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  • Von Greyerz: The Demise Of The Financial System Is Imminent

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 6:10am EDT

    Von Greyerz: The Demise Of The Financial System Is Imminent Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, “Next five years is not about winning but surviving.” This is the headline of an article I wrote in early August 2019. At that point I was primarily thinking of economic survival. But now the world is facing multiple […]

  •  Saudi Prince’s $79 Million Super-Yacht Capsizes In Greece

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 5:35am EDT

     Saudi Prince’s $79 Million Super-Yacht Capsizes In Greece Superyacht Nourah of Riyad capsized during lifting operation at a shipyard in Greece on March 8, reported Maritime Bulletin.  The vessel was being lifted out of the water for maintenance work when something went wrong and it capsized on the starboard side.  The vessel has an approximate value of $79 […]

  • Satellite Images Show Massive Decline In Pollution Over Italy Amid National Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 5:00am EDT

    Satellite Images Show Massive Decline In Pollution Over Italy Amid National Lockdown Authored by Elias Marat via TheMindUnleashed.com, In a clear illustration of the disruptive effect that the coronavirus has had on Italy, satellite imagery has shown a massive decrease in air pollution over the country as the government struggles to gain an upper-hand on […]

  • ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’: Coronavirus Crisis Looms In Africa

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 4:15am EDT

    ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’: Coronavirus Crisis Looms In Africa The Covid-19 outbreak has now been confirmed in 30 out of Africa’s 54 countries. Bruce Bassett, a data scientist at the University of Cape Town, warned that a virus crisis in Africa is about to begin and could decimate low-income communities across the continent, reported Science […]

  • German State TV ‘Celebrates’ Coronavirus For Killing Off Humans

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 3:30am EDT

    German State TV ‘Celebrates’ Coronavirus For Killing Off Humans Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A “satire” piece for German state television celebrates the spread of coronavirus because it is killing people in developed nations who are responsible for climate change. The presenter of the piece asserts that the planet is “practically healing […]

  • US Army Halts Deployment Of Troops And Tanks To NATO’s War Game Due To Pandemic Threat 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 2:45am EDT

    US Army Halts Deployment Of Troops And Tanks To NATO’s War Game Due To Pandemic Threat   NATO was on the cusp of initiating a massive war drill called Defender-Europe 20. The 40,000 solider war game would have included 20,000 US troops and accompanied by heavy weaponry but was called off on Monday amid the Covid-19 outbreak across Europe. […]

  • Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ System Faces Collapse Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 2:00am EDT

    Europe’s ‘Open Borders’ System Faces Collapse Amid Covid-19 Outbreak Update (0200ET): Leaders of the 26 European countries that are part of what is normally a free-movement zone also agreed Tuesday to shut their external borders to most nonresidents for the first time. “We are faced with a serious crisis, an exceptional one in terms of […]

  • Watch: Hardliners Storm Popular Iran Shrine After It’s Belatedly Shuttered Amid Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - Mar 18th 2020 1:00am EDT

    Watch: Hardliners Storm Popular Iran Shrine After It’s Belatedly Shuttered Amid Outbreak We previously reported on how despite Qom being at the epicenter of Iran’s deadly Covid-19 outbreak, the powerful Shia clerics overseeing the Iranian ‘holy city’ have fiercely resisted closing its key shrines.  In normal times, millions of pilgrims per week flock to the crowded […]

  • Visualizing The Secret History Of A Coronavirus Bioweapon

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 11:50pm EDT

    Visualizing The Secret History Of A Coronavirus Bioweapon The below visualization The Secret History of Coronavirus Bioweapon is based on GreatGameIndia‘s exclusive report Coronavirus Bioweapon – How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It The Saudi SARS Sample On June 13, 2012 a 60-year-old Saudi man was admitted to a private hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a 7-day […]

  • Ohio Unemployment Skyrockets By 600% After All Bars & Restaurants Shuttered

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 11:30pm EDT

    Ohio Unemployment Skyrockets By 600% After All Bars & Restaurants Shuttered Is a global recession already beginning as the vast majority of the US and other countries’ workforce grinds to a halt while large cities begin to receive ‘shelter in place’ directives? Yes, says Goldman; and more and more top economists are saying Tuesday it’s a near-certainty. State unemployment numbers […]

  • Detect, Deter, & Annihilate: How The American Police State Will Deal With The Outbreak

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 11:10pm EDT

    Detect, Deter, & Annihilate: How The American Police State Will Deal With The Outbreak Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas […]

  • State TV Issues Most Dire Prediction To Date: Virus Could Kill “Millions” Of Iranians

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 10:50pm EDT

    State TV Issues Most Dire Prediction To Date: Virus Could Kill “Millions” Of Iranians In the course of a month Iran has gone from downplaying its coronavirus outbreak to now issuing its most dire warning yet. It first must be remembered that it was only on Feb. 19 that the Islamic Republic announced its first two […]

  • Nine Meals From Anarchy…

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 10:30pm EDT

    Nine Meals From Anarchy… Authored by Jeff Thomas via Doug Casey’s InternationalMan.com, In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky. The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is […]

