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White House Lied To Congress About Israel-Gaza, Per Official Resigning In Protest
01.06.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Lied To Congress About Israel-Gaza, Per Official Resigning In Protest A State Department official has resigned in protest, saying the Biden White House lied to Congress on a critical report so American weapons could keep flowing to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for its war in Gaza. That official is Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year State...
WTI Extends Losses After Crude Draw, Production Holds Near Record Highs
30.05.2024, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Crude Draw, Production Holds Near Record Highs Crude prices have given back the brief gains overnight (following API's report of a big crude draw) as US GDP slowed and weighed on demand expectations (offsetting nervousness from another attack on a ship in the Red Sea, and Israeli comments that it probably wouldn’t be able...
Trump And Musk Discussing Advisory Role In Next Administration: Report
30.05.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump And Musk Discussing Advisory Role In Next Administration: Report In a notable shift from past acrimony, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has engaged in discussions with Elon Musk about a possible advisory role for the Tesla mogul should Trump retake the White House, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move could see Musk influencing...
"Never Intended To Offend" - Pope Apologizes After Homophobic Slur Leak
28.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Never Intended To Offend" - Pope Apologizes After Homophobic Slur Leak Pope Francis has issued an apology this morning after reports surfaced that he used a homophobic slur during a private meeting. He reportedly used the Italian term “frociaggine," which translates to “faggotry” or "faggotness" in English. Citing sources from inside the meeting...
Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation
28.05.2024, 14:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise On Apple China Sales Rebound As Attention Turns Back To Inflation Stocks traded in a narrow range as markets reopened in the US and Europe with investors putting (a stronger than expected) Q1 earnings season in the history books, and looking to Friday's core PCE print prints and central bank speakers for hints on the timing of interest-rate...
Fear Trump... Or Bust?
28.05.2024, 03:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fear Trump... Or Bust? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, As Trump continues to show leads in critical swing states, as various lawfare-inspired cases against him seem to the public to be more persecutions than prosecutions, and as Joe Biden appears daily more incoherent and lost, the left on spec has resorted to warning the nation...
Trust The "Science"...That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers
27.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trust The "Science"...That Just Retracted 11,000 "Peer Reviewed" Papers It's yet another reminder of why blindly 'trusting the science' may not always be the best go-to move in the future. 217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly "peer reviewed" more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers were...
How AI Is Already Deceiving You
23.05.2024, 21:57 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - AI’s potential extends beyond tasks. Examples like Cicero’s deception in Diplomacy raise concerns about AI’s ability to mislead and the ethical challenges it poses. A new generation of AI systems has “deceived” people in ways they weren’t specifically programmed to do, such as providing false justifications for their...
China Slaps Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon With Sanctions Over Arms Sales To Taiwan
22.05.2024, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Slaps Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon With Sanctions Over Arms Sales To Taiwan It has been a turbulent week for Sino-US relations. Beijing criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over his support for Taiwan's new president, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) imposed sanctions on US defense firms over Taiwan support. President...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
21.05.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build Oil (and gasoline) prices were lower today (WTI sliding back near two-month lows) as the Biden administration said Tuesday it is releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer. However, the...
AT&T Gives Space Another Shot With AST SpaceMobile For Broadband Deal
16.05.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AT&T Gives Space Another Shot With AST SpaceMobile For Broadband Deal Shares of AST SpaceMobile are surging following AT&T's announcement on Wednesday evening that it is partnering with the satellite provider to offer customers wireless service from space. "AT&T* and AST SpaceMobile have entered a definitive commercial agreement to provide a space-based...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
OpenAI 'Exploring' How To Responsibly Generate AI Porn
15.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OpenAI 'Exploring' How To Responsibly Generate AI Porn OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, has recently disclosed plans that could revolutionize its technology’s applications, signaling a potential shift in its traditionally stringent content policies. According to draft documentation released last week, the company is exploring how to 'responsibly' introduce...
Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore
13.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: All Eyes On CPI As Fed Speakers Galore After a very slow week, the key event for markets this week will be US inflation data with April’s PPI (Tuesday) and CPI (Wednesday) the highlights. We’ll see if the higher-than-expected US inflation seen in Q1 extends into Q2 or not. Markets will also hear from Powell (tomorrow) and Vice...
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill
13.05.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, On February 21st, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a press conference in Edmonton, announcing his government’s decision to introduce the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63. It was described in Canadian media as a “bill...
'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid
06.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid More of the same today after last week's tepid payrolls and dovish Powell with gold, stocks, and bonds bid as rate-cut hopes inched higher. The market is now pricing in two rate-cuts in 2024 and three more cuts in 2025... Source: Bloomberg For now the market appears to prefer the 'bad news'...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...
WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build
01.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build Oil prices extended losses overnight (3rd day lower in a row) following API's report showing an unexpected crude build. Rising stocks would add to bearish headwinds for prices driven by hopes that peace (or some such variant of it) may break out in the Middle East. “The potential for a cease-fire...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
30.04.2024, 22:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build WTI ended April on a down-note (closing lower on the month, as opposed to Brent which saw its fourth straight monthly gain) as hopes for cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas dampened fears of a wider conflict that could threaten crude supplies. The recent declines come as a "relief to...
Have Fun Staying Poor: Washington Announces $45 Million Subsidy For Low Income Families To Buy EVs
30.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Have Fun Staying Poor: Washington Announces $45 Million Subsidy For Low Income Families To Buy EVs Just when you thought you've already witnessed a lifetime's worth of examples of the government being excellent capital allocators with your tax money, one more shining example comes along. Last week it was reported that Washington Governor Jay Inslee...
A Compound Discovered On Easter Island Extends Life, Combats Alzheimer’s
29.04.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Compound Discovered On Easter Island Extends Life, Combats Alzheimer’s Authored by Flora Zhao via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Scientists are still uncovering the secrets of a compound discovered 50 years ago on Easter Island. Produced by bacteria there, rapamycin appears to be a powerful life-extender and may be a transformative treatment for...
Who's In Favor Of A Potential TikTok Ban?
29.04.2024, 08:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who's In Favor Of A Potential TikTok Ban? As part of a larger national security and foreign aid package, President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law legislation that forces TikTok parent ByteDance to divest the U.S. arm of its popular social media platform within 270 days or be banned from operating in the United States. The “Protecting Americans...
Senate GOP Must Seize Opportunity To Expand Trump Tax Cuts
26.04.2024, 03:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate GOP Must Seize Opportunity To Expand Trump Tax Cuts Authored by Stephen Moore and Adam Brandon via RealClear Politics, President Joe Biden came into office promising to repeal President Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – a law that turbocharged American job growth and U.S. national competitiveness. In the first two years of the Biden administration...
Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not
22.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is no coincidence. It is a policy. Governments, along with their so-called experts, attempt to persuade you that inflation stems from anything other than the consistent, albeit slower, rise in aggregate prices year after year. Issuing more currency...
Footage Shows Hezbollah Drone Slam Into Northern Israel Community Center, 18 Wounded
17.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Footage Shows Hezbollah Drone Slam Into Northern Israel Community Center, 18 Wounded Israeli emergency authorities are reporting that casualties from a suicide drone attack on a northern Israeli village have risen to at least 18 people wounded. Hezbollah took responsibility for launching the suicide drone which ultimately scored a direct hit on a community...
Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization
17.04.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization On Monday, the House finalized procedural business on a bill to reauthorize the nation's warrantless surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called "one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government...
NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden
16.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In an April 16 post to X, Snowden...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
Hezbollah Detonates Bomb After IDF Troops Caught Breaching Lebanese Border, Wounding 4
15.04.2024, 20:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Detonates Bomb After IDF Troops Caught Breaching Lebanese Border, Wounding 4 Four Israeli soldiers were wounded Monday after a bomb was detonated inside Lebanese territory, in a rare moment where it appears the IDF was seeking to breach the border. Hezbollah took responsibility for the explosion, saying it planted the bomb near the border...
Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come
11.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come After yesterday's US CPI print - and the dramatic adjustment to market expectations of Fed policy action (timing and extent) - this morning's ECB was expected to be a nothing-burger with all eyes out for any confirmation that June is 'go-time' for Lagarde to cut (albeit a rare...
Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade?
10.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The expediencies and policy extremes have yet to be explored, much less exploited. Napoleon is reputed to have said, "Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything." This is the lament of someone...
House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers
05.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers By Adam Andrzejeski of OpenTheBooks The House Freedom Caucus was founded in 2015. Self-styled fiscal conservatives promoted themselves as a bulwark against establishment spending that would bankrupt the nation. It turns out that many are better at breaking their promises than stopping...
Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida's Exclusive 'Billionaire' Bunker Island
03.04.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida's Exclusive 'Billionaire' Bunker Island Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just bought this third massive home on Florida's exclusive Bunker Island, according to a new report from The Daily Mail. Florida's Bunker Island, officially known as Indian Creek Island, stands as one of the most exclusive and affluent communities...
WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Inventory Draws Across The Board
02.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Inventory Draws Across The Board US crude futures pierced $85 for the first time since October, the latest milestone in a rally driven by OPEC+ production cuts, strong demand and heightened geopolitical risks. As Bloomberg reports, oil has jumped this week as tensions rise in the Middle East, with Iran vowing revenge on...
With 'Friends' Like Mexico's Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, & The Ayatollahs?
02.04.2024, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With 'Friends' Like Mexico's Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, & The Ayatollahs? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador - who prefers to be known as AMLO for short - issued to the Biden administration blackmail demands that sounded...
Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants
28.03.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State of Texas, continuing to stall the enforcement of Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4), a state law targeting illegal immigration that allows the state to arrest...
The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV
27.03.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV Authored by Thomas McArdle via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has just required that the majority of automotive vehicles manufactured be electric by 2032, inflicting upon the American people troublesome cars whose price is an exorbitant $53,500 on average and that cost a fortune to repair. House...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Large Crude Build
26.03.2024, 21:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Large Crude Build Oil prices dipped lower today, consolidating just off five-month highs. "WTI crude oil and Brent crude oil front month futures trade steady after both climbing 1.6% on Monday as Ukrainian drones hit another Russian oil refinery, adding to the list of casualties of Russian refining infrastructure...
Heavily Armed Militants Storm Pakistan's China-Operated Gwadar Port, 7 Dead
20.03.2024, 16:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Heavily Armed Militants Storm Pakistan's China-Operated Gwadar Port, 7 Dead A rare terror attack has unfolded at Pakistan's strategic port city of Gwadar on Wednesday, which is crucial to the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). A group of heavily armed militants stormed the complex and engaged in a lengthy firefight with...
WTI Extends Losses Despite Crude, Gasoline Draws
20.03.2024, 15:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses Despite Crude, Gasoline Draws After a strong run in the past few days, oil prices were sliding ahead of this morning's official DOE inventory and production data (following last night's 1.5mm barrel crude draw reported by API). DOE Crude -1.95mm Cushing -18k Gasoline -3.31mm Distillates +624k Crude stocks drew-down for the second...
Congress Has 5 Days To Avert A Shutdown
13.11.2023, 19:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Congress Has 5 Days To Avert A Shutdown Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill this week with only a few days to avert a government shutdown. The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Oct. 16, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) Under current congressional funding authorizations, the...
Smith, Merkley To Biden: Press Xi On Political Prisoners, Human Rights
10.11.2023, 19:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Smith, Merkley To Biden: Press Xi On Political Prisoners, Human Rights Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClear Wire, When President Biden sits down next week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as expected, top human rights advocates in Congress want him armed with a list of American and Chinese political prisoners and to press for their freedom as...
Time For A Generator? New Warning Says Half Of US At Risk Of Grid Down This Winter
09.11.2023, 23:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Time For A Generator? New Warning Says Half Of US At Risk Of Grid Down This Winter The 2023-24 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA) report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. warns of a heightened risk of "insufficient energy supply" during extreme cold spells. This concern extends over large swaths of the US and Canadian power grid, affecting...
S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004
09.11.2023, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004 S&P 500 futures edged higher on Thursday after notching an eight-day streak of gains, and setting up the benchmark index for its longest winning streak since 2004, as investors monitored bond yields, corporate earnings and the price of oil. Treasuries fell and the dollar rose ahead of more...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Biggest Crude Build Since Feb
07.11.2023, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Biggest Crude Build Since Feb Oil prices plunged today, closing well below the pre-Israel levels and breaking below the 200DMA for the first time since July as war risk-premia evaporate and demand fears resurgent. “While the death toll in Gaza from Israeli air strikes continues to rise to unimaginable levels, the...
Target CEO Warns: Consumers Are "Tightening Up Their Spending," Buying Few Groceries And Toys
03.11.2023, 16:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target CEO Warns: Consumers Are "Tightening Up Their Spending," Buying Few Groceries And Toys Following the warning from ex-Walmart CEO Bill Simon regarding the American consumer nearing a 'breaking point,' Target's CEO, Brian Cornell, has also signaled a cutback in consumer spending, groceries included. This trend aligns with our view, as well as...
House Passes $14.3 Billion Israel Aid Package, Which Will Promptly Die In The Senate
02.11.2023, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Passes $14.3 Billion Israel Aid Package, Which Will Promptly Die In The Senate House Republicans on Thursday passed their version of a $14.3 billion aid package for Israel, which apparently needs the money in its war with Hamas. The bill proposes to make an equivalent $14.3 billion cut to IRS funding in order to offset the expense. It will next...