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Chinese Regime Deploys 1,600 Online Trolls To Suppress Information On Coronavirus
Chinese Regime Deploys 1,600 Online Trolls To Suppress Information On Coronavirus The propaganda department in virus-stricken Hubei Province has engaged over 1,600 censors to scrub the internet of “sensitive” information relating to the coronavirus outbreak, according to an internal document obtained by The Epoch Times. The internal report, dated Feb. 15, detailed the agency’s efforts to ramp up censorship measures. It was […]
China Injects A Record 5 Trillion Yuan In New Debt To Arrest Economic Crash
China Injects A Record 5 Trillion Yuan In New Debt To Arrest Economic Crash There was a palpable sense of disappointment last night when instead of cutting its benchmark overnight interest rates, Loan Prime Rate, as some – notably Goldman Sachs – had speculated might happen, the PBOC announced that it would only lower its […]
Kolanovic: The Tech Bubble Is Driven By Central Banks And Will Collapse; “This Time Is Not Different”
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 […]
Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela
Trump Sanctions Rosneft, Russia’s Largest Oil Company, For Helping Maduro In Venezuela The Trump administration announced significant new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, for helping Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro circumvent U.S. sanctions. Specifically, the sanction targets Rosneft Trading SA, a unit of Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft, as well as company’s […]
Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship
Beijing Cracks Down On VPNs Amid Growing Popular Backlash To CCP Censorship It looks like Beijing has finally grown tired of journalists like Epoch Times’ Jennifer Zeng circulating shocking videos depicting the true depth of the crisis on the ground in China – and the government’s almost unbelievably heavy handed response. For an example, see […]
US Breaks Cruise Ship Quarantine, Flies 13 Infected Americans To Omaha Facility
US Breaks Cruise Ship Quarantine, Flies 13 Infected Americans To Omaha Facility While China does everything in its power do demonstrate that the number of new cases in both Hubei province where the coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan is located, and across China, is declining with every passing day in a sign that the epidemic is […]
Why Did Twitter Just “Lockdown” WikiLeaks Account?
Why Did Twitter Just “Lockdown” WikiLeaks Account? Just hours after a secret meeting with Silicon Valley tech giants to discuss censorship of “misinformation” surrounding coronavirus, and just days before Julian Assange’s extradition hearings are set to continue, Kristin Hrafnsson – a WikiLeaks’ journalist – reports that the WikiLeaks’ Twitter account has been locked-down… WikiLeaks twitter account has been locked, […]
Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods
Armed Thieves Steal Truckload Of Toilet Paper In Hong Kong Amid Worsening Shortage Of Basic Goods Looks like the sh*t is really about to hit the fan in Hong Kong…and we mean that literally. In a shocking indication of just how bad shortages of basic goods have gotten as mainland China expands its lockdown to […]
US Firms In China Suffering “Severe Shortages Of Workers,” Warn Virus Impact Hitting Supply Chains
US Firms In China Suffering “Severe Shortages Of Workers,” Warn Virus Impact Hitting Supply Chains The global supply chain Armageddon is happening. The economies of the world are more interconnected than ever. There are many ‘single points of failure’ in these complex and global operations, of which many of them originate in China. A new poll via […]
Bill Gates Warns “10 Million Lives” At Risk As Virus Spreads To Africa And Taiwan Reports First Death
Bill Gates Warns “10 Million Lives” At Risk As Virus Spreads To Africa And Taiwan Reports First Death Summary: Taiwan reports 1st coronavirus death Taiwan taxi driver who died from virus carried passengers from mainland, Hong Kong, Macau Singapore reports 3 more cases Indonesia says 6 passengers from Westerdam cruise ship tested negative There are […]
The Four Coronavirus Scenarios: The Bad; The Worse; The Ugly; And The Unthinkable
The Four Coronavirus Scenarios: The Bad; The Worse; The Ugly; And The Unthinkable 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 four scenarios in which the virus […]
Fiat Chrysler To Shut Serbia Plant As Covid-19-Shock Paralyzes Global Supply Chains
Fiat Chrysler To Shut Serbia Plant As Covid-19-Shock Paralyzes Global Supply Chains It’s certainly plausible that the global economy is in the early stages of grinding to a halt. Already, we’ve noted that two-thirds of China’s economy is offline, with major industrial hubs idle and 400 million people quarantined. The next phase of the supply chain […]
China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero
China Is Disintegrating: Steel Demand, Property Sales, Traffic All Approaching Zero In our ongoing attempts to glean some objective insight into what is actually happening “on the ground” in the notoriously opaque Chinese economy which has been hammered by the Coronavirus epidemic, yesterday we showed several “alternative” economic indicators such as real-time measurements of air pollution (a […]
BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank
BofA: We Are Witnessing The Biggest Asset Bubble Ever Created By A Central Bank Back in March 2018, when commenting on what was then the 2nd longest central-bank induced bull market of all time (it is now the longest ever) Bank of America’s CIO Michael Hartnett pointed out that “bull market leadership has been in assets that […]
Tent Cities, Troop Surge & Tanks Pouring In: Reasons Why The ‘Final War’ For Idlib Has Begun
Tent Cities, Troop Surge & Tanks Pouring In: Reasons Why The ‘Final War’ For Idlib Has Begun In the next weeks and months, Idlib is set to be front and center once again in world headlines. Not only have the Turkish and Syrian armies engaged in direct clashes since the weekend — with dozens of casualties on each side —ready […]
