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  • Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Mankind’s Best Friend: Dogs Being Trained To Detect COVID-19 Odors Could Test 750 People Per Hour Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, There’s plenty of reason why dogs have historically been considered man’s best friend. For at least the past 15,000 years, dogs have served human societies in myriad ways. Whether by hunting pray, helping […]

  • Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:04pm EDT

    Trump Says He “Strongly Disagrees” With Gov Kemp’s Decision To Reopen Georgia After a week in which President Trump deliberately courted blame for the entire coronavirus pandemic response by tacitly applauding protesters demanding that the country reopen immediately, reopening the national parks and making other remarks implying that he now regrets his decision to delegate […]

  • Mitch McConnell Says Struggling States Should File For Bankruptcy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 9:03pm EDT

    Mitch McConnell Says Struggling States Should File For Bankruptcy Over the past month, the economic shutdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic – which as we hear every day was “nobody’s fault” just to make sure there are no unpleasant mentions of moral hazard during the biggest bailout in history… … has emerged as the perfect […]

  • Japanese PMI Collapses To Record Low, Signals 10% Crash In GDP

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:47pm EDT

    Japanese PMI Collapses To Record Low, Signals 10% Crash In GDP After China’s ugliest GDP print ever, and the collapse of US economic surprise index data, it should be no real surprise that Japan’s manufacturing and services industry PMIs would plunge (despite the “everything’s fine, the Olympics is imminent” narrative puked forth by the government […]

  • Here’s Why 2/3rds Of US Oil & Gas Companies May Not Exist A Year From Now

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:40pm EDT

    Here’s Why 2/3rds Of US Oil & Gas Companies May Not Exist A Year From Now Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, Energy companies are facing a life or death moment in 2020 with the price of WTI crude oil falling to $13.64/barrel as of this writing. Indeed the collapse in energy […]

  • What Rebound? Hedge Funds Have Been Selling For 8 Of Past 9 Days As “Global HF Heavyweights Remain Bearish”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:25pm EDT

    What Rebound? Hedge Funds Have Been Selling For 8 Of Past 9 Days As “Global HF Heavyweights Remain Bearish” Today’s market rebound was impressive, but after the first major sell-off in some time on Monday and Tuesday, it was not impressive enough for Nomura’s quant Masanari Takada who writes that what is going on in […]

  • COVID-19 & Oil Below Zero: Is There A Way Forward?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 8:00pm EDT

    COVID-19 & Oil Below Zero: Is There A Way Forward? Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Many people are concerned today with the low price of oil. Others are concerned about slowing or stopping COVID-19. Is there any way forward? I gave a few hints regarding what is ahead in my last […]

  • US Blasts “Bullying Behavior” As China Rattles Sabre In South China Sea 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:40pm EDT

    US Blasts “Bullying Behavior” As China Rattles Sabre In South China Sea  China is making big geopolitical moves at the moment, and it has used the cover of the pandemic to assert itself as a significant power player in the Pacific and challenge the existing world order and the US.  The existing world order, controlled […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 22, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:37pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 22, 2020 Tyler Durden Wed, 04/22/2020 – 19:37

  • Skynet Is Near – Google Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence That Evolves On Its Own

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:20pm EDT

    Skynet Is Near – Google Scientists Create Artificial Intelligence That Evolves On Its Own Authored by Jake Anderson via TheMindUnleashed.com, One of the biggest global players in artificial intelligence (AI) is Google and their high-tech Brain division has been pushing the envelope for years. Now scientists working for their AutoML project have a new paper in which […]

  • “There’s No Liquidity” – Mortgage Lenders Abandon “No Brainer” Best Credit Risk Borrowers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 7:00pm EDT

    “There’s No Liquidity” – Mortgage Lenders Abandon “No Brainer” Best Credit Risk Borrowers The jumbo loan market is facing a classic liquidity crunch. A perfect storm is brewing as millions of homeowners are seeking forbearances as the economy crashes into depression from coronavirus lockdowns, and firms who usually bundle up jumbo loans have immediately exited […]

  • Expert Warns US Is On The Brink Of “Mass Civil Unrest”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Expert Warns US Is On The Brink Of “Mass Civil Unrest” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, An expert with the United States Studies Centre says that America is on the brink of “mass civil unrest” that threatens to emerge out of anti-lockdown protests now taking place nationwide. Demonstrations against coronavirus stay-at-home measures […]

  • Caves, Cars, & Clogged Pipelines – Oil Traders Turn To “Oddball Storage Locations” As Demand Hits 30-Year Lows

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:20pm EDT

    Caves, Cars, & Clogged Pipelines – Oil Traders Turn To “Oddball Storage Locations” As Demand Hits 30-Year Lows As we detailed earlier, global floating storage is now accelerating at an “unprecedented pace” currently amounting to almost 250 million barrels, up from common estimates of 160 million bbl only last week, with at least one in 10 supertankers around […]

