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  • On The Battleground Of The Virus, The Fox Laughs Last

    ZeroHedge - May 13th 2020 12:05am EDT

    On The Battleground Of The Virus, The Fox Laughs Last Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, U.S. professor of history at John Hopkins University, Mike Vlahos, in a series of short interviews with John Batchelor, tells us how Coronavirus has become a fiery pivot, pushing different leaders in the U.S. to take existential stands […]

  • Arkansas Prof Arrested For Concealing ‘Close’ Ties To China; Accused Of ‘Scheme To Defraud’ While Receiving Millions In Grants

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    Arkansas Prof Arrested For Concealing ‘Close’ Ties To China; Accused Of ‘Scheme To Defraud’ While Receiving Millions In Grants A professor at the University of Arkansas who received millions of dollars in research grants, including $500,000 from NASA, was arrested on Friday and charged with one count of wire fraud, according to a criminal affidavit […]

  • “Eat A Waffle, Go To Jail…” – Authoritarians Using COVID-19 Fear To Destroy America

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    “Eat A Waffle, Go To Jail…” – Authoritarians Using COVID-19 Fear To Destroy America Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two […]

  • “Shocking & Regretful”: UN Security Council Becomes US-China Battleground Over WHO

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    “Shocking & Regretful”: UN Security Council Becomes US-China Battleground Over WHO At this point China is grasping at whatever it can to use as leverage to “embarrass” Washington — so to no one’s surprise Chinese officials are expressing outrage at the US blocking a draft United Nations Security Council resolution backing UN chief Antonio Guterres’ call for a global […]

  • Scarred & Scared: The Reshaping Of The American Consumer Begins

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    Scarred & Scared: The Reshaping Of The American Consumer Begins Authored by Christopher Condon via BloombergQuint.com, David Wright, 62, stood at the door of his Replay Arcade last week, trying to look at the bright side of things. The sole owner, he’s a tenant at the Mall of Georgia, which shut for a month but […]

  • Florida Beach Steps Up Enforcement As Visitors Leave 13,000 Pounds Of Trash During Busy Weekend

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    Florida Beach Steps Up Enforcement As Visitors Leave 13,000 Pounds Of Trash During Busy Weekend Amazingly, local officials in Florida decided to reopen a beach to the public, and the biggest scandal to arise from the occasion had less to do with the coronavirus, and more to do with more prosaic problems of selfish, sh*tty […]

  • Soros Has “Faith That Trump Will Destroy Himself”, Fears “Weakened” Xi, Sees “Existential Risk” For EU

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    Soros Has “Faith That Trump Will Destroy Himself”, Fears “Weakened” Xi, Sees “Existential Risk” For EU Gregor Peter Schmitz interviews George Soros for Project Syndicate, The Crisis Of A Lifetime Only one thing is certain about the post-pandemic world: there is no way back to the globalized economy that preceded it. Everything else is up […]

  • Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive It feels like it was just yesterday we pointed out that the Twitter censor machine had gone into overdrive, concerning itself with policing mean comments and curse words. Now, the censorship machine is sliding even further down the slippery slope.  In a blog post published yesterday, Twitter said it […]

  • Druckenmiller Turns Apocalyptic: “Risk-Reward For Equities Is As Bad As I’ve Seen It In My Career”

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 9:24pm EDT

    Druckenmiller Turns Apocalyptic: “Risk-Reward For Equities Is As Bad As I’ve Seen It In My Career” Investing legend Stan Druckenmiller unleashed a firehose of cold water on market bulls today during an interview with the Economic Club of NY (the same venue that will interview Jerome Powell tomorrow on the topic of negative interest rates), […]

  • China Auto Sales Fall 5.6% YOY In April Despite Sizeable Bounce Back From March

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    China Auto Sales Fall 5.6% YOY In April Despite Sizeable Bounce Back From March The auto market in China is a widely watched economic gauge and leading indicator for the rest of the world, not only because the country is the number one seller of vehicles worldwide, but now also as a litmus test as to […]

  • Indian Cops Use Metal Tool To Grab Social Distancing Dissidents

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Indian Cops Use Metal Tool To Grab Social Distancing Dissidents Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video out of India shows police officers using a bizarre metal contraption to grab dissidents who violate coronavirus social distancing rules. “Hands up!” barks a police officer at a man during a demonstration of the tool, […]

  • Futures Slide After Senators Propose Legislation To Sanction China If No “Full Accounting” For Coronavirus Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    Futures Slide After Senators Propose Legislation To Sanction China If No “Full Accounting” For Coronavirus Outbreak Just hours after futures tumbled following a report that Republican Senator Graham and GOP Senators have introduced a bill sanctioning China for human rights abuses and over its treatment of Uighurs, moments ago futures took another leg lower on […]

  • In Unprecedented Move, Two Fund Giants Liquidate CLO Warehouses

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 8:07pm EDT

    In Unprecedented Move, Two Fund Giants Liquidate CLO Warehouses Yesterday we laid out how the magic of modern monetary alchemy (not to be confused with the blunt brain trauma that is the magic money tree of helicopter money) works, by showing how a CLO takes 96% junk rates loans and by repackaging this portfolio, or […]

  • The Billion-Dollar Buyer Of Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, And Montecristo Cigar Brands Remains A Smoky Mystery

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    The Billion-Dollar Buyer Of Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, And Montecristo Cigar Brands Remains A Smoky Mystery The consortium of buyers of Imperial Brands’ cigar business, who will be acquiring the world renowned Cohiba brand, have mostly remained under the radar. The deal itself has also been “shrouded in a smoky veil of secrecy”, according to […]

  • China: Coexistence Or Cold War II?

