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Date Sent: 2020-03-20
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Saturday, March 21, 2020 |
The Fed Reopens Its Landfill For Distressed Assets
Distressed Debt In The US Doubles In 2 Weeks To $500BN As BofA Expects Surge In Defaults -- A Revolving Panic: Here Are The Companies That Have Fully Drawn Down Credit Lines This Week -- Second Great Depression Begins? -- Florida Seniors More Worried About Market Collapse Than Pandemic -- Putin Won't Blink First: -- Interview 1527 " New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato -- There'll Be "Close To Zero" New Virus Cases By End Of April, -- Arizona Joining Lockdown -- Final Party @ the Hancock's - Sat March 21, 6 p.m. til? Party still on for those that want to co -- "The Number Is Off The Charts" - Record Outflows From Everything, Record Inflows Into Cash -- Stocks Suffer Worst Week Since Lehman Despite Biggest Fed Bailout Ever -- The Crash Of 2020 Is Now Worse Than The Great Depression -- Blain: Why "We're Still Only In The First Phase" Of This Chaos -- Trader: Asset Price Action Is Trying To Lure You Back In... Don't Be Fooled -- Fed Announces "Enhanced" Central Bank Swap Lines To Ease Dollar Funding Shortage -- COVID-19, Fear, & Elitist-Driven Market Insanity -- And... Scene -- Ronin Capital Blows Up, Unable To Meet CME Capital Requirements After VIX Trade Goes Wrong -- After Trading Limit-Up Overnight, Nasdaq Has Crashed Into The Red -- The COVID-19 Economic Crisis Will Change Everything: Short- And Long-Term Effects -- Is $10 Oil on The Horizon? -- Existing Home Sales Soar To 13 Year Highs Ahead Of National Crisis -- Will This Be "Just A Recession" Or Will It Be "The Next Great Depression"? -- IRS Moves Tax-Filing-Day From April 15 To July 15, Mnuchin Says -- Now, We Get Local. Now the World Gets Real -- Quickly Convert Between Fahrenheit and Celsius Without a Calculator -- Find Your Dream, Chase Your Dream, Catch Your Dream, Live Your Dream -- Covid 19 Virus To Change The Way Humanity Lives and Travels -- It's Safespace and Snowflake: Meet Marvel's two new superheroes for the 'woke' gener --
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Reopens Its Landfill For Distressed Assets
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Mike Whitney
The Fed is reopening its most controversial and despised crisis-era bailout facility, the Primary Dealer Credit Facility.
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Distressed Debt In The US Doubles In 2 Weeks To $500BN As BofA Expects Surge In Defaults
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Last week, in the aftermath of the historic oil price collapse, we warned that the long-awaited "fallen angel" day has arrived, as $140 billion in oil producer (and up to $360 if one includes the mid-stream companies) investment grade debt was on the
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
A Revolving Panic: Here Are The Companies That Have Fully Drawn Down Credit Lines This Week
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
In the aftermath of the great Commercial Paper panic of 2020, which erupted over the past two weeks when initially the Fed failed to launch a Commercial Paper backstop facility, something it did with a two day delay on Tuesday, countless blue chip (a
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News Link • Florida
Florida Seniors More Worried About Market Collapse Than Pandemic
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Reuters took a trip down south and spoke with baby boomers at a retirement community in Florida, many of whom were more concerned about stock market gyrations than the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Oil
Putin Won't Blink First:
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Putin Rejects Potential US 'Intervention' In Russia-Saudi Oil War
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Interview 1527 " New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
03-20-2020
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https://www.corbettreport.com, Corbett
Welcome to the 401st episode of New World Next Week -- the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news
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Robert Lee
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News Link • General Opinion
There'll Be "Close To Zero" New Virus Cases By End Of April,
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Elon Musk Tweets, Says Children "Essentially Immune"
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
"The Number Is Off The Charts" - Record Outflows From Everything, Record Inflows Into Cash
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
There is just one word to describe fund flows over the past week: sheer, unadulterated panic, and this time instead of dumping equities investors are also puking fixed income left and right.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Stocks Suffer Worst Week Since Lehman Despite Biggest Fed Bailout Ever
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
This has been the sharpest market selloff in history...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
The Crash Of 2020 Is Now Worse Than The Great Depression
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Back in December, someone in China made bat soup (at least according to the officially accepted narrative that doesn't get you banned on Facebook, Twitter, etc), and the rest is history: in the next three months, the global equity market has lost $24
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Blain: Why "We're Still Only In The First Phase" Of This Chaos
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Bill Blain
"How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in it.."
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News Link • Stock Market
Trader: Asset Price Action Is Trying To Lure You Back In... Don't Be Fooled
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Richard Breslow
On the face of it, financial markets are having an upbeat day. You don't, and shouldn't, have to believe that this signals the end of the financial challenges that the global economy still faces and yet welcome it.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Announces "Enhanced" Central Bank Swap Lines To Ease Dollar Funding Shortage
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
With the Fed throwing the kitchen sink at the global dollar funding shortage problem, and failing to make much of a dent on the renewed surge in the dollar, last night we said that we expect even more aggressive swap lines with global central banks t
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News Link • General Opinion
COVID-19, Fear, & Elitist-Driven Market Insanity
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by William Murray
Fear is contagious: Fear is more contagious than any virus could ever be, and the media has really fed the fear factor when it comes to the coronavirus...
