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  • Watch Live: Judy Shelton Faces Senate Banking Committee In First Test For Trump’s Controversial Fed Nominee

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:55am EST

    Watch Live: Judy Shelton Faces Senate Banking Committee In First Test For Trump’s Controversial Fed Nominee President Trump’s push to reshape the Fed board of governors is facing a critical test on Thursday. Trump’s latest picks to serve on the Fed board of governors are appearing before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday for the first […]

  • Fed Injects $79BN In Liquidity: Term Repo Most Oversubscribed Since Repo Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:53am EST

    Fed Injects $79BN In Liquidity: Term Repo Most Oversubscribed Since Repo Crisis The repo market was supposed to be fixed in September; then the year-end liquidity flood was supposed to definitely fix the repo market. But it is now mid-February and moments ago the Fed just reported it conducted the fourth oversubscribed term-repo operation as […]

  • US Military Initiates “Global Campaign Plan For Pandemic”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:46am EST

    US Military Initiates “Global Campaign Plan For Pandemic” Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, It appears that the U.S. military is taking this coronavirus outbreak extremely seriously.  An executive order has been issued which has initiated the implementation of “the Department of Defense Global Campaign plan for Pandemic Influenza […]

  • Consumer Price Inflation Hotter Than Expected Despite Goods Deflation

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:36am EST

    Consumer Price Inflation Hotter Than Expected Despite Goods Deflation After jumping in December, analysts expected a modest acceleration in headline consumer prices and small slowdown in core prices, but the headline CPI printed hotter than expected at +2.5% YoY (despite only rising 0.1% MoM) – that is the hottest since oct 2018. Source: Bloomberg The […]

  • Tesla Slides After Disclosing New SEC Subpoena And $2 Billion Capital Raise

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:28am EST

    Tesla Slides After Disclosing New SEC Subpoena And $2 Billion Capital Raise Tesla shares are extending overnight losses (following the Model X recall) after announcing a $2 billion secondary stock offering and revealing in their newly filed 10-K that they were issued a new subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to “certain financial […]

  • Lead Juror In Roger Stone Trial Was Left-Wing Former Political Candidate Who Despises Trump

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:20am EST

    Lead Juror In Roger Stone Trial Was Left-Wing Former Political Candidate Who Despises Trump The lead juror in the Roger Stone trial is a former Democratic congressional candidate who hates President Trump, and actively posted anti-Trump material online during the trial, according to Cernovich.com and the Daily Caller. Tomeka Hart admitted to being a Stone […]

  • Markets Hit By “Perfect Storm” As Stocks Slide On Surge In New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 8:04am EST

    Markets Hit By “Perfect Storm” As Stocks Slide On Surge In New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths For weeks we had been warning that China was misrepresenting, obfuscating and otherwise lying, either directly or simply by changing the definition of an “infected case” or even “death”, about the true extent of the corona pandemic, a conclusion that […]

  • Cables Climbs As Boris Sacks Chancellor Javid In Latest ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ Twist

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 7:41am EST

    Cables Climbs As Boris Sacks Chancellor Javid In Latest ‘Cabinet Reshuffle’ Twist UK Chancellor Sajid Javid was ousted on Thursday after choosing to resign instead of firing a group of advisors that the prime minister wanted sacked, according to the FT. According to the British financial paper of record, Javid, a one-time contender for the […]

  • Beijing Fires Top Party Officials In Hubei After Death-Toll Bombshell

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 6:42am EST

    Beijing Fires Top Party Officials In Hubei After Death-Toll Bombshell Last night, we wrote the following in conclusion to our report on the dire numbers coming out of Hubei. Essentially, we predicted that President Xi was cranking up the Party’s scapegoating machine and getting ready to blame the undercounting of coronavirus cases and deaths on […]

  • UK Regulators Investigating Barclays CEO’s Ties To Jeffrey Epstein

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 6:00am EST

    UK Regulators Investigating Barclays CEO’s Ties To Jeffrey Epstein Sooner or later, every rich and powerful individual who has been publicly linked to deceased financier/blackmail artist/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is going to face some repercussions, particularly if they stayed in contacted with him after his first conviction back in 2008. Now it looks like it’s Jes […]

  • London Times Says Embracing Traditional Gender Roles Is A Form Of ISIS-Style Extremism

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 5:00am EST

    London Times Says Embracing Traditional Gender Roles Is A Form Of ISIS-Style Extremism Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The London Times has become the latest media outlet to suggest that embracing traditional gender roles is a form of extremism with an article that claims so-called ‘trad wives’ are on a par with […]

  • Washington Weighs Another Crackdown As Germany Reportedly Plans To Snub US And Side With Huawei

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 4:15am EST

    Washington Weighs Another Crackdown As Germany Reportedly Plans To Snub US And Side With Huawei One day after the Pentagon and, by extension, the White House sent an unmistakable warning to the UK, Germany, the rest of America’s European allies and – most importantly – Huawei and the Chinese regime, it appears the Pentagon is […]

