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  • Might The Russia-China-USA Alliance For Space Exploration Define The New “New World Order”?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    Might The Russia-China-USA Alliance For Space Exploration Define The New “New World Order”? Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, As the COVID-19 Crisis stagnates the Earth, there may be a big shake up going on in space…   Whatever forces are behind the current spread of the coronavirus justifying the shutdown of […]

  • This Is Where The World Is On The “Corona Curve” At This Moment: Over The Hump

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    This Is Where The World Is On The “Corona Curve” At This Moment: Over The Hump After weeks of “climbing the coronacurve”, we finally have some good news – we are now officially over the hump “tipping point.” The global infection growth slowed from 90% W/W to just 38% W/W in the last fortnight (total […]

  • Jim Simons’ Medallion Fund Signals Entry Into Crypto Markets Ahead Of Historic Halving

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    Jim Simons’ Medallion Fund Signals Entry Into Crypto Markets Ahead Of Historic Halving Just days after The Wall Street Journal reported on the stellar performance of the greatest hedge fund in history (Renaissance’s ultra secretive and ultra lucrative – open only to friend and employees – Medallion fund), the directionally-agnostic, algo-driven system is apparently turning […]

  • ‘Canada’s Deadliest Attack In Years’ – At Least 10 Killed In Roving Shooting Rampage Across Nova Scotia

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 6:52pm EDT

    ‘Canada’s Deadliest Attack In Years’ – At Least 10 Killed In Roving Shooting Rampage Across Nova Scotia In what will be remembered as one of the worst mass shootings in recent Canadian history (though the country is certainly no stranger to terroristic attacks), more than 10 people are dead, including an RCMP officer and the […]

  • WTI Crashes To 19 Year Low As Trading Reopens; S&P Futures Slide

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 6:30pm EDT

    WTI Crashes To 19 Year Low As Trading Reopens; S&P Futures Slide After a relatively drama-free weekend, futures have started off the new week lower by about 0.4%, trading at 2850, down 20 points from Friday’s CTA inspired and momentum-driven meltup which appears to be reversing as algos realize they have frontrun a rebound in […]

  • “Cemeteries Simply Cannot Cope” As Ecuador’s COVID Death Rate Suddenly Quadruples 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 6:30pm EDT

    “Cemeteries Simply Cannot Cope” As Ecuador’s COVID Death Rate Suddenly Quadruples  While COVID-19 news flow from South America has been somewhat uneventful during the pandemic, one country to keep an eye on for future developments of a possible outbreak is Ecuador. A new report via The Guardian has revealed some pretty shocking statics of a massive death […]

  • Morgan Stanley: Rushing To Reopen The Economy Would Backfire

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 6:05pm EDT

    Morgan Stanley: Rushing To Reopen The Economy Would Backfire Authored by Andrew Sheet, Morgan Stanley chief global strategist Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain Late last year, I met with the pension fund for a physicians’ association in the western United States. I’ve been thinking a lot about that meeting recently, especially when some aspect of […]

  • Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 5:40pm EDT

    Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil As we pointed out earlier in the week, China-owned Smithfield Food’s decision to temporarily shutter the largest pork processing plant in the US, based in Sioux Falls, SD, due to a coronavirus outbreak is a much more significant […]

  • “Just Snap A Photo” – De Blasio Explains How To Snitch On Fellow New Yorkers Breaking Social Distancing Rules

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 5:22pm EDT

    “Just Snap A Photo” – De Blasio Explains How To Snitch On Fellow New Yorkers Breaking Social Distancing Rules And just like that, we, the sheeple are enforcing authorities’ wishes… Despite being “warm, emotional people”, NYC Mayor De Blasio has some totalitarian tips for snitching on your social-distancing-denying neighbors… How do you report places that […]

  • Japan Proves Again Just How Laughable The Idea That Central Banks Can Support Markets Is

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 5:15pm EDT

    Japan Proves Again Just How Laughable The Idea That Central Banks Can Support Markets Is Authored by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investments, On March 2, the Bank of Japan leapt into the stock market, Haruhiko Kuroda burnishing his Superman cape as he flew in to rescue the Nikkei. Purchasing a record amount of ETF’s that […]

  • Secretary Mnuchin: Trump’s Signature On Stimulus Checks “My Idea” – Not The President’s

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 4:50pm EDT

    Secretary Mnuchin: Trump’s Signature On Stimulus Checks “My Idea” – Not The President’s Recall that Trump Derangement Syndrome was in high gear on a national scale and in the media when a week ago, just as coronavirus stimulus checks began going out to Americans, the administration announced a break in protocol – saying President Donald Trump’s signature […]

  • 24 Hour Fitness Prepares For Bankruptcy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 4:25pm EDT

    24 Hour Fitness Prepares For Bankruptcy Despite hopes of a gradual reopening in the coming weeks, the US economy remains paralyzed with most non-essential venues still closed, and since gyms were among the first to be put on lockdown it will hardly come as a surprise that gym chain 24 Hour Fitness has been working […]

  • Young COVID-Positive Redditors Describe Agony Of Ongoing Symptoms Nearly Two Months After Getting Sick

