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Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?
20.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and...
US Domestic Bank Deposits Drop For Second Straight Week
19.04.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Domestic Bank Deposits Drop For Second Straight Week On the heels of a major deposit outflow the week before, and a huge (record) money-market fund outflow last week, all eyes are back on the banks again on Friday evening to see if this 'flight' continues as Tax-Day drags cash away from its comfy-5%-earnings-spots. On a seasonally-adjusted basis...
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High
19.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High Well, that escalated quickly... In a week characterized by data supporting 'no landing' from a growth perspective and disappointment from a disinflation perspective... Source: Bloomberg This was reinforced by FedSpeak that was without exception - hawkish! As they suddenly realized...
IS THERE A CIA LINK TO THE CROCUS CITY CENTER TERRORIST ATTACK?
19.04.2024, 21:16 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Russia is investigating a potential CIA link to the Crocus City Center terrorist attack amidst revelations about Burisma and Cofer Black’s involvement with a Latvian bank. Real life often surpasses the drama of movies. In a recent development from Moscow, the State organization responsible for investigating significant crimes disclosed that the...
How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water
19.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As federal net-zero policies attempt to shift transportation, heating, and other essentials onto the electric grid, one of the hottest growth sectors of America’s economy is poised to increase electricity demand exponentially,...
BIZ-Bericht enthüllt das Finanzsystem der Zukunft: Digitale ID und CBDC-gestütztes “Finternet”.
19.04.2024, 14:55 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Nilekani und Carstens schlagen digitale ID, CBDC-gestütztes “Finternet” als “zukünftiges Finanzsystem” vor: BIZ-Bericht Das Internet wird zu einer digitalen öffentlichen Infrastruktur verschmelzen, in der die Anonymität abgeschafft wird, Geld programmierbar ist und die Bürger zur Einhaltung der Vorschriften gezwungen werden:...
Economic Warning From The NFIB
19.04.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Economic Warning From The NFIB Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) survey was an economic warning that departed widely from more robust governmental reports. In a recent analysis of small businesses, we discussed the importance those business owners play in the economy...
Hard Money Heat Check
19.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hard Money Heat Check Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There are few things I like more about NBA basketball than when a player gets so hot that it seems as though they can't miss a shot, no matter where they are shooting from. The legendary video game NBA Jam captured this beautifully, for those that remember. A “heat check” is when a hot player...
What Happened To Bitcoin?
19.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled...
Nigerias digitales Gefängnis ist gebaut und die Tore schließen sich
19.04.2024, 09:47 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Von Rhoda Wilson Anfang dieses Monats kündigte die National Identity Management Commission of Nigeria (“NIMC”) die Einführung eines neuen digitalen Personalausweises (“digital ID”) an. Diese digitale ID wird mit einem Bankkonto bei der nigerianischen Zentralbank verbunden sein, die bereits eine digitale Zentralbankwährung...
Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition
19.04.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition The Biden administration is keeping its dream of seeing Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization achieved (or rather, what is in fact originally Trump's dream set in motion via the Abraham Accords). But Biden is dangling something before Netanyahu that the Israeli...
World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts
19.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Recently the World Bank released a handbook for asset managers on why to invest in gold. At Gainesville Coins I have written numerous articles on gold revaluation accounts and how these can be deployed by central banks to absorb...
Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman'
18.04.2024, 22:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman' Total money-market fund assets plunged by $112BN in the last week as Tax-Day demands took the total assets below $6 Trillion for the first time sine January (to $5.97 Trillion)... Source: Bloomberg Corporate taxes collected from April 11 through April 17 totaled $100.7 billion, Treasury data...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated
18.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell yesterday for the first time this week. The 2-year was down 5.5bps to 4.93%, while Brent crude gave up 3% to be sitting well below the $90/bbl again. Crude is sending some interesting...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention
18.04.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention One week ago, when Japan's PM Kishida visited the White House and unwittingly sparked the latest Beltway fashion scandal, when Jeff Bezos' current wife appeared dressed as a middle-aged stripper to the dinner honoring the Japanese delegation, sparking online outrage among...
African Lending Needs a Better World Bank
18.04.2024, 16:59 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Bretton Woods institutions are due a revamp from their colonial roots....
