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  • Italy: China’s Trojan Horse Into Europe

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Italy: China’s Trojan Horse Into Europe Authored Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone InStitute, A few days after China had announced it was sending medical supplies to Italy, Chinese state media aired pictures of Italians on balconies and streets applauding the Chinese national anthem. “In Rome, with the Chinese anthem playing, some Italians chanted ‘Grazie, Cina!’ on their […]

  • Watch: ‘Skynet’-Like Robot Dog Patrols Singapore’s Parks To Ensure Humans Are Social Distancing

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Watch: ‘Skynet’-Like Robot Dog Patrols Singapore’s Parks To Ensure Humans Are Social Distancing If there’s one thing we try to keep a eye on, it’s the potential use of this global pandemic for governments to try and unleash new and “interesting” ways of surveillance.  Thus, our eyes and ears perked up when we learned that […]

  • Putin’s Call For A New System & The 1944 Battle Of Bretton Woods: Lessons For Victory Day

    ZeroHedge - May 11th 2020 12:00am EDT

    Putin’s Call For A New System & The 1944 Battle Of Bretton Woods: Lessons For Victory Day Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Saker blog, As today’s world teeters on the brink of a financial collapse greater than anything the world experienced in either 1923 Weimar or the 1929 Great depression, a serious discussion has […]

  • Saudi Arabia Running Out Of Money: Riyadh To Slash Spending By $27 Billion, Suspend Cost Of Living Allowance

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 11:36pm EDT

    Saudi Arabia Running Out Of Money: Riyadh To Slash Spending By $27 Billion, Suspend Cost Of Living Allowance Last weekend we quoted Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan, who warned that the world’s biggest oil exporter hasn’t witnessed “a crisis of this severity” in decades, adding that government spending will have to be cut “very deeply”, something […]

  • Pompeo Likens Iran To Nazis On 2nd Anniversary Of US Nuclear Deal Exit

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Pompeo Likens Iran To Nazis On 2nd Anniversary Of US Nuclear Deal Exit Perhaps attempting to ensure the anti-Iran ‘maximum pressure’ campaign remains front and center, even in the midst of a pandemic and historic unemployment, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resorted to the one of the most common — and we might note laziest — labels […]

  • Soviet-Style Government In The US: Some Will Always Bow In Enslavement

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Soviet-Style Government In The US: Some Will Always Bow In Enslavement Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, It doesn’t seem to matter how tyrannical the powers-that-shouldn’t-be get. Some people, in the face of freedom, will always choose slavery and the illusion of safety.  It’s sad to think human beings are willing to live their lives […]

  • Another Leg Lower Is Coming, But What Happens In 2021 Will Leave Traders Speechless

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 10:35pm EDT

    Another Leg Lower Is Coming, But What Happens In 2021 Will Leave Traders Speechless In a recent report by Nordea’s Andreas Steno Larsen, the FX strategist looks at the recent surge in stocks and rhetorically asks “Happy days, right?”, to which his response is that he is not so sure, because “is it really feasible […]

  • Two Collapse Experts With Cooler Heads Opine On COVID Catalysts And Human Nature

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Two Collapse Experts With Cooler Heads Opine On COVID Catalysts And Human Nature For those in search of unfiltered opinions, there are a few platforms worth checking out. Perhaps best known are the Joe Rogan Experience and members of the ‘intellectual dark web’ – a phrase coined by Thiel Capital managing director Eric Weinstein (who […]

  • Crude-Chaos & COVID-Contagion Mark The End Of Imperium Americanum

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    Crude-Chaos & COVID-Contagion Mark The End Of Imperium Americanum Authored by Patrick Armstrong via The Strategic Culture Foundation, A black swan is slang for an unexpected event with large consequences. 2020 has brought us two so far: the COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse of oil prices. Each will have potent consequences for the Imperium Americanum. […]

  • China Unveils Pandemic-Fighting T1-Smart-Glasses That “See” People’s Temperatures In Real-Time

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 9:30pm EDT

    China Unveils Pandemic-Fighting T1-Smart-Glasses That “See” People’s Temperatures In Real-Time A Chinese startup that develops augmented-reality glasses for everyday use, or for other applications such as in manufacturing and gaming, has tweaked one of its products with a thermal sensor to create pandemic glasses. Such glasses can detect possible COVID-19 carriers by scanning body temperatures.  The pandemic glasses are called T1 glasses […]

  • US Deploys B-1Bs, Warships In South China Sea As China Nationalists Call For Invasion Of Taiwan

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 9:18pm EDT

    US Deploys B-1Bs, Warships In South China Sea As China Nationalists Call For Invasion Of Taiwan While the global economy remains in a state of near ubiquitous lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the US military has been busy. According to an update posted on the Pacific Air Forces website, a B-1B Lancer strategic bomber […]

  • Venezuela Displays Military Boats & Weapons It Says Were Part Of US Mercenary Invasion

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    Venezuela Displays Military Boats & Weapons It Says Were Part Of US Mercenary Invasion Via Southfront.org The failed attempt of US mercenaries operating from Colombia to stage a coup in Venezuela continues developing with more and more details appearing. On May 9, Venezuela’s military said it seized three abandoned Colombian light combat boats that soldiers […]

