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Soda Purchases Slumped 13% After SNAP Sugary Drink Restrictions
27.08.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soda Purchases Slumped 13% After SNAP Sugary Drink Restrictions Soda purchases fell about 13 percent among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries after 10 states restricted purchases of sugary drinks with SNAP funds in 2026, a study found. SNAP restriction waivers banned non-nutritious items like soda and candy to ensure that...
How Many $2,500 Foldable iPhones Will Apple Ship In Year One? IDC Has The Answer
27.08.2026, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Many $2,500 Foldable iPhones Will Apple Ship In Year One? IDC Has The Answer Apple is set to unveil its first foldable iPhone at the company's September 9 product event at 1300 ET. Ahead of what could be Apple's biggest handset launch in many years, technology market research firm International Data Corporation, better known as IDC, issued a new...
India's Crude Import Bill Surges As Hormuz Shipping Rates Soar
27.08.2026, 01:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - India's Crude Import Bill Surges As Hormuz Shipping Rates Soar Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India's crude oil import bill has soared since the Iran war choked Middle Eastern oil supply, raised benchmark crude prices, quadrupled freight rates, and boosted insurance on a single Strait of Hormuz voyage to never-before-seen highs. India...
You Know Things Are Bad When This Has To Be Referred To The DOJ...
26.08.2026, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - You Know Things Are Bad When This Has To Be Referred To The DOJ... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is escalating the fight against what he calls discriminatory religious facilities at two of the state's busiest airports. After DFW Airport scrapped plans for more Islamic ablution stations under pressure, Abbott...
Nvidia Slides Despite Blowout Earnings Amid Concerns About Margin Weakness And Future Spending
26.08.2026, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nvidia Slides Despite Blowout Earnings Amid Concerns About Margin Weakness And Future Spending In our preview of NVDA earnings we warned readers not to expect an earnings beat to serve as a material positive catalyst for the stock - where revenue guidance has beaten Street consensus by an average of 4% over the past four quarters, while the stock has...
Don't Trust The Midterm Polls
26.08.2026, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don't Trust The Midterm Polls Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times, This is a lightly edited transcript of an Aug. 24 segment of the "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words" podcast. Let's have a periodic check on the status of the midterms that we're now less than 80 days away from. The Democrats are riding high. They feel that historical...
Secret Service Aware Of Iranian Video Threat Against Barron Trump
26.08.2026, 21:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Secret Service Aware Of Iranian Video Threat Against Barron Trump Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Secret Service confirmed on Aug. 25 it is aware of a video aired by Iranian state-run media that appears to threaten President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, and places a $10 million bounty on him. "The U.S. Secret Service...
Coinbase CEO Considers Joining California Exodus Over "Deeply Un-American" Wealth Tax Proposal
26.08.2026, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coinbase CEO Considers Joining California Exodus Over "Deeply Un-American" Wealth Tax Proposal Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong could be the next Silicon Valley billionaire to flee California over a union-backed, draconian wealth tax scheme that critics slam as a radical wealth grab. “I think it’s deeply un-American to seize people’s assets. It might...
The Unsustainable $40 Trillion National Debt
26.08.2026, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Unsustainable $40 Trillion National Debt Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, The national debt has now passed $40 trillion. It stands at 120 percent of GDP. That should alarm us and probably does but let's just be honest: no one can conceive of such figures. They are just floating zeros and no one has any sense of whether and to what...
Yet Another Church Torched: Cause "Unknown"
26.08.2026, 18:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yet Another Church Torched: Cause "Unknown" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Yet another century-old house of worship has been wiped from the map. The former Friendship Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio - a structure dating to the mid-1890s that began life as a synagogue before becoming a Baptist sanctuary - was engulfed in a massive early-morning...
The Great Game's Afoot
26.08.2026, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game's Afoot By Michael Every of Rabobank Brent oil is lower today at $86 on a bundle of news: US Secretary of State Rubio told allies strikes against Iran were off the table --for now -- and sanctions were on it; the US was reported to be returning some diplomats to Middle East embassies withdrawn over security fears; and Iran and Oman said...
"This Is Crazy" - FTC Chair Responds To Soaring Chip Costs, Floats Possible Antitrust Action
26.08.2026, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Is Crazy" - FTC Chair Responds To Soaring Chip Costs, Floats Possible Antitrust Action We’ve covered soaring “chipflation” for months and the trend does not seem to be abating. Nvidia is reportedly informing its largest customers to expect price hikes of at least 15% for next year, possibly to set expectations of a still larger move upward…...
Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Ticks Up In July As Americans Suddenly Start Saving More
26.08.2026, 14:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Ticks Up In July As Americans Suddenly Start Saving More Following the CPI and PPI internals, this morning's PCE data should not offer too many surprises with expectations for the headline price Index to rise just 0.1% MoM in July (after deflating for the first time since COVID in June). The (old) Fed's favorite inflation...
