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  • After 86 Million Miles In Space, NASA Astronauts Forced To Take 186 Mile COVID-19-Detour On Return To Earth

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    After 86 Million Miles In Space, NASA Astronauts Forced To Take 186 Mile COVID-19-Detour On Return To Earth You know the coronavirus restrictions in place globally are serious when its easier to get back to Earth from the International Space Station than it is to get home once you’ve touched back down on the blue […]

  • 14 Ways To Improve Mental Health During The World’s Biggest Psychological Experiment

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    14 Ways To Improve Mental Health During The World’s Biggest Psychological Experiment Authored by Natalia Braun via TheMindUnleashed.com, What we were warned about but turned a blind eye to and did not expect in the Western world to this extent, happened: we found ourselves in the midst of a pandemic. Social distancing, quarantine and hygienic practices are […]

  • FBI Says Foreign States Hacked US Research Centers Seeking COVID-19 Breakthroughs 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    FBI Says Foreign States Hacked US Research Centers Seeking COVID-19 Breakthroughs  A top FBI official has warned that foreign governments are seeking to break into American companies’ cyber systems where crucial coronavirus research data is stored.  “We certainly have seen reconnaissance activity, and some intrusions, into some of those institutions, especially those that have publicly identified themselves […]

  • These 10 Colleges Are Receiving The Most Federal Bailout Money

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 8:40pm EDT

    These 10 Colleges Are Receiving The Most Federal Bailout Money Authored by Jon Street via Campus Reform, Thousands of colleges across the country are being infused with billions of dollars in cash after they were forced to close their campuses and move classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund is […]

  • Oil Stored At Sea Hits A Record 160 Million Barrels, Doubling In Two Weeks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 8:36pm EDT

    Oil Stored At Sea Hits A Record 160 Million Barrels, Doubling In Two Weeks The historic OPEC+ “Mexican Standoff” production cut came and went, and after a very short kneejerk spike higher oil has continued to plunge to historic lows for the two reasons we laid out previously: i) the production cut was not nearly […]

  • The Paper Of Record Says Feel Sorry For Bill Gates, Who’s Been Targeted With Conspiracy Theories

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 8:20pm EDT

    The Paper Of Record Says Feel Sorry For Bill Gates, Who’s Been Targeted With Conspiracy Theories The Wall Street Journal’s Deepa Seetharaman wants us to know that while poor billionaire Bill Gates has ‘long been a target for online trolls,’ that ‘the social-media attacks have intensified’ as the Micrrosoft co-founder and World Health Organization (WHO) […]

  • The “Iron Law” Of Oligarchy – Always Pick The Policy-Makers

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    The “Iron Law” Of Oligarchy – Always Pick The Policy-Makers via TheChicagoEconomist.com, “The iron law of oligarchy” is a political theory, first developed by the German sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties.  It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an “iron law” within any democratic organization as part of the “tactical and technical […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 17, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 7:59pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 17, 2020 Tyler Durden Fri, 04/17/2020 – 19:59

  • Rural Communities Are Not Safe From COVID-19, Researchers Warn 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    Rural Communities Are Not Safe From COVID-19, Researchers Warn  Princeton researchers have determined that rural counties concentrated in the western U.S., the northern Midwest, Florida, and northern New England have elderly populations that could be the most vulnerable to COVID-19.  The new report titled “Mapping the Burden of COVID-19 in the United States” suggests that rural communities […]

  • The “Best” Economy Ever? Neither Before, Nor After Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    The “Best” Economy Ever? Neither Before, Nor After Coronavirus Submitted by Joe Carson, former chief economist at Alliance Bernstein, The strong rebound in equity prices since mid-March suggests investors are banking on a fast rebound in the economy once government eases the restrictions on work-life, travel and social and recreational gatherings. Reopening regions or sectors […]

  • Jim Simons Legendary Medallion Fund Up 36% In 2020, Expects More Volatility Ahead

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 7:00pm EDT

    Jim Simons Legendary Medallion Fund Up 36% In 2020, Expects More Volatility Ahead Yesterday we reported that the “most bearish hedge fund manager” (or as he prefers to be called “the most logical and rational fund manager”), Russell Clark, had a tremendous March, returning 15.17% after an impressive 9.47% in February. The 26.92% YTD return […]

  • New Study Shows US Coronavirus Infections “50- To 80-Fold Higher” Than Believed

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 7:00pm EDT

    New Study Shows US Coronavirus Infections “50- To 80-Fold Higher” Than Believed One of the biggest problems confronting scientists and public health officials is the fact that we really don’t know how many people have contracted the virus, but have never shown symptoms. These so-called “asymptomatic” cases have been a huge problem thwarting attempts at […]

  • Will COVID-19 Retire The World’s Policeman?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Will COVID-19 Retire The World’s Policeman? Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, For declaring in March that the U.S. economy might be reopened by Easter, President Donald Trump was roundly mocked. Yet, it appears his political instincts were correct. He was more in tune with his country than were his critics. By early Easter week, […]