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    China: Coexistence Or Cold War II? Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump, his campaign and his party are moving to lay blame for the 80,000 U.S. dead at the feet of the Communist Party of China and, by extension, its longtime General Secretary, […]

  • Seattle Cop Prepares To Be Fired After Refusing To Remove Viral Video Reminding Officers Not To Obey ‘Tyrannical Orders’

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    Seattle Cop Prepares To Be Fired After Refusing To Remove Viral Video Reminding Officers Not To Obey ‘Tyrannical Orders’ A Port of Seattle Police Officer has been placed on administrative leave after refusing to delete a viral video reminding police officers that they don’t have unlimited powers. “I have seen officers around the country enforcing […]

  • YouTube CEO Admits Users Don’t Like Boosting Of “Authoritative” Mainstream Channels, But They Do It Anyway

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    YouTube CEO Admits Users Don’t Like Boosting Of “Authoritative” Mainstream Channels, But They Do It Anyway Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits that the company knows its users don’t like the video giant rigging its own algorithm to boost “authoritative” mainstream sources, but that they do it anyway. […]

  • Daily Briefing – May 12, 2020

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 6:29pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – May 12, 2020   Real Vision’s Ash Bennington and managing editor Ed Harrison discuss the latest developments in macro, markets, and coronavirus. They dive into the havoc wrecked on the jobs market, the continuously moving plans to reopen the US economy, and Dr. Fauci’s warning today to the US senate. They also […]

  • WeWork Explores Plan To Sublease NYC Headquarters 

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    WeWork Explores Plan To Sublease NYC Headquarters  WeWork has been severely impacted by virus-related shutdowns, which has resulted in hundreds of layoffs in the last several months.  WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani told CNBC on Tuesday that it has paid rent in over 80% of its locations in April and May. The remaining properties are in “discussions with […]

  • The Stealth Trump Voter: The President’s Secret Weapon?

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    The Stealth Trump Voter: The President’s Secret Weapon? Authored by David Brody via JustTheNews.com, In the 2000 horror movie “What Lies Beneath,” Harrison Ford and Michele Pfeiffer star in a fictional tale about hidden secrets finally revealed. Now, 20 years later, what lies beneath in this year’s presidential campaign is The Secret Trump Voter.  And […]

  • “The Financial System Will Have To Be Reset”: How The World’s Most Powerful And Influential People See The World After The Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 5:45pm EDT

    “The Financial System Will Have To Be Reset”: How The World’s Most Powerful And Influential People See The World After The Pandemic While nobody really knows what the world will look like on the other side of of the coronavirus pandemic, everyone has an opinion from economists, financiers, executives, all the way to policymakers? Bloomberg […]

  • How The Bitcoin-Halving Went Down (And The Hidden Message To The Fed)

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 5:25pm EDT

    How The Bitcoin-Halving Went Down (And The Hidden Message To The Fed) Authored by Stephen O’Neal via CoinTelegraph.com, Monday may have been uneventful for Bitcoin’s price, but it was a historic moment nonetheless. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph Bitcoin’s (BTC) third block halving has finally taken place. The year’s most talked-about crypto event happened at 3:23 p.m. […]

  • Actor Kevin James Demolishes Lockdown Absurdity & ‘COVID-Snitches’ In Short Film

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 5:05pm EDT

    Actor Kevin James Demolishes Lockdown Absurdity & ‘COVID-Snitches’ In Short Film Actor and comedian Kevin James has just released a short film absolutely shredding the rise of corona-snitches in spectacular fashion.  We and others have increasingly documented the unique phenomenon of neighbors so easily turning on each other over COVID-regulations conformity and differing interpretations and perceptions of […]

  • Loans For The Little Darlings: Strip Clubs Win Another Ruling For Pandemic Relief

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    Loans For The Little Darlings: Strip Clubs Win Another Ruling For Pandemic Relief Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing litigation of strip clubs denied pandemic relief, including a recent ruling in favor of such clubs in Nevada.  I have been highly critical of such denials.  Now, another judge, has ruled correctly in favor of […]

  • WTI Holds Big Gains Despite Bigger-Than-Expected Crude Build

    ZeroHedge - May 12th 2020 4:36pm EDT

    WTI Holds Big Gains Despite Bigger-Than-Expected Crude Build Oil prices rallied (despite equity weakness) to their highest since early April today with WTI tagging a $26 handle after the Energy Information Administration revised down its 2020 and 2021 crude output forecasts in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. “Production is indeed dropping and it might stay down for […]