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GOP Rep Slams Biden, Praises Trump, In Fiery Speech At Israel's Knesset
21.05.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GOP Rep Slams Biden, Praises Trump, In Fiery Speech At Israel's Knesset Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) delivered a speech at the Israeli Knesset on Sunday where she slammed President Biden and called for unconditional military support for Israel to support the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Stefanik and other...
Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could "Haunt" The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim
21.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trade Protectionism In Renewables Could "Haunt" The Industry, Chinese Solar Execs Claim Solar executives in China are railing the U.S. and Europe over trade protectionism, claiming that the West should instead “let the best technology win” in their respective markets. The Financial Times conducted an interview with Zhou Shijun, who leads global...
Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees
21.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees Via SchiffGold.com, The percentage of U.S. adults holding an advanced degree increased by over 3% from 2011-2021. This increase in education is assumed to have a crucial role in America’s increasing economic strength over that time period. The expertise gained from such degrees is...
Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept
21.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lockheed Running Out Of Parking Space For F-35s Pentagon Refuses To Accept Another day, another indication of what a spectacular, snakebit clusterf**k the F-35 program is. The latest blotter entry comes to us from the US Government Accounting Office (GAO), via a new report pointedly titled "F-25 Joint Strike Fighter: Program Continues to Encounter...
Comply Or Else - Proof Of Censorship
21.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Comply Or Else - Proof Of Censorship Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, It’s not been good lately for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies, intelligence...
FDIC Chairman To Resign After Sexual Harassment Scandal
21.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDIC Chairman To Resign After Sexual Harassment Scandal In the first - but certainly not last - major shake up at a key US financial regulator under the Biden admin, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg bowed to pressure to resign from the bank regulator after an external investigation found widespread sexual harassment at the agency...
Maybe We're Closer To "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize
20.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maybe We're Closer To "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to "you'll appear to own things you don't actually control and be happy." The World Economic Forum's catchphrase you'll own nothing and be happy was widely mocked as an eyebrow-raising vision of a "sharing...
Map Shows Latest Cartel Activity In Mexico As Drug Lords Should Fear A Potential Trump Victory
20.05.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Map Shows Latest Cartel Activity In Mexico As Drug Lords Should Fear A Potential Trump Victory Every six months, the US drug death catastrophe eclipses the Vietnam War. The vast majority of deaths are derived from fentanyl-laced narcotics, which come from Mexico (and chemicals sourced initially from China), via open southern borders pushed by radical...
Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis
20.05.2024, 23:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Second Amendment is vital for enabling Americans to protect themselves from the wave of criminals, drugs, and the mentally ill that are flooding across the U.S. southern border, former President Donald Trump told...
Saudi Crown Prince Abruptly Cancels Japan Trip As 'Health Concerns' Surround King Salman
20.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Crown Prince Abruptly Cancels Japan Trip As 'Health Concerns' Surround King Salman On the very same week that a head of a major Middle East nation perished in a helicopter crash, there's developing news that King Salman of Saudi Arabia is suffering a life-threatening illness. The 88-year-old monarch has already long been in fragile condition...
Welcome To 'Fugazy Land'
20.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To 'Fugazy Land' Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “The crisis of meaning only becomes a problem when society becomes resigned to it, accepts a condition of meaninglessness, and seeks to dispossess humanity from the insights and truths it learned through the ages.” - Frank Furedi Really, you must agree: just about anything...
Cryptos Soar On Ether ETF Hope As Downbeat Dimon Sends Gold To Record-er Highs
20.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cryptos Soar On Ether ETF Hope As Downbeat Dimon Sends Gold To Record-er Highs A quite macro and micro day saw stocks start off strongly but fade after JPM CEO Jamie Dimon offered his now ubiquitous downbeat view of the foreseeable future. "I'm cautiously pessimistic. We have the most complicated geopolitical situation that most of us have seen since...
