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Historic Trucking Rate Disparity Could Cripple Service In Late 2024
21.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Historic Trucking Rate Disparity Could Cripple Service In Late 2024 By Zach Strickland of FreightWaves Truckload contract rates continue to show strong elevation in relation to spot rates excluding estimated fuel costs above $1.20 a gallon. This historic spread — currently about 30% versus about 12% in 2019 — suggests there is an extraordinary amount...
Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees
21.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Educational Explosion: The Damage of Unnecessary Advanced Degrees Via SchiffGold.com, The percentage of U.S. adults holding an advanced degree increased by over 3% from 2011-2021. This increase in education is assumed to have a crucial role in America’s increasing economic strength over that time period. The expertise gained from such degrees is...
Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis
20.05.2024, 23:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Highlights 2nd Amendment As Vital Amid Illegal Immigration Crisis Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Second Amendment is vital for enabling Americans to protect themselves from the wave of criminals, drugs, and the mentally ill that are flooding across the U.S. southern border, former President Donald Trump told...
Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror
20.05.2024, 16:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Strategists See Best of 2024 in Rearview Mirror By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and startegist The outlook for the economy and corporate profits may be improving, but that’s not enough to make strategists significantly more bullish for the rest of the year. That’s the takeaway from our monthly survey, which show European stocks...
Schiff Vs. Hanke: Who's To Blame For Inflation?
20.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Schiff Vs. Hanke: Who's To Blame For Inflation? Via Schiff Gold, Last week, Peter debated Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, on inflation, the debt crisis, and the future of the dollar. David Lin hosted the debate on The David Lin Report and provided moderation for the event. While Peter and Hanke have their disagreements...
Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome
20.05.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome By Seth Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief Global Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley Japan in Rome Last month at our annual Fixed Income CIO conference, one of the liveliest sessions was on Japan’s reflation. The BoJ ending negative rates and normalizing...
Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation
19.05.2024, 18:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Michael Saylor On Bitcoin's Biggest Risk, Price Target, GameStop, ETFs And Inflation Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance I was extraordinarily appreciative when executive chairman and co-founder of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor sat down with me this weekend for an exclusive interview. What’s inside this exclusive Fringe Finance interview with Michael...
Why Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza?
19.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Did The US Spend $320 Million On A Rube Goldberg Pier For Gaza? Authored by Ann Wright via CommonDreams.org, Instead of U.S. President Joe Biden marking a red line in the sand demanding that Israel allow aid into Gaza via ground transportation, his inept diplomatic team sent out a plea for help to the U.S. military. While in the U.S. Army and Army...
US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War
18.05.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Focused On Hunting Down Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar, In Bid To End War Via Middle East Eye The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare "total victory" so it can bring an end to the war in Gaza, US officials have told Middle East Eye. Current and former...
Texas Governor Pardons Daniel Perry, Veteran Who Shot Armed BLM Protester
18.05.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas Governor Pardons Daniel Perry, Veteran Who Shot Armed BLM Protester Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pardoned former U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting an armed Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester who wielded an AK-47. U...
Texas Governor Pardons Man Convicted For Shooting Armed BLM Protester
18.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas Governor Pardons Man Convicted For Shooting Armed BLM Protester Defend yourself against violent BLM protesters and face an endless salvo of character assassination, not to mention potential prison time. That was the message being sent by far-left activists and the establishment media from 2020 to 2023, specifically in their efforts to destroy...
Jeff Currie, The Copper Bull: "Most Compelling Trade I've Seen In My 30-Year Trading Career"
18.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jeff Currie, The Copper Bull: "Most Compelling Trade I've Seen In My 30-Year Trading Career" Jeff Currie, who led commodities research at Goldman Sachs for nearly three decades and now serves as the chief strategy officer of the energy pathways team at Carlyle Group, appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots to discuss why copper is the best trade he has...
World's #1 Golfer Tossed Against Car, Arrested In Kentucky
17.05.2024, 15:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's #1 Golfer Tossed Against Car, Arrested In Kentucky The world's #1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested and taken to jail on several charges - including a felony charge of assaulting a police officer, after he tried to bypass a massive traffic backup to enter the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville Kentucky. Scheffler was set to tee off for his...
Netanyahu Could Fire Defense Chief As Public Spat Erupts Over Gaza 'Day After'
17.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Could Fire Defense Chief As Public Spat Erupts Over Gaza 'Day After' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is at odds with his own defense minister Yoav Gallant after Gallant said in a Wednesday televised address that the Israeli leader must take "tough decisions" on Gaza's 'day after' the war ends. Gallant came out very strongly against any...
Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Complex And Costly As Ever
17.05.2024, 01:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Electric Vehicle Subsidies As Complex And Costly As Ever Authored by David Williams via RealClearEnergy, Electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most subsidized product in America. Federal taxpayers shell out $7,500 every time a new eligible electric vehicle is purchased (usually by wealthy buyers). State and local taxpayers chip in an additional $1...
Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000
16.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the historic 40,000 mark in late morning and early afternoon trading. Euphoria was high as bulls celebrated Dow 40,000. This week's gains across broad equity indexes were primarily driven by a cooler April CPI print and dismal retail data on Wednesday...
Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments
16.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Condo Owners Dump Units Over Six-Figure Special Assessments Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Have a Florida condo? Can you afford a $100,000 or higher special assessment for new safety standards? After the collapse of a Surfside Building on June 24, 2021that killed 98 people, the state passed a structural safety law that is now...
Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock
16.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Under Armour Approves Restructuring, Warns Of Collapse In Clothing Demand Collapse As Buyback Authorized To Save Plunging Stock Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank needs to spend long weekends at his thoroughbred horse breeding farm in steeplechase country in upper Baltimore County to reflect on what has happened to the sportswear company over the past decade...
Unsold Teslas Pile-Up In Mall Parking-Lots, Big Discounts Likely
16.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unsold Teslas Pile-Up In Mall Parking-Lots, Big Discounts Likely Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Tesla is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles. This helps explain the mass layoffs. Tesla Cranking Out Cars, But to Where? Please consider Tesla’s Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot Parking lots full of...
Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market
16.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market By John Kingston of FreightWaves With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth week in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle East conflict and are focused...
Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again On Inflation
15.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Biden Lies Again On Inflation Via SchiffGold.com, This week on the Peter Schiff Show, Peter covers a week of dismal economic reports. Both jobless claims and consumer sentiment came in worse than expected last week, with both figures missing predictions by a wide margin. Peter also discusses public statements made by both Joe Biden...
Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment"
15.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment" In a Goldman Materials note this morning covering China and copper, analyst James McGeoch pointed out that the base metal is "having a Cocoa moment." Comex copper futures for July delivery jumped nearly 5% to $5.12 a pound, exceeding an earlier record for the most active contract set in March...
Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations?
15.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Is About To Overrun Ukraine's Defenses – Why Are There No Peace Negotiations? Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, There are two classic propaganda narratives used by governments when it comes to keeping the public invested in any war campaign that does nothing to advance their national interests: First, there’s the “commitment”...
Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals
14.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Wrecking Crew Hammers Hedgies Again; Stocks/Powell Shrug Off Stagflation Signals Hot PPI initially spooked markets (yields and dollar up, stocks down) but that faded fast (on lower revisions) - but the stag-flation trend continues this week... Source: Bloomberg Powell did briefly spook stocks around 1030ET with the following comment: "it's a...
Oil - A Global Tax
14.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil - A Global Tax Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Few commodities wield as much influence in the intricate web of global economics as oil. Oil is pivotal in driving economic growth and development as the primary energy source for transportation, manufacturing, and countless other sectors. However, beneath its surface lies a hidden...
With "Exceptionalism" Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
13.05.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With "Exceptionalism" Like This, Who Needs Enemies? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Last weekend we suggested that “I Like My Exceptionalism to Be Exceptional” and highlighted data that was anything but exceptional. As the Citi Economic Surprise Index continues to fall, and CONsumer CONfidence showed anything but confidence, it seemed...
Ukrainian Suicide Drone Attack At Russia's Volgograd Oil Refinery Sparks Fire
12.05.2024, 14:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Suicide Drone Attack At Russia's Volgograd Oil Refinery Sparks Fire In defiance of repeated warnings from the Biden administration, the Ukrainian military is ramping up kamikaze drone attacks on the Russian energy complex, a move to hamper the nation's crude oil and crude product export revenues and curtail Moscow's ability to fund President...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week
11.05.2024, 19:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Over 124 Pounds Of Cocaine And Fentanyl Seized In El Paso In 1 Week Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials in the El Paso region seized more than 124 pounds of fentanyl and cocaine last week in four separate incidents, amid criticism of lax border policies. On April 30,...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000
11.05.2024, 02:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000 Ford is cutting battery orders in yet another sign that the EV market, despite a constant tailwind from the U.S. taxpayer, is starting to slow. The company is cutting the orders to curb electric-vehicle losses as it scales back its EV strategy in a slowing plug-in...
Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S.
10.05.2024, 23:01 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Holtec, the top U.S. manufacturer of storage equipment for nuclear waste, is driving the nuclear revolution in the U.S. by reopening cold reactors and investing in small modular reactors (SMRs). A business by the name of Holtec has emerged as the spokesperson for bringing nuclear power back to the United States. A firm that is […] The post Meet...
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...
What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis?
10.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Securing an appointment to see a doctor in the United States is exacerbated by soaring health care demand and fewer doctors. Many specializations are increasingly affected by this...
Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms
10.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society...
China Blasts US For Talking Gaza "Ceasefire While Pouring In Weapons"
09.05.2024, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Blasts US For Talking Gaza "Ceasefire While Pouring In Weapons" First the Ukraine war and now the Gaza conflict... China increasingly finds itself the leader of the group of nations at odds with the West over how to handle these crises. Beijing has criticized the United States' role in stoking both conflicts, given Washington is the main supplier...
Apple iPhone Shipments In China Jump 12% After Discounts
08.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple iPhone Shipments In China Jump 12% After Discounts New data shows iPhone shipments in China surged in March, reversing a previous multi-month decline. This increase comes after Apple discounted handset prices throughout the first quarter, mostly in response to waning demand due to unofficial bans on the device by government agencies and competition...
Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever
08.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
41% Of Americans Think Civil War Likely By 2029, Some Say Sooner Amid Chaos
07.05.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 41% Of Americans Think Civil War Likely By 2029, Some Say Sooner Amid Chaos Americans have been stunned by the Democratic megadonors funneling money into Marxist groups, sparking mass chaos across colleges and universities nationwide as risks are mounting that 'BLM-style' riots could spill over into city streets this summer. Law-abiding Americans...
Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths
06.05.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Faces 10 More Whistleblowers After Mysterious Deaths In the span of two months, two Boeing whistleblowers have died under mysterious circumstances. John Barnett (L), Joshua Dean The first, 62-year-old John Barnett, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 9. He was found dead in his Dodge Ram truck holding a silver pistol in...
Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed
06.05.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Civilians Ordered Out Of Rafah As IDF Ground Attack To Proceed The last several hours have seen a significant escalation of the situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, sending Western diplomats scrambling and resulting in new threats and counterthreats between Hamas and Israeli leaders. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have urged many thousands...
That's Nuts! $700K Of Cocaine Found In Almond Bags During Traffic Stop
06.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - That's Nuts! $700K Of Cocaine Found In Almond Bags During Traffic Stop The California Highway Patrol found 15 lbs of cocaine with a street value of $700,000 during a traffic stop in Merced Country on April 27, the CHP reported. A CHP officer found suspected cocaine in bags containing almonds during a traffic stop April 27, 2024. (California Highway...
Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging"
04.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Pier Delayed Over Rough Seas, Pentagon Calls Project "Extremely Challenging" This week has seen statements and reports indicating the US military constructed humanitarian pier on Gaza's coast is expected to be complete by some point this weekend. But the $320 million project has hit another snag, as the Pentagon has said its soldiers and engineers...
Israeli Industry Braces For Economic Damage Amid Turkish Trade Ban
04.05.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Industry Braces For Economic Damage Amid Turkish Trade Ban Via Middle East Eye Sectors across the Israeli economy are warning of wide-reaching impacts of Turkey’s decision to halt all trade with Israel, and are scrambling to find alternative sources for lost imports. The Turkish trade ministry announced earlier this week that Ankara...
Elon’s Test Of Employment
03.05.2024, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon’s Test Of Employment Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk's photo through a Twitter logo on Oct. 28, 2022. (Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters) Commentary No question that Elon Musk is a genius but his real power lies with his common sense. These days this is a rare quality in business. People in higher levels...
"Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold
02.05.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold Via SchiffGold.com, The yen was once known as a safe-haven currency for investors to protect themselves when broader markets are shaky or other currencies are dropping, but those days are numbered. A stable government and consistent (and low) interest rates have been some of the driving factors...
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...
European Automakers Are Struggling With Falling Demand
02.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Automakers Are Struggling With Falling Demand Shares in names like VW, Mercedes and Stellantis were lower this week, heading into Wednesday's session, after news of "falling demand" in Europe. In the first quarter of this year, Europe's top two car manufacturers faced a downturn due to diminished demand in China and domestic markets, Financial...
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...