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Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
30.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build
30.04.2024, 22:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Unexpected Crude Build WTI ended April on a down-note (closing lower on the month, as opposed to Brent which saw its fourth straight monthly gain) as hopes for cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas dampened fears of a wider conflict that could threaten crude supplies. The recent declines come as a "relief to...
'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed
25.04.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed Weaker than expected growth and hotter than expected prices... the perfect example of a central banker's nemesis: Stagflation... and the market is very unhappy about it. Rate-cut expectations have dropped back near cycle lows (for 2024 and 2025)... Source: Bloomberg Treasury yields...
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates
23.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink's efforts to push 'wokesim' or environmental, social, and governance policies across corporate America have been in reverse in recent years amid the backlash from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and 19 state attorneys general...
Here Comes The Cavalry?
22.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here Comes The Cavalry? By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank Here Comes The Cavalry? The risk of imminent hot war between Israel and Iran seems to have dissipated for the time being. Israel on Friday delivered its promised response to the Iranian strike of the weekend before by hitting targets in Syria and the Iranian city of Isfahan. Reporting of the strikes...
Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon
18.04.2024, 06:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very...
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...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future
31.03.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fire, Then Ice: Our Deflationary Future Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTWoMinds blog, Lest you weep for those whose phantom wealth will be drained away, recall that few win when a reserve currency dies. Labor can start earning the day after the reset, but the capital lost is gone for good. Outside the "everything's always fine" echo-chamber, the...
From Enlightenment To Ignorance: Society's Dangerous Embrace Of Stupidity
31.03.2024, 15:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Enlightenment To Ignorance: Society's Dangerous Embrace Of Stupidity Authored by Anthony Esolen via American Greatness, What would be the state of a society in which a will to stupidity were united with a will to power? When I first decided to study and teach literature as my life’s vocation, I foresaw the work ahead of me—to learn as much...
Sick Of It All
29.03.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sick Of It All Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Every week, usually once or twice, I sit down to put onto paper my thoughts about the market. And every week, my disgust not only for the rigged system that encompasses our equity markets, but also for the sound of my own whining, grows exponentially. When I sit down to perfunctorily prattle on about...
America's Minsky Moment Approaches
29.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Minsky Moment Approaches Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Named after American economist Hyman Minsky, the idea behind a Minsky moment is that a financial markets crisis (especially in credit markets) is caused by a sudden and systemic collapse in asset prices, usually after a sustained period of speculative investment, excessive...
Home-Flipping Plummets As Profits Slump
27.03.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Home-Flipping Plummets As Profits Slump By Michael Tucker of the Mortgage Bankers Association Home flipping fell nearly 30% in 2023 compared to the year before, according to ATTOM. The ATTOM year-end 2023 U.S. Home Flipping Report said 308,922 single-family homes and condos in the United States were flipped last year, down 29.3% from 436,807 in 2022...
Swissy Tumbles After SNB Surprises With Rate-Cut
21.03.2024, 12:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swissy Tumbles After SNB Surprises With Rate-Cut The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced a surprise cut to interest rates on Thursday in a sign of policymakers’ confidence over falling inflation. The SNB cut its key interest rate by 25bps to 1.50%, acting months before global peers may follow suit as policymakers try to prevent gains in the franc...
Junk Bond Default Surge Continues In 2024
19.03.2024, 17:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Junk Bond Default Surge Continues In 2024 Via SchiffGold.com, Consumers aren’t the only ones defaulting on their debts: Corporate bond defaults were up massively in 2023, especially for high-risk junk debt, and the trend is continuing this year at a pace not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. Unsurprisingly, companies selling low-rated...
Angry Citizens Are Losing Patience With Monetary Frameworks That Enrich Those Closest To The Money Printer
30.11.2023, 17:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Angry Citizens Are Losing Patience With Monetary Frameworks That Enrich Those Closest To The Money Printer By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank Gift Wrapped Today is the big day. I’m not talking about the release of the US PCE deflator or the OPEC+ meeting (though both are on the calendar and will be a big deal), but the annual event...
NY Prosecutor Scrambles To Salvage Anti-Trump Case, Argues Deutsche Bank Being Happy Is 'Irrelevant'
29.11.2023, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NY Prosecutor Scrambles To Salvage Anti-Trump Case, Argues Deutsche Bank Being Happy Is 'Irrelevant' Donald Trump, NY Attorney General Letitia James (D) Yesterday we noted that Deutsche Bank executive David Williams may have nuked New York's case against former President Donald Trump - testifying on Tuesday that the bank has no problem with clients...
Downbeat Beige Book Finds Economic Activity "Slowing", Brings Fed One Step Closer To Rate Cuts
29.11.2023, 20:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Downbeat Beige Book Finds Economic Activity "Slowing", Brings Fed One Step Closer To Rate Cuts One month after the October Beige book found "little change" in the US economy even as the outlook turned decidedly gloomier, moments ago the Fed released the latest, November, Beige Book in which we find just why the outlook darkened: according to the Fed...
