Another Week, Another Governor With A God-Complex
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 6:10pm EDT Another Week, Another Governor With A God-Complex Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 18:10 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, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. […]
Wuhan Ordered To Test All 11 Million Residents In 10 Days As Beijing Scrambles To Stop COVID ‘Round 2’
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 5:50pm EDT Wuhan Ordered To Test All 11 Million Residents In 10 Days As Beijing Scrambles To Stop COVID ‘Round 2’ Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 17:50 After reportedly discovering 6 new coronavirus infections in Wuhan following a month of calm, health authorities in the city of 11 million and epicenter of the outbreak, which is still […]
Will Congress Bankrupt The Mom-And-Pop Landlord With This Socialist New Bill?
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 5:30pm EDT Will Congress Bankrupt The Mom-And-Pop Landlord With This Socialist New Bill? Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 17:30 Authored by Diane Kennedy via The Organic Prepper blog, Mom and pop landlords, defined as real estate investors who own 10 or fewer properties, own about half of all rental units nationwide. And, according to CoreLogic, a real […]
Peer-Reviewed Study Rejects Pangolins As Intermediary Species For COVID-19
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 5:10pm EDT Peer-Reviewed Study Rejects Pangolins As Intermediary Species For COVID-19 Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 17:10 A prime suspect in the ‘wet market’ coronavirus origin theory was just given a pass, after a peer-reviewed study found that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, could not have jumped from pangolins to humans. As a refresher, SARS-CoV-2, the virus which […]
Globalization & Financialization Are Dead, And So Is Everything That Depended On Them
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 4:50pm EDT Globalization & Financialization Are Dead, And So Is Everything That Depended On Them Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 16:50 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Financialization was never sustainable, and neither was the destructive globalization it enabled. All the happy-story analogies to past pandemics being mere bumps in the road miss the mark. A […]
Fed Warns Stocks Face “Significant Declines” If Pandemic Worsens
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 4:32pm EDT Fed Warns Stocks Face “Significant Declines” If Pandemic Worsens Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 16:32 Just moments after equities closed near the highs on Friday after yet another retail-driven rush into the stock market, the Federal Reserve poured cold water over all the bulls when the central bank unexpectedly issued a stark warning that stock […]
Google Shares Tumble On Reports Of Imminent Antitrust Lawsuit
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 4:30pm EDT Google Shares Tumble On Reports Of Imminent Antitrust Lawsuit Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 16:30 While bulls had comforted themselves that amid a “work from home” pandemic lockdown, any regulatory actions against the mega-tech firms would likely be put on hold, it appears that is not the fact. The Wall Street Journal reports that both […]
Foreigners Dumped Record Amount Of US Treasuries Amid March Liquidity Crisis
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 4:12pm EDT Foreigners Dumped Record Amount Of US Treasuries Amid March Liquidity Crisis Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 16:12 Foreign holdings of U.S. government debt fell in March, at a time when panic over the COVID-19 pandemic was driving volatility in the world’s safest market to highs unseen since 2009. Treasury’s report, released Friday, showed total foreign ownership […]
Gold, Dollar, & Bonds Jump; Stocks Slump On Fauci Fearmongering, China Trade Turmoil
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 4:00pm EDT Gold, Dollar, & Bonds Jump; Stocks Slump On Fauci Fearmongering, China Trade Turmoil Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 16:00 US equities suffered their worst weekly drop in two months… Shock horror…how did that happen? Fauci Fearmongering started the ball rolling down-hill: “The reality is [Fauci] is scared the crap out of Americans,” House Freedom Caucus […]
UN Official Suggests Lockdowns Should Continue
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 3:50pm EDT UN Official Suggests Lockdowns Should Continue Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 15:50 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A top UN official says that coronavirus lockdowns should not be lifted “too hastily” in order to protect “vulnerable” people, despite the fact that some 36 million Americans have now been made vulnerable as a […]
Tesla Plans To Open New Factory In Texas As Musk Spurns “Fascist” California
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 3:39pm EDT Tesla Plans To Open New Factory In Texas As Musk Spurns “Fascist” California Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 15:39 Several days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk threatened to move out of California after a highly publicized spat with Alameda County over Musk’s push to reopen Tesla’s Fremont Plant and force workers to return despite questions […]
Nursing Home Deaths Peak In Illinois, Gov Pritzker Slammed For Failing To Protect State’s Most Vulnerable
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 3:24pm EDT Nursing Home Deaths Peak In Illinois, Gov Pritzker Slammed For Failing To Protect State’s Most Vulnerable Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 15:24 On Wednesday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 192 COVID-19-linked deaths for the prior day, a record total for the state since the beginning of the outbreak. The next day, the number […]
Tasting The Forbidden Fruit Of Free Money
