With Superfluous Demand in Free-Fall, What’s the Upside of Re-Opening a Small Business?

by Charles Hugh-Smith Since superfluous demand was the core driver of most consumer spending, and that demand is in free-fall, what’s the upside of re-opening? The mainstream view assumes everyone will be gripped by an absolutely rabid desire to return to their pre-pandemic frenzy of borrowing and spending and consuming, the more the better. While the urge to … Read more

Carnival Cruise Chest CT Findings: Of 104 cases, 76 (73%) were asymptomatic, 41 (54%) of which had lung opacities on CT

This is pretty wild. They took scans of 104 patients from the cruise ship and of 104, 76 (73%) showed no symptoms including difficulty breathing yet ground-glass opacities were found in 54% of them. That means that the disease was eating at their lungs even without any symptoms. Remember that Harvard study which showed up … Read more

The market rate for virus supplies 3 months ago…

by TeRiYaki32 I’ve heard from friends at two different companies in the past week that are getting pandemic supplies for their staff. There are large, national business supply companies out there who have started reaching out to other businesses, offering to be their supplier for pandemic items like gloves, masks, sanitizer, etc., in addition to … Read more

The US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Barry conducted a “freedom of navigation” operation in the South China Sea Tuesday

The US Navy guided missile destroyer USS Barry conducted a “freedom of navigation” operation in the South China Sea Tuesday aimed in part at challenging China’s claims on the Paracel Islands https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1255197690792730624   .@USPacificFleet: “By conducting this operation, the United States demonstrated that these waters are beyond what China can lawfully claim as its territorial … Read more

Chinese internet users who uploaded coronavirus memories to GitHub have been arrested. Project Terminus2049

A group of volunteers in China who worked to prevent digital records of the coronavirus outbreak from being scrubbed by censors are now targets of a crackdown. Cai Wei, a Beijing-based man who participated in one such project on GitHub, the software development website, was arrested together with his girlfriend by Beijing police on April … Read more

MISSING: 96%!

Hard to believe, but look it up on Congress website for HR 748 from 116th Congress. American population: 330,483,530 Stimulus bill: $2,000,000,000,000 Dividing the cost by every person in America is $6,051.74 The government could have given every person over $6,000, but instead will give $1,200 to each adult under a certain income. Wanna know … Read more

Worldwide 1930s Style Depression Has Begun!

by Michael Markowski SCPA (statistical crash probability analyses) forecast:  100% probability the first worldwide economic depression has begun!  This bold statement is based on statistical crash probability analyses of two new research findings noted below: The alarming discovery of nine additional countries whose markets commenced simultaneous crashes on 2/20/20 is now known.   These crashes of … Read more

95% Of Emotions Experienced Daily By Americans Are Negative – Here’s How To Clear Your Head

By Jon Hall The world has completely lost its mind – I’m sure many reading would agree with that statement. Every day, there’s a fresh deluge of current events and news that takes precedence over whatever news cycle might have come before it. Just last month, representatives of Congress allegedly performed insider stock trading before the coronavirus caused nationwide lockdowns. Effectively, elected officials … Read more

The Communist Economic Trap – Chapter Nine of How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World

The Communist Economic Trap – Chapter Nine of How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World By the editorial team of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (Minghui.org) [Editor’s Note] This series is a reprint of The Epoch Times’ English translation of the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World by … Read more

House of Representatives Won’t Return to Washington Next Week PREZ Trump Nancy Enjoying Extended ‘Vacation’ While eating ICE CREAM

President Donald Trump mocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday at the White House for canceling plans to call Congress back to Washington during the coronavirus pandemic. “The Democrats, they don’t want to come back. I think they should be back here, but they don’t, they’re enjoying their vacation,” Trump said when asked by ABC … Read more

This is the top, Goldman Sachs says in Wall-Street-language that they are taking profits

Markets may continue to look past negative coronavirus news, especially if projections continue to show that the economy is expected to rebound after the pandemic, a Monday note from Goldman Sachs said. An analysis of GDP forecasts from the bank found that investors tended to discount the next two years of macroeconomic performance. Thus, metrics that focus … Read more

What if what we’re watching in the stock markets is not the ‘genius’ of the Fed but the first ‘green shoots’ of hyperinflation?

What if what we're watching in the stock markets is not the 'genius' of the Fed but the first 'green shoots' of hyperinflation? — John Tuld (@BradHuston) April 28, 2020 Hey, remember that time in the 1930's, when there was crippling deflation that got worse and worse? And then the government came out and said, … Read more

Luckin Coffee Office Raided as China Regulators Probe Fraud at Starbucks Rival

Luckin Coffee Inc. (LK) confirmed Monday that it its being investigated by market regulators in China as its Nasdaq-listed shares continued to be suspended following revelations earlier this month that it may have “fabricated sales” reports that could have totaled more than $300 million of more than $300 million. The China-based rival to Starbucks said it was “actively cooperating” … Read more

It is beginning – the Government take over of the nations food supply.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6870689/coronavirus-canada-food-supply/ Here in Canuckistan the government is being urged by the NDP (Communist Party) to basically take over the nations food supply, even more than it already has. Farmers in Canuckistan are dumping milk and breaking millions of eggs – told to by the Dairy Board who controls milk and egg production. Prices in the … Read more