  • It’s Retail Vs Institutions: A Look At Who’s Buying Stocks Here… And Who Isn’t

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 8:30pm EDT

    It’s Retail Vs Institutions: A Look At Who’s Buying Stocks Here… And Who Isn’t Cutting to the chase, the market is now up 30% from its March 24 lows with the Nasdaq back in the green for 2020, and yet as Goldman pointed out earlier, there is now more confusion over what the market does […]

  • “The Worst Case For Markets”: Massive Stagflation In 2021 As Prices Rise Without Rising Wages

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 8:18pm EDT

    “The Worst Case For Markets”: Massive Stagflation In 2021 As Prices Rise Without Rising Wages Authored by Vincent Cignarella, Bloomberg macro commentator “We are witnessing the Great Monetary Inflation (GMI)—an unprecedented expansion of every form of money unlike anything the developed world has ever seen.” – Paul Tudor Jones The current worry in global markets […]

  • What If The Crisis Is One Without End… Like George Orwell’s Perpetual War

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    What If The Crisis Is One Without End… Like George Orwell’s Perpetual War Submitted by Luke Eastwood Notions of Freedom We are living in strange times indeed, this crisis raises many questions about the nature of freedom and what our expectations are, or should be.  Everyone has their own notions about what freedom means and […]

  • A COVID State Of Mind – America’s Mental Health Suffers As Anti-Anxiety Drug Prescriptions Soar

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    A COVID State Of Mind – America’s Mental Health Suffers As Anti-Anxiety Drug Prescriptions Soar The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in forced lockdowns across the country and an economic depression with high unemployment. Tens of millions of jobs have been lost in the last six or so weeks, as “the greatest economy ever” implodes. A […]

  • David Zervos: “Looking At Economic Data Or Earnings Is A Colossal Waste Of Time… Only Fed Support Matters”

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 7:24pm EDT

    David Zervos: “Looking At Economic Data Or Earnings Is A Colossal Waste Of Time… Only Fed Support Matters” More than a decade after we first said that in the “New Paranormal” nothing matters besides the Fed, all those “experts” who mocked our Austrian view are falling like flies with one Wall Street strategist after another […]

  • Iran Offers US ‘Unconditional’ Prisoner Swap, Fears ‘Safety’ Of Citizens Amid COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 7:15pm EDT

    Iran Offers US ‘Unconditional’ Prisoner Swap, Fears ‘Safety’ Of Citizens Amid COVID-19 On a weekend marking the second anniversary of the Trump administration’s pullout from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA), Tehran has made a huge offer in the hopes of thawing tensions, which in January saw the US and Iran nearly go to war.  […]

  • Former CEO Of Carl’s Jr. Explains How Not To Get America Back To Work

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 6:50pm EDT

    Former CEO Of Carl’s Jr. Explains How Not To Get America Back To Work Authored by Andrew Puzder, the former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. He is the author of Getting America Back to Work, a new Broadside from Encounter Books, originally published in Real Clear Politics.   Most people seem to agree that a […]

  • Indian And Chinese Troops Clash In Fistfight At Disputed Border

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Indian And Chinese Troops Clash In Fistfight At Disputed Border Dozens of Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a cross-border clash involving fistfights and stone-throwing at a remote but strategically important mountain pass near Tibet, the Indian Army said Sunday according to the Straits Times and BBC. There have been long-running border tensions between […]

  • U.S. Depression? The V-Shaped Recovery Fades Away

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    U.S. Depression? The V-Shaped Recovery Fades Away Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The recent jobless claims figures show how difficult it will be for the U.S. recovery to be as quick and strong as initially expected. 7.7 million jobs were lost in Hospitality and Leisure in April, 2.5 million in Education and Health, with 2 million in Retail […]

  • Lockdowns May Aggravate America’s Next Health Crisis: An Explosion Of “Deaths Of Despair”, Study Finds

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 5:35pm EDT

    Lockdowns May Aggravate America’s Next Health Crisis: An Explosion Of “Deaths Of Despair”, Study Finds Doctors, scientists policymakers and even ‘non-experts’ posting on social media have argued that shuttering the health-care system to all non-emergency care risks sparking other public health crises from a spike in heart attacks and advanced cancer diagnoses, to so-called “deaths […]

  • “A Cabal Of Liars” – Sara Carter Demands Top Obama Officials Need To Be Held Accountable

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 5:10pm EDT

    “A Cabal Of Liars” – Sara Carter Demands Top Obama Officials Need To Be Held Accountable Via SaraACarter.com, “This is a cabal of liars of the Obama administration senior officials,” said Sara Carter, a Fox News contributor and host of “The Sara Carter Show” on Fox News’s show “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday. Watch the […]

  • 6 Reasons Why Goldman Sees The S&P Sliding Back To 2,400 By August

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 4:45pm EDT

    6 Reasons Why Goldman Sees The S&P Sliding Back To 2,400 By August Amid the mass market confusion, where traders are torn between polar extremes such as i) economic reopening vs second infection wave, ii) fears of hyperinflation due to unprecedented central bank liquidity injections (now also the base case of iconic traders such as […]

  • The Future Of The Economy May Depend On An Ancient Doctrine Of The Past

    ZeroHedge - May 10th 2020 4:20pm EDT

    The Future Of The Economy May Depend On An Ancient Doctrine Of The Past Authored by Jonathan Turley, While some often seem to assume a zero tolerance approach for any risk of spread, we have no choice but to try to get this economy out of the current disastrous conditions.  Unless we want to reintroduce […]