Waller Whacks The Dollar: Dovish Fed-Hawk Sparks Bid For Bullion, Bonds, & Bitcoin
28.11.2023, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Waller Whacks The Dollar: Dovish Fed-Hawk Sparks Bid For Bullion, Bonds, & Bitcoin Another day, another set of weaker data with Case-Shiller home-prices rising at their slowest rate since March, ugly downward revisions in the Conference Board consumer confidence data (and labor market weakness), and Richmond Fed Manufacturing and Dallas Fed Services...
Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over
28.11.2023, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over US equity futures and European stocks both fell for a second day amid signs the November rally in equities is overstretched with even such bullish Goldman luminaries (and flow gurus) as Scott Rubner calling an end to the meltup this week. As of 8:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are...
New Home Sales Hammered In October As Homebuilders Hit The Wall, Prices Plunge
27.11.2023, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Home Sales Hammered In October As Homebuilders Hit The Wall, Prices Plunge With existing home sales collapsing to their lowest SAAR since 2010, new home sales are the only pillar left holding up any hope in the US housing market. However, with housing affordability at its lowest since at least the early 1980s, (and homebuilder sentiment slumping...
Thoughts On The Big Bad Binance Settlement
22.11.2023, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thoughts On The Big Bad Binance Settlement Authored by Omid Malekan, First, I think companies that don’t like certain laws should still comply with them while campaigning for change. That said, one interpretation of the government’s suit and the resulting mammoth settlement is that by refusing to implement compliance schemes like AML & CFT, Binance...
Lobbyists Steamrolling Biden Effort To Nix Billions In 'Junk Fees'
21.11.2023, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lobbyists Steamrolling Biden Effort To Nix Billions In 'Junk Fees' Last fall, the Biden administration - scant on accomplishments, embarked on a campaign to pressure airlines to ditch billions in so-called "junk fees" charged to travelers who want to check bags or change flights. "You should know the full cost of your ticket right when you’re comparison...
Futures, Treasuries Rise Amid Rising Rate Cut Bets As Oil Bear Market Signals Recession
17.11.2023, 14:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Treasuries Rise Amid Rising Rate Cut Bets As Oil Bear Market Signals Recession US equity futures rose and bond yields fell as the historic squeeze that started more than two weeks ago among the systematic and hedge fund communities is still going on after this week’s soft inflation and jobs data fueled conviction that aggressive tightening...
Exposing Our Fed-Driven Bubble Economy
16.11.2023, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exposing Our Fed-Driven Bubble Economy Authored by David Gordon via the Mises Institute, David Stockman served for a short while as budget director during Ronald Reagan’s first term as president, but he soon resigned owing to Reagan’s refusal to cut government spending. He has since that time worked as a private investment adviser, at which difficult...
Wall Street Bonuses Set For Another Year Of Declines
15.11.2023, 00:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Bonuses Set For Another Year Of Declines Wall Street bonuses are set for another disappointing year, affected by elevated inflation, high-interest rates, failures of regional banks, and a downturn in dealmaking and new stock listings. A new survey released by New York-based pay consultancy Johnson Associates found investment bankers (on...
Quinn: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Blood
13.11.2023, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Quinn: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Blood Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” – General...
How Central Banks Can Use Gold Revaluation Accounts in Times of Financial Stress
13.11.2023, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Central Banks Can Use Gold Revaluation Accounts in Times of Financial Stress By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Because central banks are the root of the modern money tree, they can use entries in their gold revaluation accounts to turn into capital, pay for expenses, or transfer it to their respective Treasuries. In addition, gold revaluation...
It Really Doesn't Matter Who Created Bitcoin, Or Why...
12.11.2023, 00:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It Really Doesn't Matter Who Created Bitcoin, Or Why... Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Even if it was the NSA, the CCP, or the WEF... Rumours have abounded that Bitcoin was created by the NSA (or the CIA, or the CCP or WEFsters) going back at least as far as 2010, or so. They resurfaced over the past week when Dr Mercola interviewed...
Is A Cyber 9/11 Coming?
11.11.2023, 04:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is A Cyber 9/11 Coming? Authored by Marie Hawthorne via The Organic Prepper blog, Talk of a “Cyber 9/11” has been circulating for years. With the next presidential election twelve months away now, some folks are predicting that a major cyber event will happen before then, throwing a monkey wrench into the 2024 election process. What the heck is...
Has The US Lost Its First-World Status?
10.11.2023, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Has The US Lost Its First-World Status? Authored by Daniel Nuccio via The Brownstone Institute, Everything is dirty. Nothing works. But everything’s also more expensive. And oh, by the way, you don’t have privacy anymore... That is how I described life in the US to a friend who had been living abroad for a bit more than a decade when we met up earlier...
Traders Make Same Bet That's Burned Them Before
10.11.2023, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Traders Make Same Bet That's Burned Them Before By Tatiana Darie, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist US stocks are at risk of a reckoning — that might already be underway — as Wall Street traders jump the gun to bet that the Federal Reserve will reverse course on its fastest rate hiking cycle on record. It’s a wager that’s burned...
