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5 Ways Fed Medicine Is Worse Than The Disease
03.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 5 Ways Fed Medicine Is Worse Than The Disease Via SchiffGold.com, Central bank monetary tactics have proven to be a toxic remedy, amplifying rather than curing economic ailments. Like a surgeon whose operation only worsens the patient’s condition, central banks administer policies that do more harm than good. Here are five ways central banks leave...
US Drivers Overwhelmingly Prefer Gasoline Cars To EVs
01.06.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Drivers Overwhelmingly Prefer Gasoline Cars To EVs Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Americans continue to be fans of gasoline-powered vehicles and prefer them to electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids, a new study by KPMG has shown. Assuming all costs and features are the same, just 21% of consumers prefer an EV, the inaugural KPMG American...
Despite Warnings, Biden Admin Finalizes Rule That Could Cripple Many Offshore Oil Companies
31.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite Warnings, Biden Admin Finalizes Rule That Could Cripple Many Offshore Oil Companies Authored by Pete McGinnis via RealClearPolicy, In June 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposed a rule that would require stricter financial assurance standards for oil companies operating in the Outer Continental Shelf. This costly rule became final...
Numbers At Giant Truck Lender BMO Show Worsening Credit Conditions
31.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Numbers At Giant Truck Lender BMO Show Worsening Credit Conditions By John Kingston of FreightWaves Further credit deterioration in trucking is evident in the quarterly earnings report of Canada’s BMO bank. BMO, the former Bank of Montreal, is one of the largest lenders to the trucking industry. Its transportation unit, purchased from GE Capital in...
Canada's Oil Resurgence Is Doomed Without Younger Workers
30.05.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Canada's Oil Resurgence Is Doomed Without Younger Workers By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Canada's oil industry is booming, but companies in its top oil-producing province, Alberta, are struggling to hire and retain skilled talent to seize the opportunity of greater market access that the expanded Trans Mountain oil pipeline provides. Canadian...
Yellen Pivot Is Fading: Liquidity Drains From The System As Treasury Issues Fewer Bills
30.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yellen Pivot Is Fading: Liquidity Drains From The System As Treasury Issues Fewer Bills By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Risk assets will face a less-easy ride as Treasury bill issuance falls and coupon (notes and bonds) issuance rises, weighing on central-bank reserves. Nothing lasts forever. The Treasury tilted issuance...
Which Central Banks Are Selling Gold?
30.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which Central Banks Are Selling Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, Central bank gold buying has been a significant factor in the yellow metal’s spectacular run-up to new record highs. But with its recent small correction downward, it’s a good time to look at which central banks are selling — and why. Gold vs USD, 1-Month Chart, Source: Bloomberg For one...
Masks Found To Be Ineffective After First Omicron Wave: New Study
30.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Masks Found To Be Ineffective After First Omicron Wave: New Study Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, masks were a recommended public health measure to prevent transmission of the virus. Yet new research suggests masks were ineffective at reducing the risk of infection when Omicron...
Today Markets Switch To "T+1" Settlement: Here's All You Need To Know
28.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Today Markets Switch To "T+1" Settlement: Here's All You Need To Know In a witty turn of the phrase, Bloomberg writes today that "the US stock market is finally as fast as it was about a hundred years ago" and it's true: it's been about one century since share trades in New York settled in a single day, as they will from Tuesday under new SEC rules...
EVs Twice As Likely To Hit Pedestrians As Gasoline Vehicles
27.05.2024, 12:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EVs Twice As Likely To Hit Pedestrians As Gasoline Vehicles Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has found that pedestrians are twice as likely to be hit by an electric or hybrid car than by a gasoline- or diesel-powered vehicle. The scientists have hypothesized that the relatively quiet operations...
Biden Marketing Team To Create Trump Mega-Martyr With 'Guilty' Verdict Campaign Strategy
27.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Marketing Team To Create Trump Mega-Martyr With 'Guilty' Verdict Campaign Strategy Joe Biden's galaxy brain handlers plan to use any 'guilty' verdicts in Donald Trump's criminal trials to campaign on, unaware that most of the country views them as political lawfare by the permanent ruling class hatched in coordination with Biden's own DOJ. According...
House Panel Approves Measure To Rehire Troops Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
24.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Panel Approves Measure To Rehire Troops Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The House Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment in the annual defense policy bill on May 22 that, if cleared through Congress, would force the Pentagon to rehire U.S. troops who were fired for refusing...
