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Unit Labor Costs Soar In Q1 As 'AI Productivity Boom' Fails To Show Up
02.05.2024, 15:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unit Labor Costs Soar In Q1 As 'AI Productivity Boom' Fails To Show Up Remember how AI was going to save the world, give us all more leisure time because of its massive boost to productivity? Well, in Q1 in the US... it failed to show up as non-farm productivity - or nonfarm employee output per hour - rose at a measly 0.3% annualized rate after an...
It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It
01.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, “Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, Boom!” — R.E.M. The world we’ve known is over. The US Congress finally pushed the big red button. When the West froze around $300 billion of Russia’s foreign...
"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...
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...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here
22.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here Via SchiffGold.com, With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines aging and not enough projects to match demand with supply, the forecasted copper shortage has finally arrived in earnest. Coupled with persistently high inflation in the US, EU, and elsewhere, I predict...
Head Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom
22.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Head Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom The head of climate research at commodities hedge fund firm Andurand Capital Management says now is not the time to bet on a bull market for carbon credits. There is growing pessimism in the voluntary carbon markets amid turmoil within the world's top arbiter...
Sam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment
22.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment Sam Altman and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are betting on solar power and energy storage that can supply a low-carbon future to artificial intelligence data centers. Altman, the face of the AI chatbot boom, has also invested in nuclear power technology to fuel America's...
Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself
19.04.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, I live in a small village at the edge of lands surrounded by very harsh nature. Those who occupied these valleys in ages past lived ruthlessly dangerous lives, where starvation was a constant worry, the sea just as often nurtured...
AI Bubble Stumbles: First ASML, Now TSMC Downgrades 2024 Global Chip Outlook
19.04.2024, 16:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Bubble Stumbles: First ASML, Now TSMC Downgrades 2024 Global Chip Outlook According to a first-quarter update on Wednesday from Dutch chip giant ASML - the world's sole producer of equipment needed to make the most advanced chips - chip makers aren't rushing to prepare for the next leg in the AI boom. This was confirmed on Friday when Taiwan...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...
Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade'
16.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackstone CEO Jumps On 'The Next AI Trade' US power grid regulators and utilities are warning about energy shortfalls. Projections for US electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from about one year ago, primarily because of the expected explosion of artificial intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants...
What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom?
16.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? Authored by Ye Xie via Bloomberg, As the US economy hums along month after month, minting hundreds of thousands of new jobs and confounding experts who had warned of an imminent downturn, some on Wall Street are starting to entertain a fringe economic theory. What if, they ask, all those...
Population Projections: These Will Be The World's 6 Largest Countries In 2075
16.04.2024, 05:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Population Projections: These Will Be The World's 6 Largest Countries In 2075 The end of the 21st century will see the first plateauing (and eventually shrinking) of world population since the Industrial Revolution. As birth rates fall across the globe, what does this mean for the world’s most populous countries? To find out, Visual Capitalist's...
Dollar, Oil, & Gold Jump; Stocks & Bonds Dump As 'WW3-On'-Risk Reignites
15.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dollar, Oil, & Gold Jump; Stocks & Bonds Dump As 'WW3-On'-Risk Reignites It was all looking so shiny and BTFD-y - Iran had sent some missiles towards Israeli folks; 'allies' blocked 99% of them; and Israel appeared unlikely top respond 'imminently'. Stocks were up, crypto was up, oil was down as 'WW3-off' meant risk-on. But, then the headlines just...
Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking
15.04.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking With JPMorgan tumbling on Friday on a net interest income miss and disappointing guidance, suffering its worst earnings-day slump in decades, financials needed a solid report this morning and got it from the bank that once was the envy of all its Wall Street peers...
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
15.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that... California Home-Solar Boom Collapses The Wall Street Journal reports The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ The...
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...
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...
Nearly 20% Of Recent San Francisco Home Sales Were Underwater
12.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nearly 20% Of Recent San Francisco Home Sales Were Underwater Nearly 20% of homes sold in San Francisco during the three months ending Feb. 29 sold at a loss. What's more, the typical SF homeowner took $155,500 less than they bought it for, which is 400% more in dollar terms than the nationwide median loss of $39,912 over the same period, Redfin reports...
Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report
10.04.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report Futures are up small before the March CPI data was expected to show further moderation in price pressures following stronger readings at the start of the year, with Mag7 mixed and Semis lower, tracking bigger gains in Europe. Bond yields are uniformly 1bps lower, USD is off a touch, and commodities are mostly...
