Business news from Winter Watch writers and from around the Web.
By Rebecca Beitsch | 26 March 2020 THE HILL — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a sweeping suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws Thursday, telling companies they would not need to meet environmental standards […]
By Daniel Larison | 19 March 2020 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — Rod Dreher called attention to the initial NPR report that Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned big money donors about the likely […]
By Michael Snyder | 24 March 2020 END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM — In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of […]
By Tyler Durden | 24 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Panic hoarders who rushed into Costco to buy years-worth of toilet paper are finding themselves out of luck when it comes to the big-box store’s typically […]
By James Delingpole | 19 March 2020 BREITBART — The world economy is collapsing because of the terror and mounting death toll caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. But the anti-malarial drug chloroquine is effective both […]
The Kushner family’s ties to for-profit healthcare companies underscore the myriad of conflicts of interests that billionaire businessmen have, making them particularly unsuited to holding public office. By Alan Macleod | 20 March 2020 MINT […]
By Tyler Durden | 22 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Courtesy of BIG newsletter author and monopoly researcher, Matt Stoller, here is an ever expanding list of every industry and entity that has floated bailout […]
President Donald Trump reached deep into the belly of the beast of Wall Street for his administration’s key economic positions. His choices signal that the U.S. will be subjected to brutal Parasite Guild measures, including […]
“When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.” — Comedian George Carlin (1937-2008) Winter Watcher readers younger than 28 years old […]
By Tyler Durden | 21 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — On the same day that Larry Kudlow hinted that the US fiscal stimulus has now grown in size to $2 trillion, or around 10% of US […]
By Tyler Durden | 21 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — There is a distinct irony in Trump raging at company executives for announcing and executing trillions in buybacks in the past few years, most of which […]
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation conducted a coronavirus pandemic tabletop (strategy) exercise on Oct. 18, 2019, in New York. […]
Chapter 11 bankruptcy that wipes out shareholders is the correct solution for collapsing share-buyback queens. US airlines already know this from experience. It works. By Wolf Richter | 17 March 2020 WOLF STREET — The Trump […]
By Tyler Durden | 17 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Update (2000ET): Boeing – unsurprisingly – has issued a statement fully backing the idea of free money handouts from the government to save itself. We appreciate the support […]
This post is in no way to be taken as investment advice. It’s merely my observations on the dire conditions now in play. It’s not Covid-19 that’s the challenge to a highly levered and central […]
Judge says CEO in $140m fraud targeted elderly, vulnerable victims; as she sobs, her lawyers claim she was ‘middle management,’ point finger at her bosses Yossi Herzog, Yakov Cohen By Eric Cortellessa and Simona Weinglass […]
Feingold, Malnik made millions on illegal tips, SEC claims Swiss trader testified to passing information to the two men By Bob Van Voris | 3 March 2020 BLOOMBERG — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued […]
7 January 2020 SWISS INFO (BLOOMBERG) — A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker ensnared in a global insider-trading ring pleaded guilty in New York to conspiracy, admitting he stole confidential information from the bank […]
Two reasons: complexity, and too much money By Jacob Dreizin | 27 April 2018 RUSSIA INSIDER — We first published this article in November of 2015, and are re-running it now in light of the dramatic […]
By Asa Winstanley | 21 February 2020 THE ELECTRONIC INFITADA — The Jewish Chronicle on Thursday apologized to a Labour activist for libeling her over “anti-Semitism.” The UK newspaper admitted on its website it had published “allegations about Mrs […]
Dunford defended the troubled plane and was rewarded with a Lockheed position within months of leaving the Pentagon. By Jason Paladino | 6 March 2020 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE — In 2015, things weren’t looking great […]
There is something very sketchy about the official cases of coronavirus versus the string of important people who have it. The U.K.’s health minister caught the virus. Canada’s First Lady Tests Positive For The Coronavirus […]
By Simon Black | 8 January 2018 SOVEREIGN MAN — While the federal government is slowly careening toward permanent, fiscal disaster, many state governments (which don’t have the power of the printing press) are already staring […]
At first, banks leveraged the repo market to force the Fed to ease liquidity & capital rules; now they leverage the coronavirus. Whatever it takes. By Wolf Richter | 2 March 2020 WOLF STREET — The […]
‘The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take […]
By Tyler Durden | 6 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Following reports that Beijing had “quarantined” dirty cash, the Federal Reserve is now doing the same out of fear that dollars in circulation from Asia could contain Covid-19, […]
By Tyler Durden | 1 March 2020 ZERO HEDGE — Update (March 1): Increasing fear of a Covid-19 outbreak has forced many Americans out of their homes and millennials from their parents’ basements to panic buy […]
Billionaire “Democratic” candidate Mike Bloomberg has ties to Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffery Epstein among other notables like the recently convicted Harvey Weinstein. By Whitney Webb | 28 February 2020 MINT PRESS NEWS — […]
Ban celebrated by Antifa supporter called ‘Pronoun Enforcer’. By Paul Joseph Watson | 27 February 2020 SUMMIT NEWS — Rapper Zuby was suspended by Twitter for tweeting “Ok dude” at a transgender woman who calls herself […]
The New Underworld Order Crime Syndicate has multiple objectives for weaponizing an illness and unleashing it on the world. As we have alluded to in our Parasite Guild posts, the Crime Syndicate runs massive bubble-based […]