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How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19...

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This spring,...

With New Covid-19 Strain 70% More Transmissible, Nations Rush to Contain Spread From UK...

British government officials met on Monday to discuss the implications of strict new travel restrictions imposed by several countries, following reports of a highly...

The January Effect And Small Cap Stocks – Mike Swanson (12/21/2020)

There is a reliable trend in the markets that repeats just about every single year in which individual stocks that had been among the...

Dollar to lose 99% of value over time; Alex Mashinsky gives bitcoin, gold outlook...

Fiat currencies have historically lost most of their value after de-pegging from gold, and the best way to protect against an inevitable decline of...

New Gold-Stock Upleg – Adam Hamilton (12/21/2020)

The gold miners’ stocks are rallying on balance again, following their recent multi-month correction.  For several weeks now they’ve been carving both higher lows...

Why retired generals rarely lead the Pentagon – Dwight Stirling (12/21/2020)

Dwight Stirling, University of Southern California By all accounts, retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Defense Department, is...