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Waste Of The Day: Deficit Could Surpass $2 Trillion
27.08.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Waste Of The Day: Deficit Could Surpass $2 Trillion Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, The federal deficit will be $2.1 trillion when fiscal year 2026 ends on Sept. 30, the Congressional Budget Office projected in its monthly budget review. The deficit - the gap between what the government spends and what it collects from taxes...
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...
Japan Holds Off On New Oil Reserve Release Despite September Import Drop
27.08.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Holds Off On New Oil Reserve Release Despite September Import Drop Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Japan expects its oil imports next month to be lower than this month's but has no plans to release additional crude from storage, the country's economy minister said. Oil imports next month are seen at 80% of the average monthly for 2025...
Iran Says Persian-Language Media Outlets 'Funded By CIA' Are Military Targets
27.08.2026, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Says Persian-Language Media Outlets 'Funded By CIA' Are Military Targets One key tool Washington has long utilized for influence operations and covert regime change plotting abroad has long been the establishment of foreign media for political messaging. The idea is that a foreign language satellite news channel gets presented as 'independent'...
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...
Activist Obama Judge Bends The Knee, Lifts Block On Trump's Mail-In Ballot Restrictions After USSC Ruling
27.08.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Activist Obama Judge Bends The Knee, Lifts Block On Trump's Mail-In Ballot Restrictions After USSC Ruling A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday lifted her own order blocking the postal service from implementing election integrity measures for mail-in ballots. US District Judge Indira Talwani issued the block after the League of Women Voters...
Another Major Russian Refinery Up In Flames As Diesel Nears Historic Highs
27.08.2026, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Major Russian Refinery Up In Flames As Diesel Nears Historic Highs On Wednesday Ukrainian forces struck a Wildberries facility deep inside of Russian territory for the second time this summer. The warehouse in the central Tambov region city of Kotovsk was first targeted in July, but this time the large complex has been "completely" destroyed...
Israel Developing Offensive Space Capabilities
26.08.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Developing Offensive Space Capabilities Authored by Ioannis Vlahos via Antiwar.com, Israel is currently prepared to begin development of offensive space capabilities, including systems designed to defend Israeli satellites from hostile spacecraft, and weapons (including lasers) capable of striking targets from space. It is part of the Defense...
Chinese Hackers Broke Into NASA, Federal Reserve, DOJ & Senate: FBI Announces
26.08.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Hackers Broke Into NASA, Federal Reserve, DOJ & Senate: FBI Announces The United States Department of Justice has on Wednesday announced US authorities thwarted a major state-sponsored hack which saw a temporary intrusion into NASA, the Federal Reserve, Senate, the DOJ, Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human services, along...
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...
US Universities Had Extensive Ties With Chinese Defense Research Labs, Air Force Study Finds
26.08.2026, 21:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Universities Had Extensive Ties With Chinese Defense Research Labs, Air Force Study Finds Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Thirty U.S. academic institutions have until Aug. 31 to examine specified foreign research ties or risk losing eligibility for future federal research funding. A model of a Chinese-made J-35A stealth fighter is displayed...
Zahlreiche Lehrkräfte an renommierten US-Universitäten stehen in Verbindung mit der „National Endowment for Democracy“, einer auf Propaganda spezialisierten Tarnorganisation der CIA
26.08.2026, 21:43 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - By adopting terms like “misinformation” and “Putin lover,” NED-affiliated professors willfully demean people with dissenting viewpoints, while at the same time functioning as gatekeepers who define “respectable” academic discourse.Durch die Verwendung von Begriffen wie „Fehlinformationen“ und „Putin-Anhänger“ setzen die mit der...
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 Reason For The Tech Backlash
26.08.2026, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Reason For The Tech Backlash Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, The backlash against data centers has shocked political and financial elites. It's because it seems to stretch across the left-right divide. Indeed, it seems like the one thing most Americans can agree on: these centers need to be curbed and controlled. Part of this...