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 2:55pm EDT Tasting The Forbidden Fruit Of Free Money Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 14:55 Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, Has anyone given credit to the coronavirus for exposing the general folly of our time? We’ve yet to find mention of it. Not even on the web. Here we shall do our part to give proper […]
Fed Releases Its Latest POMO Schedule And A Curious Pattern Is Emerging
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 2:41pm EDT Fed Releases Its Latest POMO Schedule And A Curious Pattern Is Emerging Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 14:41 From an initial $75 billion per day when the Fed announced the launch of Unlimited QE in mid-March, the US central bank first reduced its daily buying to $60 billion per day, then announced another ‘taper’ in […]
US Blocks Shipment Of Semiconductors To Huawei In Latest Procovation Of Beijing
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 2:31pm EDTUS Blocks Shipment Of Semiconductors To Huawei In Latest Procovation Of Beijing Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 14:31 Fox Business Network has confirmed a Reuters report from earlier this morning claiming the Trump Administration blocked a shipment of semiconductors to Huawei on Friday, prompting threats from Beijing. Earlier, the news set off the anxieties about […]
25% Of US Restaurants Will Never Reopen: Opentable
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 2:25pm EDT 25% Of US Restaurants Will Never Reopen: Opentable Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 14:25 A quarter of US restaurants will go out of business due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a forecast by OpenTable, which reported that total restaurant reservations and walk-in customers have fallen 95% over the previous year ending May 13. Susan […]
No Proof That Russia Hacked DNC – Democrats Hid Sworn CrowdStrike Testimony For Over 2 Years
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 2:10pm EDT No Proof That Russia Hacked DNC – Democrats Hid Sworn CrowdStrike Testimony For Over 2 Years Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 14:10 Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClearInvestigations.com, CrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long […]
Here Is The Simple Reason Behind Trump’s Escalating Feud With China
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 1:55pm EDT Here Is The Simple Reason Behind Trump’s Escalating Feud With China Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 13:55 Earlier today, Rabobank’s Micheal Every lamented that “One Day The Main Story Will Not Be US-China Relations… But Today Is Not That Day.” And with the US now commencing a lockout of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, with Beijing […]
The “Lost April” And The Failure Of Economic Cheerleading
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 1:42pm EDT The “Lost April” And The Failure Of Economic Cheerleading Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 13:42 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The Cass Freight Index report discusses the Lost April. But what’s next? Is May the Shipping Bottom? The Cass Freight Report suggests April is the bottom while blaming what has happened as a self-inflicted wound. The […]
With Nobody Having Any Idea What’s Going On, One Bank Says SPX Fair Value Is From 1,900 To 3,000
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 1:26pm EDT With Nobody Having Any Idea What’s Going On, One Bank Says SPX Fair Value Is From 1,900 To 3,000 Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 13:26 With the chart of the forward S&P500 P/E making the rounds – and rising by the day as consensus EPS decline even as stocks keep rising – Deutsche Bank has […]
US Oil Rig Count Crashes To 11-Year Lows: “There’s A Double Risk On The Horizon”
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 1:09pm EDT US Oil Rig Count Crashes To 11-Year Lows: “There’s A Double Risk On The Horizon” Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 13:09 Well that escalated quickly… Drilling rigs targeting crude oil in the U.S. fell by 34 to 258, the lowest since July 2009… and production is starting to collapse… Source: Bloomberg Indeed, as OilPrice.com’s Hely […]
Vice Fires 155 Journalists In Latest Round Of Layoffs
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 12:55pm EDT Vice Fires 155 Journalists In Latest Round Of Layoffs Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 12:55 Following in the footsteps of Quartz, Buzzfeed, Wired and other struggling media companies using the virus as an excuse to make deep cuts, Vice Media is reportedly planning to fire 155 employees, the Wrap reports. It has been obvious for […]
Dershowitz Blasts Flynn Judge’s “Endangering Our System Of Separation Of Powers”
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 12:41pm EDT Dershowitz Blasts Flynn Judge’s “Endangering Our System Of Separation Of Powers” Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 12:41 Authored by Alan Dershowitz via The Gatestone Institute, Judge Emmet Sullivan’s decision to appoint a retired federal judge to argue against the Justice Department’s entirely proper decision to end the criminal prosecution of General Michael Flynn is designed […]
Zoom & Doom: Company Accused Of Corrupting Bible Class Through Porn-Zoombombing
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 12:10pm EDT Zoom & Doom: Company Accused Of Corrupting Bible Class Through Porn-Zoombombing Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 12:10 Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is an interesting case out of San Francisco where one of the oldest churches is suing Zoom Video Communications, Inc. after bible classes were interrupted by pranksters “zoombombing” with pornographic images. Saint Paulus Lutheran Church […]
Camera Feed Cuts Out After CNN Asks James Clapper About Leaking Classified Information
ZeroHedge - May 15th 2020 11:54am EDT Camera Feed Cuts Out After CNN Asks James Clapper About Leaking Classified Information Tyler Durden Fri, 05/15/2020 – 11:54 The camera feed to former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suddenly cut out while CNN’s John Berman was pressing him to answer questions about leaks of classified information to the media, one day after […]
