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Iran Unveils Huge New Gas Discovery Amid US Economic Pressure
25.08.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Unveils Huge New Gas Discovery Amid US Economic Pressure Iran announced a huge new gas discovery in the southern province of Fars, with the oil ministry reporting estimates of 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas, of which 73% is recoverable, or 5.7 trillion cu ft, OilPrice reported. Iran has the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves, after Russia...
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...
Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization
25.08.2026, 04:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line...
World's Largest Refiner Says China's Oil Demand "Very Likely Peaked Last Year"
25.08.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Largest Refiner Says China's Oil Demand "Very Likely Peaked Last Year" One of the most understated stories of 2026, and the reason why oil (and gas) aren't trading at persistently nosebleed levels (ignore diesel for the time being), has been China's unexpectedly weak oil demand. And while there has been much speculation surrounding the reason...
DOJ To Deploy 1,000 Election Monitors For Midterms
25.08.2026, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ To Deploy 1,000 Election Monitors For Midterms The Justice Department is preparing to send a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places for the 2026 midterms, the largest deployment of its kind in the agency's history. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who runs the Civil Rights Division, gave the number to Bloomberg last week...
Japan Power Prices Surge To Highest Since 2023
25.08.2026, 02:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Power Prices Surge To Highest Since 2023 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Japan’s nationwide day-ahead electricity price soared by 20% in one week to settle on Monday at the highest level since January 2023, as gas supply disruptions from the Middle East and an intense heatwave pushed up prices and consumption. The day-ahead power price...
Inside China's Humanoid Robot Boom: What BofA Analysts Saw On The Ground In Beijing
25.08.2026, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inside China's Humanoid Robot Boom: What BofA Analysts Saw On The Ground In Beijing China put its humanoid robotics industry on full display last week with a series of technological, commercial, and capital-markets milestones. Beijing first hosted the 2026 World Robot Conference, followed by the five-day World Humanoid Robot Games, while Unitree capped...
Michigan's Energy Abundance Is On The Ballot
25.08.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Michigan's Energy Abundance Is On The Ballot Authored by Samantha Fillmore via RealClearEnergy, It is indisputable that energy is the lifeblood of every civilization. We are reminded of that truth daily at the gas pumps and when it's time to recharge the latest iPhone. Another indisputable truth is that the availability and affordability of energy are...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: San Fran Shelter Workers Accused Of Hiding Cop Shooter
25.08.2026, 01:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: San Fran Shelter Workers Accused Of Hiding Cop Shooter Two employees at a San Francisco homeless shelter funded through city contracts have been arrested for allegedly helping a suspected cop shooter hide from police, according to the New York Post. The case stems from a May 31 confrontation near the Bay Bridge involving 36-year-old...
Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case
25.08.2026, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, After federal prosecutors charged a Chinese man for registering to vote and casting a ballot under his former landlord's name, experts are questioning Massachusetts' verification processes. A voter fills out his midterm-election...
TotalEnergies CEO Reveals Cost To Move A Supertanker Through Hormuz
25.08.2026, 00:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - TotalEnergies CEO Reveals Cost To Move A Supertanker Through Hormuz The crisis-driven dislocation across Gulf oil markets has positioned French energy giant TotalEnergies SE as an early mover, capitalizing on heavily discounted Persian Gulf crude priced at $50 to $60 a barrel and moving it through the highly contested Strait of Hormuz. CEO Patrick...
Regulation: Protecting Incumbents And Suppressing Competition
25.08.2026, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Regulation: Protecting Incumbents And Suppressing Competition Authored by Hal Snarr via Mises Institute, A previous article attributed widespread airline service failures not to individual carriers but to government interventions sold as consumer protections. Through a web of intricate regulations and controls, the state restricts entry, grants shared...
US Scraps September Korea Marine Drills In Wake Of Iran War Strain
25.08.2026, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Scraps September Korea Marine Drills In Wake Of Iran War Strain Fresh on the heels of President Trump controversially ordering scaled-down US-South Korea military drills last week, there are emerging reports of more canceled plans for joint exercises. South Korean and American force were going to hold large-scale maritime drills focused on amphibious...
