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The Audacity Of Merrick Garland: Julie Kelly
22.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Audacity Of Merrick Garland: Julie Kelly Authored by Julie Kelly via The Florida Capital Star (emphasis ours), FBI agents last week arrested a man from Maine for his involvement in the events of January 6. According to a Department of Justice press release, Lincoln Deming spent about 30 minutes inside the building after entering through an open...
San Francisco Remains The Top Startup City On The World
22.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - San Francisco Remains The Top Startup City On The World A richly connected network of founders, venture capital firms, and tech talent are some of the key ingredients driving a startup ecosystem. As engines of growth, these tech clusters are evolving on a global scale. While the world’s leading startup cities are concentrated in America, several ecosystems...
Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues
22.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum Jumps To 23-Month High Amid Ongoing Aussie Production Issues From coffee to cocoa, orange juice to gold, and silver to copper, commodity prices are spiking across the board (we outlined this on Monday). The latest surge occurred Tuesday when aluminum tagged 23-month highs due to ongoing production issues emerging from Australia. The broad-based...
"The End Of Everything": Victor Davis Hanson On The Gravest Threats To America
22.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The End Of Everything": Victor Davis Hanson On The Gravest Threats To America Via The Epoch Times, In a recent episode of American Thought Leaders, host Jan Jekielek sat down with classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson. In his new book “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation,” Mr. Hanson looks at four civilizations...
Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think
21.05.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Benchmarking Your Portfolio May Have More Risk Than You Think Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentdvice.com, During ripping bull markets, investors often start benchmarking. That is comparing their portfolio’s performance against a major index—most often, the S&P 500 index. While that activity is heavily encouraged by Wall Street and the...
Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy
21.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mainstream Finally Gets It... The AI Investment Play Isn't Tech, It's Energy Almost two months ago, we highlighted what we called at the time 'The Next AI Trade' - that in fact it is not the tech itself, but the electrical power required to run the tech that is the limiting factor on the growth of AI (and Data Center) expansion. These pages have been...
How Private Equity "Adds Value" In A Fiat-Financed World
21.05.2024, 15:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Private Equity "Adds Value" In A Fiat-Financed World Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, This past weekend I was at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference in Montreal, where I moderated a panel on Bitcoin As A Treasury Asset For Corporations. At the time I disclosed that 100% of easyDNS‘ retained earnings are in Bitcoin – and that the...
Several States Take Steps To Block A Central Bank Digital Currency
21.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Several States Take Steps To Block A Central Bank Digital Currency Authored by Mike Maharrey via Money Metals, Several states have taken action over the last two years in an effort to block the implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States. Indiana was the first state to pass legislation relating to central bank digital...
Maybe We're Closer To "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize
20.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maybe We're Closer To "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to "you'll appear to own things you don't actually control and be happy." The World Economic Forum's catchphrase you'll own nothing and be happy was widely mocked as an eyebrow-raising vision of a "sharing...
Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold And Silver
20.05.2024, 22:13 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - After Utah, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Kentucky, Alabama became the fifth state to have passed legislation supporting sound money by abolishing income taxes on gold and silver. Today, Alabama took a significant step toward promoting sound money concepts when Governor Kay Ivey signed a law eliminating all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of...
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows
20.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein Steps Down Amid Relentless ETF Outflows Michael Sonnenshein has stepped down from his role as the CEO of Grayscale Investments, the WSJ reported. “I would like to thank Barry Silbert for his vision and partnership and for entrusting me to lead Grayscale’s business. The crypto asset class is at an important inflection...
Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver
20.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Signed Into Law: Alabama Abolishes Income Taxes On Gold and Silver Via Money Metals, (Birmingham, Alabama - May 14, 2024) – Alabama Governor Kay Ivey last week signed a bill that removes all income taxes on capital gains from the sale of gold and silver, enabling the state to take an important step forward in reinforcing sound money principles. With...
Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers
20.05.2024, 15:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Quiet Week: Nvidia Earnings, FOMC Minutes, And Tons Of Fed Speakers After last week's non-stop rollercoaster, it will be a quieter week ahead for global macro with perhaps the most interesting event of the week being Nvidia's earnings on Wednesday. The company always reports a couple of weeks after the main stretch of US earnings season...
American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo
19.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - American & Foreigners Reportedly In Custody After Deadly Coup Attempt, Shootout In Congo Military leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DR Congo) said they have put down an attempted coup in a dramatic Sunday incident which included a large shootout erupting in the capital of Kinshasa. At least three men have been reported killed, with...
