“You Are The Cavalry” – Pandemics In Our “Brittle, Phony” Economies Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved […]
Man Charged After Threatening To Kill Adam Schiff US Attorney John Durham charged a Connecticut man with threatening to kill Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) in November, when the California lawmaker was spearheading the impeachment of President Trump, according to the Justice Department. “I want to kill you with my bare hands and smash your sick […]
US Manufacturing Production Contracts YoY For 8th Straight Month Optimistic analysts expected a 0.4% MoM jump in US industrial production in February (rebounding from contractions in December and January), and were pleasantly surprised with a shocking 0.6% MoM rise (after a downwardly revised 0.5% contraction in January). This surprise jump shifted US Industrial Production into […]
Neel Kashkari Defends Fed’s Actions After 12% Market Rout, Says Negative Rates “Not Off The Table” Neel Kashkari took to CNBC this morning to not only display his ignorance of the basic laws of economics and finance, but also of epidemiology and medicine. Who knew Neel was such a non-expert in so many fields? Kashkari, who while […]
Does Any Of This Look Like The Fed Has Anything Under Control? The Fed has gushed trillions into the short-term money markets in an attempt to fill what appears to be a bottomless pit and now Treasury and the government are discussing direct loans to businesses and banks have used the discount window en masse […]
Fed Injects $189BN In Repo Liquidity As Libor Explodes In light of the frozen funding markets, which are now demanding the Commercial Paper bailout facility we discussed on Sunday, which the Fed failed to deliver and which CNBC’s Steve Liesman said may be coming any moment as without we will see a relentless barrage of […]
Tom Brady Is Leaving The Patriots The most winningest quarterback in Superbowl history – with six rings, all won with the New England Patriots – is taking his talents elsewhere. With all sports suspended and sports news organizations hungry to fill the whole, Patriots QB Tom Brady just delivered in a big way: In a […]
US Retail Sales Tumble In February For some ever-optimistic reason, analysts were expecting a 0.2% MoM rise in retail sales in February. It did not – instead plunging 0.5% MoM, far worse than the weakest estimate and the biggest drop since Dec 2018’s collapse… Retail sales ex-auto dealers, building materials and gasoline stations fell 0.1% […]
White House Unveils $850 Billion Economic Rescue Package To Combat Virus Fallout With the markets screaming for more federal fiscal stimulus to help cushion what will almost certainly become an extremely deep, but potentially short-lived, recession, the administration has unleashed headlines claiming that the third economic package will include $850 billion (more than 100x the […]
Covid-19 Helicopter Money: Go Big Now Or Go Home Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This is why it’s imperative to go big now, and make plans to sustain the most vulnerable households and small employers not for two weeks but for six months – or however long proves necessary. That governments around […]
Elon Musk Keeps Tesla’s Fremont Factory Open Despite Alameda County Lockdown We already know that Elon Musk thinks the coronavirus panic is “dumb”. We also know Tesla’s track record for keeping a safe work environment is less than stellar. So, in what appears to be dissatisfaction unless his workers are directly in the line of […]
Total Pukefest: Futures Soar Limit Up, Crash, Then Soar Again The thing about the VIX at 80 – a level it did not hit even during the financial crisis – is that nobody has seen a market as volatile as like this. Case in point: the rollercoaster in overnight futures alone may have bankrupted an […]
DOJ Files To Drop Charges Against Russian ‘Bot Farms’ That Fought Mueller Indictment Less than a year after a US District court judge dealt a blow to the “Russian active measures” talking point when she ruled that Robert Mueller failed to link them to the Kremlin, the Justice Department has moved to drop all charges […]
Beijing Slams Trump’s “Racist” ‘Chinese Virus’ Comment; US Covid-19 Deaths Hit 85 After Record Daily Jump: Live Updates US stock futures stabilized overnight after another widowmaking session on Monday, even as strategists across Wall Street warned their clients not to try and ‘catch the falling knife’ – but in the absence of any concrete headlines, […]
Military-Style Bunkers, IV Cocktails, & Private Testing: How Elites ‘Self-Quarantine’ The most interesting thing about Covid-19 is that it’s a problem that is affecting everyone, mostly skewed to baby boomers, but nevertheless is a terrifying, fast-spreading virus that has consumed the world. And as medical test kits lack, no vaccine for 12-18 months, that means […]
Denmark Passes Law Enabling Forced Coronavirus Vaccinations Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Denmark has passed an emergency law that allows for the government to force people to take a vaccine for coronavirus. The emergency law gives authorities sweeping powers to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and will remain in force until March 2021. […]
Stunning Video From A Locked-Down Europe A massive surge in Covid-19 cases across Europe has forced some of the largest economies on the continent to enforce strict social distancing rules to flatten the curve to slowdown infections. Europe is the new China, and with Italy and Spain on lockdowns, France is starting to close down […]
Has Anyone Told The ECB Yet It’s Bankrupt? Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, “The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher For months myself and very few others have been warning about the problems in Europe. That the real problem isn’t in the U.S., […]
UK Covid-19 Could Last Until Spring 2021 With Millions Hospitalized A public health document viewed by The Guardian says the Covid-19 outbreak could last until spring 2021 and lead to millions hospitalized. The secret document was written by the Public Health England (PHE) reveals the virus crisis could be sticking around for another 12 months […]
War Games, Covid-19, And NATO’s Dis-jointed Flight Forward Authored by Brian Gray via The Canadian Patriot, Presently NATO is in the initial stages of military operations called Defender-Europe 20. The 40,000 soldier strong war game exercise includes roughly 20,000 American troops and accompanying weaponry. This witnesses the largest deployment of US personnel in Europe since 1983 […]
Execs At Over 20 Companies Agree To Forfeit, Freeze, Or Cut Salaries Or Bonuses Amid Virus Fallout Believe it or not, corporate executives are reportedly slashing some of their pay as a result of the coronavirus. Despite what Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would have you believe about the rich, they apparently have at least […]
Event 201 Unfolds: Covid-19 Action Platform = Global Government In late January we noted Event 201’s significance: Only three months ago, John Hopkins, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum (a hive of self-professed globalists) ran a “pandemic simulation” called “Event 201” specifically focused on Coronavirus. Not Ebola, or Swine Flu or even Avian […]
“I Apologize” – Money Managers Sorry For Losing Clients’ Money Amid Brazilian Bloodbath While American asset-gatherers and commission-rakers were busy demanding investors ‘buy the dip for the long-term’ this week as each leg down just went further down (until Friday, of course), Brazilian money-managers were a little more frank with their clients. Although US markets […]
Central Banking Is Socialism Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Last week, the Federal Reserve responded to Wall Street’s coronavirus panic with an “emergency” interest rate cut. This emergency cut failed to revive the stock market, leading to predictions that the Fed will again cut rates later this […]
Stunning Video From A Locked-Down Europe A massive surge in Covid-19 cases across Europe has forced some of the largest economies on the continent to enforce strict social distancing rules to flatten the curve to slowdown infections. Europe is the new China, and with Italy and Spain on lockdowns, France is starting to close down […]
- Aug 9th 2025 5:17pm EDT