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Hard Money Heat Check
19.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hard Money Heat Check Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There are few things I like more about NBA basketball than when a player gets so hot that it seems as though they can't miss a shot, no matter where they are shooting from. The legendary video game NBA Jam captured this beautifully, for those that remember. A “heat check” is when a hot player...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
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...
"The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped"
18.04.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped" Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share his thoughts...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
Excused Juror Reveals Selection Process For Trump’s 'Hush-Money' Trial: 'All Have Prior Opinions'
18.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Excused Juror Reveals Selection Process For Trump’s 'Hush-Money' Trial: 'All Have Prior Opinions' Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A juror who was excused from serving on the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump provided details about the questions potential jurors were asked. Kara McGee an excused juror,...
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...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
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...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts
16.04.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banks Are Wrong About Rate-Cuts Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can...
"Returning To Petrol": Volkswagen EV Sales Plunge 25% In Europe
16.04.2024, 10:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Returning To Petrol": Volkswagen EV Sales Plunge 25% In Europe Europe is "returning to petrol", according to a new article from Yahoo Finance which highlighted Volkswagen's EV sales as the canary in the coalmine. Sales of Volkswagen's electric vehicles have declined by nearly 25% in Europe, with a noticeable shift back to gasoline-powered cars amid...
Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking
15.04.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking With JPMorgan tumbling on Friday on a net interest income miss and disappointing guidance, suffering its worst earnings-day slump in decades, financials needed a solid report this morning and got it from the bank that once was the envy of all its Wall Street peers...
The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System
15.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the...
Gaza Selfie: Representing the Chosen People
14.04.2024, 19:07 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - “Encouraging and integrating aliyah is a strategic event for the State of Israel. Aliyah in the coming years will serve as an enormous growth engine for the Israeli economy and an engine of values — a renewal and refreshment of Zionism.” Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Finance Minister, February 2024 There is a difference between the photographs...
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...
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots On The Ground This Election
12.04.2024, 15:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots On The Ground This Election Authored by Ben Weingarten via RealClear Wire, Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. The methods include voter registration...
Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks
12.04.2024, 15:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks Futures are tumbling this morning, hit by disappointing earnings and outllook from the largest US bank, JPMorgan whose stock is down around 3% in a soggy launch to Q1 earnings season, while growing fears of an imminent conflict between Israel and Iran have sent oil surging and...
The Deep State Prepares For A Trump Victory
11.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Deep State Prepares For A Trump Victory Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., on April 2, 2024. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Commentary We’ve all wondered if the fix is already in. Given the irregularities of the last election, and the...
"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...
Inflation Check: Doctors Making $350,000 Per Year Can't Find Homes In Long Island As Prices Surge 50%
11.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inflation Check: Doctors Making $350,000 Per Year Can't Find Homes In Long Island As Prices Surge 50% While every news anchor and talking head in the world of finance continues to congratulate the Fed despite inflation still not being under control, prices are telling another story. Specifically, housing prices. In fact, a new report from Bloomberg...
Scandal Rocks Biden's Labor Dept For Lying About Sharing Non-Public Inflation Data With Secret Group Of Wall Street "Super Users"
10.04.2024, 00:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scandal Rocks Biden's Labor Dept For Lying About Sharing Non-Public Inflation Data With Secret Group Of Wall Street "Super Users" A little over a month ago, a scandal erupted among the (relatively small( group of economists who keep a close eye on the monthly inflation data reported by the Biden Department of Labor, when they learned that there is an...
In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System
09.04.2024, 14:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In The Next Several Weeks, We Could See $300 Billion Of Liquidity Leaving The System Submitted by Larry McDonald, creator of the Bear Traps Report and author of the newly published book "When Markets Speak" which has been #1 on Amazon over the last week across most non-fiction, finance categories. What’s Under the Surface? The heart of “conditioning...
Xi's Production Push Set To Fan Renewed Trade War
09.04.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Xi's Production Push Set To Fan Renewed Trade War By George Lei, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen implored Beijing’s top leaders during her four-day visit to refrain from boosting the country’s already vast manufacturing capacity and to focus on lifting domestic demand instead. That push, however...
