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Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal
25.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, When your cell phone gets hot, that means its processors are computing faster or you have a lot of apps open. The same is true for “server farms,” which Gigabyte.com explains are “a large number—up to thousands—of servers grouped...
Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?
20.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and...
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered
17.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude-Crash Saves Stocks From CTA-Slaughter; Bonds Bid But Bitcoin Battered A volatile day for markets (relatively speaking) with crude and crypto the high- low-lights. Goldman's trading desk (Lee Coppersmith) noted that for the first time all year, it feels like the market is starting to question the strong growth narrative on the back of weaker earnings...
US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR
17.04.2024, 18:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR For much of the past year, we had joked that behind the facade of western Democratic ideals, was a cold hard truth: the price of oil must not be allowed to go up in an election year. This was obvious in Biden's "kid gloves" treatment of Iran's regime, it was obvious...
Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From
17.04.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Highly Educated Migrants Come From Voters in India are getting set to head to the polls this weekend, in what has been dubbed the world’s biggest election. Nearly 1 billion people are eligible to determine whether Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will rule the country for a third consecutive term. Statista's Katharina...
Sound Money Vs. Fiat Currency: Trade And Credit Are The Wild Cards
12.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sound Money Vs. Fiat Currency: Trade And Credit Are The Wild Cards Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We need to start thinking outside the current system, which has no solutions. Our convictions about money are quasi-religious: heretics are burned at the stake. I'm not sure which stake I'll be tied to, because all the conventional...
Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam Of All Time
11.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam Of All Time Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to “pay your fair share” of taxes. It turns out he’s right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn’t Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street...
In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System
09.04.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System Submitted by Larry McDonald, creator of the Bear Traps Report and author of the newly published book "When Markets Speak" which has been #1 on Amazon over the last week across most non-fiction, finance categories. What’s Under the Surface? The heart of “conditioning...
Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears
05.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crude, Food Prices Jump As Looming Israel-Iran Conflict Spark 1970s Oil Shock Fears Larry MacDonald of The Bear Traps Report penned a very informative note last month that outlined, "2023-2024 look a lot like 1973-1974." He said, "We're one event away from a 1970s-style stagflation explosion..." History books remind us that the 1973 oil embargo...
US Gas Price Hits Highest Level In Six Months Amid Speculation Biden Will Drain More Oil From Petroleum Reserve
04.04.2024, 20:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Gas Price Hits Highest Level In Six Months Amid Speculation Biden Will Drain More Oil From Petroleum Reserve Rising seasonal demand and higher crude oil prices have resulted in the highest average U.S. gasoline prices in nearly six months, with the national average gas price hitting $3.57 per gallon, up from $3.10 at the start of the year, and higher...
Statewide Emergency Declared In Indiana Ahead Of Solar Eclipse
04.04.2024, 13:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Statewide Emergency Declared In Indiana Ahead Of Solar Eclipse Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb issued a statewide emergency due to a large influx of visitors to his state to view the total solar eclipse on April 8. A total solar eclipse on April 8 will begin over Mexico's Pacific coast, then move...
Biden Halts Attempts To Refill SPR As Oil Price Soars
03.04.2024, 21:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Halts Attempts To Refill SPR As Oil Price Soars More than a year ago, we laughed at the thought that the Biden admin would actually follow through with its promise to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve when oil fell below $80, which in turn prompted area idiots to really rub it in our face when WTI tumbled as low as $73. WTI is $73 now https://t...
Trudeau Admits That Canada Is Being Overwhelmed By Mass Immigration
03.04.2024, 19:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trudeau Admits That Canada Is Being Overwhelmed By Mass Immigration In a rare admission that all is not well in the socialist paradise of the north, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated this week that the country has seen a 'massive spike in temporary immigrants' which is 'far beyond what Canada can absorb.' The nation's percentage of temporary...
Bring Back Gold!
03.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bring Back Gold! Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via LewRockwell.com, In these days of rampant inflation, it’s imperative that we return to the gold standard - and the real thing too. By this I mean the classical gold standard, not the so-called “gold exchange” standard, and with no fractional reserve banking, just as the great Murray Rothbard...
What Will The Fed Do Next?
