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Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan
25.04.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan Seizing assets? Two can play at that game... Just days after Washington voted to authorize the REPO Act - paving the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign assets which sit in US banks - it appears Moscow has a plan of its own (let's call it the REVERSE REPO Act) as a Russian...
This "Emperor" Has No Clothes
25.04.2024, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - This "Emperor" Has No Clothes Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Does the Fed even matter that much to the real economy and investor portfolios? That’s an important question that doesn’t get nearly enough scrutiny. It’s possible that neither the Fed nor the reporters who cover the Fed want to ask hard questions about what the Fed...
AI, Gold, & Nuclear War
17.04.2024, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI, Gold, & Nuclear War Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Meanwhile, gold has shot up like a rocket over the past couple of months. In mid-February, gold was trading at $1,990. Two months later, gold is trading above $2,400 — a $410 gain in just two months. So here’s...
It’s Official: Reflation Is Here
13.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Official: Reflation Is Here Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head...
Spring, Summers, Nuclear Fall(out), Or Winter?
11.04.2024, 18:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spring, Summers, Nuclear Fall(out), Or Winter? By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday’s US CPI was radioactive. Headline and core were both 0.4% m-o-m, and 3.5% and 3.8% y-o-y. Energy prices were higher, which is bad. Shelter inflation was stuck at 5.7%, which is worse. But worst of all, services excluding shelter were 0.8% m-o-m and 4.8% y-o-y. In...
California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income
11.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based On Ratepayers' Income Authored by Jane L. Johnson via The Mises Institute, Utility bills - for electricity, natural gas, water, and garbage - have by long-standing tradition been based on customer usage, measured in kilowatt-hours of electricity, therms or Btu of natural gas, hundred cubic feet of water...
Bridge Collapse: Moody's Cuts Maryland Transportation Authority's Debt Outlook To Negative
11.04.2024, 00:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bridge Collapse: Moody's Cuts Maryland Transportation Authority's Debt Outlook To Negative The fallout from the Port of Baltimore bridge collapse has sparked supply chain snarls and economic pains in the Maryland area, forcing Moody's Ratings to downgrade the outlook of the Maryland Transportation Authority's debt from "stable" to "negative" because...
Japan's Lost Decades: Are We On The Same Path
03.04.2024, 15:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Lost Decades: Are We On The Same Path Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Back in 1989, Japan was taking over the world. The country’s economy had grown 6.7% in 1988. Sony had just bought Columbia Pictures, one of the largest Hollywood studios, for $3.45 billion. Japanese property company Mitsubishi Estate took control...
Rickards: Ukraine's Starting To Get Dangerous
03.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rickards: Ukraine's Starting To Get Dangerous Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, A lot of people seem to have forgotten about the war in Ukraine. That’s a mistake. Russia is slowly but steadily defeating Ukraine, which is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone except the most anti-Russian diehards. That’s leading to desperation...
Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia's Third-Largest Oil Refinery, Prompting White House Anger
02.04.2024, 15:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drones Hit Russia's Third-Largest Oil Refinery, Prompting White House Anger As discussed in our morning wrap, US equity futures are dipping lower as bond yields in the US continue to move higher as crude continues to surge and is up another 2% on growing fears of middle-eastern escalation after a senior Iranian commander was killed by an Israeli...
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has East Coast Ports On Alert For Cargo Diversions
01.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has East Coast Ports On Alert For Cargo Diversions US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday that there is no timeline on when salvage crews in Baltimore, Maryland, will clear the critical shipping channel blocked by the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. He said it's...
Moody's Warns Bridge Collapse Is "Credit Negative" For Baltimore As Economic Shock Emerges
28.03.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moody's Warns Bridge Collapse Is "Credit Negative" For Baltimore As Economic Shock Emerges Instead of the woke Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott utilizing his precious time by going on corporate media's leftists Joy Reid's MSNBC show and asserting that white conservatives "should be afraid" of the consequences of calling him the 'DEI Mayor,' perhaps the...
Carnival Cruise Warns Of Profit Hit From Frozen Baltimore Port After Bridge Collapse
28.03.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Carnival Cruise Warns Of Profit Hit From Frozen Baltimore Port After Bridge Collapse The fallout from the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore is hitting a wide range of companies, from those that export coal to those that import automobiles, tractors, and cheap Chinese goods that are eventually sold on Amazon. The latest troubles come from the...
Baltimore Port Closure Puts Truck Drivers Who Haul Autos In A Bind
27.03.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Baltimore Port Closure Puts Truck Drivers Who Haul Autos In A Bind By John Kingston of FreightWaves With the closure of the Port of Baltimore for the foreseeable future, the question of which truck drivers are most affected inevitably focuses first on drayage. But Baltimore is not a major intermodal port, with estimates that its share of U.S. intermodal...
