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Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not
22.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is no coincidence. It is a policy. Governments, along with their so-called experts, attempt to persuade you that inflation stems from anything other than the consistent, albeit slower, rise in aggregate prices year after year. Issuing more currency...
Footage Shows Hezbollah Drone Slam Into Northern Israel Community Center, 18 Wounded
17.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Footage Shows Hezbollah Drone Slam Into Northern Israel Community Center, 18 Wounded Israeli emergency authorities are reporting that casualties from a suicide drone attack on a northern Israeli village have risen to at least 18 people wounded. Hezbollah took responsibility for launching the suicide drone which ultimately scored a direct hit on a community...
Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization
17.04.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization On Monday, the House finalized procedural business on a bill to reauthorize the nation's warrantless surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called "one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government...
NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden
16.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is only days away from “taking over the internet” with a massive expansion of its surveillance powers, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In an April 16 post to X, Snowden...
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...
Hezbollah Detonates Bomb After IDF Troops Caught Breaching Lebanese Border, Wounding 4
15.04.2024, 20:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Detonates Bomb After IDF Troops Caught Breaching Lebanese Border, Wounding 4 Four Israeli soldiers were wounded Monday after a bomb was detonated inside Lebanese territory, in a rare moment where it appears the IDF was seeking to breach the border. Hezbollah took responsibility for the explosion, saying it planted the bomb near the border...
Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come
11.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Euro Extends Decline After ECB Holds Rates At Highs, Hints At Cuts To Come After yesterday's US CPI print - and the dramatic adjustment to market expectations of Fed policy action (timing and extent) - this morning's ECB was expected to be a nothing-burger with all eyes out for any confirmation that June is 'go-time' for Lagarde to cut (albeit a rare...
Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade?
10.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Could US Treasuries Become The Trade Of The Decade? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The expediencies and policy extremes have yet to be explored, much less exploited. Napoleon is reputed to have said, "Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything." This is the lament of someone...
House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers
05.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Freedom Caucus Members Earmarked Nearly $1 Billion From Taxpayers By Adam Andrzejeski of OpenTheBooks The House Freedom Caucus was founded in 2015. Self-styled fiscal conservatives promoted themselves as a bulwark against establishment spending that would bankrupt the nation. It turns out that many are better at breaking their promises than stopping...
Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida's Exclusive 'Billionaire' Bunker Island
03.04.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jeff Bezos Buys His Third Mansion On Florida's Exclusive 'Billionaire' Bunker Island Amazon founder Jeff Bezos just bought this third massive home on Florida's exclusive Bunker Island, according to a new report from The Daily Mail. Florida's Bunker Island, officially known as Indian Creek Island, stands as one of the most exclusive and affluent communities...
WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Inventory Draws Across The Board
02.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After API Reports Inventory Draws Across The Board US crude futures pierced $85 for the first time since October, the latest milestone in a rally driven by OPEC+ production cuts, strong demand and heightened geopolitical risks. As Bloomberg reports, oil has jumped this week as tensions rise in the Middle East, with Iran vowing revenge on...
With 'Friends' Like Mexico's Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, & The Ayatollahs?
02.04.2024, 00:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With 'Friends' Like Mexico's Obrador, Who Needs Enemies Like Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, & The Ayatollahs? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador - who prefers to be known as AMLO for short - issued to the Biden administration blackmail demands that sounded...
Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants
28.03.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State of Texas, continuing to stall the enforcement of Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4), a state law targeting illegal immigration that allows the state to arrest...
The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV
27.03.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV Authored by Thomas McArdle via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has just required that the majority of automotive vehicles manufactured be electric by 2032, inflicting upon the American people troublesome cars whose price is an exorbitant $53,500 on average and that cost a fortune to repair. House...
WTI Extends Gains After Big Product Draws; Pump-Prices Set To Soar
13.02.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After Big Product Draws; Pump-Prices Set To Soar Oil prices extended recent gains today, despite chaos across other asset classes, on concerns supply could be disrupted as Iran tested a ballistic missile in the Gulf of Oman, while demand hopes were led by OPEC raising its economic forecasts. Oil was also supported by a major technical...