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...
Too Hot To Handle: Gold Due For A Correction?
06.04.2024, 21:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Too Hot To Handle: Gold Due For A Correction? Via SchiffGold.com, With gold hitting yet another awe-inspiring all-time high in the wake of Powell’s remarks reassuring markets (more or less) to expect rate cuts in 2024, a few analysts are pointing out risk factors for a correction - so is there really still room to run? The Wall Street Journal points...
Behind Election Rhetoric, Democrats Utilize Little Known Strategy To Win 2024
05.04.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind Election Rhetoric, Democrats Utilize Little Known Strategy To Win 2024 Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The upcoming election will likely be less about changing voters’ minds and more about rousing the faithful and getting them to the polls. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock, Stock Photo) America’s...
Climate Alarmists' Bad Science
04.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate Alarmists' Bad Science Submitted by David Barker, who has taught economics and finance at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa and worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He runs a real-estate and finance company. I debunked research by the Federal Reserve and top academic economists on the economics of...
Janet Yellen Arrives In China For High-Stakes Economic Meetings
04.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Janet Yellen Arrives In China For High-Stakes Economic Meetings Authored by Dorothy Li and Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has arrived in China for a 6-day visit, a trip she said was necessary to “advance America’s economic and national security interests.” Ms. Yellen landed in the southern Chinese export hub...
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...
Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90
03.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Rates Continue Rising With Brent Back To $90 US futures are down small with Tech underperforming and small-caps flat, as rates held at 4 month highs, and Brent is about to rise above $90. As of 8:00am, both S&P and Nasdaq futures are down -0.2%, with yields higher pre-market ahead of Powell’s 12.10pm ET speech; despite his dovish...
Bring Back Gold!
03.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bring Back Gold! Authored by Llewellyn Rockwell via LewRockwell.com, In these days of rampant inflation, it’s imperative that we return to the gold standard - and the real thing too. By this I mean the classical gold standard, not the so-called “gold exchange” standard, and with no fractional reserve banking, just as the great Murray Rothbard...
Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast
02.04.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Eating The Rich Won't Feed The Beast Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, Wealth in a free society is a rough tallying score of how much economic value someone has provided to the rest of us. A rich person’s wealth — bar inheritance and cronyism — is a testament to how much they enriched us... As Johan...
TradFi Vs DeFi: De-Polarizing The Bitcoin 'To The Moon' Or 'Worthless' Battle
02.04.2024, 18:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - TradFi Vs DeFi: De-Polarizing The Bitcoin 'To The Moon' Or 'Worthless' Battle Authored by Omid Malekan, Co-Authored with Ulrich Bindseil, Director General of the European Central Bank Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have always been polarizing, even within the world of economics and finance. This divisiveness, which often pits the crypto faithful against...
JOLTed Snoozer: Job Openings Unchanged As Hiring And Quits Unexpectedly Rise
02.04.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JOLTed Snoozer: Job Openings Unchanged As Hiring And Quits Unexpectedly Rise After steep declines in US job openings accelerated in the last few months of 2023, prompting economists to pat themselves on the back for predicting a soft landing and validating their expectations for Fed rate cuts, only to see the trend reverse dramatically in the last month...
Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Powell, ISM And Fed Speakers Galore
01.04.2024, 17:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Powell, ISM And Fed Speakers Galore With the first quarter officially in the books, and just days until we start getting Q1 earnings (it sure does feel like we now live in one extra long earnings season), we have quite a few events this busy week starting with today's March manufacturing ISM print - which as noted earlier...
How The Federal Reserve Created An American Caste System
01.04.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The Federal Reserve Created An American Caste System Authored by E.J.Antoni via The Epoch Times, In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets at the expense of the poor. More than a century later...
Globalists Claim Mass Immigration Helps The US Economy – Here's Why That's A Lie
31.03.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Globalists Claim Mass Immigration Helps The US Economy – Here's Why That's A Lie Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, I have said it many times in the past but I think it bears repeating once again: If you want to understand why world events happen the way they do, you must understand the goals and influence of globalist institutions. You...
