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This Is The “Sh*t Hitting The Fan” Part Of The Fourth Turning Tyler Durden Fri, 10/23/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a…

Stimulus Stalemate Sparks Slump In Stocks, Bonds, Oil, & The Dollar Tyler Durden Fri, 10/23/2020 – 16:00 Day after day the algos excited pumped and dumped stocks on the back of ‘hope’ and ‘nope’ headlines about the next round of COVID-19 relief from Washington. By the end of the week, stocks were down, bond (prices)…

Intel Plummets After Data Center Sales, Gross Margin Miss; Cloud Server Orders Slowing Tyler Durden Thu, 10/22/2020 – 16:30 Intel just can’t catch a break. Despite just beating on revenue and EPS (Q3 revenue of $18.3 billion, down -4.6% y/y, vs exp. $18.22 billion; Adjusted EPS $1.11 vs. $1.42 y/y, estimate $1.10), Intel shares are…

Everything Is Staged Tyler Durden Thu, 10/22/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, All the staging is a means to an end, and everyone in America is nothing more than a means to an end: close the sale so the few can continue exploiting the many. You know how realtors stage a house…

Pelosi Optimism Triggers Massive Value Rotating Short Squeeze Tyler Durden Thu, 10/22/2020 – 16:04 Markets continue to be transfixed by every twist and turn in the stimulus sage, whose latest installment today came form Nancy Pelosi who said that we are “just about there” on resolving a key piece of a coronavirus relief package, even…

Economy-Crushing COVID-19 Lockdowns Contributed To 100,000 US Deaths, New CDC Guidance Suggests Tyler Durden Wed, 10/21/2020 – 16:40 Yesterday, NY Gov Andrew Cuomo made headlines after laying into President Trump during a press briefing yesterday, accusing the president of having the blood of tens of thousands of dead New Yorkers  – and hundreds of thousands…

Tesla Jumps After Beating On Sales And Earnings; Reports Record Free Cash Flow Tyler Durden Wed, 10/21/2020 – 16:21 Heading into today’s Tesla earnings call, a question in this case posed by GLJ’s Gordon Johnson, has emerged: do TSLA’s earnings tonight even matter? As Johnson responds, “not really. Why? Well, Consensus is calling for 31c/shr…

Is A Trump ‘Surprise’ Victory In The Offing? Tyler Durden Wed, 10/21/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Tom Del Beccaro, op-ed via FoxNews.com, As November 3 approaches, many prognosticators are trying to convince Americans that former Vice President Joe Biden is a lock to win the presidency. Of course, they said the same about Hillary Clinton’s chances in 2016 and…

“Growth Has Slowed”: Netflix Crashes After Huge Miss On EPS, New Subs; Weak Outlook Tyler Durden Tue, 10/20/2020 – 16:35 While recent earnings reports from streaming giant Netflix have been a mixed bag, missing badly just over a year ago when US subs declined and forecasting the first annual drop this decade, then smashing expectations…

WTI Dips After Surprise Crude Build Tyler Durden Tue, 10/20/2020 – 16:33 Oil prices rallied to seven-week highs today (WTI above $41.50) on the back of hope-filled headlines about US stimulus talks (and nothing out of the OPEC+ discussions). “Anything that helps the economy do better is going to be helpful for crude,” said Bill O’Grady,…

How Hysterical Punditry Failed America Tyler Durden Tue, 10/20/2020 – 16:25 Authored by Michael Tracey via UnHerd.com, Ridiculous claims by respectable media outfits perpetuate the madness… It seems like only yesterday that America’s leading organs of elite consensus were engulfed by a full-fledged panic that the country was on the cusp of all-out Civil War.…

CNN, New Yorker Suspend Jeffrey Toobin For Showing His Dick In A Zoom Call Tyler Durden Mon, 10/19/2020 – 16:39 From the “Not, The Onion” file (which is becoming far too regular in this farcical new normal), legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended by CNN and The New Yorker after he exposed himself during…

Will The Stock Market Be Dragged To The Guillotine? Tyler Durden Mon, 10/19/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Fed’s rigged-casino stock market will be dragged to the guillotine by one route or another. The belief that the Federal Reserve and its rigged-casino stock market are permanent and forever is…

Black-ish Monday: Stimulus Stumble Sparks Big-Tech’s Worst Streak In 14 Months Tyler Durden Mon, 10/19/2020 – 16:00 The entire market is now playing a game of deal, or no deal and today’s “no deal” headlines sent stocks reeling… Nasdaq was down for the 5th straight day, its longest losing streak since Aug 2019… Interesting the…

Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Who Gave Up $8.25 Million Award Is Going Bankrupt Tyler Durden Sun, 10/18/2020 – 16:35 At the height of the financial crisis, when risk assets were imploding and counterparties were in danger of overnight collapse, Deutsche Bank avoided failure and nationalization by fabricating the value of its $130 billion derivative portfolio of…

FBI = Disinformation Tyler Durden Sun, 10/18/2020 – 16:10 Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, USA Today Headline: “A Tabloid Got A Trove Of Data On Hunter Biden From Rudy Giuliani. Now, The FBI Is Probing A Possible Disinformation Campaign (The FBI is examining whether the material supplied to the New…

Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert Tyler Durden Sun, 10/18/2020 – 15:45 Social media companies and mainstream media outlets are on a crusade, censoring anyone who challenges the “official” science and narrative behind the COVID-19 virus. It was only last week when Twitter removed New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden. Then…

The World’s Most Bearish Hedge Fund Just Did Something It Hasn’t Done In 8 Years Tyler Durden Sat, 10/17/2020 – 16:30 At the start of 2012 Horseman Global did something which virtually none of its peers dared or would dare to do: it took its formerly 100% equity net long exposure to deep net short,…

Senate Homeland Committee Demands Answers From FBI Over Hunter Biden Laptop Tyler Durden Sat, 10/17/2020 – 16:02 Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) has fired off a Saturday letter to FBI Director Chris Wray demanding answers over the agency’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop. According to the letter, after Johnson released his a…

“I Got Rich Off Of EDD:” Feds Bust LA Rapper For $1.2M Unemployment Scam Detailed In Music Video Tyler Durden Sat, 10/17/2020 – 15:40 A tidal wave of first-time jobless claims during the virus pandemic overwhelmed California’s computer systems, as it was a perfect opportunity for scammers to use stolen identities and file false claims. …

Hunter Biden Business Associate Flips From Prison, Releases Emails Detailing China Influence-Peddling Operation Tyler Durden Fri, 10/16/2020 – 16:20 Emails from a former Hunter Biden business associate serving time in prison for a 2016 investment scheme reveal that Hunter and his colleagues used their access to the Obama administration to peddle influence to potential Chinese…

VIX & Stocks Rise On Week; Banks Puke Ahead Of Black Monday Anniversary Tyler Durden Fri, 10/16/2020 – 16:01 Nothing to worry about… Monday will be the 33rd anniversary of the 1987 Black Monday collapse in stocks… Source: Bloomberg Now that would be an ‘October Surprise’… Excerpted from Art Cashin’s reminisces of that day in…