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The Digital Euro As Europe's Backdoor Capital Control System
26.05.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Digital Euro As Europe's Backdoor Capital Control System Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The digital euro ranks among the most ambitious projects within the political architecture of the European Union. As the Eurosystem and the EU increasingly merge into identical and integrated political spaces, it can no longer be denied that this CBDC project is primarily...
Pope Sounds Alarm On AI "Slavery" While Church Aligns With Lefty Anthropic
25.05.2026, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pope Sounds Alarm On AI "Slavery" While Church Aligns With Lefty Anthropic Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday, entitled Magnifica Humanitas (The Magnificence of the Human Person). The roughly 42,300-word declaration, issued as a papal encyclical, warned, "The fight against new forms of slavery is a decisive test for the ethical discernment...
In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus' Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War
25.05.2026, 14:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Rare Phone Call, Macron Warns Belarus' Lukashenko Against Directly Joining Ukraine War In their first direct contact since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron telephoned Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to warn him against increasing his country's engagement in the war, according to sources who spoke to AFP. ...
Child Safety Groups Urge FTC To Investigate Roblox
25.05.2026, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Child Safety Groups Urge FTC To Investigate Roblox Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two child safety groups filed a complaint against online interactive gaming platform Roblox with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on May 20, alleging that children face sexual and financial harm on the platform. A boy poses for a...
Wyoming Is America's Deadliest State For Workers
24.05.2026, 04:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wyoming Is America's Deadliest State For Workers Using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created the following map to show workplace fatality rates across all 50 states in 2024. Wyoming recorded the nation’s highest workplace fatality rate at 13.9 deaths per 100,000 workers, compared with just...
Dozens Of Nations Scramble For World Bank Financing Amid Iran War Global Shock
24.05.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dozens Of Nations Scramble For World Bank Financing Amid Iran War Global Shock Via The Cradle Twenty-seven countries have moved to activate emergency World Bank financing mechanisms since the US-Israeli war on Iran began in late February, Reuters reported Friday. Three nations have already received approval for fast-tracked funding, while the other...
Iran Destroyed 20% Of Pentagon's MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fleet: Report
24.05.2026, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Destroyed 20% Of Pentagon's MQ-9 Reaper Drone Fleet: Report Via Middle East Eye Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US's pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight...
Trump Speaks With Qatar Emir As Pakistani-Led Iran Peace Push Intensifies
23.05.2026, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Speaks With Qatar Emir As Pakistani-Led Iran Peace Push Intensifies US-Iran de-escalation hopes drove crude oil and rates lower and put a bid in equities by the end of Friday's trading day, amid speculation that President Trump would stay at the White House over Memorial Day weekend instead of attending Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson’s...
US Sanctions Sinaloa Cartel-Linked Ethereum Addresses
23.05.2026, 02:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Sanctions Sinaloa Cartel-Linked Ethereum Addresses Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned six Ethereum addresses tied to a Sinaloa Cartel-linked money laundering network that allegedly converted drug proceeds into cryptocurrency. OFAC added the addresses...
UBS Warns Of "Scary" Oil Price Scenarios Once Inventory Buffers Run Dry
22.05.2026, 16:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UBS Warns Of "Scary" Oil Price Scenarios Once Inventory Buffers Run Dry Drawing down crude inventories at a record pace, with SPR releases doing the heavy lifting to cushion the Gulf supply shock, only delays the move higher in crude oil prices. Once those buffers are depleted, oil risks being violently repriced higher. That is why the Trump administration's...
Hope And Reality
22.05.2026, 15:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hope And Reality By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Since the start of the Iran war the market has had a tendency to view the likelihood of a peace agreement with a ‘glass half full’ attitude. Once again, markets have found some comfort in encouraging remarks from both the US and Iran, even though both sides are making it clear...
Hormuz Shock Raises Recession Risk As Retailers Sound Alarm On Consumer Stress
22.05.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hormuz Shock Raises Recession Risk As Retailers Sound Alarm On Consumer Stress Oil market experts at Rapidan Energy Group warn that a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger an oil shock severe enough to hit consumers hard and push the economy into a downturn on a scale approaching that of the 2008 Great Recession. That warning was reinforced...
“We Must Leap Forward Into New Energy” - Canaccord’s Inaugural Nuclear Nexus Conference
22.05.2026, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - “We Must Leap Forward Into New Energy” - Canaccord’s Inaugural Nuclear Nexus Conference A new report from Canaccord Genuity captures the main threads from the firm’s first Nuclear Nexus conference, where fission and fusion developers, academics, and investors gathered to confront the practical barriers to scaling nuclear power. The event...