In Latest Oil Megadeal, Diamondback Buys Endeavor For $26BN Creating Permian Giant
12.02.2024, 15:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Latest Oil Megadeal, Diamondback Buys Endeavor For $26BN Creating Permian Giant Last year, when the full extent of the unprecedented consolidation wave in the shale sector gradually became apparent, we speculated that when it's all said and done, US energy companies would have more production discipline than the OPEC+ cartel, and sure enough, today...
Egypt Warns Israel: Rafah Invasion Could Negate '79 Peace Treaty
11.02.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Egypt Warns Israel: Rafah Invasion Could Negate '79 Peace Treaty With Israel on the verge of invading Gaza's southernmost city, Egypt is warning that such a move could trigger a suspension of the treaty that has maintained peace between the two countries since 1979, the Wall Street Journal reports. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday...
7 Super Bowl Charts That Sum Up Fan Expectations
10.02.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 Super Bowl Charts That Sum Up Fan Expectations As the Super Bowl approaches, anticipation is mounting, not only for the rematch between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs but also for the spectacles that come with it: the ads, the parties and sadly this year, Taylor Swift. The crew over at RotoWire recently checked in with fans to...
2024 Is The New 1984: Big Brother & The Rise Of The Security Industrial Complex
08.02.2024, 05:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2024 Is The New 1984: Big Brother & The Rise Of The Security Industrial Complex Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Big Brother is Watching You.” - George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off...
WTI Extends Gains After Surprisingly Large Product Draws
07.02.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After Surprisingly Large Product Draws Oil prices extended yesterday's gains (helped by EIA's short-term outlook) after a mixed bag from API with a much smaller than expected crude build. API Crude +674k (+1.3mm exp) Cushing +492k Gasoline +3.65mm (+300k exp) Distillates -3.7mm (-2.0mm exp) DOE Crude +5.52mm (+1.3mm exp) Cushing -33k...
It's Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right)
02.02.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right) Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White House and invoked Article 1 section 10 of the US constitution as a reason to ignore the Biden Administration's demand that the State government cease erecting a border...
WTI Extends Losses After Surprise Crude Build, January Cushing Stocks At 2008 Lows
31.01.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Surprise Crude Build, January Cushing Stocks At 2008 Lows Oil prices were lower this morning, amid broad derisking after weak macro data and no immediate escalation in the Middle East. API Crude -2.5mm (-800k exp) Cushing -2.0mm Gasoline +600k (+1.4mm exp) Distillates -2.1mm (-800k exp) DOE Crude +1.23mm (-800k exp) Cushing...
Ukraine Officials Implicated In $40 Million Mortar Embezzlement Scheme
29.01.2024, 18:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Officials Implicated In $40 Million Mortar Embezzlement Scheme In the latest reinforcement of the country's reputation for rampant corruption, Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency says it has uncovered a $40 million embezzlement scheme in which a defense firm agreed to supply the country's army with 100,000 mortar rounds -- but never delivered...
Netanyahu And Sinwar's Forever War: Perpetual Conflict In Gaza
28.01.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu And Sinwar's Forever War: Perpetual Conflict In Gaza Authored by Joe Buccino via RealClear Wire, As the Gaza War extends beyond 100 days with no end in sight, a potential months-long respite from fighting comes into focus. The ceasefire will allow the release of another set of Israeli hostages and another set of Palestinian prisoners. Beyond...
WTI Extends Gains After Big Crude Draw, Production Slump
24.01.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After Big Crude Draw, Production Slump Oil prices have been chopping around overnight as traders focused on China's latest efforts to stimulate its stock market economy, and no new chaos in the Red Seas (and Libya reopened its largest oil field). Oil also benefited from a weaker dollar and a big crude draw reported by API overnight...
As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package
23.01.2024, 04:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As China Stocks Crash, Beijing Proposes Multi-Trillion Market Rescue Package Earlier today, we lamented the latest implosion in Chinese markets, which we discussed in "China Stocks Crash Through 'Snowball Derivatives' Trigger Levels Overnight", in which we pointed out the unprecedented failure of the centrally-planned market to halt its collapse be...
Davos, Trust, & The End Of "Comfortable Wolves"
21.01.2024, 18:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Davos, Trust, & The End Of "Comfortable Wolves" Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, Last fall I poked the slumbering bear of the #ungovernble set by taking extreme umbrage with calling people “Sheeple.” For the record I absolutely detest that word. Instead I shot back with a very reflexive, “Bullshit!” There are very few things...
