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California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem
04.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem Via SchiffGold.com, California’s government bet that they knew better than the free market. And now millions are paying the price... The story begins in 1919, when the city of Berkley, California instituted legislation setting aside districts that would only allow the...
"Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests
03.05.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Irrevocably Shaken": Columbia Law Review Editors Ask For Cancellation Of Exams Due To Protests Authored by Jonathan Turley, In recent years, there has been much discussion of the claims of “trauma” by students caused by court rulings and other events. These developments are often cited as a basis for the cancellation of exam or classes. Conservative...
April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises Ahead of today's payrolls report, in our preview we said that while we knew we would get a slowdown, the question was how big it would be (and before that we also asked if Yellen had leaked the weaker number to Japan ahead of their multiple interventions this week to prevent...
North Carolina Shooting: Democrats Blame Guns While Letting Repeat Offenders Run Free
03.05.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - North Carolina Shooting: Democrats Blame Guns While Letting Repeat Offenders Run Free Whatever happened to the media coverage of the mass shooting of police officers in Charlotte, NC this week? Only moments after the attack which took the lives of four law enforcement officers and injured four others, mainstream news feeds and social media sites were...
"We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview
02.05.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump (C) holds the bible and his son Barron Trump (R) looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2017. (Chip...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Activists
30.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Activists Authored by Roger Simon via The Epoch Times, I am writing this column in the hopes you will pass it around. To be honest, I write every column in the hopes it will be passed around, times being what they are. I’m arrogant enough to think what I have to say is at least somewhat needed. More humbly...
Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident
29.04.2024, 15:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intervention Or Not, Yen Bears Will Stay Confident By Vassilis Karamanis, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and FX strategist Unless Japanese authorities show their hand with conviction when it comes to intervening in the spot market, the yen is bound to stay under pressure over the medium-term. The currency’s sharp rally this morning certainly looks...
A Chipotle Double Steak Bowl Is Now $39 In California
29.04.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Chipotle Double Steak Bowl Is Now $39 In California By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Food away from home has risen at least 0.3 percent for 34 out of the last 36 months CPI data from the BLS, California Fast Food Prices Gordon Haskett Sticker Shock in California Higher state minimum wage went into effect April 1; chains say burritos and burgers are getting...
Worst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismal
27.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Worst In 70 Years: Biden Approval Rating Absolutely Dismal President Joe Biden has the worst job approval rating since Eisenhower during his recently completed 13th quarter in office, according to a new poll by Gallup. While Biden clocks in at 38.7%, the previous low was set by George H.W. Bush at 41.8% in 1992. Donald Trump and Barack Obama averaged...
"Our Enemy, The Fed"
26.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Our Enemy, The Fed" Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject...
The Fallacy That Rules The World
26.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fallacy That Rules The World Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Smart people know to avoid fallacies. One of them is known as the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. It’s Latin for “after this, therefore because of this.” The classic example concerns the rooster and the sunrise. Every morning before the sun comes up, the rooster...
In First, 17 Nations Release Joint Statement Demanding Hamas Release All Hostages
25.04.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In First, 17 Nations Release Joint Statement Demanding Hamas Release All Hostages Hamas has rejected an urgent formal plea from world leaders to release all remaining Israeli hostages, with the designated terror group telling the West "you can't force us to do anything." Earlier on Thursday the US was among a group of 17 countries which have citizens...
Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok
24.04.2024, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok The republicans do what they always do best: fold like cheap lawn chairs. Moments ago, in a 79-18 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package sending $60.8 billion in ammunition and military equipment to Ukrainian...
NATO's Never-Ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering
23.04.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO's Never-Ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering Authored by Ramzy Baroud via Counterpunch.org, The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing. Yet, that over-simplified discourse must be examined in order for the current decline of the organization...
NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief
22.04.2024, 21:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief As head of NATO's second largest military, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued to stir controversy among allies by his Hamas-sympathetic stance. As early as last October, just on the heels of the Oct.7 Hamas terror attack, he was bluntly expressing that "Hamas is not a terror organization" but...
Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not
22.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is no coincidence. It is a policy. Governments, along with their so-called experts, attempt to persuade you that inflation stems from anything other than the consistent, albeit slower, rise in aggregate prices year after year. Issuing more currency...
Calif. Dems Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group
21.04.2024, 03:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Calif. Dems Tout Ties To Criminal Leniency Group Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The mayors of California's three biggest cities have rankled some progressive activists in recent months by joining a wave of fellow Democrats renouncing once popular initiatives to defund the police, reduce sentencing, and undertake other criminal justice...
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...