Concerns Grow Over The Increasing Abilities Of AI
23.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Concerns Grow Over The Increasing Abilities Of AI Authored by Raven Wu and Cindy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Big tech companies’ full commitment to developing artificial intelligence (AI), even enabling AI to “see” and “speak” to the human world, has led to a growing concern over humans being controlled by technology. (Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock)...
China's Stock Rally Still Misses One Crucial Piece
22.05.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Stock Rally Still Misses One Crucial Piece By Henry Ren, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Chinese stocks have rebounded yet local retail traders are still holding back. That’s bad news for a rally that’s looking increasingly stretched. In Hong Kong, aggressive buying by foreign funds has lifted the Hang Seng Index by 18%...
There Sure Has Been A Lot Of "International Intrigue" Lately...
22.05.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Sure Has Been A Lot Of "International Intrigue" Lately... Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, World leaders have been targeted quite frequently this month, and that should deeply alarm all of us. I think that all of this geopolitical instability is a sign that there is far more going on behind the scenes than we...
"Inflation Creates An Illusion Of Wealth" - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Brags About Raising Taxes
22.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Inflation Creates An Illusion Of Wealth" - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Brags About Raising Taxes Via SchiffGold.com, This week Peter’s back to discuss new economic data, Powell’s recent remarks in the Netherlands, and the Biden administration’s new tariffs. More and more signs point to economic stagflation, but Biden, Powell, and their cronies...
Study Finds Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Safely Treat Menopause Symptoms
21.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Study Finds Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Safely Treat Menopause Symptoms Authored by Ayla Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new study has determined that, when it comes to treating the symptoms of menopause, the overall benefits of hormone replacement therapy outweigh the risks. However, researchers found that the evidence does not support...
Graduates At All-Black Morehouse College Turn Back On Biden During Commencement Speech, Refuse To Applaud
20.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Graduates At All-Black Morehouse College Turn Back On Biden During Commencement Speech, Refuse To Applaud Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Hoot of the day: The Democratic Republic of the Congo flag was behind Biden for the duration of his speech. The Wall Street Journal reports Biden Renews Call for Gaza Cease-Fire at Morehouse Commencement...
"The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs
18.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Economics Just Don't Work": Demand For Electric Semis Plunges Due To High Costs For the last year, we've been writing extensively about how high costs and low demand have made EVs uneconomical - and, as a result, unpopular to produce - for the auto industry. It turns out unionized employees extorting you on labor costs while the government mandates...
Left's "Sue-Till-Green" Strategy Comes To PA
17.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Left's "Sue-Till-Green" Strategy Comes To PA Authored by André Béliveau via RealClearPennsylvania, When climate activists use the term “environmental justice,” they mean it literally. Rather than legislating and passing laws (as is customary in a constitutional republic), they’ve turned to the courts to fight their quixotic battles. Pennsylvania...
Whistling Past The National Train Wreck
17.05.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistling Past The National Train Wreck Authored by Donald Jeffries via I Protest, There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We were the light of...
PA Voter Allegiances Changing In 2024
16.05.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PA Voter Allegiances Changing In 2024 Authored by Salena Zito via RealClearPolitics, NEWTON SQUARE, PA – In childhood, Tasliym Morales was always interested in civic affairs, so it was no surprise to those who knew her that as soon she turned 18, she registered to vote. What did take her family and friends aback, however, was the political party affiliation...
Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority
16.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Environmental Protection Not A Major Issue For Majority In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of respondents said that they considered environmental protection a major issue for their country. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, respondents in Brazil were the most concerned about...
Tyson Foods CEO Unsure When Nation's Collapsing Beef Herd Will Reverse
16.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tyson Foods CEO Unsure When Nation's Collapsing Beef Herd Will Reverse Tyson Foods CEO Donnie King spoke at the BMO Global Farm to Market Conference in Toronto on Wednesday, expressing much uncertainty about when US ranchers will rebuild tight cattle herds meaningfully. Reuters was the first to report King's comments at BMO's farm conference. He...
Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates
15.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coalition Of States Sue Biden Admin, California Over Electric Vehicle Mandates Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A coalition of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration and the State of California in an attempt to prevent new electric vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country from going into...
Services No Longer Required: Which Jobs Are Most At Risk?
14.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Services No Longer Required: Which Jobs Are Most At Risk? Long before the emergence of ChatGPT and other AI tools threatening to take over our jobs, technological advancements have altered the way people work, making some occupations disappear, while others emerged. Did you know, for example, that people used to work as living alarm clocks before actual...