New US LNG Export Projects Risk Delays Due To Stricter Pollution Rules
20.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New US LNG Export Projects Risk Delays Due To Stricter Pollution Rules By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com New U.S. LNG projects risk delays amid the Biden Administration’s push for lower emissions and the ongoing reviews about the environmental impact of the planned export facilities. After President Joe Biden halted new LNG project approvals in...
Jamie Dimon Is "Cautiously Pessimistic" As QT Uncertainty Supercharged By World War Threats
20.05.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jamie Dimon Is "Cautiously Pessimistic" As QT Uncertainty Supercharged By World War Threats On Monday morning, investors flocked to JPMorgan's Manhattan campus to hear CEO Jamie Dimon rant about several critical topics. From regulation crushing the US economy to geopolitics, inflation, potential market swoons, and monetary policy, Dimon covered...
Venezuela Bans Crypto-Mining To Protect Power-Grid
20.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Venezuela Bans Crypto-Mining To Protect Power-Grid Authored by Amaka Nwaokocha via CoinTelegraph.com, The Venezuelan government has joined the list of countries that have frowned on crypto mining due to its hefty electricity demands. According to a local news outlet, Venezuela’s Ministry of Electric Power has unveiled plans to disconnect cryptocurrency...
Wall Street "Still Learning Role Of Uranium In Energy Transition, Suggest Upside In Space"
20.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street "Still Learning Role Of Uranium In Energy Transition, Suggest Upside In Space" The environment for uranium and nuclear power has never been better as the atomic energy sector's revival is being shifted into high gear for this very reason: A ChatGPT search requires 10x as much power as a traditional Google search pic.twitter.com/khdSbvxsOH...
Kansas City Star Publishes Article Demanding Chiefs Replace Butker With A Woman
20.05.2024, 20:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kansas City Star Publishes Article Demanding Chiefs Replace Butker With A Woman Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The Kansas City Star published an article asserting that the Chiefs should replace Harrison Butker with a woman as payback for his “Neanderthal outburst.” Butker enraged shitlibs by giving a commencement speech at Benedictine...
Bally's Atlantic City Refuses To Pay 72 Year Old $2 Million Jackpot Due To "Technical Glitch"
20.05.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bally's Atlantic City Refuses To Pay 72 Year Old $2 Million Jackpot Due To "Technical Glitch" The house always wins... A 72 year old woman who hoped to take her winnings to 'buy a trailer' for her son is being told by Bally's in Atlantic City that the $2 million jackpot she claims she won was invalid and the result of a 'technical glitch'. As a result...
How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi's Helicopter
20.05.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Iran Used An Advanced Turkish Drone To Find Raisi's Helicopter Via Middle East Eye A Turkish high-altitude, long-endurance drone played a central role in finding the wreckage of the helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation on Sunday night. Iranian search and rescue officials reported late on Sunday evening...
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows
20.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows Michael Sonnenshein has stepped down from his role as the CEO of Grayscale Investments, the WSJ reported. “I would like to thank Barry Silbert for his vision and partnership and for entrusting me to lead Grayscale’s business. The crypto asset class is at an important inflection...
Spot Ether ETFs Will Come Down To A 5-Person Vote This Week: Gensler The Decider?
20.05.2024, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spot Ether ETFs Will Come Down To A 5-Person Vote This Week: Gensler The Decider? Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, The fate of spot Ether exchange-traded funds could be decided this week by a single vote from Gary Gensler, the chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission — if history is any indication. In January...
Goldman's Commentary On Consumer Health Is An Ominous One
20.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman's Commentary On Consumer Health Is An Ominous One As we wrap up the first quarter earnings season and approach the midpoint of the year, a major theme emerging out of corporate America and Goldman analysts is the deteriorating financial health of low-income consumers. A team of Goldman analysts led by Kate McShane, CFA, published the...
Rate Hawk Down
20.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rate Hawk Down By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at Rabobank Bonds sold off on Friday and the NASDAQ closed a smidgen lower. Both the S&P500 and the Dow Jones managed minor gains, with the Dow’s outperformance again suggesting that equities continue to trade on sensitivity to discount rates. Two-year yields rose 3bps on Friday while 10-year...
