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The Changing Nature Of Nuclear Deterrence
17.06.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Changing Nature Of Nuclear Deterrence Submitted by Tuomas Malinen of GnS Economics Issues discussed: Tactical vs. strategical nuclear weapons. Mutually asserted destruction (MAD) as the foundation of nuclear deterrence. The shaky foundations of modern nuclear deterrence, and growing risk of a tactical nuclear strike. When I was around eight years...
Nashville Journalist Faces Jail Time Over Trans School Shooter Manifesto Leak
16.06.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nashville Journalist Faces Jail Time Over Trans School Shooter Manifesto Leak A public records case over a leaked manifesto belonging to Audrey Hale, a transgender individual who shot up the Covenant School in a Nashville suburb - killing three 9-year-old children and three adults, has spiraled into a contentious legal battle which could see a journalist...
"Maladaptive Traits": AI Systems Are Learning To Lie And Deceive
16.06.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Maladaptive Traits": AI Systems Are Learning To Lie And Deceive A new study has found that AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit "Machiavellianism," or intentional and amoral manipulativeness, which can then lead to deceptive behavior. The study authored by German AI ethicist Thilo Hagendorff of the University of Stuttgart, and...
Condemned Cali House Spurs Bidding War And Eventually Sells For $755,000
16.06.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Condemned Cali House Spurs Bidding War And Eventually Sells For $755,000 If you're looking for signs that the California real estate market is cooling down, this probably isn't the article for you. That's because this past week the NY Post reported that a condemned house in Silicon Valley that's 'unfit for human occupancy' just sold for three quarters...
Nvidia, Apple And GameStop Are The Entire Stock Market Right Now…And That's Dangerous
15.06.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia, Apple And GameStop Are The Entire Stock Market Right Now…And That's Dangerous Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Everybody knows it but nobody is giving it any serious consideration: the entire market is being driven by Nvidia, Apple and even GameStop. And when one, if not all three of these names starts to experience some selling, they are...
CDC: New COVID Variant KP.3 On The Rise Across The US
15.06.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CDC: New COVID Variant KP.3 On The Rise Across The US Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold objects), which causes COVID-19, emerging from cultured cells. (NIAID via The Epoch Times) A newly discovered COVID-19 variant, KP.3, is rising to become the dominant strain of...
"Alt-Protein": Pentagon Contractor Wants To Feed US Troops Lab-Grown Meat To "Reduce CO2 Footprint"
14.06.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Alt-Protein": Pentagon Contractor Wants To Feed US Troops Lab-Grown Meat To "Reduce CO2 Footprint" A Pentagon contractor that has received more than $500 million from the Defense Department wants to produce lab-grown meat for America's soldiers in order to "reduce the CO2 footprint" at Defense Department outposts, the Free Beacon reports. BioMADE,...
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...
Watch: IDF Uses Medieval Catapult Weapon To Ignite Concealed Hezbollah Positions
14.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: IDF Uses Medieval Catapult Weapon To Ignite Concealed Hezbollah Positions Israeli soldiers have been filmed firing a trebuchet across the Lebanese border. A trebuchet was common in medieval and ancient times as a siege engine utilizing a long arm and leverage to launch projectiles. Though the footage of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops firing...
Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living
14.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doug Casey On How The Climate Hysteria Is Lowering Your Standard Of Living Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com, International Man: The carbon hysteria extends far beyond oil and gas companies. One overlooked area is household appliances. Politicians are implementing increasingly stringent regulations for dishwashers, washing machines, and...
The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System
13.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Achilles Heel Of The Fiat Money System Authored by Thorsten Polleit via The Mises Institute, The fiat money system will not disappear just like that. Any expectations or hopes to that end should be tempered. Yes, the fiat money system could collapse; yet there is a significant likelihood it will persist longer than most people might think. This...
How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough To Buy The Boomers' Millions Of Unaffordable Bungalows?
12.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Many Millennials Will Be Rich Enough To Buy The Boomers' Millions Of Unaffordable Bungalows? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Absent demand from tens of millions of wealthy, high-income buyers, asset valuations will fall as Boomers sell off assets to fund their retirement. There's a peculiarly flawed logic behind the widely held...
