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The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland?
25.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed in an interview during his latest trip to the US that “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of nuclear sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we...
ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary
25.04.2024, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, On Friday, the 31st anniversary of the massacre of Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, the ATF issued new regulations that make it more difficult to comply with federal laws regulating gun dealing and background checks. Since the 1930s, federal law has required gun...
Skincare Firm Vows To Rid 'Ozempic Face' In New Marketing Push
25.04.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Skincare Firm Vows To Rid 'Ozempic Face' In New Marketing Push One side effect of GLP-1 medications for weight loss is "Ozempic Face." This happens when the rapid loss of body fat produces a hollowed-looking face, wrinkles, sunken eyes, and changes in the size of the lips, cheeks, and chin. To counter this, skincare companies are ramping up the marketing...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good)
24.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What The Rising Gold Price Signals (Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good) Authored by Antonius Aquinas, The recent run-up in the gold price has not garnered the attention among the mainstream financial media outlets as it should. Gold has, in part, been overshadowed by the rise in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Naturally, the financial...
Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse
23.04.2024, 15:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Area PMI Activity Hits 11 Month High On Service Expansion As Manufacturing Recession Gets Worse Europe's study in paradoxical contrasts continues. On the same day, ECB's de Guindos said a June rate cut looks like a set deal (unless there are surprises) with the end of inflation fight is in sight, the Euro-area's private-sector activity advanced to...
Large Structural Short Will Drive Yen Much Higher
23.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Structural Short Will Drive Yen Much Higher Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Focus has been on the growing short position in the yen. But the total size is likely to be small in the scheme of things. The real story is the lack of domestic hedging leading to a large structural short in the yen which will drive the currency...
On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant
23.04.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com U.S. President Joe Biden is announcing on Monday $7 billion in grants to help more than 900,000 low-income households install residential solar power, the White House said. President Biden will mark today’s Earth Day by traveling to...
No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report
22.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An independent governmental watchdog investigation concluded that there was no evidence to support that the FBI was targeting Catholics based on a leaked memo. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan...
The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings
22.04.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings By Alex Kimani of OilPrice Following a strong rally amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, oil prices have pulled back sharply in the current week as demand worries outweigh geopolitical concerns. WTI crude for May delivery has declined 5.1% from the Friday close to trade at $83...
How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000
22.04.2024, 10:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000 Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so after the COVID-19 pandemic. To gain perspective on this long-term trend, Visual Capitalist's Marcu Lu visualized the debt-to-GDP ratios of advanced economies, as of 2000 and 2024...
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...
Is There A Road-Map For What's Ahead?
21.04.2024, 17:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is There A Road-Map For What's Ahead? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, One of our primary survival traits is the ability to anticipate the future to avoid threats and reap higher yields. We seek a vantage point to view the road ahead, or even better a road map to what's ahead. Is there a road map to what's ahead? An enormous amount of...
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...
Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are "Permanently" Disappearing
21.04.2024, 02:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are "Permanently" Disappearing The days of million dollar analyst jobs in the securities industry in China look to be all but gone. That was the topic of a new Bloomberg article last week which detailed exactly how the industry is "retrenching after years of expansion". Bloomberg's description of the industry's cutbacks...
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...
The Regime That Doesn't Care
20.04.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Regime That Doesn't Care Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all come across warnings against doom scrolling. This is the practice of waking up in the morning, scouring headlines, seizing on the bad news, and dwelling on the darkness. You do this during downtimes in the day and in the evening. Your mood worsens, permanently....
What Happened To Bitcoin?
19.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled...
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...
World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts
19.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Recently the World Bank released a handbook for asset managers on why to invest in gold. At Gainesville Coins I have written numerous articles on gold revaluation accounts and how these can be deployed by central banks to absorb...
Netflix Reports Blowout Q1 Results And Subscriber Adds But Warns Gains Will Slow, Stock Slides
18.04.2024, 22:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netflix Reports Blowout Q1 Results And Subscriber Adds But Warns Gains Will Slow, Stock Slides After suffering a historic collapse at the end of 2021, when in the span of five months Netflix lost 75% of its value, and when Ackman first bought then immediately dump the stock just around the generational bottom, the company has enjoyed a stellar recovery...
SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market
18.04.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market Let's start with these five most recent headlines that show why defense spending needs to increase in a world evolving into a multi-polar state marked by conflict and uncertainty: World Stumbles Into "More Dangerous Decade" As Defense Spending Soars, Says Military...
Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims
17.04.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beige Book Reveals Economy In Far Worse Shape Than White House Claims There was something odd about the latest Beige book (which was prepared based on information collected on or before April 8, 2024, so before the latest CPI print): if accurate, it would suggest that the rosy economic picture painted by the White House is woefully incorrect, whether...
Unterschiede in der vom Impfstoff und der SARS-CoV-2-Replikation abgeleiteten mRNA: Implikationen für die Zellbiologie und zukünftige Krankheiten
17.04.2024, 10:53 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Codon optimization describes the process used to increase protein production by use of alterna-tive but synonymous codon changes. In SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines codon optimizations can result in differential secondary conformations that inevitably affect a protein’s function with sig-nificant consequences to the cell. Importantly, when codon optimization...
Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Student IDs For Voting
17.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Student IDs For Voting Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court of Idaho on Thursday, April 11, upheld recent legislative amendments to the state’s voter identification requirements, affirming a lower court’s ruling in favor of the Idaho Secretary of State, Phil McGrane, which...
Democracy Dies In Primaries
16.04.2024, 21:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democracy Dies In Primaries Authored by Nick Troiano via RealClear Wire, Hillary Clinton recently told voters unhappy with the two 2024 presidential candidates this year: “Get over yourself.” With that comment, she not only dismissed the tens of millions of voters who had no say in choosing Biden and Trump, but also the two-thirds of voters overall...