"We Have 15,000 Samples In Wuhan ... Could Do Full Genomes Of 700 CoVs": Rand Paul Drops COVID Bombshell
17.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have 15,000 Samples In Wuhan ... Could Do Full Genomes Of 700 CoVs": Rand Paul Drops COVID Bombshell Last week Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote in a Tuesday op-ed that officials from 15 federal agencies "knew in 2018 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was trying to create a coronavirus like COVID-19." These officials knew that the Chinese lab was...
Who's To Blame For The US Fentanyl Crisis?
17.04.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who's To Blame For The US Fentanyl Crisis? While China has long been criticized for its failure to crack down on Chinese companies producing fentanyl precursors that often end up in Mexican drug labs, Americans see plenty of culprits for the ongoing fentanyl crisis that is taking tens of thousand of American lives each year. Statista's Felix Richter...
A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety
17.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible...
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...
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...
Whistleblowers To Further Dismantle Jan. 6 National Guard Narrative About Trump
15.04.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblowers To Further Dismantle Jan. 6 National Guard Narrative About Trump On Wednesday, whistleblowers from the Washington DC National Guard are expected to tell Congressional investigators that former President Donald Trump wanted them deployed, but an Army Secretary, Ryan McCarthy, delayed relaying this to DC National Guard Commander William...
Trump: "Everything Biden Touches Turns To $hit"
14.04.2024, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump: "Everything Biden Touches Turns To $hit" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a huge rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania Saturday night, Donald Trump blasted Joe Biden, reeling off a list of massive failures and urging that “everything he touches turns to shit.” Trump was speaking while Iran, which just four years ago was...
How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures
13.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s check in on the not exactly impressive energy and inflation results of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)... Data from the BLS, chart by Mish Biden’s energy policy has been an inflationary disaster. And make...
It’s Official: Reflation Is Here
13.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Official: Reflation Is Here Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head...
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots On The Ground This Election
12.04.2024, 15:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots On The Ground This Election Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Wire, Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. The methods include voter registration...
In Latest Humiliation For Biden Admin, Russian Oil Is Trading Above The G7 Price Cap Everywhere
12.04.2024, 04:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Latest Humiliation For Biden Admin, Russian Oil Is Trading Above The G7 Price Cap Everywhere Back in late 2022, when "Western democracies" bombastically unveiled theatrical sanctions against Putin, capping the price at which imports of Russian oil were permitted to no higher than $60, we said that this was one of the biggest farces in modern history...
California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income
11.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income Authored by Jane L. Johnson via The Mises Institute, Utility bills - for electricity, natural gas, water, and garbage - have by long-standing tradition been based on customer usage, measured in kilowatt-hours of electricity, therms or Btu of natural gas, hundred cubic feet of water...
Renewed Inflation Risks Aren't Scaring Buyers Yet
10.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Inflation Risks Aren't Scaring Buyers Yet By Michael Msika, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist The stock market’s momentum is stalling and soaring commodity prices have brought inflation worries back to the forefront. For now, it’s not enough to prompt Wall Street strategists to change their bullish view. HSBC strategists led...
Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
09.04.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The Great Illusion In Ruins? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Americans were then set to witness a great experiment...
Trump Body-Slams Lindsey Graham For Insisting On Nationwide Abortion Limit
09.04.2024, 20:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Body-Slams Lindsey Graham For Insisting On Nationwide Abortion Limit South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham dared to criticize Donald Trump's new stance advocating that abortion law should be left to individual states -- and was promptly subjected to withering fire from the former president. On Monday morning, Trump posted a video in which he implicitly...
LA 'Mansion Tax' Is Yet Another Democrat Debacle
09.04.2024, 04:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - LA 'Mansion Tax' Is Yet Another Democrat Debacle In November 2022, Los Angeles voters approved a so-called 'mansion tax,' which slaps a 4% sales tax on properties sold for over $5 million, and 5.5% for those over $10 million. The scheme (Measure ULA), put forward by Democrats, was projected to raise roughly $672 million in its first year, to be used...
New York Grand Jury Releases Scathing Report Against Child Protection Services Agency
09.04.2024, 01:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New York Grand Jury Releases Scathing Report Against Child Protection Services Agency Authored by Alice Giordano via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The result of a six-month special grand jury investigation into the murder of 8-year-old Tommy Valva by his father has revealed another disturbing instance of abuse of power by child protection agencies...
Why US Public Debt Is Unsustainable And Is Destroying The Middle Class
08.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why US Public Debt Is Unsustainable And Is Destroying The Middle Class Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent tweet, a talented financial analyst and investor stated: “The “debt is unsustainable” narrative has been around for 40 years plus. What’s astonishing to me is how the people who push this narrative never ask themselves, “Why has it...
Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement
08.04.2024, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Authored by Joseph D. Terwilliger via AntiWar.com, Last week, a United Nations Security Council resolution to extend the mandate for the UN Panel of Experts on DPRK sanctions was vetoed by the Russian Federation, effectively disbanding the primary enforcement mechanism for the nine...
"West Point Mafia" Has "Systematically Destroyed The Nation's Maritime Strength"
07.04.2024, 01:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West Point Mafia" Has "Systematically Destroyed The Nation's Maritime Strength" Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a website specializing in tracking the shipping industry, blames the "West Point Mafia" and decades of land wars in the Middle East for a hollowed-out US Navy that was entirely "unprepared" for the salvage operation of the collapsed...
Bitcoin Will Not Kill The US Dollar, The Government Will
06.03.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Will Not Kill The US Dollar, The Government Will Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a recent interview with Seth Meyers, President Biden mentioned that the United States has the strongest economy in decades. However, the reality shows that the 2023 GDP growth adjusted for the accumulation of public debt was the worst since 1930. The U.S. national...
Income Needed To Afford A Home In The US Has Soared By 80% Since 2020
06.03.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Income Needed To Afford A Home In The US Has Soared By 80% Since 2020 The Biden administration and its fawning PR industry, also known as the mainstream media, have over the past year been desperate to explain to ordinary deplorables Americans why the US economy is ackchyually doing "so much better" than most peasants give the 81-year-old's handlers...
It Wasn't Me: Biden Activates FTC-DOJ Task Force To Peddle 'Corporate Greed' Conspiracy Theory
05.03.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It Wasn't Me: Biden Activates FTC-DOJ Task Force To Peddle 'Corporate Greed' Conspiracy Theory As the 2024 election approaches, the Biden administration has gone into overdrive to try and convince the general public that inflation isn't his fault - and instead, a scourge of corporate greed washed over the country like a plague. It certainly wasn't Biden's...
Peter Schiff: Bitcoin Lives And Dies By ETFs
05.03.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Bitcoin Lives And Dies By ETFs Via SchiffGold.com, On this year’s Leap Day, Peter analyzed another round of inflation data and the economic factors at play in the quickly approaching 2024 general election. Bitcoin also surged back above $60,000 after the SEC approved bitcoin ETFs. Inflation came in worse than expected for personal...
Netanyahu Fuming Over Rival Cabinet Minister's Rogue Trip To White House, Capitol Hill
04.03.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Fuming Over Rival Cabinet Minister's Rogue Trip To White House, Capitol Hill In a episode that underscores the tensions straining Israel's wartime unity government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly irate over a senior cabinet minister's unauthorized trip to Washington this week to meet with US officials. Benny Gantz...
The Catalyst That Could 'Standardize' Bitcoin
04.03.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Catalyst That Could 'Standardize' Bitcoin Authored by 'Quoth The Raven' via BictoinMagazine.,com, The Bitcoin network teaches us that there's safety in numbers. Now, what could bring people together in numbers to mass-adopt it further than they have? Today in my series called “things people following Bitcoin for the last 13 years have already...
World Unprepared For Fight Against Chinese Disinformation Around Elections, Warns Analyst
04.03.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World Unprepared For Fight Against Chinese Disinformation Around Elections, Warns Analyst Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The world at large isn’t prepared for the pervasive disinformation operations coming from adversaries such as China that aim at swinging votes, warned a research analyst. Wu Min-hsuan, CEO of Taiwan-based...
'Atlas Shrugged' Comes To Life In California
04.03.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Atlas Shrugged' Comes To Life In California Authored by Daniel Kowalski via FEE.org, The plot of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged can be briefly summed up as follows: the productive leaders and innovators of the country go on strike by disappearing from society to protest the cronyism, corruption, and oppressive taxes that have made living...
Congress Must Investigate John Podesta's Role In Biden's LNG Decision
02.03.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Congress Must Investigate John Podesta's Role In Biden's LNG Decision Authored by Larry Behrens via RealClear Wire, Ever since 2016, talk to a liberal and there’s a good chance that they will blame “Russia” for something. Election interference, inflation, record-high gas prices, the list goes on and on. Since taking office, Joe Biden continues...
Sanction Irony: Trade Between Iran And Russia Soars As SWIFT Circumvented
02.03.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sanction Irony: Trade Between Iran And Russia Soars As SWIFT Circumvented Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Russia and Iran developed a way to avoid the US dollar routing system known as SWIFT, Trade between the nations is booming. Image from US Institute for Peace – The Iran Primer. What is the SWIFT Banking System? Investopedia explains:...