'Not Tough, Smart, Or Respected Enough To Be My VP' - Trump Taunts Haley, Dominates New Hampshire Polls Despite MSM Onslaught
21.01.2024, 00:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Not Tough, Smart, Or Respected Enough To Be My VP' - Trump Taunts Haley, Dominates New Hampshire Polls Despite MSM Onslaught The mainstream media appears to have got the message from the 'uniparty' - Nikki Haley is our gal. The neocon's recently improving trend in New Hampshire Republican Primary polls has sparked a wave of supportive headlines (and...
Decode Your Hospital Bill To Catch Overcharges
20.01.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Decode Your Hospital Bill To Catch Overcharges Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Millions of Americans are trapped in a maze of inflated hospital fees and opaque billing codes. Yet they either pay these crushing bills or watch their credit score plummet. But what if patients could decode hospital charges and gain the upper...
How To Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society & Economy
20.01.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How To Navigate Our Low-Trust, Increasingly Dysfunctional Society & Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Politicians and corporate managers have an enviable record of self-enrichment but very little to show in terms of putting the long-term interests of the citizenry above their own short-term gains. This week's focus is on self-reliance...
WTI Extends Gains After Large Cushing Inventory Draw, SPR Builds For 5th Straight Week
18.01.2024, 17:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Gains After Large Cushing Inventory Draw, SPR Builds For 5th Straight Week Oil prices extended gains from yesterday afternoon's rebound, helped by a big draw at the Cushing Hub reported by API. Escalating risks in the Middle East are competing with IEA's forecast that the market will be well-supplied this year (the US is at record production...
Futures Dip As Doubts Emerge About March Rate Cut, US Markets Closed For Holiday
15.01.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Dip As Doubts Emerge About March Rate Cut, US Markets Closed For Holiday US equity futures were steady on Monday as investors were displeased by hawkish comments from ECB's Holzmann , who said there may not be any rate cuts this year which pushed European stocks to session lows, while also bracing for more earnings later this week. With cash...
Activism Uncensored: California Sex Workers Fight For Labor Rights
06.01.2024, 04:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Activism Uncensored: California Sex Workers Fight For Labor Rights In the heart of Los Angeles County, a labor movement unlike any other is unfolding. Sex workers, often relegated to the shadows of the labor discourse, are stepping into the limelight, demanding rights equivalent to mainstream entertainment industry workers. This burgeoning movement...
How Pervasive Is Academic Corruption?
06.01.2024, 02:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Pervasive Is Academic Corruption? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Whew, what a week it’s been for higher ed! The Claudine Gay debacle at Harvard has raised some fundamental questions about academia in general. She was president of the university, traditionally seen as the pinnacle of American academia. But a careful look at her...
WTI Extends Losses After Massive Product Inventory Builds, Large SPR Add
04.01.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Massive Product Inventory Builds, Large SPR Add Oil prices are sliding back again this morning, after surging yesterday to erase Tuesday's losses, following a bigger than expected crude draw reported by API (but notably large product inventory builds). Broad 'risk-off' sentiment in markets to start the year (and dollar strength)...
Futures Halt Slide As Oil Extends Rally
04.01.2024, 14:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Halt Slide As Oil Extends Rally After the worst start start to the year in almost two decades - it was just the third time in history that the Nasdaq started the year with back to back 1%+ declines (the other two years were 1980 and 2005) - markets took a breather on Thursday, with US equity futures posting small gains even as they remained...
Hamas In London
03.01.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hamas In London Authored by Robert Williams via The Gatestone Institute, The pro-Hamas protests in London are not, apparently, as organic and spontaneous as their organizers would like them to seem. At least four groups with links to Hamas are reportedly behind several of the marches: The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Palestinian Forum...
WTI Extends 'Death Cross' Losses After API Reports Another Unexpected Crude Build
27.12.2023, 22:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends 'Death Cross' Losses After API Reports Another Unexpected Crude Build Oil prices pumped and dumped today after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebel militia's attacks on tankers sparked supply concerns overnight which were then completely forgotten about as US Treasury yields puked lower during the day (and Maesrk reportedly scheduling several...