  • Landlords Are Reportedly Asking Broke Tenants To ‘Pay’ Rent With Sex

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 6:20pm EDT

    Landlords Are Reportedly Asking Broke Tenants To ‘Pay’ Rent With Sex Desperate times call for desperate measures. And with the Fed in the process of destroying the monetary system as we know, we can’t say we were surprised to hear that some landlords were attempting to use the age-old system of barter to accept payments. […]

  • WHO Wants To Separate Families… “In A Safe And Dignified Manner”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    WHO Wants To Separate Families… “In A Safe And Dignified Manner” Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, For this week’s round-up of articles, we noticed a theme: the most alarming articles are about governments going over-the-top, grabbing powers in the name of stopping the Coronavirus. Here are some examples that we found absurd, and downright […]

  • Watch Live: White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Friday Briefing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:55pm EDT

    Watch Live: White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Friday Briefing The Democrats and Republicans are still battling over a bill to replenish the government’s tapped emergency lending program for small businesses, President Trump and the Pence-led White House Task Force are holding their first press briefing since delegating control of the economic reopening to the […]

  • Mexico Downgraded To Baa1 By Moody’s; “Negative Outlook” Means Junking Imminent

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:51pm EDT

    Mexico Downgraded To Baa1 By Moody’s; “Negative Outlook” Means Junking Imminent Just days after Scott Minerd warned of an emerging markets “apocalypse”, which he thinks would be the next shoe to drop in the ongoing global covid crisis as unlike developed nations emerging markets can’t just print their way out of a sharp recession at […]

  • No “Buy American” This Time: Munger Warns Berkshire “Will Shutter Some Businesses”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:40pm EDT

    No “Buy American” This Time: Munger Warns Berkshire “Will Shutter Some Businesses” On Oct 16, 2008, in what seemed America’s darkest hour at least until a Chinese manmade virus escaped a Wuhan lab and killed thousands of Americans, forcing the Fed to nationalize capital markets and preserve social order by artificially inflating stock prices to […]

  • Trump Slams Cuomo: “Spend Less Time Complaining And More Time Doing”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:20pm EDT

    Trump Slams Cuomo: “Spend Less Time Complaining And More Time Doing” Here’s a message for Andrew Cuomo: When the president delegates, he delegates. President Trump has apparently realized that the process of reopening this country might be more complicated than he initially anticipated, and affirmed that the ball is now in the governors’ court – […]

  • Will Amazon Kill Small Business?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:00pm EDT

    Will Amazon Kill Small Business? Submitted by Market Crumbs Four weeks. That’s how long it took for all of the jobs created over the last 11 years since the Great Recession to be wiped out as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19. The Labor Department reported yesterday that nearly 5.25 million Americans filed for […]

  • US Launches ‘Full-Scale Investigation’ Into Wuhan Lab

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 4:44pm EDT

    US Launches ‘Full-Scale Investigation’ Into Wuhan Lab The United States has launched a ‘full scale investigation’ into whether COVID-19 escaped from a biolab in Wuhan, China, according to Fox News. According to the report, US intelligence operatives are gathering information regarding the laboratory and the initial outbreak of the virus, which was found in a […]

  • As The Bottom 60% Lose Lives & Livelihoods, The Fed & The Top 10% Cheer Market Rebound

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 4:20pm EDT

    As The Bottom 60% Lose Lives & Livelihoods, The Fed & The Top 10% Cheer Market Rebound Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If you have any doubt that the Fed and Wall Street will some day be dismantled, please re-read this “real life in America” list again. The pandemic is a stark, […]

  • Crude Crashes As Mega-Tech Stocks Soar Amid Record Surge In Deaths & Unemployment

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 4:00pm EDT

    Crude Crashes As Mega-Tech Stocks Soar Amid Record Surge In Deaths & Unemployment Nasdaq stocks soared on the week (second week in a row) as Small Caps and Trannies disappointed… Sending tech stocks back to dotcom levels of exuberance relative to domestically-focused smaller cap stocks… Source: Bloomberg But bonds were not buying it (even as […]

  • Guggenheim CIO Sees S&P500 Falling As Low As 1,200

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 3:27pm EDT

    Guggenheim CIO Sees S&P500 Falling As Low As 1,200 With Morgan Stanley’s (former) uber-bear Michael Wilson emerging recently as one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street, a power – or rather wildlife – vacuum emerged over the spot of who will be crowned Wall Street’s next super bear (excluding such icons as Albert Edwards) […]

  • Outrage Over Bank Seizures Of Coronavirus Relief Payments From Debt-Strapped Veterans

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 3:10pm EDT

    Outrage Over Bank Seizures Of Coronavirus Relief Payments From Debt-Strapped Veterans Authored by Jake Johnson & Eoin Higgins via CommonDreams.org, Hours after David Dayen reported Thursday at The American Prospect that USAA was seizing coronavirus stimulus money from veterans with accounts at the financial institution, the bank reversed course, telling Dayen in a statement that the money seized would […]