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Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition
19.04.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Pushing Pipe-Dream Of Israel-Saudi Mega Deal Based On Palestinian State Recognition The Biden administration is keeping its dream of seeing Saudi-Israeli diplomatic normalization achieved (or rather, what is in fact originally Trump's dream set in motion via the Abraham Accords). But Biden is dangling something before Netanyahu that the Israeli...
World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts
19.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Recently the World Bank released a handbook for asset managers on why to invest in gold. At Gainesville Coins I have written numerous articles on gold revaluation accounts and how these can be deployed by central banks to absorb...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
Biden's 'Punishing' Iran Sanctions For Israel Attack End Up Being Meek Political Smokescreen
18.04.2024, 18:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's 'Punishing' Iran Sanctions For Israel Attack End Up Being Meek Political Smokescreen President Biden has unveiled the administration's promised new sanctions on Iran targeting the country's drone, steel and automotive industries, which is 'punishment' in response to the unprecedented Saturday overnight Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack...
Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention
18.04.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Plaza Accord Lite? Japan, Korea Get Green Light From Yellen For FX Intervention One week ago, when Japan's PM Kishida visited the White House and unwittingly sparked the latest Beltway fashion scandal, when Jeff Bezos' current wife appeared dressed as a middle-aged stripper to the dinner honoring the Japanese delegation, sparking online outrage among...
Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market
18.04.2024, 04:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forget Cocoa, Coffee. There's A "Squeeze Risk" Building In The Tin Market Tin prices on the London Metal Exchange have surged 27% this year, landing on the radars of some institutional desks. Other commodities closely monitored by hedge funds include cocoa, coffee, Brent crude, copper, and gold. Bloomberg notes that LME data for the tin market shows the...
Doug Casey On The New American Dream: "You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy"
18.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doug Casey On The New American Dream: "You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy" Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: According to a recent study by Investopedia, the classic middle-class American Dream now costs over $3.4 million. That’s the estimated lifetime cost of marriage, two children, cars, homes, healthcare, education, and retirement. It’s...
"Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech
17.04.2024, 21:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member...
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...
7 Jurors Sworn In For Trump Trial, More To Come
17.04.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 Jurors Sworn In For Trump Trial, More To Come Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The first seven jurors have been selected and sworn in to serve on former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, with the selection process continuing to pick another five to make up the 12-member jury panel, as lawyers grilled...
'Oral Argument Favored Defendants' - Supreme Court Just Ended Hearing Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants
16.04.2024, 19:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Oral Argument Favored Defendants' - Supreme Court Just Ended Hearing Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants Authored by Jonathan Turley, Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Fischer v. United States, a case that could fundamentally change many cases of January 6th defendants, including the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. The...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
Hong Kong Approves First Bitcoin & Ether ETFs
15.04.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hong Kong Approves First Bitcoin & Ether ETFs Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Hong Kong’s securities regulator reportedly approved the in-kind creation model for Bitcoin and Ether ETFs instead of the cash-create model in the United States. Hong Kong has become the latest country to approve spot exchange-traded funds (ETF) for Bitcoin...
"Operation Praying Man Tis" Shows The US In Geopolitical Retreat
15.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Operation Praying Man Tis" Shows The US In Geopolitical Retreat By Michael Every of Rabobank If all you focus on is Brent oil, 10-year US Treasury yields, and the US dollar, relax: they are roughly where they were at the close on Friday before Iran unleashed over 300 suicide drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles at Israel: the geopolitical...
After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver
15.04.2024, 16:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, In a high-stakes showdown with Gov. Andy Beshear over a gold and silver sales tax exemption, the Kentucky legislature today deemed his attempted line-item veto as an illegal act -- and directed the Secretary of State to enroll the exemption into law...
Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals
15.04.2024, 15:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals Over the weekend we reported that, in a surprise move, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel in the latest bid to curb President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund his war machine (as discussed previously, Russian oil is now trading...
Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel
15.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Bitcoin Jump, Oil Drops As Markets Move Beyond This Weekend's Scripted Military Exchange Between Iran And Israel Following the emotional rollercoaster of this weekend geopolitical "straight to DVD" soap opera, in which Iran pretended to retaliate to Israel's embassy bombing with an attack that was meant to be a dud (and succeeded), which in...
US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means
14.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means On Friday, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel in the latest hollow bid to curb President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund his war machine (as discussed previously, Russian oil is now trading...
"China Is About To Start Bidding" - Will Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Spark The 'Halving' Rally?
14.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "China Is About To Start Bidding" - Will Hong Kong Bitcoin ETFs Spark The 'Halving' Rally? Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The potential approval of the first batch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong could be a big catalyst for Bitcoin’s halving rally, commentators say. Hong Kong could approve 4 Bitcoin ETFs...
'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea
13.04.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Surprising' Intensity Of Houthi Attacks Push French Warship To Exit Red Sea Via The Cradle France's Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry. "We didn’t necessarily expect this level of...
Is Silver About To Do A Cocoa?
