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“Don’t Blame Options” For Bizarre Market Moves Citadel Says… But Sparks Even More Questions Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 16:40 While much attention has fallen in recent days on SoftBank and the fact that the Japanese Venture Capital conglomerate has increasingly been acting as a hedge fund, using a recently hired Deuteche Bank prop trader…

Inflation Is Stealth Austerity Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation’s stealthy reduction of purchasing power. Austerity–bad. Inflation–good. Oh wait–they’re the same thing: both are a reduction in purchasing power. The only difference…

Stocks Bounce Off Critical Support After Fastest ‘Correction’ From Record High In History Tyler Durden Wed, 09/09/2020 – 16:00 What goes down, must come back with a vengeance in this new normal and so stocks did, but Nasdaq is still down 8% from highs… After the Nasdaq’s 10% collapse in 3 days (the fastest record…

“Historic” Wildfires Rage Across California As “Red Flag Warning” Declared  Tyler Durden Tue, 09/08/2020 – 16:40 California’s record-breaking fire season is becoming absolutely devastating with wildfires raging across the Golden State as a weekend heatwave sent temperatures soaring (Californians used 47K MW at peak over the weekend, versus the 38K summer average). Now, powerful winds could make things a whole lot worse…

Jeff Gundlach Live Webcast: “Hey Kid, Want Some Candy?” Tyler Durden Tue, 09/08/2020 – 16:31 One month after shocking Wall Street with his latest prediction that Donald Trump would win the Nov election, similar to Gundlach’s contrarian and correct forecast made ahead of the 2016 election, the DoubleLine founder is holding his latest live webcast,…

Intolerance And Authoritarianism Accelerate Disunity And Collapse Tyler Durden Tue, 09/08/2020 – 16:20 Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Scapegoating dissenters only hastens the disunity and disarray that accelerates the final collapse. Authoritarianism is imposed on us, but its sibling intolerance is our own doing. Intolerance and authoritarianism are two sides of the same coin: as intolerance…

“No Recovery In Sight”: Container Volumes At The Port Of Los Angeles Flatline Tyler Durden Mon, 09/07/2020 – 21:00 Submitted by Christopher Dembik, head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank In today’s edition, we focus once again on global trade and the U.S. economy in these unusual circumstances. One of our favorite coincident trade indicators…

United Nations Complains About A “Male-Dominated World” Thanks To “Millennia Of Patriarchy” Tyler Durden Mon, 09/07/2020 – 16:40 Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The United Nations has provoked another backlash after posting a tweet bemoaning how COVID-19 has demonstrated how “millennia of patriarchy” and “male-dominated culture” is ‘damaging’ everyone. “The #COVID19 pandemic…

US Ambassador To France Denies Atlantic Story, Says Trump ‘Has Never Denigrated Any Member Of US Military’ Tyler Durden Mon, 09/07/2020 – 16:16 Breitbart  is out with another exclusive from people who were close to the President when The Atlantic claims he called military veterans “losers” and “suckers.” This time, US Ambassador to France, Monaco…

Trump Mulls Decoupling US From China: “If Biden Wins, China Will Own This Country” Tyler Durden Mon, 09/07/2020 – 16:15 Tapping into the candidate of the 2016 campaign who repeatedly pledged to “bring back” US companies to American soil, the president has made some bombshell Labor Day remarks strongly hinting at decoupling the US and Chinese…

Researchers Find New Way For Criminals To Launder Money Using Bitcoin Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 21:05 Authored by Robert Stephens via Decrypt.co, Criminals could use “Exclusive mining” to pass off their money laundering as Bitcoin mining income… In brief Exclusive mining could be used to launder Bitcoin. It works by only allowing certain miners…

Robinhood, Schwab Outages Last Week Linked Directly To Tesla And Apple Splits Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 20:40 Once again during a period of slight market volatility, Robinhood users found themselves unable to access their platform more than once during the beginning of last week. It was deja vu from when the market was crashing due to…

Iran: “American Soil Is Now Within Range Of Iranian Bombs” Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 20:15 Authored by Majid Rafizadeh via The Gatestone Institute, Those who advocate pursuing a policy of appeasement toward the ruling mullahs as a means of changing the Iranian regime’s behavior fail to understand that the more the international community will…

Citizens around the country are hurriedly working out ways to try and prevent their local police from falling victim to the ridiculous demands of “defunding” being pushed by Marxist social justice groups

A Few Of The Many Reasons To Celebrate The United States Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 21:55 Authored by John Tamny via RealClearMarkets.com, There are so many reasons to celebrate the United States of America. Thankfully too many reasons to celebrate what’s spectacular. Countless books, articles and songs speak to this happy truth. In that case, this…

Is China On The ‘Brink’ Of A Major Food Shortage?  Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 21:30 China recently launched the “Clean Plate Campaign,” which targets people wasting food, as speculation of a worldwide food shortage mounts.  President Xi Jinping has pushed new measures to curb food waste following the virus pandemic, calling those who live stream their eating…

The Coming Coup Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 23:35 Authored by Michael Anton via The American Mind, Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes… As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup. You might…

China “Parties Like It Is 2019” As Patrons Pack Pool Parties, Nightcubs & Bars From Wuhan To Beijing Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 23:10 A few weeks ago, we joked that the people of Wuhan were ‘partying at ground zero’ when a story about a massive pool party to celebrate the end of the SARS-CoV-2…

The Wages Of Perpetual Fear Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2020 – 22:45 Authored by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com, I’ve gone on for a long time about fear making humans stupid, and even about it being a weapon and a brain poison. But I’ve also wondered at times whether people would hit fear-fatigue… that point where people…

BMO: The Strike Price Of The “Powell Put” Is Only Known To The Fed… So Markets May Retest It Soon Tyler Durden Sat, 09/05/2020 – 16:20 After the most tumultuous week in markets since the June mini crash, the week ahead will offer very little in terms of economic data to augment investors understanding of…

Greenwald Exposes Journalism’s New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” To Mean Its Opposite Tyler Durden Sat, 09/05/2020 – 15:50 Authored by Glenn Greenwald via The Intercept, Outlets claiming to have “confirmed” Jeffrey Goldberg’s story about Trump’s troops comments are again abusing that vital term… ONE OF THE MOST HUMILIATING journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December…