The Warsaw-Based "Ukraine Communications Group" Is The New "Disinformation Governance Board"
12.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Warsaw-Based "Ukraine Communications Group" Is The New "Disinformation Governance Board" Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This multilateral platform, which brings together Western propagandists on a pro-Ukrainian pretext, can be wielded by the US Government to meddle in the coming presidential election much more effectively than ever before...
Biden Approves Sending 2nd Patriot System To Ukraine Ahead Of G7
12.06.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Approves Sending 2nd Patriot System To Ukraine Ahead Of G7 "We’re going to continue to drive up costs for the Russian war machine," White House spokesman John Kirby has said as President Biden departs for meetings with Group of Seven leaders in Italy. The Thursday through Saturday meeting will focus in large part on unveiling new sanctions and...
CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print"
12.06.2024, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CPI Preview: "Optimism For A Low Print" If May was a month that brought us that much closer to the Fed's "soft landing" soft landing, where jobs slumped and CPI came slightly below estimates (as we predicted), June has been a mirror image with last week's payrolls report coming in red hot (if one can claim that a 600K+ drop in full-time jobs is a red...
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...
Korybko: Don't Read Too Deeply Into Russia's Naval Visit To The Caribbean
12.06.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Korybko: Don't Read Too Deeply Into Russia's Naval Visit To The Caribbean Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, US officials claimed last week that Russia is sending several warships and aircraft to the Caribbean, where they’re expected to visit Cuba and Venezuela once they arrive sometime soon, which Havana then confirmed. This coincided with...
China's Real Estate Crisis: A New Experiment In State Intervention
12.06.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Real Estate Crisis: A New Experiment In State Intervention Via SchiffGold.com, The real estate market is responsible for anywhere from 20% to over 30% of China’s GDP (depending on who you ask). And with the latest meltdown that began with the implosion of Evergrande, the situation just keeps getting worse, inspiring a slew of government...
US Lifts 10-Year Weapon Ban On Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
11.06.2024, 23:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Lifts 10-Year Weapon Ban On Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade The US State Department on Tuesday announced that it is lifting a longtime ban on giving weapons and training to Ukraine's notorious Azov Brigade (often referenced by its earlier name Azov Battalion). The question must immediately be asked: Do Washington policy-makers think enough time...
The Five Stages Of Denial When Skeptics Are Faced With Economic Collapse
11.06.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Five Stages Of Denial When Skeptics Are Faced With Economic Collapse Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In light of the recent resurgence of inflation on top of increasingly rigged employments stats, declining manufacturing and stagnant wages I think it’s important to revisit a fundamental question: What does an economic collapse look...
Companies Unleash 2nd Biggest Stock Buyback Spree On Record Ahead Of Buyback Blackout This Friday
11.06.2024, 21:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Companies Unleash 2nd Biggest Stock Buyback Spree On Record Ahead Of Buyback Blackout This Friday How powerful are stock buybacks? Think of this way: back on April 22, we bottom-ticked the market when we reported that with the S&P dipping below 5,000, stocks were set to soar as "traders frontrun the end of buyback blackout period." The S&P took and...
Supreme Court Rules 9–0 For IRS, Denying Refund In Estate Tax Dispute
11.06.2024, 20:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Rules 9–0 For IRS, Denying Refund In Estate Tax Dispute Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the IRS on June 6 in a dispute over taxing shareholders’ life insurance policies. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas poses for an official portrait at the...
Another Chinese Developer Gets Liquidated As Property Bear Market Persists
11.06.2024, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Chinese Developer Gets Liquidated As Property Bear Market Persists Asian stocks were mostly red on Tuesday in Hong Kong (Hang Seng -1.04%) and China (CSI300 -.87%) as the Chinese property bear market deepened as Beijing's attempt to stabilize the economy wanes following yet more bad news of developer Dexin China Holdings Co. ordered into...
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...
Watch: Mob Loots AutoZone In South LA During Chaotic Street Takeover
11.06.2024, 04:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Mob Loots AutoZone In South LA During Chaotic Street Takeover The latest chaotic example of California's criminal and social justice reforms backfiring erupted in South Los Angeles early Monday morning, where a street takeover resulted in a mob of looters ransacking an AutoZone store. Local media outlet KTLA reported that the Los Angeles...