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Stock Market
Ronin Capital Blows Up, Unable To Meet CME Capital Requirements After VIX Trade Goes Wrong
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
While we have certainly had our share of dismal fund returns in the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a market crash that is now worse than the Great Depression, so far one thing was missing: a big blow up, where a fund is margined out and forced t
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News Link • Stock Market
After Trading Limit-Up Overnight, Nasdaq Has Crashed Into The Red
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Despite The Fed's biggest asset-purchase week ever, US equity markets refuse to hold a bid.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
The COVID-19 Economic Crisis Will Change Everything: Short- And Long-Term Effects
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Whether you think the global pandemic is "just the flu" or you realize it's the real deal, one thing is difficult to debate " many Americans are already feeling the economic pain being caused by the outbreak and the measures taken to stop it.
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News Link • Oil
Is $10 Oil on The Horizon?
03-20-2020
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russia-insider.com, Andreas de Vries
According to a number of cognitive scientists, mankind uses its unique ability to reason primarily for justifying pre-held convictions, rather than for forming convictions.
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News Link • Housing
Existing Home Sales Soar To 13 Year Highs Ahead Of National Crisis
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
While new- and pending-home-sales popped in January, existing home sales slowed. But, analysts expected a modest bounce in February but instead they soared 6.5% MoM to the highest since Jan 2007...
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News Link • Economy - Recession-Depression
Will This Be "Just A Recession" Or Will It Be "The Next Great Depression"?
03-20-2020
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theeconomiccollapseblog.com, by Michael Snyder
As America slowly but surely shuts down from coast to coast, everyone is acknowledging the fact that we are heading into a very serious economic downturn.
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
IRS Moves Tax-Filing-Day From April 15 To July 15, Mnuchin Says
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
The full-court-press efforts of the administration to assist Americans' and American businesses' cashflow continues with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin confirming in a tweet this morning that the IRS will be moving 'Tax Day' back by 3 months...
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News Link • Pandemic
Now, We Get Local. Now the World Gets Real
03-20-2020
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https://tomluongo.me, Tom Luongo
In March of 2003, we broke ground on the first real thing I ever built. The house I currently live in. Then I understood that there was only one way this economic and political system ended, badly.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
It's Safespace and Snowflake: Meet Marvel's two new superheroes for the 'woke' gener
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By EMMA POWELL
Hulk has superhuman strength, Iron Man a powered armour suit. But it seems Marvel's latest heroes boast the worthiest power of all: They're super-duper 'woke'.
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News Link • How To
The ultimate guide to entertaining kids in isolation: FEMAIL reveals TWENTY family activities...
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By BRIDIE PEARSON
The ultimate guide to entertaining kids in isolation: FEMAIL reveals TWENTY family activities to try at home - from traditional craft projects to virtual zoo tours
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News Link • Entertainment: Music
Overcoming all obstacles!
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By CARLY STERN
Overcoming all obstacles! California high school choir members perform a stunning a capella version of Over the Rainbow from their own homes after their concert was canceled
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News Link • Entertainment: Sports
'Excited, humble and hungry': Tom Brady posts his 'two-year, $50million' Tampa Bay B
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By ALEX RASKIN
'Excited, humble and hungry': Tom Brady posts his 'two-year, $50million' Tampa Bay Buccaneers contract signing on Instagram as America struggles with coronavirus crisis
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News Link • Senate/Senators
Our money's clean! Republican senators who dumped stocks after private briefings...
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By NIKKI SCHWAB
Our money's clean! Republican senators who dumped stocks after private briefings on coronavirus claim they did nothing wrong - and one says he was just following what was on TV even though he got SECRET info from spies
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News Link • Illinois
Illinois announces stay at home order, following New York and California...
03-20-2020
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https://www.dailymail.co, By JENNIFER SMITH
Illinois announces stay at home order, following New York and California, putting 70 MILLION Americans under lockdown as the states take matters into their own hands after Trump refused a national coronavirus quarantine
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Expands Bailout Facility To Muni Bonds After Market Meltdown
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
In yet another expansion of The Fed's intervantionary reach into 'markets', The Fed has decided to "expand its program of support for flow of credit to the economy by taking steps to enhance liquidity and functioning of crucial state and municipal mo
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News Link • Pandemic
Is The Panic Worse Than The Virus?
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by MN Gordon
The Great Panic of 2020 is already one for the history books. Yet the damage has only just begun.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Historic Day: Fed To Buy A Record $107 Billion In Securities Today Alone As Fed Balance...