13.04.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Silver About To Do A Cocoa? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Silver prices have rocketed higher in recent days, and they have been surging today (with great volatility). As a futures market, more of it trades on exchange relative to its annual physical supply compared to cocoa. Therefore it’s not inconceivable silver could...
The Final Nail In The Coffin Of Synchronized Central Bank Actions
12.04.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Final Nail In The Coffin Of Synchronized Central Bank Actions By Elwin de Groot, head of macro strategy at Rabobank And now the end [to monetary tightening] is near … And so I face that final curtain … My friend I'll say it clear … I'll state my case, of which I'm certain [– Christine Lagarde] As we head into the weekend and gold prices...
US Restricts Diplomats' Travel In Israel, Bracing For Iran Attack By Week's End
12.04.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Restricts Diplomats' Travel In Israel, Bracing For Iran Attack By Week's End Iran is expected to attack Israel by week's end, or at least within the coming days. However, the degree of telegraphing has almost taken the teeth out of the threat and what Iran hopes to accomplish in its retaliation. "Iran is calibrating its plans for a major retaliatory...
Central Banks Are Buying The Gold Top
12.04.2024, 15:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banks Are Buying The Gold Top Via SchiffGold.com, In investing, “Buy low, sell high” is among the most well-known sayings, and generally, it’s good advice. But with gold still holding near its historic all-time highs, central banks led by China are bucking the classic adage and smash-buying more, buying the top to fortify themselves...
Shares Of Morgan Stanley Sink After Multiple Federal Regulators Probe Wealth-Management Practices
11.04.2024, 21:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shares Of Morgan Stanley Sink After Multiple Federal Regulators Probe Wealth-Management Practices Shares of Morgan Stanley stumbled in the late afternoon trading session in New York after The Wall Street Journal reported multiple federal regulators are probing the investment bank/financial services company over how it vets wealthy clients who are...
Kyle Bass Says Email Hacking By China Follows Exposé On Secret ChiCom Hypersonic Space Station Base In Argentina
11.04.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kyle Bass Says Email Hacking By China Follows Exposé On Secret ChiCom Hypersonic Space Station Base In Argentina Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass claims the Chinese government hacked his email account after he quoted an article on X about a 'secret' space station base in the Patagonia region of Argentina that the Chinese military use "to...
IMF Prepares Financial Revolution – Say Goodbye To The Dollar
11.04.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IMF Prepares Financial Revolution – Say Goodbye To The Dollar Authored by Brandon Smith via The Burning Platform blog, Global reserve currency status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Treasury Department understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The petrodollar monopoly...
"I Am Going To Lecture You On Climate Change": BBC Reporter Gets Schooled For Hypocrisy
11.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I Am Going To Lecture You On Climate Change": BBC Reporter Gets Schooled For Hypocrisy Authored by Tilak K. Doshi via RealClear Politics, On March 28, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of the South American country of Guyana became an instant hero to many as he refused to take lectures on climate change from a BBC reporter during an interview. In a two-minute...
How Trump Could Beat The Deep State
11.04.2024, 01:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Trump Could Beat The Deep State Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Let’s say that Trump wins the November election. What would a second Trump presidency actually look like? Today we’re going to investigate that question. Let’s first back up to the 2016 election. Trump ran the most incompetent presidential transition process...
US 'Considering' Dropping Prosecution Of Assange, Biden Says
11.04.2024, 01:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US 'Considering' Dropping Prosecution Of Assange, Biden Says Wednesday saw a rare and unexpected positive development in the Julian Assange extradition case. President Joe Biden has affirmed the US is "considering" dropping its prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Currently, Assange is awaiting a final ruling from the UK high court over his possible...
7 More States Sue To Block 'Most Generous Ever' Student Loan Program
10.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 More States Sue To Block 'Most Generous Ever' Student Loan Program Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden faces a fresh lawsuit from a seven-state coalition challenging his “most generous ever” federal student loan repayment plan, under which millions of borrowers would have a monthly bill of $0. In their...
Is The Great Illusion In Ruins?
09.04.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The Great Illusion In Ruins? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history. Americans were then set to witness a great experiment...
Quit Complaining About Inflation!
09.04.2024, 21:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Quit Complaining About Inflation! Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com, The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The headline is that his economist brain makes him say with regard to inflation: “Don’t worry, be happy.” The article gives the reader as much reason...
Washington Offers Tehran Negotiations To Avoid Striking Israel: Report
08.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington Offers Tehran Negotiations To Avoid Striking Israel: Report Via The Cradle Iranian diplomatic sources say the US is trying to convince Iran not to retaliate against Israel for its bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month, Al-Jarida newspaper reported on Monday. The Israeli strike targeted a building attached to the Iranian...
Democrats Cry Foul As Anti-Free Speech Allies Turn Against Them
08.04.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Cry Foul As Anti-Free Speech Allies Turn Against Them Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the recent disruptions of events featuring leading Democrats from President Joe Biden to Rep. Jamie Raskin. After years of supporting the censoring and blacklisting of others, these politicians are now being targeted by the...
China Rebukes US 'Politicization' Of Trade Issues As Yellen Seeks 'Balanced' Economic Growth
08.04.2024, 16:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Rebukes US 'Politicization' Of Trade Issues As Yellen Seeks 'Balanced' Economic Growth U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in China last Thursday for a 6-day visit, a trip she said was necessary to "advance America’s economic and national security interests." Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the United States will launch two...
The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV
08.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV Submitted by Tuomas Malinen In this entry I will expand the analysis we presented in the March Deprcon Outlook of GnS Economics. Issues discussed: ‘Craziness’ driving the world towards WWIII is increasing. Geopolitics is dominating in the background, but people tend to forget it’s a two-way street...
Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement
08.04.2024, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Finally Says 'Nyet' To Continued North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Authored by Joseph D. Terwilliger via AntiWar.com, Last week, a United Nations Security Council resolution to extend the mandate for the UN Panel of Experts on DPRK sanctions was vetoed by the Russian Federation, effectively disbanding the primary enforcement mechanism for the nine...
Former Hunter Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski Sues Rep. Dan Goldman For Defamation
07.04.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Hunter Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski Sues Rep. Dan Goldman For Defamation Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Tony Bobulinski, a former Biden family business associate and witness in an ongoing Republican-led impeachment investigation, has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) accusing the lawmaker of defamation...
America Is Hurtling Toward A Full-Blown Hot Civil War
07.04.2024, 05:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America Is Hurtling Toward A Full-Blown Hot Civil War Authored by Justin Smith via The Burning Platform blog, It never ceases to amaze me at how little so many people in this country have done to train their minds to critically analyze information. They have eyes to see and ears to see, and yet, somehow the truth of any major issue still seems to evade...
SEC Forced To Halt Climate Reporting Mandate For Businesses
06.04.2024, 23:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SEC Forced To Halt Climate Reporting Mandate For Businesses Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paused the implementation of its climate disclosure requirements for companies as legal challenges against the rules are pending in a circuit court. In March, the SEC finalized a controversial...
Europe's South Takes The Lead
06.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe's South Takes The Lead By Maartje Wijffelaars, Senior Economist at Rabobank Brent crude oil extended its gains and broke through the 90 dollars a barrel threshold yesterday, for the first time since end-October last year. The commodity continues its ascend this morning and at the time of writing it’ll cost you 91.2 dollars to buy a barrel....
Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties?
06.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which OECD Countries Allow Donations To Political Parties? Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2024 released by the OECD. The report argues that this leaves these countries “exposed to undue influence.” The following chart, from...
Israel Sacks Top Officers Over Aid Convoy Attack As Biden Gives 'Ultimatum' To Netanyahu
05.04.2024, 18:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Sacks Top Officers Over Aid Convoy Attack As Biden Gives 'Ultimatum' To Netanyahu On Thursday President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the Israeli military's killing of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen which happened Monday, and has since resulted in rare expression of US mainstream media outrage...
Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals)
05.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Today's Stellar Jobs Print: It Was Literally ALL Part-Time Jobs (And Illegals) First things first: unlike the last two months when both the January and February jobs prints were beyond ridiculously manipulated and goalseeked to pass a terrible number as a strong one, the March print was not a complete disaster. To be sure, superficially the March...
"Oh Man, This Is Huge": Video Revealed By Jan. 6 Defendant Raises Questions About Undercover Agents
05.04.2024, 15:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Oh Man, This Is Huge": Video Revealed By Jan. 6 Defendant Raises Questions About Undercover Agents Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Recently released Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Police security video shows a suspected FBI special agent clapping and cheering as crowds surged up steps to the Columbus Doors and another meeting...
Federal Reserve Refuses To Provide Records Of Foreign Gold Holdings
05.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Reserve Refuses To Provide Records Of Foreign Gold Holdings Authored by Ken Silva via Money Metals, Weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell evaded a sitting congressman’s questions about the central bank’s foreign gold holdings, the Fed has also declined to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for records about such...
Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson Accused Of Assaulting Student Protester
04.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson Accused Of Assaulting Student Protester Authored by Jonathan Turley, Various groups are demanding the resignation or firing of Walter Isaacson, former CEO of CNN and the Aspen Institute, after allegedly assaulting a Tulane student protester, Rory MacDonald during an event to foster diversity of ideas and entrepreneurship...
"I Cannot Call Evacuation A Success": New Details Emerge Of Afghanistan-Exit Chaos
03.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I Cannot Call Evacuation A Success": New Details Emerge Of Afghanistan-Exit Chaos Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, New testimony from those who witnessed firsthand the confusion and chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal further contradicts President Biden’s assertion that the hurried and violent end to the longest war in American history...
Bitcoin Redundancy Realizations
03.04.2024, 20:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Redundancy Realizations Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance When I think about the key concepts that I’ve learned about Bitcoin over the last month or two, there wasn’t one that pushed me over the line to be a believer more than the function of the network's redundancy. I mean, sure, almost everybody that knows me knows that ideologically...