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  • Chinese Province Authorizes Private Property Confiscation To Fight Covid-19

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:45pm EST

    Chinese Province Authorizes Private Property Confiscation To Fight Covid-19 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, your finances, and your prosperity. You can now pay $2500 to be told you’re […]

  • India’s Modi Is Building Trump’s Wall (But It’s Not What You Think)

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:25pm EST

    India’s Modi Is Building Trump’s Wall (But It’s Not What You Think) India is building Trump’s wall.  Not that wall — but a wall specifically being erected as part of his first ever presidential visit to India set for February 24 to 25, where he and the First Lady will meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “strengthen the United […]

  • 7 Charts To Love On Valentine’s Day

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 9:05pm EST

    7 Charts To Love On Valentine’s Day Authored by Bilal Hafeez via MacroHive.com, It’s easy to paint gloomy pictures of the world whether looking at market valuations, climate change or health scares. However, not all is lost, there are some things to appreciate. So I thought given it is Valentine’s Day, I’d find seven charts […]

  • Mexico To Unload Presidential Jet, Sells $80 Million Of Raffle Tickets To Super Rich

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Mexico To Unload Presidential Jet, Sells $80 Million Of Raffle Tickets To Super Rich Everyone thought Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) was absolutely nuts when he wanted to unload the luxurious presidential plane. However, there were no buyers earlier this year, so he floated the idea of raffling the jet off with 6 […]

  • Harvard Expert Warns, Coronavirus Likely Just Now “Gathering Steam”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:25pm EST

    Harvard Expert Warns, Coronavirus Likely Just Now “Gathering Steam” Authored by Alvin Powell via The Harvard Gazette, The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have continued to surge inside China, sickening tens of thousands, with a death toll of more than 1,000. But outside the Asian giant the numbers remain a fraction of […]

  • Online Trading Academy Sued By FTC For Bilking Boomers Out Of $370 Million

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 8:05pm EST

    Online Trading Academy Sued By FTC For Bilking Boomers Out Of $370 Million  An investment training program called Online Trading Academy (OTA) collected $370 million for classes over six years, misleading predominantly baby boomers in how to time the stock market. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday, Feb 12, charged the California-based operation for overstating how easy it was to […]

  • John Brennan Under DOJ Scrutiny, As John Durham’s Criminal Investigation Expand

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 7:45pm EST

    John Brennan Under DOJ Scrutiny, As John Durham’s Criminal Investigation Expand Authored by Sara Carter via SaraACarter.com, U.S. Attorney John Durham – charged with the criminal probe into the FBI’s Russia investigation of the Trump campaign – has been questioning CIA officials closely involved with John Brennan’s 2017 intelligence community assessment regarding direct Russian interference in the […]

  • Chaos Is Coming: US To Start Testing People With Flu Symptoms

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 7:25pm EST

    Chaos Is Coming: US To Start Testing People With Flu Symptoms Brace for chaos: in a few weeks, the next person to sneeze may be arrested quietly pulled aside by the authorities and tested for coronavirus. People in the US experiencing flu-like symptoms will be screened for the latest coronavirus that originated from China, officials […]

  • The Biometric Threat

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 7:05pm EST

    The Biometric Threat Authored by Jayati Ghosh via Project Syndicate, Around the world, governments are succumbing to the allure of biometric identification systems. To some extent, this may be inevitable, given the burden of demands and expectations placed on modern states. But no one should underestimate the risks these technologies pose. Biometric identification systems use […]

  • China Admits That More Than Half A Million People Have Had “Close Contact” With The Infected

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 6:45pm EST

    China Admits That More Than Half A Million People Have Had “Close Contact” With The Infected Beijing’s bug push to get everybody back to work isn’t going so well. And just as health experts warned President Xi before he gave the order, the decision to try to get some of the economy churning again has […]

  • Debt, Deficits, & The Path To MMT

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 6:25pm EST

    Debt, Deficits, & The Path To MMT Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In September 2017, when the Trump Administration began promoting the idea of tax cut legislation, I wrote a series of articles discussing the fallacy that tax cuts would lead to higher tax collections, and a reduction in the deficit. To wit: “Given today’s […]

  • While Sanders Lead Pack In Primary Polls, Oddsmaker Has Bloomberg Beating Trump In General Election

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 6:05pm EST

    While Sanders Lead Pack In Primary Polls, Oddsmaker Has Bloomberg Beating Trump In General Election While Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is now favored to be the likely Democratic nominee following Joe Biden’s implosion, Democratic voters are going to need to think long and hard about whether a socialist whose policies would wreak economic havoc can possibly […]

  • Roger Stone Demands New Trial After Anti-Trump Juror Outs Herself Over Social Media

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 5:45pm EST

    Roger Stone Demands New Trial After Anti-Trump Juror Outs Herself Over Social Media Former Trump adviser Roger Stone requested a new trial on Friday just one day after the lead juror in his November trial hates President Trump and actively posted anti-Trump material online during the trial. Stone’s new lawyers requested the new trial on […]

