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  • The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck Of Neocon And ‘Humanitarian’ Interventionists

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 9:30pm EST

    The Koch-Soros Quincy Project: A Train Wreck Of Neocon And ‘Humanitarian’ Interventionists Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Those hoping the non-interventionist cause would be given some real muscle if a couple of oligarchs who’ve made fortunes from global interventionism team up and pump millions into Washington think tanks will […]

  • Senate Dems Question Trump’s Response To Virus: “Very Grave Threat To The World”

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 9:00pm EST

    Senate Dems Question Trump’s Response To Virus: “Very Grave Threat To The World” In what will likely come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has been capable of fogging a mirror for the last few years, Senate Democrats have decided to write a sternly-worded email to the Trump administration questioning their response to the […]

  • The Philippines Want The US Out… And They’re Not Alone

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 8:30pm EST

    The Philippines Want The US Out… And They’re Not Alone Authored by Tim Kirby via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The pawns of the Grand Chessboard are starting to move much more boldly – in an unpredicted by the punditry decision the Philippines have asked U.S. forces to leave their islands indefinitely. It was impossible to […]

  • Bernie Sanders Punk’d By Russians Posing As Greta Thunberg

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 8:00pm EST

    Bernie Sanders Punk’d By Russians Posing As Greta Thunberg Two Russian pranksters duped U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders into believing they were climate change activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante.  Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov told A.P. News they fooled Sanders in an 11-minute call, all recorded and uploaded to YouTube on Friday.  The call was allegedly […]

  • Is Political Change Coming To China?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 7:30pm EST

    Is Political Change Coming To China? Authored by Yuen Yuen Ang via Project Syndicate, In contemporary China, profound political transformation can – and has – taken place in the absence of regime change or Western-style democratization. The starkest example is the period of “reform and opening” that began in 1978 under Deng Xiaoping’s charge. Although Deng rejected […]

  • “Tankers, Tankers. Everywhere!” – Virus Causes Historic’ Traffic Jam’ Across Asian Supply Lines

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 7:00pm EST

    “Tankers, Tankers. Everywhere!” – Virus Causes Historic’ Traffic Jam’ Across Asian Supply Lines Covid-19’s effect on global energy markets has been disastrous. OPEC slashed its oil demand forecast last week, and Goldman Sachs doubled down on its bearish oil take and has cut its oil price target by $10 to $53 for the year, as a result […]

  • Is Poetic Justice Coming For The 1%?

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 6:30pm EST

    Is Poetic Justice Coming For The 1%? Authored by John Rubino via DollarCollapse.com, To understand just how grim the coming decade is likely to be for the world’s super-rich, let’s start with three premises: 1) Capitalist democracy — defined as free individuals managing their own property and periodically electing new leaders — is the only […]

  • Investors Agree To Unprecedented 95% “Gate” As They Hand $3 Billion To Englander’s Millennium

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 6:00pm EST

    Investors Agree To Unprecedented 95% “Gate” As They Hand $3 Billion To Englander’s Millennium Back in 2014, we speculated that as the market rose ever higher on ever lower liquidity and ever more central bank intervention, if and when the moment came that price discovery was permitted again, the avalanche of selling would be unstoppable […]

  • The Gold-Silver Ratio

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 5:30pm EST

    The Gold-Silver Ratio Authored by ‘mickeyman’ via The World Complex blog, A couple of weeks ago, Wheaton Precious Metals released a very useful study on the gold-silver ratio. Today I would like to take a look at some of its implications. The most important implication is one that everyone needs a little time to absorb. That is […]

  • Trump & Erdogan Discuss Ending “Unacceptable” Syrian Offensive To Take Back Idlib

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 5:00pm EST

    Trump & Erdogan Discuss Ending “Unacceptable” Syrian Offensive To Take Back Idlib On Saturday President Trump held a much anticipated and crucial phone call with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan at a moment tensions are soaring over Idlib, and after a week of direct confrontations between the Syrian and Turkish armies left scores dead and wounded […]

  • Senate Attacks Judy Shelton For Sin Of Being Outside The Mainstream

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 4:30pm EST

    Senate Attacks Judy Shelton For Sin Of Being Outside The Mainstream Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Earlier this week, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing for President Trump’s two most recent Federal Reserve nominees. In one chair sat Christopher Waller, vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank […]

  • Wuhan’s Hastily-Constructed 1,000-Bed Coronavirus Hospital Is Already Falling Apart

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 4:00pm EST

    Wuhan’s Hastily-Constructed 1,000-Bed Coronavirus Hospital Is Already Falling Apart The 1,000-bed hospital constructed in about a week to handle the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, opened its doors about 13 days ago, or around Feb 03, has already experienced a massive water leak that has flooded hallways, according to an alleged video posted by Twitter handle Harry Chen […]

  • Five Signs That Ethereum’s Moment Has Come

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 3:35pm EST

    Five Signs That Ethereum’s Moment Has Come Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, Ether has more than doubled in value so far this year, with strong fundamentals and increasing numbers of projects being built on the network. image courtesy of CoinTelegraph Here are five signs from this week that Ethereum’s time may have finally come. […]

