The start-up economy is fundamentally broken. The virus will make it worse.

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https://theweek.com/articles/915265/startup-economy-fundamentally-broken-virus-make-worse summarized Luckily for you, Uber is there – because $25 billion is about what the company has lost since that date. Uber competitor Lyft, the mattress company Casper, and dozens of other companies are following the same strategy. These companies generally treat both their suppliers and their workers like crap, but what is less … Read more

Retail has the largest long call option position in history. Citadel is about to take all their money. I can promise you that.

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https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1263518901222113285 Why would you not going into a long weekend max long call options with soaring unemployment, leaders of the two biggest countries fighting, pandemic spreading, and no announced earnings revisions. Only thing I can think of more bullish is nuclear holocaust and hell might get that https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1263473283237888000 Twitter sentiment (on stahks!) is getting bubblier … Read more

According to senior administration officials, U.S. will inform Russia on Friday that the United States is pulling out of the Open Skies Treaty

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https://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2020/21-may-according-to-senior-administration-officials-us-will The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 34 party states. It establishes a program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants. The treaty is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants, regardless of size, a direct role … Read more

US approves $180m sale of advanced torpedoes to Taiwan/ LONG SWIM back to Mainland

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US approves $180m sale of advanced torpedoes to Taiwan; Al Jazeera ^ | 05/21/2020 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/approves-180m-sale-advanced-torpedoes-taiwan-200520235339185.html The United States approved a $180m sale of heavyweight torpedoes to Taiwan, the State Department said on Wednesday, in a move that is likely to further strain ties between Washington and Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own. Approval for … Read more

China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

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China’s ruling Communist Party signaled that it is moving swiftly to bring Hong Kong under its full control, with a top official saying Thursday that Beijing plans to alter the system that has allowed the territory to enjoy a level of autonomy for the past 23 years. After steadily eroding Hong Kong’s political freedoms and … Read more

Kevin McCarthy: “If I’m Speaker of the House, I will never: • Talk about a President of the United States as being “morbidly obese” • Rip up the President’s State of the Union speech. • Impeach purely for political gain.”

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If I'm Speaker of the House, I will never:• Talk about a President of the United States as being "morbidly obese"• Rip up the President's State of the Union speech.• Impeach purely for political gain. RT if you agree it's time for a change in the Speaker's office. pic.twitter.com/rg9cprCtRh — Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) May 20, … Read more

Flynn not only made it clear that he wanted to undo the Iran Deal, he also broadcast his determination to find the documents detailing the secret deals between Obama and Iran, and to publicize them

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How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign. Michael Flynn posed a threat to the former president’s legacy and was made to pay for it How was it central to his legacy if it was never actually intended to stop Iran from getting the bomb? Because it was his instrument to secure an … Read more

Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out. Gates also forced us to accept Edge Browser spyware that can’t be removed. This is illegal. Let’s call for prosecution.

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by AmuseMeSomeMore Did you read your 1,200 word TOS? “Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: 1.comply with applicable law or respond to … Read more

HUGE fire nuclear powerplant in the Netherlands!

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  Nuclear powerplant Dodewaard Netherlands is currently on fire (dutch) https://www.hln.be/nieuws/buitenland/grote-brand-op-dak-van-oude-kerncentrale-in-nederland-onder-controle~ae8352c6/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godlikeproductions.com%2Fforum1%2Fmessage4396898%2Fpg1 Nuclear powerplant Dodewaard Netherlands is currently on fire pic.twitter.com/HBuYLLdtQX — EZ Wolf (@EZ_wolf) May 21, 2020 Brand #dodewaard geef hulpdiensten de ruimte. Houd afstand van de brand. Heeft u last van de rook sluit ramen en deuren en schakel ventilatie uit. Meer informatie volgt. … Read more

This is huge news. We need to take our colleges back!

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NOT JUST CHINA: NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW QATAR WAGING STEALTH JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA THROUGH UNIVERSITIES   What the hell is wrong with our “educators”??? Conversely – what is right with our educators??? COLLUSION: China’s chokehold on universities even stronger overseas, Australian case suggests.   An Australian student says he is facing expulsion and lawsuits after stating his … Read more

Why are central bankers so afraid of the truth?

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by Shaun Richards We find ourselves in an era where central bankers wield enormous power. There is something of an irony in this. They were given the ability to set monetary policy as a way of taking power out of the hands of politicians.This led to talk of “independence” as they set interest-rates to achieve … Read more

What I Do When Markets Make No Sense

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Rick Rule interviewed by Dunagun Kaiser on Reluctant Preppers Which way from here? How do we separate what we know from what is unknowable? And how can we take prudent actions to both reduce risk and capitalize on high-probability of future gains, despite unprecedented and unpredictable forces at play? Rick Rule, CEO of Sprott Asset Management, returns to Liberty … Read more