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When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking
18.05.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking Authored by Paul Mueller via The American Institute for Economic Research, Sometimes smart people make remarkably naïve or deeply problematic comments because their view of the world has been molded by narrow ideology, reinforced by significant consensus in their social circles. Recently Esther Duflo...
Unprecedented Surge In Chinese Illegal Immigration Raises Security Concerns
18.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unprecedented Surge In Chinese Illegal Immigration Raises Security Concerns Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, This is a lightly edited excerpt from Simon Hankinson’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability at a hearing on “Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in...
Why The Dollar Will Lose Its Status As Global Reserve Currency
18.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why The Dollar Will Lose Its Status As Global Reserve Currency Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, By the early 400s, the Roman Empire was coming apart at the seams and in desperate need of strong, competent leadership. In theory, Honorius should have been the right man for the job. Born into the royal household in Constantinople, Honorius...
Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week
17.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dismal Data Sparks Dollar Dump - Everything Else Rips On Record Week US Macro Surprise data declined for the sixth straight week... to its weakest since January 2023... Source: Bloomberg But that 'bad news' prompted a run to record highs for risky stocks... Source: Bloomberg As the market seems to be completely discounting the collapse in soft survey...
Vivek: Democrats Are Giving Biden One Last Chance With Debate
17.05.2024, 20:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vivek: Democrats Are Giving Biden One Last Chance With Debate Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Vivek Ramaswamy believes that the Democrats are allowing Joe Biden one last “Hail Mary” by allowing him to participate in a debate against Donald Trump, but that if he fails, as he inevitably will, they will swap him out for a new candidate...
VDH: The Biden Re-Election Strategy
17.05.2024, 18:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: The Biden Re-Election Strategy Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, President Joe Biden polls at or below 40 percent approval. Historically, such unpopularity has made it almost impossible for a president to be reelected. Biden is not so much an octogenarian as an unhealthy and prematurely aging 80-year-old. It is America’s irony that he is fit for...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge
17.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar To Highest Since 2015 Devaluation, Priming Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply...
US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable
17.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish public opinion of the West dropped due to the Iraq War and has not recovered. There have been almost constant issues since, with both sides fanning the flames – the US with its arrogance and Turkish President...
Watch: Senior Navy DEI Chief Admits Wokeness Would Be 'Out The Window' If China-Taiwan War Broke Out
16.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Senior Navy DEI Chief Admits Wokeness Would Be 'Out The Window' If China-Taiwan War Broke Out A senior DEI adviser to US Navy Admiral Lisa Franchetti has admitted in undercover footage that woke initiatives would evaporate if a "world war" breaks out, and that military colleagues think Diversity Equity and Inclusion is a "waste of time." In undercover...
Glenn Greenwald Makes An Important Prediction On Ukraine
16.05.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Glenn Greenwald Makes An Important Prediction On Ukraine It was only on Tuesday night that Antony Blinken was leading a bizarre rock anthem as the guitar and vocals front man at a Kiev bar, singing Neil Young’s "Rockin’ in the Free World" — and the internet collectively cringed. But only the next morning, on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US
16.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is responsible for 7 million deaths annually, and could cost the global economy between $18–25 trillion by 2060 in annual welfare costs, or roughly 4–6% of world GDP. And with predictions that 7 in 10 people will make their homes in urban...
Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome
15.05.2024, 18:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome With the US national debt at $34 trillion and climbing, USD reserve status under pressure, inflation destroying standards of living, and the Biden administration stoking costly war on several fronts, perhaps it's time for more thoughts on the Roman empire. In a Tuesday thread posted to X...
Maybe Everyone's Got The Same Model For Guessing CPI
15.05.2024, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maybe Everyone's Got The Same Model For Guessing CPI Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, A simple model projects April’s month-on-month CPI to come in at 0.4%. Problem is most other estimates are 0.4%, leaving markets particularly exposed to a miss in either direction. The long gamma position in stocks could get unwound pretty quickly...
Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars
15.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars All eyes are on the powering-up America theme as the surge in artificial intelligence sparks a nationwide boom in data center building. The urgent need to overhaul the nation's power grid to meet the skyrocketing demand for electricity is now front and center...
Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination
14.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will...
US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing'
14.05.2024, 15:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Army Major Quits Intel Agency Over 'Unqualified' US Support Of Israeli 'Ethnic Cleansing' A US Army officer has resigned from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to protest Washington's "nearly unqualified support for the government of Israel" -- support that's facilitated "the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent...
UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data
14.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Unleashes Controversy, Accusations Of Deception, Over 'Revised' Gaza Casualty Data Since the start of the brutal Gaza conflict in the wake of Oct.7, a public 'info-war' has raged over the numbers of wartime casualties, especially on the Palestinian side. Something similar happened in the Syrian war, as well as in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war:...
Mayor Johnson Deepens Concerns About What Side He Will Be On If DNC Protesters Become Lawbreakers And Challenge Cops
13.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mayor Johnson Deepens Concerns About What Side He Will Be On If DNC Protesters Become Lawbreakers And Challenge Cops By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints Whose side will Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson be on if protesters become lawbreakers at the August Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and how will he direct police to respond? Concerns that Johnson...
China's Broadest Credit Metric Just Turned Negative For The First Time Since 2005
13.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Broadest Credit Metric Just Turned Negative For The First Time Since 2005 China has lots of economic problems (even if the market has been surprisingly generous in the past 4 months and allowed Chinese stocks to surge despite any actual economic rebound or recovery), but this is a new one. It is hardly a secret that for much of the past 15 years...
"If Mr. Trump Is Hitler, Think Of Newsom As Godzilla With Hair Gel..."
13.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "If Mr. Trump Is Hitler, Think Of Newsom As Godzilla With Hair Gel..." Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Monster Mash-Up “My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones.” - John Michael Greer Did you notice...
'Unusually Aggressive' Anti-Trump Grand Jury In Arizona Went Rogue With Indictments
13.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Unusually Aggressive' Anti-Trump Grand Jury In Arizona Went Rogue With Indictments The Arizona grand jury that recently indicted 18 people for allegedly trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election with so-called 'fake electors' went completely rogue and took 'aggressive steps to haul in witnesses,' to the...
Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery
13.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Young Germans will have to choose between the Bundeswehr (military service) and unpaid social service work. Libertarians to a person, will call this slavery, because that is what it is. Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery Please consider the Eurointelligence...
Watch: Pelosi Dismantled In Real Time In Masterclass On Populism
12.05.2024, 22:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Pelosi Dismantled In Real Time In Masterclass On Populism Two weeks ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was thoroughly savaged during a debate at Oxford University over the question of whether populism is a "threat to democracy." In case you missed it, read on as it's making the rounds. If you have 14 minutes to spare, jump right in: Opening...
Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region
12.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region By Andrew Korybko of the Korybko substack The five objectives that are enumerated in this piece encapsulate what Russia nowadays aims to achieve after over two years of intense proxy warfare with NATO. Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia’s long-awaited offensive had finally...
Gaza Truce Talks 'Back To Square One'
11.05.2024, 22:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Truce Talks 'Back To Square One' For several months running there have been a seeming myriad of sometimes contradictory headlines saying a Hamas-Israel truce is "close," or "nearing the finish line" or else "stalled" or also "progressing"... Friday saw truce talks come full circle with the following Hamas statement cited in Reuters: The Palestinian...
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...
Hospitals Turn To Pay In Advance, In Full
11.05.2024, 04:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hospitals Turn To Pay In Advance, In Full By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk If you are in the hospital emergency room, and that’s where most people without insurance go, then you get treated. Otherwise, many hospitals are turning to pay in advance for services. Please Pay in Advance The Wall Street Journal reports Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
Carnival Rides
10.05.2024, 22:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Carnival Rides Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “These agencies are not trusted because they are not trustworthy.” — El Gato Malo on “X” The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst...
FBI Officials Told To 'Stand Down' The Day Before Jan. 6: Report
10.05.2024, 20:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI Officials Told To 'Stand Down' The Day Before Jan. 6: Report Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, Jan. 6, 2021. PHOTO: Wikipedia The FBI released on Tuesday a new batch of records about its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising—raising more questions about the event in the process. Among the 107 pages of new records is...
Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List
10.05.2024, 17:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Bill Seeks To Place Campus Protesters On No-Fly List Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A bill introduced in the Senate by two Republicans seeks to place campus protesters on a no-fly list. Across the country, pro-Palestinian students are gathering on campuses and demanding their universities cut ties with the Israeli government...
Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather'
10.05.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dog Gone: Kristi Noem Cuts Short Book Tour Citing 'Bad Weather' Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has cut short a disastrous book tour after receiving withering criticism for her story of shooting an ill-behaved puppy and unverified claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, RealClearPolitics is first...