Futures Flat Ahead Of Key PCE Report, Nvidia Earnings
26.08.2026, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat Ahead Of Key PCE Report, Nvidia Earnings Stock futures are are flat and Treasuries slipped while oil stumbled heading into today's PCE report and NVDA earnings. As of 8:00am ET, S&P Futures are unchanged and Nasdaq futures drop 0.2% as NVDA and MRVL both rise 0.2% with Semis flat, Memory down 80bp, Korea down 46bp, Software down 1.3%,...
US Removes Syria, Including Al-Nusra Front, From Its List Of Terrorism Sponsors
26.08.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Removes Syria, Including Al-Nusra Front, From Its List Of Terrorism Sponsors Following a decade-and-a-half of a Washington-led full economic siege of the Syrian state, and after a fierce CIA-backed proxy war (Timber Sycamore) to oust Assad over that same period, this week has witnessed the huge milestone of the United States finally removing Syria...
Pitch For Defense Treaty And Moving US Military To Israel Is Insane
26.08.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pitch For Defense Treaty And Moving US Military To Israel Is Insane Authored by Jennifer Kavanagh via Responsible Statecraft, On August 18, Israel bombed a non-operational Syrian air base, reportedly to derail Turkish plans to deploy military forces to the installation. The move drew swift condemnation from the United States, which did not receive prior...
This Is The Income A Family Needs To Live Comfortably In Every US State
26.08.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Is The Income A Family Needs To Live Comfortably In Every US State Here’s the short version of what it takes for a family of four to live comfortably in 2026 by state: In Massachusetts, you’d need nearly $330,000 a year - the highest figure in the entire country. Only three states clear the $300,000 mark: Massachusetts, Hawaii, and California...
DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025
26.08.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confiscated more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and almost 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2025. Just two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose. Courtesy...
"Buffers Running Down Quickly": HSBC Warns Next Global Food Shock Brewing
26.08.2026, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Buffers Running Down Quickly": HSBC Warns Next Global Food Shock Brewing Warnings on Wall Street about a confluence of stressors building deep within global agricultural supply chains are growing louder by the week, raising the risk of a food crisis next year. JPMorgan analysts warned last week that the next global food crisis "won't be short-lived...
"The Magic Deportation Bus": US Prepares For Largest-Ever Mass Visa Revocation In History
26.08.2026, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Magic Deportation Bus": US Prepares For Largest-Ever Mass Visa Revocation In History Shortly after AP News reported Monday evening that the Trump administration was preparing the largest mass visa revocation in US history, targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, the White House posted a meme on X spoofing the animated series The Magic School Bus and...
Report: Taxpayers Funding $230 Million In Federal Grants Tied To 'Intersectionality'
25.08.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Report: Taxpayers Funding $230 Million In Federal Grants Tied To 'Intersectionality' Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The federal government has awarded about $230 million to programs referencing "intersectionality," with much of the funding originating during the Biden administration, according to a new report from two policy groups...
'I Thought It Would Rise Forever'; World's 'Craziest' Stock Market Suddenly Faces Billion-Dollar Outflows
25.08.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'I Thought It Would Rise Forever'; World's 'Craziest' Stock Market Suddenly Faces Billion-Dollar Outflows Over the past few months, we have been closely following the chaos (rise and fall) in a once only marginally-monitored market on the other side of the world. Namely, the AI/chip-driven KOSPI rally and subsequent sharp unwind concentrated in Samsung...
A Teachers' Union Hits The Wrong Target
25.08.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Teachers' Union Hits The Wrong Target Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) is the largest teachers-only public pension system in the country, with more than $400 billion in assets under management. As of December 31, 2024, CalSTRS directly held three-quarters of a million shares...
Approval Of Trump's Presidency And The War On Iran Hit New Lows
25.08.2026, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Approval Of Trump's Presidency And The War On Iran Hit New Lows Americans' approval of the US-Israeli war on Iran has reached another record low, pulling Trump's approval rating down with it, to the worst reading of either of his two terms in office, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The new findings also show likely spillover effects for the November...
Only 35% Of Women Under-25 Have Positive View Of Men; Survey Finds 'Heteroflexible' Is The Fastest Growing Sexual Orientation In America
25.08.2026, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Only 35% Of Women Under-25 Have Positive View Of Men; Survey Finds 'Heteroflexible' Is The Fastest Growing Sexual Orientation In America Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Our culture is being transformed at a pace that is difficult to comprehend. The numbers that I am going to share with you in this article paint an...
