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  • FBI Raids Business Tied To James Biden Influence-Peddling

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 10:15am EST

    FBI Raids Business Tied To James Biden Influence-Peddling The FBI raided the home of a CEO of a bankrupt hospital chain last month along with one of its Pennsylvania hospitals central to influence-peddling accusations against Joe Biden’s brother, James, according to RealClearInvestigations. The CEO, Grant White, was accused in a Kentucky bankruptcy court filing by […]

  • The Real ‘Tragicomedy’ – Who’s Ready To Buy The ‘Dip’ Again Now?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:55am EST

    The Real ‘Tragicomedy’ – Who’s Ready To Buy The ‘Dip’ Again Now? Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, We’re all frogs getting our perception of reality boiled in the pot of price perversion central banks have unleashed on the world. A tragicomedy of epic proportions continues to unfold in front of our own eyes. On […]

  • George Soros: “Remove Zuckerberg From Facebook Now… He’ll Get Trump Re-elected”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:25am EST

    George Soros: “Remove Zuckerberg From Facebook Now… He’ll Get Trump Re-elected” In a brief but scathing letter to The Financial Times, billionaire George Soros demands that both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg should be removed from their leadership roles at Facebook or else President Trump will get re-elected. The two Facebook leaders are, according to the […]

  • Apple’s Downgrade Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg When It Comes To Earnings Downgrades

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 9:10am EST

    Apple’s Downgrade Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg When It Comes To Earnings Downgrades Submitted by Eleanor Creagh of Saxo Bank, Risk aversion is dialing up today and Asian stocks are falling along with US futures and bond yields across the curve with 30-year Treasury yields have dropping below 2% again. Anxieties are being […]

  • Tesla Pops After Morgan Stanley Doubles Bull Case Target To $1200 One Month After Setting It At $650

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:56am EST

    Tesla Pops After Morgan Stanley Doubles Bull Case Target To $1200 One Month After Setting It At $650 Morgan Stanley is looking more and more like a dog chasing its tail in its “analysis” of Tesla. Recall, about one month ago, Tesla was downgraded to “Sell” by Morgan Stanley after the stock’s run up to […]

  • Covid-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:40am EST

    Covid-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The eventual price of substituting magical thinking and survivorship bias for actual evidence will be far higher than the complacent realize. Here’s a sampling of complacent assertions being made about the COVID-19 virus as if they were certitudes: It’s no worse […]

  • Walmart Misses Across The Board As Guidance Disappoints, Online Sales Slow

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:28am EST

    Walmart Misses Across The Board As Guidance Disappoints, Online Sales Slow One quarter after after Walmart shares jumped when the company reported a solid beat in its Q3 earnings report and boosted the full year outlook, it’s a complete mirror image, as Walmart not only couldn’t deliver on its guidance boost from just three months […]

  • Bloomberg Qualifies For Nevada Democratic Debate, Releases ‘AOC-Lite’ Tax Plan

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 8:06am EST

    Bloomberg Qualifies For Nevada Democratic Debate, Releases ‘AOC-Lite’ Tax Plan Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg qualified on Tuesday to participate in this week’s Democratic presidential debate in Nevada, which will take place in Las Vegas Wednesday night.  Bloomberg has vowed to leverage his fortune to defeat President Donald Trump, who has already raised a campaign war […]

  • Global Stocks Slide After Apple Guidance Cut Is “Wake Up Call” To Zombified Investors

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:51am EST

    Global Stocks Slide After Apple Guidance Cut Is “Wake Up Call” To Zombified Investors Two weeks ago, when looking at the supply-chain crippling consequences of the Coronavirus epidemic, we asked “Is Tech About To Suffer A “Dot Com” Bubble Collapse?” and concluded that “It’s now all in China’s hands” noting that “…while the market leaders […]

  • Franklin Resources To Purchase Legg Mason, Forming $1.5 Trillion AUM Giant

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:46am EST

    Franklin Resources To Purchase Legg Mason, Forming $1.5 Trillion AUM Giant Franklin Resources Inc. announced Tuesday that it plans to buy rival asset manager Legg Mason in a deal for $50 per share, according to Bloomberg. *FRANKLIN TEMPLETON TO BUY LEGG MASON FOR $50.00/SHR – Bloomberg Over $2T into passive funds in recent years, starting […]

  • HSBC To Cut 35,000 Jobs, Shed $100 Billion In Assets As Profits Plunge

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 7:04am EST

    HSBC To Cut 35,000 Jobs, Shed $100 Billion In Assets As Profits Plunge Banks around the world are supposed to benefit the most from central banks inflating assets, and hyperinflating stock markets, but over the past few years, central banks have instead caused some of the biggest bank job cuts in half a decade.  HSBC, Europe’s […]

  • Japan Confirms 88 More Cases Aboard ‘Diamond Princess’, Bringing Total To 542 One Day Before Quarantine Set To End

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 6:36am EST

    Japan Confirms 88 More Cases Aboard ‘Diamond Princess’, Bringing Total To 542 One Day Before Quarantine Set To End Last night, the western press exposed the Americans for breaking Japan’s quarantine on the ‘Diamond Princess’ by ferrying some 14 infected individuals to the US. But with one day left to go before the Japanese government […]

