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  • “Unprecedented Disruption” To Supply Chains Slams US Port Volumes

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 5:00am EDT

    “Unprecedented Disruption” To Supply Chains Slams US Port Volumes Authored by Kim Link-Wills, originally posted in FreightWaves Not surprisingly the coronavirus pandemic delivered a heavy hit to U.S. port volumes in March. The unknown is how long the container drought will continue. Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) Chief Executive Officer John Wolfe said during a press […]

  • Russian Jet Buzzes US Navy Plane In High-Speed ‘Inverted Maneuver’ Over Mediterranean 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 4:15am EDT

    Russian Jet Buzzes US Navy Plane In High-Speed ‘Inverted Maneuver’ Over Mediterranean  The Pentagon has blasted the Russian military for a dangerous incident Wednesday over the Mediterranean Sea which the US says nearly led to a midair collision.  The near disaster began when a Russian fighter jet intercepted an American P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, which is typically […]

  • COVID-19 & The Collapse Of Cash

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 3:30am EDT

    COVID-19 & The Collapse Of Cash Authored by Steven Guinness, In my last article I referred to how since fears of Covid-19 in the UK took root in March, cash usage has fallen dramatically. Whilst the drop off has been substantial, the trend of cash payments being in decline is long established. Based on early evidence, the […]

  • WHO Advises EU To Restrict Alcohol Sales During Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 2:45am EDT

    WHO Advises EU To Restrict Alcohol Sales During Lockdown The World Health Organization (WHO) published a statement Tuesday that read European governments should restrict the sales of alcohol to citizens as nationwide lockdowns continue.  The statement read, “during the COVID-19 pandemic, alcohol consumption can exacerbate health vulnerability, risk-taking behaviors, mental health issues, and violence.”  The WHO’s European […]

  • The EU Has Failed Europe Over Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 2:00am EDT

    The EU Has Failed Europe Over Coronavirus Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, The deepening divisions among European nations over their response to the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the inability of the European Union to provide strong and effective leadership in times of crisis. Faced with arguably the greatest challenge Europe has faced […]

  • Iraq Warns That ISIS Now Using Coronavirus Crisis To Reestablish ‘Virtual Caliphate’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 17th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Iraq Warns That ISIS Now Using Coronavirus Crisis To Reestablish ‘Virtual Caliphate’ Via AlmasdarNews.com, The Digital Media Center in Iraq revealed an increase in the number of accounts belonging to the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) and their supporters on social media platforms, especially Facebook. The center said in a press release that “this return came during […]

  • No, We Are Not “All In This Together”…

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    No, We Are Not “All In This Together”… Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, A common phrase I have heard lately all around the internet as well as all around the area I live whenever the pandemic situation is broached is that “We are all in this together, and WE will get through this together….” […]

  • Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands To Keep Workers Six Feet Apart

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    Ford Tests Buzzing Wristbands To Keep Workers Six Feet Apart Ford Motor Co. is now piloting new wearable social-distancing wristbands for its workers once its factories reopen, reports Bloomberg. A group of workers at a factory in Plymouth, Michigan, are currently testing the wristbands that vibrate when someone on the assembly line comes within six feet […]

  • Quantifying The COVID-19 Shock On The Job Market: Where Jobs Are Growing And Where They Are Gone

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Quantifying The COVID-19 Shock On The Job Market: Where Jobs Are Growing And Where They Are Gone Submitted by Priceonomics, The coronavirus outbreak has been an unprecedented shock to the hourly job market. The past few weeks have seen huge changes in who’s hiring. Snagajob is the largest site for hourly jobs. Its employers include […]

  • For The First Time Ever, The Fed Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    For The First Time Ever, The Fed Will Monetize Double The Total Treasury Issuance While daytraders look transfixed at a stock market which continues to surge higher even as the US has lost around 22 million jobs in the past month alone, something far more nefarious is taking place behind the scenes: the Fed is […]

  • The History Of Hydroxychloroquine In India

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    The History Of Hydroxychloroquine In India Via Great Game India, As most of us are already aware, Hydroxychloroquine has already taken the world by storm as a treatment against COVID-19. Every newspaper is talking about it, and all countries are requesting India to supply it. Now, a curious person might wonder why and how this […]

  • “A Bad Global Precedent” – Chinese GDP Collapses More Than Expected, Worse Since At Least 1992

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 10:10pm EDT

    “A Bad Global Precedent” – Chinese GDP Collapses More Than Expected, Worse Since At Least 1992 So, the question is – just how ‘manufactured’ will this smorgasbord of Chinese macro data be? As v-shaped as the incredible ‘survey’ data? Or as realistic as the traffic and pollution numbers suggest? The red oval is the ChiNext […]

  • Eric Holder Sees Coronavirus As ‘Opportunity’ To Redesign US Election System

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 9:45pm EDT

    Eric Holder Sees Coronavirus As ‘Opportunity’ To Redesign US Election System Eric Holder thinks the COVID-19 pandemic is a great opportunity to fundamentally change the way America votes. “Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access,” Holder […]

