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  • Coronavirus Deaths Outside China Surge Overnight As Explosion Of New Cases Suggests Outbreak Far From Over

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 7:12am EST

    Coronavirus Deaths Outside China Surge Overnight As Explosion Of New Cases Suggests Outbreak Far From Over Hours after Japanese press reports claimed that two passengers who contracted COVID-19 aboard the ‘Diamond Princess’ died yesterday – news that was later confirmed by Japanese authorities – South Korea reported its first fatality while one of its major […]

  • Macron Ends Unsupervised Imam Program Over Risk Of ‘Separatism’

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 5:45am EST

    Macron Ends Unsupervised Imam Program Over Risk Of ‘Separatism’ With Emmanuel Macron’s popularity in freefall and his allies taking hits, the French President has yet again attempted to appease France’s growing populist movement – announcing on Tuesday that he would end a program which allowed foreign countries to send imams and other religious teachers in […]

  • Covid-19: Summing Up The FUD

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 5:00am EST

    Covid-19: Summing Up The FUD Authored by ‘Amarynth’ via The Saker blog, drawing together a braintrust from The Movable Feast Cafe, We set up a ‘brain trust’ in the Cafe in order to write a combined sitrep for The Saker Blog about the Coronavirus. The new name in the taxonomy is COVID-19 but let’s stick […]

  • Credit Suisse MD Dies In Freak Accident After Slipping Through Chairlift And Being Suffocated By His Own Jacket

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 4:15am EST

    Credit Suisse MD Dies In Freak Accident After Slipping Through Chairlift And Being Suffocated By His Own Jacket Almost exactly 10 years ago, we detailed the tragic death of Gerard Reilly in a skiing accident – the point man on Repo 105, the point person for E&Y’s “investigation” into the Matthew Lee whistleblower campaign, Lehman’s […]

  • The Vector Of The European Political Agenda Is Changing: Russia Is Becoming A Necessary Partner

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 3:30am EST

    The Vector Of The European Political Agenda Is Changing: Russia Is Becoming A Necessary Partner Authored by Anastasia Frank via TheDuran.com, One of the main political events of the past week was the Munich Security Conference, which brought together more than 150 heads of state, senior diplomats and prime ministers in the Bavarian capital for […]

  • UBS Hires ING Boss To Replace Ermotti 1 Week After Credit Suisse Ousts Thiam

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 2:45am EST

    UBS Hires ING Boss To Replace Ermotti 1 Week After Credit Suisse Ousts Thiam Switzerland’s cross-town banking rivals are now under new management. Despite presiding over several epic ‘compliance failures’ at ING that led the Dutch bank into the morass of a multibillion Russian money laundering scandal that has rocked the European banking system, ING […]

  • UK Hospitals To Deny Care To “Racist” Or “Homophobic” Patients

    ZeroHedge - Feb 20th 2020 2:00am EST

    UK Hospitals To Deny Care To “Racist” Or “Homophobic” Patients Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Patients deemed to be “racist” or “homophobic” will be denied care in NHS Trust hospitals under new rules set to take effect in April. “Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or […]

  • Global Centralization Is The Cause Of Crisis – Not The Cure

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 11:45pm EST

    Global Centralization Is The Cause Of Crisis – Not The Cure Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, Once you understand the globalist mindset, almost everything they do becomes rather robotic and predictable.  It should not be surprising that the World Health Organization (WHO), a branch of the United Nations, has been so aggressive in cheerleading for […]

  • New Estimates Suggest Chinese Tech Shipments Are About To Crash

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 11:25pm EST

    New Estimates Suggest Chinese Tech Shipments Are About To Crash Now that Apple has opened the floodgates and made it entirely clear that China’s economic collapse will slash revenue guidance on the year and lead to production woes through April, an onslaughter of earnings downgrades from other top technology companies with significant operations in China could be […]

  • The Intolerance Of The “Tolerant” Left: The End Of Liberal Democracy?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 11:05pm EST

    The Intolerance Of The “Tolerant” Left: The End Of Liberal Democracy? Authored by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff  via The Gatestone Institute, We recently witnessed two events that indicated the possible demise of liberal democracy. The implications should frighten supporters of democratic forms of government in which individual rights and freedoms are officially recognized and protected, and the […]

  • Two Years After Handing It The Biggest Ever Bailout Loan, IMF Finds Argentina Debt Levels Are “Unsustainable”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 10:45pm EST

    Two Years After Handing It The Biggest Ever Bailout Loan, IMF Finds Argentina Debt Levels Are “Unsustainable” Back in the summer of 2018, when the IMF handed Argentina an unprecedented $56 billion bailout loan, the largest in IMF history, some warned that this is a case of deja vu similar to the 2001/2002 precedent when […]

  • The Cracks In US Households’ Finances

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 10:25pm EST

    The Cracks In US Households’ Finances Submitted by Micro Hive; authored by Dominique Dwor-Frecaut is a macro strategist based in Southern California. She has worked on EM and DMs at hedge funds, on the sell side, the NY Fed , the IMF and the World Bank. She publishes the blog Macro Sis that discusses the drivers […]

  • Turkey Threatens “Imminent” Large Scale Invasion Of Idlib To Halt Syrian-Russian Advance