Credit Markets May Be More Sensitive To Fed Dot-Plot Than Rates
20.03.2024, 13:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Credit Markets May Be More Sensitive To Fed Dot-Plot Than Rates Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, The Federal Reserve may be the biggest game in town, but someone forgot to tell credit and stock markets. Treasuries slumped over the past two weeks as concerns grew about potential dot-plot shifts, but credit investors paint a picture...
Israeli Official Accuses US Of 'Slow-Walking' Arms & Ammo Deliveries
18.03.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Official Accuses US Of 'Slow-Walking' Arms & Ammo Deliveries An Israeli official has told ABC News that the pace of military aid from Washington to Israel has noticeably slowed, but stopped just short of accusing the Biden administration of intentionally throttling weapons deliveries, though the implication is there. The unnamed senior Israeli...
Fallout Continues Over Trump "Bloodbath" Media Hoax
18.03.2024, 16:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fallout Continues Over Trump "Bloodbath" Media Hoax Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The fallout is continuing over the media hoax claiming that Trump warned of a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win the election, when in reality he was speaking in economic terms. During his speech in Ohio, on Saturday, the former president made comments...
China Sets Economic Growth Target At Around 5% This Year, Will Boost Defense Spending By 7.2%
05.03.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Sets Economic Growth Target At Around 5% This Year, Will Boost Defense Spending By 7.2% China will target economic growth of "around 5%" this year as it works to transform its development model (read magically grow while aggressively deleveraging), curb industrial overcapacity (read build less ghost cities while trying to contain the fallout from...
Amid Debate Over Rail Safety Concerns, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails
05.03.2024, 02:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amid Debate Over Rail Safety Concerns, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails By John Kingston of FreightWaves With a Norfolk Southern derailment in Pennsylvania on Saturday that sent diesel fuel into a Lehigh Valley River, the already heated battle over control of the railroad with safety issues as a backdrop got even hotter. The derailment came...
Americans Face Decades In Prison For Convincing Women Not To Have Abortions
03.03.2024, 04:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Face Decades In Prison For Convincing Women Not To Have Abortions Authored by Beth Brelje via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Heather Idoni picked up a phone receiver and punched in her inmate number on a keypad to activate it through the visitation window at Grayson County Detention Center. Paul Vaughn holds his youngest daughter alongside...
Harvard "Considers" $1.65 Billon Debt Sale After Gay Resignation Fallout
27.02.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Harvard "Considers" $1.65 Billon Debt Sale After Gay Resignation Fallout Billionaire investor and Harvard University alumnus Bill Ackman voiced concerns on X on Monday about the health of the woke university's endowment. This came in the wake of a Bloomberg report earlier that day, indicating the university was "considering" the sale of $1.65 billion...
GM-Owned Cruise's Robotaxis Plan "Relaunch" After Nationwide Suspension
24.02.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GM-Owned Cruise's Robotaxis Plan "Relaunch" After Nationwide Suspension General Motors Co.'s Cruise autonomous driving unit is preparing to resume robotaxi testing with safety drivers in Houston and Dallas metro areas in the coming weeks, following the nationwide grounding after one of its robotaxis ran over a pedestrian in San Francisco in October...
Elon Musk Blasts Google's "Insane Racist, Anti-Civilizational Programming"
23.02.2024, 17:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Blasts Google's "Insane Racist, Anti-Civilizational Programming" Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Elon Musk blasted Google’s “insane racist, anti-civilizational programming” as the fallout over the Gemini AI controversy continued to rumble. Google’s multimodal large language model program allows users to generate...
Taxing Billionaires Won't Reduce Taxes For The Middle Class
18.02.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taxing Billionaires Won't Reduce Taxes For The Middle Class Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In a world of populist policies, the notion of taxing billionaires to alleviate the financial burdens of the middle class stands as a tempting narrative. Advocates tout it as the quintessential solution to income inequality, promising a redistribution of wealth...
Israeli Forces Storm Southern Gaza Hospital In Search Of Hostage Remains
15.02.2024, 15:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Forces Storm Southern Gaza Hospital In Search Of Hostage Remains Civilians have been trickling out of Gaza's southern city of Rafah, regional media has observed, as Israel's major ground assault looms, also as the city and its environs have already come under intensified shelling, air strikes, and sporadic infantry raids on some areas. Prime...