Wheat Futs Surge To Three-Year High As JPMorgan, HSBC Warn Global Food Shock Is Brewing
26.08.2026, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wheat Futs Surge To Three-Year High As JPMorgan, HSBC Warn Global Food Shock Is Brewing Wheat futures surged to a three-year high on Wednesday morning as traders repriced a nasty convergence of supply risks across the global agricultural supply chain. Ongoing drone and missile attacks on critical Black Sea shipping and port infrastructure are constraining...
Trump Admin Defends Kennedy Center Name Plan, Warns Of Demolition Risk
26.08.2026, 20:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Admin Defends Kennedy Center Name Plan, Warns Of Demolition Risk Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration told a federal judge that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington could face demolition without major renovations. Lawyers for the Justice Department made the case in a late Monday filing...
Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink
26.08.2026, 19:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink While yesterday's 2 Year auction was absolutely blockbuster, today's sale of 5Y paper left quite a bit to be desired. Starting at the top, today's sale of $70BN in 2Y paper priced at a high yield of 4.393%, which was modestly below last month's 4...
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...
Trump Sends Saudi Nuclear Accord To Congress, With Israel Normalization Still Attached
26.08.2026, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Sends Saudi Nuclear Accord To Congress, With Israel Normalization Still Attached It's official - a proposed agreement with Saudi Arabia on civil nuclear energy has been submitted by the White House to Congress. The landmark nuclear accord would mean that uranium enrichment would eventually take place on Saudi territory. However, President...
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...
Democratic Party Panics As Top Lieutenants Move In Lockstep To Denounce Hasan Piker
26.08.2026, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democratic Party Panics As Top Lieutenants Move In Lockstep To Denounce Hasan Piker The higher-ups in the Democratic Party establishment are clearly terrified of Hasan Piker, one of the most influential media surrogates for the Democratic Socialists of America - whose members want to "dismantle the empire from within." Piker specifically instructed...
SoftBank Credit Risk Rises As Firm Mulls $20 Billion Bond Sale For OpenAI Stake
26.08.2026, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SoftBank Credit Risk Rises As Firm Mulls $20 Billion Bond Sale For OpenAI Stake SoftBank Group's 8.5% notes due 2036 fell as much as 2.5 cents to about 98 cents on the dollar after Bloomberg reported that Masayoshi Son's conglomerate is considering a $10 billion to $20 billion bond offering, prompting traders to price in additional leverage and supply...
Trump Admin Pauses All Visa Appointments Worldwide
26.08.2026, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Admin Pauses All Visa Appointments Worldwide Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has paused visa appointments for applicants worldwide as the State Department launches a global training initiative at all U.S. embassies and consulates, according to a department spokesperson. Appointments for visa services will...
WTI Rises After Big Product Draws, Tiny Crude Build, SPR Nears 'Tank Bottoms'
26.08.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rises After Big Product Draws, Tiny Crude Build, SPR Nears 'Tank Bottoms' Oil prices extended their declines for a third straight day after the US plan to ramp up economic pressure on Iran spared the country’s trading partners from harsher measures for now, while mediators said they were continuing efforts to end the conflict. “There was a lot...
Terrifying Video Captures 'Day After Tomorrow'-Like Flood Swallowing Entire China-Nepal Border Checkpoint
26.08.2026, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Terrifying Video Captures 'Day After Tomorrow'-Like Flood Swallowing Entire China-Nepal Border Checkpoint At least 31 people were confirmed dead, and hundreds of tourists and travelers remained missing after a catastrophic flash flood tore through Nepal's border region with Tibet. This image helps explain what happened along the Nepal–Tibet border...
"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…...
Q2 GDP Grew At Modest 1.5% According To Latest Revision, As Expected
26.08.2026, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Q2 GDP Grew At Modest 1.5% According To Latest Revision, As Expected While far less relevant than the rest of today's data barrage, including the core PCE report and Durable Goods data which showed a mixed real-time picture of the economy as core prices rose more than expected while core CapEx missed expectations, the BEA also reported its second revision...
Meta Settles With US States For $16.7 Billion Over Social Media Harms To Children
26.08.2026, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Settles With US States For $16.7 Billion Over Social Media Harms To Children Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement to resolve a landmark claim brought by several states that the company designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, improperly collected children's personal data, and misled consumers about their safety. The...
