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  • The Fed Can’t Fix What’s Broken

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 11:15am EDT

    The Fed Can’t Fix What’s Broken Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Federal Reserve is poised to spray trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy once a massive aid package to fight the coronavirus and its aftershocks is signed into law. These actions are unprecedented, going beyond anything it did during the 2008 financial […]

  • Britain’s Housing Market Freezes As Wave Of Delayed Mortgage Payments Looms

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 10:50am EDT

    Britain’s Housing Market Freezes As Wave Of Delayed Mortgage Payments Looms One of the more unorthodox measures implemented by No. 10 Downing Street when it placed the entire UK on lockdown earlier this week was a virtual freeze of the country’s housing market. For nearly a week now, the housing market across the country has […]

  • Spain Reports Deadliest Day On Record, Japan’s Abe Promises “Unprecedented” Stimulus Package Amid Resurgence Of COVID-19: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 10:31am EDT

    Spain Reports Deadliest Day On Record, Japan’s Abe Promises “Unprecedented” Stimulus Package Amid Resurgence Of COVID-19: Live Updates Yesterday, the US reached a critical milestone: it became the first country to record more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. Though more people were almost certainly infected in China – […]

  • Fauci: Italy “Hit Very Badly” By COVID-19 Due To Prevalence Of Chinese Tourists

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 10:25am EDT

    Fauci: Italy “Hit Very Badly” By COVID-19 Due To Prevalence Of Chinese Tourists Authored by Mairead McArdle via NationalReview.com, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Thursday that Italy has been impacted particularly badly by the coronavirus pandemic because the country hosted a high number of Chinese tourists […]

  • “Unprecedented Decline” – The Collapse In World Trade Is A Once In A Generation Shock

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 10:00am EDT

    “Unprecedented Decline” – The Collapse In World Trade Is A Once In A Generation Shock COVID-19 is expected to produce a global recession depression as nearly all of the world’s major economies have ground to a halt between February and March, expected to continue through April. The crash in China’s economic activity, shown last month, suggests that Europe […]

  • Escobar: Why Is France Hiding A Cheap And Tested Virus Cure?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 9:35am EDT

    Escobar: Why Is France Hiding A Cheap And Tested Virus Cure? Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic… What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government […]

  • Abbott Labs Unveils COVID-19 “Gamechanger”: Portable Test Can Detect Virus In Under 5 Minutes

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 9:09am EDT

    Abbott Labs Unveils COVID-19 “Gamechanger”: Portable Test Can Detect Virus In Under 5 Minutes One week after the FDA granted emergency approval to a point-of-care test purporting to produce results in under 45 minutes, the agency has granted “emergency use authorization” to Abbott Labs so the company can bring to market a rapid-response test for […]

  • Volkswagen Says COVID-19 Shutdown Costs Are “Acute Economic Risk” To The Company

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 8:45am EDT

    Volkswagen Says COVID-19 Shutdown Costs Are “Acute Economic Risk” To The Company Volkswagen has come out and said that it may need to start slashing jobs if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control quickly. The company admitted on German TV that it was torching $2.2 billion in cash per week, every week, while production […]

  • UK Police Force Creates Tool That Lets People Snitch On Others For Not “Social Distancing”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 8:10am EDT

    UK Police Force Creates Tool That Lets People Snitch On Others For Not “Social Distancing” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A police force in the UK has created a tool that allows people to snitch on others for not engaging in proper “social distancing.” Humberside Police have created an online portal that […]

  • “This Is Unprecedented” – South Africa Invokes Military-Controlled Lockdown As Infections Soar

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 7:35am EDT

    “This Is Unprecedented” – South Africa Invokes Military-Controlled Lockdown As Infections Soar South Africa’s 57 million people entered into a Martial law-style lockdown for three weeks starting on Friday, a move by the government that would hopefully flatten the pandemic curve and slowdown infections, so the hospital system does not become overwhelmed by virus patients, […]

  • COVID-19 – The European Union Unravels

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 7:00am EDT

    COVID-19 – The European Union Unravels Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, As the coronavirus pandemic rages through Europe — where more than 250,000 people have now been diagnosed with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 15,000 have died — the foundational pillars of the European Union are crumbling one by one. Faced with […]

  • Suspending The Constitution: Police State Uses Crises To Expand Its Lockdown Powers

    ZeroHedge - Mar 28th 2020 12:05am EDT

    Suspending The Constitution: Police State Uses Crises To Expand Its Lockdown Powers Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even […]

  • Social-Distancing Getting You Down? Sex-Robot Firm Launches “Antibacterial” Dolls

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 11:45pm EDT

    Social-Distancing Getting You Down? Sex-Robot Firm Launches “Antibacterial” Dolls Coronavirus is already transforming society as we know it.  Days ago, we noted how one strip club in Las Vegas opened up a drive-thru window for patrons to watch dancers, all because of strict social distancing measures implemented by the federal and state government.  As Americans are in mass quarantine and […]

  • 13 Reasons To Fear The Coming COVID World Order

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 11:25pm EDT

    13 Reasons To Fear The Coming COVID World Order Authored by Andrew Korybko via One World Press, COVID-19 has fundamentally changed life as we know it, and it’s more than likely that our future will be a dystopian one given how various governments have already responded to this viral outbreak. The skeptics among us are fearful that […]

  • Tokyo On Cusp Of Explosive COVID-19 Outbreak: Governor

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 11:05pm EDT

    Tokyo On Cusp Of Explosive COVID-19 Outbreak: Governor Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike urged citizens to halt all non-essential outings as she warned that the city is at grave risk if it cannot prevent an explosive spread of COVID-19, according to NHK. Koike suggested that people stop visiting the iconic cherry blossoms until next year, as […]

  • This Pandemic Is Exposing The Futility Of The National Security State

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 10:45pm EDT

    This Pandemic Is Exposing The Futility Of The National Security State Authored by Andrew Bacevich via TomDispatch.com, Americans are facing “A Spring Unlike Any Before.” So warned a front-page headline in the March 13th New York Times. That headline, however hyperbolic, was all too apt. The coming of spring has always promised relief from the discomforts […]

  • How Governments Are Deploying Big Data To Enforce COVID-19 Quarantines

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 10:25pm EDT

    How Governments Are Deploying Big Data To Enforce COVID-19 Quarantines This week a technology startup called Unacast launched a new app called “Social Distancing Scoreboard,” which tracks the GPS location of smartphones and grades geographical regions, such as a town, county, and or even a state, on how well residents in those areas are abiding by the […]

  • All The Craziest Things About America Are Being Highlighted By This Virus

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 10:05pm EDT

    All The Craziest Things About America Are Being Highlighted By This Virus Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, “Corona is a black light and America is a cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan Amram colorfully tweeted a couple of weeks ago. Her observation has only grown more accurate since. The corporate cronyism of America’s political system has been […]

  • There Is Now A Treasury Shortage

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    There Is Now A Treasury Shortage Earlier this morning we showed something remarkable in the Fed’s ongoing attempt to inject a record amount of liquidity into the financial system: on Friday morning, the Fed held a $500 billion term repo operation and nobody showed up. There were zero submissions of either Treasury, Agency of MBS […]

  • Whither COVID-19? When Will It End And What Will Happen Along The Way

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 9:25pm EDT

    Whither COVID-19? When Will It End And What Will Happen Along The Way Authored by Phillip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The coronavirus story has generated a number of major subplots… First is the origin of the virus. Did it occur naturally or was it created in a Chinese, American or Israeli weapons lab? […]

  • Airbnb To Offer Free Or Subsidized Housing For 100,000 COVID-19 First Responders 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 9:05pm EDT

    Airbnb To Offer Free Or Subsidized Housing For 100,000 COVID-19 First Responders  As global confirmed virus cases breach the 500,000 mark, with about 23,000 deaths, Airbnb has released a new statement that it wants to “provide free or subsidized housing” for 100,000 “healthcare professionals, relief workers, and first responders” who are combating COVID-19.  “Medical workers and first […]

  • Ed Snowden Warns: Surveillance Measures Will Outlast The Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 8:45pm EDT

    Ed Snowden Warns: Surveillance Measures Will Outlast The Pandemic Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com, Edward Snowden has a warning for those who are giving up liberty for a false sense of security: the temporary mass surveillance measures put in place will be anything but temporary. Snowden says that these measures are not worth giving […]

  • Large-Scale “Internet Rationing” Possible, Experts Warn

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 8:25pm EDT

    Large-Scale “Internet Rationing” Possible, Experts Warn Netflix app downloads have exploded across Europe over the last several weeks as “Netflix and chill” “Netflix and quarantine” has been all the rage during countrywide lockdowns in Italy, France, Spain, and the UK.  netflix and self-quarantine? — maura quint (@behindyourback) March 9, 2020 We noted last Thursday that Netflix had to reduce traffic to […]

  • Frightened Mobs In Peru Burn Hundreds Of Bats With Torches As COVID-19 Hysteria Grows

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 8:05pm EDT

    Frightened Mobs In Peru Burn Hundreds Of Bats With Torches As COVID-19 Hysteria Grows Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, As the coronavirus outbreak continues to grow, misinformation in the form of fake news, rumors, and gossip have continued to feed mass hysteria and panic over the deadly disease. In Peru, this has resulted in […]

  • “If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 27th 2020 7:45pm EDT

    “If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?” Shortly after 4pm, president Trump signed into law the $2 trillion fiscal stimulus also known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which gives the Fed the ammunition to issue up to $4.5 trillion in additional […]