"The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped"
18.04.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share his thoughts...
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
UN Security Council To Hold Contentious Vote On Palestinian Statehood
18.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Security Council To Hold Contentious Vote On Palestinian Statehood Friday will witness another Gaza-related showdown in a very divided United Nations Security Council, as council member Algeria has prepared a draft resolution for the body recognize a Palestinian state. It would require nine votes and no vetoes on the part of the US, Britain, France...
Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market
18.04.2024, 04:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market Tin prices on the London Metal Exchange have surged 27% this year, landing on the radars of some institutional desks. Other commodities closely monitored by hedge funds include cocoa, coffee, Brent crude, copper, and gold. Bloomberg notes that LME data for the tin market shows the...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...
Alleged Illegal Immigrant Who Couldn't Speak English Caught Trying To Rob Bank Using A Translator App
18.04.2024, 04:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alleged Illegal Immigrant Who Couldn't Speak English Caught Trying To Rob Bank Using A Translator App You'd figure if you're in the country illegally, you'd at least have the courtesy to learn the language before trying to hold up a bank... But basic human decency is dead these days, as was exemplified by a Venezuelan-born man named Yeixon Brito-Gonzalez...
"Central Bank Observers Take Note": HSBC Warns "Weak Bull" Commodity Run Has Begun
18.04.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Central Bank Observers Take Note": HSBC Warns "Weak Bull" Commodity Run Has Begun Commodity prices provide a real-time snapshot of the global economy through spot prices, which are essentially high-frequency data about the current supply and demand environment. These prices are key components in measuring inflation, which has shown signs of easing...
Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims
17.04.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims There was something odd about the latest Beige book (which was prepared based on information collected on or before April 8, 2024, so before the latest CPI print): if accurate, it would suggest that the rosy economic picture painted by the White House is woefully incorrect, whether...
Der Weg in den Totalitarismus
17.04.2024, 19:37 Uhr. Home - https: - Seit der Auflösung der DDR beobachten wir, wie Deutschland immer stärker autoritäre bzw. totalitäre Züge aufweist. Zuerst war das kaum zu merken, nun nimmt die Anzahl der Übergriffe durch den Staat exponentiell zu. Hier seien einige Beispiele genannt. Auch Artikel zu dem Thema finden sich in dieser natürlich nicht vollständigen Übersicht...
Gold's Resilience Shows A Currency Crisis Isn't Far Away
17.04.2024, 19:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold's Resilience Shows A Currency Crisis Isn't Far Away First it was Michael Hartnett, warning that the "Explosion In Gold Shows Investors Are Preparing For The Endgame", now it's Bloomberg's turn. According to BBG Markets Live reporter Mark Cranfield, the resilience of precious metals in the face of rising bond yields and a strong US dollar suggests...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs
17.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs US equity futures and European markets are higher, reversing several days of losses after positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies lifted the mood as markets were roiled by a more hawkish outlook for interest rates. Futures on the S&P 500 rose by 0.4% reversing three days...
Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell To Explain Why Cuts Are Still On Table Despite Soaring Inflation & Strong Growth
16.04.2024, 19:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell To Explain Why Cuts Are Still On Table Despite Soaring Inflation & Strong Growth Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak this afternoon and the big question is how many times will he said the word "patience", "confidence", and/or "we must get Biden re-elected." Powell has been less hawkish than many of his peers...
This Unhappy Global Dynamic Will Lead Markets And Market Analysis For Years To Come
16.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This Unhappy Global Dynamic Will Lead Markets And Market Analysis For Years To Come By Michael Every of Rabobank Non Ducor, Duco Who/what leads and who/what is led? That’s the question you should be asking yourself again today - even as most in markets think what they are paid to look at leads all rather than accept that life has (changeable) hierarchies...
Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal
16.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal S&P futures traded modestly in the green, erasing earlier losses and signaling a recovery after the S&P 500 fell more than 1% in the past two sessions, following stronger than expected earnings from index heavyweight UnitedHealth Group which soared 6% after reporting first-quarter...
Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge
16.04.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge With JPM, Citi and Wells already in the books, moments ago the last "big 4" money-center bank, Bank of America reported Q1 earnings which for the most part, were stronger than expected, however there were several troubling footnotes, including a sizable, $700MM FDIC special assessment...
Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues
16.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues Morgan Stanley shares are quickly recovering from last week's mauling (after WSJ reported regulatory probes of how the bank handles wealth management clients “who are at risk of laundering money"), this morning after reporting Q1 wealth management and equities trading revenue that beat expectations...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts
16.04.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can...
History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England
16.04.2024, 12:04 Uhr. Global Research - https: - Numerous U.S. conglomerates invested in Nazi Germany’s arms industry. "Both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production" (WP) The post History: Adolph Hitler was Financed by Wall Street, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England appeared first on Global Research....
Bank in Kanada weigert sich, Bargeld des Kunden herauszugeben
16.04.2024, 11:02 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - (via betterworld_24)...
Yuan Weakens After 'Unbalanced' Chinese Economy Sees GDP Beat In Q1 But Domestic Consumption, Production Disappoint
16.04.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yuan Weakens After 'Unbalanced' Chinese Economy Sees GDP Beat In Q1 But Domestic Consumption, Production Disappoint China’s economic growth beat expectations in Q1, rising +5.3% YoY - considerably stronger than the +4.8% consensus, and inching ahead of Q4's +5.2% YoY growth. Source: Bloomberg Notably, that this is the first time the market compares...
Deborah Birx Gets Her Close-Up
15.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Deborah Birx Gets Her Close-Up Authored by Bill Rice via The Brownstone Institute, Most Americans will remember Dr. Deborah Birx as the “scarf lady” who served on the White House’s Covid Response Team beginning in February 2020. According to a recently-released (but little-seen) 24-minute mini-documentary, it was Birx – even more so than Anthony...
Americans Pour Into Pawnshops, Selling Gold Jewelry As Price Surges
15.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Pour Into Pawnshops, Selling Gold Jewelry As Price Surges With gold trading at record highs, cash-strapped Americans are heading to pawnshops to sell their jewelry. “People are using gold as an ATM they never had,” King Gold & Pawn and Empire Gold Buyers owner Gene Furman tells Bloomberg. He says gold-selling traffic at his 5th Avenue...
Victor Davis Hanson: Gaming The 2024 Campaign
15.04.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Victor Davis Hanson: Gaming The 2024 Campaign Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys small leads in the majority of the fickle swing/purple...
It’s Time for the World Bank to Break With Tradition
15.04.2024, 20:43 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The bank must adopt a new model to alleviate extreme poverty....
It's Not Just The Middle East: Here Are The Main Events This Busy Week
15.04.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Just The Middle East: Here Are The Main Events This Busy Week While back on Friday the market's attention was mostly on the start of earnings season, this weekend's events have quickly shift focus and looking forward, the important question now is how Israel might respond to the (scripted) war between Iran and Israel, and whether it could lead...
Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking
15.04.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking With JPMorgan tumbling on Friday on a net interest income miss and disappointing guidance, suffering its worst earnings-day slump in decades, financials needed a solid report this morning and got it from the bank that once was the envy of all its Wall Street peers...
The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System
15.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the...
Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel
15.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel Following the emotional rollercoaster of this weekend geopolitical "straight to DVD" soap opera, in which Iran pretended to retaliate to Israel's embassy bombing with an attack that was meant to be a dud (and succeeded), which in...
CNN Is Wrong... Deflation Is A Good Thing
15.04.2024, 12:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CNN Is Wrong... Deflation Is A Good Thing Authored by Soham Patil via The Mises Institute, A recent video by CNN states that lower prices are bad for the United States economy and that consumers must get used to the newer, higher prices. The video goes so far as to say, “We’re never going to pay 2019 prices again.” The video claims that deflation...
'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open
14.04.2024, 19:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Retaliation Risk' - What Wall Street Thinks Ahead Of Market Open The first actual 'market' response we have seen to Iran's attack on Israel is in crypto, which saw - rather intriguingly - a huge puke as the drones/missiles flew, and then some comeback as the impact of the attack seemed marginal at worst (and for now retaliation remains muted)... Source:...