Shock Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 18:50 Submitted by Nicholas Colas of DataTrek Research How will the S&P 500 change as a result of the economic impacts of COVID-19? Scores of companies in the index now […]

  • Game-Worn Michael Jordan Nikes Sold At Auction For $560,000

    ZeroHedge - May 17th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Game-Worn Michael Jordan Nikes Sold At Auction For $560,000 Tyler Durden Sun, 05/17/2020 – 18:25 With the popularity of the ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan, “The Last Dance”, soaring, it’s a great time to take your Michael Jordan memorabilia to the market if you are thinking of selling. That’s what the owner of Michael’s custom made […]