  • “Mr.President, Open The Economy Now” – Martin Armstrong Warns “There’s Another Agenda Going On”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 6:00pm EDT

    “Mr.President, Open The Economy Now” – Martin Armstrong Warns “There’s Another Agenda Going On” Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says shutting down the economy is far worse that the effects of the Wuhan China virus. Armstrong says, “This is just scare mongering, and there is another agenda going on…” […]

  • New York Released – Then Retracted – A New Policy Asking Paramedics To Just Let Patients Without A Pulse Die

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:40pm EDT

    New York Released – Then Retracted – A New Policy Asking Paramedics To Just Let Patients Without A Pulse Die Imagine a scenario where, for whatever reason, your pulse stopped  – say because of a sudden cardiac incident or another of the myriad medical maladies that can arise without warning – anywhere in NYC. Then, […]

  • Watch Live: White House Task Force Delivers Wednesday Briefing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:40pm EDT

    Watch Live: White House Task Force Delivers Wednesday Briefing Wednesday’s briefing was delayed until 5:45pmET, perhaps due to last-minute talks about the federal government’s latest relief bill, which is meant to replenish the small-business lending program that has largely shafted small businesses in favor of public companies, who are effectively being given the green light […]

  • Six Feet Apart In The Sunshine

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:20pm EDT

    Six Feet Apart In The Sunshine Authored by Christine Black via Off-Guardian.org, We are in lockdown in Virginia after Governor Ralph Northam closed beaches, book stores, libraries, restaurants, coffees shops, cancelled live music concerts, and ordered churches closed. He said to not have gatherings of more than 10 people and to practice “social distancing,” which […]

  • Air Force Preparing For ‘Cyclical’ Coronavirus, Top General Warns

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 5:00pm EDT

    Air Force Preparing For ‘Cyclical’ Coronavirus, Top General Warns The Air Force is assuming that COVID-19 will be a ‘cyclical’ virus that will likely come back until (and unless) a vaccine is created, according to Wednesday statements by Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, the branch’s top general. “All the predictions are no vaccine for […]

  • UN Admits COVID-19 Pandemic Could Spark Famines Of “Biblical Proportions”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 4:40pm EDT

    UN Admits COVID-19 Pandemic Could Spark Famines Of “Biblical Proportions” Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, What the head of the UN’s World Food Program just said should be making front page headlines all over the globe.  Because if what he is claiming is true, we are about to see global food […]

  • Round 2: Chamath Explains Why Corporate America Is “Incompetent” & Fed Stimulus Is “Dangerous” In Epic 7-Minute CNBC Interview

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 4:20pm EDT

    Round 2: Chamath Explains Why Corporate America Is “Incompetent” & Fed Stimulus Is “Dangerous” In Epic 7-Minute CNBC Interview More than 125 years ago, the American financial press emerged from the primordial ooze with a simple mission: To help even the playing field between retail investors and professionals. The theory was that by lessening the […]

  • A History Of The Biggest Bailouts In History

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 3:50pm EDT

    A History Of The Biggest Bailouts In History While nobody knows when the US economy will fully recover from the coronacrisis pandemic, what the economy will look like, or where the S&P will be one year from now, we do know how much money the current bailout has cost. And, at over $10 trillion to […]

  • Kyle Bass: “The Saudis Are Sending Us A 50 Million Barrel Oil Bomb”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 3:19pm EDT

    Kyle Bass: “The Saudis Are Sending Us A 50 Million Barrel Oil Bomb” By now even the 165,727 “professional investors” who are long the USO ETF on the free, glitch-prone platform Robin Hood, are aware that the problem facing global oil production is that there is simply no storage where to put all the physical […]

  • What’s Collapsing Can’t Be Saved: Our Fraudulent Economy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 3:05pm EDT

    What’s Collapsing Can’t Be Saved: Our Fraudulent Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Pulling the sleeve down to hide the tracks doesn’t mean the addict is cured. Just for a change of pace, can we be bluntly honest about the U.S. economy? It’s difficult to do because we’ve chosen to ignore all the […]

  • Students Sue Harvard For Prison Investments, Claim School Is “Complicit In White Supremacy”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 2:35pm EDT

    Students Sue Harvard For Prison Investments, Claim School Is “Complicit In White Supremacy” Authored by Allison Robison via Campus Reform, A student group advocating for full prison abolition is suing Harvard University for its investments in the “prison-industrial complex,” which it says implicates the university in continued “benefit from its historical ties to slavery.” “We […]

  • In Desperate Scramble To Stay Alive, USO Reallocates Oil Holdings, May Invest In “Other Oil-Related” Assets

    ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2020 2:34pm EDT

    In Desperate Scramble To Stay Alive, USO Reallocates Oil Holdings, May Invest In “Other Oil-Related” Assets The managers of the infamous USO ETF really do not want to be dissolve this “retail killer” which in Kyle Bass’s words has “vaporized billions from unweary investors this week alone.” Just hours after USCF investments, the managers behind […]