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Gain-of-Function May Explain Bird Flu Jump To Cows And Humans
31.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gain-of-Function May Explain Bird Flu Jump To Cows And Humans Authored by Yuhong Dong, M.D., Ph.D. and Xiaoxu Sean Lin, M.D., Ph.D. via The Epoch Times, (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock) In the past six months, bird flu has surprised scientists at least twice. Bird flu viruses have circulated mainly in birds for a long time. However...
Japan Confirms It Spent A Record $62 Billion In Failed Attempt To Prop Up Yen
31.05.2024, 17:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Confirms It Spent A Record $62 Billion In Failed Attempt To Prop Up Yen Confirming what everyone knew, this morning Japan's finance ministry confirmed that it spent a record ¥9.8 trillion ($62.2 billion) over the past month, but really on two occasions, in a failed attempt to prop up the yen after it fell to a 34-year low against the dollar,...
Die Fälschung von “Wissenschaft” geht in “Science” unverändert weiter; hier ein weiteres perfides Beispiel von Pseudowissenschaft: «Quantifizierung der Auswirkungen von Fehlinformationen un
30.05.2024, 21:51 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - The COVID-19 pandemic was exacerbated by poor utilization of vaccines caused by the spread of misinformation. Fortunately, the impact of flagrant vaccine misinformation on Facebook was greatly attenuated once such posts were flagged and debunked as false by third-party fact-checkers. However, ambiguous misinformation remained unflagged. Allen et al...
McDonald's Top US Exec 'McFact-Checks' Social Media Buzz Around $18 Big Macs
30.05.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Top US Exec 'McFact-Checks' Social Media Buzz Around $18 Big Macs A top-level McDonald's executive was fed up with social media users complaining about out-of-control 'Mcflation,' more precisely, $18 Big Macs, and wanted to set the record straight. The exec called "viral social posts" about burger inflation "poorly sourced." This comes...
The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear
30.05.2024, 15:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The $150,000 Housekeeper: Wage Inflation Kicks Into Second Gear Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If we add up all these tidal forces, the conclusion is self-evident: labor "inflation" has just shifted into second gear. One of the lesser known manifestations of the inflationary crisis in early-1920s Germany was rampant wage inflation...
Quantitative Brainwashing
29.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Quantitative Brainwashing Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, We’re all familiar with the term, “quantitative easing.” It’s described as meaning, “A monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.” Well...
The Power Grid Expansion, Part 2: A Longer-Term View
29.05.2024, 15:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Power Grid Expansion, Part 2: A Longer-Term View Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, This article follows Part One, which discusses the massive investment dollars that will be spent expanding and modernizing the power grid to facilitate demand from AI data centers and EV users. With the macro investment theory laid out, we...
Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban?
29.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Russia Preparing To Strategically Partner With The Taliban? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Taliban remain international outcasts due to their refusal to implement a truly ethno-politically inclusive government per their prior promises as well as their treatment of women. Although no tangible progress has been made on either of those...
Nvidia Is Worth More Than All Of These Companies Combined
28.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Is Worth More Than All Of These Companies Combined Nvidia’s massive rise in the AI era has been well-documented, but did you know that it’s currently the world’s third most valuable company? To put the massive market cap of Nvidia into perspective, we’ve put it side by side with a collection of other major U.S. tech companies. All figures...
The US Is Playing A Dangerous Game Of Nuclear Chicken With Russia
27.05.2024, 11:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Is Playing A Dangerous Game Of Nuclear Chicken With Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski revealed in his latest interview with The Guardian that “The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets [positions] in...
They Want To Scare You With Myths Of "Unhampered Capitalism"
25.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - They Want To Scare You With Myths Of "Unhampered Capitalism" Authored by George Fo4rd Smith via The Mises Institute, Bad ideas are sometimes the hardest to dethrone. It’s probably accurate to say most people think of money as the paper currency printed by governments. And it is money in the sense that it functions as a medium of exchange, but is...
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...
The Unifying Principle: Here's Why The Political Divisions In The US Today Cannot Be Mended
24.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Unifying Principle: Here's Why The Political Divisions In The US Today Cannot Be Mended Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Recently I was watching a short documentary about the history of political discourse and division in the US and it got me thinking about how the internal conflicts of the past might relate to the rampant social battles...
The Incoming Commercial Real Estate Crisis No One Seems Prepared For
23.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Incoming Commercial Real Estate Crisis No One Seems Prepared For Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It has been a year since a string of U.S. regional bank failures, together with the collapse of global heavyweight Credit Suisse, caused many to fear that a major financial crisis was imminent. (Illustration by The Epoch...
