What do negative oil prices tell us?

by Shaun Richards Yesterday brought a new development in the word of negativity. We regularly look at negative interest-rates and bond yields here and a couple of years ago or so noted negative prices for gas in the Permian Basin.More recently we have had to come to terms with negative economic growth rates. But then … Read more

Documents Reveal Feds Are Excited To Create A Mass Surveillance Network

by Mass Private I A FOIA request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center revealed how excited the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) is about using CCTV cameras to create a national surveillance network. An NSCAI presentation titled “Chinese Tech Landscape Overview” discusses China’s facial recognition CCTV camera network in glowing terms. “When we talk about data … Read more

What reliable websites show charts of the Coronavirus curve?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/ https://infection2020.com/ https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 Below is a summary of trends from today (as of late EST), for the USA, and how it compares to Global. The data is available in more detail here. Global Confirmed Cases growth is 📉: Decreasing to 2.91% Increasing by 70,171 Total confirmed cases is 2,481,287 Deaths growth is 📉: Decreasing to 2.7% Increasing by 4,491 Total deaths is 170,436 … Read more

People are saying that AOC deleted this because she realized that it is celebrating people losing their jobs – That is not why she deleted it – She deleted it because these oil prices make her Green New Deal look completely pointless

AOC Deleted Tweet – “Loves to See the Oil Crash” People are forgetting that the so called “moderate” Democratic nominee in 2016, Hillary Clinton, celebrated the idea that “we’re gonna put a lot of coal companies and coal miners out of business.” The left openly celebrates fossil fuel workers losing their jobs and they voted en masse … Read more

This is why they want mail-in voting. This is what they want to impose upon us.

by sundance Comrades, senators within the United States government have proposed a terrific scheme to force taxpayers to fund their own confinement.   According to the plan $500 billion will be provided to state and local officials in an effort to offset lost revenue as a result of keeping citizens under house arrest.  Under the remarkable plan, … Read more

AOC Demonstrates Just How Ignorant She is About Economics As the World Turns to Protests

by Martin Armstrong Our favorite entertainer in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC; D-NY), on Monday deleted a message after she was criticized in which she cheered her New Green Deal in the light of the historic drop in oil prices as an opportunity to invest in “green infrastructure to save our planet.” She thinks this will … Read more

David Stockman: The Lying Media And The Folly Of Lockdown

David Stockman interviewed by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Liberty Report Legendary investor and former OMB Director David Stockman joins today’s Liberty Report to take a hard look at the shutdown that has brought the US economy to its knees. Was it really necessary…and how can we ever recover? Don’t miss today’s Liberty Report…    

Why Leveraged Federal Reserve Purchases Of Unsecured Secondary Market Securities Are Illegal

by SpontaneousDisorder This is an explanation why the Feds recent actions are illegal. Its from John Hussman’s new post which also talks about the spread of SARS-COV-2 and stock market valuations and internals. Both the Federal Reserve Act and the recent CARES Act places very clear restrictions on the types of assets that the Federal … Read more

Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds… Most Small Firms Report Not Yet Getting ANY Money… Oversight of $2 trillion bailout hasn’t gotten off ground

Anger mounts after corporations tap small-business relief funds Congress is under increasing pressure to ensure an extension of the popular Payment Protection Program (PPP) gets desperately needed funds to the small businesses it’s intended to help, not to big corporations. Nationwide chains and companies recently revealed they received funds from the program designed for businesses … Read more

If you left NYC out — even keeping in those other dysfunctional blue areas — the US would be a shining example to the world.

ANN ALTHOUSE CALLS OUT NATE SILVER FOR GHOULISHNESS: It seems to me, he’s assuming the conditions of contagion are the same in red and blue states and only the politics are different. But I think the reason the red states are getting closer to reopening is that there’s good reason to think that it can be done carefully and that … Read more

NAPOLITANO: Dem Governors’ Trampling Of Civil Liberties An “Impeachable Offense”…

‘Impeachable Offense’: Fox’s Judge Nap Says NJ, MI Govs Violating The Law With CV Lockdowns Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano angered a lot of people earlier this year when he said President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses regarding his July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president. Now, Napolitano is saying another “impeachable … Read more

Is it the ECB which is the Euro area bad bank?

by Shaun Richards A feature of the credit crunch era is that some subjects have never gone away in spite of all the official denials. Another is that establishment’s use crises to try to introduce policies which they would not be able to get away with in ordinary times. As today we are looking at … Read more