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Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime
24.04.2024, 21:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alvin Bragg Has His Trump Trial, All He Needs Now Is A Crime Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the start of the Trump trial and much awaited explanation of District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the underlying alleged criminal conduct. The curious aspect of the case is that the prosecutors are...
FlySafair Boeing 737's Wheel Separates After Takeoff
24.04.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FlySafair Boeing 737's Wheel Separates After Takeoff Another near-mid-air disaster involving a Boeing 737-8EH was narrowly averted. The incident occurred last weekend in South Africa as the narrow-body airliner traveling from Johannesburg to Cape Town lost a wheel and was forced to make an emergency landing. South African budget carrier FlySafair...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...
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...
If You’re A Criminal, This Is the County To Avoid
23.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If You’re A Criminal, This Is the County To Avoid Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Across a six-decade career, beginning as a 16-year-old ambulance driver to his ascension as America’s most renowned lawman, Grady Judd has made one thing clear. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at the PCSO Emergency Communications Center...
While Congress Abandons Border, $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Israel Bill For 'Migrants And Refugees'
22.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - While Congress Abandons Border, $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Israel Bill For 'Migrants And Refugees' While Congress failed to pass a border security bill over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they did set aside $3.5 billion for "Migration and Refugee Assistance" for the State Department to "address humanitarian...
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...
Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses
21.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facing mounting budget woes this election year, as spending far outpaces revenues, the City of San Francisco is scrambling to reform its infamously large and complex tax burden on business. Several San Francisco companies...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated
18.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell yesterday for the first time this week. The 2-year was down 5.5bps to 4.93%, while Brent crude gave up 3% to be sitting well below the $90/bbl again. Crude is sending some interesting...
"The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped"
18.04.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share his thoughts...
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:...
Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless
18.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Los Angeles Mayor Urges 'More Fortunate' Residents To Help Fund Housing For Homeless Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has suggested that “more fortunate” residents help fund housing for the homeless as part of a new campaign to tackle the city’s ongoing homelessness crisis. Los Angeles...
Missouri Files Injunction To Block Biden's 'Illegal Student Loan Plan' While Lawsuit Plays Out
17.04.2024, 20:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Missouri Files Injunction To Block Biden's 'Illegal Student Loan Plan' While Lawsuit Plays Out Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Wednesday that the state has filed for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block the Biden administration's "illegal student loan plan," referred to by a coalition of states as "Plan B," which was implemented...
New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting "Truth" Is A "Distraction"
17.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting "Truth" Is A "Distraction" Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, New NPR CEO Katherine Maher gave a Ted Talk during which she asserted that “truth” is a “distraction” which is “getting in the way of getting things done.” Calls are growing for NPR to have its government funding withdrawn after...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
Biden's New Student Debt Relief Will Add Up To $750 Billion To The Budget Deficit
17.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Student Debt Relief Will Add Up To $750 Billion To The Budget Deficit By The Committee for A Responsible Federal Budget The Biden Administration recently announced a new plan to cancel student debt for up to 30 million borrowers and released a preliminary rule this morning detailing parts of this plan. The proposal, which is being introduced...
Red Colorado Counties Sue To Help ICE Arrest, Deport Illegal Immigrants
17.04.2024, 02:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Red Colorado Counties Sue To Help ICE Arrest, Deport Illegal Immigrants Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Two conservative Colorado counties—Douglas and El Paso—have sued the state of Colorado and its Democrat governor over laws that prevent local law enforcement from working with federal agents to arrest and deport illegal...
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...
Transport Minister Threatens Germans With "Indefinite Weekend Driving Ban" To Meet Mandated Emissions Targets
16.04.2024, 12:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transport Minister Threatens Germans With "Indefinite Weekend Driving Ban" To Meet Mandated Emissions Targets Via Eugyppius.com, This story has even made it into the Anglophone press, so you know it’s a big deal: “German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban,” says The Telegraph. “German minister threatens ‘indefinite driving bans’...
