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  • “Something’s Gone Wrong”: UK Government, Banks Screw Up COVID-Loans, Small Firms Near Collapse

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 3:30am EDT

    “Something’s Gone Wrong”: UK Government, Banks Screw Up COVID-Loans, Small Firms Near Collapse Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, Part of the problem is cultural: big banks in the UK don’t like lending to small businesses, especially not at 1.5%… Thanks to its Brexit planning, the UK should have been better positioned to help its […]

  • EU Prohibits Bailed Out Companies From Paying Bonuses, Dividends

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 2:45am EDT

    EU Prohibits Bailed Out Companies From Paying Bonuses, Dividends Back on April 1, we predicted that with European banks suspending dividends across the board, “if shareholders are impacted, why not also the biggest source of bank cash: banker bonuses.” Today, we got partial confirmation of this when the FT reported that companies given equity injections […]

  • German Lawyer Who Criticized Lockdown Arrested, Taken To Psych Ward

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 2:00am EDT

    German Lawyer Who Criticized Lockdown Arrested, Taken To Psych Ward Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A German medical lawyer who criticized the coronavirus lockdown law was arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward, where she says she was violently abused by authorities. Beate Bahner published a press release on April 3rd decrying […]

  • China Launches Survey To Learn More About Asymptomatic Cases, Immunity

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 1:00am EDT

    China Launches Survey To Learn More About Asymptomatic Cases, Immunity Approximately 11,000 people across ten provinces and cities in China, including Wuhan, will be randomly selected to give blood samples and throat swabs so that researchers can learn more about asymptomatic coronavirus cases, as well as immunity in people with coronavirus infections, according to the […]

  • They Don’t Want You To Know The Truth Or Be Exposed To Differing Opinions

    ZeroHedge - Apr 16th 2020 12:10am EDT

    They Don’t Want You To Know The Truth Or Be Exposed To Differing Opinions Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, ZeroHedge and others are targets of big tech!  Not only has our favorite site for financial news been banned from Twitter, but I recently noticed that when I went to click on its articles shared […]

  • US Space Command Blasts Russia’s ‘Hostile’ Anti-Satellite Weapon Test

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 11:50pm EDT

    US Space Command Blasts Russia’s ‘Hostile’ Anti-Satellite Weapon Test It appears Trump’s newly establish Space Command has something to keep it busy with as Russia on Wednesday flexed its muscle in space in a new test of what’s being described as a ground-based, direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon (or ASAT weapon). Space Command issued a condemnation later in the day […]

  • WHO & Its Never-Ending List Of Errors

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    WHO & Its Never-Ending List Of Errors Via Great Game India, The World Health Organization (WHO) is a primary agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. However, in recent times, the WHO has been criticized for either acting too late or too little during a health crisis. There have been instances where […]

  • Moscow’s Communists Warn “There Will Be Mass Starvation” And Protests As Coronavirus Slams Russian Economy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 11:10pm EDT

    Moscow’s Communists Warn “There Will Be Mass Starvation” And Protests As Coronavirus Slams Russian Economy As Russian lawmakers and the government led by Vladimir Putin, who has taken a step back and is allowing his prime minister and other government officials to lead the response, plot to offer assistance to small businesses in and around […]

  • Man Waiting For $1,700 Stimulus Check Finds $8.2 Million In Bank Account Instead

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 10:50pm EDT

    Man Waiting For $1,700 Stimulus Check Finds $8.2 Million In Bank Account Instead With some 80 million people expecting stimulus money to hit their bank accounts starting Wednesday in the biggest and unprecedented instance of the government passing helicopter money directly to Americans’ pockets in history, there are bound to be mistakes and errors. A volunteer firefighter in […]

  • Here Come Another 6 Million Jobless Claims

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 10:42pm EDT

    Here Come Another 6 Million Jobless Claims After three consecutive weeks of record breaking initial jobless claims, which cumulatively add up to nearly 17 million lost jobs… … brace for more of the same, even if with a modest improvement because after last week’s 6.6MM print (which in turn was a small decline from the […]

  • Pennsylvania Senate Votes To Override Democrat Governor’s Stay-At-Home Order

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Pennsylvania Senate Votes To Override Democrat Governor’s Stay-At-Home Order The Pennsylvania senate has passed a measure which would partially reopen the state by lifting the lockdown on most of the state’s businesses imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf (D), according to The Hill. Passed by the Senate 29-21 on Wednesday, SB 613 would require Wolf’s office […]

  • Newsom Announces $125 Million In COVID-19 Funds For California’s Illegal Residents

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 10:10pm EDT

    Newsom Announces $125 Million In COVID-19 Funds For California’s Illegal Residents California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Wednesday that illegal immigrants over the age of 18 would be entitled to $500 each during the coronavirus pandemic. Paid for with a mix of taxpayer funds and charitable donations from corporations and philanthropists, approximately 150,000 adults […]