One More Hot CPI Print Could Prove Existential Difference Between “Being And Nothingness” For Traders
09.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - One More Hot CPI Print Could Prove Existential Difference Between “Being And Nothingness” For Traders By Michael Every of Rabobank Being and Nothingness With a solar eclipse as the epic backdrop, and 10-year US Treasury yields over 4.40% and testing towards 4.50% despite (or because of?) pledged Fed rate cuts, markets are focused on US CPI tomorrow...
Jamie Dimon Warns World Faces "Risks That Eclipse Anything Since World War II"
08.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jamie Dimon Warns World Faces "Risks That Eclipse Anything Since World War II" Perhaps the world's most influential banker - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon - warned the world in his annual letter to shareholders that while he expects US economic resilience (and higher inflation and interest rates), and is optimistic about transformational opportunities...
What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs?
08.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs? Submitted by BullionStar/Jesse Colombo After more than three years of stagnation, gold has awakened with a vengeance since early-March and has promptly surged by nearly $300 an ounce or 14% to an all-time high $2,330 — a sharp move for a safe-haven asset that has a reputation for its slow and steady trends....
World War II Didn't End The Great Depression
06.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World War II Didn't End The Great Depression By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum” — and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This...
Europe's South Takes The Lead
06.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's South Takes The Lead By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Economist at Rabobank Brent crude oil extended its gains and broke through the 90 dollars a barrel threshold yesterday, for the first time since end-October last year. The commodity continues its ascend this morning and at the time of writing it’ll cost you 91.2 dollars to buy a barrel....
Is ESG Investing In Decline?
01.02.2024, 12:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is ESG Investing In Decline? These days, ESG investments have lost their luster given high interest rates, political backlash, and greenwashing scrutiny. In 2021 during the pandemic boom, U.S. sustainable funds hit a record $358 billion in assets, up from $95 billion in 2017. But since then, investor interest has waned as higher borrowing costs impact...
Split The International Energy Agency Into Two To Avoid Shocks
01.02.2024, 00:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Split The International Energy Agency Into Two To Avoid Shocks Authored by Mark Mills via RealClear Wire, The International Energy Agency (IEA) turns 50 this year. It’s time to rethink the IEA’s role and for the United States, the biggest source of funding, to suspend IEA payments until it has been restructured for the times. Why? Start with the...
"Theory Of Reflexivity" And Does It Matter?
30.01.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Theory Of Reflexivity" And Does It Matter? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, I received an email this past week concerning George Soros’ “Theory Of Reflexivity.” “I am not a fan of Soros, but this market has the look and feel of the dot com bust of 2000. In a few short words, the AI investment phenomenon is feeding on...
The Great Growth Hoax
28.01.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Growth Hoax Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),For a few days, ever since the supposedly amazing GDP report from quarter four 2023, we’ve been blasted by the media about how great the economy is doing. It’s exasperating because these claims do not fit with human experience. Last we heard from the Census Bureau...
These Are The Most-Popular AI Tools
27.01.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most-Popular AI Tools Artificial intelligence had its breakout year in 2023, with large language models (LLMs) and text-to-image generators capturing the attention and imagination of technologists and investors alike. Similar to other recent breakthrough technologies like the internet and the smartphone, the early stage of AI’s tech...
Middle East Uncertainty And Its Effects On Global Markets
27.01.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle East Uncertainty And Its Effects On Global Markets Via SchiffGold.com, As the conflict continues to accelerate in Gaza and beyond, 2024 is set for a somewhat terrifying boom in global uncertainty - and will take gold prices with it. The conflict has escalated to involve neighboring regions, with the potential for further regional destabilization...
Ahead Of 'Most Divisive' Election Ever, Here's The New Weapons-Tech Cops Could Use To Retake City Streets
26.01.2024, 00:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ahead Of 'Most Divisive' Election Ever, Here's The New Weapons-Tech Cops Could Use To Retake City Streets Many Americans fear that the coming Fall election season will see a return of BLM-style riots on US streets, and especially in major cities. Corporate media has at times seemed to almost positively encourage this scenario given Trump's frontrunner...
Peter Schiff: 'Bidenomics' Has Been A "Disaster" For The US Economy
24.01.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: 'Bidenomics' Has Been A "Disaster" For The US Economy Via SchiffGold.com, Peter was recently featured on Real America hosted by Dan Ball. It’s no secret that the government has been spending more than it collects, and there are indications that the Biden administration is addressing this issue. Alarming news surfaced in a media release...
Futures Enter Blow-Off Top In Tech-Led Frenzy As China's Plunge Protection Team Steps In Again
22.01.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Enter Blow-Off Top In Tech-Led Frenzy As China's Plunge Protection Team Steps In Again The market meltup is now entering its blow-off top phase, with the tech-led rally pushing US index futures to a fresh all-time high for S&P 500 cash, which reclaimed their Jan 2, 2022 record after 746 days and following gains in 11 of the past 12 weeks!. European...