  • “Wishful Thinking” – OPEC Drastically Underestimates China Virus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 5:00am EST

    “Wishful Thinking” – OPEC Drastically Underestimates China Virus Authored by Julian Lee, op-ed via Bloomberg,com, The Covid-19 virus is a human tragedy for many who have been affected by it and it’s having a profound impact on the lives of a large part of the Chinese population. The impact on the rest of the world of the […]

  • German Court Rules Tesla Must Stop Cutting Down Local Forest To Make Room For Its Gigafactory

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 4:15am EST

    German Court Rules Tesla Must Stop Cutting Down Local Forest To Make Room For Its Gigafactory A German court ruled this week that Elon Musk must halt his plan to clear a forest near Berlin in order to build Tesla’s German Gigafactory. The court put the stay on Tesla while it considers challenges from environmentalists, […]

  • Sinn Fein’s Victory Is Ireland’s “Brexit Moment” When Left-Out Voters Turn On The Elite

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 3:30am EST

    Sinn Fein’s Victory Is Ireland’s “Brexit Moment” When Left-Out Voters Turn On The Elite Authored by Patrick Cockburn via Counterpunch.org, “People wanted to kick the government and Sinn Fein provided the shoe to do the kicking,” says Christy Parker, a journalist from the beautiful but de-industrialised town of Youghal in county Cork. He speaks of […]

  • EU Must Develop “Appetite For Power” In Trump Era, Urges Foreign Policy Chief

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 2:45am EST

    EU Must Develop “Appetite For Power” In Trump Era, Urges Foreign Policy Chief The European Union’s foreign policy chief has issued a hugely provocative statement, urging the bloc to “develop an appetite for power” to better chart its own independent course and navigate various crises especially with Trump in the White House. “European Union governments need to […]

  • Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, A Maniacal Warning To Moscow

    ZeroHedge - Feb 18th 2020 2:00am EST

    Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, A Maniacal Warning To Moscow Authored by Finian Cunningham via OilPrice.com, This weekend 75 years ago, the German city of Dresden was razed to the ground by British and American aerial bombardment. At least 25,000 mainly civilians were destroyed in raid after raid by over 1,200 heavy bombers, indiscriminately dropping […]

  • The Silent War On “Q” Continues

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:40pm EST

    The Silent War On “Q” Continues Authored by Deborah Franklin via AmericanThinker.com, We’re living in dramatic times that are difficult to understand. One way to try to interpret them is through the cryptic clues provided by Q, which appear on an anonymous online forum and imply top-secret knowledge of upcoming events. As I wrote in […]

  • “Doomed To Failure”: Bolton Excoriates Trump On Iran, N.Korea In First Post-Impeachment Appearance

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 11:15pm EST

    “Doomed To Failure”: Bolton Excoriates Trump On Iran, N.Korea In First Post-Impeachment Appearance Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton took his former boss’s foreign policy to task during comments made at Duke University Monday night — in his first public speech since the impeachment inquiry wrapped up, and at a sensitive moment his lawyers are still wrangling over the […]

  • Dominos Are Falling – China Shutdown To Crush India’s Already-Crumbling Economy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:50pm EST

    Dominos Are Falling – China Shutdown To Crush India’s Already-Crumbling Economy The supply chain shock emanating from China to other Asia Pacific countries and Europe, could become a major headache for India. Bloomberg focuses on how an industrial shutdown of China’s economy has already had a profound effect on India’s economy and could get worse. Pankaj […]

  • US & China Lead Biggest Jump In World Defense Spending In 10 Years

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:25pm EST

    US & China Lead Biggest Jump In World Defense Spending In 10 Years Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, New data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has shown a roughly 4% increase in military spending for 2019, the single largest rate of growth seen in the past 10 years. The increase is being driven in large part […]

  • Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 10:00pm EST

    Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship It looks like Beijing has finally grown tired of journalists like Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng circulating shocking videos depicting the true depth of the crisis on the ground in China – and the government’s almost unbelievably heavy handed response. For an example, see […]

  • IceCap Asset Management: The Invisible Zombie

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:35pm EST

    IceCap Asset Management: The Invisible Zombie Submitted by Keith Dicker of IceCap Asset Management “I’ll show you who I am” And with that one line – the world of invisibility was born. The 1933 blockbuster film, “The Invisible Man” launched a genre that would span decades, producing many enjoyable and many unenjoyable movies of things […]

  • Over 2,000 Former DOJ Officials Call On Barr To Resign Over Roger Stone Case

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 9:09pm EST

    Over 2,000 Former DOJ Officials Call On Barr To Resign Over Roger Stone Case Over 2,000 former Justice Department officials have called on Attorney General William Barr to step down after he stepped in last week to rescind a sentencing recommendation of 7-9 years filed by four anti-Trump career prosecutors, resulting in their resignations. “It […]

  • Would We Still Have Power & Water If We Had A Massive Coronavirus Quarantine In The US?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 17th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Would We Still Have Power & Water If We Had A Massive Coronavirus Quarantine In The US? Authored by Selco Begovic and Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, How long do you think a pandemic quarantine could go on with power, running water, the internet, and trash pick-up continuing to run as normal? If […]