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Who Are We Protecting, And From What?
13.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Are We Protecting, And From What? Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com, Gambling is increasingly legal in the US: Casinos, sports betting, the lottery, and so on. The economic benefits of most forms of gambling are limited. There is some job creation and collection of additional taxes, but these benefits come at the expense of players. Put differently:...
Coffee Is Anti-Aging, Linked To Prevention Of Dementia And Sarcopenia: Study
13.05.2024, 03:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coffee Is Anti-Aging, Linked To Prevention Of Dementia And Sarcopenia: Study Authored by Ellen Wan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Enjoying a cup of joe can offer more than just a pick-me-up: It has been shown to have numerous health benefits, especially for older people. Research has found that the natural molecule in coffee, trigonelline, can...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
Hospitals Turn To Pay In Advance, In Full
11.05.2024, 04:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hospitals Turn To Pay In Advance, In Full By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk If you are in the hospital emergency room, and that’s where most people without insurance go, then you get treated. Otherwise, many hospitals are turning to pay in advance for services. Please Pay in Advance The Wall Street Journal reports Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries...
Six Reasons To Own Bitcoin In Retirement
10.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Six Reasons To Own Bitcoin In Retirement Via BitcoinMagazine.com, For newcomers, especially those in and around retirement age, the idea of investing in or owning bitcoin can evoke reactions from skepticism to disbelief. If you look beyond the popular narratives, however, you might find there is more to the story than first impressions suggest. Here...
Can You Guess What It Costs To Live "The American Dream" After 3 Years Of Inflation Under Joe Biden?
09.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can You Guess What It Costs To Live "The American Dream" After 3 Years Of Inflation Under Joe Biden? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, If you are like most Americans, the cost of living has been going up much faster than your income has been. Right now, millions of Americans that were once prospering are now deeply...
The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic
08.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On the heels of Apple’s latest earnings report, the Wall Street Journal shared an article discussing how Apple became such an oversized investment of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway. Given their success with Apple shares we think...
Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat'
07.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat' Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents. Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in...
Systematic Review Reveals Many COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Experienced New-Onset Psychosis
07.05.2024, 09:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Systematic Review Reveals Many COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Experienced New-Onset Psychosis Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Individuals who took COVID-19 vaccines were found to have later suffered from psychosis, with Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots linked to most of the cases. A 1-year-old child receives a Pfizer COVID-19...
'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid
06.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Squeezey' Stock Market Extends Gains; Bonds & Bullion Bid More of the same today after last week's tepid payrolls and dovish Powell with gold, stocks, and bonds bid as rate-cut hopes inched higher. The market is now pricing in two rate-cuts in 2024 and three more cuts in 2025... Source: Bloomberg For now the market appears to prefer the 'bad news'...
Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors
04.05.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Cause Inflation And Hurt Bond Investors Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The Fed’s preferred inflation measure rose 2.8% in March from a year ago. This is the core personal consumption expenditures price index, excluding food and energy, which should be less volatile than the consumer price index and a better indicator of the real process of...
Coffee Compound May Help Counteract Age-Related Muscle Loss
04.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Coffee Compound May Help Counteract Age-Related Muscle Loss Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times, One of the world’s favorite brews may hold the key to keeping muscles strong and healthy as we age. According to recent research, a natural compound found in coffee could be the secret weapon against age-related muscle loss. The Muscle-Preserving...
California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem
04.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Single-Family Zoning Exemplifies The Market-Intervention Problem Via SchiffGold.com, California’s government bet that they knew better than the free market. And now millions are paying the price... The story begins in 1919, when the city of Berkley, California instituted legislation setting aside districts that would only allow the...
Big Taper, Bad Data, & Buyback Bonanza Sparks Buying Frenzy In Bonds & Stocks
03.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Taper, Bad Data, & Buyback Bonanza Sparks Buying Frenzy In Bonds & Stocks The markets took on a Dickensian dimension this week as while "it was the worst of times (for economic data), it was the best of times (for stocks)"... The US Macro Surprise Index continued its serial disappointment plunge into the red - the weakest since Feb 2023 (not helped...