Inflation Is A Policy. Gold Does Not Reflect Monetary Destruction, Yet
19.05.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inflation Is A Policy. Gold Does Not Reflect Monetary Destruction, Yet Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The money supply is rising again, and persistent inflation is not a surprise. Inflation occurs when the amount of currency increases significantly above private sector demand. For investors, the worst decision in this environment of monetary destruction...
Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation
19.05.2024, 18:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I was extraordinarily appreciative when executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor sat down with me this weekend for an exclusive interview. What’s inside this exclusive Fringe Finance interview with Michael...
When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking
18.05.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking Authored by Paul Mueller via The American Institute for Economic Research, Sometimes smart people make remarkably naïve or deeply problematic comments because their view of the world has been molded by narrow ideology, reinforced by significant consensus in their social circles. Recently Esther Duflo...
Warsaw's Left-Wing Mayor Bans Display Of Christian Crosses In Public Buildings
18.05.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Warsaw's Left-Wing Mayor Bans Display Of Christian Crosses In Public Buildings Authored by Grzegorz Adamczyk via ReMix News, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski has signed an order banning the display of religious symbols such as the Christian cross in public buildings. The move is said to be driven by a desire to combat discrimination. “Warsaw is...
Military Operations in Civilian Disguise – Part 3
18.05.2024, 09:05 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - Originally published by Propaganda in Focus. Part One of this article is available here and here, Part Two here and here. Since government must be involved in the accumulation of capital to legitimate its activities, and since humans are, in the eyes of government, key resources, government must therefore be involved in activities that manage, …...
Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone
18.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Houthis Shoot Down A 4th US Reaper Drone Yemen's Iran-linked Houthis have announced that they have shot down yet another $30 million American military drone. Footage is widely circulating of what appears to be the wreckage of an MQ-9 Reaper drone in Yemen, but the Pentagon has not yet confirmed. Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya...
The Decay Of Everyday Life
17.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Decay Of Everyday Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So where does this leave us? We're on our own. This month I've described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge
17.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply...
Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning?
17.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Every year, investors anxiously await the release of Warren Buffett’s annual letter to see what the “Oracle of Omaha” says about the markets, the economy, and where he is placing his money. “One of the longest-running traditions in modern finance...
GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market
17.05.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GameStop Crashes On Plan To Dump 45 Million Shares On Market Sunday: pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS — Roaring Kitty ( TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024 Roaring Kitty's post on X unleashed a mega short squeeze in heavily shorted Gamestop and AMC Entertainment Holdings between Monday and Wednesday. On the first day of the mania, we pointed out, "You...
Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short
17.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Greenlight Employee Offers To Debate David Einhorn Over Merits Of Tesla Short A former Greenlight Capital employee, who is embroiled in a lawsuit against his former employer for defamation, claims the firm "fundamentally misunderestimates" Tesla and is seeking to debate Greenlight President David Einhorn on the topic. On a post on X, the employee...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
These Are The 10 Countries Most In Debt To The IMF
17.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The 10 Countries Most In Debt To The IMF Established in 1944, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) supports countries’ economic growth by providing financial aid and guidance on policies to enhance stability, productivity, and job opportunities. Countries seek loans from the IMF to address economic crises, stabilize their currencies, implement...
Cocoa Bull Pierre Andurand Warns Of 'Price Explosion' If Stock-To-Grinding Ratio Collapses
17.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Bull Pierre Andurand Warns Of 'Price Explosion' If Stock-To-Grinding Ratio Collapses Commodity trader Pierre Andurand appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots to discuss his bullish bet on cocoa markets and the future direction of physical markets amid severe droughts plaguing vast farmlands in West Africa. He's still bullish on cocoa prices, with an...
"We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia
16.05.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We've Had A Hell Of A Run": Stanley Druckenmiller Sells 441,000 Shares Of Nvidia Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, head of the Duquesne Family Office, sees the artificial intelligence bubble as overextended. He has slashed some of his holdings in "Magnificent Seven" technology stocks, including Nvidia. He's not alone. Other notable fund...
Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal
16.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldbugs Waited Years For A Massive Comex Short Squeeze, And Finally Got It... Just In The Wrong Metal For much of the past decade, gold bugs religiously tracked the physical gold inventory located in the various gold vaults that make up the Comex system, eagerly awaiting the day when there would be more deliverables (via paper shorting of gold) than...
America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World
16.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World By Michael Every of Rabobank Stocks up, Stonks up, bonds up, gold up, crypto up, and copper up to a new record high. Almost everything rocketed after US CPI came a slither lower than expected --and 30 minutes earlier than scheduled on the BLS website, which markets looking...
Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock
16.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank needs to spend long weekends at his thoroughbred horse breeding farm in steeplechase country in upper Baltimore County to reflect on what has happened to the sportswear company over the past decade...
Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed
16.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed About a month ago, HSBC Global Research noted a forecast for a "weak" bull market in commodities. New data shows that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April rose by .3% from the previous month and by 3.4% year-over-year. Although inflation is still increasing,...
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable"
16.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" Interview with Martin Armstrong by Piero Messina for SouthFront Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
France Declares State Of Emergency, Sends Troops, To Quell Deadly Riots In Pacific Territory
16.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Declares State Of Emergency, Sends Troops, To Quell Deadly Riots In Pacific Territory French President Emmanuel Macron has declared a 12-day state of emergency starting Wednesday as a result of deadly riots which have gripped France's Indo-Pacific territory of New Caledonia. Four people died and many others were wounded in clashes with police...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
Paris Will Be Off-Limits Without QR Code This Summer
15.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to the Ministry of the Interior, due to the upcoming Olympics in 2024, Paris will be off-limits without a QR code this summer. Certain parts of the capital will be divided into zones starting on July 18 and running through August 11 for the duration of the Olympic Games. To navigate these zones, you’ll […] The post Paris Will Be...
Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow
15.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the pandemic-related bazooka of fiscal stimulus, the outstanding Federal debt has risen appreciably. In nominal dollar terms, the recent debt surge is mindboggling. However, the increase is on par with the government’s negligent ways over the last...
First ATM, Now Debt-For-Equity Swap, AMC Drains Equity In Bid To Stay Alive
15.05.2024, 16:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First ATM, Now Debt-For-Equity Swap, AMC Drains Equity In Bid To Stay Alive Volatility in "meme stocks" continued in premarket trading on Wednesday as AMC Entertainment Holdings announced a debt-for-equity exchange for $163.9 million in bonds maturing in 2026. This strategy mirrors management's approach that helped the struggling movie theater...
"Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print
15.05.2024, 15:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Trifecta Of Dovish News... Consistent With Fed Cutting In September": Wall Street Reacts To Weaker CPI Print With the CPI report came in on top of expectations on 3 of the 4 closely watched metrics, with just headline CPI coming in at 0.3%, just shy of the 0.4% expected (with the retail sales print coming in far uglier and missing across the board)...
Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot
15.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico has been shot, according to breaking news reports, after which he was rushed to the hospital and appears to be alive according ot early reports. According to emerging details in The Associated Press, Fico "was injured in a shooting and taken...
US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print
15.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print Equity futures were set to hold yesterday's gains ahead of today's CPI report, but will move violently either higher or lower after today's CPI number is released, which will either validate or reject Jerome Powell’s latest signals that interest rates will be higher for longer (our CPI preview is here)...
Fiscal Bazooka: China Considers Buying Millions Of Homes To Save Property Market
15.05.2024, 13:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fiscal Bazooka: China Considers Buying Millions Of Homes To Save Property Market In April's politburo meeting, the Chinese government's newfound focus on an oversupplied housing market was setting the stage to usher in new rescue policies to stabilize the economy. Weeks later, Bloomberg reported that the government was considering a plan for local...
Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip
15.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip Following several weeks of stepped-up Russian aerial attacks which have pummeled Ukraine's energy and electrical grid, state power operator Ukrenergo on Tuesday announced that rolling emergency blackouts have gone into effect across the country. It comes amid a drop in temperatures which...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies
14.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Entrepreneurs Face Major Headwinds Due To Big Government Policies Authored by Alfredo Ortiz via RealClearPolicy, The specter of stagflation has returned. On April 25th, The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that GDP only grew by 1.6% in the first quarter of this year, well below expectations. Consumer spending on goods actually declined in...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
14.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I've Got A Bad Feeling About This By Michael Every of Rabobank Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade...
Supreme Court Justices Thomas And Alito Issue Warnings About State Of America
14.05.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Justices Thomas And Alito Issue Warnings About State Of America Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In separate remarks at two different events on Friday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued warnings about the state of affairs in America today, including support for freedom of speech “declining...
AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher
14.05.2024, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher With AMC Entertainment and GameStop's short squeezes causing significant losses for short sellers on Monday, we noted the growing likelihood that "bankers are burning the phones at GME and AMC pitching ATM equity offerings for after the close." You know jefferies bankers are burning...