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  • A Record 3.3 Million Americans Just Filed For Unemployment Benefits

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:34am EDT

    A Record 3.3 Million Americans Just Filed For Unemployment Benefits The pace at which Americans are losing their jobs is absolutely breathtaking.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the largest number of new claims for unemployment benefits ever recorded in a single week prior to this year was 695,000 during the week that ended October 2nd, […]

  • Italin, Greek, Spanish Bonds Soar After ECB Starts Buying Under Emergency Program

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:25am EDT

    Italin, Greek, Spanish Bonds Soar After ECB Starts Buying Under Emergency Program One can time almost to the dot the moment the ECB started buying European (mostly peripheral) bonds under the central bank’s latest QE facility. At just around 4am ET, a wave of buying pushed European peripheral debt sharply higher, sparking speculation that the […]

  • The Pandemic Is Accelerating The Breakdown That Began A Decade Ago

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:20am EDT

    The Pandemic Is Accelerating The Breakdown That Began A Decade Ago Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The feedback loop has reversed: by saving more, people will spend, borrow and speculate less, draining the fuel from any broadbased expansion. In eras of confidence and certainty, people save less and spend more freely. When we’re […]

  • This Is The Most Important US Data This Week

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:16am EDT

    This Is The Most Important US Data This Week Submitted by Christopher Dembik of Saxobank Summary:  Today at 12:30 GMT, weekly U.S. jobless claims data will be released for the week ending March 21. It is the most important U.S. statistics this week as it will give an early indication of how much the COVID-19 outbreak […]

  • “That’s A Huge Warning For What Lies Ahead”: Futures Tumble After Senate Passes Massive Bailout Bill

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:08am EDT

    “That’s A Huge Warning For What Lies Ahead”: Futures Tumble After Senate Passes Massive Bailout Bill Buy the rumor of the “Largest Rescue Package in American History”, one which will explode both the US deficit and US debt and unleash helicopter money by the Fed… and sell the news. That’s what happened overnight, when after […]

  • We’re Not “Writing Blank Checks” – Jay Powell Claims “Nothing Fundamentally Wrong With Economy”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 8:00am EDT

    We’re Not “Writing Blank Checks” – Jay Powell Claims “Nothing Fundamentally Wrong With Economy” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was on NBC’s Today show on Thursday morning, explaining how the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the US economy into an unprecedented situation.  Powell said the Fed still has room for monetary policy maneuverability, indicating “there can […]

  • US Reports Largest Jump In New Cases, Deaths As “Apocalyptic” Surge Rocks Hospitals In New York, New Orleans: Live Updates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 7:38am EDT

    US Reports Largest Jump In New Cases, Deaths As “Apocalyptic” Surge Rocks Hospitals In New York, New Orleans: Live Updates President Trump’s hurried demands to get the nation “back to work” before Easter probably couldn’t come at a worse time. Across the US, but mainly in a handful of ‘hot spots’, most notably New York […]

  • Investor Sentiment Fades In Asia As Eyes Turn To Jobless Claims And Rising Fatality Rates

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 7:30am EDT

    Investor Sentiment Fades In Asia As Eyes Turn To Jobless Claims And Rising Fatality Rates Submitted by Eleanor Creagh of Saxobank Following the first sustained 2-day bounce since the COVID-19 panic reared its head, sentiment is fading as fatality rates climb in the US. A mixed day for risk across Asia today, Australia leading the […]

  • Senate Passes “Largest Rescue Package in American History” 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:12am EDT

    Senate Passes “Largest Rescue Package in American History”  The $2 trillion emergency aid bill unanimously passed by the Senate late on Wednesday night. The unanimous vote, 96-0, is for an economic rescue package (the largest economic relief bill in US history) that would cushion businesses, workers, and health care systems from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.  […]

  • “It’s Over…”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 6:10am EDT

    “It’s Over…” Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via The Daily Reckoning blog, The financial elites are pushing a narrative that asset prices, sales and profits will all return to January 2020 levels as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic fades. Get real, baby! Nothing is going back to January 2020 levels. Rather than the “V-shaped recovery” […]

  • China Just Sent 150,000 Test Kits To Prague And 80% Of Them Didn’t Work

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 5:35am EDT

    China Just Sent 150,000 Test Kits To Prague And 80% Of Them Didn’t Work As the real state of affairs in China, now months into its coronavirus outbreak, remains unknown, the country is trying to at least give the impression that things are fine and that it is genuinely interested in helping out the rest of the […]

  • USA’s COVID-19 Death Rate Is Far Below The Rates In Italy & Spain

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 5:00am EDT

    USA’s COVID-19 Death Rate Is Far Below The Rates In Italy & Spain Authored Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Imagine an ordinary person sees a headline like this over her morning coffee: “Your City Will Soon Be the Homicide Capital of the World.” But, upon further inspection, it turns out the homicide rate is […]

  • Personavirus: Greta Thunberg Says Its “Extremely Likely” She Had COVID-19 Despite Never Being Tested

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 4:15am EDT

    Personavirus: Greta Thunberg Says Its “Extremely Likely” She Had COVID-19 Despite Never Being Tested Seemingly upset that someone or something else is getting the spotlight for the time being, Greta Thunberg has engineered a way to reclaim the attention of virtue signaling citizens – who are currently preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic – all over the globe. […]

