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  • Bronx ER Doctor Explains Why Reopening The Economy Now Might Actually Save Lives

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:30am EDT

    Bronx ER Doctor Explains Why Reopening The Economy Now Might Actually Save Lives Last night, after we reported on a pair of ER doctors arguing that the US states should lift their lockdowns immediately (during the course of their argument, which was mostly rooted in trends they’ve witnessed first hand, they apparently made the error […]

  • 1-In-3 Americans Have Suffered A Layoff, Job Loss, Cut In Hours Or Income Due To COVID: Gallup

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:12am EDT

    1-In-3 Americans Have Suffered A Layoff, Job Loss, Cut In Hours Or Income Due To COVID: Gallup Authored by Zach Hrunowski of Gallup Nearly one in three Americans have experienced a temporary layoff, permanent job loss, reduction in hours, or reduction of income as a result of the coronavirus situation. Eighteen percent have experienced more […]

  • US Home Prices Surged In February, But…

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 9:02am EDT

    US Home Prices Surged In February, But… After a slight disappointment in January, analysts expected US home price growth to relatively stable… but instead it re-surged – rising 3.47% YoY (for the 20-City Composite) – the best YoY gain since Dec 2018. Source: Bloomberg Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, Charlotte reported highest year-over-year gains among 20 cities […]

  • BMO: Optimism Is Getting Ahead Of Itself And Equities Are Vulnerable To Disappointment As Economy Reopens

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:50am EDT

    BMO: Optimism Is Getting Ahead Of Itself And Equities Are Vulnerable To Disappointment As Economy Reopens Authored by Ian Lyngen, Jon Hill and Benjamin Jeffery, rates strategists at BMO Capital Markets In a continuation of the recent trend, risk assets have extracted sufficient optimism from the reopening preparation to further recoup much of March’s losses. […]

  • Quest Diagnostics Begins Selling COVID-19 Antibody Tests

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:38am EDT

    Quest Diagnostics Begins Selling COVID-19 Antibody Tests How long before there is a run on these? First, it was N95 masks, then toilet paper, then hand sanitizer, and now nicotine patches; but we suspect the next virus-related item to be in ‘shortage’ is here… the COVID-19 Antibody Test. Quest Diagnostics has begun to sell its […]

  • Market Rises As The Economy Reopens, Routs Risk/Reward

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:30am EDT

    Market Rises As The Economy Reopens, Routs Risk/Reward Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Market rises as the economy reopens. The question, however, is what happens next? While there has been much debate from the economic perspective, the market has risen in anticipation of the event. Is it an “all clear,” for the bulls, or […]

  • Crude Chaotic Again As Negative Price Fears Spark Dramatic Index/ETF Shifts

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:13am EDT

    Crude Chaotic Again As Negative Price Fears Spark Dramatic Index/ETF Shifts Since we showed the renewed crash in the oil complex overnight, crude prices have roller-coastered dramatically after a major index tracked by billions of dollars in funds bailed out of near-term contracts for fear prices may turn negative again. June futures fell over 21% […]

  • Futures Surge, Dollar Tumbles As Oil Swings Wildly

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:11am EDT

    Futures Surge, Dollar Tumbles As Oil Swings Wildly About one year ago, corporate profits didn’t matter and stocks would continue levitating day after day because “any minute now” Trump would complete a Phase 1 trade deal with China. Well, one year later, profits again don’t matter and probably never will again now that the Fed […]

  • Chinese Warns US To Halt Military Operations In South China Sea 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 8:00am EDT

    Chinese Warns US To Halt Military Operations In South China Sea  The Chinese military is closely monitoring a US Navy guided-missile destroyer transiting the South China Sea on Tuesday (April 28).  When US destroyer Barry trespassed into China’s territorial waters off the Xisha Islands on Tue, the PLA Southern Theater Command coordinated with naval and […]

  • New Zealand Officially Reopens As More US States Plan To Lift Lockdowns As Soon As This Week: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:52am EDT

    New Zealand Officially Reopens As More US States Plan To Lift Lockdowns As Soon As This Week: Live Updates US stocks clinched their fourth straight positive close on Monday, with the main indexes logging their longest win streak since February – back when ‘lockdowns’ were still a foreign concept outside China – as April is […]

  • YouTube Censors Viral Video Of California Doctors Criticizing “Stay-At-Home” Order

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:45am EDT

    YouTube Censors Viral Video Of California Doctors Criticizing “Stay-At-Home” Order Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, YouTube has censored a viral video in which two doctors criticized the logic of whether California’s stay-at-home coronavirus order is necessary. The video, which had racked up over 5 million views, featured Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. […]

  • GOP Senator Demands DoJ Launch Antitrust Probe Into Amazon Over Evidence Company Lied To Congress

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 7:30am EDT

    GOP Senator Demands DoJ Launch Antitrust Probe Into Amazon Over Evidence Company Lied To Congress This is not a good look for AMZN… One of the Senate’s harshest critics of America’s tech behemoths has just put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. After years of attacking the companies represented by the so-called […]