Major Gas Pipeline Explosion In Iran Deemed 'Terrorist Sabotage'
15.02.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major Gas Pipeline Explosion In Iran Deemed 'Terrorist Sabotage' In the overnight hours reports emerged of two explosions along Iran's main south-north gas pipeline network. At least one of the massive fires that resulted was caught on video, which widely circulated, leading to speculation over whether it was an accident or attack. Iran's Oil Minister...
Boeing Plane Deliveries Fall 29% In January Amid Max Jet Crisis
15.02.2024, 05:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing Plane Deliveries Fall 29% In January Amid Max Jet Crisis Boeing's plane deliveries tumbled 29% in January - compared to the previous month, driven primarily by seasonal trends and fallout from a near-mid-air disaster of a fuselage panel that ripped off one of its 737 Max 9s. Last month, the company handed over 27 aircraft, marking its lowest...
"Greatest Headwind" Facing US Office CRE Sector Is "Years Of Supply"
14.02.2024, 14:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Greatest Headwind" Facing US Office CRE Sector Is "Years Of Supply" There have been mounting concerns recently that the unfolding commercial real estate crash is accelerating and has rippled across the global financial system. From New York Community Bancorp to Japan's Aozora Bank Ltd. and Germany's Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, sizable credit losses...
"Germany Is In Really Big Trouble": Perfect Storm Of Terrible Trends Paints "Bleak" Picture As "Distress Is Spreading To Other Sectors"
11.02.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Germany Is In Really Big Trouble": Perfect Storm Of Terrible Trends Paints "Bleak" Picture As "Distress Is Spreading To Other Sectors" Things are not great in Germany. A confluence of economic stagnation, higher energy prices (due to anti-nuclear idiocy), and the highest corporate distress rates in Europe suggest Deutschland is in for a sharp contraction...
Iraq Closer To Expelling US Troops After Drone Strike In Busy Neighborhood
09.02.2024, 00:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iraq Closer To Expelling US Troops After Drone Strike In Busy Neighborhood The fallout continues in the wake of the Pentagon's assassination by drone strike of at least one or more Kataib Hezbollah leaders in a crowded east Baghdad neighborhood Wednesday night. Iraq's government on Thursday condemned the violation of the country's sovereignty, and warned...
Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks
02.02.2024, 13:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Soar After Tech Earnings Blowout, Putting S&P On Track For Gains In 13 Of Past 14 Weeks US futures and global markets rallied on Friday after tech megacaps Meta and Amazon.com posted blowout earnings (even as Apple dropped on a plunge in China sales and disappointing guidance) and as investors awaited a jobs report expected to support the...
Biden Finally Remembers To Visit East Palestine, One Year After Toxic Train Derailment
31.01.2024, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Finally Remembers To Visit East Palestine, One Year After Toxic Train Derailment Recall nearly one year ago, the mayor of East Palestine, Ohio, ripped President Biden a new one for traveling halfway across the world to Ukraine, where he pledged half a billion dollars to a foreign government, even as a chemical fallout from a train derailment...
Shipping Faces Lengthy Disruptions As Middle East Fallout Worsens
31.01.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shipping Faces Lengthy Disruptions As Middle East Fallout Worsens By Greg Miller of FreightWaves The Red Sea crisis — and the Middle East situation in general — is worsening. There’s growing conviction that shipping diversions around the Cape of Good Hope will increase in scope and last much longer than initially expected. That should be good...
The Fed Prepares For A Bank Crisis While Telling Americans The Economy Is Strong
30.01.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed Prepares For A Bank Crisis While Telling Americans The Economy Is Strong Authored by Tho Bishop via The Mises Institute, Last Thursday, Bloomberg reported that federal regulators are preparing a proposal to force US banks to utilize the Federal Reserve’s discount window in preparation for future bank crises. The aim, notes Katanga Johnson...
DOJ, SEC, Among Agencies Probing GM Cruise After October Pedestrian Collision
26.01.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DOJ, SEC, Among Agencies Probing GM Cruise After October Pedestrian Collision It appears it isn't just Tesla's full self driving that has come under scrutiny of regulators: General Motors' driverless car business, Cruise, is also reportedly being probed by Federal prosecutors, according to the Wall Street Journal this week. On Thursday the division...
The Soros Of Silicon Valley: Reid Hoffman's Millions For Democrat Activism
24.01.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Soros Of Silicon Valley: Reid Hoffman's Millions For Democrat Activism Authored by Hayden Ludwig via Restoration of America, There’s no shortage of leftist mega-donors for funding America’s “progressive” revolution. Meet the newest billionaire backing it: Reid Hoffman, whose campaign to destroy Donald Trump is matched only by the scale of...
