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Willkommen im Zeitalter der Abstraktion
15.06.2024, 09:42 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - The UK Metereological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the UK during May have endured unseasonal cold and rain, and have complained to one another constantly about it. Welcome to the age of abstraction, when lived experience is irrelevant and theoretical constructions carry...
French-Bund Spread Blows Out Most On Record As Market Braces For Return Of European Debt Crisis
14.06.2024, 19:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French-Bund Spread Blows Out Most On Record As Market Braces For Return Of European Debt Crisis It wasn't supposed to go like this: as discussed earlier today, Macron's gamble to dissolve parliament and call a two-round snap election on June 30 and July 7 was supposed to boost morale, "circle the troops" and push back against the "extremism" of Marine...
The Confiscation Of Reality
14.06.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Confiscation Of Reality Authored by Sinead Murphy via The Brownstone Institute, The UK Meteorological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of us who have lived in the UK during May have endured unseasonal cold and rain, and have complained to one another constantly about it. Welcome to the...
As Inflation Rises, Prepare For Crime
14.06.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Inflation Rises, Prepare For Crime Via SchiffGold.com, Inflation breeds desperation, and desperation breeds crime. As central banks in Europe and Canada cut interest rates, and expectations remain that the Fed will wait to cut until at least September if it cuts this year at all, our endlessly-wise global central bankers, the benevolent all-knowing...
The Inflation Pain Persists
13.06.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Inflation Pain Persists Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The newest inflation data is out, with a familiar spin. Once again, we are told that it is easing, cooling, settling down, and generally less worrisome. So just relax. Once again, the reality is different from the spin. So much common language in economics is metaphorical and...
Why South Africa’s Nonalignment Is Here to Stay
11.06.2024, 14:20 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The end of ANC majority rule is unlikely to signal a dramatic shift in the country’s foreign policy....
Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather Than Fearing Change
11.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold & Oil: Understanding Rather Than Fearing Change Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, There is much legitimate (as well as dramatic) talk about the failing US, its debased currency and its identity-fractured/inflation-taxed middle-class which has been increasingly described more aptly as the working poor. The End, or Just Change...
WATCH: Israel Releases Intense Bodycam Video Of Hostage Rescues In Gaza
11.06.2024, 09:21 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Israeli troops released dramatic bodycam footage of the daring raid on a Hamas stronghold in central Gaza on Monday, rescuing hostages Noa Argamani, Almong Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, who were taken hostage during the Nova music festival. Dramatic footage of the moment a group of hostages was located and brought to safety […] The...
Israel Releases Intense Bodycam Video Of Hostage Rescues In Gaza
11.06.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Releases Intense Bodycam Video Of Hostage Rescues In Gaza On Monday Israeli forces released dramatic video of the moment a group of hostages were found and led to safety in the daring Saturday raid on a Hamas stronghold in central Gaza. The specific footage shows when three of the hostages were initially located by elite counter-terror commandos...
Banking Crisis, Stage Two
10.06.2024, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Banking Crisis, Stage Two Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, I’m sure you recall the banking crisis of March to May 2023. It began with the collapse of the little-known Silvergate Bank on March 8. This was followed the next day by the collapse of the much larger Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 9. SVB had over $120 billion in uninsured...
Colorado Weed Industry In Free-Fall As Sales Plunge By $700 Million
10.06.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Colorado Weed Industry In Free-Fall As Sales Plunge By $700 Million Colorado's cannabis market is in free-fall, going from peak revenues of $2.2 billion in 2020, to $1.5 billion just three years later. The drop has had a substantial impact on the state's economy - with cannabis tax revenues decreasing more than 30% over the past two years to just $282...
Is Fast Food Affordable Anymore? A Detailed Look At Menu Prices Over The Years
08.06.2024, 02:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Fast Food Affordable Anymore? A Detailed Look At Menu Prices Over The Years Authored by Josh Koebert via FinanceBuzz, Whether it’s for speed, convenience, or price, it’s no secret that Americans love fast food. Convenience aside, fast food has also been considered one of the most budget-friendly options to feed your family outside of cooking...
Shock Decline In Credit Card Debt Is First Since Covid Crash, As Card APRs Hit New All Time High
07.06.2024, 21:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shock Decline In Credit Card Debt Is First Since Covid Crash, As Card APRs Hit New All Time High On a day when the jobs report was a "pick your adventure" in economic analysis, and signaled either a very strong job market (if you looked at the Establishment survey) or a dire one (if you looked at the Household survey and peaked even a bit below the...
Watch: Boeing 777 Engine Shoots Fireballs During Takeoff In Canada
07.06.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Boeing 777 Engine Shoots Fireballs During Takeoff In Canada Boeing planes are back in the news this week after a Paris-bound Air Canada flight with nearly 400 passengers experienced an "engine issue" shortly after taking off, according to CP24. The wide-body aircraft was forced to return to Toronto Pearson International Airport shortly...
Sweden Introduces Draconian 'Security Zone' In Gang-Crime Hotspot, Indiscriminate Police Powers To Search Anyone
06.06.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sweden Introduces Draconian 'Security Zone' In Gang-Crime Hotspot, Indiscriminate Police Powers To Search Anyone Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, After a double homicide shooting earlier this week, Swedish residents in Norrköping's district of Hageby can be searched or have their vehicles searched without the need for reasonable suspicion...
Job Openings Tumble With Hiring Stuck At 2018 Levels
04.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Job Openings Tumble With Hiring Stuck At 2018 Levels After several months of relatively boring JOLTS prints, last month Janet Yellen's favorite labor market indicator once again got exciting and not in a good way, as the number of March job openings unexpectedly plunged by 325K, pulling the total to 8.5 million, the lowest in three years. Then, moments...
Alex Jones Repels Ambush Seizure Of Infowars, Sleeps In Studio As Monday Court Date Looms
02.06.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alex Jones Repels Ambush Seizure Of Infowars, Sleeps In Studio As Monday Court Date Looms One day after Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in his 'hush money' trial, a court-appointed officer overseeing the Infowars bankruptcy apparently went rogue on Friday and tried to seize and shut down Alex Jones' studio without a court order, despite having...
Our Revolutionary Times: VDH
30.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Our Revolutionary Times: VDH Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies. Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last...
"A Pervasive Fear Has Settled In": Dems Are Absolutely Freaking Out Over Biden
28.05.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "A Pervasive Fear Has Settled In": Dems Are Absolutely Freaking Out Over Biden While keeping in mind the old adage "It's not the votes that count, but who counts the votes," Democrats are absolutely freaking out about what a dumpster fire Joe Biden is heading into the 2024 election. Susan Walsh/AP According to Politico, "A pervasive sense of fear has...
Wall Street Now Sees Ethereum Hitting $14,000 In 2025: Here's Why
28.05.2024, 02:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Now Sees Ethereum Hitting $14,000 In 2025: Here's Why Back in late March, when prevailing consensus was that the SEC would not approve an ethereum ETF, and when its price had dramatically diverged from that of bitcoin, we took the other side. Why was that? For several reasons: first of all, recall that in recent years, Wall Street had traditionally...
Yield Hunt in Sub-3% Era Makes Chinese Market More Volatile
27.05.2024, 17:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yield Hunt in Sub-3% Era Makes Chinese Market More Volatile By Charlie Zhu and Helen Sun, Bloomberg markets live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. China’s first ultra-long special bonds had a dramatic debut in the exchange market, showcasing retail investors’ thirst for higher yields. The 30-year notes were expected...
OJ Prices Squeeze Into Blue-Sky Breakout As Food Inflation Fears Soar
25.05.2024, 15:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OJ Prices Squeeze Into Blue-Sky Breakout As Food Inflation Fears Soar Orange juice futures in New York surged to new record highs on Friday morning, with prices squeezing over 30% in just a few short weeks. The latest price jump comes as citrus crop troubles across Brazil and the US continue to worsen global supply fears. The price of orange...
NYC Tourists Expected To Generate $4.9 Billion In Tax Revenue For The City
25.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYC Tourists Expected To Generate $4.9 Billion In Tax Revenue For The City While residents and businesses continue to pour out of New York City in favor of tax-friendlier locations, tourists appear to be doing all the heavy lifting in helping the city raise tax revenue. Now, revenue generated by tourists is higher than it was pre-pandemic, with Bloomberg...
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman Endorses President Trump, Says Nation Going "In Wrong Direction" Under Biden
24.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman Endorses President Trump, Says Nation Going "In Wrong Direction" Under Biden Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, a lifelong moderate Republican, told Axios on Friday that he's supporting former President Trump in the upcoming November presidential election. This endorsement gives Trump access to an exclusive network...
Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit "History-Making Mode"
20.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit "History-Making Mode" While oil remains oddly muted amid yet another middle-eastern shock, the same can not be said for various precious metals and commodities which are soaring to start the week, and which according to Bloomberg's Jake Lloyd-Smith, will make for a lively session in Europe and the...
Is America Losing?
20.05.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is America Losing? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing? The End of History and the Last Man In 1992, while I was still an undergrad with a seemingly endless...
American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo
19.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo Military leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) said they have put down an attempted coup in a dramatic Sunday incident which included a large shootout erupting in the capital of Kinshasa. At least three men have been reported killed, with...
Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast
18.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Tanker Struck By Missile Off Yemen Coast As Ukrainian drones relentlessly target Russia's energy complex, tensions in the Middle East are once again rising. Early Saturday, Agence France-Presse reported that a crude oil tanker was hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen. These mounting geopolitical risks underscore the possible need for a higher...
Why The Dollar Will Lose Its Status As Global Reserve Currency
18.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Dollar Will Lose Its Status As Global Reserve Currency Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, By the early 400s, the Roman Empire was coming apart at the seams and in desperate need of strong, competent leadership. In theory, Honorius should have been the right man for the job. Born into the royal household in Constantinople, Honorius...
Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery
17.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Desperate Ukraine Launches Massive Kamikaze Drone Attack Against Russian Black Sea Coast, Sparking Fire At Major Refinery In defiance of repeated warnings from the Biden administration, the Ukrainian military continues ramping up kamikaze drone attacks on the Russian energy complex, a move to crush the nation's crude oil and...
Turley: Will The Trump Jury Realize They Are Being Played By The Prosecution
17.05.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turley: Will The Trump Jury Realize They Are Being Played By The Prosecution Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in Fox.com on the approaching end of the Trump trial in Manhattan. With the dramatic implosion of Michael Cohen on the stand on Thursday with the exposure of another alleged lie told under oath, even hosts and commentators on...
'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up
16.05.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Guns & Butter': Putin Explains Reason Behind Major Cabinet Shake-Up Russian President Vladimir Putin has for the first time explained the rationale behind this week's major cabinet reshuffling, which for the first time of the Ukraine operation saw Sergey Shoigu removed as defense minister (and 'promoted' to head of the national security council),...
Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats Or Your Own Lying Eyes?
15.05.2024, 11:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats Or Your Own Lying Eyes? Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order. In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics...
US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation'
14.05.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation' The Biden administration has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin's significant cabinet shake-up announced Sunday, wherein Putin tapped Andrey Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to move into the position of defense minister. Sergei Shoigu...
Putin Unveils Dramatic Reshuffling Of Closest Advisors: Shoigu Out As Defense Minister
12.05.2024, 20:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Unveils Dramatic Reshuffling Of Closest Advisors: Shoigu Out As Defense Minister Russian state media is confirming a huge breaking development that President Putin has removed his longtime Defense Minister and personal friend Sergei Shoigu as defense chief, who has overseen the Ukraine war since its beginning in Feb. 2022. He will now serve as...
They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee
10.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - They Went Woke: Oscars Facing Liquidity Crisis, Launch $500 Million Fundraising Drive As Viewers Flee Given that Ricky Gervais has been the only good thing about the Oscars in years, if not decades... ...the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has launched a $500 million fundraising initiative in an effort to offset the Oscars dramatic drop in...
The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited
09.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Fascism became a swear word in the US and UK during the Second World War. It has been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It is not a system of political economy but an insult. If we go back a decade before...
Watch: Boeing 767 Cargo Plane Crash-Landed In Turkey
08.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Boeing 767 Cargo Plane Crash-Landed In Turkey Amid continuous and what seems like weekly turmoil at Boeing, which includes another whistleblower's death, new probes by the Federal Aviation Administration, and a series of mid-air mishaps with various Boeing planes, a 787 cargo plane in Turkey suffered a landing gear malfunction, resulting...
Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks
08.05.2024, 17:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks The severe manpower crisis of Ukraine's armed forces continues to be on display, particularly after the recent decision of the government to deny embassy and consular services for Ukrainian men of fighting age who live abroad but refuse to come back home. Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday...
A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations'
08.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations' Authored by Ruchir Sharma via FT, At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that not too long ago were billed as star performers but are now breaking down. All are among the world’s 50 largest economies...
Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High
07.05.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month's jump in credit card debt to a new all time high despite record high credit card rates, in March households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data...
New Star Wars Animated Series Features A 'They/Them' Jedi
07.05.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Star Wars Animated Series Features A 'They/Them' Jedi Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Disney+ is taking more flak for crowbarring a them/them character into its latest Star Wars series. The animated show Tales of the Empire, is made up of six shorts, with one of the episodes featuring a non-binary Jedi. In a scene below, the they/them...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show
07.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… A Real Cliff, Fake Smile It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine. I have the image of Uncle Sam (or Aunt Yellen) hanging off a cliff with a forced (i.e.,...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"
06.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to...
Open The Overton Window
05.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Open The Overton Window Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, You may have heard of the “Overton window.” The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there. There are things you can say and things you...
US Covert Missile Launcher Touted As Game Changer In Future Taiwan War
05.05.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Covert Missile Launcher Touted As Game Changer In Future Taiwan War Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com, After the US withdrew from a major nuclear arms treaty with Russia in 2019, the Pentagon began to develop weapons that would have violated that agreement. Such a covert missile has now been deployed to the Philippines as part of the US military...
This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Week's Cocoa Price Crash Marks Largest Ever Drop What goes up, must come down. Cocoa prices turned lower on Thursday, extending a weekly decline that is slated to be the largest on record due to the evaporation of liquidity from large traders. Futures in New York plunged as much as 9.3% to the lowest level since mid-March and have...
Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction
02.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction US equities ended their two-day slide as tech companies surged late in the session. The trading day has been choppy, with Wall Street now turning its attention to Apple's earnings after the bell. Some analysts anticipate Apple will reveal a major buyback...