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The Crises And Sacrifices Yet To Come
16.06.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Crises And Sacrifices Yet To Come Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, The sense that we're approaching a tipping point into a crisis with no easy resolution is pervasive, a sense that beneath the veneer of normalcy (the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates and that will fix everything), we sense the precariousness of this brittle normalcy...
RFK Jr. Says US Should 'Vastly Scale Back' Its Military Budget
15.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr. Says US Should 'Vastly Scale Back' Its Military Budget Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., on June 12, 2024. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an outspoken critic of U.S. involvement in “forever...
“Preemptive Nuclear War”: The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity
15.06.2024, 17:01 Uhr. Global Research - https: - US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of “self defense” rather than a “weapon of mass destruction”. There are powerful financial interests behind Joe Biden's $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under Obama. The post “Preemptive Nuclear War”: The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy....
Putin On G7 Seized Assets Plan: "Despite All The Trickery, Theft Is Still Theft"
15.06.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin On G7 Seized Assets Plan: "Despite All The Trickery, Theft Is Still Theft" After on Thursday Group of Seven leaders agreed at a summit in Italy to give Ukraine $50 billion utilizing interest from frozen Russian Central Bank assets, President Putin has addressed the move during a speech before his Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He once again denounced...
Top Tech Trio Melts Up To Record High As Rest Of Market, Europe Burns
14.06.2024, 22:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Top Tech Trio Melts Up To Record High As Rest Of Market, Europe Burns Another day, another tech-led meltup, which managed to reverse the early slump in the stock "market", and push the S&P to just shy of closing green, and the 41st record high of 2024, on the back of just one idea: this one. Frankly, the whole AI meltup has become stupid: with the Mag...
Despite 400% Cost Increase And Poor Reliability, F-35 Approved For Increased Production Rate
14.06.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Despite 400% Cost Increase And Poor Reliability, F-35 Approved For Increased Production Rate Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, After more than 900 F-35s being delivered under so-called low-late production, the Pentagon has authorized the F-35 for full-rate production that will eventually deliver more than 2,400 planes. This huge milestone...
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...
What Is The Median Pay Of 'Magnificent Seven' Companies?
14.06.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is The Median Pay Of 'Magnificent Seven' Companies? The Magnificent Seven are lifting the stock market to new highs, led by Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet in particular. In May alone, these tech giants added $1.4 trillion in market capitalization to the S&P 500 - surpassing the combined gains of 296 other stocks during the same period....
NATO Tells Ukraine It Must Win The War To Become Full Alliance Member
13.06.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Tells Ukraine It Must Win The War To Become Full Alliance Member NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that Ukraine and its future assistance will be a major focus of discussion in a Defense Ministers meeting Thursday and Friday, which comes parallel to the G7 summit happening in Italy, where both Biden and Zelensky are meeting...
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...
Bitcoin Battered, Bonds Bid, Apple Bounces Back Before Big-Risk Day
11.06.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Battered, Bonds Bid, Apple Bounces Back Before Big-Risk Day Another quiet macro day, ahead of tomorrow's extravaganza of event risk with CPI and FOMC (Dots), which the vol market is well aware of... Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, rate-cut expectations for 2025 jumped significantly today but the shift in 2024 rate-cuts was relatively benign...
Two-Thirds Of Small Business Owners Worried Biden's Economy Will Kill Their Business
11.06.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Two-Thirds Of Small Business Owners Worried Biden's Economy Will Kill Their Business Around two-thirds of small business owners say that current economic conditions under President Joe Biden could force them to close their doors, according to a new poll from the Job Creators Network Foundation (JCNF) reported by the Daily Caller. According to the...
"It's Trump Vs World War III" - Martin Armstrong Warns "The Swamp Is Now An Ocean"
11.06.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "It's Trump Vs World War III" - Martin Armstrong Warns "The Swamp Is Now An Ocean" Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong says we are going to have a wild close to 2024. Let’s start with Biden’s new job approval rating from Martin Armstrong’s “Socrates” program, which is...
Russia's Oil & Gas Revenues Surged By 73.5% In January-May
10.06.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Oil & Gas Revenues Surged By 73.5% In January-May Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, Russia’s budget revenues from oil and gas soared by 73.5% in January-May of 2024 compared to the first five months of 2023, according to data from Russia’s finance ministry released on Monday. Between January and May 2024, the revenues for the...