The Dangerous Side Of 'Phantom Debt'
27.12.2023, 21:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Dangerous Side Of 'Phantom Debt' Authored by Sam Bourgi via CreditNews.com, Recent Fed data showed that Americans racked up an extra $48 billion in credit card debt last quarter - but that might be the tip of the short-term debt iceberg. With more Americans getting close to maxing out their credit cards, they are turning to “buy now, pay later”...
Trump Jr. Says He'd Go To "Great Lengths" To Stop Haley As VP Pick
27.12.2023, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Jr. Says He'd Go To "Great Lengths" To Stop Haley As VP Pick Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Donald Trump Jr. has expressed strong opposition to the prospect of Nikki Haley being tapped as his father's running mate in the 2024 presidential election, pledging to go to "great lengths" to prevent it. Donald Trump Jr...
High-End Retailers Face Downturn As Wealthy Americans Cut Back On Spending
21.11.2023, 20:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - High-End Retailers Face Downturn As Wealthy Americans Cut Back On Spending As Black Friday looms, a concerning trend has emerged: Affluent Americans are cutting back on spending - a shift which signals potential trouble for an economy reliant on robust consumer expenditure to ward off recession. According to Bloomberg Second Measure Data of debit/credit...
Stock Rally Fizzles Ahead Of FOMC Minutes, Nvidia Earnings
21.11.2023, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stock Rally Fizzles Ahead Of FOMC Minutes, Nvidia Earnings The torrid US equity rally of the past three weeks that sent stocks near 2023 highs, stalled as futures wavered on Tuesday ahead of closely watched earnings by Nvidia and FOMC minutes as some investors questioned the sustainability of the meltup fueled by expectations of a Federal Reserve pivot...
Lobbyists Steamrolling Biden Effort To Nix Billions In 'Junk Fees'
21.11.2023, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lobbyists Steamrolling Biden Effort To Nix Billions In 'Junk Fees' Last fall, the Biden administration - scant on accomplishments, embarked on a campaign to pressure airlines to ditch billions in so-called "junk fees" charged to travelers who want to check bags or change flights. "You should know the full cost of your ticket right when you’re comparison...
Congress Has 5 Days To Avert A Shutdown
13.11.2023, 19:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Congress Has 5 Days To Avert A Shutdown Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill this week with only a few days to avert a government shutdown. The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Oct. 16, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) Under current congressional funding authorizations, the...
Smith, Merkley To Biden: Press Xi On Political Prisoners, Human Rights
10.11.2023, 19:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Smith, Merkley To Biden: Press Xi On Political Prisoners, Human Rights Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClear Wire, When President Biden sits down next week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as expected, top human rights advocates in Congress want him armed with a list of American and Chinese political prisoners and to press for their freedom as...
Time For A Generator? New Warning Says Half Of US At Risk Of Grid Down This Winter
09.11.2023, 23:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Time For A Generator? New Warning Says Half Of US At Risk Of Grid Down This Winter The 2023-24 Winter Reliability Assessment (WRA) report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. warns of a heightened risk of "insufficient energy supply" during extreme cold spells. This concern extends over large swaths of the US and Canadian power grid, affecting...
S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004
09.11.2023, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Futures Rise, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2004 S&P 500 futures edged higher on Thursday after notching an eight-day streak of gains, and setting up the benchmark index for its longest winning streak since 2004, as investors monitored bond yields, corporate earnings and the price of oil. Treasuries fell and the dollar rose ahead of more...
WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Biggest Crude Build Since Feb
07.11.2023, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After API Reports Biggest Crude Build Since Feb Oil prices plunged today, closing well below the pre-Israel levels and breaking below the 200DMA for the first time since July as war risk-premia evaporate and demand fears resurgent. “While the death toll in Gaza from Israeli air strikes continues to rise to unimaginable levels, the...
Target CEO Warns: Consumers Are "Tightening Up Their Spending," Buying Few Groceries And Toys
03.11.2023, 16:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target CEO Warns: Consumers Are "Tightening Up Their Spending," Buying Few Groceries And Toys Following the warning from ex-Walmart CEO Bill Simon regarding the American consumer nearing a 'breaking point,' Target's CEO, Brian Cornell, has also signaled a cutback in consumer spending, groceries included. This trend aligns with our view, as well as...