Prediction Consensus: What The 'Experts' See Coming In 2024
20.01.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Prediction Consensus: What The 'Experts' See Coming In 2024 As we look ahead to 2024, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology to track in this new year. In this now fifth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2024 Global Forecast Series), we’ve...
Unlikely Duo Of AI And Government Keeping US Recession At Bay
19.01.2024, 16:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unlikely Duo Of AI And Government Keeping US Recession At Bay Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The AI boom is helping drive a US and global cyclical upturn in growth which, in concert with the US’s large fiscal deficit, has been keeping the economy from slipping into recession. “Cutting-edge technology” and “government”...
Legal Blow: Hunter's Defense Hammered By Discovery Of Cocaine On Gun Pouch
19.01.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Legal Blow: Hunter's Defense Hammered By Discovery Of Cocaine On Gun Pouch Authored by Jonathan Turley, Attorney Abbe Lowell has faced a series of legal blows in his defense of Hunter Biden, but not quite as literal or lethal as what came this week in his client’s gun prosecution. After Lowell sought to dismiss the federal indictment as a trumped-up...
Container Lines Scramble To Rent More Ships Amid Red Sea Crisis
17.01.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Container Lines Scramble To Rent More Ships Amid Red Sea Crisis By Greg Miller of FreightWaves Red Sea diversions mean container lines need more ships to carry the same amount of cargo. The security situation — which is even more precarious in the near term due to coalition air strikes in Yemen — has already driven spot container freight rates much...
The Financial System Has Reached 'The End'; Von Greyerz
11.01.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Financial System Has Reached 'The End'; Von Greyerz Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, The world is now witnessing the end of a currency and financial system which the Chinese already forecast in 1971 after Nixon closed the gold window. Again, remember von Mises words: “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom...
Office Space
09.01.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Space By Philip Marey, Senior US Strategist at Rabobank The 10 year US treasury yield has been moving sideways around 4.0% since Friday’s contradictory data releases from the US, with a stronger than expected Employment Report which was followed by a weak ISM services survey. We will probably have to wait until Thursday’s US CPI data for...
3-In-4 Asians Expect China To Keep Slowing, & An End To Japan's NIRP In 2024
09.01.2024, 04:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 3-In-4 Asians Expect China To Keep Slowing, & An End To Japan's NIRP In 2024 A survey among Nikkei Asia readers shows what events respondents from the region find most likely to occur in 2024. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, in the eyes of three quarters of Asians, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sure to extend his time in office in...
Visualizing 50 Years Of Video Game Revenues, By Platform
07.01.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing 50 Years Of Video Game Revenues, By Platform Video killed the radio star. And the video game industry’s explosive growth over the last five decades has killed any skepticism of its strength and staying power in the larger media and entertainment space. Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao and Niccolo Conte visualize the video game industry’s...
US Bankruptcies Jump 18% In 2023 Amid High Interest Rates
05.01.2024, 20:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Bankruptcies Jump 18% In 2023 Amid High Interest Rates Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Overall bankruptcies in the United States jumped by almost a fifth in 2023 as both businesses and households struggled with high-interest rates and the end of pandemic stimulus. Total U.S. bankruptcy filings rose by 18 percent to 445,186 last...
FDNY Responds To Report Of 'Small Explosions' Shaking Roosevelt Island
02.01.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDNY Responds To Report Of 'Small Explosions' Shaking Roosevelt Island Firefighters were called to the 580 block of Main Street, located south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge & Tram, at approximately 0600 ET, in response to reports of multiple explosions and building shaking, the New York City Fire Department told MailOnline. Roosevelt Island residents...
12 (Or More) Reasons To Expect A Prosperous 2024
02.01.2024, 12:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 12 (Or More) Reasons To Expect A Prosperous 2024 Authored by Gary Alexander via The Epoch Times, On the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high (37,404), the S&P 500 neared an all-time high, and the Russell 2000 soared nearly 25 percent in under two months, so it’s natural to see spreading...
Visualizing The Events That Defined 2023
31.12.2023, 13:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Events That Defined 2023 Looking back at 2023, the year was defined by various international geopolitical events while the tech and business world kept a close eye on artificial intelligence’s advances in the first full year of the technology hitting its stride. This graphic from Visual Capitalist's upcoming 2024 Global Forecast Report looks...
Whistleblower Docs Expose Key Tactics Of The Censorship Industrial Complex: Matt Taibbi
30.12.2023, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblower Docs Expose Key Tactics Of The Censorship Industrial Complex: Matt Taibbi Authored by Ella Kietlinska and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Documents recently provided by a whistleblower reveal offensive tactics used by government and outside organizations to counter and preempt the spreading of undesirable information...