Supreme Court Backs Trump's Mail-In Ballot Overhaul
24.08.2026, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Backs Trump's Mail-In Ballot Overhaul The Supreme Court sided with President Trump over his plan to use the Postal Service to impose broad new restrictions on the distribution of mail ballots. Over the dissent of the court's three liberal judges, SCOTUS' ruling means that the Trump administration can move forward with a proposal for DHS...
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...
Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting
24.08.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A U.S. appeals court has entered a judgment in favor of James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, and a Project Veritas reporter. A split panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges said on...
"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...
Russia Scrambles To Restore Fuel Supplies As Refineries Resume Operations
24.08.2026, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Scrambles To Restore Fuel Supplies As Refineries Resume Operations By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Amid the ongoing fuel crisis in Russia, authorities are rushing to ease concerns that the shortages are worsening. Russia has been suffering from a gasoline and diesel crunch since the spring, when Ukraine intensified its drone attacks at Russian...
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...
Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly
24.08.2026, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced. Soon after initial reports emerged, Saudi Arabia confirmed the attack, with Saudi shipping company Bahri...
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...
Key Events This Week: Jackson Hole. Nvidia Earnings And Core PCE
24.08.2026, 16:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Jackson Hole. Nvidia Earnings And Core PCE As we start a new weeks, the upward pressure on long-end bond yields from last week has shown initial signs of easing. Indeed, the 30yr Treasury yield is down -5bps overnight to 5.22%, whilst the 10yr yield is down by the same amount to 4.69%. That’s been supported by an announcement...
Saylor's Strategy Launches 'USD Cash' Pool After $2 Billion Raise, No BTC Buys
24.08.2026, 16:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saylor's Strategy Launches 'USD Cash' Pool After $2 Billion Raise, No BTC Buys Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public company holding Bitcoin, raised about $2 billion through common stock sales last week while making no new Bitcoin purchases. The Bitcoin treasury company sold 18.26 million MSTR shares between Aug. 17 and Aug. 23 through...
Nano Nuclear Energy Signs Commercial Framework With Tillman To Enable Nuclear Power For Data Centers
24.08.2026, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nano Nuclear Energy Signs Commercial Framework With Tillman To Enable Nuclear Power For Data Centers Regular readers are aware that one of our biggest concerns with the AI supercycle, and the entire AI arms race between the US and China, is that when push comes to shove, not only is there mounting grassroots opposition to data center build out across...
Macron Vows To Fast-Track More Missile Interceptors For Ukraine After Deadly Mall Strike
24.08.2026, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macron Vows To Fast-Track More Missile Interceptors For Ukraine After Deadly Mall Strike Recent deadly Russian attack waves on Ukrainian cities - especially the capital - have prompted France to announce it will be speeding up deliveries of anti-air defense missiles to the Ukrainian armed forces. It also comes after after a call between French President...
Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains
24.08.2026, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made his second push in two weeks to halt the Muslim foot washing facilities at his state's airports on Friday. "DFW [Dallas Fort Worth International Airport] stopped plans to install additional...
Rumor Of Imminent New Russian Mobilization Sends More Young Men Fleeing Across Borders
24.08.2026, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rumor Of Imminent New Russian Mobilization Sends More Young Men Fleeing Across Borders Ukraine alleges that the Kremlin is on the brink of mobilizing another 300,000 troops later this year in order to make up for significant battlefield losses. "Russia has lost 267,000 personnel since the start of the year, including around 155,000 killed to date,"...
Futures Slide Ahead Of "Pivotal Week" With Nvidia Earnings. Warsh Speech On Deck
24.08.2026, 14:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide Ahead Of "Pivotal Week" With Nvidia Earnings. Warsh Speech On Deck Futures are lower with Tech underperforming as the market focuses on NVDA / MRVL earnings this week; while the AI theme is pressured globally and memory stocks slump driven by a slide in the Kospi. Futures got a boost just after 7am when CNBC reported that the...
Zelensky Says Wartime Elections Would 'Destroy' Ukraine, The Purported Bastion Of Democracy
24.08.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Says Wartime Elections Would 'Destroy' Ukraine, The Purported Bastion Of Democracy Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 with a goal of excising the Russian-speaking Donbas region, American and Western European officials have repeatedly said they and their countries are duty-bound to support Ukraine because, as Nancy Pelosi put...
Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots
24.08.2026, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Creates Fake Think Tank In Likely Attempt To Dupe AI Chatbots Authored by Nick Cleveland-Stout via Responsible Statecraft, At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as "Does AIPAC Use 'Dark Money in Elections...
Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States
24.08.2026, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Interior will cut the amount of water it allocates through the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and California in 2027 and 2028. The cuts were signed off by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Aug. 21 as...
The Teaser Period: Why The AI Boom Is Hitting A Reset Wall
24.08.2026, 12:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teaser Period: Why The AI Boom Is Hitting A Reset Wall Having laid out, in July, the structural diagnosis that most of the market still refuses to confront: the AI boom is not a technology cycle. It is a credit-driven real-estate-like cycle whose financing architecture depends on the second derivative; the appropriately-named 'Groundbreaker' website has...
"Seeds Of Political Change": Nomura Sees Europe Lurching Right, And Markets Are Fine With It
24.08.2026, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Seeds Of Political Change": Nomura Sees Europe Lurching Right, And Markets Are Fine With It Europe is entering an 18-month election cycle that could accelerate the continent's shift toward populism, with high-profile elections scheduled this year in Germany and Sweden, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Poland in 2027. The much-needed...
Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon
24.08.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel DM Orders IDF To Escalate Demolitions In Southern Lebanon Authored by Jason Ditz via Antiwar.com, A week after ordering the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to prepare for a "long-term stay" in occupied southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has now also ordered them to escalate the rate at which they're destroying what is being framed as...
Tehran At The Crossroads: Iran's Civilian Leaders Call For Peace Amid Crippling U.S. Blockade
24.08.2026, 06:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tehran At The Crossroads: Iran's Civilian Leaders Call For Peace Amid Crippling U.S. Blockade Iran's top civilian officials are publicly urging an end to the ongoing conflict with the United States, exposing a deepening internal rift as they attempt to rein in hardliners who champion continued resistance. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during...
Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse
24.08.2026, 04:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, The sentencing of China Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison has brought a legal reckoning for one of the country's most spectacular corporate collapses. However, for hundreds of thousands of homebuyers...
The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"
24.08.2026, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty" Authored by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black [emphasis our own], Plenty to delve into with this edition: a stockpile order nobody can fill, two factory shutdowns that should be on your radar and the awkward truth about how few tungsten projects will ever produce a single...
Wary Of Backlash, Pro-Israel GOP Senate Hopeful Asks AIPAC Not To Spend On His Behalf
24.08.2026, 01:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wary Of Backlash, Pro-Israel GOP Senate Hopeful Asks AIPAC Not To Spend On His Behalf With Israel's standing in the United States crumbling, America's leading pro-Israel organization has become a focal point of anger among those who think the US government is putting Israel's interests ahead of America's. Political candidates have started seizing on...
Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage
24.08.2026, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage Republicans already have a significant financial advantage heading into the 2026 midterm elections, but Elon Musk is preparing to spend up to $200 million to give them an even bigger boost. Wired reports that officials with knowledge of Musk's plans said the range could still change, and...
What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats
23.08.2026, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, What personality traits distinguish successful entrepreneurs? This question has occupied academic research on entrepreneurship for decades, with scholars examining the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial success. When we...
Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation
23.08.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to reject the BBC's attempt to subpoena three members of his family as part of discovery in his defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. Trump's attorneys filed a memorandum...
Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities
23.08.2026, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A court on Aug. 18 effectively ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the last of 13 nationalities that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted during President Donald Trump's second term. In total, more than a million foreign nationals living...
Karmelo Anthony Request For New Trial Denied After Disturbing Revelations
23.08.2026, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Karmelo Anthony Request For New Trial Denied After Disturbing Revelations The narrative of the innocent black kid standing up to "white bullies" is falling apart. Karmelo Anthony, age 19, was convicted in June 2026 of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf (who was also 17 at the time) by fatally stabbing him in the chest during a confrontation at a...
WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness'
23.08.2026, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without 'Evidence Of Illness' Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Modernity News, The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a "laboratory-confirmed" human influenza infection with "the potential to cause a pandemic" to trigger mandatory international reporting...