  • Italian Mayor Threatens To Send “Police With Flamethrowers” To Graduation Parties

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 3:30am EDT

    Italian Mayor Threatens To Send “Police With Flamethrowers” To Graduation Parties Authored by John Vibes via TheMindUnleashed.com, Italian mayors have started to become extremely hostile in their public addresses, as many citizens are refusing to comply with the social distancing orders that have been put into place. Vincenzo De Luca, mayor of the Italian town […]

  • French Local Official Bans Sales Of All Alcohol During COVID-19 Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 2:45am EDT

    French Local Official Bans Sales Of All Alcohol During COVID-19 Lockdown French authorities in Aisne, a region in northeast France, were forced to do the unthinkable: ban the sales of alcohol during the COVID-19 lockdown. Ziad Khoury, the prefect of Aisne, announced the “ban on takeaway sales of alcohol” on Tuesday, reported ParisDepeches.  Khoury said bars […]

  • Turkey’s COVID-19 Situation Is “Out Of Control”, Health Experts Warn

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Turkey’s COVID-19 Situation Is “Out Of Control”, Health Experts Warn Via AhvalNews.com, Health experts have warned that Turkey’s coronavirus situation is out of control and that deaths from the disease could soon be on a par with Italy or Spain, reported the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Tuesday. “The recent data on cases and death tolls shows […]

  • Iran Rounding Up Whistleblowers Who Try To Expose Real COVID-19 Death Toll: State Dept

    ZeroHedge - Mar 26th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Iran Rounding Up Whistleblowers Who Try To Expose Real COVID-19 Death Toll: State Dept The State Department now seems to be leveling new accusations against Iran and China on a near daily basis related to their role in facilitating the spread of the deadly coronavirus.  On Monday Mike Pompeo issued ‘5 facts’ detailing Iran’s recklessness regarding […]

  • Are We Living Through “12 Monkeys”?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 11:50pm EDT

    Are We Living Through “12 Monkeys”? A brand new mini-documentary “We’re Living in 12 Monkeys” was released today by Truthstream Media that outlines the agenda that is unfolding from the coronavirus hysteria. The full New World Order agenda of complete control over humanity is in play. Watch below: As we watched we were reminded of […]

  • Rio’s Favela Gangs Impose Strict Curfews To Fight Spread Of “Disease Of The Rich”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Rio’s Favela Gangs Impose Strict Curfews To Fight Spread Of “Disease Of The Rich” Brazilian newspaper Extra says gangsters and militias in Cidade de Deus, Brazil, have deployed vehicles with massive loudspeakers blaring prerecorded messages to inform residents in the slums that they must shelter in place amid the COVID-19 outbreak, reported Reuters.  “We’re imposing a curfew […]

  • Trump Admin Offers Alternative To Student-Debt Forgiveness During Pandemic

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 11:10pm EDT

    Trump Admin Offers Alternative To Student-Debt Forgiveness During Pandemic Authored by Eduardo Neret via CampusReform.org, The Trump administration is taking action to offer relief to students during the coronavirus pandemic.  According to a report by Politico, the Department of Education “stopped seizing the wages, tax refunds, and Social Security benefits” of individuals who are defaulting on […]

  • Six States Declare Marijuana Dispensaries “Essential Businesses”, Exempting Them From Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 10:50pm EDT

    Six States Declare Marijuana Dispensaries “Essential Businesses”, Exempting Them From Lockdown Nothing says we’re coming together and collectively fighting a respiratory disease quite like keeping dispensaries open so people can smoke. And that seems to be exactly the case, as dispensaries across the U.S. appear to be staying open alongside of other essential businesses, like […]

  • Are We On The Cusp Of The First Ever Cyber World War?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Are We On The Cusp Of The First Ever Cyber World War? Via TruePublica, In its quest for global economic and geopolitical domination, America has made many enemies. To help fund 800 military bases all over the world, last year the American taxpayer spent $620 billion on defence, $69 billion for ‘war-funding’ and $10billion on cybersecurity. […]

  • Fed Buys $587 Billion In Bonds In Past Week, 2.7% Of GDP, Just As Foreign Central Banks Start To Liquidate

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 10:10pm EDT

    Fed Buys $587 Billion In Bonds In Past Week, 2.7% Of GDP, Just As Foreign Central Banks Start To Liquidate Having moved from “Not QE” (or QE4 as it was correctly called), to the $750BN QE5 which came and went with the blink of an eye, to the Fed’s open-ended and unlimited QEnfinity in the […]

  • Believe All Women, Right? Biden Accused Of Sexual Assault

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 9:53pm EDT

    Believe All Women, Right? Biden Accused Of Sexual Assault Joe Biden has been ‘credibly’ accused of sexual assault – and in a world where Democrats set the rules for these types of claims, she must be believed. Biden with visibly uncomfortable girl (not accuser) The woman, Tara Reade, accused Biden last year of inappropriate behavior […]

  • The Grasshoppers Are Swarming Mad That You Are Prepared For The Crash

    ZeroHedge - Mar 25th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    The Grasshoppers Are Swarming Mad That You Are Prepared For The Crash Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Most people are familiar with the tale of the Ant And The Grasshopper, an ancient fable about a grasshopper who spends the fruitful months of spring and summer in idle recreation, dancing and playing carelessly while the […]