S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004
09.11.2023, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004 S&P 500 futures edged higher on Thursday after notching an eight-day streak of gains, and setting up the benchmark index for its longest winning streak since 2004, as investors monitored bond yields, corporate earnings and the price of oil. Treasuries fell and the dollar rose ahead of more...
After A "Magnificent Seven" Can Stocks Make It An "Exceptional Eight"
08.11.2023, 17:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After A "Magnificent Seven" Can Stocks Make It An "Exceptional Eight" By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank US equities rose again yesterday to mark the seventh-straight session of gains. Stocks shook off an early dip and another soft lead out of Europe where only the German DAX closed higher by 0.11%. Crude oil sold off sharply and...
Peter Schiff: The Fed Won't Achieve Either Of Its Mandates
08.11.2023, 16:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: The Fed Won't Achieve Either Of Its Mandates Via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve operates under a dual mandate from Congress - to achieve maximum employment and stable prices. In a recent podcast, Peter Schiff explained why the Fed won’t achieve either. The FOMC held its November meeting last week. As expected, the Fed left interest...
Futures Flat Ahead Of Closely Watched Powell Speech
08.11.2023, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat Ahead Of Closely Watched Powell Speech US equity futures are flat following a torrid 7-day rally, the longest since 2021, and global markets faltered as central bank officials in Europe pushed back against the prospect of speedy interest rate cuts, while investors were looking ahead to comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell later in the...
Markets Are Pricing For Utopia Of Low Rates, Rising Stocks, Low Inflation, No Recession And No War
07.11.2023, 15:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Pricing For Utopia Of Low Rates, Rising Stocks, Low Inflation, No Recession And No War By Benjamin Picton, Senior macro strategist at Rabobank Utopia or Eutopia? US equities overcame a gloomy lead from Europe to close higher yesterday. That makes for 6 straight trading days of gains after major US indices rose every day of last week. Asian...
'Greenies' Are All About The Green
05.11.2023, 16:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Greenies' Are All About The Green Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, There’s a lot going on in the world right now that bears close monitoring. But we can’t forget about the elites’ war on our freedoms... You’ve no doubt heard about the “Green New Deal” - a set of government proposals designed to fight the “climate change...
Macleod: The Future Of Fiat
04.11.2023, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macleod: The Future Of Fiat Authored by Alasdair Macleod, The day of reckoning for unproductive credit is in sight. With G7 national finances spiraling out of control, debt traps are being sprung on all of them, with the sole exception of Germany. Malinvestments of the last fifty years are being exposed by the rise in interest rates, increases which...
Visualizing The Investments Of The Ultra-Wealthy
03.11.2023, 09:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Investments Of The Ultra-Wealthy How do the world’s richest people invest their money? Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld created the graphic below to show how ultra high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) - people with a net worth of $30 million or more including their primary residence - allocate their wealth based on data from Knight...
Shocktober: Here Are The Best And Worst Performing Assets In October And 2023
01.11.2023, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocktober: Here Are The Best And Worst Performing Assets In October And 2023 After the September to forget, October was another weak month for markets, with several factors driving losses across different asset classes. In particular, as DB's Henry Allen notes, the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7 led to significant concerns about geopolitical...
The Time To Audit The Fed Is Here
01.11.2023, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Time To Audit The Fed Is Here Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This week, Sen. Rand Paul is pushing an amendment to a major spending bill that would finally do what should have been done decades ago. It should have been an annual undertaking for the past 100 years. He wants a thorough and external audit of the Fed, using prevailing...
Industrial CMBS Delinquency Soars As 'Deep Freeze' Hits CRE Market
31.10.2023, 20:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Industrial CMBS Delinquency Soars As 'Deep Freeze' Hits CRE Market Commercial real estate building owners face significant headwinds as they try to refinance maturing loans in an environment of high rates and tightening credit conditions. New data reveals more rumblings in the commercial-backed securities (CMBS) market, as well as a 'deep freeze' spreading...
In The War On Truth, It Is Time To Become Heroes
30.10.2023, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In The War On Truth, It Is Time To Become Heroes Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” – George Orwell “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism...
The Specter Of Hyperinflation Looms Over The Economy
29.10.2023, 20:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Specter Of Hyperinflation Looms Over The Economy Authored by Michael Matulef via The Mises Institute, The threat of hyperinflation has haunted fiat money economies throughout history. Although past empires crumbled under the weight of unrestrained money printing, modern bankers at the Federal Reserve assure us that today’s financial system is...
March 9, 2022... Will Live In Infamy
29.10.2023, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - March 9, 2022... Will Live In Infamy Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Where were you on March 9, 2022, when President Biden signed the death warrant on American freedom? On that day, in a hushed ceremony at the White House without the approval of Congress, the states or the American people, Biden signed into law Executive Order 14067...