It's Not Iran Trapping Ships In The Hormuz, It's The Insurance Risk
22.05.2026, 02:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Iran Trapping Ships In The Hormuz, It's The Insurance Risk Is the Iranian regime the immediate barrier to oil tankers seeking to exit the Strait of Hormuz, or is it fear of liability that's keeping shipping companies at bay? The damage actually done to Iran's military and weaponry by US strikes is a matter of hot debate, but one aspect of the...
Rickards: Investing In A World In Turmoil
21.05.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rickards: Investing In A World In Turmoil Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, To say that the world is in turmoil to an extent not seen since the 1960s is an understatement. The war in Ukraine is now in its fifth year. The war in Iran continues with no end in sight, despite Trump’s optimistic talk. NATO may be nearing the break-up stage...
Turkey Liquidated Almost All Of Its US Treasuries In March To Defend Crashing Lira
21.05.2026, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turkey Liquidated Almost All Of Its US Treasuries In March To Defend Crashing Lira Two months ago, at the end of March, we reported that Turkey was aggressively dumping its gold reserves in a panic scramble to obtain dollar funding, which Erdogan's regime was using to keep the Turkish lira from crashing, and to also pay for energy imports which had...
Norway Wants To Lead A "Viking Bloc" For Containing Russia In Northern Europe
21.05.2026, 08:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norway Wants To Lead A "Viking Bloc" For Containing Russia In Northern Europe Authored by Andrew Korybko, It can simultaneously threaten Russia along the increasingly interconnected Arctic and Baltic fronts. Russian Ambassador to Norway Nikolai Korchunov gave a brief interview to TASS about bilateral relations. He warned that Norway is integrating...
Washington State Under Federal Investigation For Housing Men In Women's Prisons
21.05.2026, 04:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington State Under Federal Investigation For Housing Men In Women's Prisons Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced May 19 that its agents have launched an investigation into Washington State’s practice of housing male inmates in women’s prisons. Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson...
Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
21.05.2026, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year’s end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing...
Trump Order Increases Scrutiny Of Illegal Immigrants' Banking Activity
20.05.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Order Increases Scrutiny Of Illegal Immigrants' Banking Activity Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 19 directing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to provide banks with an advisory on financial risks posed by individuals living in the country illegally. In his order, Trump urged...
Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report
20.05.2026, 21:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report A new investigation has connected Wall Street billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros to a national progressive network of activist groups opposing data center expansion in Texas. The Dallas Express reported that Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by Soros, has provided...
Trump AI Executive Order To Seek Early Access To Advanced Models
20.05.2026, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump AI Executive Order To Seek Early Access To Advanced Models After Anthropic's 'Mythos' model sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity world due to its ability to find and exploit software vulnerabilities at breakneck speed, the Trump administration is reportedly on the cusp of issuing a much-discussed executive order that would encourage AI companies...
FOMC Minutes Preview: Look For "Easing Bias" Dissent Details Inside Powell's Hawkish Swan Song
20.05.2026, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Minutes Preview: Look For "Easing Bias" Dissent Details Inside Powell's Hawkish Swan Song Today's FOMC minutes, released at 2pm ET, will be closely watched for further details surrounding the increasingly hawkish split within the Committee following the April meeting, Jerome Powell's last as Fed Chair. With three voters dissenting against retaining...
Samsung Union Authorizes Massive Strike At Memory-Chip Plants After Mediation Talks Collapse
20.05.2026, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Union Authorizes Massive Strike At Memory-Chip Plants After Mediation Talks Collapse Asian equities extended losses for a fourth straight session, with South Korea's benchmark KOSPI falling about 1% as the market priced in the shock of an imminent labor action at Samsung Electronics. A full-scale, 18-day strike involving more than 47,000 workers...
House Lawmaker Introduces Legislation To Expose CCP Exploitation Of Sister City Agreements
20.05.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Lawmaker Introduces Legislation To Expose CCP Exploitation Of Sister City Agreements Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A House lawmaker has introduced legislation to prevent foreign adversaries, particularly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), from exploiting sister city partnerships and jeopardizing U.S. national security...
Korean Bubble Mania: Retail Investors Max Out On Margin Debt, Choose To "Risk Complete Collapse" Than Miss Stock Rally
20.05.2026, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Korean Bubble Mania: Retail Investors Max Out On Margin Debt, Choose To "Risk Complete Collapse" Than Miss Stock Rally For many years, Koreans were bitcoin's best friend. After bitcoin emerged about a decade ago as the asset class with the most pronounced momentum - both to the upside and the downside - Korea's daytrading army, famous for being totally...