Sports Emerges As New Front In Israel-Hamas War
21.01.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sports Emerges As New Front In Israel-Hamas War Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClear Wire, It was billed as a way to protect the security of Israeli hockey players amid fallout over the Israeli-Hamas war until a backlash condemned the action. The International Ice Hockey Federation, or IIHF, first banned Israeli athletes from international competitions...
"Worried About Next Two Months": Solar Firms Running Out Of Cash In California
19.01.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Worried About Next Two Months": Solar Firms Running Out Of Cash In California The solar industry in California is facing significant headwinds following the implementation of a new policy in April, which reduced incentives that had encouraged homeowners to install solar systems. Bloomberg reports the California Solar & Storage Association has...
Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy
16.01.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thousands Of Tractors Blocks Berlin Traffic Over Plan To End Diesel Subsidy Thousands of German truck drivers, farmers, and agricultural workers have parked in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in protest over the government's 'green' plan to end tax breaks on diesel fuel. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters) Approximately 3,000 tractors had arrived for...
Massive Money-Printing Will Accelerate As Debt Soars
15.01.2024, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massive Money-Printing Will Accelerate As Debt Soars Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The U.S. federal government published a December deficit of $129 billion, up 52% from the previous year. The private sector recession is clear as expenses continue to rise while tax receipts decline. If we look at the period between October and December 2023, the deficit...
Don Lemon Announces Launch Of New Show On X
11.01.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don Lemon Announces Launch Of New Show On X It's funny how after you're fired for being an authoritarian left-wing lunatic, it's only then that you're proud to fall back on the first amendment to pull yourself up by your bootstraps... Speaking of which, disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon looks like he's going to be getting his own show back, this time...
German Truckers Team Up With Farmers To Raise Hell Over Disappearing Fuel Subsidies
09.01.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - German Truckers Team Up With Farmers To Raise Hell Over Disappearing Fuel Subsidies German truckers joined farmers for a week of protests over a government plan to scrap tax breaks on diesel used in agriculture in order to 'combat climate change,' after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition announced plans last month to nix a car tax exemption...
Is 2024 Bitcoin's Big Year?
06.01.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is 2024 Bitcoin's Big Year? Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times, U.S. regulators’ pending approval of the spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), which could come as soon as next week, and severe criticisms of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for missteps in the prosecution of a Utah-based firm, DEBT Box, and for a general...
Has Feminism And 'Hoeflation' Destroyed Dating In The West?
01.01.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Has Feminism And 'Hoeflation' Destroyed Dating In The West? It's a problem in the western world that is rarely discussed in the media beyond puff-piece articles and glancing polls that avoid connecting the dots. The precipitous decline of dating, committed relationships and marriage along with a flatline in population in the past couple decades...
US Banks Suffer Trillion-Dollar Deposit Loss In 2023, Small Bank Capitalization Remains Problematic
29.12.2023, 22:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Banks Suffer Trillion-Dollar Deposit Loss In 2023, Small Bank Capitalization Remains Problematic On a non-seasonally-adjusted basis (why adjust when we are looking at annual changes), US domestic banks saw a stunning $1.17TN in deposit outflows (ex-large time deposits) in 2023 - the largest annual decline ever (and only the 3rd annual decline on...
China’s Year in Review
20.12.2023, 02:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Beijing had a difficult 2023, from COVID-19 fallout to unexpected political purges....
GM's Cruise To Slash 24% Of Its Workforce As Part Of Restructuring
16.12.2023, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GM's Cruise To Slash 24% Of Its Workforce As Part Of Restructuring After GM announced it was cutting back its investment in its Cruise subsidiary following a pedestrian accident earlier this year, the division now says it is cutting 24% of its workforce as part of its restructuring. The autonomous driving unit says it will lay off 900 of its 3,800...
Jim Grant: We've Yet To Feel The Full Consequences Of The "Era Of Free Money"
13.12.2023, 21:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jim Grant: We've Yet To Feel The Full Consequences Of The "Era Of Free Money" Via SchiffGold.com, In a recent interview with Forbes, economic commentator and historian Jim Grant warned that we haven’t fully felt the inevitable fallout from the “free money era.” I think that the consequences of more or less 10 years of proverbially free money...
How Venezuelan Invasion Of Guyana Could Impact Tanker Shipping
13.12.2023, 04:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Venezuelan Invasion Of Guyana Could Impact Tanker Shipping By Greg Miller of FreightWaves, Shipping already faces fallout from two wars: trade shifts due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and vessel attacks off Yemen in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Could there be a third simultaneous war — and even more trade complications for shipping...