Lockheed Martin Wins $17BN Interceptor Contract To Protect US Homeland
16.04.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lockheed Martin Wins $17BN Interceptor Contract To Protect US Homeland With one massive war in Eastern Europe grinding past two years and with another potential major war brewing in the Middle East, Western defense contractors are perhaps the only ones with a smile on their faces while much of the rest of humanity suffers. On Monday the US Missile Defense...
The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System
15.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the...
The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I
14.04.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I Authored by David Parker via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a nation of maximum individual freedom, maximum individual responsibility, limited government, and classical liberalism. Having fled anti-democratic European aristocracy, privileged class structure, and limited...
Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants
13.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday in the city’s response to the illegal immigrant crisis, extending support to six months but with only about 1,000 spaces. Illegal immigrants rest...
Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress
12.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that...
EU Parliament Refuses Decision On Budget Until Ukraine Gets More Patriots From Member States
12.04.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Parliament Refuses Decision On Budget Until Ukraine Gets More Patriots From Member States The latest intense Russian bombardment of Ukraine has resulted in the European Parliament taking the unprecedented decision to delay approval of the council budget until EU leaders get fully on board with approving additional Patriot air defense systems for...
Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months
11.04.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stamp Prices Rise By 8%, For The Second Time In 4 Months It's only appropriate that on the day the BLS reported that prices are once again galloping away from the Fed's 2% inflation target - and hit fresh monthly record highs - that the Post Office announced stamp prices would also rise to a record high... for the second time this year. According to...
Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
11.04.2024, 05:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the...
Student Loan Inflation, Here It Goes Again
09.04.2024, 18:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Student Loan Inflation, Here It Goes Again Via SchiffGold.com, As the Democratic Party has shifted away from its traditional base of working-class and middle-class Americans, to an increased reliance on college professors, students, and highly educated but low-paid professions, such as social workers, a new policy has risen to prominence: student loan...
Dollar Tree Shoppers Revolt Over $7 Items
09.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dollar Tree Shoppers Revolt Over $7 Items Discount retailer Dollar Tree has sparked a revolt among some of its customers after increasing the price cap of items to $7 across thousands of stores nationwide. "If it were really going to go up like $7 … that'd be too much. I'd rather just get everything at Walmart," Scott Kolack, a Dollar Tree regular...
In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System
09.04.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System Submitted by Larry McDonald, creator of the Bear Traps Report and author of the newly published book "When Markets Speak" which has been #1 on Amazon over the last week across most non-fiction, finance categories. What’s Under the Surface? The heart of “conditioning...
Saudi Arabia 'Scales Back' Goals Of Neom Megacity Project
09.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia 'Scales Back' Goals Of Neom Megacity Project Via Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia has scaled back some of its ambitions for its desert megacity Neom, according to a report by Bloomberg. The $1.5 trillion megacity project, which organizers claim will be 33 times the size of New York City, is due to include a 170km straight-line city. When...
NetZero And Human Rights Are Mutually Exclusive
09.04.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NetZero And Human Rights Are Mutually Exclusive Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, (Featuring: The Three Big Lies of “Climate Action”) Everybody talks a good game when asked about environmental concerns. But they underestimate what real “climate action” will cost them, personally, and they’re prone to balking when they figure...
Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore
08.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: CPI, FOMC Minutes, Q1 Earnings Kick Off And Fed Speakers Galore As DB's Henry Allen writes, markets had a rough start to Q2 last week, with the S&P 500 (-0.95%) posting its worst weekly performance in 3 months, whilst the US 30yr yield (+21.0bps) saw its biggest weekly rise since October, with yields extending gains again this...
Futures Flat As 10Y Yield Jumps To 2024 High, Bitcoin Back At Record
08.04.2024, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As 10Y Yield Jumps To 2024 High, Bitcoin Back At Record US equity futures are flat, trading around 5,252, having rebounded from session lows even as 10Y yields extend their ascent and the USD strengthens as traders further pare expectations for interest-rate cuts in the face of resilient readings on the US economy. As of 8:00am, S&P and...