Seattle Could Shutter 20 Elementary Schools Due To Budget Constraints
13.05.2024, 03:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Seattle Could Shutter 20 Elementary Schools Due To Budget Constraints When happens when your city pisses away all of your tax revenue on trying to feed, shelter and coddle activists and homeless people? You wind up having to make budget cuts. And, in Seattle, those cuts could be coming in the form of closing up to 20 elementary schools. The district’s...
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden's Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024
12.05.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden's Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024 “It’s death by 1,000 cuts. It’s the worst presidency with regard to energy policy I’ve ever seen — and I’ve been involved in energy for 40 years, my entire career.” Those were the words of Steve Pruett, chief executive of Elevation Resources, to Financial...
James Carville Rages At Trump’s Success: "It's Going The Wrong Way, It's Not Working!"
11.05.2024, 20:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - James Carville Rages At Trump’s Success: "It's Going The Wrong Way, It's Not Working!" Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via modernity.news, Veteran political strategist James Carville says “Trump’s more ahead than he’s ever been” as he urged Democrats to try something different because everything they do is “not working.” Trump’s more...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount
10.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks End Week On Muted Note As Stagflation Fears Mount Late Friday afternoon, US main equity indexes showed little change, with the S&P 500 on track for a 2% weekly gain after investors digested new concerns about a slowing economy and elevated inflation, rekindling fears of stagflation. During the session, Treasury yields increased due to...
What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis?
10.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Securing an appointment to see a doctor in the United States is exacerbated by soaring health care demand and fewer doctors. Many specializations are increasingly affected by this...
Chinese Stock Rally Likely To Stall Without Robust Earnings
10.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Stock Rally Likely To Stall Without Robust Earnings By Henry Ren, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Earnings for China Inc. are looking somewhat better, though likely not enough to keep fueling the recent stock market rally. Strategists say the bounce spurred by low valuations needs a full-blown earnings recovery to continue. Remember...
Watch: Billionaire Real Estate Investor Expects 'One Or Two' Bank Failures A Week, UK Economist Says "Entering A New Dark Age"
09.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Billionaire Real Estate Investor Expects 'One Or Two' Bank Failures A Week, UK Economist Says "Entering A New Dark Age" Billionaire Barry Sternlicht, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group has issued an ominous warning about America's regional banks, which he says will fail at a rate of 'one or two' per week. Speaking with CNBC on...
To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But...
09.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But... Via SchiffGold.com, In 2009, 140 banks failed, and a recent report from financial consulting firm Klaros Group says that hundreds of banks are at risk of going under this year. It’s being billed mostly as a danger for individuals and communities than for the broader economy, but for stressed...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
The Three Reasons People Hate Trump...
08.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Three Reasons People Hate Trump... Authored by Brent Hamacheck via American Greatness, In my recently published book, Dissidently Speaking: Change the Words. Change the War: I use both logic and empiricism to prove (I do mean prove) that there is absolutely no such thing as “right wing-left wing” as we use the terms in this country. They...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen
07.05.2024, 23:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking. When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans...
Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global
07.05.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they're withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don't fit the heavily promoted narratives of "growth" and "progress." The "growth"...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations
07.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Theft and complaints are taking a toll on self-checkout. Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores. Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts The Wall Street Journal reports Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts...
Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low
07.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence In Biden Economic Stewardship Historically Low By Megan Brenan of Gallup With Americans less optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy than they have been in recent months and concern about inflation persisting, their confidence in President Joe Biden to recommend or do the right thing for the economy is among the lowest Gallup has measured...
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...
Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban
05.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fraudulent Logic Guides The UK Smoking Ban Authored by Owen Ashworth via The Mises Institute, It is the waning days of the Sunak premiership, and the Conservative party still has a stonking majority despite its cataclysmic capitulation in the polls. The government is effectively a lame duck; everyone knows it has no support, yet it will still be around...
Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields More Exposed To A Downside Miss In Payrolls Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, US yields are at the margin more exposed to a lower-than-expected payrolls release today after Powell’s pushback on a rate hike this week. Nonetheless, leading indicators are pointing to an inflection higher in payrolls growth in the coming months...
Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain Boosted By Apple's Blowout Buyback, Dollar Drops Ahead Of Payrolls US stock futures pointed to further strength on Wall Street ahead of the April jobs report after solid earnings and a record buyback announcement from Apple As of 8:00am, S&P futures rise 0.3% while Nasdaq 100 contracts add 0.6% thanks to a 6% surge in Apple in premarket...
A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Gavekal Research blog, The rise in US treasury yields this year initially caused the usual casualties: the yen, won, euro, and British pound. From exchange rates, it seems that the US interest rate wrecking ball is now wreaking destruction among richly-valued technology...