Is There A Financial Crisis Bubbling Under The Surface?
10.06.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is There A Financial Crisis Bubbling Under The Surface? Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, When the Federal Reserve started raising rates, it precipitated a financial crisis. The central bank managed to paper over the problem with a bailout program, but the crisis continues to bubble and percolate under the surface. According to the latest...
Massie Slams AIPAC, Censorship, Surveillance, Debt Crisis, And Insane Government Regulations: New Tucker
10.06.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massie Slams AIPAC, Censorship, Surveillance, Debt Crisis, And Insane Government Regulations: New Tucker Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) sat down with Tucker Carlson for a little over two hours, where the two discussed a variety of topics, including the grip that lobbies such as AIPAC has have over legislative agendas, freedom of speech, government surveillance...
Rise Of World’s Debt-Laden ‘Zombie’ Companies
08.06.2024, 20:47 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to an Associated Press investigation, the number of the world’s debt-laden ‘zombie’ companies has risen, and they will have to pay off $1.1 trillion in loans by year-end. The number of publicly traded “zombie” companies—those with debt so high they can’t even afford the interest on their loans—has increased...
It's The Fed That's A Risk To Financial Stability
08.06.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's The Fed That's A Risk To Financial Stability Authored by Alex Pollock via The Mises Institute, Published in The New York Sun: Central bankers whistle ‘Dixie’ as mark-to-market losses dramatically shrink the banking system’s economic capital. Whistling a happy tune, the Federal Reserve vice chairman for supervision, Michael Barr, recently...
The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All
08.06.2024, 05:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Military-Industrial Complex Is Killing Us All Authored by David Vine -Therisa (ISA) Arriola via CounterPunch.org, We need to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they bleed, rupture, and cease functioning. Bombs injure. Bombs kill...
Venture Capitalist David Sacks Goes All In On Trump
07.06.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Venture Capitalist David Sacks Goes All In On Trump A new wave of enthusiasm is emerging for former President Trump among VCs and business leaders across America. While some (or much) of this may be simply reading tea leaves and staying nimble, it's worth noting that many former Democrat defenders are now on team Trump. It doesn't take a crystal ball...
US Domestic Bank Deposits Tumble As Money-Market Fund Assets Near Record-High Again
07.06.2024, 22:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Domestic Bank Deposits Tumble As Money-Market Fund Assets Near Record-High Again Money-market inflows continued for the seventh straight week getting close to $6.1 trillion... Source: Bloomberg As total seasonally-adjusted US bank deposits fell $41.5 BN... Source: Bloomberg While on a non-seasonally-adjusted basis, total US ban deposits rose $89BN...
Nvidia's Animal Spirits
07.06.2024, 21:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia's Animal Spirits Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance As of yesterday, Nvidia has surpassed Apple as the world’s second largest company, trading above a $3 trillion valuation and now single-handedly accounting for 6.5% of the S&P 500's weight. This chart from Zero Hedge shows Nvidia in black: Source: Zero Hedge Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signing...
Dennis Kucinich Challenges GOP Congressional Opponent To ZeroHedge Debate Over Israel, Warrantless Spying
07.06.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dennis Kucinich Challenges GOP Congressional Opponent To ZeroHedge Debate Over Israel, Warrantless Spying Former Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) is running for Congress again as an independent, and has publicly challenged his incumbent opponent, Republican Rep. Max Miller, to a ZeroHedge debate. "I believe it is essential that you be challenged...
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...
China Property Stocks Tumble Into Bear Market As Beijing's Bailout Fades
06.06.2024, 15:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Property Stocks Tumble Into Bear Market As Beijing's Bailout Fades Three weeks after Beijing announced "historic" measures, including the central bank providing 1 trillion yuan in extra funding, easing mortgage rules, and local governments planning to purchase apartments to clear excess supply, all in a bid to stabilize the worsening downturn...
Futures Flat As Tech Storms Higher, ECB Rate Cut Looms
06.06.2024, 14:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Tech Storms Higher, ECB Rate Cut Looms US equity futures were flat after the S&P 500 notched its 25th closing record on Wednesday, even as global tech shares plowed higher with expectations of more rate cuts adding to the ongoing frenzy around artificial intelligence; With the ECB set to cut rates for the first time since 2019, Nvidia...