29.03.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will The Fed Do Next? Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Evergreen Gavekal blog, So far this year, we have seen US inflation repeatedly beat expectations, US gasoline prices creep higher, gold break out to new all-time highs, feverish speculation in crypto and parts of the equity market, bonds sell off, and the US dollar roll over. Now copper has...
Down The Drain: Wastewater With The Most Cocaine
27.03.2024, 09:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Down The Drain: Wastewater With The Most Cocaine Cocaine use tends to be higher in western and southern European cities, according to the database of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. As Statista's Anna Fleck reports, researchers analyzed the wastewater of 88 cities in 23 EU countries and Turkey for levels of a number of illicit...
Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates
26.03.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied groups to try to block third-party candidates from the 2024 ballot. The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise...
The Language Of Force: How The Police State Muzzles Our Right To Speak Truth To Power
23.03.2024, 04:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Language Of Force: How The Police State Muzzles Our Right To Speak Truth To Power Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate...
US Banks See Large Deposit Inflows As Bailout Fund Expires, RRP Liquidity Plunges
15.03.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Banks See Large Deposit Inflows As Bailout Fund Expires, RRP Liquidity Plunges With The Fed's bank bailout facility now expired (and the one-year term loans starting to mature), it is perhaps not surprising that we saw a very large liquidity drain from The Fed's Reverse Repo facility in the last two days - over $107BN pulled out to fresh cycle lows...
Watch: Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret) Provides Nation With Alternative View Of The State Of The Union
10.03.2024, 02:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Col. Douglas Macgregor (Ret) Provides Nation With Alternative View Of The State Of The Union "I want to respectfully present an alternative view of the State of The Union," retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor said in a video posted on X. Macgregor begins by explaining how the Constitution mandates that the government promote the general...
Trumpenstein And The Death Of Politics
06.03.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trumpenstein And The Death Of Politics Authored by Donald Jeffries via "I Protest," I’m the guy who coined the term The Trumpenstein Project. My good friend John Barbour came up with Trump Agnostic to describe how we felt about the former Reality TV star. Trump, I mean, not John Barbour, who has been described as the Godfather of Reality Television...
DNC Accuses RFK Jr.-Aligned Super PAC With Violating Campaign Finance Law...Again
05.03.2024, 21:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DNC Accuses RFK Jr.-Aligned Super PAC With Violating Campaign Finance Law...Again Authored by Jeff Louderbeck via The Epoch Times, A super PAC aligned with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not disclose $10 million in loans, according to a complaint that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed on March 4 with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). It...
S&P Futures Flat As MegaTech Bubble Gets Bigger Around The Globe
04.03.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Futures Flat As MegaTech Bubble Gets Bigger Around The Globe US equity futures were flat after closing Friday at a new record high above 5,100 for the first time ever, and gaining for 16 of the past 18 weeks, while European shares extended gains to new all time highs after six weeks of gains, as investors waited for reassurances that central banks...
Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry For Masks
13.02.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry For Masks Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, For those of us on the side of sanity, reason, and data-driven evidence, the refusal of Covid extremist “experts” to admit mistakes has been a constant, oppressive source of frustration. The names of those involved in creating a false consensus...
Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview
12.02.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview Last week in the wake of the Tucker Carlson interview with Russia's President Putin, we highlighted that Putin's offer to the West to negotiate the end of the Ukraine war appeared genuine. "We are willing to negotiate," Putin told Carlson in the lengthy interview...
Gunning For Garland: Biden Melts Down Over Hur Report As White House 'Unlists' Disaster Press Conference
10.02.2024, 20:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gunning For Garland: Biden Melts Down Over Hur Report As White House 'Unlists' Disaster Press Conference Joe Biden is fuming mad, and has told aides and outside advisers that Attorney General Merrick Garland didn't do enough to sanitize a special counsel's report which concluded that Biden is too cognitively diminished to face prosecution for mishandling...
Bugs On The Menu? Biden's Climate And ESG Policies Threaten Food Supply, Think-Tank Warns
10.02.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bugs On The Menu? Biden's Climate And ESG Policies Threaten Food Supply, Think-Tank Warns Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new report from the right-leaning think-tank The Buckeye Institute sounded the alarm on the Biden administration’s net-zero climate-control policies and that agenda items threaten U.S. food production...
