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  • Watch Live: White House Task Force Holds Sunday Press Briefing As Confirmed Cases Boom

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 4:55pm EDT

    Watch Live: White House Task Force Holds Sunday Press Briefing As Confirmed Cases Boom With the number of new cases and deaths ballooning at a surprisingly rapid pace across the US (but especially in New York, the nation’s biggest hot spot), President Trump and the White House task force (led by VP Mike Pence DHHS […]

  • Saudis Claim US Patriot Missiles Activated In Major Yemeni Houthi Attack On Riyadh

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 4:35pm EDT

    Saudis Claim US Patriot Missiles Activated In Major Yemeni Houthi Attack On Riyadh Houthi rebels in Yemen over the weekend launched what’s being described as among the largest assaults on Saudi Arabia since the start of the war five years ago. Starting on Saturday the Saudi military said it intercepted at least two ballistic missiles over the […]

  • Wondering Why There’s Such A Shortage Of Masks? Ask The FDA!

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 4:15pm EDT

    Wondering Why There’s Such A Shortage Of Masks? Ask The FDA! Have you like many others, been pondering why it’s been so hard to ramp up production of surgical masks and respirators and are curious as to why private companies haven’t flooded into the market to meet peak demand? Well, Paul Matzko, author of “The […]

  • Armed Gunman Who Robbed Two Stores, Carjacked A Vehicle Stopped By Concealed Carry Holder

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 4:00pm EDT

    Armed Gunman Who Robbed Two Stores, Carjacked A Vehicle Stopped By Concealed Carry Holder It was a wild 15 minutes in Chicago last Thursday. 15 minutes was all it took for an armed robber to hold up two businesses and carjack a vehicle, before finally being confronted by a “good guy with a gun”: a concealed carry […]

  • How Long Will America’s COVID-19 Lockdown Last? Here’s What The Patterns Suggest

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 3:35pm EDT

    How Long Will America’s COVID-19 Lockdown Last? Here’s What The Patterns Suggest Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, From the moment lockdowns and serious social distancing efforts began in the United States, the question on everyone’s mind was, “How long will these lockdowns last?” And it’s not simple impatience. The cost of Covid-19 continues to […]

  • Elon Musk Says “Many Doctors Are Not Treating Patients” Due To Fear Of COVID-19

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 3:10pm EDT

    Elon Musk Says “Many Doctors Are Not Treating Patients” Due To Fear Of COVID-19 Elon Musk continues to find new ways to humiliate himself as the coronavirus that he once labeled as “dumb” makes its way around the globe. This weekend’s embarassment du jour was Musk coming out and publicly making the assertion on Twitter that many doctors […]

  • A Roadmap To Reopening: Scott Gottlieb Lays Out Next Steps In National COVID-19 Response

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 2:45pm EDT

    A Roadmap To Reopening: Scott Gottlieb Lays Out Next Steps In National COVID-19 Response Authored by Dr.Scott Gottlieb via The American Enterprise Institute, Key Points This report provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It outlines specific directions for adapting our public-health approach away from sweeping mitigation […]

  • The Hedge Fund Bailout Worked: Citadel, Millennium And Point72 Recover Most Of Their March Losses

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 2:20pm EDT

    The Hedge Fund Bailout Worked: Citadel, Millennium And Point72 Recover Most Of Their March Losses Last week, Bloomberg finally confirmed what we first reported last December: namely that the return of the Fed’s repo operations, allegedly to “fix” the clogged up repo market, was just a stealthy attempt to prevent a firesale liquidation among massively […]

  • Gold Is Now “Unobtanium”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 1:55pm EDT

    Gold Is Now “Unobtanium” By now it becoming clear to many that demand for precious metals, as the world ‘turns’, is far outpacing supply as major gold suppliers and sellers exclaim “there is no gold.” One glance at APMEX pages and two things are immediately clear: 1) There is no gold or silver…. 2) And […]

  • After Receiving $25 Million Coronavirus Bailout, JFK Center Stops Paying Musicians

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 1:30pm EDT

    After Receiving $25 Million Coronavirus Bailout, JFK Center Stops Paying Musicians After receiving a controversial $25 million bailout (which would pay for a lot of respirators), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts notified nearly 100 musicians with the National Symphony Orchestra that they won’t receive paychecks after April 3rd, according to the […]

  • “This Crisis Is Every MMT’ers Wet Dream”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 1:05pm EDT

    “This Crisis Is Every MMT’ers Wet Dream” Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, Answers The year is 2020. A new virus is spreading across the planet like a wildfire. More lethal than the flu, highly contagious with no cure. Stocks markets collapse, global economies are shutting down with billions of people quarantined to their homes […]

  • Stunning Drone Footage Shows Newark Avenue In Jersey City Completely Empty

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 12:40pm EDT

    Stunning Drone Footage Shows Newark Avenue In Jersey City Completely Empty COVID-19 cases and deaths are soaring in New York and New Jersey, prompting President Trump on Saturday to consider a short-term quarantine for the tri-state area — New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.  Around March 10, New Jersey residents started to reduce their mobility around […]

