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"We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road"
15.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Deal With The Debt" - Goldman CEO Warns Interest Costs On America's Ballooning Borrowings Means "Issues Down The Road" Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Goldman Sachs CEO David M. Solomon is the latest business leader to sound the alarm on the Biden administration’s deficit spending, which comes as the cost of...
Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs
14.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese...
'I Gave Up Shame Years Ago': Clinton Denounces Trump For Doing What She Did In 2016
14.05.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'I Gave Up Shame Years Ago': Clinton Denounces Trump For Doing What She Did In 2016 Authored by Jonathan Turley, “I gave up shame years ago.” Those words from actor John Lithgow appear to have been taken to heart by Hillary Clinton who has severed any sense of self-awareness or shame in her public comments. Lithgow, who played Bill Clinton in Broadway...
Who Are We Protecting, And From What?
13.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Are We Protecting, And From What? Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com, Gambling is increasingly legal in the US: Casinos, sports betting, the lottery, and so on. The economic benefits of most forms of gambling are limited. There is some job creation and collection of additional taxes, but these benefits come at the expense of players. Put differently:...
Der Völkermord an den Weißen ist Teil der Karten, die im Spiel sind.
13.05.2024, 07:36 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Paul Craig Roberts Vor drei Jahrzehnten habe ich in meinem Buch The New Color Line darauf hingewiesen, dass Alfred W. Blumrosen, der Vorsitzende der Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Kommission für gleiche Beschäftigungschancen), den Gesetzestext des Civil Rights Act von 1964 auf den Kopf stellte und die EEOC dazu benutzte, rassisch begründete...
CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests
13.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests Previously enjoyed betting on the outcome of an event, like a Presidential election? The CFTC wants to make sure that doesn't happen again. According to the Wall Street Journal, the regulator is now targeting "derivatives contracts based on political elections...
Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases
13.05.2024, 01:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kansas Democrat Governor Vetoes Bill Restricting Foreign Ownership Of Land Near Military Bases Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill on Friday that aimed to prevent companies of China and other “foreign adversaries” from acquiring real property near military installations in the state...
GOP Senators Want IRS To Yank Tax-Exempt Status For Organizations Involved In Campus Protests
12.05.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GOP Senators Want IRS To Yank Tax-Exempt Status For Organizations Involved In Campus Protests A group of fifteen Republican Senators want the IRS to investigate whether groups involved in recent anti-Israel protests on college campuses violated their tax-exempt status by supporting Hamas, a designated terrorist group. According to the letter, spearheaded...
SEC Doesn't Want Ethereum To Transform Banking Landscape, Says Joseph Lubin
10.05.2024, 19:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SEC Doesn't Want Ethereum To Transform Banking Landscape, Says Joseph Lubin By Gareth Jenkinson of CoinTelegraph Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin believes the United States Securities and Exchange Commission is intentionally hindering innovation, which threatens the country’s existing financial landscape. Speaking at FT Live’s Crypto and Digital...
Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S.
10.05.2024, 02:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S. A company called Holtec has become the voice for restarting the nuclear power revolution in the U.S. As it becomes clear that the nation's needs for power are far underserved, and will certainly be in the future with the adoption of AI, one company, currently the "top US manufacturer...
The Chinese EV Wall In Europe Is Breaking
09.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Chinese EV Wall In Europe Is Breaking Despite EU investigations and jawboning from within the industry, it looks as though Europe has faced the inevitable: it needs to "face up" to the fact that Chinese EVs have arrived, and probably aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on Sunday to ease trade tensions...
A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis
09.05.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis Authored by Matt Bivens, M.D. via Racket News, Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially on his Substack site, The 100 Days. None of the articles in the series will be...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China's Organ Trade
09.05.2024, 04:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmakers Urge U.S. Action To Halt China's Organ Trade Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A group of leading China critics in Congress is urging the State Department to step up its efforts to curb Beijing’s gruesome $1 billion forced organ harvesting trade, which targets ethnic and religious minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans,...
House Votes To Nullify SEC's Anti-Crypto Policy, Biden Vows To Veto
09.05.2024, 03:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Votes To Nullify SEC's Anti-Crypto Policy, Biden Vows To Veto Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraoph.com, The United States House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that overturns controversial Securities and Exchange Commission guidance preventing banks from owning crypto. On May 8, the House voted to pass a bipartisan bill dubbed...
Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed
08.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed Back in March, when eyeing the tremendous rebound in the crypto space, we joked that creditors in Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt exchange, FTX, would recover 200% of their claims. FTX bankruptcy will be the first Chapter 11 where creditors recover 200% of their claims — zerohedge...
Tesla Tumbles On Reports Of DoJ Securities Fraud Probe Over Deceptive Self-Driving Capabilities
08.05.2024, 14:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Tumbles On Reports Of DoJ Securities Fraud Probe Over Deceptive Self-Driving Capabilities In what appears to be just the latest 'lawfare' angle of attack against Elon Musk (and his freedom of speech enabling platform), President Biden's Department of Justice is examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors...
EU Leaders Confronts China's Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit
08.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Leaders Confronts China's Xi Over Trade At Paris Summit By Dorothy Li of The Epoch Times The European Union pressed China over its unfair trade practices as communist regime leader Xi Jinping began his official visit aimed at bolstering relationships with European leaders. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a speech to the...
Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation
08.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Public access to Wisconsin’s state voter roll is too restricted and too expensive, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national election integrity watchdog organization. Residents cast...
DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story
07.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security...
House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes
06.05.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Panel Calls To Defund Federal Agencies That Stonewall Congressional Probes Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are calling for budget cuts to federal agencies that refuse to cooperate with lawmakers’ investigations, warning that failure to discipline agencies that deny oversight-related...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
'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 Golden Age Of Disinformation Has Only Just Begun
03.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Golden Age Of Disinformation Has Only Just Begun Authored by Boyan Radoykov via The Epoch Times, Disinformation is all about power, and because of the harmful and far-reaching influence that disinformation exerts, it cannot achieve much without power. As a tool for shaping public perceptions, disinformation can be used by authoritarian regimes and...
"Massive Fraud": SEC Shuts Down 'Prolific' Auditor BF Borgers, Whose Clients Include Trump Media
03.05.2024, 17:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Massive Fraud": SEC Shuts Down 'Prolific' Auditor BF Borgers, Whose Clients Include Trump Media The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shut down auditor BF Borgers, described by the Financial Times as "one of the most prolific auditors of US public companies," over allegations of "massive fraud" that affected more than 1,500 SEC filings, the...
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...
The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas
02.05.2024, 20:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Permian producers are not shutting in oil wells with associated natural gas despite the fact that the Texas regional gas price has been stuck at below-zero levels since early March. Major pipeline operators in the Permian basin haven't yet seen any effect...
Will Trump Survive This?
02.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Trump Survive This? Authored by James Rickards via the Daily Reckoning, This is a highly consequential election year, to say the least. The policy differences between Biden and Trump are enormous. Whether it’s taxes, regulation, borders, energy or foreign policy, the differences couldn’t be clearer. And though I prefer to focus my analysis...
'Unacceptable': Trump Campaign Slams Commission's Refusal To Hold Earlier Debates
02.05.2024, 03:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Unacceptable': Trump Campaign Slams Commission's Refusal To Hold Earlier Debates Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump campaign on Tuesday issued a rebuke of the Commission on Presidential Debates’ refusal to move up its debate schedule until after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots, calling it...
Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions
01.05.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions Federal prosecutors are investigating compliance issues at Block, the fintech firm co-founded by Jack Dorsey, according to a new report from NBC, citing "two people with direct knowledge". Questions about the company started swirling back in March...
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...
Meet The Lawyers Taking Big Government To The Supreme Court... And Winning
01.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The Lawyers Taking Big Government To The Supreme Court... And Winning Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As the administrative state implements more regulations on Americans, a team of legal veterans has come together to fight the expansion of unelected government agency power. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock...
The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes
01.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes Authroed by Kevin Bardosh & Jay Bhattarcharya via RealClearPolicy, The World Health Organization is urging the U.S. and 193 other governments to commit next month to a new global treaty to prevent and manage future pandemics. Current estimates suggest over $31 billion...