Ralph Baric Admits Covid-19 Lab Origin Possible
03.05.2024, 01:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ralph Baric Admits Covid-19 Lab Origin Possible Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (purple) infected with a variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink), isolated from a patient sample. (NIAID via The Epoch Times) A top scientist said in newly disclosed testimony that...
COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection
02.05.2024, 19:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Freepik/Shutterstock) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an alarming rise of an aggressive and highly fatal secondary fungal infection among those with active or recovered COVID-19. Research suggests that...
A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out
02.05.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out Authored by Jennifer Sweenie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There is a link between salt intake and stress, and it’s probably not what you think. While we are well aware of the purported dangers associated with a high-sodium diet, many of us are not aware that too little sodium comes with its own set...
Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut
30.04.2024, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Don't Buy Rate-Hike Hype, Next Fed Move Is A Cut Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The Federal Reserve’s next move this year is likely to be a rate cut - despite the re-emergence of inflation - leaving markets at risk of a dovish repricing. When it comes to the Fed, it’s easy to get hung up on what they should do, and neglect...
Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone
29.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO of Coinbase Asset Management Crypto sparked a renaissance in real-time payments. Sleepy you say? Time for a wake-up call – payment solutions are at the cutting edge of crypto’s integration into the mainstream, and it has plenty of competition...
PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives
28.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from...
Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail - As IDF Awaits
26.04.2024, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail - As IDF Awaits A flotilla of ships packed with a thousand activists, human rights observers and more than 5,500 tons of food and medical supplies is ready to sail from Istanbul to for Gaza. To do so, they'll need the Turkish government to let them leave the port, and then run...
Congress Helps Steer Taiwan Toward the ‘Porcupine Strategy’
25.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The national security bill gives Biden more leverage to tell Taiwan what weapons to buy....
Gay Couples At Greater Risk From Climate-Change: UCLA Study
25.04.2024, 01:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gay Couples At Greater Risk From Climate-Change: UCLA Study Via The College Fix, A new study out of UCLA says same-sex couples are at greater “risk of exposure to the adverse effects of climate change” than straight couples. These effects include “wildfires, floods, smoke-filled skies, and drought,” according to a report from KQED. Same-sex...
Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable
25.04.2024, 00:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable Authored by Tom Croner via RealClear Wire, I’m an 81-year-old, seventh-generation farmer working with my son T. Richard on a multigenerational grain and hay farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. We grow corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, and hay. I'm proud to see him out there by himself at night, and...
A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome
24.04.2024, 06:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, At a cost of $250 million, Millennium Challenge 2002 was the largest and most expensive war game in Pentagon history. With over 13,500 participants, the US government took over two years to design it. The exercise pitted Iran against the US military...
COVID-19 Vaccine Emails: Here’s What The CDC Hid Behind Redactions
24.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Vaccine Emails: Here’s What The CDC Hid Behind Redactions Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hid how a woman who suffered chest pain and other symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination received a shot because of a mandate at work, newly obtained documents...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...
Biden's America: 40% Of Renters Think They'll Never Own A Home, Up From 27% Last Year
23.04.2024, 15:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's America: 40% Of Renters Think They'll Never Own A Home, Up From 27% Last Year Bidenomics 101: the American dream of owning a home has become the American nightmare for almost half the US population. As housing specialist Redfin reports, rising home prices and mortgage rates "are making it harder to believe in the American dream of homeownership...
Activist Who Called On Trans Women To "Arm Up" Enraged By Conservative Media Coverage
22.04.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Activist Who Called On Trans Women To "Arm Up" Enraged By Conservative Media Coverage Is biological men forcing their way into women's bathrooms really a hill worth dying on? Transgender activist "Tara Jay" (originally named Thomas Jay White) seems to think so. A year ago Thomas made a TikTok that went viral, calling on trans women (men) to 'arm...
Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money
22.04.2024, 04:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money Democrats cheered and waved Ukrainian flags, chanting "Ukraine, Ukraine!" in some pavlovian response to Congress passing a bill that will send (another) $61 billion to Ukraine with no questions asked Rand Paul, among many others, was incensed:...
