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Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further
06.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) - the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness - was released and revealed more of the same: despite...
How Iran’s Attack Could Change Israeli Strategy
06.05.2024, 18:24 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The April 14 missile barrage showed Israel that it cannot prevail against Iran on its own....
Shell Sold Millions In Carbon Credits That It Never Earned
06.05.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shell Sold Millions In Carbon Credits That It Never Earned The carbon credit con band plays on... The most recent chapter in the 'green' initiative has been supermajor Shell being found to have sold 'phantom' carbon credits that were twice the volume of emissions the company actually avoided, according to FT. Shell has reportedly sold millions of carbon...
Russia's Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercises Are Meant To Deter A NATO Intervention In Ukraine
06.05.2024, 16:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercises Are Meant To Deter A NATO Intervention In Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Sputnik reported on Monday that the Russian General Staff is preparing to carry out drills for practicing the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which follows Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova warning over the...
OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June
06.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June By John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters Saudi Arabia and its allies in OPEC⁺ are likely to keep oil production unchanged for a further three months when ministers review output allocations on June 1. The tightening of petroleum supplies and depletion of inventories widely anticipated at the start...
Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices
06.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk The lie of the day is from the EPA: Carbon capture will pay for itself (thanks to IRA subsidies). No, it won’t even with subsidies. Expect blackouts and a higher price for electricity. Suite of Standards to Raise Costs, Reduce Output Let’s take...
Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6
06.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ryan Taylor Nichols, a Marine Corps veteran and disaster-rescue specialist who argued that post-traumatic stress drove his behavior at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on May 2 to more than five...
Texas AG Threatens "Every Possible Response" After Defiant Austin Allows "Gender Affirming" Care For Minors
06.05.2024, 04:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas AG Threatens "Every Possible Response" After Defiant Austin Allows "Gender Affirming" Care For Minors Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has responded to a defiant decision by the Austin City Council (ACC), which voted on Thursday to ignore a state law which prohibits "gender transitioning or gender reassignment procedure or treatment" for minors...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"
06.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to...
Open The Overton Window
05.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Open The Overton Window Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, You may have heard of the “Overton window.” The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there. There are things you can say and things you...
Change Of S&P Leadership Suggests Bottom Is Near
05.05.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Change Of S&P Leadership Suggests Bottom Is Near Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, A change in sector leadership in US stocks suggests the correction might soon be over and a bottom is not too far away. The tech sector has led the recent advance in the US stock-market (i.e. the sector with the highest three-month return on a three-month...
Matt Taibbi Uncensored: Finance Nothing More Than A 'Street Scam'
05.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Matt Taibbi Uncensored: Finance Nothing More Than A 'Street Scam' Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The opportunity to secure an exclusive interview with Matt Taibbi is something I thought I’d never get…but alas, here we are. Taibbi is the head of Racket News and his reputation as a fearless investigative journalist precedes him. From his groundbreaking...
Alle republikanischen US-Senatoren haben einen Brief an Präsident Biden unterzeichnet, in dem sie ihn zur Ablehnung des WHO-Pakts auffordern
05.05.2024, 06:26 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - The WHOs' failure during the COVID-19 pandemic was as total as it was predictable and did lasting harm ot our country. The United States cannot afford ot ignore this latest WHO inability ot perform its most basic function and must insist on comprehensive WHO reforms before even considering amendments ot hte International Health Regulations (IHR) or...
The Interlocking Of Strategic Paradigms
05.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Interlocking Of Strategic Paradigms Authored by Alastair Crooke via the Ron Paul Institute, Theodore Postol, Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy at MIT, has provided a forensic analysis of the videos and evidence emerging from Iran’s 13th April swarm drone and missile ‘demonstration’ attack into Israel: A ‘message’...
Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List
05.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Stepping Up 'Decapitation Strikes' - Belatedly Adds Zelensky to Criminal 'Wanted' List Days ago, for the first time Russian forces mounted a major air attack on the Ukrainian command's southern headquarters in the port city of Odessa. This suggests Moscow is increasingly targeting Ukraine's top command and control centers. There's been another...
Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won't, Why?
04.05.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won't, Why? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, “Unaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.” Europeans Ditch Net Zero The Wall Street Journal reports Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It You know you’ve stumbled through the looking...