  • Bloomberg Dubs The Queen A “Horsey-Faced Lesbian” In Outrageous Book Of Quotes

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 3:10pm EST

    Bloomberg Dubs The Queen A “Horsey-Faced Lesbian” In Outrageous Book Of Quotes Shortly before the Drudge Report reported that Mike Bloomberg is planning to ask Hillary Clinton to be his running mate should be clinch the Democratic nomination (an eventuality that’s looking increasingly likely as the DNC wakes up to the fact that Bloomberg is […]

  • Market Believes It Has Immunity To Risks

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 2:45pm EST

    Market Believes It Has Immunity To Risks Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As noted last week, the spread of the coronavirus has had little impact on the markets so far. “”The market bounced firmly off the 50-dma and rallied back to new highs on Thursday. While Friday saw a bit of retracement, which isn’t surprising given […]

  • Hubei Doctors Warn Of Even-Deadlier Coronavirus Reinfection Causing Sudden Heart Attacks

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 2:20pm EST

    Hubei Doctors Warn Of Even-Deadlier Coronavirus Reinfection Causing Sudden Heart Attacks Doctors working on the front lines of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak have told the Taiwan Times that it’s possible to become reinfected by the virus, leading to death from sudden heart failure in some cases. “It’s highly possible to get infected a second […]

  • Yemen’s Houthis Shoot Down Saudi Jet With Advanced Surface-To-Air Missile

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 1:55pm EST

    Yemen’s Houthis Shoot Down Saudi Jet With Advanced Surface-To-Air Missile Via AlMasdarNews.com, The Saudi News Agency quoted the Arab Coalition spokesperson Turki Al-Malki as saying on Saturday that one of their Tornado fighter jets was shot down over northern Yemen on Friday night. “At 23:45 P.M. on Friday, February 14, 2020, a Tornado fighter plane […]

  • Border Patrol Deploys 100 ‘Elite’ Tactical Agents To Sanctuary Cities As Federal Immigration Crackdown Begins

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 1:30pm EST

    Border Patrol Deploys 100 ‘Elite’ Tactical Agents To Sanctuary Cities As Federal Immigration Crackdown Begins While the mainstream media throws a field day over President Trump’s twitter battle of wits with AG Barr and subsequent calls for the AG’s resignation… BARR: He didn’t do it. TRUMP: But I could of. BARR: He never did it. […]

  • The Four Coronavirus Scenarios: The Bad; The Worse; The Ugly; And The Unthinkable

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 1:05pm EST

    The Four Coronavirus Scenarios: The Bad; The Worse; The Ugly; And The Unthinkable Submitted by Michael Every of Rabobank Summary The Covid-19 coronavirus could be more disruptive than markets are currently pricing in. Not in the least because the ‘true’ number of infected people remains uncertain, as the recent surge in cases exemplifies We outline […]

  • US & Taliban Reach Major Truce Deal; Features Eventual Release Of 5,000 Taliban Prisoners

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 12:40pm EST

    US & Taliban Reach Major Truce Deal; Features Eventual Release Of 5,000 Taliban Prisoners A senior US official announced Friday that a ceasefire deal with the Taliban has been agreed to after 16 months of controversial direct State Department and Taliban negotiations, AP reports, as part of the continuing Trump administration saga to finally get out America’s 18-year war.  The […]

  • The Secret To Fun And Easy Stock Market Riches

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 12:15pm EST

    The Secret To Fun And Easy Stock Market Riches Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, On Tuesday, at the precise moment Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell commenced delivering his semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee, something unpleasant happened.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) didn’t go up.  Rather, it went down. […]

  • Snoop Dogg Apologizes For Calling Gayle King “Funky Dog Head Bitch” Over Kobe Bryant Controversy

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 11:50am EST

    Snoop Dogg Apologizes For Calling Gayle King “Funky Dog Head Bitch” Over Kobe Bryant Controversy After days of finding himself on the receiving end of criticism, Snoop Dogg has now apologized to reporter Gayle King for attacking her on Instagram. Snoop had called King a “funky dog head bitch” and lobbed threats at the reporter […]

  • Covid-19 Contagion – An “Unprecedented” Moment For Our Hyper-Connected Planet

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 11:25am EST

    Covid-19 Contagion – An “Unprecedented” Moment For Our Hyper-Connected Planet Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com, There’s a reason we’ve re-directed so much of our attention towards reporting on and trying to understand the novel coronavirus (covid-19) that originated in Wuhan, China in December. The heart of our approach is to be “systems thinkers.” “Learn […]

  • Bloomberg Considers Hillary For Running Mate

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 10:58am EST

    Bloomberg Considers Hillary For Running Mate In another classic Drudge Report scoop that is bound to dominate the Democratic Primary news cycle from now until South Carolina and Nevada, the conservative-leaning aggregator reports that Mike Bloomberg is considering Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate. EXCLUSIVE: BLOOMBERG CONSIDERS HILLARY RUNNING MATE DRUDGE: Bloomberg himself would […]

  • Another ‘Nightmare At Sea’: First COVID-19 Case Detected Aboard Cruise Ship Given ‘Safe Harbor’ In Cambodia

    ZeroHedge - Feb 15th 2020 10:40am EST

    Another ‘Nightmare At Sea’: First COVID-19 Case Detected Aboard Cruise Ship Given ‘Safe Harbor’ In Cambodia Remember the cruise ship that was refused entry by four countries, despite having zero confirmed cases of COVID-19? In hindsight, those countries might have had a point. Because Reuters reports that the first case of coronavirus has been detected […]