Trump Says All Mines Cleared From Strait Of Hormuz, Warns Military Options Still On Table
25.08.2026, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Says All Mines Cleared From Strait Of Hormuz, Warns Military Options Still On Table President Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to declare that all mines have been removed from the Strait of Hormuz - it what seems yet another attempt to declare all is well at a moment Washington has shifted from prior military operations to an economic 'strangulation'...
Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Tried To Assassinate One Of My Sons'
25.08.2026, 20:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Tried To Assassinate One Of My Sons' Previously, Iranian state media aired images which appeared to threaten President Donald Trump's son Barron Trump, and following this Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be seizing the moment. Netanyahu has claimed in a phone interview with Israel's Channel 14 on Monday that...
Stellar 2Y Auction Stops Through On Most Foreign Buying Since March 2025
25.08.2026, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stellar 2Y Auction Stops Through On Most Foreign Buying Since March 2025 After last week's post "Bessent buyback" fireworks, which sent yields on a rollercoaster ride in the subsequent days, many were very curious to see how today's sale of $69BN in 2 year paper, the week's first coupon auction, would go and whether Bessent inadvertently had impaired...
Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs
25.08.2026, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs The Trump administration plans to charge employers a fee of $103,265 for H-1B skilled foreign workers, according to a proposed regulation posted on Monday. Revenue from the fee would be used to offset the costs of running the federal immigration system - including courts...
"This Is My Place Of Business": How Cakes And Coffee Continue To Be Groundzero In An Age Of Rage
25.08.2026, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Is My Place Of Business": How Cakes And Coffee Continue To Be Groundzero In An Age Of Rage Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, "This is my place of business." Those words from Jim Sheehan, owner of the Wydaho Roasters coffee shop in Driggs, Idaho, have sparked the latest controversy over the right of businesses to refuse service on...
Rabobank: Bessent's Buyback Looks A Lot Like "Whatever It Takes", And Druck Isn't A Fan
25.08.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rabobank: Bessent's Buyback Looks A Lot Like "Whatever It Takes", And Druck Isn't A Fan By Michael Every of Rabobank US Treasury Secretary Bessent took out a tactical nuke in saying he could use $1trn from the Treasury General Account to fund Special Military Operation Twist bond buybacks vs. the $2bn per round increase we saw last week. That looks...
Watch: Top Zelensky Staffer Led Out Of Corruption Court In Handcuffs
25.08.2026, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Top Zelensky Staffer Led Out Of Corruption Court In Handcuffs This is not a sight you see everyday, but it's one that's becoming increasingly common in the halls of power in Kiev. Footage of the detention of (now former) deputy head of Zelensky's office Irina Mudra, seen being led out in handcuffs after a court ordered her pretrial imprisonment...
Is ICE Investigating Ilhan Omar? Trump 'Truths' Report On Withheld Fraud-Probe Records
25.08.2026, 15:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is ICE Investigating Ilhan Omar? Trump 'Truths' Report On Withheld Fraud-Probe Records President Donald Trump drew fresh attention to a long-running controversy on Sunday when he reposted a Just the News article on Truth Social headlined "ICE refuses to disclose records on Ilhan Omar fraud probe, cites ongoing 'enforcement proceedings.'" His decision...
Oil Falls Further As US Prepares Return Of Diplomats To Mideast Embassies
25.08.2026, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Falls Further As US Prepares Return Of Diplomats To Mideast Embassies There continue to be clear signals that the White House is moving away from the potential for renewed military action and instead settling in for a long economic siege campaign targeting Iran, on a permanent basis. The avoidance of more bombs away and with all the risks and uncertainty...
Futures Bounce As Brent Drops Under $90 On Renewed Iran Optimism
25.08.2026, 14:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Bounce As Brent Drops Under $90 On Renewed Iran Optimism Global stocks rose as chipmakers rebounded, with falling bond yields adding support to risek sentiment after Brent crude slid below $90 a barrel, down more than 3% after a New York times reports that "evacuated foreign service officers could begin heading back to their posts as early...
Markets Now Face Two Wars And Two Economic Wars
25.08.2026, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Now Face Two Wars And Two Economic Wars By Michael Every of Rabobank Two wars and two economic wars Friday’s Jackson Hole speech from Fed Chair Warsh would traditionally be the big event this week but that’s arguably no longer true: the action is not with central banks but elsewhere. I don’t mean the ECB’s Lagarde going to work for the...
Iran's Economy On The Ropes Amid Hyperinflation And Widespread Gas Shortages, As Trump Blockade Bites
25.08.2026, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Economy On The Ropes Amid Hyperinflation And Widespread Gas Shortages, As Trump Blockade Bites Bessent is on a roll: first his attempt to send yields sharply lower by announcing an aggressive TSY buyback expansion, failed spectacularly, and then today, the US “economic D-Day” against Iran and unviled by Bessent, turned out to be "less Normandy...