  • Here Is Goldman’s Vision Of What Reopening The Economy Will Look Like

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    Here Is Goldman’s Vision Of What Reopening The Economy Will Look Like Two days after Goldman introduced its US lockdown index and Social Distancing Index, the bank is out with a follow up report putting this indexes to practical use in setting up a framework for what a reopening of the US will look like […]

  • Ron Paul: People “Should Be Leery About” A COVID-19 Vaccine

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 9:30pm EDT

    Ron Paul: People “Should Be Leery About” A COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Adam Dick via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Ron Paul, in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth, warns that people “should be leery about” coronavirus vaccines that may come out. Further, says Paul, a doctor […]

  • Bailouts Secured: Bezos Wealth Soars By $24 Billion As 17 Million Americans Lose Their Jobs

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 9:10pm EDT

    Bailouts Secured: Bezos Wealth Soars By $24 Billion As 17 Million Americans Lose Their Jobs As the middle class gears up to once again unknowingly bail out the world via way of inflating the money supply, the rich are doing what they do during bailouts: getting richer. In fact, just a week after 17 million […]

  • Americans Need A Trampoline, Not A UBI Mattress

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 8:50pm EDT

    Americans Need A Trampoline, Not A UBI Mattress Authored by Gonzalo Schwarz via InsideSources.com, As governments around the world take unprecedented actions to address the coronavirus pandemic, one idea that is being floated as an ideal fix for this crisis is the adoption of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Adopting a UBI as a means to solve […]

  • Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 8:22pm EDT

    Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab Fox News reports that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that “patient zero” was a lab employee who became infected before spreading it in the community – just as we have reported repeatedly over the past three months, in exchange for which Twitter’s “appropriate […]

  • Tverberg: Why Economies Won’t Be Able To Recover After Shutdowns

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 8:10pm EDT

    Tverberg: Why Economies Won’t Be Able To Recover After Shutdowns Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, Amid all the clamoring for shutdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19, there is one major difficulty, however – once an economy has been shut down, it is extremely difficult for the economy to recover back […]

  • “Major Blow To US”: Large Group Of US-Backed Fighters ‘Defect’ To Assad Forces 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 7:50pm EDT

    “Major Blow To US”: Large Group Of US-Backed Fighters ‘Defect’ To Assad Forces  The brutal proxy war in Syria, which has had the deep involvement of American intelligence and the Pentagon, has been wrapping up after grinding on for nine years. With the coronavirus pandemic now completely taking over the news cycle, and as Washington […]

  • Rabobank: Can Everyone Be Paid To Do Nothing While Markets Hit All Time Highs

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 7:38pm EDT

    Rabobank: Can Everyone Be Paid To Do Nothing While Markets Hit All Time Highs We live in an upside down, where investing is dead (and these days means merely buying what the Fed will buy as the world’s largest asset manager was kind enough to explain), where billionaires who benefited from the Fed’s generosity for […]

  • China Gleeful That 4 US Carriers Hampered By COVID-19, Boasts PLA Navy “Not Impacted”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 7:10pm EDT

    China Gleeful That 4 US Carriers Hampered By COVID-19, Boasts PLA Navy “Not Impacted” The US carrier outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt is now a major military disaster, with nearly 600 confirmed Covid-19 infections among sailors reported as of Tuesday, including one death and at least four hospitalizations. As the outbreak among the approximately 4,860 crew […]

  • $3.5 Billion Has Flowed From U.S. Taxpayers To The World Health Organization Since 2010

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 6:55pm EDT

    $3.5 Billion Has Flowed From U.S. Taxpayers To The World Health Organization Since 2010 Submitted by Adam Andrzejewski, first published in Forbes With his recent vow to halt and reassess all aid to the World Health Organization (WHO), President Trump legitimized critics who allege that the agency shielded information from the world about the lethality […]

  • These Are The Jobs With The Highest COVID-19 Risk

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 6:40pm EDT

    These Are The Jobs With The Highest COVID-19 Risk Many individuals have been practicing social distancing by working from home in recent weeks. While this arrangement can be a great way to reduce one’s exposure to COVID-19, it’s a luxury that’s available to just 29% of Americans. And, as Visual Captalist’s Marcus Lu notes, the situation for […]

  • Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup To Records Scrubbed With “Bleachbit”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 6:25pm EDT

    Google Subpoenaed For Hillary Clinton Emails Believed To Contain Backup To Records Scrubbed With “Bleachbit” Google has been ordered to turn over all Hillary Clinton emails from a Gmail account believed to contain backups to communications from her personal server which her IT specialist, Paul Combetta, reportedly scrubbed using BleachBit. Combetta allegedly used the Google […]

  • US Mint Halts All Production Over Virus Fears As Gold & Silver Coin Demand Nears Record Highs

    ZeroHedge - Apr 15th 2020 6:10pm EDT

    US Mint Halts All Production Over Virus Fears As Gold & Silver Coin Demand Nears Record Highs Just as the premium between physical and paper precious metals prices was starting to fade a little, the US Mint has decided to temporally halt all production at its West Point facility in New York because of the […]