Employers Must Honor Preferred Pronouns, Bathrooms For Employees Identifying As Transgender: Feds
01.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Employers Must Honor Preferred Pronouns, Bathrooms For Employees Identifying As Transgender: Feds Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration has rolled out a set of new guidelines, under which an employer would be deemed liable for harassment for referring to a worker by an unwanted pronoun or requiring the worker...
Patrick McHenry Slams SEC's Gary Gensler For Misleading US Lawmakers Over Ether
30.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Patrick McHenry Slams SEC's Gary Gensler For Misleading US Lawmakers Over Ether Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, United States House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry has alleged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler “knowingly misled Congress” over the regulator’s alleged attempts to classify...
"There Is No Crime": Dershowitz Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Will Fail
30.04.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "There Is No Crime": Dershowitz Says Bragg’s Case Against Trump Will Fail Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said on April 28 that he believes that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump could fail because prosecutors have charged...
Disappointing Volume For Hong Kong Crypto ETFs Launch, Issuers Unfazed By SEC's 'ETH-Security' Debacle
30.04.2024, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disappointing Volume For Hong Kong Crypto ETFs Launch, Issuers Unfazed By SEC's 'ETH-Security' Debacle The recently approved Hong Kong Bitcoin spot ETFs began trading today, but saw relatively low volume on their first day. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) approved 6 total spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs last week. Bitcoin Magazine's...
Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed
30.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed Via SchiffGold.com, In this week’s episode, Peter covers the dismal figures released Thursday and Friday, horrible tax policies, and the appalling lack of transparency in our government. Stagflation is back in the economy, as last week’s GDP and PCE figures reveal. The US GDP growth metric for...
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...
Alvin Bragg And The Art Of Not Taking Law Too Seriously
29.04.2024, 19:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alvin Bragg And The Art Of Not Taking Law Too Seriously Authored by Jonathan Turley, Rube Goldberg, the inventor of bizarre machines that performed simple tasks through dozens of mechanical steps, was once asked about the essence of creating such fantastic, illogical machines. He replied “An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education...
The Scramble For Antarctica
28.04.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Scramble For Antarctica Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, The “scramble for Antarctica” is slowly gathering steam, and it is not unrelated to a new “scramble for the Americas.” The ramifications for the Indo-Pacific and, indeed, for the global strategic balance are also profound. By 2024, Antarctica had at least 82 bases from...
US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration
27.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, After nearly two years of legal and political challenges, Britain’s parliament has finally passed a law confirming that Rwanda is a safe place to send people who arrive in the UK illegally by sea. This is a major policy win for the Conservative...
Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General
27.04.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington's Fiscal Mess Is Irresponsible, Unethical, Immoral: Former US Comptroller General Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, In 2007, the U.S. national debt was below $10 trillion, and the budget deficit was about $160 billion. Federal spending was about $3 trillion, and interest payments were approximately $400 billion. Then the numbers...
EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports
26.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com In a move that could reshape Europe's energy landscape, the European Commission is poised to propose new sanctions targeting Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. According to Reuters sources close to the matter, the proposed measures will include a ban on...
SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over 'Security' Status
26.04.2024, 02:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SEC Expected To Deny Spot Ether ETFs In May, Consensys Sues Over 'Security' Status There are increasing doubts among industry insiders that the SEC will approved Spot Ether ETFs in May, according to a report from Reuters. According to four people who participated, recent meetings between issuers and the SEC have been one-sided and agency staff have...
Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard
25.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Is A Sensible Immigration Policy Discussion So Hard By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Why is the choice between shutting down the border and no controls at all? And what about demographics? Fertility rates? Immigration Talks We Should Be Having Eurointelligence discusses the Immigration Talks We Should Be Having. The ideas also apply to the US. Last...
Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing
25.04.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing Via Middle East Eye Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear program after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase. Before the recent...
UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful"
25.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK Government-Funded Trans-Lobbyist Group Calls Puberty Blockers "Wonderful" Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A government funded LGBT activist group that is active in more than half of Scotland’s schools has called puberty blocking drugs, which effectively sterilise children, “wonderful.” LGBT Youth Scotland, which is registered as...
Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30
24.04.2024, 17:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Bitcoin And Ether ETFs Officially Approved To Start Trading On April 30 Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The first wave of spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been officially approved to start trading in Hong Kong on April 30. Hong Kong’s financial regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...