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  • “Pandemic Drones” To Fly In Connecticut, Hunting For CCOVID-Carriers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 6:05pm EDT

    “Pandemic Drones” To Fly In Connecticut, Hunting For CCOVID-Carriers Like it or not, the surveillance state is being ushered in under cover of the pandemic. Coming soon to the skies of Westport, Connecticut, are “pandemic drones” that will hunt for COVID-19 carriers. These special drones have thermal optic sensors blended with artificial intelligence that can […]

  • The Facts That Prove Almost Everyone Is Wrong About This Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 5:45pm EDT

    The Facts That Prove Almost Everyone Is Wrong About This Pandemic Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, When it comes to COVID-19, most Americans seem to be gravitating toward one of two extremes.  Some are treating this pandemic like it is the end of the world, while many others […]

  • Rubio Demands Banks Explain If Certain Borrowers Favored For PPP Loans

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 5:25pm EDT

    Rubio Demands Banks Explain If Certain Borrowers Favored For PPP Loans Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has fired off letters to 12 bank CEOs asking for a detailed explanation of how their institutions chose which borrowers to lend money to under the Paycheck Protection Program intended to help small businesses obtain emergency funding amid the coronavirus […]

  • Veterans Groups Demand “Not A Dime More” For Pentagon’s ‘Wasteful War Machine’ Amid COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 5:05pm EDT

    Veterans Groups Demand “Not A Dime More” For Pentagon’s ‘Wasteful War Machine’ Amid COVID-19 Authored by Andrea Germanos via CommonDreams.org, Not a dime of additional funding should be appropriated this year to the Pentagon’s already bloated budget, which has enabled endless war while resources that could have helped the nation better respond to the coronavirus […]

  • Watch Live: Coronavirus Task Force Holds Thursday Briefing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 4:55pm EDT

    Watch Live: Coronavirus Task Force Holds Thursday Briefing During last night’s press briefing, President Trump took the press by surprise when he told a reporter he “strongly disagreed” with Georgia Gov Brian Kemp’s decision to start reopening his state on Friday. Though many – including CNBC’s Jim Cramer – complain the marathon briefings, which are […]

  • Here’s Why The Economy Won’t Recover (And No, It’s Not COVID-19 Or The Lockdown)

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 4:35pm EDT

    Here’s Why The Economy Won’t Recover (And No, It’s Not COVID-19 Or The Lockdown) Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When reality and truth become the sworn enemies of society’s political and economic elites, the society is well and truly doomed. The risks of Covid-19 and the lockdown have been explored across a […]

  • Renowned Microbiologist Claims Wuhan Lab ‘Did Absolutely Crazy Things’ With Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 4:15pm EDT

    Renowned Microbiologist Claims Wuhan Lab ‘Did Absolutely Crazy Things’ With Coronavirus A world renowned Russian microbiologist says that the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of Wuhan scientists doing “absolutely crazy things” in their laboratory. Dr. Peter Chumakov of the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology and Russian Academy of Sciences claims […]

  • Rep. Shalala Admits Not Disclosing Stock Sales After Pelosi Appoints Her To Oversee Bailout Billions

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 3:45pm EDT

    Rep. Shalala Admits Not Disclosing Stock Sales After Pelosi Appoints Her To Oversee Bailout Billions Rep. Donna Shalala has come out an openly admit that she did not report at least 6 stock sales that were made after she was elected to the house in 2018.  The sales only became a topic of discussion after […]

  • US Intel Officials Believe Chinese Diplomats May Have Spread Fake Texts To Cause Social Unrest

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 3:25pm EDT

    US Intel Officials Believe Chinese Diplomats May Have Spread Fake Texts To Cause Social Unrest Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, US intelligence officials have claimed that Chinese agents attempted to stoke panic and social unrest in the US by spreading text messages in March warning of coming curfews and martial law with troops […]

  • Netflix Junk Bond Offering 10x Oversubscribed, Will Price At Record Low Yield

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 3:17pm EDT

    Netflix Junk Bond Offering 10x Oversubscribed, Will Price At Record Low Yield It’s refreshing that credit investors have learned absolutely nothing from the March crash. After warning in its earnings release that it would fund its ongoing cash burn with junk bonds, Netflix wasted no time, and just hours later announced it would issue $1 […]

  • IRGC Fires Back At Trump: Iran Will “Destroy” US Ships That Come Near

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 3:08pm EDT

    IRGC Fires Back At Trump: Iran Will “Destroy” US Ships That Come Near Iran has fired back at President Trump’s provocative Wednesday tweet instructing the US Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats in the gulf which “harass our ships at sea”. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif responded by mocking the rising coronavirus spread […]

  • Peter Schiff: Gold Is The “No-Brainer” Investment

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 2:45pm EDT

    Peter Schiff: Gold Is The “No-Brainer” Investment Via SchiffGold.com, Why is the mainstream financial media mostly ignoring gold? Peter Schiff talked about it in a recent podcast. He said the investment pundits are missing the boat on a “no-brainer” investment. The stock market has continued its pattern of wild swings this week. The Dow Jones […]

  • Mortgage Market Meltdown: Even The Wealthiest Loan Applicants Are Now Being Turned Down By Lenders

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 2:25pm EDT

    Mortgage Market Meltdown: Even The Wealthiest Loan Applicants Are Now Being Turned Down By Lenders The global pandemic has mortgage lenders steering away from even their wealthiest clients, as fears are abound that lost income could turn the industry’s best clients into its biggest risks. Jumbo loans, which got their name because they are bigger than most conventional […]