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
21.04.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Should I Stay or Should I Go? Coming up for air after what was an intense week on the geopolitical and market side of things, I’m really being forced to reconsider my current recommendations (bearish bonds, stocks, and credit). I keep thinking: If I go, there will be trouble And if...
Is There A Road-Map For What's Ahead?
21.04.2024, 17:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is There A Road-Map For What's Ahead? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, One of our primary survival traits is the ability to anticipate the future to avoid threats and reap higher yields. We seek a vantage point to view the road ahead, or even better a road map to what's ahead. Is there a road map to what's ahead? An enormous amount of...
The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education
18.04.2024, 05:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education A new study by Online Gaming Groups has evaluated over 30 countries to determine the most cost-effective higher education systems, focusing on the percentage of average annual income spent on educational expenses. This analysis included countries with the highest university...
Red States Fight Growing Efforts To Give "Basic Income" Cash To Residents
17.04.2024, 04:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Red States Fight Growing Efforts To Give "Basic Income" Cash To Residents By Kevin Hardy of Stateline South Dakota state Sen. John Wiik likes to think of himself as a lookout of sorts — keeping an eye on new laws, programs and ideas brewing across the states. “I don’t bring a ton of legislation,” said Wiik, a Republican. “The main thing I...
Shadowy Mayorkas-Linked NGO In Mexico Tells Border Invaders To "Vote Biden"
16.04.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shadowy Mayorkas-Linked NGO In Mexico Tells Border Invaders To "Vote Biden" The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project posted an image on X of what they say is a flyer from a non-governmental organization operating in Mexico encouraging migrants to vote for President Biden once they arrive in the United States. "Reminder to vote for President Biden...
"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...
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
15.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that... California Home-Solar Boom Collapses The Wall Street Journal reports The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ The...
Why Mankind Remains So Lost In Economic-Ignorance & Triablistic-Warmongering
15.04.2024, 08:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Mankind Remains So Lost In Economic-Ignorance & Triablistic-Warmongering Authored by Jorge Besada via The Mises Institute, Carl Menger's Overlooked Vital Evolutionary Insights Carl Menger is widely recognized as one of the economists leading the so-called marginalist revolution along with William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras. There are two other...
US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang
14.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Investigations and LeeFang.com, Ukraine’s American-backed fight against Russia is being waged not only in the blood-soaked trenches of the Donbas region but also on what military planners call the cognitive battlefield – to win hearts and minds. A sprawling...
The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies
14.04.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Exodus Continues: Blue Regions Still Bleeding As Residents Escape Democrat Policies Can Democrats take a hint? The answer is obviously no, but with millions of people flooding out of Democrat controlled places and relocating to more conservative regions one might think they would finally get the message. Blue cities and states across the US have...
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...
Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go?
13.04.2024, 13:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go? Come tax season, a common refrain is: “what do my taxes even pay for?” To answer that question, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized U.S. federal government spending by function, referencing expenditure to a single federal tax dollar. Data is for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023 from the U.S. Bureau...
'Automated Assassination': Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies In Gaza
12.04.2024, 09:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Automated Assassination': Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies In Gaza Authored by Will Porter via The Libertarian Institute, The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands...
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...
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...
Sean 'Diddy' Combs Loses 18 Brand Partnerships Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
11.04.2024, 03:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sean 'Diddy' Combs Loses 18 Brand Partnerships Amid Sexual Assault Allegations Authored by Jessamyn Dodd via The Epoch Times, Amidst a whirlwind of controversy swirling around Sean “Diddy” Combs, the mogul behind the Empower Global project, at least 18 brands have severed ties with his e-commerce platform. Empower Global, which champions black-owned...
Is Gold Warning Us Or Running With The Markets?
10.04.2024, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Gold Warning Us Or Running With The Markets? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Having risen by about 40% since last October, Gold is on a moonshot. Many investment professionals consider gold prices to be a macro barometer, measuring the level of anxiety in the economy, inflation, currency, and geopolitics. Therefore, we...
How a Culture Shift in the Israeli Military Helps Explain Gaza’s Death Toll
09.04.2024, 21:31 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - An execution, a prosecution, and then a backlash....