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Pro-Palestinian GWU Student "Tribunal" Calls For Campus Leaders To Be Beheaded On Guillotines
08.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pro-Palestinian GWU Student "Tribunal" Calls For Campus Leaders To Be Beheaded On Guillotines By Jennifer Kabbany, of The College Fix Video that emerged over the weekend from the pro-Palestinian occupation encampment at George Washington University shows some students gleefully cheering for their campus leaders to be executed on guillotines. The footage...
WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec
08.05.2024, 16:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec Oil prices are rebounding off overnight lows - once again testing the technical support of the 100-day moving average - after sliding following API's report of across the board inventory builds last night. Oil has been on a downtrend since early April, posting losses in three of the...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests 'Covert' Plans For EV Battery Plant
08.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests 'Covert' Plans For EV Battery Plant Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of residents in western North Carolina are protesting their county board’s lack of transparency over furtive moves to welcome an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing the residents believe...
Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States
07.05.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration and advising schools to ignore the new federal Title IX changes that expand sex discrimination protection to students who identify as the opposite sex, or...
Credit Smacks Of Complacency As Spreads Collapse
07.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Credit Smacks Of Complacency As Spreads Collapse By James Crombie, Bloomberg Markets Live writer and strategist Wafer-thin spreads on corporate debt don’t matter — until they do. There are several potential triggers for risk premia to flare, denting credit portfolios. Spreads have collapsed across the board, from investment-grade and junk bonds...
Amidst Staffing Shortage, Merced County's Sheriff Is Often Sole Officer To Respond To Calls
07.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amidst Staffing Shortage, Merced County's Sheriff Is Often Sole Officer To Respond To Calls Merced County California's Sheriff is officially sounding the warning bells. Sheriff Vern Warnke, who has worked in the county's office for 45 years, is officially declaring a public safety crisis, according to a new report from Yahoo and the LA Times. Why? Because...
Florida Bans 'Indoctrination' In Teacher-Training Programs
06.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Bans 'Indoctrination' In Teacher-Training Programs Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law on May 2 banning “indoctrination” programs for teachers. The measure, HB 1291, prohibits programs, courses, and curricula in teacher training from “distorting” historical...
Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further
06.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) - the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness - was released and revealed more of the same: despite...
Confidence Boost For The Fed
06.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Confidence Boost For The Fed By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Last Wednesday, Powell said that there had been a lack of further progress toward the Fed’s 2% inflation objective. Indeed, both the latest CPI and PCE prints had already dashed hopes that the Fed would cut rates by summer. It would, therefore, take more time for the...
US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine
05.05.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine As part of the latest in the Western allies' (some of them at least) controversial push to confiscate Russian sovereign assets and give them to Ukraine, the Biden administration is leading talks among G7 nations to commit to a new military aid package for Kiev worth up to $50 billion...
Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization
05.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), England may be the third country to withdraw from a “gender-affirming” treatment pathway due to recommendations from a long-awaited report. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, The Cass Review, Getty...
New Discovered Uranium Deposit In Poland Could Fuel Future Polish Nuclear Power Plant
04.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Discovered Uranium Deposit In Poland Could Fuel Future Polish Nuclear Power Plant By Grzegorz Adamczyk of RMX.news The Świętokrzyska Industrial Group Industria (ŚGP Industria) has confirmed the presence of uranium in a deposit within the Świętokrzyskie Region in southern Poland. The company now plans to undertake further exploratory work to...
Ford's $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible
04.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ford's $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), So much for California’s mandate that “all new passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035,” according to the California Air Resources Board. It imposed the mandate...
Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount
03.05.2024, 13:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sony And Apollo Make $26 Billion All Cash Offer For Paramount It looks as thought the every-day Paramount buyout saga could finally be coming to a close, with a all-cash, $26 billion offer made by Sony and Apollo, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apollo and Sony, led by Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra and Apollo partner Aaron Sobel, presented...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...
Bill Advances Calling For California To Issue Formal Apology For Slavery
02.05.2024, 21:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Advances Calling For California To Issue Formal Apology For Slavery Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, The California Assembly’s Appropriations Committee approved a bill May 1 which would require the state to issue an apology for its role in perpetuating harm related to slavery. Assembly Bill 3089, introduced by Assemblyman Reginald...
"Sticky Inflation" Mentions On Earnings Calls Hits New High As Big Brands Warn About Buckling Consumers
02.05.2024, 20:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Sticky Inflation" Mentions On Earnings Calls Hits New High As Big Brands Warn About Buckling Consumers On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell dismissed the idea that the economy could slide into "stagflation" despite multiple warning signs of a slowing economy and inflation reaccelerating higher. "I was around for stagflation, and it was 10%...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint
02.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Dozens of Google workers who were fired for protesting the tech giant’s cloud deal with the Israeli government filed a complaint on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over their termination. The complaint, obtained...
A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
01.05.2024, 23:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Nearly one year ago, Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s removal from office. Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her abrasive politics. In her place was Brandon Johnson,...
The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters
01.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jonathan Turley, Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment for scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments...
Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions
01.05.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions Federal prosecutors are investigating compliance issues at Block, the fintech firm co-founded by Jack Dorsey, according to a new report from NBC, citing "two people with direct knowledge". Questions about the company started swirling back in March...
USAF F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes In New Mexico
01.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - USAF F-16 Fighter Jet Crashes In New Mexico A United States Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashed near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico on Tuesday afternoon. A U.S. Air Force F-16 from the 49th Wing crashed west of #HollomanAFB near White Sands National Park this morning. The sole pilot on board ejected and was treated and released from a medical...
Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed
30.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Flowers Amid April 'Stagflation' Showers; Stocks, Bonds, & Crypto Crushed The final day of April was really ugly: ECI way hotter than expected (spooked markets), Case-Shiller home prices soared far more than expected (spooked markets more), Chicago PMI puked (while prices paid increased), Consumer Confidence crashed, and Dallas Fed Services slumped...
'Expectations' Plunge To 11-Year-Lows As Conference Board Confidence Craters
30.04.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Expectations' Plunge To 11-Year-Lows As Conference Board Confidence Craters For the third straight month, The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell in April, tumbling to 97.0 from a downwardly revised 103.1 (dramatically below the 104.0 median expectation and in fact below the lowest of all 56 analysts' estimates). Both current conditions...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked
30.04.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states. Geopolitics, like any conflict, is dramatic: rivals jostle for hegemony on a 3-D chessboard, war threatens...
Falling From Grace
30.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling From Grace Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those...
California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms
30.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Tax Revenue Projections Weakening As Newsom's Budget Revision Deadline Looms Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), With the state facing a record-high budget deficit, tax collections are failing to meet California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal projections, which could put further pressure on the state’s...
Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings
29.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings As DB's Jim Reid notes, with just two days left in a rollercoaster April for markets - and FX - last week actually saw the best week for the S&P 500 (+2.67%) and NASDAQ (+4.23%) since November, following several weeks of declines, as earnings gave markets...
US Space Force General Says China's Military Developing Space Assets At "Breathtaking Speed"
29.04.2024, 06:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Space Force General Says China's Military Developing Space Assets At "Breathtaking Speed" Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, recently warned about China’s “breathtakingly fast” development of space military capabilities, following his trips to South Korea and Japan. “We are seriously...
White House Uses "Walkers" To Conceal Biden's Old-Man Shuffle
27.04.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Uses "Walkers" To Conceal Biden's Old-Man Shuffle With the presidential election still more than six months away, President Biden's handlers are under increasing pressure to divert Americans' eyes from his obvious and accelerating mental and physical decline. Where his deteriorating mental abilities are concerned, we've already seen them...
Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas
27.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas Richard Tornetta, who was at the center of Tesla shareholders' claim that Elon Musk was taking an excessive pay package, is now at the center of claims that Tesla should not be reincorporating to Texas to approve Musk's voided pay plan. But Tesla is firing back at Tornetta...
Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General
27.04.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, In 2007, the U.S. national debt was below $10 trillion, and the budget deficit was about $160 billion. Federal spending was about $3 trillion, and interest payments were approximately $400 billion. Then the numbers...
Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth
26.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Micro Trumps Macro As Stocks Shrug Off Week Of Higher Inflation, Higher Rates, & Lower Growth It was an ugly macro week... Source: Bloomberg ...and worse still, 'growth' surprises disappointed significantly while 'inflation' surprises surprised to the upside significantly... Source: Bloomberg Soaring inflation expectations sent rate-cut expectations...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
26.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian...
Google Soars To Record After Smashing Estimates, Launches $70 Billion Buyback And Starts Paying Dividend
25.04.2024, 22:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Soars To Record After Smashing Estimates, Launches $70 Billion Buyback And Starts Paying Dividend After the first two Mag7 companies were a study in market paradoxes, when TSLA missed across the board and soared (after guiding much better than expected) and META beat across the board but plunged (after guiding weaker than expected while boosting...
Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing
25.04.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing Via Middle East Eye Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear program after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase. Before the recent...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
'Disinfo' Queen Resurfaces, Won't Disclose Donors Despite Vow To 'Expose' Wrongthink For 'Greater Transparency'
25.04.2024, 19:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Disinfo' Queen Resurfaces, Won't Disclose Donors Despite Vow To 'Expose' Wrongthink For 'Greater Transparency' Nina Jankowicz,the Biden administration's short-lived disinfo czar, is back! Jankowicz, a huge fan of Christopher Steele, architect of the infamous Clinton-funded Dossier which underpinned the Trump-Russia hoax, - and who joined the chorus...
To Appease Environmentalists, The FTC Will Cripple U.S. Energy
25.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Appease Environmentalists, The FTC Will Cripple U.S. Energy Authored by Justin Bis via RealClear Markets, In the movie The Perfect Storm, George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg are among the crew of a boat off the Northeast coast that is caught in the convergence of multiple powerful storms. The combination of tempests ultimately takes down the craft...
"We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k"
24.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k" Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The UniParty's Day Of Infamy, Part 1 The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security...
Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints
24.04.2024, 22:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meta Craters 13% After Revenue Forecast Disappoints After yesterday's eruption by the first Mag7 member Tesla, which missed across the board but gave an extremely cheerful outlook where Musk vowed he would release a lower-priced EV as soon as this year, moments ago the second, and far bigger, Mag7 member - and who really cares about Mag7 any more, it's...
Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump
24.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Dumped, Yield-Curve Pumped, Bonds & Bitcoin Slump Quiet macro day with Durable Goods Orders looking like a beat - but only because of sizable downward revisions - as orders and shipments are actually down on a YoY basis. Source: Bloomberg But stocks were messy with an opening bid immediately squelched and post-EU-close ramp faded into the US close...
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...
Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models"
23.04.2024, 22:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Soars Despite Missing Across The Board, After Announcing Earlier Rollout Of "More Affordable Models" As previewed earlier, today's TSLA print is likely to be ugly: the company is the only Mag7 member expected to reported negative earnings growth... ... as a result of anemic Q1 sales, where the (growing) delta between production and deliveries...
Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health'
23.04.2024, 18:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A migrant from Eritrea who is a convicted child rapist has won an appeal not to be deported from the UK after arguing that it would harm his mental health. Yes, really. The migrant has been in prison for TEN YEARS after attacking...