ZeroHedge Top Stories: April 15

The Durden Dispatch The Best from Tyler Every Day! Featured in this Round Up: [America itself died, not just its music or innocence. America didn’t just lose its innocence, it pled guilty.]( [Russia Warns "New World Order" Being Formed]( [Authored by L.Todd Wood via Tsarizm.com,]( 57841 [The #1 crash-proof investment]( You’re paying for thousands of U.S. government buildings with your tax money. Here’s how you could get some back (up to $1,795/month or more). [Click here to read more.]( Sponsored by MoneyMap Press [An Interview With The Most Powerful Man On Wall Street]( Amid a rising legislative chorus demanding a halt to corporate buybacks (an activity which was illegal until 1982), with Congress realizing that most of the funds released by Trump's tax cut and offshore tax repatriation were used not for capex or hiring but merely to levitate stock prices, [last week](Goldman's chief equity strategist published the most "inspired" defense of buybacks, in which he said that from a portfolio strategy perspective, "the potential restriction on buybacks would likely have five implications for the US equity market: (1) slow EPS growth; (2) boost cash spending on dividends, M&A, and debt paydown; (3) widen trading ranges; (4) reduce demand for shares; and (5) lower company valuations." 55561 [Watch Assange's Bitcoin Holdings Grow In Real Time After His Arrest]( In keeping with the transparent nature of Bitcoin, you can watch a Wikileaks support fund grow in realtime as donations flood in for Julian Assange after his arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in London yesterday.  All you need is the [Bitcoin Wallet Address]( that has been set up by Wikileaks to see how much the fund has raised. And while it is indeed growing rapidly, as of around 10AM EST on 4/12/2019, the wallet only had about 6.3 BTC in it (about $31,000 USD); that may afford the Wikileaks founder about a week of representation by a good law firm. 35289 [Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest]( Two days after the Thursday arrest of Julian Assange at Ecuador's London embassy, several government websites were hacked; including Ecuador's official website, the Central Bank of Ecuador, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ecuadorian Assembly in the UK, according to [Gateway Pundit]('s [Cassandra Fairbanks](, who was in London last week and [documented the run-up]( to Assange's arrest.  27423 [The Stock of the Century]( Buy this Stock Right Now! Wall Street legend Paul Mampilly says this little-known tech niche is expected to surge. [Click here to read more.]( Sponsored by Banyan Hill [The DOJ's Entire Case Against Assange Hinges On This One Critical Piece Of Evidence]( Assuming he is successfully extradited (legal experts say there is a chance he might be able to successfully fight extradition, despite the blatant antipathy expressed toward him by British judges), Julian Assange will stand trial in a courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia where prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia will try to prove that he broke US law by goading Chelsea Manning into turning over hundreds of thousands of classified documents. 26742 [The Day America Died]( [Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,]( 25566 [Jim Kunstler: America's "Ugly Cascade Of Truth" Is Just Beginning]( [Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,]( 23092 Calculated Risk's Most Read Newsletter [Click here now]( to subscribe to Calculated Risk's Most Read Newsletter! Never Miss the Latest in Housing, Macroeconomics and Finance, with Calculated Risk Blog's Weekly Round Up of Most Read Articles. In partnership with Calculated Risk You are subscribed to email updates from [ZeroHedge](. To stop receiving these emails, you may [unsubscribe]( now. Zero Hedge, P.O. Box 567, Midtown Station, New York 10018 [Link](