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 10:05pm EST

    Turkey Threatens “Imminent” Large Scale Invasion Of Idlib To Halt Syrian-Russian Advance New threats related to Idlib this week could see the Russian and Turkish armies on a direct collision course.  Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday threatened a full-scale military invasion of the war torn province after the Syrian Army and its Russian ally refused to […]

  • 2 Passengers Aboard Japanese Cruise Ship Have Died From Coronavirus Infection

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 9:53pm EST

    2 Passengers Aboard Japanese Cruise Ship Have Died From Coronavirus Infection As Japanese health officials begin the second day of offloading passengers and crew from the ‘Diamond Princess’ cruise ship that has been under quarantine in Yokohama for the last two weeks, the Japanese press is reporting that two passengers from the ship have died. […]

  • China’s “Mandate Of Heaven” Is In Jeopardy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 9:45pm EST

    China’s “Mandate Of Heaven” Is In Jeopardy Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, One event is taking center stage in the world that affects not only basic survival for millions of people, but the health of the global economy overall. Of course, I’m talking about the coronavirus outbreak currently playing out before our […]

  • Ayatollah Tweets “Wealthy Zionists” Control America Amid Push To Get Him Banned From Twitter

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 9:25pm EST

    Ayatollah Tweets “Wealthy Zionists” Control America Amid Push To Get Him Banned From Twitter Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has marked the latest national event commemorating the death of IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by tweeting a deeply provocative statement asserting that “wealthy Zionists” control America. The United States has reached the “peak of arrogance,” and is controlled by “wealthy […]

  • Russia Is Defeating The U.S. In The Middle East Oil Game

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 9:05pm EST

    Russia Is Defeating The U.S. In The Middle East Oil Game Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, Historically, Russia goes to great lengths to hide or disguise its strategic intentions but it clearly feels empowered enough in the Middle East to very obviously stake its claim in the region – excluding, for the time being […]

  • Watch Live: Bernie Battles “Billionaire” Bloomberg In Critical Las Vegas Debate

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 8:45pm EST

    Watch Live: Bernie Battles “Billionaire” Bloomberg In Critical Las Vegas Debate Americans will get a glimpse of the great ‘revolutionary class war’ over the soul of the Democratic Party Wednesday night as Democratic Primary frontrunner Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed “Democratic Socialist” who once proposed that no American be allowed to earn more than $1 million […]

  • ‘You Are Here’ – The Stages Of Collapse Exposed

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 8:25pm EST

    ‘You Are Here’ – The Stages Of Collapse Exposed Authored by Tumoas Malinen via GnS Economics, Could the coronavirus act as a catalyst for a new global economic crisis? It certainly has that potential – but how would the crisis proceed? In the December 2018 issue of our Q-Review, we laid out the likely scenarios of an approaching global […]

  • Israel To Step Up “Offensive Action” – Will Turn Syria Into “Iranian Vietnam”: Israeli Defense Chief

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 8:05pm EST

    Israel To Step Up “Offensive Action” – Will Turn Syria Into “Iranian Vietnam”: Israeli Defense Chief After over two years of sporadic Israeli air and missile attacks inside Syria, which Syria’s military has been more aggressive in responding to of late, Israel has issued a rare statement revealing its medium to long-term strategy, saying it will […]

  • “Greater Idaho”: Conservatives In Oregon Want 22 Rural Counties To Secede And Become Part Of Idaho

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 7:45pm EST

    “Greater Idaho”: Conservatives In Oregon Want 22 Rural Counties To Secede And Become Part Of Idaho Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Is the state of Idaho going to get a whole lot bigger?  A group known as Greater Idaho is pushing for rural counties in Oregon and northern California to secede […]

  • “They Completely Dropped The Ball”: Critics Bash Japan’s Government

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 7:25pm EST

    “They Completely Dropped The Ball”: Critics Bash Japan’s Government Japan has become the country that’s perhaps most at risk of a major outbreak of COVID-19. It’s also the country with arguably the most to lose, in terms of its reputation, if it’s forced to call off the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As we’ve noted several […]

  • The Mind Behind The “World Computer”: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 7:05pm EST

    The Mind Behind The “World Computer”: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Authored by Horus Hughes via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology were meant to liberate the oppressed, bank the unbanked and democratize countries with opaque authoritarian governments. Whether or not the crypto sector has actually achieved these goals remains a topic of debate, but it is fair […]

  • Bizarre ‘Road Rage Among Superpowers’ Incident In Syria Caught On Film

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 6:45pm EST

    Bizarre ‘Road Rage Among Superpowers’ Incident In Syria Caught On Film A bizarre incident was captured on film Wednesday involving American and Russian military patrols.  The dangerous encounter took place in northeastern Syria near the town of Qamishli, site of prior recent stand-offs involving US special forces attempting to block Russian military patrols from going […]

  • Kolanovic: The Tech Bubble Is Driven By Central Banks And Will Collapse; “This Time Is Not Different”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 19th 2020 6:05pm EST

    Kolanovic: The Tech Bubble Is Driven By Central Banks And Will Collapse; “This Time Is Not Different” Having been a must-read voice of contrarian originality and market structure insight especially in the arcane realm of quant finance and derivatives for much of 2013-2016, about 3 years ago something flipped and JPM’s head quant, Marko Kolanovic […]