BBC's Former News Director Says Trans-Bias & 'Progressive Madness' Drove Her Out
19.05.2026, 13:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BBC's Former News Director Says Trans-Bias & 'Progressive Madness' Drove Her Out Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The BBC’s grip on impartiality continues to slip as one of its former top news executives publicly confirmed what critics have long argued: activist capture from within has turned the state broadcaster into a vehicle for narrow...
UBS Reactivates Supply-Chain Stress Watch After Detecting Alarmingly Rapid Deterioration
19.05.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UBS Reactivates Supply-Chain Stress Watch After Detecting Alarmingly Rapid Deterioration One week after Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc warned CNBC of a "new wake-up call" for global trade amid the ongoing disruption of the Strait of Hormuz and a deepening energy crisis that could intensify further in June, UBS analysts are out with a new note telling clients...
Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies
19.05.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies While it may seem like every government these days - not just Emerging but certainly all Developing countries too - has become a banana republic in light of the increasingly more idiotic fiscal and monetary policies adopted to kick the can at least...
"Shockingly Bad" Chinese Econ Data Stuns Wall Street, Sparks Hard Landing Concerns
18.05.2026, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Shockingly Bad" Chinese Econ Data Stuns Wall Street, Sparks Hard Landing Concerns Confirming our Sunday preview, overnight China reported growth data which slowed across the board in April with investment resuming declines, retail sales missing sales and growing at the weakest rate in 4 years while industrial production rose at the slowest pace in...
Key Events This Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes And Global PMIs
18.05.2026, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes And Global PMIs Looking at the week ahead, Nvidia’s earnings on Wednesday, with a market capitalisation now of $5.46tn, will be the main event. In economics, we have the global flash PMIs on Thursday, along with inflation data from Canada tomorrow, the UK on Wednesday, and Japan on Friday. From central...
The Question This Week Is "Does Trump Go Back To The Well On Bombing Iran?"
18.05.2026, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Question This Week Is "Does Trump Go Back To The Well On Bombing Iran?" By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank Hormuz diary, day 79. The strait remains functionally closed and global crude and refined product stocks are rapidly drawing down. President Trump has returned from Beijing after much bonhomie with no concrete commitments...
Behind Turkey's Gold Sales: The Biggest Ever Plunge In Foreign Reserves
18.05.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Turkey's Gold Sales: The Biggest Ever Plunge In Foreign Reserves Shortly after the Iran war started, with gold unexpectedly tumbling, we showed that the reason behind gold's paradoxical move - after all, the precious metal has traditionally been a store of value in times of geopolitical stress - was the furious liquidation of gold by emerging...
Switzerland To Vote On Capping Population At 10 Million
18.05.2026, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Switzerland To Vote On Capping Population At 10 Million In less than four weeks, on June 14, Swiss voters will decide on a proposal that, if passed, would mark a constitutional first: enshrining a hard limit on the country’s total permanent resident population. The "No to a Switzerland with 10 Million" initiative, backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s...
DOJ Probes BlackRock Private Credit Fund Valuations After Dramatic Repricings
17.05.2026, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ Probes BlackRock Private Credit Fund Valuations After Dramatic Repricings It all started in late January, just before the Blue Owl debacle and the SAAS-palcypse sparked a historic crash in private credit. It was then that in a rare off-cycle disclosure, BlackRock TCP Capital Corp., a publicly traded private-credit fund structured as a business...
The Fed Will Invent New Inflation Numbers Out Of Thin Air
17.05.2026, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed Will Invent New Inflation Numbers Out Of Thin Air Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The Federal Reserve is rapidly approaching the point where every available option becomes politically toxic, economically destructive, or both. Inflation remains stuck around 3.8% CPI, well above the Fed’s stated 2% target, and that number alone should theoretically...
AI vs Affordability And Rates
17.05.2026, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI vs Affordability And Rates By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Last week, we contemplated, for the first time, that we might need to Understand Universal Basic Income. The timing was very good as on Monday, South Korea floated the idea of transferring some AI-driven tax revenue to its citizens. As uncertainty around jobs, income, and costs continue...
Mayor Sadiq Khan Claims London Devolving Into A Sh*thole Is Just AI-Driven Rage-Bait
17.05.2026, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mayor Sadiq Khan Claims London Devolving Into A Sh*thole Is Just AI-Driven Rage-Bait Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed that the decline of the city is a myth and that it’s all just lies being spread by MAGA supporters, Russia, and China through AI-generated content. In a fresh escalation of his war on...