"Reasons Unknown": Floating Russian Oil Base Off Greece Abruptly Shifts South
04.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Reasons Unknown": Floating Russian Oil Base Off Greece Abruptly Shifts South Traders and shipping companies have ensured millions of barrels of Russian crude and crude products flow around the world despite European Union sanctions against Moscow for its 'special operation' in Ukraine. One method to ensure the flow has been cargo switching at...
'Razor's Edge': PM Orbán Calls For Europeans To Vote For Pro-Peace Parties In June EU Elections
04.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Razor's Edge': PM Orbán Calls For Europeans To Vote For Pro-Peace Parties In June EU Elections Authored by Dénes Albert via ReMix, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is warning that only electing conservative candidates to the European Parliament and replacing the EU’s current leadership will lead to peace in Ukraine. “The whole European...
The US Is The Only G-7 Nation To See Trust In Government Plummet
04.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Is The Only G-7 Nation To See Trust In Government Plummet How much do you trust the government, and its various institutions? It’s likely that your level of confidence probably depends on a wide range of factors, such as perceived competency, historical context, economic performance, accountability, social cohesion, and transparency. And for...
26 States File Lawsuits In Federal Courts Over ATF Redefinition Of Gun Dealers
04.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 26 States File Lawsuits In Federal Courts Over ATF Redefinition Of Gun Dealers Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Attorneys general representing half of the country on May 1 sued President Joe Biden’s administration over a new rule requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales, including private sales. Democratic...
Major Australian Pension Fund To Restrict Coal Investments
04.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major Australian Pension Fund To Restrict Coal Investments By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Australian Retirement Trust, which manages $183 billion (AUS$280 billion) of retirement savings, is placing thermal coal on its exclusion list as of July 1, as it looks to have a net-zero emissions portfolio by 2050. Thermal coal includes the mining of lignite...
The Cold Hard Truth About Renewable Energy Adoption
03.05.2024, 19:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Cold Hard Truth About Renewable Energy Adoption Authored by Haley Zaremba via oilprice.com, The future of the global energy sector is caught up in a messy and misleading ideological debate. Depending on which politically informed echo chamber one inevitably finds themself confined to on social media, they are either told that the energy transition...
A U.S.-Saudi Deal Without Israel Is an Illusion
03.05.2024, 17:45 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The hype about a bilateral agreement is misplaced. Diplomatic normalization and a Palestinian state are needed to really change the regional playing field....
April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Payrolls Debacle: Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises Ahead of today's payrolls report, in our preview we said that while we knew we would get a slowdown, the question was how big it would be (and before that we also asked if Yellen had leaked the weaker number to Japan ahead of their multiple interventions this week to prevent...
Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Now that Congress rammed through a huge weapons package for Ukraine, what will Ukraine do with the weapons and how long will they last? Ukraine’s Real Bottleneck Ukraine touts Russian casualties, no doubt exaggerated, while Russian published...
Every Conservative Party In Europe Needs To Prepare For Mass Censorship, Warns Flemish MEP
03.05.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Every Conservative Party In Europe Needs To Prepare For Mass Censorship, Warns Flemish MEP By Thomas Brooke of RMXnews.com In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Gerolf Annemans, the Vlaams Belang MEP and president of the European Identity and Democracy group, warns that even greater censorship of conservatives is just around the corner, and tells...
Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable?
03.05.2024, 06:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are The 'Magnificent' Stocks Now Unbeatable? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The largest firms in the US are unsurpassably pulling ahead of their smaller rivals by earning more, investing more, holding more cash and buying back more of their stock. The bull market is thus likely to remain historically lackluster and less...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
WATCH: How to Scale a Paywall (and other useful tips) – #SolutionsWatch
02.05.2024, 20:06 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James goes over 5 tech tips that will help improve your browsing and online research experience. NOTE: As always, your mileage will vary with these tactics and they can/will change in the future. Do you have a tech tip? Leave it in the comments below. Previous #SolutionsWatch videos featuring research …...
Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility
02.05.2024, 17:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Rising volatility in USD/JPY will make the yen carry trade less attractive. Dollar-yen is now more correlated with US 2-year yields compared to the 10 year, meaning FX volatility is likely to keep rising the closer the Federal Reserve gets...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Fighting Monsters
02.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fighting Monsters Authored by CJ Hopkins via off-guardian.org, Fighting monsters by serbiandude Published: Jan 3, 2023 So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down. As my readers...
A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
01.05.2024, 23:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Nearly one year ago, Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s removal from office. Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her abrasive politics. In her place was Brandon Johnson,...
Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser?
01.05.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser? The Fed meeting later today has had the market feeling (and positioned for) “HAWKISHNESS,” especially after the ECI pile-on yesterday, which didn’t simply “upside surprise,” but re-accelerated to 1.2% after ending 2023 at 0.9%, and showing that persistent wage pressures further...
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
01.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on the 10 year treasury...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin
01.05.2024, 15:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin Having already revealed its borrowing estimates for Q2 and Q3 on Monday, where we learned that the Treasury expects to sell $41BN more debt than previously expected in Q2, but offset by a...
Pro-Gaza UCLA Activists Refuse Entry To Non-Allied Students
01.05.2024, 14:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pro-Gaza UCLA Activists Refuse Entry To Non-Allied Students It's like the Seattle CHAZ encampment all over again. Far-left activists have declared the UCLA campus a "liberated zone" and are refusing entry for many students not affiliated with the pro-Gaza protests. They have erected barriers and placed guards, creating makeshift checkpoints which...
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
Thankfully, There Are No Russia-EU Fertilizer Pipelines For West To Blow Up
01.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thankfully, There Are No Russia-EU Fertilizer Pipelines For West To Blow Up The chief executive of Yara International, Europe's largest fertilizer producer, warned the bloc is quickly "sleepwalking" into over-dependence on Russian fertilizers. This caution comes as Yara significantly reduced its production last year. Additionally, radicals in Brussels...
Eurozone Exits Recession
01.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eurozone Exits Recession By Maartje Wijffelaars and Elwin de Groot of Rabobank Eurozone leaves recessionary territory The Eurozone economy grew by 0.3% q/q at the start of the year, exceeding expectations. Growth follows two quarters in which the economy mildly contracted. Among the largest member states, Spain again took the lead, growing by a stunning...
Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
01.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClear Investigations, In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden...
"House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy
01.05.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy China's Politburo meeting on economic policy took place today, and as SocGen's Wei Yao reports, the most important takeaway from the meeting is that policymakers are shifting their attention to housing destocking, as they pledged to 'study measures'. As usual about...
Health Canada Asked Pfizer For DNA Fragments Size In COVID Shots, Linked To 'Probability' Of Genomic 'Integration'
01.05.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Health Canada Asked Pfizer For DNA Fragments Size In COVID Shots, Linked To 'Probability' Of Genomic 'Integration' Authored by Noé Chartier via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Canada’s drug regulator asked Pfizer to provide data on the size of DNA fragments in its COVID-19 vaccine, due to genomic integration concerns, shortly after learning the...
South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term
01.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term Back in 2011, around the time gold hits its previous cycle high, South Korea surprised the fiat world when it revealed that it had spent more than a billion dollars in its first gold purchase in more than a decade, as uncertainty about global growth and sovereign debt push central...
Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana
30.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana The Associated Press has learned the US Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to reclassify marijuana to a less dangerous drug category. Shares of cannabis-related companies erupted on the news. Here's more from AP news: The DEA's proposal, which still must be reviewed...
Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming
30.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bullish Sentiment Index Reverses With Buybacks Resuming Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Over the last two weeks, the bullish sentiment index has reversed from extreme greed to fear. The composite net bullish sentiment index, comprised of professional and retail investors, fell from 38.15 to 9.9 in two weeks. The previous drop...
US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024
30.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Dip On Last Day Of April, First Down Month Of 2024 US equity futures dropped, and European markets were mixed on the last day of the month amid concerns the Fed may stick to its hawkish messaging at its meeting on Wednesday. As of 7:40am, S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures were down 0.1% while Europe’s Stoxx 600 index retreated 0.4%, while Asian...
How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else
30.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How EU Law Has Made The Internet Less Free For Everyone Else Authored by Mustafa Ekin Turan via The Mises Institute, If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright...