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What Is the Trump Administration Really Trying To Do With The Latest Comey Indictment?
01.05.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is the Trump Administration Really Trying To Do With The Latest Comey Indictment? On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina handed down a two-count indictment against the former FBI director James Comey, charging him with threatening the life of President Donald Trump and transmitting that threat across state lines...
Apple Drops After Mixed Results: America, Europe Revenue Miss; Iphone Sales Disappoint, But China Surges Again
30.04.2026, 23:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Drops After Mixed Results: America, Europe Revenue Miss; Iphone Sales Disappoint, But China Surges Again Ahead of today's AAPL earnings report, we've had a mixed picture from Mag 7 earnings so far: GOOGL soared to a record high, MSFT and AMZN both dropped (although they recovered much of their losses throughout the day) and META crashed, all on...
Peer Review Is Broken - Here's How To Fix It
30.04.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peer Review Is Broken - Here's How To Fix It Authored by Rob Jenkins and Michael R. Jenkins via the Brownstone Institute, Within academia, there seems to be a growing consensus that the peer-review system—once the backbone of academic scholarship—is broken. But is it irreparably so? Perhaps. At the very least, the breakdown of its current form is...
Sternlicht's Starwood Real Estate Fund Gates Redemptions
30.04.2026, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sternlicht's Starwood Real Estate Fund Gates Redemptions Earlier this month, when much of the attention was largely focused on private credit, we warned that one of the old, familiar credit market time-bombs, commercial real estate which for many years had been penned as the "Next Big Short", was deteriorating rapidly: according to the latest TREPP...
Feds Charge Sinaloa's Governor, Senator, Mayor, & Other Top Officials With Running A Narco-State
30.04.2026, 19:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Charge Sinaloa's Governor, Senator, Mayor, & Other Top Officials With Running A Narco-State Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, Federal prosecutors in New York have charged ten current and former senior Mexican government officials — among them the sitting governor of Sinaloa, a sitting federal senator, the mayor of the state capital, and the...
GDP Shocker: 75% Of US Growth In The First Quarter Was Due To AI
30.04.2026, 18:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GDP Shocker: 75% Of US Growth In The First Quarter Was Due To AI On the surface, today's Q1 GDP print was unremarkable: Real GDP grew 2.0% annualized in the first quarter, somewhat below consensus expectations of 2.3% and reflecting a surprisingly small rebound in government spending after the shutdown drag in Q4. Federal government spending contributed...
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles In America
30.04.2026, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles In America Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, In 27 of the 33 big and expensive cities we track here, mid-tier home prices in March were down from their respective peaks in prior years, led by Austin (-26%), Oakland (-25%), and New Orleans (-19%). Now also filtering into these mid-tier home prices is the “mansion...
Political Violence And The Willful Self-Deception Of The Left
30.04.2026, 17:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Political Violence And The Willful Self-Deception Of The Left Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearPolitics, Violence motivated by political differences has emerged as a defining, if alarming, feature of 21st -century American civil life. Neither side in our nation’s increasingly dangerous ideological divide has a monopoly. But one side, the...
Education Department Probes Stanford Over Alleged Racial Discrimination
30.04.2026, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Education Department Probes Stanford Over Alleged Racial Discrimination Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has initiated an investigation into Stanford University to determine whether one of its programs is racially discriminatory and violates Title VI. Stanford...
Core PCE Rises Most In 3 Years; Savings Rate Tumbles As Spending Far Outpaces Income
30.04.2026, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Core PCE Rises Most In 3 Years; Savings Rate Tumbles As Spending Far Outpaces Income The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE - rose 0.3% MoM in January (as expected), a dip from the 0.4% sequential increase in February, with YoY rising by 3.2% (also as expected), slightly higher than the 3.0% in Feb. That is the highest annual increase in...
Those Big, Beautiful Bonds
30.04.2026, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Those Big, Beautiful Bonds Authored by Robert Aro via the Mises Institute, The U.S. Government sells debt on a revolving door basis, yet most people aren’t aware of the mechanism by which this is done. Luckily, ZeroHedge covers the debt auction results, which allows us to articulate one of the structural problems in the Federal Reserve system. As...
Defiant Mojtaba Khamenei Says Gulf's Future Will Be "Without US Presence," Vows To Protect Nuclear Program At All Costs
30.04.2026, 14:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Defiant Mojtaba Khamenei Says Gulf's Future Will Be "Without US Presence," Vows To Protect Nuclear Program At All Costs Summary Not giving up nuclear program: Iran will "guard" its "advanced technologies" like it does its own borders, Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written speech read aloud by state TV. It will “secure the Persian Gulf region and dismantle...