  • The New (Forced) Frugality

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 12:15pm EDT

    The New (Forced) Frugality Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, There are only two ways to survive a decline in income and net worth: slash expenses or default on debt. In post-World War II America, the cultural zeitgeist viewed frugality as a choice: permanent economic growth and federal anti-poverty programs steadily reduced the number of people in […]

  • Dr. Fauci: “We’re Going To Have Millions Of Cases” And “Between 100K & 200K Deaths”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:54am EDT

    Dr. Fauci: “We’re Going To Have Millions Of Cases” And “Between 100K & 200K Deaths” The last time Dr. Anthony Fauci did the Sunday Shows a few weeks back, he achieved a vaunted Washington milestone by doing all five network and cable Sunday shows – NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News & CNN – in one […]

  • Destroying The Economy Is Not A Social Policy

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:25am EDT

    Destroying The Economy Is Not A Social Policy Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The economy is the heart of the social body. If we shut down the heart of an organism to safeguard the hands and brain, the body dies. The data on deaths and infected from the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic is alarming. Let us remember […]

  • The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 11:05am EDT

    The Unthinkable Is Happening: Oil Storage Space Is About To Run Out In the past three weeks, oil plunged and has continued to plunge even more in the aftermath of the oil price war declared between Saudi Arabia and Russia, and where US shale (and its junk bonds) has been caught in the crossfire. However, […]

  • Jefferies’ CFO Dies From Coronavirus

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 10:43am EDT

    Jefferies’ CFO Dies From Coronavirus In a shocking and tragic development, the deadly Coronavirus has struck at the epicenter of Wall Street: moments ago, investment bank Jefferies announced that its CFO Peg Broadbent, has passed away from coronavirus complications, making him the first top financial executive to pass away from the deadly pandemic. The full […]

  • Governors Order Police To Stop & Interrogate New Yorkers As COVID-19 Cases Top 660K Globally: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 10:43am EDT

    Governors Order Police To Stop & Interrogate New Yorkers As COVID-19 Cases Top 660K Globally: Live Updates Late last night, President Trump said he wasn’t planning on quarantining New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but that the governors of other states like Florida had complained about the number of travelers from out-of-state bringing disease and […]

  • Bull Market? No, The Bear Still Rules For Now

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 10:35am EDT

    Bull Market? No, The Bear Still Rules For Now Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 2020 Investment Summit – April 2nd. The “2020 SOCIALLY DISTANT INVESTMENT SUMMIT” is coming on Thursday, April 2nd. Click the link below to receive an email with a special “invitation only” link when the summit goes “live.” (Current newsletter subscribers are already registered.) *  […]

  • “The Industry Has Never Experienced Anything Like This Before”: 3% Of All Restaurants Have Already Closed Permanently

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 9:45am EDT

    “The Industry Has Never Experienced Anything Like This Before”: 3% Of All Restaurants Have Already Closed Permanently Authored by Emma Liem Beckett of Restaurant Dive, Summary: Three percent of restaurants have already permanently closed due to the coronavirus crisis, according to research from the National Restaurant Association. Forty-four percent of operators have temporarily closed their […]

  • COVID-19 Outbreak Infects 66 At Maryland Nursing Home 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 9:20am EDT

    COVID-19 Outbreak Infects 66 At Maryland Nursing Home  While the nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, was the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak three weeks ago, the fast-spreading virus has turned its crosshairs onto the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.  Virus cases and deaths are erupting in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.  The hardest-hit area is New York […]

  • West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 8:45am EDT

    West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest The next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a flare-up of social unrest across major Western cities as millions have lost their jobs, economies have crashed into depressions, and the military is being called up to maintain order. The Federation of Red Cross and […]

  • French Official Says Quarantine Should Not Be Enforced In Migrant Areas To Avoid Riots

    ZeroHedge - Mar 29th 2020 8:10am EDT

    French Official Says Quarantine Should Not Be Enforced In Migrant Areas To Avoid Riots Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A top government official in France has admitted that draconian lockdown measures being imposed on the rest of the population shouldn’t be implemented in the country’s migrant-heavy ghettos in order to prevent riots. […]

  • The Propaganda Of Terror And Fear: A Lesson From Recent History

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    The Propaganda Of Terror And Fear: A Lesson From Recent History Authored by Dr Piers Robinson, Co-Director Organisation for Propaganda Studies,  via Off-Guardian.org, The ongoing and unfolding reactions to the Coronavirus look set to have wide-ranging and long-lasting effect on politics, society and economics. The drive to close down all activities is extraordinary as are the […]

  • China Suffers Economic Double-Whammy As Current Global Demand Collapse Follows Earlier Supply Crash

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    China Suffers Economic Double-Whammy As Current Global Demand Collapse Follows Earlier Supply Crash As the first quarter is about to close, many Chinese factories are still operating below full capacity, have been gradually ramping up production over the last several weeks as government data suggests the country’s pandemic curve has flattened. But as Bloomberg notes, […]