Chris Cuomo Admits Taking "Regular" Doses Of Ivermectin After Previously Saying Those Who Took It Should Be "Shamed"
10.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chris Cuomo Admits Taking "Regular" Doses Of Ivermectin After Previously Saying Those Who Took It Should Be "Shamed" After once claiming on air that people taking ivermectin should be "shamed", Chris Cuomo has done an about face on the drug, admitting on the PBD Podcast this week that he is taking a regular dose of it to deal with long Covid. In January...
West Fueling Global Conflicts, Trying To Topple Moscow, Putin Says On WW2 Victory Day
10.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - West Fueling Global Conflicts, Trying To Topple Moscow, Putin Says On WW2 Victory Day As fully expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a defiant tone in his speech at Moscow’s Red Square for the annual events commemorating Russia's WW2 victory. Addressing thousands of soldiers in ceremonial attire, Putin accused the "arrogant" West of stoking...
Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption"
09.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw the Riksbank in Sweden cut rates by 25bp to 3.75% for the first time since 2016 (as Brazil cut 25bp to 10.50% as expected, yet the BoJ opened the door to another tiny June hike). Rate cuts, and a month before the ECB is...
Biden Accused Of Helping Hamas As Israelis Fume Over Threat To Halt Weapons
09.05.2024, 17:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Accused Of Helping Hamas As Israelis Fume Over Threat To Halt Weapons Israeli leaders are furious after the evening prior CNN published an interview with President Biden wherein he laid out that the US will withhold all offensive weapons from Israel if it moves forward with a full-scale invasion of Rafah. In a message to both Israel's "enemies...
The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited
09.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Fascism became a swear word in the US and UK during the Second World War. It has been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It is not a system of political economy but an insult. If we go back a decade before...
Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop
08.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop By Russell Clark, author of the Capital Flows and Asset Market substack Japan and Treasuries My interest in Japan dates from 1991 when I was fresh faced high school exchange student in Kobe. There are no prizes for finding me in the above photo. I was the only “foreigner” in the school, and would go days without...
Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb
08.05.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb By Michael Every of Rabobank F is for Fed; Biden; Trump; and the 1980s In a sea of lurid, stupid headlines today, it was billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller who arguably dropped the biggest F bombs via a TV interview. First: “Bidenomics, If I was a professor, I’d give him an ‘F’. Basically, they...
Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline
08.05.2024, 14:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Democrat run city of Denver is encouraging residents to host migrant families in their homes and has even set up a hotline so people can volunteer to take in illegals who have no where else to go. FOX31 Denver reports that a charity calling itself...
The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't
08.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't Authored by Omid Malekan, Stablecoins have been in the news lately, thanks to another round of failed legislation, a well-intentioned but poorly-designed analytics dashboard compliments of Visa, and false equivocation by a columnist at the FT. Meet the wire transfer Nic Carter just published an epic review of the...
AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect
08.05.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect In yet another damning development for the 'safe and effective' crowd, AstraZeneca has announced the worldwide withdrawal of its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, branded as Vaxzevria, due to a rare but serious side effect. This decision marks the end of the vaccine once hailed as a "triumph...
Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok
08.05.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public relations battle. "Some wonder why...
The Washington 'Blob' Seems "Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves"
06.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Washington 'Blob' Seems "Ready To Wreck The Republic To Save Themselves" Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Prisoners of Themselves “Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the 'deep state', what is?” - Jeffrey Tucker You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials...
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...
Cryptos Dump After Robinhood Reveals SEC Wells Notice Related Related To Its Crypto Listings
06.05.2024, 15:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cryptos Dump After Robinhood Reveals SEC Wells Notice Related Related To Its Crypto Listings For all its positives, bitcoin is perhaps the only security that prices in the same news over, and over, and over again (especially when the news is bad). We saw this last month when bitcoin tumbled repeatedly after every single fake attack in the fake Iran-Israel...
The Ideological Roots Of The Open Borders Push
06.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Ideological Roots Of The Open Borders Push Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, Why does the Biden administration want open borders? As a researcher and writer on immigration, that’s the question I often get asked. Here are the three reasons I think are behind President Joe Biden’s deliberate border chaos: electoral politics, extortion...
Matt Taibbi Uncensored: Finance Nothing More Than A 'Street Scam'
05.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Matt Taibbi Uncensored: Finance Nothing More Than A 'Street Scam' Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The opportunity to secure an exclusive interview with Matt Taibbi is something I thought I’d never get…but alas, here we are. Taibbi is the head of Racket News and his reputation as a fearless investigative journalist precedes him. From his groundbreaking...