Renters And Owners Live In Separate Economies
06.06.2024, 03:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renters And Owners Live In Separate Economies Commentary by Peter St Onge via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Rashevskyi Viacheslav/Shutterstock) It turns out renters and homeowners are living in two entirely different economies, at least according to a new study by the Federal Reserve—which, ironically enough, made it happen. In short, renters...
"Buy Everything": S&P Hits All Time High As Nvidia Passes $3 Trillion
05.06.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Buy Everything": S&P Hits All Time High As Nvidia Passes $3 Trillion Remember when "developed world" central banks pretended their inflation target was 2%? Well, that lie died a miserable death today - and will do so again for good measure tomorrow - after the BOC cut rates for the first time in 4 years, and less than a year after its last rate hike...
Saudi Aramco's $12 Billion Share Sale Quickly Sells Out, But Who Is Buying?
05.06.2024, 20:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Aramco's $12 Billion Share Sale Quickly Sells Out, But Who Is Buying? By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Last week, Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Saudi Aramco (ARMCO) confirmed in a filing with the Saudi Exchange plans to sell shares in the state-owned oil company to help the kingdom fund plans to diversify the economy. Well, the sale took place...
Number Of 'Problem Banks' Climbs In 1st Quarter, New FDIC Report Finds
05.06.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Number Of 'Problem Banks' Climbs In 1st Quarter, New FDIC Report Finds Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, It has been more than a year since the regional banking crisis exposed vulnerabilities in the financial system. A new Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) report discovered that the banking sector is still grappling with ballooning...
Fidelity Dominates Bitcoin ETFs' Second-Biggest Net Inflow Day Ever As Crypto Soars
05.06.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fidelity Dominates Bitcoin ETFs' Second-Biggest Net Inflow Day Ever As Crypto Soars After a period of flat to negative flows, the spot ETFs have added $3.7 billion in assets over the past month, to make the aggregate net inflows since inception almost $15 billion. Yesterday completed the sixteenth straight day of net inflows with a second-best-ever...
Toxic Biosolids Threaten U.S. Farmland And Livestock
05.06.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Toxic Biosolids Threaten U.S. Farmland And Livestock Authored by Kurt Cobb via oilprice.com, Many years ago a civil engineer explained to me the wisdom of taking solid biological residues from sewage treatment plants—dubbed biosolids—and using them on farm fields and garden plots. After all, nature intended for human wastes to return to the soil...
Indian Stocks Crash After Vote Reveals Modi Struggling To Win Majority In National Elections
04.06.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Indian Stocks Crash After Vote Reveals Modi Struggling To Win Majority In National Elections According to exit polls, it was supposed to be an avalanche victory for India's current PM Narendra Modi, assuring him of a third consecutive term... ... and the market took the early indications of a blowout victory and sent Indian stocks to an all time high...
How US College Students Feel About Their Finances
04.06.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How US College Students Feel About Their Finances Student debt in the U.S. has ballooned to over $1.7 trillion, burdening millions of Americans with financial stress. Rising tuition costs and stagnating wages are considered to be the major drivers of this issue. To gain insight into how this is affecting students, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized...
The India Stock Story Is More Than Just What Happens This Week
04.06.2024, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The India Stock Story Is More Than Just What Happens This Week By Ven Ram, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Stock markets in India have run away with the idea of voters giving the green light for further economic reform, but gains may moderate toward the end of the day. The Sensex has run up 3% after exit polls showed a decisive majority...
Having Too Much Money Leads To Catastrophe
03.06.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Having Too Much Money Leads To Catastrophe Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The best thing that could happen to America would be the destruction of its credit card and a deep, prolonged recession that emptied the punch bowl of phantom bubble wealth and the illusion of endless credit. Money being scarce saves us from many pernicious...
Nvidia CEO Nvidia's Jensen Huang Reveals New AI Chip Slated For 2026
03.06.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia CEO Nvidia's Jensen Huang Reveals New AI Chip Slated For 2026 At the 2024 Taipei International Information Technology Show, better known as Computex, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the endless possibilities surrounding artificial intelligence. He unveiled plans for new AI accelerator chips, signaling the company's shift from graphics...
