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  • Visualizing The Pandemiconomy: What Are Shoppers Buying Online During COVID-19?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 8:22am EDT

    Visualizing The Pandemiconomy: What Are Shoppers Buying Online During COVID-19? The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on every aspect of life, including how people shop for their necessities, and their not-so-necessities. With online retail sales estimated to reach an eye-watering $6.5 trillion by 2023, the ecommerce sector was already booming. But, as Visual Capitalist’s Katie […]

  • Futures Reverse Rally As Oil Slides Ahead Of Surge In Unemployment Claims

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 8:06am EDT

    Futures Reverse Rally As Oil Slides Ahead Of Surge In Unemployment Claims U.S. stock index futures dipped on Thursday, reversing a 3-day rally as investors braced for another staggering weekly jobless claims number, while European stocks clung to modest gains on the last trading day before the Easter holiday. Oil initially rose in the wake […]

  • Japan & Russia Report Worrisome Surge In New Cases, Britons Warned Lockdown To Be Extended: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 7:27am EDT

    Japan & Russia Report Worrisome Surge In New Cases, Britons Warned Lockdown To Be Extended: Live Updates As Holy Week draws to a close and the long Holiday Weekend begins, the optimism that helped inspire the biggest bounce since the ‘rona rout appears to have faded, and Dow futs are back to being three figures […]

  • When Plagues Pass: Slower Growth, Social Unrest, & Labor Gets The Upper Hand

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 6:30am EDT

    When Plagues Pass: Slower Growth, Social Unrest, & Labor Gets The Upper Hand Authored by John Authers, op-ed via Bloomberg.com, As the Black Death scythed through Europe in 1348 and 1349, workers across the continent discovered that they had power for the first time in their lives. Textile workers in St. Omer in northern France asked […]

  • France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 6:00am EDT

    France Developing Surveillance App Called “StopCovid” To Mitigate Virus Spread The world is sleepwalking into a surveillance state. The march towards an Orwellian society is closer than ever, as governments have used COVID-19 as a perfect cover to implement totalitarian measures to track citizens that amount to human rights violations to “flatten the pandemic curve.” […]

  • Public Fears, Anger Over 5G-Virus Conspiracy-Theories “Shouldn’t Be Underestimated”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 5:30am EDT

    Public Fears, Anger Over 5G-Virus Conspiracy-Theories “Shouldn’t Be Underestimated” A conspiracy theory linking 5G to the coronavirus has spread like wildfire. In fact, so many people believe this theory that over the weekend, numerous 5G base transmission systems were burned down in Britain amid claims aired on social-media that the technology contributes to the spread […]

  • Container Lines Face “Profound” Threat As COVID-19 Sparks Unprecedented Surge Of ‘Blank’ Sailings

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 4:55am EDT

    Container Lines Face “Profound” Threat As COVID-19 Sparks Unprecedented Surge Of ‘Blank’ Sailings The global economy is unlikely to experience a V-shaped recovery for the second half of the year as the containerized shipping industry is quickly sinking, and the fallout could persist into 2021.  Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence reported on Monday that 212 sailings over the […]

  • What’s Next: “Italeave” Or A European Union Crack-Up?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 4:20am EDT

    What’s Next: “Italeave” Or A European Union Crack-Up? Authored by Francesco Giubilei via The American Conservative, As economic aid from Brussels is debated and delayed, millions of Mediterraneans are already questioning the European project… Since the birth of the European Union, there has been an intense debate about the possibility of creating a two-track Europe, […]

  • Labour Party Mayor Censured For Suggesting UK PM “Completely Deserved” To Get Sick

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 3:45am EDT

    Labour Party Mayor Censured For Suggesting UK PM “Completely Deserved” To Get Sick Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in “stable” condition Wednesday but remains in intensive care after spending Tuesday night there. Johnson was hospitalized with COVID-19 on Sunday.  Sheila Oakes, Labour Party mayor of Heanor in Derbyshire and a district councilor, took to Facebook this week […]

  • Spain Announces Guaranteed Free Money: What’s Really Going On?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 3:10am EDT

    Spain Announces Guaranteed Free Money: What’s Really Going On? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Spain is about to implement Universal Basic Income. But let’s put the correct label on what’s happening. Universal Basic Income Please note Spanish Government Aims to Roll Out Basic Income The Spanish government is working to roll out a universal basic […]

  • France’s Lone Aircraft Carrier Cuts Mission Short Due To 40 Likely COVID-19 Cases

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 2:35am EDT

    France’s Lone Aircraft Carrier Cuts Mission Short Due To 40 Likely COVID-19 Cases After the American nuclear carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt was forced to dock in Guam while in the Western Pacific, unleashing a storm of controversy over what to do with its crew under urgent need of immediate quarantine — and now with at least 230 […]

  • Himalayas Visible For First Time In 30 Years As India Lockdown Sparks Stunning Drop In Pollution

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Himalayas Visible For First Time In 30 Years As India Lockdown Sparks Stunning Drop In Pollution Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, For many residents, the sight is something which they have never witnessed in their entire lives… For the first time in 30 years, India’s snow-covered Dhauladhar mountain range has become visible to locals […]