  • The “Easy Game” Is Over – COVID-19 Is The Catalyst Against Passive-Investing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 2:07pm EDT

    The “Easy Game” Is Over – COVID-19 Is The Catalyst Against Passive-Investing Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Passive investing has eaten active management’s lunch for decades. Its market share has grown steadily, capturing disproportionate amounts of inflows and allocation changes. Backed by scores of academic research, passive investing is pitched as a way to […]

  • Ali Lumsden’s East Lodge Capital Plunges 26% In March As Mortgage Market Implodes

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 1:45pm EDT

    Ali Lumsden’s East Lodge Capital Plunges 26% In March As Mortgage Market Implodes Ali Lumsden’s East Lodge Capital isn’t quite having the same success it did the last time the mortgage bond market melted down. Lumsden, famous for gaining 73% when the mortgage bond market went belly up last time, saw 26% declines in March […]

  • Top Elections Lawyer: Vote-By-Mail Is “The Most Massive Fraud Scheme In American History”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 1:27pm EDT

    Top Elections Lawyer: Vote-By-Mail Is “The Most Massive Fraud Scheme In American History” Authored by Margaret Menge via InsideSources.com, The First Amendment lawyer famous for Citizens United has taken up arms against a new foe: all-mail voting. Jim Bopp, Jr. filed two lawsuits in federal court this week — one in Nevada and one in Virginia — […]

  • European Summit Flops: Four “Frugal” EU Countries Oppose Grants

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 1:05pm EDT

    European Summit Flops: Four “Frugal” EU Countries Oppose Grants Update: Earlier today, when previewing today’s EU Summit, we concluded by saying that just one word summarizes best what to expect from today’s EU summit: disappointment. And sure enough, that was correct because moments ago Reuters reported that four “frugal” EU countries oppose grants, with the […]

  • Science Teachers Adapt To Lockdown With ‘Burping Bags’ And Other At-Home Experiments

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 1:05pm EDT

    Science Teachers Adapt To Lockdown With ‘Burping Bags’ And Other At-Home Experiments With most schools out across the country due to the coronavirus lockdown, science teachers have been getting creative when it comes to finding experiments to keeep their students entertained. “My thing has been to get science into their homes and get them doing […]

  • Stocks Tumble, Gilead Crashes After FT Reports Gilead’s Remdesivir “Flops” In First Clinical Trial

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:49pm EDT

    Stocks Tumble, Gilead Crashes After FT Reports Gilead’s Remdesivir “Flops” In First Clinical Trial Just as we suspected, the sketchy Statnews report claiming that Gilead’s remdesivir had achieved miraculous results on patients in a small preliminary University of Chicago study has been exposed as complete BS. The FT just reported that Gilead’s “miracle drug” remdesivir […]

  • Alberta Pension Fund Manager Lost $3 Billion Selling Volatility

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:45pm EDT

    Alberta Pension Fund Manager Lost $3 Billion Selling Volatility Submitted by Market Crumbs, Last week we learned about a badly timed decision that cost the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) more than $1 billion. CalPERS exited one of its two hedges just before the stock market began its unprecedented selloff.  As bad as that […]

  • Lloyd Blankfein Can’t Understand Why Investors Are Still Buying US Treasurys; Here Is The Answer

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:30pm EDT

    Lloyd Blankfein Can’t Understand Why Investors Are Still Buying US Treasurys; Here Is The Answer Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein kicked the hornets’ nest at the nexus of modern finance and socio-economics – where topics such as MMT, Helicopter Money and debt monetization all intersect and keep the US empire funded – by tweeting […]

  • Watch: Dozens Of Terrifying Twisters Tear Through Texas & Oklahoma

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:25pm EDT

    Watch: Dozens Of Terrifying Twisters Tear Through Texas & Oklahoma Tornados ripped through Texas and Oklahoma in the overnight on Wednesday, killing at least five people and damaging structures, reported ABC News. Two people were killed in southern Oklahoma, and a third remains hospitalized, said Marshall County Emergency Management Director Robert Chaney. ~MUST WATCH~ Terrifying […]

  • They’ll Wreck The Economy If They Have To

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 12:10pm EDT

    They’ll Wreck The Economy If They Have To Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Nearly seven centuries ago in the mid-1300s, the first major outbreak of the Bubonic Plague forced Europeans into some of the harshest social distancing measures in history. As Boccacio wrote in The Decameron in 1353, the hysteria was so extreme that […]

  • First BNP, Now SocGen: French Banks Suffer Huge Losses As Derivative Trade Blows Up

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 11:55am EDT

    First BNP, Now SocGen: French Banks Suffer Huge Losses As Derivative Trade Blows Up Three things are guaranteed: death, taxes and French banks, the world’s so-called “derivative gurus”, losing boatloads of money any time the VIX spikes. As a reminder, two weeks ago we reported that BNP Paribas, the largest French bank, lost hundreds of […]

  • The Chinese Health Organization?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 23rd 2020 11:40am EDT

    The Chinese Health Organization? Authored by Brahma Chellaney via Project Syndicate, The COVID-19 pandemic, much like a major war, is a defining moment for the world – one that demands major reforms of international institutions. The World Health Organization, whose credibility has taken a severe beating of late, is a good place to start. The […]