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  • Blain: “Don’t Be Fooled… April Is Going To Hurt”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 10:35am EDT

    Blain: “Don’t Be Fooled… April Is Going To Hurt” Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Damn, he was good. Came out of nowhere. Hit us with a full broadside, cut across our tail and took out our rudder. Damn fine gunnery.” According to the press, China is experiencing normal traffic jams, while the major threat […]

  • “This Is The Largest Economic Shock Of Our Lifetimes”: Goldman Sees Negative Prices Amid Oil Devastation

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 10:20am EDT

    “This Is The Largest Economic Shock Of Our Lifetimes”: Goldman Sees Negative Prices Amid Oil Devastation Over the weekend, we reported that with the oil industry oversupplied by a mindblowing 20 million barrels daily as roughly 20% of total global output ends up unused in a world economy that has ground to a halt, and […]

  • “As Good As It Gets’? – Pending Home Sales Surge In February Ahead Of National Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 10:04am EDT

    “As Good As It Gets’? – Pending Home Sales Surge In February Ahead Of National Lockdown Once again, pending home sales will be the tie-breaker for February housing data (existing sales soared, new sales slipped) and expectations were that it would be weaker (after a huge surge in January) but instead it surged 2.4% MoM […]

  • Trump Slams MSM And ‘Sick Puppy’ Pelosi; Says COVID-19 To Peak ‘Around Easter’

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 9:50am EDT

    Trump Slams MSM And ‘Sick Puppy’ Pelosi; Says COVID-19 To Peak ‘Around Easter’ President Trump gave a wide-ranging interview on Monday on Fox & Friends, where he covered everything from coronavirus and the current situation in New York, to the Green New Deal, to Nancy Pelosi. Trump said he thinks New York will be “fine” […]

  • Priceless Van Gogh Painting Stolen During Brazen Heist On Painter’s Birthday

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 9:34am EDT

    Priceless Van Gogh Painting Stolen During Brazen Heist On Painter’s Birthday What better time could there be than a global pandemic, that has led to closures of museums and public landmarks across the world, to stage a historic heist in Europe, which has been rocked by several high-profile heists from the UK to Germany in […]

  • “Officers Are Scared” – Cops Nationwide Sick, Dying From COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 9:20am EDT

    “Officers Are Scared” – Cops Nationwide Sick, Dying From COVID-19 The fast-spreading virus has frightened law enforcement agencies across the US as confirmed cases now exceeded China’s and are now the highest in the world. AP News says 20% of Detroit’s police force is now in quarantine; two officers have died from COVID-19, and 39 tested positive. For […]

  • What Happens As State And Local Tax Revenues Crater?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 9:05am EDT

    What Happens As State And Local Tax Revenues Crater? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We can anticipate a federal bailout of pension funds and one-time aid to state and local governments, but bailouts won’t repair the eroding foundations of tax revenues. As we all know, the federal government can “print” money but […]

  • President Cuomo? Liberals Fantasize About Biden Replacement

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 8:50am EDT

    President Cuomo? Liberals Fantasize About Biden Replacement As the left grapples with a presidential candidate who has difficulty completing full sentences and was just slapped with a sexual assault allegation that the staunch feminists in the #MeToo movement have chosen to ignore – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has emerged as a fantasy pick to […]

  • The Fed’s Faustian Bargain: “We’re Experiencing The End-Game Of The Great Debt Super-Cycle”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 8:35am EDT

    The Fed’s Faustian Bargain: “We’re Experiencing The End-Game Of The Great Debt Super-Cycle” Echoing many of Jim Grant’s recent fears, Guggenheim Investments’ CIO Scott Minerd fears the consequences of policymakers returning to the same tools employed in the financial crisis as a grand Faustian bargain. “In Goethe’s 1831 drama Faust, the devil persuades a bankrupt […]

  • China Unexpectedly Cuts Reverse Repo Rate To The Lowest On Record

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 8:21am EDT

    China Unexpectedly Cuts Reverse Repo Rate To The Lowest On Record China’s central bank joined the global easing bandwagon early on Monday when it unexpectedly cut the rate on reverse repurchase agreements by 20 basis points, the largest in nearly five years, as authorities stepped up measures to relieve pressure on an economy ravaged by […]

  • Futures Rollercoaster As Global Coronacases Approach 1 Million

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 8:00am EDT

    Futures Rollercoaster As Global Coronacases Approach 1 Million Global markets started off the new week wobbly, with stocks around the world trying desperately to find firm footing even as the global coronavirus cases rose above 732,000 on Monday morning and are set to hit 1 million by the end of the week. U.S. stock index […]

  • Spain’s COVID-19 Case Total Passes China’s, South Korea Reports Disturbing Rebound In New Cases: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 7:33am EDT

    Spain’s COVID-19 Case Total Passes China’s, South Korea Reports Disturbing Rebound In New Cases: Live Updates Hours after Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” yesterday and declared that the current modeling projects between 100k and 200k deaths in the US alone, President Trump stood up at last night’s Rose Garden press […]

  • Trump’s Approval Rating Soars As Media Seeks Blackout

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 6:40am EDT

    Trump’s Approval Rating Soars As Media Seeks Blackout Authored by James Fite via LibertyNation.com, To the great consternation of many a left-leaning Americans, the latest polls from Gallup, Reuters/Ipsos, and Economist/YouGov all show the president’s job approval at 49%, crushing the dreams of those who hoped Coronavirus would finish what the Russia and Ukraine investigations […]