  • Spring-Breakers Pack Florida & Texas Beaches As Pandemic Threatens Societal Collapse

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 10:10pm EDT

    Spring-Breakers Pack Florida & Texas Beaches As Pandemic Threatens Societal Collapse Borders shut, markets in nose-dive, restaurants and bars closed in some major American cities, super market shelves empty, professional sports canceled, and even the Las Vegas Strip shuttered — and yet many beaches and bars which typically serve as popular Spring Break destinations are still packed with oblivious college […]

  • Oil Plunges To 17 Year Low As One Bank Predicts Negative Prices

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 10:06pm EDT

    Oil Plunges To 17 Year Low As One Bank Predicts Negative Prices Late on Tuesday, WTI plunged as low as $26.20 taking out the lows from the 2015/2016 oil recession, and sending it to a level last seen when US president was George W. Bush, people were listening to Get Busy by Sean Paul and […]

  • Californians Calling Cops On Neighbors If They Hear Them Coughing

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 9:50pm EDT

    Californians Calling Cops On Neighbors If They Hear Them Coughing Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Some Californians are calling 911 if they hear their neighbors loudly coughing or sneezing, with paramedics being dispatched to homes in some cases. Yes, really. “Coachella Valley police departments say they’ve started fielding 911 reports from concerned […]

  • South Korean Church Infects 46 Parishioners After Spraying Salt Water In Their Mouths To Prevent The Virus

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 9:30pm EDT

    South Korean Church Infects 46 Parishioners After Spraying Salt Water In Their Mouths To Prevent The Virus A South Korean church is doing its part in helping humanity take two giant steps backward in fighting the coronavirus. River Grace Community church in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, told its parishioners that they could help stop the spread of the […]

  • Market Bottom Indicators #2 – Financials To Utilities Ratio

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 9:10pm EDT

    Market Bottom Indicators #2 – Financials To Utilities Ratio Submitted by Peter Garnry, head of equity strategy at Saxo Bank Summary: The current financials to utilities ratio has actually bounced off recent lows but given the recent volatility and bad liquidity in US Treasuries investors should be careful drawing conclusions just yet that the equity […]

  • Biden Wins!?: Illinois News Station Airs Election Results Day Before Primary

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 8:26pm EDT

    Biden Wins!?: Illinois News Station Airs Election Results Day Before Primary Update (2030ET): Surprise! AP is reporting that Joe Biden has won the Illinois Democratic Primary… just as WCIA reported… yesterday *  *  * An Illinois news station accidentally aired election day results on Monday showing former Vice President Joe Biden winning Tuesday’s primary election. […]

  • Elon Musk Chooses To Keep Tesla’s Fremont Factory Open Despite Alameda County Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 8:10pm EDT

    Elon Musk Chooses To Keep Tesla’s Fremont Factory Open Despite Alameda County Lockdown Update (2000ET): The Alameda County sheriff has responded to Musk’s decision, warning them that: “Tesla is not an essential business as defined in the Alameda County Health Order.” The sheriff, however, did offer an olive branch: “Tesla can maintain minimum basic operations […]

  • US Equity Futures Are Plunging… Again

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 7:56pm EDT

    US Equity Futures Are Plunging… Again It is unclear what the immediate catalyst is this time – aside from the fact that we are now outside of the stock-trading-machines reach – but US equity futures are plunging in early Asia trading. Dow futures are down 650 points… Erasing most of the day’s gains… “…and suddenly […]

  • Joe Biden: The Democrats’ Exhausted Surrender

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 7:50pm EDT

    Joe Biden: The Democrats’ Exhausted Surrender Authored by Peter van Buren via TheAmericanConservative.com, How did the Democrats end up with Joe Biden as their presumptive nominee? After three years of preparatory media fire about diversity and change, and chumming the electorate with promises of free college alongside all the health care-they-care-to-eat, Democrats started with six […]

  • Americans Rush To Buy Firearms As COVID-19 Stokes Fear Of Unrest

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 7:30pm EDT

    Americans Rush To Buy Firearms As COVID-19 Stokes Fear Of Unrest First it was food, now it’s guns. Americans worried about the impact of coronavirus have been lining up at gun stores across the country, arming themselves as fear of social unrest and food shortages have sparked a surge in preparedness. Gun store in Culver […]

  • 33 Million Jobs Lost: Mnuchin Tells Congress That Without Bailiouts, Depression Era Unemployment Awaits

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 7:10pm EDT

    33 Million Jobs Lost: Mnuchin Tells Congress That Without Bailiouts, Depression Era Unemployment Awaits As Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin pitched his trillion-dollar-plus bailout for Americans (and their companies) struggling during the  Covid-19 crisis, it appears he has ripped a page right out of the TARP playbook… scare the Senators to death about the consequences of […]

  • How Much Fiscal Stimulus Will Be Needed To Turn Markets?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 17th 2020 6:50pm EDT

    How Much Fiscal Stimulus Will Be Needed To Turn Markets? Well before the Global Covid Crisis (or GCC) hit, investors always assumed that the next recession would require material fiscal easing to exit, especially since year after year Davos told us that central banks were out of ammo (the Fed’s actions in the past few […]