Goldman Sounds Alarm: Europe May Need €100 NatGas Shock To Refill Winter Storage
25.08.2026, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Sounds Alarm: Europe May Need €100 NatGas Shock To Refill Winter Storage We have warned that Europe is approaching a twin energy crisis, with the Northern Hemisphere winter now just three months away. Dutch front-month gas futures, Europe's benchmark contract, surged Monday morning to 67 euros per megawatt-hour, the highest level since early...
Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers
25.08.2026, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers Via Remix News, Spain's construction industry is undergoing rapid demographic changes. Foreign-born workers in unskilled construction roles now make up 52.6 percent of all workers, according to data from Randstad from the first quarter The data shows that foreign...
Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts Dying
25.08.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts Dying Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The Mathematical Warning That Refused to Fade Fifty-four years ago, a team of researchers at MIT fed population data, resource consumption curves, and pollution metrics into a mainframe computer the size of a shipping container. The machine...
Specs Buy Record Gold Futures As Short Squeeze Sends CTAs Soaring: What's Next For Gold
24.08.2026, 23:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Specs Buy Record Gold Futures As Short Squeeze Sends CTAs Soaring: What's Next For Gold Not long after we reported that Goldman's commodity strategists are turning especially bullish on gold, telling clients they see "significant upside risk to our $4,900/oz end-2026 gold forecast" as a result of a substantial jump in call buying, not to mention...
DEI Refuses To Die
24.08.2026, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEI Refuses To Die Authored by Kenin M. Spivak via RealClearPolitics, Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) - progressives won't...
Our World 'Is Coming Apart Now... In Astounding Ways'
24.08.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Our World 'Is Coming Apart Now... In Astounding Ways' Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Cookery For All “We’re only cooked if we accept it.” - Blaine Holt on “X” They don’t call economics the dismal science for nothing. It has been noted - since Thomas Carlyle minted the term in 1849 (objecting to the emancipation of black slaves on Britain’s...
"I Hope It Gives A Really Good Lesson Going Forward": 'Pollster' Prakash's License To Lie
24.08.2026, 20:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I Hope It Gives A Really Good Lesson Going Forward": 'Pollster' Prakash's License To Lie Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, In this political season, there is one question that needs no poll: Rahil Prakash is a liar. The other thing we know is that he will likely get away with spreading fake polling results. Lies can be protected speech...
The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline
24.08.2026, 20:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Walkback: Sam Altman Admits He Was Wrong On AI's Economic Timeline For three years, Sam Altman has pitched the imminent, wholesale disruption of the global economy. This week, staring down the barrel of an IPO - based on a business model that's actively being 'wholesale disrupted' by China - the OpenAI chief executive quietly admitted he got...
Gold: From DC's "Enemy" To Its Last Hope?
24.08.2026, 19:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold: From DC's "Enemy" To Its Last Hope? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, As headlines from the Iranian “conflict” continue to leave the world guessing as to what, if any, military, political and financial solutions lie ahead, we can at least know this much: The approaching autumn looks a bit scary. A Market Fall in the Fall...
Mole Men Return? Weird Manhattan Manhole Crew Spotted At 4AM
24.08.2026, 19:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mole Men Return? Weird Manhattan Manhole Crew Spotted At 4AM Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The manhole people are back. Early Saturday morning, just after 4 a.m., a group was filmed exiting a manhole in Manhattan. The footage, captured and shared by independent New York photographer Viral News NYC, shows the individuals climbing out of...
Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk
24.08.2026, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jet-Fuel Price Shock Hits Airlines As Raymond James Cuts Estimate Across Coverage, Warns Of JetBlue Bankruptcy Risk As we've told readers, and as former Goldman commodities guru Jeff Currie explained last week, the energy crisis is not necessarily in Brent or WTI supplies, but in refined-product markets, given the diesel crack spread's jump above $100...
What Will Burst It: Ed Dowd Warns AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of All Time
24.08.2026, 17:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will Burst It: Ed Dowd Warns AI Is The Biggest Bubble Of All Time Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com made a name for himself during the dot com bubble. It was not because he was telling people to buy, it was because he was telling investors to get out before...
Los Angeles City Council Entertains Call For Homeless Masturbation & Hookup Centers
24.08.2026, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Los Angeles City Council Entertains Call For Homeless Masturbation & Hookup Centers Authored by Monica Showalter via AmericanThinker.com, What's this strange proclivity from the left to provide the dregs of society with the same accommodations as those who pay their bills? What on earth did I just listen to Is this real life ? pic.twitter.com/m8Va9OBcGl...