DNC Files FEC Complaint Against RFK Jr. Alleging Illegal Super PAC Coordination
10.02.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DNC Files FEC Complaint Against RFK Jr. Alleging Illegal Super PAC Coordination Authored by Jeff Louderback via The Epoch Times, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is accused of receiving an illegal contribution from the super PAC working to get him elected president, according to a Federal Election Commission complaint filed by the Democratic National...
VDH: How Can We Make Sense Of The Current Senseless Absurdity?
07.02.2024, 22:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: How Can We Make Sense Of The Current Senseless Absurdity? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Is what’s happening all a bad dream? The wage of utter incompetence? A bad joke? Nefariousness? Perhaps the answer to fathoming the currently unfathomable is that the powers that run our national, state, and local governments must think something like this:...
Bolton Goes On CNN To Rip Trump For Having 'No Inclination' To Support Ukraine
02.02.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bolton Goes On CNN To Rip Trump For Having 'No Inclination' To Support Ukraine John Bolton went on CNN to raise the alarm over President Trump potentially taking office again and what this means for Ukraine policy. Trump's former national security advisor expressed that he's "very worried" for the future of Washington support to Ukraine's military because...
Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks
02.02.2024, 13:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks US futures and global markets rallied on Friday after tech megacaps Meta and Amazon.com posted blowout earnings (even as Apple dropped on a plunge in China sales and disappointing guidance) and as investors awaited a jobs report expected to support the...
Stocks Rebound After Powell Hawkamania Sparks Worst Market Rout In Months
01.02.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Rebound After Powell Hawkamania Sparks Worst Market Rout In Months US equity futures rebounded after the worst day for stocks since September, as investors prepared for the next wave of megacap tech earnings while resetting expectations for the timing of Fed rate cuts, which have been pushed back from March to May at the earliest (unless of...
Peter Schiff: The Economy May Already Be In Recession
01.02.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: The Economy May Already Be In Recession Via SchiffGold.com, Recent data have many cheerful about the economy. But according to Peter in his latest podcast, the economy may already be in recession. Here are some of Peter’s biggest causes for concern: The recipe for GDP growth is a recipe for disaster The big factor driving the GDP was...
Treasury Increases Coupon Auction Sizes Again, Does Not Expect Most Boosts For "Several Quarters"
31.01.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasury Increases Coupon Auction Sizes Again, Does Not Expect Most Boosts For "Several Quarters" As highlighted in our preview, and as the Treasury itself noted in its last refunding announcement, moments ago the latest Treasury Quarterly Refunding announcement confirmed that it is indeed boosting the size of its quarterly issuance of long-term debt...
FOMC Preview: No More Tightening Bias
31.01.2024, 05:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Preview: No More Tightening Bias While the market is split about the March - and subsequent - Fed meetings, tomoorrow's FOMC decision is clear: the Fed will keep rates unchanged at 5.25-5.50% while tweaking the statement further to signal the end of the tightening bias and tipping the balance towards futures rate cuts. And since there are no new...
EU Miraculously Avoids Recession In Q4 As Spain's Gain Offset Germany's Drain
30.01.2024, 15:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Miraculously Avoids Recession In Q4 As Spain's Gain Offset Germany's Drain After Q3's 0.1% decline, the euro-zone was expected to see a similar economic growth (contraction) of -0.1% in Q4, crystallizing the 'technical' recession, giving The ECB the 'all-clear' for rate-cuts. But thanks to surprising gains in Spain (and an improvement in Italy) -...
Crime Pays: Seattle Pays 2020 BLM Rioters $10 Million Over 'Excessive Force' Claims
27.01.2024, 01:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crime Pays: Seattle Pays 2020 BLM Rioters $10 Million Over 'Excessive Force' Claims Peacefully protest at the Capitol before getting teargassed by Capitol Police and possibly murdered by them? The Biden DOJ will hunt you down and lock you up. Participate in a summer of anti-Trump chaos? Cities will pay you because the cops were mean while stopping you...
Bank Bailout Fund 'Arb' Usage Soars (Again) Amid Money-Market Fund Outflows, Large RRP Drain
25.01.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank Bailout Fund 'Arb' Usage Soars (Again) Amid Money-Market Fund Outflows, Large RRP Drain Money-market fund assets fell for a second week in a row, led by the departure of assets from institutional funds, as investors continued to reallocate portfolios in the new year. Outflows were only a very modest $1.38BN last week, but still an outflow (on top...