VDH: The Left Knows Leftism Doesn't Work
10.06.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: The Left Knows Leftism Doesn't Work Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition...
Elon Slams Apple's Farcical "AI" Launch, Says Will Ban Tim Cook's "Creepy Spyware" Devices If They Integrate OpenAI
10.06.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Slams Apple's Farcical "AI" Launch, Says Will Ban Tim Cook's "Creepy Spyware" Devices If They Integrate OpenAI In the end, Apple's 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference proved to be a flop, with the stock sliding 1.9%, its worst WWDC performance since 2010 and the 4th worst in the iPhone era. $AAPL finished down 1.9%. Worst performance since 2010...
Can Democracy Survive The "Defenders Of Democracy"?
10.06.2024, 21:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Democracy Survive The "Defenders Of Democracy"? Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the latest calls to protect democracy with distinctly undemocratic measures. Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton insisted that the 2024 election was our D-Day, suggesting that voters would have to fight the GOP like the Nazis...
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...
How Tight Can Credit Spreads Go?
10.06.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Tight Can Credit Spreads Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities This is a piece that we’ve been meaning to get to for the past few weeks, but this weekend seemed like an ideal time: We completed our updated Rate Outlook this week, so it is natural to progress to credit. While Friday’s NFP data (where we are not the only ones pounding the table...
The U.S. Economy Is "Finally Cracking"
10.06.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The U.S. Economy Is "Finally Cracking" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Mark B. Spiegel of Stanphyl Capital released his most recent investor letter on May 31, 2024, with updates on macro and his fund’s positions. Mark is a recurring guest on my podcast and definitely one of Wall Street’s iconoclasts. I read every letter...
Gold ETFs Globally Report Inflows For First Time In A Year
10.06.2024, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold ETFs Globally Report Inflows For First Time In A Year Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reported net inflows of gold for the first time in 12 months in May. Funds based in Europe and Asia led the way as total gold holdings by ETFs globally rose by 8.2 tons. ETFs globally now hold 3,087.9 tons of...
Kill Your Good Ideas
09.06.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kill Your Good Ideas Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance As always, I’m stoked to be able to bring you content from one of my favorite investors, Chris DeMuth Jr. Chris took the time to share his up-to-the-minute thoughts on the market for Fringe Finance subscribers this week. Chris writes the Vale Tudo Substack, which can be found here and...
Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won't Exist In Five Years...?
09.06.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Betting Big That Bitcoin Mining Won't Exist In Five Years...? Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Long Bitcoin / Short Miners Is The Mid-Curve Trade of the Year I’ve never understood the hedgies’ penchant for pair trades: long this / short that is supposed to be some kind of big brain move that either outperforms something or hedges...
"Zero Tolerance": Germany To Start Forcibly Deporting Dangerous Migrants After Cop Dies In Stabbing
09.06.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Zero Tolerance": Germany To Start Forcibly Deporting Dangerous Migrants After Cop Dies In Stabbing In response to last weekend's terrorist stabbing at a counter-Jihad meeting in Mannheim which left one officer dead - and a second stabbing of an AfD politician in the same city, (and not years of terrorist attacks, having to close public pools and double-digit...
Atlas Shrugs Twice
09.06.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Atlas Shrugs Twice Authored by Charles Krblich via The Brownstone Institute, One fateful day in March 2020, the incompetent men shut down the world with lockdowns. It was the opposite of the premise in Atlas Shrugged. Who is John Galt? Who cares? The incompetent people could stop the motor of the world too. Atlas shrugs either by disappearing competence...
European Elections: Forging Ahead Or A Spanner In The Works
09.06.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Elections: Forging Ahead Or A Spanner In The Works By Elwin de Groot, Stefan Koopman, and Maartje Wijffelaars of Rabobank (pdf link) Summary The European Parliament elections will serve as a pivotal test of the far right’s influence on the European political landscape. It appears another centrist coalition can be formed, but the far right...
These Are The World's Biggest Mining Nations
09.06.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The World's Biggest Mining Nations China was the world’s biggest extractor of domestic materials in 2023, according to the UNEP’s Global Material Flows Database. The country extracted a total of 34.2 billion tonnes of materials, including biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores, and non-metallic minerals. This is more than four times the amount...