  • Berkshire Buys New Stakes In Kroger, Biogen, SPY, VOO: Full 13-F Summary

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 5:25pm EST

    Berkshire Buys New Stakes In Kroger, Biogen, SPY, VOO: Full 13-F Summary Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway does not make many changes in its long US stock portfolio, which is why when there are previously unannounced changes, it tends to make waves. And sure enough, the reason why both supermarket chain Kroger and biotech company Biogen […]

  • Shocking Video Shows People On The Street Being Rounded Up As Wuhan Begins ‘Wartime’ Measures

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 4:45pm EST

    Shocking Video Shows People On The Street Being Rounded Up As Wuhan Begins ‘Wartime’ Measures Ying Yong, known across China for his success as governor of Shanghai, has just been installed as the top Communist Party official in Hubei Province. With the party investing so much in his performance, it’s understandable that he’s resorting to […]

  • What If… The November Election Has To Be Postponed?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 4:25pm EST

    What If… The November Election Has To Be Postponed? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Impure Thoughts What if the Corona virus turns out to be a genuine pandemic with legs, not some punk-ass, flash-in-the-pan bug like SARS… and infects hundreds of millions around the world…? And what if it happens to go logarithmic in […]

  • Bonds, Bitcoin, & Bullion Bid As ‘Quarantative Easing’ Hopes Send Stocks Soaring

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 4:01pm EST

    Bonds, Bitcoin, & Bullion Bid As ‘Quarantative Easing’ Hopes Send Stocks Soaring Deaths (and Cases) from the Covid-19 virus exploded higher this week… And so did global stocks… As hope for renewed liquidity has maintained stocks… Source: Bloomberg Spot The Odd One Out! And while stocks surged, bonds, commodities, yuan, and cryptos are all ignoring […]

  • China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 3:45pm EST

    China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque Chinese economy which has been hammered by the Coronavirus epidemic, yesterday we showed several “alternative” economic indicators such as real-time measurements of air […]

  • Red Scare: Love Is Never Having To Say You’re Socialist

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 3:30pm EST

    Red Scare: Love Is Never Having To Say You’re Socialist Authored by Jonathan Turley, On this Valentine’s Day, the Democratic establishment is sending out its equivalent of “forget me nots” saying “Love is never having to say you’re Socialist.” Alarm over the surge of Bernie Sanders has turned widespread alarm in Democratic and media circles […]

  • “Bullshit Earnings”: Charlie Munger Slams Companies Who Use “Ridiculous” Adjusted EBITDA To Report Earnings

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 3:15pm EST

    “Bullshit Earnings”: Charlie Munger Slams Companies Who Use “Ridiculous” Adjusted EBITDA To Report Earnings Amidst the nonsense, folly and euphoria of the last decade long bull market, a small beacon of hope shines in the form of Warren Buffett’s business partner. These days, the reporting of financial metrics has wandered so far off the path […]

  • How China Is Censoring Coronavirus Critics In The US

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 3:00pm EST

    How China Is Censoring Coronavirus Critics In The US Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, The Chinese government is all about censorship, and this time, they are being effective at silencing coronavirus critics in the United States.  As Chinese tech companies have gone global, so has China’s ability to censor information outside of the mainland. […]

  • Election Meddling? White House Plans Tax Incentives For Mom-And-Pop To Buy Stocks

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:47pm EST

    Election Meddling? White House Plans Tax Incentives For Mom-And-Pop To Buy Stocks In what we are sure will be considered ‘election meddling’ at best, or at worst, the greatest institutional-to-retail distribution – at record high valuations – ever; CNBC reports that as part of a forthcoming package of proposed tax cuts, the White House is […]

  • Happy Valentines Day (Except If You’re A Trump Supporter)

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:34pm EST

    Happy Valentines Day (Except If You’re A Trump Supporter) Authored by Eduardo Neret via CampusReform.org, Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Campus Reform Digital Reporter Eduardo Neret went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. to ask students about dating someone with opposite political beliefs.  Many students said they would not date someone with opposite political beliefs and explained that […]

  • “Creepy Porn Lawyer” Avenatti Found Guilty On All Charges Of Extorting Nike

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:22pm EST

    “Creepy Porn Lawyer” Avenatti Found Guilty On All Charges Of Extorting Nike Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of all three charges related to his efforts to extort up to $25 million from athletic apparel giant Nike. The verdict in U.S. District Court in Manhattan came several after Avenatti represented porn star Stormy Daniels […]

  • BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank

    ZeroHedge - Feb 14th 2020 2:10pm EST

    BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank Back in March 2018, when commenting on what was then the 2nd longest central-bank induced bull market of all time (it is now the longest ever) Bank of America’s CIO Michael Hartnett pointed out that “bull market leadership has been in […]