What To Do As "US Empire" Crumbles And Global Shipping Goes Back To A 19th Century World Of Piracy
18.01.2024, 17:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What To Do As "US Empire" Crumbles And Global Shipping Goes Back To A 19th Century World Of Piracy By Michael Every of Rabobank Decolonise Economics! Markets started 2024 as wildly optimistic --and wildly wrong-- about rates as they did 2023: is there something structurally wrong with economics, or just them? After all, yesterday’s US retail sales...
Shut The Border Or Shut The Government
17.01.2024, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shut The Border Or Shut The Government Authored by Frank Miele via RealClear Politics, When House Speaker Mike Johnson and 60 GOP members of Congress went to Eagle Pass, Texas, recently for a photo-op, they were probably shocked that the first question they were asked was for a show of hands of those who would shut down the government if President Biden...
"It's All Over": Powell's WSJ Mouthpiece And JPMorgan Confirm Imminent End Of QT
15.01.2024, 20:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "It's All Over": Powell's WSJ Mouthpiece And JPMorgan Confirm Imminent End Of QT On December 13 the financial world was stunned when, just two weeks after Jerome Powell had said he it was "premature" to speculate on rate cuts, the Federal Reserve did a shocking U-turn and pivoted dovishly, ending the Fed's hiking cycle with inflation still running at...
2024 Starts With Deposit Flight From Large Banks, Loan Volumes Shrink; But Trouble Is Brewing For Small Banks
12.01.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2024 Starts With Deposit Flight From Large Banks, Loan Volumes Shrink; But Trouble Is Brewing For Small Banks Bank reserves at The Fed rose considerably last week expanding The Fed's balance sheet by the most since the SVB crisis last March - as usage of The Fed's BTFP bank-bailout facility pushed to a new record high (amid increasing arbitrage flows)...
Expiry Of Fed Bank Bailout Facility Strengthens Calls For Earlier Rate-Cut
10.01.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expiry Of Fed Bank Bailout Facility Strengthens Calls For Earlier Rate-Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Federal Reserve is likely to retire the Bank Term Funding Program in March. This would entail an additional ongoing headwind for reserves, and thus liquidity, through 2024. At the margin, this adds weight to the case for...
New Zealand Fudged The Data On How Kidneys Fare After COVID Vaccines
09.01.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Zealand Fudged The Data On How Kidneys Fare After COVID Vaccines Authored by Colleen Huber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a January 2023 preprint in The Lancet, the New Zealand government released a study showing a 70 percent increased rate of kidney injury following two doses of Pfizer mRNA vaccines. Even more telling of injury was the...
Sachs: US Foreign Policy Is A Scam Built On Corruption
06.01.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sachs: US Foreign Policy Is A Scam Built On Corruption Authored by Jeffrey Sachs via CommonDreams.org, On the surface, US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally isolated in its support of Israel’s...
2024: The Year To Cancel 'Wokeness' In America
05.01.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2024: The Year To Cancel 'Wokeness' In America Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When it comes to spending their money and supporting their values, many Americans are now wide awake, and most don’t like what they see. “Peak Wokeness,” a term that may or may not be new (it is to me), is now pervasive in our lives and dominates our culture...
Reverse Repo Plummets By $314 Billion In First Massive Liquidity Injection Of 2024
02.01.2024, 20:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Reverse Repo Plummets By $314 Billion In First Massive Liquidity Injection Of 2024 Last Friday, as is customary on the final day of the quarter and year, banks engaged in rather aggressive liquidity "window dressing" as a result of which the Fed's Overnight reverse repo facility shot up above $1 trillion for the first time since early November, up from...
Treasuries Tumble After $1 Trillion Reverse Repo Drains $190BN In Liquidity, Index Change
29.12.2023, 19:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasuries Tumble After $1 Trillion Reverse Repo Drains $190BN In Liquidity, Index Change Earlier today, when discussing the sudden spike in the SOFR rate to an all time high 5.40% and which dragged the SOFR-Fed Funds spread to the highest since the March 2020 repo crisis... ... we said that "two factors are the likely culprits: the year-end liquidity...