Washington's Joint Operation Against ISIS In Nigeria Sends A Message To The Sahelian Alliance
17.05.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Joint Operation Against ISIS In Nigeria Sends A Message To The Sahelian Alliance Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The scenario of a US-backed Nigerian anti-terrorist intervention in Mali is becoming increasingly likely. Trump announced over the weekend that the US and Nigeria carried out a joint operation against ISIS’ second-highest...
Solar Power Generation To Exceed Coal For First Time In Texas Grids
17.05.2026, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Solar Power Generation To Exceed Coal For First Time In Texas Grids Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Annual electricity power generation from utility-scale solar projects is predicted to exceed output from coal for the first time ever in 2026 on grids run by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). An aerial...
Nearly 2,500 Pounds Of Cocaine, 105 Pounds Of Marijuana Seized In Joint Operation By US Forces
17.05.2026, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nearly 2,500 Pounds Of Cocaine, 105 Pounds Of Marijuana Seized In Joint Operation By US Forces Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. forces seized around 2,500 pounds of cocaine and 105 pounds of marijuana in two separate maritime operations involving foreign nations. In one operation, the Joint Interagency Task Force...
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Job Is Impossible
16.05.2026, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Job Is Impossible Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Congratulations to Kevin Warsh on officially becoming the next Federal Reserve chair. Unfortunately for him, he may have just accepted the worst job in global finance at the worst possible moment. Warsh was narrowly confirmed this week in the most partisan Fed chair vote...
Bonds Are Screaming "Something's Wrong"
16.05.2026, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bonds Are Screaming "Something's Wrong" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Bond yields are doing exactly what I warned about yesterday: forcing reality back into a market that had become increasingly detached from it. Heading into Friday’s cash open, U.S. equity futures are under pressure, with S&P 500 futures down roughly 1% and Nasdaq futures off...
Samsung, South Korean Union Resume Talks As Strike Threat Risks Disrupting Memory Chip Fabs
16.05.2026, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung, South Korean Union Resume Talks As Strike Threat Risks Disrupting Memory Chip Fabs Heavy selling swept across Asian markets on Friday, with South Korea's benchmark KOSPI plunging 6% as traders aggressively reduced exposure to the country's semiconductor sector. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix led the decline. The catalyst for the sell-off...
We're Living In The Age Of Consequences
16.05.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We're Living In The Age Of Consequences Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Lookie here… The United Arab Emirates recently announced it would quit OPEC after nearly six decades, striking a major blow to the oil cartel and to Saudi Arabia, its unofficial leader. Let’s be clear, the UAE didn’t leave OPEC. They were bought out....
Closing Arguments In High-Stakes OpenAI Trial Focus On Reputation, Character
16.05.2026, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Closing Arguments In High-Stakes OpenAI Trial Focus On Reputation, Character Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), OAKLAND, Calif.—After nearly three weeks of presented evidence, an Oakland jury on May 14 heard final arguments in a high-stakes legal battle that could have profound impacts on the race for artificial intelligence...
US Gasoline Inventories Plunging On Surging Exports, Resilient Demand
15.05.2026, 18:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Gasoline Inventories Plunging On Surging Exports, Resilient Demand Prompt Brent/WTI crude nearby futures increased by 5/7% week-over-week to $105/101 as flows through the Strait of Hormuz remained very low and on limited signs of progress on a US-Iran deal. Meanwhile, as global oil inventories collapse at a record pace yet sliding Chinese demand...
Samsung Strike Threat Sparks Selling Contagion In Memory Stocks
15.05.2026, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Samsung Strike Threat Sparks Selling Contagion In Memory Stocks President Trump's China trip has concluded, with the multi-day summit producing comments from both sides that pointed to warming bilateral relations. As Trump returns aboard Air Force One on Friday morning, traders are shifting focus to overnight turmoil in South Korea, where labor action...
Europe's Green Deal Is Unraveling
15.05.2026, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's Green Deal Is Unraveling Authored by Mohamed Moutii via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) Over the past decade, Europe has played a leading role in shaping global climate policy, highlighted by the launch of the European Green Deal in 2019—Ursula von der Leyen described it as a “man on the moon moment.” The initiative...
Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime
15.05.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Britain Is Now Policing Thought Crime Authored by Ciaran Kelly via DailySceptic.org, If you want a snapshot of how far Britain has drifted from its liberal inheritance, consider the spectacle of a 78 year-old grandfather and retired pastor being warned by police that he must not preach from the Bible within a public area. His offence was not harassment...