Futures Jump After Overnight Rollercoaster Session As Oil Unexpectedly Tumbles, Yen Soars
30.04.2026, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump After Overnight Rollercoaster Session As Oil Unexpectedly Tumbles, Yen Soars Futures erase an overnight slide, and have resumed their ascent trading near all time highs, despite a hawkish Fed statement but stronger Mag7 earnings. The hawkish Fed followed by a less hawkish press conference, plus the news that Powell is staying on seemingly...
Welcome To Another Diverse Day In The UK...
30.04.2026, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To Another Diverse Day In The UK... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Two shocking incidents unfolding on the same day lay bare the consequences of unchecked mass immigration and a multiculturalism experiment gone wrong in Britain. In Crewe, police mounted a massive raid on an Islamic sect accused of running a compound rife with modern...
German Chancellor Claims Relationship With Trump Is Good, Despite Comments About Iran
30.04.2026, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Chancellor Claims Relationship With Trump Is Good, Despite Comments About Iran Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on April 29 said that he is on good terms with U.S. President Donald Trump, despite Merz’s recent remarks about the Iran war and Trump’s criticism of the German chancellor. “From...
Watch: Migrants Are Literally Clambering Up Embassy Walls In Spain
30.04.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Migrants Are Literally Clambering Up Embassy Walls In Spain Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Spain is sliding deeper into migrant-fueled disorder. Crowds of illegals have now stormed the Gambian embassy in Madrid, climbing over each other, scaling walls and fences to grab paperwork after socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s...
This Is What Europeans Are Most Proud Of
30.04.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Is What Europeans Are Most Proud Of What people take pride in says a lot about how they see their country. Across Europe, those sources range from culture and history to political systems and personal freedoms. But in some countries, a notable share of people say they feel little pride at all. This visualization via Visual Capitalist, by The European...
Senate Rejects Resolution To Bar Trump From Attacking Cuba
30.04.2026, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Rejects Resolution To Bar Trump From Attacking Cuba The US Senate batted down a resolution on Tuesday that would bar President Trump from being able to attack Cuba without first obtaining Congressional approval. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times After Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Adam Schiff...
Private Sector Struggles In Major Chinese Industrial Base As Export Orders Shrink: Local Businessmen
30.04.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Private Sector Struggles In Major Chinese Industrial Base As Export Orders Shrink: Local Businessmen Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Amid China’s persistently sluggish economy, Zhejiang Province, a major production and industrial base in eastern China, is seeing a decline in trade orders as private enterprises struggle to...
Governor Powell
30.04.2026, 03:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governor Powell By Philip Marey, senior US strategist at Rabobank Summary As widely expected, the FOMC remained on hold. Governor Miran dissented again because he wanted a rate cut. However, there were also three dissenters (Hammack, Kashkari and Logan) who wanted to remove the bias toward cutting from the statement. On balance, Powell said that the...
China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths
30.04.2026, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Loses Monopoly Over The Rarest Of Rare Earths With less than three weeks to go the Trump-Xi summit in China, the scramble for leverage and superiority - whether in terms of the Iran war or the just as important supply chain of rare earths - is on. That explains why the Pentagon’s push to get its hands on the rarest of the rare-earth elements...
KPMG Ends U.S. Gov't Audit Business After Losing Army Contract
30.04.2026, 00:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - KPMG Ends U.S. Gov't Audit Business After Losing Army Contract KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, is winding down its federal government audit business after losing a $64 million-a-year U.S. Army audit contract, a major setback as the Department of War under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to bring in another accounting firm. According...
The Day The Memecoin Dies
29.04.2026, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Day The Memecoin Dies Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I opened Twitter this morning and saw a photo of a group of guys, lanyards swinging, hoodies zipped, shuffling off to a “memecoin conference.” Which is to say we have reached the point in the batshit insanity cycle where people are boarding planes and booking hotels to celebrate coins that...
Meta Plunges After Boosting Capex Outlook Again On "Higher Component Pricing"
29.04.2026, 23:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Plunges After Boosting Capex Outlook Again On "Higher Component Pricing" The last of the giga-caps to report today, the increasingly more misnamed Meta Platforms, had some good news to report for the just completed Q1. It also had bad news, and judging by the plunge in the stock price, the market is focusing on the latter. First, the good news:...
Iranian Currency Hits All-Time Low As Tehran Threatens 'Unprecedented' Response To US 'Maritime Piracy'
29.04.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iranian Currency Hits All-Time Low As Tehran Threatens 'Unprecedented' Response To US 'Maritime Piracy' Via The Cradle Iran’s currency plummeted to a record low on Wednesday, dropping to 1.8 million against the dollar following the brutal US-Israeli war, coinciding with uncertainty over the fragile truce and rising energy prices worldwide. The...
Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars
29.04.2026, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amazon Drops After AWS Growth Misses Whisper Estimates As Capex Soars In our preview of Amazon's earnings, we summarized sentiment as "Bullish, But Concerns Remain" with JPM noting that client "conversations were heavily AWS-skewed with investor focus on degree of acceleration and cloud $ re-capture driven by core workloads, AI, & new partnerships...
MSFT Dumps As CapEx Disappoints, Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat
29.04.2026, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - MSFT Dumps As CapEx Disappoints, Despite Top- & Bottom-Line Beat Heading into the "biggest earnings day ever", MSFT was near the bottom of the Mag7 group, down 22% from its 52-week high, with capacity constraints hampering growth and CapEx concerns weighing down the stock. Microsoft has guided to roughly $80 billion in AI data center spending this fiscal...
California's Climate Overreach
29.04.2026, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Climate Overreach Authored by Edward Ring via American Greatness, Even if the most dire climate scenarios are accurate, and humanity must transition away from fossil fuel, it can’t happen overnight. The rational approach is to first develop alternative sources of energy without precipitously destroying the industries that reliably produce...
Chinese Nationals Among 51 Indicted Over Marijuana Grow Operations In Oklahoma
29.04.2026, 21:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Nationals Among 51 Indicted Over Marijuana Grow Operations In Oklahoma Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Department of Homeland Security investigation has resulted in the indictment of 51 defendants—including 29 Chinese nationals—on 67 counts of conspiracy to manufacture black-market marijuana in Oklahoma...
Your Bank Is Becoming A Casino: River CEO Frames Bitcoin As The Alternative
29.04.2026, 19:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Bank Is Becoming A Casino: River CEO Frames Bitcoin As The Alternative Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin 2026 speaker Alex Leishman used his Nakamoto Stage talk, titled “We’re Not Fixing Money to Build More Casinos,” to deliver a sharp warning that modern finance is drifting toward a gambling model and away from basic...
Even GOP Hawks Now Alarmed Over Iran War Fallout As 60-Days Hits Friday
29.04.2026, 19:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even GOP Hawks Now Alarmed Over Iran War Fallout As 60-Days Hits Friday Amid reports that Vice President JD Vance is very seriously questioning the White House's Iran War narrative, and the rosy and overly positive Pentagon updates on how things are going, over in Congress there's growing alarm as Trump's Operation Epic Fury is set to hit the 60-day...
Al Gore Shifts On Global Warming: Time To Watch Out For A New Ice Age?
29.04.2026, 19:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Al Gore Shifts On Global Warming: Time To Watch Out For A New Ice Age? The rhetoric and predictions behind climate change "science" change so haphazardly, it's a sure sign that the entire field of study is fraudulent. If the manufactured hysteria is not enough to clue people in, the failed predictions of Al Gore should do the trick. Former Vice President...
COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic
29.04.2026, 18:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, In March 2020, a couple of months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, editors at the journal Nature Medicine appended a note to a coronavirus...
US Oil Exports Soar To New Record High As Inventories Tumble, SPR Drained Most Since October 2022
29.04.2026, 17:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Oil Exports Soar To New Record High As Inventories Tumble, SPR Drained Most Since October 2022 One week ago we lamented that the record oil inventory drawdown, which has seen over 250 million barrels drained from storage since the start of the war, has not led to higher oil prices (for those who missed it, Goldman forecast that global visible oil...
In Huge Win For Republicans, Supreme Court Curbs Use Of Race In Drawing Voting Districts
29.04.2026, 16:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Huge Win For Republicans, Supreme Court Curbs Use Of Race In Drawing Voting Districts In a sweeping 6-3 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map with a second majority-Black district is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais (No. 24-109) delivers a major victory for...
Max Pressure: U.S. Prepares For Extended Hormuz Blockade As Treasury Warns Sanction Risks Linked To China's "Teapot" Refineries
29.04.2026, 16:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Max Pressure: U.S. Prepares For Extended Hormuz Blockade As Treasury Warns Sanction Risks Linked To China's "Teapot" Refineries The U.S. is intensifying pressure on Iran and China across two fronts. First, on the military side, The Wall Street Journal reported that President Trump told top aides to prepare for an extended U.S. naval blockade of the...
Bank of Canada Keeps Rates On Hold As It "Looks Through War's Immediate Impact On Inflation"
29.04.2026, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of Canada Keeps Rates On Hold As It "Looks Through War's Immediate Impact On Inflation" As expected, the Bank of Canada - which was the day's first G5 central bank to hit the tape ahead of the Fed's decision at 2pm ET - held interest rates unchanged at 2.25% as expected, saying adjustments to borrowing costs would likely be small if the economy...
Core Durables Goods Surge For 12th Straight Month, Push Bond Yield Higher
29.04.2026, 15:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Core Durables Goods Surge For 12th Straight Month, Push Bond Yield Higher After a recent string of 'soft' survey data, this morning we get some 'hard' data and it was far stronger than expected. Preliminary headline durable goods orders for March rose 0.8% MoM (better than the 0.5% MoM exp), and the first increase after a three month decline to start...
O-I Glass Plunges As Gulf Energy Shock Hits Earnings Outlook
29.04.2026, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - O-I Glass Plunges As Gulf Energy Shock Hits Earnings Outlook Glass bottle and jar company O-I Glass plunged the most in premarket trading in more than six years after it slashed its full-year adjusted EPS outlook, blaming higher energy costs tied to the Gulf-related energy shock. The major glass-container manufacturer, producing bottles and jars for...
Wingstop Tumbles As Chicken Demand Falters, Guidance Cut
29.04.2026, 15:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wingstop Tumbles As Chicken Demand Falters, Guidance Cut Wingstop shares fell the most in six months in premarket trading after the company cut its full-year outlook and reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter sales, citing a pullback in traffic as management pointed to "continued pressure on consumer spending." The chicken chain, with 2,653 locations...
US Gas Prices Hit Highest Level In 4 Years, Analyst Says
29.04.2026, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Gas Prices Hit Highest Level In 4 Years, Analyst Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The average price for a gallon of gasoline hit its highest level in four years on Tuesday as the cost of a barrel of oil remains elevated amid the conflict with Iran, according to a prominent analyst. Customers pump gas at a gas station...
Futures Flat Ahead Of Fed, Mag 7 Earnings Avalanche
29.04.2026, 14:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat Ahead Of Fed, Mag 7 Earnings Avalanche S&P futures are flat with Nasdaq outperforming ahead of a huge day for tech. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, representing nearly 20% of S&P market cap, report after the close, with traders focused on capex. The group has a combined options implied move of more than $750 billion of market cap...
Goldman's State Of U.S. Consumer Outlook Gets More Grim
29.04.2026, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman's State Of U.S. Consumer Outlook Gets More Grim Goldman consumer analysts Kate McShane and Bonnie Herzog cut their 2026 discretionary cash-inflow growth forecast for the second time this year, citing a worsening squeeze on U.S. households as slower disposable income growth collides with higher fuel prices at the pump. The revision points to...
12 Signs That The Relentless Decline Of Our Society Is Accelerating
29.04.2026, 05:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 12 Signs That The Relentless Decline Of Our Society Is Accelerating Authored by Michael Snyder via End Of The American Dream, I have got some really crazy stuff to share with you in this article. For more than a decade and a half, I have been writing about the decline of our society. Sadly, over that period of time there has been an inexorable deterioration...
Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump's $400 Million Ballroom
29.04.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republican Lawmakers Move On Legislation To Build And Fund Trump's $400 Million Ballroom Two days after a gunman tried to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Hilton hotel, Republican lawmakers got straight to work pushing for President Donald Trump's $400 million White House ballroom. The president and First...
Watch: Small Earthquake Registered After IDF Blows Up Largest-Ever Hezbollah Tunnel
29.04.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Small Earthquake Registered After IDF Blows Up Largest-Ever Hezbollah Tunnel The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday destroyed a major Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon on Tuesday evening, minutes after issuing an unusual warning that the blast would be heard across wide areas. The tunnel is being described in regional media as the largest...
California Dreamin': GOP's Chance To Flip The Golden State
29.04.2026, 03:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Dreamin': GOP's Chance To Flip The Golden State Authored by Mike Robertson via American Thinker, Ahead of the gubernatorial election this fall, pundits are buzzing with something Californians haven’t heard in years: a real chance to flip the Golden State red - at least with a new governor in Sacramento. Thanks to its top-two primary system...
Ft. Knox Full Of Impure Gold Unfit For International Transactions
29.04.2026, 02:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ft. Knox Full Of Impure Gold Unfit For International Transactions Authored by Jp Cortez via The Mises Institute, The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements. In practice, this means that most of America’s massive gold stockpile is illiquid...
Jim Quinn: Kill Switch Of Freedom
28.04.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jim Quinn: Kill Switch Of Freedom Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn’t be afraid of the government.” ― Edward Snowden “The freedom of a country can only be measured by its respect for the rights of its citizens, and it’s my conviction that these rights...
Comey Indicted As Trump DOJ Takes Second Bite At The Apple
28.04.2026, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Comey Indicted As Trump DOJ Takes Second Bite At The Apple The U.S. Department of Justice has secured a new federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, marking the second criminal case brought against him by the Trump administration in under a year. The charges center on a controversial May 2025 Instagram post in which Comey shared a...