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Rabobank: Markets Need To Start Pricing For One Of Two Things – One Bad, The Other Terrible
Rabobank: Markets Need To Start Pricing For One Of Two Things – One Bad, The Other Terrible It is that rarest of occasions. Not a global pandemic, because: 1) we still aren’t in one yet, officially; and 2) we have had that pandemic declaration made in the relatively recent past (2009-10). Rather, we are being […]
The Last Time This Happened Was Days Before The Great Depression
The Last Time This Happened Was Days Before The Great Depression The US equity market is suffering its worst start to a year since 2009… In the space of just six days, we went from record high to a ‘correction’ (over 3,000 Dow points and down over 10.5%)… What is most ominous is the fact that, as […]
Coronavirus Containment Has Failed
Coronavirus Containment Has Failed Within and without China, the coronavirus continues to rage on Within and without China, the coronavirus continues to rage on. A leaked report claims that actual covid-19 cases within China are 52x higher than the 78K reported by authorities. Whether true or not, that estimate comports with the massive heavy-handed response […]
World Stocks At Key Support As Pandemic Fears Could Lead To Next Crash
World Stocks At Key Support As Pandemic Fears Could Lead To Next Crash The MSCI World Index captures large and mid-cap stocks in 23 developed markets, with about 1,644 constituents covering about 85% of the free float-adjusted market capitalization in each country. MSCI World has plunged 7.4% in nine sessions as investors dump stocks across all […]
Japan, China Close Schools Nationwide As CDC Warns Of Possible “Community Outbreak” In Sonoma County: Live Virus Updates
Japan, China Close Schools Nationwide As CDC Warns Of Possible “Community Outbreak” In Sonoma County: Live Virus Updates Update (0735ET): After yesterday’s rally fizzled, Germany is giving the ‘fiscal stimulus’ tape bomb one more go. GERMAN GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING POSSIBLE STIMULUS PROGRAMME IN CASE CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC HITS GERMAN ECONOMY HARD – HANDELSBLATT Yesterday, a German lawmaker poured […]
Scientists Discover HIV-Like “Mutation” Which Makes Coronavirus Extremely Infectious
Scientists Discover HIV-Like “Mutation” Which Makes Coronavirus Extremely Infectious While mainstream scientists continue to perform mental gymnastics to insist that the new coronavirus wasn’t man-made, new research from scientists in China and Europe reveal that the disease happens to have an ‘HIV-like mutation’ which allows it to bind with human cells up to 1,000 times stronger […]
President Trump Appoints VP Pence As Coronavirus Czar, Stocks Slide
President Trump Appoints VP Pence As Coronavirus Czar, Stocks Slide Update (1845): In his long-awaited press conference, President Trump defended the White House’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, insisted that he would accept whatever amount of crisis-response funds approved by Congress and appointed VP Mike to be his “Coronavirus Czar”. In the middle of Trump’s presser, […]
Paying The Price For Our Faustian Bargain With China
Paying The Price For Our Faustian Bargain With China “Faustian bargain, a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches.” Roughly forty years ago we and the Chinese entered into a true […]
The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End? I don’t consider myself superstitious or paranoid, but this past week I’ve had a rare combination of bad omens, sleepless nights (I *never* have sleep issues), and intuitions that have left me convinced we may truly be at the cusp of “The Fourth Turning” – […]
The Grim Reality About Pandemics They Don’t Want You To Know: “No Country is Prepared”
The Grim Reality About Pandemics They Don’t Want You To Know: “No Country is Prepared” It’s been 100 years since the Spanish Flu caused a global pandemic. While you can rest easy right now knowing a global pandemic is not currently a threat, it is just a matter of time before the next one arrives. […]
Schiff: “US Is In A Gigantic Bubble… & Covid-19 Is Going To Be The Pin”
Schiff: “US Is In A Gigantic Bubble… & Covid-19 Is Going To Be The Pin” While yesterday’s collapse in stocks has been broadly blamed on worsening Covid-19 headlines; Peter Schiff, the CEO and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, dug a little deeper into the real problems behind the market’s fragility on RT’s Boom Bust […]
“1984” Has Come to China
“1984” Has Come to China You’re probably familiar with George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; (it’s often published as 1984). It was written in 1948; the title comes from reversing the last two digits in 1948. The novel describes a world of three global empires, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, in a constant state of war. Orwell […]
San Francisco Declares State Of Emergency Over Covid-19; Germany Confirms 18th Case: Live Updates
San Francisco Declares State Of Emergency Over Covid-19; Germany Confirms 18th Case: Live Updates Summary: WHO warns the rest of the world “is not ready for the virus to spread…” CDC warns Americans “should prepare for possible community spread” of virus. San Francisco Mayor declares state of emergency Later, CDC says pandemic not a question of it, but […]
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Why Covid-19 Could Be the Deadly Pandemic That Changes Everything
THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Why Covid-19 Could Be the Deadly Pandemic That Changes Everything It has been almost three months since the Wuhan coronavirus, now known officially as COVID-19, emerged in Wuhan, China. This novel coronavirus is the latest candidate to be the next major pandemic. We’ve learned a lot about COVID-19 in that […]
NYT: “The Coronavirus Is Not A Civilization-Ender But…”
NYT: “The Coronavirus Is Not A Civilization-Ender But…” Just because the New York Times Opinion Section is a perennial object of ridicule by both the right and the left doesn’t mean its writers don’t occasionally make a good point. And today, we’d like to draw our readers’ attention to a column published Tuesday by Ross Douthat, a member of […]