  • 2 Million Australians Download Coronavirus Tracing App 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:30am EDT

    2 Million Australians Download Coronavirus Tracing App  Two million Australians have downloaded a COVID-19 contact tracing app hours after the government released it, reported Reuters.  The COVIDSafe app for smartphone devices uses Bluetooth technology to create a “digital handshake” when other users comes within 4.9ft. The app logs the contact and encrypts it, will inform users […]

  • Next In COVID-19 Tyranny: Ron Paul Warns Of Forced Vaccinations & “Digital Certificates”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 6:00am EDT

    Next In COVID-19 Tyranny: Ron Paul Warns Of Forced Vaccinations & “Digital Certificates” Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A […]

  • US To Give Israel ‘Green Light’ To Annex Jordan Valley In 2 Months: Netanyahu

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 5:30am EDT

    US To Give Israel ‘Green Light’ To Annex Jordan Valley In 2 Months: Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he expects that the United States will soon approve Israel’s move to annex parts of the West Bank during comments made Sunday while discussing Trump’s “deal of the century” peace plan. He projected this will […]

  • Finally, It Matters What The Fed Can And Can’t Print

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Finally, It Matters What The Fed Can And Can’t Print Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, Sound money advocates have been proclaiming that “the Fed can’t print gold” pretty much since the end of the last gold standard in 1971. But no one outside our little echo chamber paid attention, fixating instead on what the […]

  • Why Belgium Has Europe’s Highest COVID-19 Death-Rate

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 4:15am EDT

    Why Belgium Has Europe’s Highest COVID-19 Death-Rate Belgium has skyrocketed to the top of the list of coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people – surpassing much larger nations like China and the U.K., despite only having a population of 11 million people.  That is, if the Chinese numbers are to be believed. Regardless, according to officials […]

  • Hungarian Minister Challenges CNN’s “Fake News” About Suspending Parliament

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 3:30am EDT

    Hungarian Minister Challenges CNN’s “Fake News” About Suspending Parliament Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, During an appearance on Christiane Amanpour’s show, Hungarian minister Péter Szijjártó challenged CNN’s “fake news” about Hungary suspending its own parliament. Last month, CNN and a host of other news networks suggested that the decision represented a “coup” […]

  • First Negative Oil Prices, Now Sicily Will Pay Tourists To Visit

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 2:45am EDT

    First Negative Oil Prices, Now Sicily Will Pay Tourists To Visit Everything is upside down. First, it was oil long paying “buyers” to take delivery of oil that nobody could store; now it’s popular tourism destinations paying tourists to come visit. It is only appropriate that the birthplace of the Italian mafia has come up […]

  • What The COVID-19 Crisis Means For Europe & The Eurozone

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 2:00am EDT

    What The COVID-19 Crisis Means For Europe & The Eurozone [An interview with Dr. Hulsmann, originally published in German by Die Freie Welt.] As a result of the corona crisis, economic life was severely restricted in many countries. How long can the economy take this? As long as stocks last. In other words: as long as you […]

  • China Threatens Australia Over ‘Dangerous’ Investigation Into Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 1:00am EDT

    China Threatens Australia Over ‘Dangerous’ Investigation Into Coronavirus China has threatened Australia with an economic hit if it doesn’t stop investigating the CCP’s handling of the coronavirus, according to Sky News. Chinese Ambassador Cheng Jingye told the outlet on Monday that while China’s response may not have been “perfect,” Australia’s inquiry was “dangerous,” and could […]

  • A Locked-Down Country Is Vulnerable To Attack

    ZeroHedge - Apr 28th 2020 12:00am EDT

    A Locked-Down Country Is Vulnerable To Attack Authored by Peter Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Right now, hundreds of thousands of businesses are closed, and countless American streets are empty. Individuals, families, and businesses are rapidly burning through their savings, supply chains are atrophying, and every economic indicator is revealing a rapid […]

  • Secret ‘COVID-19 Manhattan Project’ Led By Billionaires Seeking To Influence Trump Admin

    ZeroHedge - Apr 27th 2020 11:40pm EDT

    Secret ‘COVID-19 Manhattan Project’ Led By Billionaires Seeking To Influence Trump Admin Last month Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey called for the bold and urgent launch of what he called “a Manhattan Project-type approach” to fight the coronavirus pandemic given the enormity of the health and economic impact, increasingly even harming US defense readiness. Apparently there has […]

  • Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed

    ZeroHedge - Apr 27th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, Neoconservative publication The Atlantic has published an article authored by two university professors titled “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal”, subtitled “In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.” The article […]

  • The US Will Sell $4 Trillion In Debt This Year, A 300% Increase: This Is What It Will Look Like

    ZeroHedge - Apr 27th 2020 11:08pm EDT

    The US Will Sell $4 Trillion In Debt This Year, A 300% Increase: This Is What It Will Look Like Don’t look now, but just weeks after it passed the biggest fiscal stimulus in US history, Congress passed an additional round of fiscal measures totaling $484bn. This raises Goldman’s estimated 2020 US deficit financing need […]