  • Russia Accuses Trump Of Trying To Conquer The Galaxy

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Russia Accuses Trump Of Trying To Conquer The Galaxy President Trump took a giant leap for America this week by signing an executive order outlining US policy on commercial mining in space.  Upon Trump signing the order, entitled “Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources,” which gives Americans the “the right to engage […]

  • Paul Craig Roberts: A New World Is Being Born, What Will It Be?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 9th 2020 12:00am EDT

    Paul Craig Roberts: A New World Is Being Born, What Will It Be? Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, We are hearing from many that the world after Covid-19 will be different.   The question is:  Different in what way?  Will it be better or worse? Elites are working to make it better for them, and worse for the […]

  • NBA Wants Players To Cut Salaries In Half To Offset $1.2BN In Lost Revenue

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 11:40pm EDT

    NBA Wants Players To Cut Salaries In Half To Offset $1.2BN In Lost Revenue Following the March 11 decision by Commissioner Adam Silver to suspend the NBA season, among the first professional sports leagues to take the drastic action after Utah Jazz players began contracting COVID-19, analysts predicted an immediately felt $1.2 billion loss in NBA […]

  • Expect (At Least) Another 6.5 Million In Jobless Claims

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    Expect (At Least) Another 6.5 Million In Jobless Claims Two weeks ago it was a record 3.3 million initial claims;  last week it was an  additional 6.6 million in initial claims for a two-week total of 10 million Americans having just lost their jobs. Tomorrow, Wall Street consensus expects another 5.5 million in initial claims […]

  • Symbol Of The Times: Tokyo Olympic Flame ‘Hidden’ Indefinitely To Prevent Crowds

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    Symbol Of The Times: Tokyo Olympic Flame ‘Hidden’ Indefinitely To Prevent Crowds Last month’s news that the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed until 2021 was a big enough blow to athletes, fans and organizers — but this is just as heavy on symbolism in terms of the state of the world, much of it on ‘lockdown’, after months of the […]

  • Bill Gates Crosses The Digital Rubicon, Says “Mass Gatherings” May Not Return Without Global Vaccine

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    Bill Gates Crosses The Digital Rubicon, Says “Mass Gatherings” May Not Return Without Global Vaccine Authored by Robert Bridge via The Strategic Culture Foundation, A recurring theme among conspiracy theorists is that the elite are just waiting for the right moment to roll out their ‘mark of the beast’ technology to remotely identify and control […]

  • Americans Not Making Their Mortgage Payments Soar By 1064% In One Month

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 10:31pm EDT

    Americans Not Making Their Mortgage Payments Soar By 1064% In One Month Earlier today we reported that the “The Liquidity Crisis Is Quickly Becoming A Solvency Crisis”, and nowhere is this more true than for US homeowners. According to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association Forbearance and Call Volume Survey which highlights the “unprecedented, widespread mortgage […]

  • Over 30% Of US Renters Didn’t Pay April Apartment Rent

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Over 30% Of US Renters Didn’t Pay April Apartment Rent Landlords across the country have been left in the lurch after nearly one-third of apartment renters in the US didn’t pay any of their April rent during the first week of the month, according to new data from the National Multifamily Housing Council to be […]

  • New Projections Show Virus Spreading Twice As Fast As Expected

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    New Projections Show Virus Spreading Twice As Fast As Expected Trying to project the path and velocity of an outbreak is difficult, even when it’s being done on a relatively small scale like, say, within one country, or a handful of countries, like the last few major outbreaks (for example, ebola). Trying to project the […]

  • US Treasury Balance Hits Record $750 Billion After Historic Flood Of Bill Issuance

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    US Treasury Balance Hits Record $750 Billion After Historic Flood Of Bill Issuance It may not quite be last week’s $563 billion T-bill deluge, but it will do. After a tsunami of new T-Bill and Cash Management Bill issuance last week, which saw no less than $85 billion in new short-term debt issued every every […]

  • Michigan ER Nurses Ordered To Leave Hospital For Work Stoppage Over ‘Unsafe Patient Load’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Michigan ER Nurses Ordered To Leave Hospital For Work Stoppage Over ‘Unsafe Patient Load’ Metro Detroit hospitals began to get overwhelmed with a surge of coronavirus patients starting last month. Local media at that time documented an increasingly chaotic situation at the city’s Sinai-grace Hospital where patient rooms were filled with gowns and trash strewn across […]

  • Pentagon Considers Dreaded ‘Stop Loss’ To Retain Troop Numbers Amid COVID-19 Crisis

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Pentagon Considers Dreaded ‘Stop Loss’ To Retain Troop Numbers Amid COVID-19 Crisis The Pentagon is reportedly considering implementing its controversial “stop-loss” policy amid the coronavirus outbreak, which is impacting defense readiness due to growing numbers of troops in self-isolation and quarantine. Coronavirus is also reducing the number of new recruits and incoming personnel, given the Army, Marines, […]

  • While The Masses Panicked Over A Virus: US House Wrote A Bill Will Ban “Assault Weapons”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 8th 2020 9:00pm EDT

    While The Masses Panicked Over A Virus: US House Wrote A Bill Will Ban “Assault Weapons” Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, While the majority of the country has been laser-focused on the coronavirus, stocking up on decades worth of toilet paper, and  mass purchasing Clorox wipes, the United States House of Representative wrote a […]