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  • 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 […]

  • Crowds Swarm Florida Beaches Amid Phased Reopening As Critics Slam “#FloridaMorons”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 11:00am EDT

    Crowds Swarm Florida Beaches Amid Phased Reopening As Critics Slam “#FloridaMorons” Controversy is ensuing over viral images and video showing Florida beaches swarming with crowds a mere day after Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said they could reopen based on local leaders’ and counties’ discretion. Getty Images The Hill reports, “Images of people flocking to beaches in […]

  • “A Monumental Failure Of Institutional Effectiveness” – Marc Andreesen Urges The West “It’s Time To Build”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 10:35am EDT

    “A Monumental Failure Of Institutional Effectiveness” – Marc Andreesen Urges The West “It’s Time To Build” Authored by Marc Andreesen via a16z.com, Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to […]

  • Pelosi Says Deal ‘Close’ After Holding Up ‘Clean Refunding’ Of Small Business Relief

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 10:16am EDT

    Pelosi Says Deal ‘Close’ After Holding Up ‘Clean Refunding’ Of Small Business Relief House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says lawmakers are nearing an agreement on more coronavirus aid after she refused to accept a pork-free ‘clean’ version of the legislation to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which ran out of money last week. “We’re close,” […]

  • WHO Advisory Committee Member Retweets (Then Deletes) Michael Moore Clip Endorsing Anti-Trump Violence

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 9:58am EDT

    WHO Advisory Committee Member Retweets (Then Deletes) Michael Moore Clip Endorsing Anti-Trump Violence “Fair treatment for all.” “Together we are stronger.” “Yes to unity.” “Yes to solidarity.” “What a wonderful world. Together.” All rallying cries of the liberated minds of the global elite (actually these are all from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) as they […]

  • Spamalot, No More? Hormel Shutters Illinois Plant Amid COVID-19 Fears

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 9:36am EDT

    Spamalot, No More? Hormel Shutters Illinois Plant Amid COVID-19 Fears A cluster of COVID-19 cases forced health officials in Illinois to shutter Hormel’s Rochelle Foods plant on Friday.   Ogle County Health Department (OCHD) said the food processing plant would be closed for at least two weeks. On Friday (April 17), the facility was linked to […]

  • Sweden Is Right – The Economy Should Be Left Open

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 9:10am EDT

    Sweden Is Right – The Economy Should Be Left Open Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, Sometimes, the best thing to do, is to do nothing at all. Take Sweden, for example, where the government decided not to shut down the economy, but to take a more thoughtful and balanced approach. Sweden has […]

  • Detroit Police Issue 736 Citations, Shutdown Dozens Of Parties During Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 8:45am EDT

    Detroit Police Issue 736 Citations, Shutdown Dozens Of Parties During Lockdown Detroit Police have touted on social media that they issued hundreds of citations and broke up dozens of parties during the coronavirus lockdown, reported Detroit Free Press. A new Facebook post via the Detroit Police Department details how thousands of folks across Wayne County, […]

  • One Year Later, Cause Of Notre Dame Fire Remains A Mystery

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 8:10am EDT

    One Year Later, Cause Of Notre Dame Fire Remains A Mystery Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, One year after a fire nearly destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the cause of the blaze remains a mystery. On April 15, 2019, the 850 year old gothic building was engulfed in flames, sending […]

  • It’s Not Just Toilet Paper, Seed Shortages Spread As Locked-Down Americans Turn To Growing Their Own Food 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 7:35am EDT

    It’s Not Just Toilet Paper, Seed Shortages Spread As Locked-Down Americans Turn To Growing Their Own Food  Americans are panic hoarding plant seeds as the coronavirus outbreak confines millions to their homes, crashes the economy, and disrupts food supply chains. This has resulted in people questioning their food security. A Google search of “buy seeds” […]

  • The Destructive Force Of Bank Credit

    ZeroHedge - Apr 19th 2020 7:00am EDT

    The Destructive Force Of Bank Credit Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, Commentators routinely confuse the deflationary effects of a contraction of bank credit with the inflationary effects of central bank policies designed to offset it. Central banks always ensure their stimulus is greater, so inflation, not deflation, is always the outcome. In order to […]