Putin Calls 'Bulls**t' On 'Plans' To Attack NATO, Says He's Not Brandishing Nuclear Arms
08.06.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Calls 'Bulls**t' On 'Plans' To Attack NATO, Says He's Not Brandishing Nuclear Arms President Vladimir Putin has continued to address some trends out of the West related to Ukraine... and specifically the way European and US leaders have reacted to the recent escalation in Kharkiv oblast and in the east. Officials in the UK, Germany, and France...
Mistrial? Trump 'Hush Money' Judge Suggests Juror May Have Had Predetermined Guilty Verdict
08.06.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mistrial? Trump 'Hush Money' Judge Suggests Juror May Have Had Predetermined Guilty Verdict The judge in the Trump 'hush money' case, Juan Merchan, just issued a very strange note to both parties indicating that a comment made on the court's Facebook page suggests that one of the jurors may have arrived at a 'guilty' verdict before the end of the...
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...
Houthis Tout Radar-Evading 'Palestine' Missile That Resembles Iranian Hypersonic
07.06.2024, 20:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Tout Radar-Evading 'Palestine' Missile That Resembles Iranian Hypersonic Yemen's Houthis have for the first time announced a strike on Israel that was coordinated with allies in Iraq, namely the 'Islamic Resistance in Iraq' - an umbrella organization of Iran-linked Shia paramilitary groups. The leader of Yemen’s Houthi militia, Abdul Malik...
Global Rally Sputters With US Futures Flat Ahead Of Payrolls
07.06.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Rally Sputters With US Futures Flat Ahead Of Payrolls The global stock rally faltered as US equity futures were unchanged for the second day in a row this morning and trading right on top of the "gamma gravity" level of 5350, where as discussed yesterday there is a record $10 billion dealer long gamma pile up which has made the market "stuck"...
A Second-Quarter Recession This Year Looks Increasingly Likely
07.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Second-Quarter Recession This Year Looks Increasingly Likely Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As I watch the evolution of consumer spending, housing starts, new home sales, and GDPNow trends, it appears the economy has peaked. Warning: I tend to be early. GDPNow forecast from the Atlanta Fed as of 2024-06-03. Chart by Mish The GDPNow forecast...
Why The Fed Will Pull The First Cut To July From September
06.06.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Fed Will Pull The First Cut To July From September By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Revisiting Our Rate Outlook As the 10-year Treasury trades near the low end of our current range of 4.3% to 4.5% and we digest jobs data and prepare for the Fed, it seems like a good time to revisit and restate our outlook for rates. Political Reaction to...
NATO Kicks Off Massive Baltic Drills As Biden Affirms US Weapons 'Now Being Used Inside Russia'
06.06.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Kicks Off Massive Baltic Drills As Biden Affirms US Weapons 'Now Being Used Inside Russia' In the shadow of the Russia-Ukraine war, and right next door, NATO has kicked off its massive annual military exercises in the Baltic Sea. "Baltic Operations 24" is about to be in full swing, kicking off formally on Friday, and involves over 9,000...
Look Who's Spreading Disinformation On Ukraine
06.06.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Look Who's Spreading Disinformation On Ukraine Authored by Dave Lindorff via Counterpunch.org, ‘Black kettle’ Tony Blinken’ accused Russia of spreading propaganda to mislead the Americans and Europeans, while hiding US decision to escalate the confrontation in Ukraine Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a set of whirlwind...
Market Pancakes As Nvidia Gamma Squeeze Fizzles, Attention Turns To Jobs, Global Easing Cycle
06.06.2024, 23:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Market Pancakes As Nvidia Gamma Squeeze Fizzles, Attention Turns To Jobs, Global Easing Cycle After yesterday's breathless Nvidia-led meltup, which saw the AI chipmaker surpass both $3 trillion in market cap and Apple's valuation, today's session was a boring affair by comparison, which saw the S&P close unchanged after a day in which the index...
Russian Warships Steam For Caribbean As Ukraine Tensions Go Global
06.06.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Warships Steam For Caribbean As Ukraine Tensions Go Global In a show of force perhaps prompted by President Biden's authorization of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia using US weapons, a group of Russian warships is en route to the Caribbean, a senior US official has told McClatchy and the Miami Herald. White House officials alerted members of...