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Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas' Floating Border Wall
18.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Full Fifth Circuit Hears Arguments Over the Fate Of Texas' Floating Border Wall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The legal saga over the fate of a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande has entered a new phase. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last summer ordered the deployment of the string of giant orange buoys in the river near Eagle Pass....
US Banks Suffer $80BN Deposit Decline, Money Market Fund AUM Rise As Stocks Soar
17.05.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Banks Suffer $80BN Deposit Decline, Money Market Fund AUM Rise As Stocks Soar For the fourth straight week, money market funds saw inflows (+$16.4BN), pushing back towards record highs above the $6 trillion level - the highest level in a month - after the seasonal tax-related dip... Source: Bloomberg Retail investors have piled into money funds since...
Vitalik Buterin Says OpenAI's GPT-4 Has Passed The 'Turing Test'
17.05.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vitalik Buterin Says OpenAI's GPT-4 Has Passed The 'Turing Test' Authored by Tristan Greene via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI’s GPT-4, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, has passed the Turing test, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The Turing test is a nebulous benchmark for AI systems purported to determine how human-like...
Whistling Past The National Train Wreck
17.05.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistling Past The National Train Wreck Authored by Donald Jeffries via I Protest, There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We were the light of...
Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats Or Your Own Lying Eyes?
15.05.2024, 11:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats Or Your Own Lying Eyes? Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order. In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics...
Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals
14.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals Hot PPI initially spooked markets (yields and dollar up, stocks down) but that faded fast (on lower revisions) - but the stag-flation trend continues this week... Source: Bloomberg Powell did briefly spook stocks around 1030ET with the following comment: "it's a...
"Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices
14.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn't the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation...
Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged
12.05.2024, 22:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged Authored by Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research, Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It is our “moral debt.” She proposes an international 2-percent wealth...
The Davos Class Is Desperate
12.05.2024, 18:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Davos Class Is Desperate Authored by Marty Bent via bombthrower.com, One of Davos’ favorite front men, Yuval Noah Harari, joined the BIS Innovation Summit earlier this week to spread some laughable anti-bitcoin propaganda. “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
Denver Illegals Make Demands, Include 'Culturally Appropriate' Food, Lawyers, Unlimited Showers And Warnings Before Evictions
09.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Illegals Make Demands, Include 'Culturally Appropriate' Food, Lawyers, Unlimited Showers And Warnings Before Evictions Illegal immigrants at a Denver, Colorado encampment that is set to be removed are refusing to leave until the city meets a list of 13 demands, which include access to "fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients" for food, unlimited...
Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal
09.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Many observers from the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike were shocked when Defense Secretary Austin confirmed on Wednesday during a congressional testimony that the US had withheld “one shipment...
Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop
08.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop By Russell Clark, author of the Capital Flows and Asset Market substack Japan and Treasuries My interest in Japan dates from 1991 when I was fresh faced high school exchange student in Kobe. There are no prizes for finding me in the above photo. I was the only “foreigner” in the school, and would go days without...
Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing
08.05.2024, 17:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sam Altman-Backed Nuclear Company Wins Shareholder Approval For NYSE Listing Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI and the man who's name has basically become synonymous with AI, has won investor approval for his latest project, nuclear company Oklo, which is set to list on the NYSE Friday via a SPAC . The company, which trades as ALCC until then will debut under...
Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb
08.05.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb By Michael Every of Rabobank F is for Fed; Biden; Trump; and the 1980s In a sea of lurid, stupid headlines today, it was billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller who arguably dropped the biggest F bombs via a TV interview. First: “Bidenomics, If I was a professor, I’d give him an ‘F’. Basically, they...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F"
08.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F" Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government "misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was -- we were going into a depression." Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the...
How Ridiculous? Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten
07.05.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Ridiculous? Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten In a world that is fracturing into a multipolar state, with risks of world war erupting in either Eastern Europe or the Middle East, continued threats of conflict in the Pacific, and the migrant invasion across Western countries, the company behind the iconic half-century-old...
'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid
06.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid More of the same today after last week's tepid payrolls and dovish Powell with gold, stocks, and bonds bid as rate-cut hopes inched higher. The market is now pricing in two rate-cuts in 2024 and three more cuts in 2025... Source: Bloomberg For now the market appears to prefer the 'bad news'...
OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June
06.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June By John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters Saudi Arabia and its allies in OPEC⁺ are likely to keep oil production unchanged for a further three months when ministers review output allocations on June 1. The tightening of petroleum supplies and depletion of inventories widely anticipated at the start...
Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian
05.05.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs. Gov...
CIA Engaged In "Infinite Race" With China For AI, Other Tech
05.05.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CIA Engaged In "Infinite Race" With China For AI, Other Tech The CIA is engaged in an "infinite race" with China when it comes to AI and other top technologies, according to the agency's Chief Technology Officer, Nand Mulchandani, who outlined a strategy that prioritizes technological prowess as crucial to national security. Speaking at the Hill & Valley...
Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO
04.05.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO Ukraine's President Zelensky has reportedly told his top military commanders that Ukraine must win against Russia if it hopes to one day be admitted into NATO. Russian state media has captured and translated key lines of the speech. "I believe that we will be in NATO only if we win. I...
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...
US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In Ukraine...Except It's Tear Gas
02.05.2024, 21:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In Ukraine...Except It's Tear Gas The Biden administration has just leveled a somewhat bizarre chemical weapons accusation against Russia, coming a day after the US Treasury came out with nearly 300 new anti-Moscow sanctions. Those previously reported sanctions targeted Russia's defense-industrial sector, including...
Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims
02.05.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims With WARNs high, JOLTS data tumbling - led construction jobs collapsing, and Challenger-Grey layoffs remarkably elevated, why would anyone question the government's official data on jobless claims - that continues to languish (in a good way) near record lows. Last week saw 208,000 Americans file for jobless benefits for...
China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging
02.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, It is not clear whether a Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to bid farewell to Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he ended his three-day visit to China on Friday, but the send-off was in any event low-key and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
01.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClear Investigations, In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden...
Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed
30.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed Via SchiffGold.com, In this week’s episode, Peter covers the dismal figures released Thursday and Friday, horrible tax policies, and the appalling lack of transparency in our government. Stagflation is back in the economy, as last week’s GDP and PCE figures reveal. The US GDP growth metric for...
The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End
29.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed's Game Of "Make Believe" Comes To An End Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereignMan.com, It’s barely been a year since the 2023 bank crisis in which several large banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, failed. At the time, I wrote that the bank failures weren’t over, and that there would be more. But it’s been quiet...
If You Want People To Have Babies You're Now "Far Right"
29.04.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If You Want People To Have Babies You're Now "Far Right" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A report published by Politico claims that wanting the human race to reproduce is now a “far right” position to take. Yes, really. Leftists are so obsessed with identity politics, they’re arguing that human reproduction, and being in favour of...
When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture...
29.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture... Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Real world “cancer cure” eerily mirrors zombie flick setup If anybody remembers the opening segment from the Will Smith zombie apocalypse flick I Am Legend, it starts with a comically ironic scene wherein a precocious female scientist, endearingly played by...
Is 10% The New 1%
29.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is 10% The New 1% By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the first lessons I was taught as a junior trader. We were warned that when something happens, say a piece of economic data comes out, and the market doesn’t respond as you expected, to cut positions and be very careful. It is a sign that “something”...
These States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter
26.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Conservative states across the country—Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma—are taking border security matters into their own hands, proposing or passing legislation targeting illegal...
As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN
25.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN After the prior week's almost unprecedented outflows, total money market fund assets rose last week (admittedly by a modest $9.1BN), but remain below the $6TN level ($5.97TN) as tax-season draws roll off... Source: Bloomberg The flows into money-market...
Iran Vs Israel: What Happens Next Now That Shots Have Been Fired?
25.04.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Vs Israel: What Happens Next Now That Shots Have Been Fired? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, In October of 2023 in my article ‘It’s A Trap! The Wave Of Repercussions As The Middle East Fights “The Last War”’ I predicted that a multi-front war was about to develop between Israel and various Muslim nations including Lebanon...
"They Think There Are Too Many Of Us On The Planet" - Alex Newman Warns Of Tyrannical UN Plans For Our Future
24.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "They Think There Are Too Many Of Us On The Planet" - Alex Newman Warns Of Tyrannical UN Plans For Our Future Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” and the new best-selling book called “Indoctrinating Our Children to Death,” says the UN’s quest for total tyrannical...
Trump Urges Supporters To "Peacefully Protest" As Day 1 'Opening Arguments' In Hush-Money Case Concludes Early
22.04.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Urges Supporters To "Peacefully Protest" As Day 1 'Opening Arguments' In Hush-Money Case Concludes Early Day one of former President Donald Trump’s so-called “hush-money” trial concluded early on Monday after Judge Juan Merchan said that an alternate juror can visit a dentist appointment (despite previously telling Trump he would have attend...
Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period
22.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period US equity futures rose, putting the S&P on pace for its first gain after 6 straight days of losses, as focus shifted from Middle East tensions to a raft of company earnings this week, including four of the Mag7 tech megacaps which got hammered last week. At 7:40am, S&P emini futures...
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
21.04.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Should I Stay or Should I Go? Coming up for air after what was an intense week on the geopolitical and market side of things, I’m really being forced to reconsider my current recommendations (bearish bonds, stocks, and credit). I keep thinking: If I go, there will be trouble And if...
Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes A Mockery Of The Constitution
19.04.2024, 22:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes A Mockery Of The Constitution Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference ... The Thought Police would get him just the same ... the arrests invariably happened at night ...
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...
SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market
18.04.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market Let's start with these five most recent headlines that show why defense spending needs to increase in a world evolving into a multi-polar state marked by conflict and uncertainty: World Stumbles Into "More Dangerous Decade" As Defense Spending Soars, Says Military...
Biden's 'Punishing' Iran Sanctions For Israel Attack End Up Being Meek Political Smokescreen
18.04.2024, 18:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's 'Punishing' Iran Sanctions For Israel Attack End Up Being Meek Political Smokescreen President Biden has unveiled the administration's promised new sanctions on Iran targeting the country's drone, steel and automotive industries, which is 'punishment' in response to the unprecedented Saturday overnight Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack...
Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey'
18.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey' In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch: 25%...
Russia Restoring Oil Refining Capacity After Ukrainian Suicide Drone Strikes
18.04.2024, 00:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Restoring Oil Refining Capacity After Ukrainian Suicide Drone Strikes With Western sanctions widely failing against Russia, as well as Ukraine's depleted air force unable to patrol its skies, Western leaders have said General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets would be game-changing in the war (these are the same leaders that said the...
Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered
17.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman's trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker earnings...