Southwest Shares Fall After FAA Launches Investigation Into Engine Cover Ripping Off Its Boeing Jet
08.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Southwest Shares Fall After FAA Launches Investigation Into Engine Cover Ripping Off Its Boeing Jet Southwest Airlines shares are down around 1% in premarket trading in New York after the Federal Aviation Administration announced on Sunday that it was investigating a Houston-bound Boeing plane operated by the low-budget carrier that lost an engine...
NATO: It's Time To Cull The Snake In America's Garden
08.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO: It's Time To Cull The Snake In America's Garden Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, This week’s brouhaha in Brussels saw the Foreign Ministers of NATO emerge from their holes in the ground looking for food now that things are finally warming up for Spring. And they had a message for us: more for them and less for us. They were...
Millions Of New Illegal Immigrants Mask True State Of US Economy
07.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Millions Of New Illegal Immigrants Mask True State Of US Economy Authored by Emel Akan and Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Economists are expressing concern over the increasing number of illegal immigrants in the United States, who they believe are obscuring the actual condition of the jobs market and the U.S. economy. (Illustration...
"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...
Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals)
05.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals) First things first: unlike the last two months when both the January and February jobs prints were beyond ridiculously manipulated and goalseeked to pass a terrible number as a strong one, the March print was not a complete disaster. To be sure, superficially the March...
Proposal To Move Bank Regulation Goalposts Signals Underlying Problems In Financial System
05.04.2024, 15:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Proposal To Move Bank Regulation Goalposts Signals Underlying Problems In Financial System Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, If a formula spits out a number you don't like, just change the formula so you get a better number! That’s exactly what the Bureau of Labor Statistics did to the Consumer Price Index formula in the 1990s. Because the...
House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers
05.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers By Adam Andrzejeski of OpenTheBooks The House Freedom Caucus was founded in 2015. Self-styled fiscal conservatives promoted themselves as a bulwark against establishment spending that would bankrupt the nation. It turns out that many are better at breaking their promises than stopping...
Tesla Eyes $2-3 Billion Factory Expansion Into India
04.04.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Eyes $2-3 Billion Factory Expansion Into India If Tesla has demand worries as a result of its poor Q1 2024 delivery numbers, it sure isn't showing it. Instead the company is reported to be looking to expand even further geographically, with FT reporting this week that Tesla is eyeing India as a potential site for its next electric vehicle factory...
Futures Rebound After Powell Reassures On Rate Cuts
04.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After Powell Reassures On Rate Cuts US equity futures are higher with both Tech and small-caps outperforming, while the dollar is lower even as yields are higher from Wednesday's close. As of 7:50am, S&P futures were 0.3% higher and Nasdaq futs rose 0.4%, boosted by Powell’s comments that recent inflation figures did not “materially...
21 Milliarden Euro mehr an die EU
04.04.2024, 12:04 Uhr. tkp.at - https: - Weil das aktuelle Budget der EU nicht ausreicht, muss Österreich 21 Milliarden mehr in den Topf einzahlen. Die EU braucht mehr Geld. Das aktuelle Budget, das bis 2027 vorgesehen gewesen ist, reicht der Kommission nicht aus. Und mittlerweile hat man sich auf eine Budgeterhöhung geeinigt. Für Österreich bedeutet das, 21 Milliarden Euro mehr an die...
Bring Back Gold!
03.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bring Back Gold! Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via LewRockwell.com, In these days of rampant inflation, it’s imperative that we return to the gold standard - and the real thing too. By this I mean the classical gold standard, not the so-called “gold exchange” standard, and with no fractional reserve banking, just as the great Murray Rothbard...
Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast
02.04.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic value someone has provided to the rest of us. A rich person’s wealth — bar inheritance and cronyism — is a testament to how much they enriched us... As Johan...