Selected Articles: The Great Dispossession: Turning Our Property in Financial Assets Into the Property of “Secured Creditors”
16.04.2024, 16:52 Uhr. Global Research - https: - The Great Dispossession: Turning Our Property in Financial Assets Into the Property of “Secured Creditors” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 16, 2024 Billionaires’ campaign donations elect the politicians, and what the regulatory changes do to billionaires is to … The post Selected Articles: The Great Dispossession: Turning Our Property in...
Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues
16.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues Morgan Stanley shares are quickly recovering from last week's mauling (after WSJ reported regulatory probes of how the bank handles wealth management clients “who are at risk of laundering money"), this morning after reporting Q1 wealth management and equities trading revenue that beat expectations...
Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts
16.04.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can...
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...
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...
Biden's Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976
13.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976 Joe Biden's sticky inflation continues to ravage the working poor as Bidenomics falls flat on its face. The president's ally at the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has yet to achieve the 2% inflation Fed target ahead of the November elections. As inflation heats...
Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill
13.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill Google has temporarily blocked access to California-based news outlets for some state residents, as the search giant escalates its battle with the state over a landmark bill which would force tech giants to pay online publishers for their content. In doing so, the company has revived...
Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction
13.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction One week after the Biden administration slapped new regulations on key power grid components, the Washington Post reports that US oil and gas companies will face a 15-fold increase in costs to drill on federal land, under a new rule released on Friday...
"A Matter Of Economic And National Security": Sen. Brown Urges Biden To Ban Chinese EVs In US
12.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "A Matter Of Economic And National Security": Sen. Brown Urges Biden To Ban Chinese EVs In US U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has urged President Biden to ban Chinese-made electric vehicles to safeguard Ohio autoworkers and address the economic and national security risks from Chinese automakers. In a letter to President Biden this week, Brown highlighted...
How Ivermectin Trials Were Designed To Fail
12.04.2024, 03:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Ivermectin Trials Were Designed To Fail Authored by Yuhong Dong via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 is an ongoing debate. The central conflict is that while many doctors have reported success in using ivermectin, some studies published in major journals suggest it is in fact ineffective. (eloresnorwood/Shutterstock)...
From Taiwan To Fentanyl: Biden–Xi Dialogue Changes Nothing
12.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Taiwan To Fentanyl: Biden–Xi Dialogue Changes Nothing Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference after meeting with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' week in Woodside, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP...
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...
Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations
11.04.2024, 18:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts July, August, and September will be hotter than usual. And for those who view warmer temperatures...
The Case For Owning Treasuries Is Evaporating
11.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Case For Owning Treasuries Is Evaporating Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Contrarians will love this column as it will show there is still no smoking gun for a recession in the US. They might see that as proof then that one must be imminent and yields are going much lower. But contrarianism for its own sake is rarely a good...
The End Of The Neo-Liberal Order
11.04.2024, 05:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The End Of The Neo-Liberal Order Authored by 'Dalwhinnie' via BombThrower.com, It’s no longer about markets. It’s about identity. The historian Prof. Gary Gerstle maintained that the neo liberal order was coming to an end, that free movement of goods, money, ideas and talent characterized the neo liberal order and that it was in the process of losing...
California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income
11.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income Authored by Jane L. Johnson via The Mises Institute, Utility bills - for electricity, natural gas, water, and garbage - have by long-standing tradition been based on customer usage, measured in kilowatt-hours of electricity, therms or Btu of natural gas, hundred cubic feet of water...
US Deficit Tops $1.1 Trillion For First Six Months Of Fiscal 2024 As Spending Hits 2024 High
11.04.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Deficit Tops $1.1 Trillion For First Six Months Of Fiscal 2024 As Spending Hits 2024 High It's oddly fitting that in a time when the interest on US debt just hit a record $1.1 trillion, that the US deficit for just the first six months of fiscal 2024 is also $1.1 trillion. According to the latest Treasury Monthly Statement, in March the US deficit...
House Conservatives Tank FISA Bill in Blow to Speaker Johnson
10.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Conservatives Tank FISA Bill in Blow to Speaker Johnson By Joseph Lord of The Epoch Times House conservatives on April 10 tanked a procedural vote to advance a surveillance power reauthorization bill in protest against its lack of warrant requirements. The development is another blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) who already faces an ouster...
U.S. Foreign Aid Is Broken but Fixable
10.04.2024, 19:51 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Donald Trump’s threats to cut all spending can spur actual changes....
Congress Bribes Itself To Renew Dystopian FISA 'Sham Reforms' That Actually 'Codify Status Quo'
10.04.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Congress Bribes Itself To Renew Dystopian FISA 'Sham Reforms' That Actually 'Codify Status Quo' Late last year, Congress elected to punt the issue of FISA renewal - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that was designed to surveil terrorists in foreign countries, and has since been horrendously abused by the US intelligence community to target...
"Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print
10.04.2024, 15:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Obviously, This Is Very Bad News For Biden": Wall Street Reacts To Today's Red Hot Inflation Print Coming into today's CPI number, which followed three previous red-hot inflation prints, we said that it's time for a "miss" (the first of 2024) not because the data demands it - on the contrary, prices continue to rise at a frightening pace - but because...
Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report
10.04.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures On Edge Ahead Of Critical CPI Report Futures are up small before the March CPI data was expected to show further moderation in price pressures following stronger readings at the start of the year, with Mag7 mixed and Semis lower, tracking bigger gains in Europe. Bond yields are uniformly 1bps lower, USD is off a touch, and commodities are mostly...