Oil Extends Decline As Rubio Rules Out New Strikes, Iran-Oman Transit Deal Nears Finalization
26.08.2026, 15:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Extends Decline As Rubio Rules Out New Strikes, Iran-Oman Transit Deal Nears Finalization An IRGC spokesman has announced Wednesday that Iran and Oman have reached agreements on their share of the Strait of Hormuz and its revenues, according toTasnim news agency. So essentially the "fee" scheme has been set. "We entered into negotiations with Oman...
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%,...
Colombia's New President Orders Immigration Raids, Vows To Deport Illegal Immigrants
26.08.2026, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Colombia's New President Orders Immigration Raids, Vows To Deport Illegal Immigrants Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Colombia's new president has ordered immigration raids this week and promised deportations of immigrants without legal status. Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella speaks during a press conference at the Palacio...
US-Canada Trade War Threatens Electricity Imports, Prices
26.08.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US-Canada Trade War Threatens Electricity Imports, Prices By Robert Walton of UtilityDive An escalating trade war between the United States and Canada is once again threatening to ensnare the electric power sector at a time when consumers are already stretched thin. Canada is expected to announce retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods Tuesday after President...
Oil Dumps As Iran, Oman Push To Reopen Hormuz; Satellite Image Shows Gulf Producers Ramping Up
26.08.2026, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Dumps As Iran, Oman Push To Reopen Hormuz; Satellite Image Shows Gulf Producers Ramping Up Brent crude futures dropped for a third session as Iran and Oman advanced plans for a temporary maritime corridor through the Strait of Hormuz. Brent tumbled to $85 a barrel early Wednesday, down more than 9% for the week, while West Texas Intermediate traded...
Zelensky Continues To Oppose Wartime Democracy Amidst Escalated Election Demands
26.08.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Continues To Oppose Wartime Democracy Amidst Escalated Election Demands Authored by John Weeks via Antiwar.com, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing mounting pressure to hold elections. The Ukrainian leader was elected to a five-year term in 2019, which expired in May 2024. Last week, Ukraine's former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov...
Why Data Centers Favor On-Site Gas Power
26.08.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Data Centers Favor On-Site Gas Power Most data center developers opting for on-site gas power say that they see it as a “bridge” solution until a grid connection is secured. Yet economics may favor keeping those assets running even after grid power becomes available. A recent BloombergNEF analysis shows the marginal cost of operating an on-site...
When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls
26.08.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Paris Went Hungry Under Government Food Controls Authored by Daniel J. Smith via The Daily Economy, How does Paris get fed? Frédéric Bastiat famously explained in Economic Sophisms (1845) how market exchange reliably provisioned the (then) million people of Paris with agricultural produce from the countryside that they were able to enjoy "peaceful...
ICE Begins Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Dangerous African Countries
26.08.2026, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ICE Begins Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Dangerous African Countries Imagine entering the US illegally and enjoying the fruits of the American economy for years, only to wake up one day in the darkest of Africa in a country known for cannibalism? The strategy might be ugly, but it might also be ingenious. Last year, illegal Cuban immigrant Yasmany...
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...
Normal Brits Are Unwittingly Funding Pro-Illegal Migrant Charities
26.08.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Normal Brits Are Unwittingly Funding Pro-Illegal Migrant Charities Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Every week millions of ordinary Brits buy a National Lottery ticket hoping for a life-changing win. What most never realise is that a chunk of that money has been systematically channelled into pro-migrant activist charities that push open...
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...
Scandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract Suspension
26.08.2026, 03:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scandal-Plagued KPMG To Cut Australian Workforce Following Government Contract Suspension A major consultancy firm under fire for misconduct in its audit business is cutting its local workforce following a suspension from applying for new government contracts. KPMG’s U.S. headquarters at Two Manhattan West. Photo via Emily Louick Photography and Entropy...
Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention
26.08.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention Authored by Frank Shostak via Mises Institute, It is common for commentators and economists to refer to something called the "economy," which sometimes performs well and, at other times, poorly. The "economy" is presented as an entity apart from individuals. Within this framework, the "economy"...
"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...