China Initiates Large Drills 'Surrounding' Taiwan As Warning To New President Lai
23.05.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Initiates Large Drills 'Surrounding' Taiwan As Warning To New President Lai A mere few days after Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, was sworn into office at the start of the week, China's military on Thursday morning (local time) initiated two days of large-scale military drills. PLA navy ships and aircraft are now reportedly "surrounding...
The Argument Against Michael Saylor
21.05.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Argument Against Michael Saylor Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Today, with his permission, I’m happy to offer up the latest thoughts from my friend Anton Wahlman, whose takes I don’t always agree with — but are always worth considering. Anton is a brilliant analyst and has, many times in the past, help me see “blind spots” in analysis...
Futures Flat As Investors Wait For Nvidia Earnings; Ethereum Soars
21.05.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Investors Wait For Nvidia Earnings; Ethereum Soars US futures are flat, reversing earlier losses, with European bourses and Asian markets all lower as the international risk-off tone carries over to the US pre-mkt, likely driven by a desire to see the NVDA print before determining near-term direction. Until then, markets are hunting...
Historic Trucking Rate Disparity Could Cripple Service In Late 2024
21.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Historic Trucking Rate Disparity Could Cripple Service In Late 2024 By Zach Strickland of FreightWaves Truckload contract rates continue to show strong elevation in relation to spot rates excluding estimated fuel costs above $1.20 a gallon. This historic spread — currently about 30% versus about 12% in 2019 — suggests there is an extraordinary amount...
Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees
21.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees Via SchiffGold.com, The percentage of U.S. adults holding an advanced degree increased by over 3% from 2011-2021. This increase in education is assumed to have a crucial role in America’s increasing economic strength over that time period. The expertise gained from such degrees is...
Money's Grim Future
15.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money's Grim Future Authored by Alan Lash via The Brownstone Institute, Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th. Day has written the excellent book The Final Countdown, which carefully describes the increasingly aggressive...
Fiscal Bazooka: China Considers Buying Millions Of Homes To Save Property Market
15.05.2024, 13:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fiscal Bazooka: China Considers Buying Millions Of Homes To Save Property Market In April's politburo meeting, the Chinese government's newfound focus on an oversupplied housing market was setting the stage to usher in new rescue policies to stabilize the economy. Weeks later, Bloomberg reported that the government was considering a plan for local...
Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments
15.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Tops Apple In Q1 Global Smartphone Shipments While not quite a duopoly, Apple and Samsung have long been known to produce the most popular smartphones from a global perspective. Over the past years, however, Chinese tech companies have started catching up and, at times, even overtaking Apple's iPhone product lines. In the following chart...
The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance
14.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, The total debt owed by the United States federal government has reached incredible levels. Today, the total is $34,541,727,970,599.17 – but by the time you read this article, it’ll probably be higher. I say “probably” because the debt is growing...
WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote
14.05.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The World Health Organization (WHO) has watered down some provisions of its pandemic agreements ahead of the upcoming World Health Assembly on May 27. Critics in the United States, however, say the changes don’t do enough to address...
With "Exceptionalism" Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
13.05.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With "Exceptionalism" Like This, Who Needs Enemies? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Last weekend we suggested that “I Like My Exceptionalism to Be Exceptional” and highlighted data that was anything but exceptional. As the Citi Economic Surprise Index continues to fall, and CONsumer CONfidence showed anything but confidence, it seemed...
Why The Establishment Fears A Trump-Led Fed
13.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Establishment Fears A Trump-Led Fed Via SchiffGold.com, While in office, Trump blamed the Fed for tightening monetary policy. Now members of Trump’s team allegedly plan to give a re-elected Trump more power over the Fed, igniting panic from mainstream economists about a politicized Fed. Our guest commentator explains why the real risk,...
Why We Are At The Start Of A Multi-Year Gold Bull Market
11.05.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why We Are At The Start Of A Multi-Year Gold Bull Market By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesvillecoins.com Recently the dollar gold price aggressively broke a multiyear resistance level on the back of escalating wars, worrying asset bubbles, and sticky inflation. Long term indicators show gold is undervalued under these circumstances and can easily double...
Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World
11.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping Life Expectancy Around The World Over the last two centuries there has been significant progress in human health and longevity. Initially, in the early 19th century, life expectancy did not surpass 40 years globally, reflecting harsh conditions like extreme poverty, limited medical care, and poor sanitation. By 1950, this figure had seen notable...
Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx
11.05.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Egypt Building A Militia Force To Handle Rafah Refugee Influx Via Middle East Eye In a grand procession last week, Sinai militia leader Ibrahim al-Organi arrived at a ceremony to inaugurate the Arab Tribes Union, a new paramilitary entity that brings together five tribal groups from across Egypt. The celebration named President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi...
EU Leaders Confronts China's Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit
08.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Leaders Confronts China's Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit By Dorothy Li of The Epoch Times The European Union pressed China over its unfair trade practices as communist regime leader Xi Jinping began his official visit aimed at bolstering relationships with European leaders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech to the...
Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph
05.05.2024, 13:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph Trump has long touted on the campaign trail that he can stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours while taking shots a Biden's inability to oversee a negotiation that would ultimately end the war. The Daily Telegraph is now reporting, citing an unnamed source who is said to be close to the...
Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List
05.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List Days ago, for the first time Russian forces mounted a major air attack on the Ukrainian command's southern headquarters in the port city of Odessa. This suggests Moscow is increasingly targeting Ukraine's top command and control centers. There's been another...
Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging"
04.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging" This week has seen statements and reports indicating the US military constructed humanitarian pier on Gaza's coast is expected to be complete by some point this weekend. But the $320 million project has hit another snag, as the Pentagon has said its soldiers and engineers...
New Discovered Uranium Deposit In Poland Could Fuel Future Polish Nuclear Power Plant
04.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Discovered Uranium Deposit In Poland Could Fuel Future Polish Nuclear Power Plant By Grzegorz Adamczyk of RMX.news The Świętokrzyska Industrial Group Industria (ŚGP Industria) has confirmed the presence of uranium in a deposit within the Świętokrzyskie Region in southern Poland. The company now plans to undertake further exploratory work to...
Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO
04.05.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO Ukraine's President Zelensky has reportedly told his top military commanders that Ukraine must win against Russia if it hopes to one day be admitted into NATO. Russian state media has captured and translated key lines of the speech. "I believe that we will be in NATO only if we win. I...
Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever
02.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever Despite the lack of total carnage in spot bitcoin prices, yesterday was an ugly (nay the ugliest) day for the newly minted ETFs (although bitcoin is down over 10% this week). Most notably, BlackRock’s ETF saw around $37 million in outflows for the first time, while the remaining spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively notched...
Fighting Monsters
02.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fighting Monsters Authored by CJ Hopkins via off-guardian.org, Fighting monsters by serbiandude Published: Jan 3, 2023 So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down. As my readers...
Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint
02.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Dozens of Google workers who were fired for protesting the tech giant’s cloud deal with the Israeli government filed a complaint on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over their termination. The complaint, obtained...
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed
30.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped...
Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut
30.04.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Federal Reserve’s next move this year is likely to be a rate cut - despite the re-emergence of inflation - leaving markets at risk of a dovish repricing. When it comes to the Fed, it’s easy to get hung up on what they should do, and neglect...
"I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month
29.04.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook survey has now been in contraction (below zero) every month since May 2022, falling modestly to -14.5 in April (worse than the -11.2 expected). New Orders also remain negative (but did improve) and prices continue...
'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar
29.04.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'FX Vigilantes' Strike - Yen Suddenly Crashes To April 1990 Lows Against The Dollar The yen crashed in early Asia trading, tumbling to match is exact lows from April 1990 in what is being blamed on a 'fat finger' trade or multiple barrier-option trades being triggered, by sources that have literally no idea. The plunge extended Friday's big drop which...
"The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor
26.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Yen Collapse Has Become Disorderly": Look For A Final, Sharp Decline Before It Hits A Floor The BOJ came, issued the shortest statement in the history of central banks... ... and left, leaving traders stunned and speechless at the sheer idiocy of the world's most clownish central bank, which has decided to invite currency collapse the same abandon...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men
26.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men Poland says it is ready and willing to help Ukraine with its crisis-level manpower and recruitment problems, as it could be poised to round up Ukrainian military-aged males and return them to their home country. Government officials are now strongly signaling just such a controversial plan. Polish...
Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State
24.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State On more than one occasion this primary season, the Biden-Harris campaign has been found itself on the wrong side of significant protest votes -- for example, when 13.3% of Michigan Democrats voted "uncommitted" to register their deep dissatisfaction with his handling...
Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes
24.04.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientific American Claims It Is "Misinformation" That There Are Just Two Sexes Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical...
No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report
22.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An independent governmental watchdog investigation concluded that there was no evidence to support that the FBI was targeting Catholics based on a leaked memo. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan...