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Biggest Short Squeeze In Brent Since 2016 Sparks Flood Of Bullish Oil Commentary
25.06.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biggest Short Squeeze In Brent Since 2016 Sparks Flood Of Bullish Oil Commentary Two weeks ago we observed that with oil prices tumbling, a full-blown capitulation was taking place in the market as the weekly bullish bets on Brent had just plunged the most on record... ... which we said a was "a clear sign of the surge in bearish sentiment and the extent...
Modern Marxist Theory
25.06.2024, 17:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Modern Marxist Theory By Russell Clark, author of Capital Flows and Asset Markets I only read the Communist Manifesto last year. I was trying to understand how the Chinese planners think about economics, and I found it extremely illuminating. I had often heard people talking about Marx, without ever being interested enough to read it myself. All I knew...
Retirement Nightmare! Hordes Of Older Americans May Need To Go Back To Work Just To Survive
25.06.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retirement Nightmare! Hordes Of Older Americans May Need To Go Back To Work Just To Survive Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The Social Security program was instituted to help elderly Americans thrive during their retirement years. Unfortunately, millions upon millions of retired Americans are finding that their monthly...
People Surprised And Worried By UK Army Ad Showing Exclusively White People
25.06.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - People Surprised And Worried By UK Army Ad Showing Exclusively White People Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, People have expressed ominous surprise that the British military is once again targeting white men in recruitment ads, with some seeing it as a sign that war is coming. “After being totally dismissed from adverts for years...
Immigration And The Economy: A Complicated Picture
25.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Immigration And The Economy: A Complicated Picture Authored by Petr Svab via THe Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Immigration has become an increasingly prominent political issue, heightened by the sharp increase in people coming into the country across the southern border. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, AP/NORK) While studies show it’s...
ESG And Stakeholder Capitalism: A Necessary Deconstruction
25.06.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ESG And Stakeholder Capitalism: A Necessary Deconstruction Authored by Rupert Darwall via RealClearEnergy, The Following is Book Reviews of: The Case for Shareholder Capitalism: How the Pursuit of Profit Benefits All, by R. David McLean (Cato Institute, 2023) The Race to Zero: How ESG Investing Will Crater the Global Financial System, by Paul H. Tice...
Where's My (Dispersion) Volatility?
24.06.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where's My (Dispersion) Volatility? By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO, Coinbase Asset Management Passive investing seems to be dominating the crypto markets, evidenced by significant inflows into exchange-traded products (ETPs). But is it? Institutional engagement has skyrocketed, signaling that crypto is entering the US regulatory mainstream. This has...
US Budget Disaster Ahead Will Impoverish Americans
24.06.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Budget Disaster Ahead Will Impoverish Americans Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Deficit spending is not a growth tool. It is the recipe for stagnation. The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget and economic outlook estimates show the extent of the challenges of the United States fiscal nightmare. The CBO expects a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion...
Wales Moves Forward With Plan To Punish Politicians For Telling Lies
24.06.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wales Moves Forward With Plan To Punish Politicians For Telling Lies Authored by Jonathan Turley, Will Rogers once said that “if you ever injected truth into politics, you’d have no politics.” In Wales, it appears that the government is challenging that assessment. However, if the new legislation criminalizing political lies is successful, the...
Kennedy Supporters Protest Outside CNN Office In Burbank After He Is Excluded From Debate
24.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kennedy Supporters Protest Outside CNN Office In Burbank After He Is Excluded From Debate Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Dozens of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporters protested outside CNN’s western U.S. bureau in Burbank, California, June 21 after the news network announced that the independent candidate failed to meet the entry criteria...
US Withdraws Aircraft Carrier Eisenhower From Red Sea Amid Stepped-Up Houthi Attacks
23.06.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Withdraws Aircraft Carrier Eisenhower From Red Sea Amid Stepped-Up Houthi Attacks In perhaps another sign that the US-led 'Operation Prosperity Guardian' is not going well (as it has not actually put a stop to the constant Houthi attacks on international vessels), Pentagon leaders have ordered the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to return home. The carrier...
Being Frank About Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog Combo
22.06.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Being Frank About Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog Combo Authored by Thomas McArdle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Costco’s new CFO, Gary Millerchip, sent disciples of the ultra-low-priced warehouse chain into ecstasy when he told Wall Street analysts in May that the price of its legendary $1.50 quarter-pound, all-beef hot dog and soda with free refills...
The Game Theory Of Biden's Replacement And Trump's VP Pick
22.06.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Game Theory Of Biden's Replacement And Trump's VP Pick Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance If there’s one political rule that always seems to hold true, it’s that both parties will wind up choosing the worst possible selection for whatever needs they seek to fulfill. That’s just the miracle of government. Who knew that doing things as inefficiently...
Crude Pops, Gold Drops, Crypto Flops As NVDA Suffers Worst Week In 2 Months
21.06.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude Pops, Gold Drops, Crypto Flops As NVDA Suffers Worst Week In 2 Months The biggest 'quadwitch' ever saw a tight trading range outside of the open and the close. A chaotic start - as $3 trillion notional options expired on the open - left stocks to tread water for much of the day (even as bond markets suddenly gave a shit about flash PMIs), until...
"Insane": Senate Dems Blasted For Adding Women To Draft
20.06.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Insane": Senate Dems Blasted For Adding Women To Draft Out of the hundreds of conservatives hunted down by the Biden DOJ, social media influencer and shitposter extraordinaire Douglass Mackey's case was particularly absurd. During the 2016 election, Mackey promoted internet memes suggesting that people could vote through text messages (as opposed to...
US Housing Starts & Building Permits Plunge To COVID Lockdown Lows
20.06.2024, 14:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Housing Starts & Building Permits Plunge To COVID Lockdown Lows Despite ugly consumer confidence and soaring mortgage rates, analysts expected a small rebound in housing starts and building permits in May (after April's disappointing misses). They were wrong... again... as both Starts and Permits plunged MoM (-5.5% MoM and -3.8% MoM respectively)...
Hegemon Orders Europe: Bet On War & Steal Russia's Money
20.06.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hegemon Orders Europe: Bet On War & Steal Russia's Money Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Swiss “peace” kabuki came and went – and the winner was Vladimir Putin. He didn’t even have to show up... None of the Big Players did. Or in case they sent their emissaries, there was significant refusal to sign the vacuous final declaration – as in BRICS...
Putin & Kim Sign Pact Vowing Mutual Defense If Attacked
19.06.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin & Kim Sign Pact Vowing Mutual Defense If Attacked Russia's President Vladimir Putin is calling it a "breakthrough document" while Kim Jong Un is hailing the "strongest ever treaty" which will hasten the start of a "new multipolar world" — but the BBC is calling it an "ominously ambiguous commitment" between "pariahs in arms". The two leaders...
After West Rejected Putin's Overture, Document Of Ukraine's Surrender To Be Next Proposal: Kremlin
19.06.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After West Rejected Putin's Overture, Document Of Ukraine's Surrender To Be Next Proposal: Kremlin The Kremlin has continued blasting the international Ukraine peace summit which was held in Burgenstock, Switzerland over the weekend, with spokeswoman Maria Zakharova highlighting that the Alpine "get-together" produced zero results. Though there were...
Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022's Peace Talks
19.06.2024, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022's Peace Talks Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The New York Times published the full version of the spring 2022 draft peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend, which confirmed a lot of what was previously reported but also included some interesting details...
The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses
19.06.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses Last October, when the wounds from the March 2023 bank failures - which surpassed the global financial crisis in total assets and which sparked the latest Fed intervention, setting the market's nadir over...
13 Nations Sign Agreement to Engineer Global Famine by Destroying Food Supply
18.06.2024, 23:39 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post 13 Nations Sign Agreement to Engineer Global Famine by Destroying...
NYT Documents: Putin Was Willing To Compromise To End War In 2022
18.06.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYT Documents: Putin Was Willing To Compromise To End War In 2022 Authored by Kyle Anzalone via AntiWar.com, In April 2022, Ukraine and Russia were on the brink of signing a deal to end the war just weeks after it began. The New York Times published documents showing President Vladimir Putin was willing to make concessions to get an agreement signed...
Putin To Arrive In North Korea Tuesday, First Visit In 24 Years
18.06.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin To Arrive In North Korea Tuesday, First Visit In 24 Years On Monday the Kremlin has revealed details of Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to North Korea. Last week South Korea's Yonhap news agency predicted that Putin could show up in the North Korean capital "as early as next week" as part of an expected Asian tour that will include...
LA City Council Removes 'Homophobic' No U-Turn Signs
17.06.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - LA City Council Removes 'Homophobic' No U-Turn Signs Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Los Angeles City Council has removed No U-turn signs from Silver Lake, claiming that they are homophobic. How exactly is a road sign homophobic? Well, a long time ago there were some signs alongside the No U-turn ones that said ‘No cruising’. They...
Swiss Summit Says Ukraine's 'Territorial Integrity' Must Be Basis Of Any Peace
17.06.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss Summit Says Ukraine's 'Territorial Integrity' Must Be Basis Of Any Peace Sunday's major Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland, where some 100 countries were represented, has rejected the conditions named by Russia's Vladimir Putin for immediately ending the war. A final document produced by the summit, which 78 of the countries signed off on...
An Army Special Forces Veteran Creates American Flags That Don't Burn
16.06.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - An Army Special Forces Veteran Creates American Flags That Don't Burn By Blake Stilwell if Military.com In many ways, Kyle Daniels is your typical Midwestern American. He grew up in a patriotic household, many of his family members joined the military, and his father was very meticulous about flag etiquette -- probably more so than your average American...
"There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets"
16.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "There Seems To Be A Sense Of Incredulousness Around What Is Going On In The Markets" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Same but different A few topics that we have touched on over the past few months continue to be relevant. What is interesting is that a few of those topics now seem to have garnered far more attention than in the past. Discrepancies...
Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop
16.06.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Education Nightmare: Baltimore & Chicago Public Schools Spend, Spend, Spend As Test Scores Drop Baltimore City and Chicago Public Schools are spending taxpayer monies like there's no tomorrow, yet math and reading test scores are shockingly low. Radical leftists, who are embedded in these school systems, along with the officials in City Halls...
"Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks
16.06.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Freaking Brilliant New Trend": Write "Vote Trump, End Taxes On Tips!" On Server Checks About a week ago, former President Trump floated the idea of canceling taxes on tips at a campaign rally in Las Vegas. By Thursday of last week, Republican lawmakers were delighted by the idea and how it could generate new Trump voters ahead of the November elections...
House Passes $883 Billion Annual Defense Bill With Anti-DEI Amendments
15.06.2024, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Passes $883 Billion Annual Defense Bill With Anti-DEI Amendments Authored by Jackson Richman and Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 10, 2024. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) The House of Representatives on June 14 passed its annual defense policy bill with GOP-approved culture war...
US Worried Israel Is Rushing Into War With Hezbollah With No Clear Strategy
15.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Worried Israel Is Rushing Into War With Hezbollah With No Clear Strategy Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Biden administration is concerned that the violence on the Israel-Lebanon border could soon escalate into a full-blown war and that Israel is rushing into the conflict without a clear strategy, Axios reported this week. US officials...
Putin Names Two Conditions For Ending The War 'This Very Minute'
14.06.2024, 17:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Names Two Conditions For Ending The War 'This Very Minute' Russian President Vladimir Putin in a Friday speech addressed the West's efforts to host a major Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland this weekend. Though scores of world leaders will be there, Russia has not been invited, and China has snubbed the event citing that it's pointless without...
French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown
14.06.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Development Banks Pulls Bond Sale As Macron Sparks EU Market Meltdown Sacre bleu!! The implications of French President Macron's shock announcement of snap legislative elections after sustaining a hammering from the far-right Rassemblement National in European elections are starting to show up in some much more worrying systemic signals for the...
Futures Slide, Yields Tumble As European Turmoil Sparks Global Risk-Off
14.06.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide, Yields Tumble As European Turmoil Sparks Global Risk-Off After stocks hit a 4th consecutive record and a 30th All Time High on Thursday on absolutely atrocious breadth (more than two thirds of the S&P closed red), futures traded lower as the rally finally fizzled. At 8:00am ET, S&P futures were down 0.5%, but off session lows, while Nasdaq...
The Entire System Is Crumbling! Major Red Flags Are Popping Up For Banks, Small Businesses And Retailers
14.06.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Entire System Is Crumbling! Major Red Flags Are Popping Up For Banks, Small Businesses And Retailers Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, If the economy is fine, why are so many signs of trouble erupting all around us? Those that keep insisting that the U.S. economy is heading in the right direction conveniently ignore the...
Red Sea Diversion Causes Congestion At World's Busiest Port
14.06.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Red Sea Diversion Causes Congestion At World's Busiest Port By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Maritime traffic diversion from the Red Sea and the Suez Canal has caused congestion at the port of Singapore, one of the busiest in the world. The congestion is expected to spread to final destinations, too, according to a Bloomberg report. The report details...
G7 Leaders To Use Frozen Russian Assets To Back Next Tranche Of Ukraine Aid
14.06.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - G7 Leaders To Use Frozen Russian Assets To Back Next Tranche Of Ukraine Aid Group of Seven (G7) leaders on Thursday reached an agreement in Italy to provide Ukraine with a loan backed by frozen Russian assets. And while the total amount is unclear at this time, the Biden administration has committed $50 billion alone. Biden salutes Zelensky at the G7...
Bonds & Big-Tech Bid, Everything Else Dumped Despite 'Bad' Data
13.06.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bonds & Big-Tech Bid, Everything Else Dumped Despite 'Bad' Data Jobless claims surged higher (bad news is good news?) and PPI was cooler than expected (good news is good news) but only big-tech and bonds benefited from this glorious bad news. The stagflationary scenario is starting to wane as inflation 'surprises' tumble to the downside along with growth...
Could Not Care Less: Europe Just Shot Itself In The Foot With Chinese EV Tariffs
13.06.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Could Not Care Less: Europe Just Shot Itself In The Foot With Chinese EV Tariffs By Bas van Geffen of Rabobank Could Not Car Less The European Union has announced punitive tariffs on Chinese EV manufacturers. This is bound to cause a further deterioration in global trade relations. Yet, equity markets did not seem to be all that worried, and instead...
Biden, Zelensky To Sign 10-Year 'Arm & Train' Defense Deal at G7
13.06.2024, 15:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden, Zelensky To Sign 10-Year 'Arm & Train' Defense Deal at G7 As they meet on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Italy, President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are planning to sign a deal for long-term US military assistance for Ukraine. The deal commits Washington to ten years of arming and training the Ukrainian military...
FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two
12.06.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Preview: From Three Rate Cuts To Two Coming just hours after the May CPI print, tomorrow's - and the month's - main event is the FOMC decision due at 2pm ET, when the Fed is widely expected to leave rates on hold at 5.25-5.50%, and the statement will likely also largely be reiterated after slight tweaks in the May statement. Attention will fall...
Failed Leadership Of DC And Fed Has Led Us To A Binary Outcome: Bad Or Worse
11.06.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Failed Leadership Of DC And Fed Has Led Us To A Binary Outcome: Bad Or Worse Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Last week I was interviewed by the great Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity in a wide ranging interview that covered topics like Covid, the economy and the political future of the country. Chris was one of the only people during the onset of...
Lawfare Bingeing: New Jersey Announces An Investigation Into Trump Liquor Licenses
11.06.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawfare Bingeing: New Jersey Announces An Investigation Into Trump Liquor Licenses Authored by Jonathan Turley, Many of us have expressed alarm at the politicization of the criminal justice system in New York by figures such as Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. It now appears that New Jersey Attorney General...
Futures Slide Ahead Of Wednesday's Main Event, As European Political Turmoil Sparks Bond Rout
11.06.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide Ahead Of Wednesday's Main Event, As European Political Turmoil Sparks Bond Rout US equity futures are lower with small-caps lagging, while Treasuries and the dollar rose as traders braced for a landmark day tomorrow that sees the release of both CPI data in the morning and then the Fed's latest decision at 2pm ET. The crowded schedule...
No Better Friend Than Japan Despite Political Distractions
11.06.2024, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Better Friend Than Japan Despite Political Distractions Authored by Heino Klinck via RealClearDefense, Soon, President Biden will meet with seven of our most important allies and partners at the upcoming G7 summit in Italy, June 13-15. This meeting comes at a pivotal moment: wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East show little signs of stopping, China...
Biden To Offer Saudi Arabia Defense Treaty In Exchange For Official Ties With Israel
10.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden To Offer Saudi Arabia Defense Treaty In Exchange For Official Ties With Israel Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, The White House is prepared to roll out a plan that will make Saudi Arabia a Japan-style ally in exchange for new official ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. While the Biden administration has invested substantial...
Graduating McGill Student Seen Spitting At Dean As Crowd Cheers
10.06.2024, 19:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Graduating McGill Student Seen Spitting At Dean As Crowd Cheers Authored by Jonathan Turley, Various posters on social media have featured a video of a graduating McGill University student appearing to spit on the Dean and another faculty member. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Susan Collins...
Why Young Voters And Blacks Have Abandoned Biden In Two Pictures
10.06.2024, 19:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Young Voters And Blacks Have Abandoned Biden In Two Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As Democratic strategist James Carville explained in 1972: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Data from the BLS, chart by Mish Two new pictures tell the 2024 story. Age Group Synopsis Overall: 4.1 up from 3.4 16-19: 12.3 up from 9.3 20-24: 7...
Record Plunge In Bullish Brent Wagers Signals Price Rebound Imminent
10.06.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Plunge In Bullish Brent Wagers Signals Price Rebound Imminent Oil is sharply higher following a week that was bumpy for crude prices thanks to OPEC+’s forward guidance on the return of some barrels to the market; yet a key reason behind the rebound has nothing to do with fundamentals and everything to do with technicals: as Bloomberg's Alex...