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Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency
26.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency In a rollercoaster 48 hours to close the week, yesterday's early market slump (after the disappointing Meta guidance) has been fully reversed and stock futures are now pointing sharply higher after blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet with attention...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program
26.04.2024, 04:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Palmer Luckey's Anduril & General Atomics Selected By USAF For Next Round Of AI Drone Program The US Air Force's hot pursuit of drone wingmen, known as collaborative combat aircraft, flying alongside piloted stealth fighter jets such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, is a major effort to modernize its...
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...
US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site
25.04.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site The US military's ambitious project to erect a large pier off Gaza's coast (all within a war zone) to allow maritime shipments of humanitarian aid to Palestinians is off to a rocky start, after new reports that the construction site has come under fire. UN officials were reportedly...
Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined
24.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home. A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous sent me this account of the "doom loop" that is playing out in many American cities. The correspondent...
There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now
23.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now By Michael Every of Rabobank "Pass"/"Over" There is so much for markets to try to pass over right over: and they are certainly doing so. Niall Ferguson warns us again about an escalating global Cold War 2 using Tolkien as an analogy – real Tolkien, not the insult that was The Rings of Power...
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...
Iran Says It's Not Seeking Nuclear Weapons After Tit-For-Tat Strikes With Israel
23.04.2024, 20:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Says It's Not Seeking Nuclear Weapons After Tit-For-Tat Strikes With Israel Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed that Tehran is not seeking a nuclear bomb and that weapons have no place in Iran’s nuclear doctrine. "Iran has repeatedly said its nuclear program only serves peaceful purposes...
If We Want Something As Good But More Reliable, It'll Cost Much More Money
23.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If We Want Something As Good But More Reliable, It'll Cost Much More Money By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management Utopia? “We added solar and wind like it was going out of style,” said the CIO of the well-regarded US fund. “We have ample land, wind in the middle of the country.” Federal subsidies make electricity almost free. “But...
'Threat Facing Our Country Is From The Far Left' And Socialistic Thugs, Not Trump: Bill Barr
23.04.2024, 01:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Threat Facing Our Country Is From The Far Left' And Socialistic Thugs, Not Trump: Bill Barr Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former Attorney General Bill Barr dismissed the idea that former President Donald Trump is a power-hungry “right-wing dictator,” noting that the real threat facing the United States is the...
Community Notes For The Win: VP Kamala Harris' Post Gets Instantly Debunked
22.04.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Community Notes For The Win: VP Kamala Harris' Post Gets Instantly Debunked X has depended on Community Notes, a crowdsourced fact-checking feature, to address the rampant spread of misinformation. It's a much better alternative than leftist fact-checking websites that push routine misinformation and disinformation for their corporate sponsors. ...
Tit-For-Tat Responses From Beijing To Trade Restrictions May Bring About A Full-Blown Trade War
22.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tit-For-Tat Responses From Beijing To Trade Restrictions May Bring About A Full-Blown Trade War By John Liu, Zhu Lin and Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists China’s most-promising industries are facing a growing threat of trade restrictions from Western governments, blurring the outlook for stocks that have the potential...
Biden's Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women's Progress & Protections "On The Chopping Block"
21.04.2024, 21:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women's Progress & Protections "On The Chopping Block" Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration’s overhaul of Title IX met with pushback today from lawmakers in favor of preserving female-only spaces. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight...
What Are Mises' Six Lessons?
20.04.2024, 22:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Are Mises' Six Lessons? Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow has become quite popular recently. The Mises Book Store has sold out of its physical copies, and the PDF, which is available online for free, has seen over 50,000 downloads in the past few days...
Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds
20.04.2024, 16:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews, Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52 of the country’s 100 largest...
Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking "Unprecedented" Climate Emergency
19.04.2024, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moar Power: White House Considers Invoking "Unprecedented" Climate Emergency How best to grab power when there's no convenient emergency to use as excuse? Invent one! That's right: if you had 'climate emergency' on your 'list of disasters to prompt mail-in balloting' bingo card, you may soon be able to cross that square off. That's because the Biden...
The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market
18.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Freight Recession Has Now Lasted Longer Than The COVID Bull Market By Greg Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves On March 31, 2022, FreightWaves declared that a freight recession was imminent. More than two years later, the freight market remains in one of its deepest and longest recessions in history. The trucking industry is asking, “How much longer...