"You Stole From The Trump Organization, Correct?": Michael Cohen Hands Trump Prosecution Another Terrible Day
20.05.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "You Stole From The Trump Organization, Correct?": Michael Cohen Hands Trump Prosecution Another Terrible Day Prosecutors in Donald Trump's New York 'hush money' trial may have colluded with the Biden administration, but apparently none of the galaxy brains involved in the case thought far enough to consider that their star witness, Michael Cohen, might...
Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver
20.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver Via Money Metals, (Birmingham, Alabama - May 14, 2024) – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey last week signed a bill that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the state to take an important step forward in reinforcing sound money principles. With...
Zelensky Rejects Macron's Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia
20.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Rejects Macron's Proposal For An Olympic Truce With Russia Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of a truce with Russia during the upcoming Paris Olympics, which will be held from July 26 to August 11. French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a truce in a recent call...
Assange Wins High Court Victory In Temporary Reprieve From Extradition To US
20.05.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Assange Wins High Court Victory In Temporary Reprieve From Extradition To US The High Court in London ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US. Given it was essentially his 'last chance' to mount a final challenge before he could have been handed over the US custody and on a plane to American soil, Monday...
Watch: Biden Thinks He Was VP During The Pandemic
20.05.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Biden Thinks He Was VP During The Pandemic Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Joe Biden seems to believe that he was the vice president of the United States during the COVID pandemic in 2020. Yes, really. During a speech at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Michigan Sunday, Biden declared “When I was vice president, things...
Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi's Helicopter "Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated"
20.05.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Announces Interim President After Raisi's Helicopter "Hit A Mountain & Disintegrated" Following Tehran's early Monday confirmation of the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials after their helicopter went down over mountainous terrain near the border with Azerbaijan...
Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror
20.05.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and startegist The outlook for the economy and corporate profits may be improving, but that’s not enough to make strategists significantly more bullish for the rest of the year. That’s the takeaway from our monthly survey, which show European stocks...
Apple Cuts iPhone 15 Prices In China By 20% As Demand Wanes
20.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Cuts iPhone 15 Prices In China By 20% As Demand Wanes Apple is offering steep iPhone discounts on several major e-commerce websites in mainland China to boost demand amid declining market share and waning interest as domestic brands make a strong comeback. The South China Morning Post reports that the top-of-the-line 256-gigabyte iPhone 15...
Fearing AI 'Take Over', 'Godfather Of AI' Advises UK Govt To Start UBI
20.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fearing AI 'Take Over', 'Godfather Of AI' Advises UK Govt To Start UBI Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, Geoffrey Hinton, a world-renowned artificial intelligence (AI) expert often referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” recently consulted with members of the United Kingdom’s government at Downing Street, where he advised lawmakers...
Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers
20.05.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers After last week's non-stop rollercoaster, it will be a quieter week ahead for global macro with perhaps the most interesting event of the week being Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday. The company always reports a couple of weeks after the main stretch of US earnings season...
Judge In Trump Case Says She's Concerned With Special Counsel Jack Smith
20.05.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge In Trump Case Says She's Concerned With Special Counsel Jack Smith Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The federal judge overseeing one of the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump on May 19 expressed concern and disappointment with special counsel Jack Smith. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of President...
ICC Unveils Arrest Warrants For Israeli Leaders In Historic First: 'Crimes Against Humanity'
20.05.2024, 14:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ICC Unveils Arrest Warrants For Israeli Leaders In Historic First: 'Crimes Against Humanity' The International Criminal Court (ICC) has pulled the trigger on issuing its controversial arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after months of speculation it may not go through with it amid a Washington pressure campaign. Its chief...
Graduates At All-Black Morehouse College Turn Back On Biden During Commencement Speech, Refuse To Applaud
20.05.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Graduates At All-Black Morehouse College Turn Back On Biden During Commencement Speech, Refuse To Applaud Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Hoot of the day: The Democratic Republic of the Congo flag was behind Biden for the duration of his speech. The Wall Street Journal reports Biden Renews Call for Gaza Cease-Fire at Morehouse Commencement...
Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash
20.05.2024, 13:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Commodities Soar After Iran's President Dies In Helicopter Crash Futures are higher across the board as investors shift their focus from macro to micro, following a rollercoaster week that saw stocks slide then reverse higher after a soggy CPI and retail sales print, to close at an all time high and the Dow above 40,000. AI is in focus...
Schiff Vs. Hanke: Who's To Blame For Inflation?
20.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Schiff Vs. Hanke: Who's To Blame For Inflation? Via Schiff Gold, Last week, Peter debated Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, on inflation, the debt crisis, and the future of the dollar. David Lin hosted the debate on The David Lin Report and provided moderation for the event. While Peter and Hanke have their disagreements...
Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub
20.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Analyzing The Strategic Importance Of Russia's Reportedly Planned Afghan Oil Hub Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Continued maritime exports to the Indian Ocean Region across the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean Seas might be deemed strategically undependable due to tensions with the West, hence the need to pioneer a more reliable alternative...
Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit "History-Making Mode"
20.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Copper Roars, Gold Soars To Record Highs As Metals Hit "History-Making Mode" While oil remains oddly muted amid yet another middle-eastern shock, the same can not be said for various precious metals and commodities which are soaring to start the week, and which according to Bloomberg's Jake Lloyd-Smith, will make for a lively session in Europe and the...
The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen?
20.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where's The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s...
'Poster Boy' Migrant Imprisoned After Beating And Raping His Own Mother
20.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Poster Boy' Migrant Imprisoned After Beating And Raping His Own Mother Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, A Congolese man who was previously held up as an example of successful migrant integration has been jailed for only nine years in Germany for raping his own mother and beating her almost to death. The German outlet Nuis reports that 30-year-old...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Involved In A Helicopter Crash
20.05.2024, 09:16 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Reuters, as well as Iranian media, have confirmed that a senior official informed that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who was involved in a helicopter crash, has passed away. Update (01:17 ET): Iranian media has announced that Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the foreign minister, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday...
Where It's Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+
20.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where It's Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+ According to a survey of adults from 43 countries, around 7% of adults identify as LGBT+, Statista reports. Broken down by country, The United States, Philippines and Israel had the highest percentage - around 11% each. In close second were Thailand and Canada at around 10% of adults. Sweden Brazil and Australia...
WHO’s Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before in Human History
20.05.2024, 08:36 Uhr. Global Research - https: - This WHO power would be expanded as an International Law, or rather as a “rules-based order”, the new tyrannical term chosen by the elite, to circumvent literally any national and international laws. The post WHO’s Worldwide Power Grab: Beware of the New International Health Regulation and Pandemic Treaty, a Health Tyranny Never Heard of Before...
A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma's Connections To Terrorism
20.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma's Connections To Terrorism Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt about Hunter Biden’s Burisma corruption scandal with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani ahead of the 2020 elections, just gave a very...
Is America Losing?
20.05.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is America Losing? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing? The End of History and the Last Man In 1992, while I was still an undergrad with a seemingly endless...
Visualizing America's Average Retirement Savings, By Age
20.05.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing America's Average Retirement Savings, By Age Painting a concerning picture, the median retirement savings for Americans stands at a mere $87,000, a figure far lower than what is needed for a comfortable nest egg. This savings gap—the amount people have actually saved versus what they believe is needed for retirement—is significantly...
Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome
20.05.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome By Seth Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief Global Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley Japan in Rome Last month at our annual Fixed Income CIO conference, one of the liveliest sessions was on Japan’s reflation. The BoJ ending negative rates and normalizing...
Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports
20.05.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports This week, the U.S. introduced a new series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, amounting to over $18 billion worth of goods. In the announcement, President Biden said they are aiming to “counter China’s unfair trade practices” by targeting specific sectors where the U.S. is boosting...