  • Harvard Researchers Propose “Intermittent” Lockdowns And “Widespread Surveillance” Of Americans To Avoid Critical-Care Capacity

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 6:05am EDT

    Harvard Researchers Propose “Intermittent” Lockdowns And “Widespread Surveillance” Of Americans To Avoid Critical-Care Capacity Researchers from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a study titled “Social distancing strategies for curbing the COVID-19 epidemic,” Tuesday (March 24) on the medRxive pre-print server for health sciences, detailing how a single prolonged widespread lockdown of the country is […]

  • British Scientific Advisors: China Covering Up Full Extent Of Virus, Could Be 40 Times Worse Than Reported

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 5:30am EDT

    British Scientific Advisors: China Covering Up Full Extent Of Virus, Could Be 40 Times Worse Than Reported Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Scientific advisors to the British government have reportedly told the Prime Minister Boris Johnson that China is covering up the full extent of the coronavirus pandemic, and that things could be […]

  • “What Is Really Essential”? In The US Golf And Guns, In France Wine And Pastries

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 4:55am EDT

    “What Is Really Essential”? In The US Golf And Guns, In France Wine And Pastries Among countless other unprecedented changes and transformation, the coronavirus pandemic has unveiled an odd divergence within global cultures: the definition of what’s deemed “essential” for people across the world, and what things we really can’t do without, even though we […]

  • Will The Post-COVID-19 World Be Far Worse Than The Pre-COVID-19 World?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 4:20am EDT

    Will The Post-COVID-19 World Be Far Worse Than The Pre-COVID-19 World? Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Signs, especially in the United States, are that the post-coronavirus-plagued world will have even more inequality of wealth, within each nation, than existed prior to the plague. Billionaires are demanding to be included in the […]

  • NY Prisoners Say They’re Re-Packaging Hand Sanitizer, Not Making It From Scratch, Under Cuomo’s Program

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 3:45am EDT

    NY Prisoners Say They’re Re-Packaging Hand Sanitizer, Not Making It From Scratch, Under Cuomo’s Program Who can forget Governor Andrew Cuomo’s presser weeks ago where he exclaimed that he would be putting New York state prisoners to work making hand sanitizer? The goal was to produce 100,000 gallons of it every week to be distributed, […]

  • The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 3:10am EDT

    The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing Authored by Francesco Giubilei via TheAmericanConservative.com, When countries are turning to China because their supranational institutions won’t help, that’s a problem… The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a greater toll on Italy than any other nation. The Italians are facing their most severe crisis since the Second World […]

  • Greenland Bans Alcohol Sales To Reduce Child Abuse As Coronavirus Hits

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 2:35am EDT

    Greenland Bans Alcohol Sales To Reduce Child Abuse As Coronavirus Hits For several weeks after the start of the global coronavirus pandemic there was a running joke that Trump’s offer to purchase Greenland was brilliant in hindsight as the northern island appeared immune to any the covid cases. That all changed on March 16 when […]

  • We Are All Totalitarians Now – COIVD-19 Brings Back Europe’s Spirit Of The Polis

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 2:00am EDT

    We Are All Totalitarians Now – COIVD-19 Brings Back Europe’s Spirit Of The Polis Authored by Guillaume Durocher via The Unz Review, The coronavirus epidemic has been highly instructive. In the face of a looming early death for millions of citizens, Western States have entered a genuine crisis in which the Schmittian sovereign – who was always […]

  • ‘Need Our Help?’ Iran’s IRGC Mocks US For Now Leading World In COVID-19 Cases

    ZeroHedge - Mar 30th 2020 1:00am EDT

    ‘Need Our Help?’ Iran’s IRGC Mocks US For Now Leading World In COVID-19 Cases On the same day the United States leveled yet more sanctions against the Islamic Republic, blacklisting 20 Iran- and Iraq-based companies, officials and individuals for supporting terrorism, leaders in Tehran took to publicly mocking the US for now being the global epicenter of the […]

  • “The Plannedemic”?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:55pm EDT

    “The Plannedemic”? Authored by Ben Garrison A PLAN YOU CAN’T TRUST! For the past decade, Bill gates has been warning us about an inevitable pandemic. Conditioning us. Getting us used to the idea. Last year, he even held a summit on the matter and ran computer simulations to predict outcomes. Why did a former computer […]

  • Pentagon Orders Essential Staff To Deep Underground Mountain Bunker As Pandemic Prep Escalates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Pentagon Orders Essential Staff To Deep Underground Mountain Bunker As Pandemic Prep Escalates North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) & the US’ Northern Command (NORTHCOM) held a Facebook Live town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 24, informing the public how their essential teams in charge of homeland security are isolating at the Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado […]

  • Putin Says ‘The Rich Must Pay’ For The COVID-19 Chaos

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Putin Says ‘The Rich Must Pay’ For The COVID-19 Chaos Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, Vladimir Putin has decided how Russia is going to pay for the corona-virus… He’s going to tax the rich. It’s a remedy that most Americans would support if they were given the choice, but they weren’t asked. […]