  • Murray: Scottish Indepedence Is Within Sight

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 3:30am EST

    Murray: Scottish Indepedence Is Within Sight Authored by Craig Murray via ConsortiumNews.com, There will never again be a route to Scottish independence deemed legal by Westminster. The 2014 referendum will never be repeated. The U.K. will never willingly give up a third of its land, most of its fisheries, most of its mineral resources, its […]

  • Army Reconstitutes Cold War Era ‘V Corps’ To Bulk Up Europe Defenses Against Russia

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 2:45am EST

    Army Reconstitutes Cold War Era ‘V Corps’ To Bulk Up Europe Defenses Against Russia In yet another sign that we’re in the midst of a new Cold War 2.0, the US Army has announced it is establishing a new command headquarters for the sake of coordinating with European allies against the “Russian threat”.  According to […]

  • A Global Catastrophe: “260 Million Christians Experience High Levels Of Persecution”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 13th 2020 2:00am EST

    A Global Catastrophe: “260 Million Christians Experience High Levels Of Persecution” Authored by Raymond Ibrahim via The Gatestone Institute, The global persecution of Christians has reached unprecedented levels: “260 million Christians experience high levels of persecution” around the world, notes the recently published Open Doors World Watch List 2020, an annual report that ranks the top […]

  • Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Believer In Biological Sex?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:45pm EST

    Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Believer In Biological Sex? Authored by Bruce Lesnick via Off-Guardian.org, In the 1940s and 50s, advocating Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism could get you fired from your job, blacklisted, deplatformed and even imprisoned. Though communists and socialists were instrumental in the struggles of the 1930s and 40s that built the industrial labor […]

  • Mysterious Deep Space Radio Signal Repeats At Regular Intervals, Baffling Astronomers

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:25pm EST

    Mysterious Deep Space Radio Signal Repeats At Regular Intervals, Baffling Astronomers A startling scientific find by space researchers which sounds straight from the plot of the 1990’s sci-fi movie “Contact” is the last thing you might expect to read on CNN this week.  “Mysterious radio signals from space have been known to repeat, but for the first time, researchers […]

  • New Leaks Shatter OPCW’s Attacks On Douma Whistleblowers

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 11:05pm EST

    New Leaks Shatter OPCW’s Attacks On Douma Whistleblowers Authored by Aaron Maté via TheGrayZone.com, Facing accusations that it issued a doctored report alleging a chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW has released an inquiry attacking two whistleblowers as rogue actors. Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal serious distortions in the OPCW inquiry as well […]

  • Federal Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 10:45pm EST

    Federal Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Late on Tuesday, a Federal judge dropped several charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes but allowed wire fraud charges to stand. The wire fraud charges accuse Holmes and her former boy-toy, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, of misleading patients about the abilities of Theranos’ blood tests. The […]

  • Siri Is Now Refusing To Say The Word “Gun”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 10:25pm EST

    Siri Is Now Refusing To Say The Word “Gun” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Apple’s Siri voice assistant is now apparently refusing to say the word “gun” when used on an iPad. Tracy Connors tweeted a video of herself attempting to have Siri read out a Daily Caller headline entitled ‘Virginia House […]

  • Hong Kong’s Largest Mall Owner Cuts Rents Up To 50%

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 10:05pm EST

    Hong Kong’s Largest Mall Owner Cuts Rents Up To 50% Commenting on the regional impact of the Covid-2019 epidemic, Morgan Stanley writes that Hong Kong’s tourism, trade and domestic consumption could be significantly affected, further aggravating the technical recession the financial hub found itself going into 2020. Looking ahead, MS lays out two scenarios: should […]

  • A Global Paradox: “The Great Muddling Through” Continues

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 9:45pm EST

    A Global Paradox: “The Great Muddling Through” Continues Via The ZMan blog, When one era ends and another begins is always a hot topic for historians and academics, because history does not make it easy. The old staggers on for a long time, despite it having become pointless or exhausted. The new is not always […]

  • Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan’s P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 9:25pm EST

    Sudden Militarization Of Wuhan’s P4 Lab Raises New Questions About The Origin Of The Deadly Covid-19 Virus The reported militarization of Wuhan’s P4 Lab has raised new questions about the origin of the Covid-19 virus and the apparent cover-up that has occurred since it was first made public. Following the removal of the most senior […]

  • Reality Check: There Is No Political Solution To Income Inequality

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 9:05pm EST

    Reality Check: There Is No Political Solution To Income Inequality Authored by Peter Van Buren via TheAmericanConservative.com, Sorry Sanders supporters: your guy might be well-meaning, but like everyone else he has no practical solutions.  Bernie, et al, imagine there exists some means to redistribute wealth, most likely following the economist Thomas Piketty, via a progressive tax […]

  • Dozens Of Dead Birds Seized From Luggage Of Passenger Traveling From Beijing To Washington DC

    ZeroHedge - Feb 12th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Dozens Of Dead Birds Seized From Luggage Of Passenger Traveling From Beijing To Washington DC We’re not quite sure the Chinese have the right idea for containing the climate of disease and virii coming out of their country. After all, what good is wearing a surgical mask on a flight when you have crammed several […]