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 4:00pm EDT

    Young COVID-Positive Redditors Describe Agony Of Ongoing Symptoms Nearly Two Months After Getting Sick While COVID-19 mostly kills older people with underlying conditions, it can have devastating effects on the vast majority who survive the initial illness – including younger individuals. Based on what we know about this brand new disease, up to half of […]

  • Sooner Or Later, Americans Will Have To Choose Between Freedom & A Micro-Chipped Vaccine

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 3:35pm EDT

    Sooner Or Later, Americans Will Have To Choose Between Freedom & A Micro-Chipped Vaccine Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Presently, billions of people around the world are ‘living’ under mandatory stay-at-home orders, purportedly to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Aside from the question as to whether quarantine is the […]

  • “Trump = Death” – Pro-Immigration Protesters Dump Body-Bags Outside Trump’s NYC Hotel

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 3:10pm EDT

    “Trump = Death” – Pro-Immigration Protesters Dump Body-Bags Outside Trump’s NYC Hotel Pro-immigration protestors dumped fake body bags on the sidewalk outside of the Trump International Hotel & Tower New York on Saturday in response to President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Less than a dozen protesters were seen outside of the hotel, located […]

  • Now Comes The Real Crazy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 2:45pm EDT

    Now Comes The Real Crazy Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, A recurring theme of modern financial crises is the “temporary” nature of the extreme steps governments take to fix the system. Recall that the massive increase in the Fed’s balance sheet during its Great Recession asset-buying binge (which is another way of saying “currency […]

  • Singapore Oil Trading Giant Files For Bankruptcy After Hiding $800 Million In Losses, Secretly Selling Loan Collateral

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 2:20pm EDT

    Singapore Oil Trading Giant Files For Bankruptcy After Hiding $800 Million In Losses, Secretly Selling Loan Collateral Last weekend we reported that one of Singapore’s biggest and most iconic – and extremely secretive – oil traders, Hin Leong Trading, whose website reported the company’s revenue surpassed $14 billion back in 2012, was on the verge […]

  • Just One Chart

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 1:55pm EDT

    Just One Chart Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Nasdaq green for the year. What crisis? The Fed’s got this. Only took $2 trillion in balance sheet expansion in four weeks and all is well again. Non. Sense. Indeed I can show you just one chart that suggests, if history repeats, that this entire rally […]

  • Critics Slam Trump For Claiming China Should Face “Consequences” If It “Knowingly” Unleashed The Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 1:30pm EDT

    Critics Slam Trump For Claiming China Should Face “Consequences” If It “Knowingly” Unleashed The Coronavirus At the conclusion of a week that saw the already-tense relationship between the US and China further strained by reports of CPC-sanctioned skullduggery during the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan, President Trump decided to kick things up a […]

  • US Economy Contracting “At Sharpest Pace Since World War Two” & “The Worst Is Yet To Come”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 1:05pm EDT

    US Economy Contracting “At Sharpest Pace Since World War Two” & “The Worst Is Yet To Come” Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Fear of COVID-19 has unleashed economic chaos on a scale that has already surpassed anything that we witnessed during the last recession, and as you will see below, we […]

  • Fake Doctor Elon Musk Ridiculed By Real Doctors Into Deleting Tweet About “Lung Strength”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 12:40pm EDT

    Fake Doctor Elon Musk Ridiculed By Real Doctors Into Deleting Tweet About “Lung Strength” We all know that one of Elon Musk’s favorite things to do is to opine on things he has no idea about while trying to sound smart. And this weekend we found out, surprisingly, that not only is Musk not a physicist and not an […]

  • AG Barr Blocks Release Of 9/11 Documents Despite Promises To Victims’ Families

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 12:15pm EDT

    AG Barr Blocks Release Of 9/11 Documents Despite Promises To Victims’ Families Authored by Derrick Broze via TheMindUnleashed.com, On Monday, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, and other senior officials called on a federal judge to prevent the disclosure of files related to the role of the government of […]

  • “The Default Cycle Has Officially Started”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 11:50am EDT

    “The Default Cycle Has Officially Started” We didn’t really need any more confirmations. In recent weeks, as the US economy came to a screeching halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen banks take over $20 billion in reserves  in anticipation of a looming default wave (a five-fold increase if not nearly enough based […]

  • New Cases In Russia, Singapore Soar, Spain Reports Lowest Single-Day Death Toll In A Month: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 11:40am EDT

    New Cases In Russia, Singapore Soar, Spain Reports Lowest Single-Day Death Toll In A Month: Live Updates One day after Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announced plans to extend what is about to become a strict, six-week-long countrywide lockdown until May 9, health authorities declared another drop in the rate of new COVID-19 cases and deaths, […]

  • Anatomy Of The Crash: The Financial Crisis Of 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 11:25am EDT

    Anatomy Of The Crash: The Financial Crisis Of 2020 Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, [This is the preface for the Mises Institute’s new online book Anatomy of the Crash: The Financial Crisis of 2020.] “End the Fed!” Three small words became one of the most improbable and powerful political chants in modern politics […]