Google Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel
18.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Quickly Fires 28 Employees Who Protested Dealings With Israel Dozens of Google employees just learned they can't treat corporate offices like a college campus. On Wednesday, the Alphabet subsidiary rushed to fire 28 employees who were part of Tuesday sit-in protests against the company's provision of artificial intelligence and cloud services...
Bidenomics - Inflation Persists And Jobs Decay: Gingrich
18.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics - Inflation Persists And Jobs Decay: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Last week brought bad news for the American people and President Joe Biden. Inflation persists and jobs are decaying. President Joe Biden speaks about Bidenomics at CS Wind, in Pueblo, Colo., on Nov. 29, 2023. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty...
2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face
18.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face Authored by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com, (Originally published September 28, 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our...
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...
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)
18.04.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984'... Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do...
Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered
17.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman's trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker earnings...
New York College Suspends Professor "Energized" By Hamas Attack On Israel
17.04.2024, 18:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New York College Suspends Professor "Energized" By Hamas Attack On Israel Authored by Lisa Schiffren via The College Fix, A tenured professor is suspended throughout the rest of the semester after writing an essay celebrating Hamas’ attack on Israel. “McCarthyism is real. I’ve been relieved of teaching responsibilities,” Hobart and William Smith...
WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor')
17.04.2024, 16:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Down For 3rd Day After Crude Inventory Build (Thanks To Surge In 'Adjustment Factor') Oil prices are extending their decline (third day in a row) this morning as, after a tumultuous period of geopolitics, traders are returning their focus to market fundamentals. A lack (so far) of response from Israel to Iran's retaliatory attack combined with The...
Biden Calls For Tripling Tariffs On Chinese Steel Ahead Of Speech In Swing State Of Pennsylvania
17.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Tripling Tariffs On Chinese Steel Ahead Of Speech In Swing State Of Pennsylvania The White House announced on Wednesday morning that President Biden will call for tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum in a speech later today to steelworkers in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state. Biden is set to speak with United Steelworkers...
Bill Gates und die UNO zwingen den Menschen in Sierra Leone ihre digitalen IDs auf
17.04.2024, 10:50 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - The Modular Open Source Identity Platform (“MOSIP”) is a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative that provides a platform on which all countries can build their own digital ID system “for free.”Die Modular Open Source Identity Platform (“MOSIP”) ist eine Initiative der Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, die eine Plattform bereitstellt...
WTI Rally Stalls On Crude Build, White House Hints At SPR Release
16.04.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rally Stalls On Crude Build, White House Hints At SPR Release Oil prices fell for the second day in a row (albeit very modestly today) as the 'WW3-on / WW3-off' headline-swings (supply) are wearing on traders, and less-and-less dovish expectations for The Fed weigh on demand expectations "Oil traders are hunkering down as bears are increasingly...
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...
Shadowy Mayorkas-Linked NGO In Mexico Tells Border Invaders To "Vote Biden"
16.04.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shadowy Mayorkas-Linked NGO In Mexico Tells Border Invaders To "Vote Biden" The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project posted an image on X of what they say is a flyer from a non-governmental organization operating in Mexico encouraging migrants to vote for President Biden once they arrive in the United States. "Reminder to vote for President Biden...
US Housing Starts Collapsed In March - Biggest Drop Since COVID Lockdowns
16.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Housing Starts Collapsed In March - Biggest Drop Since COVID Lockdowns The roller-coaster ride in housing permits, starts, and completions in the last few months is set to continue today... and 'surprise' they did. After a big (+10.7%) surge in February, Starts crashed 14.7% MoM in March (massively worse than the 2.,4% drfop expected). Building Permits...
Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge
16.04.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge With JPM, Citi and Wells already in the books, moments ago the last "big 4" money-center bank, Bank of America reported Q1 earnings which for the most part, were stronger than expected, however there were several troubling footnotes, including a sizable, $700MM FDIC special assessment...
Water In Texas: A Window Into Problems Across The US
16.04.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Water In Texas: A Window Into Problems Across The US Authored by Suzanne Gasparatto via The Epoch Times, Humans cannot live without water, yet many of us take for granted that water is readily available. As more people move to cities, adding to already crowded populations, the availability of potable water isn’t a given any longer. While this planet...
Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture
16.04.2024, 04:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture Banks kicked off Q1 earnings last Friday with a painful start: XLF fell 1.3% on Friday alone led by a 6% plunge in JPM stock, and dropped even more on Monday despite strong results from Goldman. While JPM earnings beat (most) expectations, and left 2024 Net Interest Income guidance unchanged...
"The Vessel" Hudson Yards Sculpture To Reopen With New Suicide Prevention Safeguards
15.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Vessel" Hudson Yards Sculpture To Reopen With New Suicide Prevention Safeguards The Vessel, a popular attraction in Manhattan's Hudson Yards, is set to reopen after closing in 2021 due to multiple suicides. The beehive-like structure will now feature steel barriers on most upper levels to enhance safety, while the top level will stay closed, and...
Trump Suggests Offering Aid To Ukraine In The Form Of A Loan
14.04.2024, 03:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Suggests Offering Aid To Ukraine In The Form Of A Loan Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump has suggested that he would support Republicans approving Ukraine aid in the form of a loan, but that Europe must “equalize” its efforts to help Ukraine in its war against Russia. During a press conference at...
How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin?
13.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin? Authored by Unchained CSO Dhruv Bansal via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin is often compared to the internet in the 1990s, but I believe the better analogy is to the telegraph in the 1840s. The telegraph was the first technology to transmit encoded data at near-light speed over long distances. It marked the birth of the...
Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid
13.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic...
The Freedom That Once Was The Internet
13.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Freedom That Once Was The Internet Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen in London, England, on April 13, 2006. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) It’s dead. We might as...
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...
16 GOP Attorneys General Challenge Garland's Comments On Voting Laws
12.04.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 16 GOP Attorneys General Challenge Garland's Comments On Voting Laws Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of Republican state attorneys general are pushing back against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments made in March at a church in Selma, Alabama, where he discussed using the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints
12.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints Q1 earnings season officially opened moments ago when JPM became the first mega bank to reports results, and even though JPM beat on across the board - and even unexpectedly released reserves instead of setting money aside for yet another quarter - the stock is lower by more...
US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China
11.04.2024, 11:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Drones from American startups are glitchy and expensive prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China. The Wall Street Journal comments American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds...
It’s Time For A U.S. STEM Talent Strategy To Compete With China
11.04.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Time For A U.S. STEM Talent Strategy To Compete With China Authored by Dan Reed & Dario Gil via RealClear Wire, U.S. innovation fuels our economic strength and is vital for our national security. Released last earlier this month, the National Science Board’s congressionally mandated State of U.S. Science and Engineering Indicators report shows...
"Friendshoring" Ramps Up As Apple's Made-In-India Iphones Tops $14 Billion
10.04.2024, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Friendshoring" Ramps Up As Apple's Made-In-India Iphones Tops $14 Billion Global supply chains have fractured since former President Trump started the trade war with China. One of the largest beneficiaries is India, which has become the prime spot for "friend-shoring" US manufacturing supply chains out of the world's second-largest economy as relations...
Pump-Prices Continue To Surge, Gasoline Inventories See Small Build
10.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pump-Prices Continue To Surge, Gasoline Inventories See Small Build Crude prices slid back to unchanged this morning - from some overnight gains - after a hotter than expected CPI print took demand-seducing rate-cuts off the table. However, as Bloomberg reports, oil is still up 19% this year as OPEC+ cuts supply and geopolitical tensions across the...
Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe?
10.04.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grid Bottlenecks On The Way In Europe? A new analysis by the energy think tank Ember has found that several countries in Europe could soon face bottlenecks in their national transmission energy grids, as more solar and wind power will be generated than these networks have capacity for. As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following chart , Spain...
Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due To Rising Sea Found To Have Grown In Size
10.04.2024, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due To Rising Sea Found To Have Grown In Size Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org, An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase...
Pump-Prices Surge To 6-Month Highs Ahead Of CPI, Crude Inventories See Another Build
09.04.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pump-Prices Surge To 6-Month Highs Ahead Of CPI, Crude Inventories See Another Build Crude prices slipped lower today (along with everything else around 10amET ish), but never recovered (unlike stocks), as traders weighed prospects for a ceasefire in Gaza against ongoing risks to oil supplies in the Middle East. "The Middle East remains a powder keg...