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Historic Day: Fed To Buy A Record $107 Billion In Securities Today Alone As Fed Balance Sheet Explodes
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News Link • Bitcoin
Raoul Pal Super Bullish On Bitcoin Price After Miraculous 80% Rebound
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Bitcoin is now turning the ongoing coronavirus disaster into a cause for gains - the cryptocurrency is up 80% in just one week.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Schumer Asks Trump To Invoke Act For Emergency Medical Equipment;
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Trump Immediately Orders It Done
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Trump Nixed Calls For Large-Scale Attack On Iranian Proxies, Citing Covid-19
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
In what appears the first significant US foreign policy alteration due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump reportedly nixed plans for a large-scale attack on "Iranian proxies" in Iraq last week amid a tit-for-tat following rocket attacks on
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News Link • Stock Market
"There's Nothing Left To Sell"
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
- Nomura Sees Today's Quad Witch Ending The 'Mechanical Sell Flow'
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News Link • Pandemic
Staffer For Vice President Pence Tests Positive For Coronavirus...
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden
Update (1940ET): CTGN reports that China reported 41 new coronavirus cases on Friday, but for the second consecutive day, all of the cases were foreigners who allegedly contracted the virus abroad and carried it to China.
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News Link • Martial Law
'Octagon', 'Freejack' & 'Zodiac' Are Now In Play!...
03-20-2020
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https://allnewspipeline.com,
- 'Above Top Secret' Plans Now In Effect To Ensure Continuity Of Government
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Pandemic
Celeste Solum - The Celestial Report - Interstate Road Closures Looming
03-20-2020
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https://www.youtube.com, diamondisc
Interstate Road Closures Looming
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
BoE's Bailey To Print Unlimited Money, Tells Short Sellers "Just Stop" Amid Covid-19 C
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
BoE governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday that the central bank stands ready to pump unlimited amounts of money into the economy.
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News Link • How to Help
Copper Destroys Viruses and Bacteria. Why Isn't It Everywhere?
03-20-2020
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Vice.com
It could destroy norovirus, MRSA, virulent strains of E. coli, and coronaviruses--including the novel strain currently causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • Central Banks/Banking
Bank of England Joins Panic Parade With Emergency Rate Cut To 0.1%, Boosts QE By £200
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
If traders are looking for central bankers to calm nerves they will have to wait, because in the past two days not an hour seems to pass without some central bank freaking out and announcing an emergency easing measure, many of which pulled right out
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Lehman Playbook Continues: Fed Unveils Another Bailout Fund To Avoid Money Market...
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Lehman Playbook Continues: Fed Unveils Another Bailout Fund To Avoid Money Market Funds 'Breaking The Buck'
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Expands Dollar Swap Lines With Nine More Central Banks Amid Unprecedented...
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Fed Expands Dollar Swap Lines With Nine More Central Banks Amid Unprecedented Dollar Short Squeeze
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Fed Boosts Daily QE By 66% Overnight To Record $75 Billion In One Day
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Overnight saw the addition of yet another four-letter-acronym bailout fund from The Fed but signals from the market suggest that they are once again losing control of the dollar-shortage-driven liquidity crisis as the FRA-OIS spread has started to ri
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News Link • Transportation
Ford Suspends Dividend, Draws-Down $15bn Credit Line Fully, Withdraws Guidance
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
A day after the Big 3 shutdown factories amid the virus lockdown, Ford is out with a kitchen sink 8K as it braces to ride out the worsening economic situation in the US (and worldwide):
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News Link • Gold and Silver
Gold, Stocks, Inverted Curves, & "Blood In The Streets"
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, Via Crescat Capital
Dear Investors:
Are you looking for securities to buy to take advantage of the carnage in the financial markets from the coronavirus?
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News Link • Wall Street
Millennium Shuttering "Double Digit" Trading Pods Amid Market Turmoil
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Yesterday, Wall Street traders feverishly passed around a note that without a shred of evidence claimed "that Risk Parity has blown up" ....
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
FLASHBACK JANUARY 2018 - What Has QE Wrought? By Ron Paul
03-20-2020
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Ron Paul Liberty Report
In this flashback from two years ago, Ron Paul points out how The Federal Reserve had once again created an artificial and unsustainable economic bubble. Central planning still doesn't work, and the sooner we move to sound money the better.
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News Link • Germany
Germany To Suspend 'Debt Brake' On Monday, Clearing Way For Covid-19 Spending Spree
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
As German's industrial auto giants shutter production at their domestic factories as the number of confirmed cases in Deutscheland climbs into 5-digit territory, domestic newsmagazine Handelsblatt revived reports about a coming suspension of Germany'
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Super-Rich Paralyzed As Private Jet Travel Restricted
03-20-2020
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Private jet demand has been elevated in the last several months as the super-rich have been heading to disaster bunkers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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News Link • We Are Change-What Really Happened
Tulsi Pulled A Fast One On Everyone! All The News You Are Not Hearing Away From The Distractions
03-20-2020
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Change the News - Like Rudkowski, Tim Picciott
In this video Luke and Tim go over the news you are not hearing on the establishment media sources because of the C word.
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