  • Baltimore PD Wants 24-Hour HD Surveillance Drones To Enforce Social Distancing

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Baltimore PD Wants 24-Hour HD Surveillance Drones To Enforce Social Distancing Authored by Cassius K. via The Organic Prepper blog, The Baltimore Police Department and “Persistent Surveillance,” an Ohio-based company, signed a deal together to spy on the residents of Baltimore, Maryland with drones. In Nazi Germany, fascism was characterized by the fusion between corporate and government […]

  • Wholesale Gasoline Hits 12 Cents A Gallon In Midwest

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Wholesale Gasoline Hits 12 Cents A Gallon In Midwest Two weeks ago we reported how the “steepest decline in global oil consumption ever recorded” spelled negative prices for crude in what Goldman’s Jeffrey Currie as “the largest economic shock of our lifetimes.” Now, the unprecedented collapse in consumption has hit the other end of the […]

  • Gilead Pours Cold Water On Report That Sent Market Soaring: “Anecdotal Reports With No Statistical Power”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 8:46pm EDT

    Gilead Pours Cold Water On Report That Sent Market Soaring: “Anecdotal Reports With No Statistical Power” After a one-two punch of disappointing news for Gilead out of China, where as we reported yesterday a trial of remdesivir in Covid-19 patients with mild or moderate symptoms was suspended as no eligible patients could be recruited according […]

  • Some Things Will Never Be The Same After The ‘Bat-Gobbler-Flu’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Some Things Will Never Be The Same After The ‘Bat-Gobbler-Flu’ Authored by Kurt Schlichter, op-ed via Townhall.com, You cannot have a social upheaval like the Bat Gobbler Flu and expect everything to go back to exactly how it was before the ChiCom’s fetish for eating weird Schiff turned the world upside down. Pressure has a […]

  • Anonymous Tip Leads To Grisly Discovery: 17 Bodies ‘Piled Up’ In Virus-Hit NJ Nursing Home

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    Anonymous Tip Leads To Grisly Discovery: 17 Bodies ‘Piled Up’ In Virus-Hit NJ Nursing Home From the start of the coronavirus pandemic impacting North America, nursing homes have been hardest and earliest hit, but perhaps none worse than an unfolding nightmare at a large nursing home in New Jersey. “The call for body bags came late Saturday,” […]

  • Why Americans Don’t Have Any Savings

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Why Americans Don’t Have Any Savings Authored by Frank Hollenbeck via The Mises Institute, In response to a likely worldwide recession, governments have turned on full blast the fiscal and monetary spigots. A $2 trillion spending plan has just been approved in the USA, central banks are on a buying spree, and the $1200 stimulus […]

  • “World’s Most Bearish Hedge Fund” Makes Revolutionary Transformation To His Investing Approach

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    “World’s Most Bearish Hedge Fund” Makes Revolutionary Transformation To His Investing Approach Every trader has heard the age-old saying “don’t fight the Fed”. Everyone, perhaps with one exception: Horseman Global’s CIO, and recently owner, Russell Clark, who has been upping his bearish bets in the face of a relentless liquidity onslaught by the Fed, ECB […]

  • Lobbying Frenzy Unleashed On Capitol Hill By Massive Pool Of Corona-Stimulus Money

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 7:25pm EDT

    Lobbying Frenzy Unleashed On Capitol Hill By Massive Pool Of Corona-Stimulus Money Authored by Karl Evers-Hillstrom via OpenSecrets.org Washington lobbying firms are finding new clients as businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic race to influence government policy.  Lobbying firms registered activity for over 140 new clients on issues related to COVID-19 over the last month. More than two-thirds […]

  • “Scarier Than Contracting The Virus” – Pandemic-Tracking Tech Raises Fears Of Global Surveillance State

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 7:05pm EDT

    “Scarier Than Contracting The Virus” – Pandemic-Tracking Tech Raises Fears Of Global Surveillance State The world is sleepwalking into a surveillance state, under cover of the virus pandemic. For the last several months, governments on both East and West hemispheres have been quickly imposing new digital surveillance measures to track and monitor citizens in quarantine. […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 16, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 6:46pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 16, 2020 Tyler Durden Thu, 04/16/2020 – 18:46

  • Will It Be An Inflationary Or Deflationary Depression?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 6:45pm EDT

    Will It Be An Inflationary Or Deflationary Depression? Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, At some point, the economy is no longer controlled by individual citizens in the marketplace but by government “planners,” who find they have only one of two alternatives: stop “stimulating” and permit a full-scale credit collapse, or continue stimulating until the […]

  • Musk Donating Ventilators Was “Contingent On Posing For Thank You Shots On Social Media”: LA Times

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Musk Donating Ventilators Was “Contingent On Posing For Thank You Shots On Social Media”: LA Times It looks as though Russ Mitchell over at the LA Times may have uncovered the true motivation behind Elon Musk donating ventilators to help with the Covid-19 crisis. Today Mitchell dropped a bomb on Twitter when he informed Elon […]