In 2024, Digital Is Everything In Politics
31.03.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In 2024, Digital Is Everything In Politics Authored by Scott Farmer via RealClear Politics, As the 2024 election heats up, now is the time for campaigns to invest wisely. Questions abound: Do you invest in cable news advertising? Door-to-door canvassing? Social media? Something else? For answers, I look back to the past. In 2000, I oversaw the South...
Payment Processor Stripe Backs Off Dr. Malone After Legal Threat
30.03.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Payment Processor Stripe Backs Off Dr. Malone After Legal Threat Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Stripe, the only payment processor Substack writers can use, has backed off a demand that Dr. Robert Malone link his bank account, according to the law firm Dr. Malone retained. Dr. Robert Malone in Washington, on June 29...
America's Ongoing Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts
30.03.2024, 22:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Ongoing Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Oh Say Can You See? “A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” - Sam Faddis, Retired CIA Who was not impressed...
New Yorkers Silently Worrying Over Ramifications Of Trump Ruling
30.03.2024, 02:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Yorkers Silently Worrying Over Ramifications Of Trump Ruling Authored by Janice Hisle and Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) Monday’s dramatic bond reduction for former President Donald Trump did nothing to dissipate the dark cloud that his civil-fraud case has cast over New York...
Buffett Is Still The Richest Person In Finance
30.03.2024, 00:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Buffett Is Still The Richest Person In Finance The combined net worth of the 10 richest people in finance reached $446.9 billion in 2024. Here, Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte ranks them based on Forbes data as of Feb. 1, 2024. The Oracle of Omaha 93-year-old Warren Buffett heads the list. The chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has a net worth...
ESG Frustration And Backlash In The Banking Sector Continues
29.03.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ESG Frustration And Backlash In The Banking Sector Continues “Facts that don’t align with ill-informed prejudice are often infuriating. That doesn’t make them wrong. Someone needs to tell the truth about what it’s going to take to get to a net-zero future,” Emily Mir, a spokeswoman for Exxon, said earlier this month. And that's exactly what...
Sick Of It All
29.03.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sick Of It All Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Every week, usually once or twice, I sit down to put onto paper my thoughts about the market. And every week, my disgust not only for the rigged system that encompasses our equity markets, but also for the sound of my own whining, grows exponentially. When I sit down to perfunctorily prattle on about...
Asian Stocks Gain With US and Europe Closed Ahead Of Core PCE Print, Powell Speech
29.03.2024, 13:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asian Stocks Gain With US and Europe Closed Ahead Of Core PCE Print, Powell Speech With US futures and European markets closed for Good Friday, the only markets trading overnight were in Asia where stocks gained following another record close on Wall Street, with focus turning to key PCE data due later Friday as well as a speech by Fed chair Powell...
Israel May Cut Off Palestinian Banks From Global Banking System Next Week
29.03.2024, 03:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel May Cut Off Palestinian Banks From Global Banking System Next Week Via Middle East Eye Palestinian banks could be cut off from the Israeli banking system starting next week following a decision by Israel’s finance minister to cease dealings between the two financial institutions, according to a report on Thursday by Israeli newspaper Haaretz...
On The Brink Of A Dramatic Change: The Digitalization Of Money
29.03.2024, 01:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On The Brink Of A Dramatic Change: The Digitalization Of Money Authored by Efrat Fenigson via Bitcoin Magazine, The current state of Central Bank Digital Currency Projects globally summarized by Efrat Enigson, independent journalist and host of the "You're The Voice" podcast... “What underpins a world order is always the financial system. We are on...
NYC Delinquent Property Taxes Approach $1 Billion After Expiration of Tax-Lien Punishment
28.03.2024, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYC Delinquent Property Taxes Approach $1 Billion After Expiration of Tax-Lien Punishment While New York City embarks on a program to hand out some $53 million in prepaid debit cards to illegals, the city has estimated that overdue property taxes are set to reach their highest level ever, jumping 30% to over $880 million at the end of the fiscal year...