A "Restaurant Apocalypse" Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy
02.06.2024, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A "Restaurant Apocalypse" Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, You can get a really good idea how the U.S. economy is doing by watching restaurants in your area. When the economy is booming, restaurant parking lots are full and chains are feverishly...
The Ideological Battle Behind The US Debt Crisis
02.06.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Ideological Battle Behind The US Debt Crisis Via SchiffGold.com, The U.S. national debt is at 34.7 trillion dollars. If you laid that many dollar bills end-to-end, it would wrap around the Earth 134,599 times. That’s enough to travel to the sun and back 17 times. Suffice it to say, we’re in a pickle. America is slowly approaching the precipice...
Electricity Demand May Cure Debt Concerns
01.06.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Electricity Demand May Cure Debt Concerns Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The future of electricity demand for everything from electric cars to Bitcoin mining to artificial intelligence may also be the cure for our debt concerns. Before you dismiss that statement, let me explain. One of the bears’ primary arguments against...
Time To Pay Satan: Canadian Asset Manager Blocks Cash Distributions On Private Credit Funds
31.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Time To Pay Satan: Canadian Asset Manager Blocks Cash Distributions On Private Credit Funds Just one day after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said private credit could spark turmoil if when the opaque sector of financial markets weakens, warning that "there could be hell to pay," and adding that he has "seen a couple of these deals that were rated by a rating...
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,...
The Rise In America's Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters
31.05.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Rise In America's Billion-Dollar Extreme Weather Disasters Since 1980, there have been 383 extreme weather or climate disasters where the damages reached at least $1 billion. In total, these disasters have cost more than $2.7 trillion. Created in partnership with the National Public Utilities Council, this chart, via Visual Capitalist's Jenna Ross...
Aluminum Prices Hit Two-Year High On Smelter Output Limits In China
30.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum Prices Hit Two-Year High On Smelter Output Limits In China Aluminum prices in London reached their highest in two years as the industrial metals rebound theme continued, driven by a combination of supply constraints and the prospect of increased demand in China and the US. The latest driver for the silvery-white, lightweight metal,...
Like Biden's Busted Gaza Pier, So Drifts Away Our Economy
30.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Like Biden's Busted Gaza Pier, So Drifts Away Our Economy Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you have completely given up on any semblance of fiscal responsibility from the current administration, and perhaps maybe from the nation as a whole, already. But if you’re one of the few still holding on to a shred...
Why It's Time To Stop Taxing Gold & Silver
30.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why It's Time To Stop Taxing Gold & Silver By Jesse Colombo, of BullionStar You’d have to be hiding under a rock to be unaware that inflation is one of the most pressing issues of our time. After a shocking 23% increase in the cost of living since 2019, all but the wealthiest of Americans are getting squeezed and seeing their living standards plummet...
How Much Will It Cost For The Largest Deportation Operation In American History
29.05.2024, 21:48 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to the findings of a Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) analysis, the cost of the largest deportation operation in American history could easily exceed $1 trillion over 10 years. This year, the Republican party appears committed to a plan for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, having secured the endorsement of a well-known Republican...
Is Hyper-Inflation That Destroys A Currency A "Solution"?
29.05.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Hyper-Inflation That Destroys A Currency A "Solution"? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When predicting the future, we're best served by following "what benefits the wealthy and powerful," as that is the likeliest outcome. This contrarian sees a strong consensus around the notion that hyper-inflation is the inevitable end-game...
The US Fiscal Nightmare - Yellen Can't Expect A Strong Ecoonomy With Higher Spending & Taxes
29.05.2024, 18:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Fiscal Nightmare - Yellen Can't Expect A Strong Ecoonomy With Higher Spending & Taxes Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The long-term forecast for higher interest rates, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, makes it more difficult to control US borrowing needs, which emphasizes the significance of raising revenue in the forthcoming budget...
Healthcare Company Semler Soars After Adopting Bitcoin As Primary Treasury Asset
29.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Healthcare Company Semler Soars After Adopting Bitcoin As Primary Treasury Asset Healthcare company Semler Scientific (SMLR), known for pursuing remedies to chronic diseases, announced a major shift in its treasury strategy. The company's board of directors adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset, alongside a substantial purchase of 581...