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Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes
26.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed in an interview that the Central Communication Port (CPK by its Polish abbreviation) transportation megaproject outside of Warsaw has dual military purposes. He represents Poland’s prior...
EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports
26.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Prepares To Tighten Screws On Russian LNG Imports By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com In a move that could reshape Europe's energy landscape, the European Commission is poised to propose new sanctions targeting Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports. According to Reuters sources close to the matter, the proposed measures will include a ban on...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed
25.04.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Stagflationary' GDP Data Sparks Market Turmoil, Rate-Cut Hopes Crushed Weaker than expected growth and hotter than expected prices... the perfect example of a central banker's nemesis: Stagflation... and the market is very unhappy about it. Rate-cut expectations have dropped back near cycle lows (for 2024 and 2025)... Source: Bloomberg Treasury yields...
Stagflation Shock: GDP Stuns With Lowest Print In 2 Years, Below Lowest Estimates, As PCE Comes In Red Hot
25.04.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stagflation Shock: GDP Stuns With Lowest Print In 2 Years, Below Lowest Estimates, As PCE Comes In Red Hot If the Biden admin was to have any hopes of the Fed cutting rates and monetary easing ahead of the election, the tires would need to start falling off the US economy right... about... now... Which is why we didn't find it at all surprising that...
US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck
25.04.2024, 14:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck The three-day rebound from last week's rout ended with a thud after the close yesterday when Meta imploded, plunging as much as 17% and losing $200 billion in market cap, after the company revealed disappointing revenue guidance coupled with higher capex projections. The report sent US futures...
Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News
25.04.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political...
WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild
24.04.2024, 16:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Jumps After Bigger-Than-Expected Crude InventoryBuild Oil prices are drifting lower this morning, despite API reporting a surprise crude inventory draw last night, as hopes that geopolitical tensions are easing (hope is not a strategy) combined with a reduced expectation of economy-juicing rate-cuts are weighing on crude prices. Supporting the upside...
Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week
24.04.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany Arrests Unprecedented Six Spies In Less Than A Week German security services say they've arrested an unprecedented six suspected spies in only the past week, and four of these are believed to have been working for the government of China, while the other two are suspected Russian agents. As we reported earlier, the latest case unveiled Tuesday...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Unexpected Crude Inventory Draw
23.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Holds Gains After API Reports Unexpected Crude Inventory Draw Oil priced ended notably higher today after recovering strongly from overnight weakness (driven by a Bloomberg report that said fresh U.S. sanctions targeting vessels and refineries handling Iranian oil shipments were having a muted impact on crude supply). If implemented and enforced...
Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024
23.04.2024, 12:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Homebuyer Payment Hits Record High As Mortgage Rates Climb Back Above 7% For The First Time In 2024 Mortgage rates in the United States climbed to the highest level since November 2023 last week, as higher-than-expected inflation readings have dashed hopes of the Fed starting to cut rates soon. As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Freddie...
Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish"
23.04.2024, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish" On one hand, the technical storm appears to have subsided: as we correctly predicted last night, just days after the biggest CTA shake-out in over a year (thanks to the fake Iran-Israel war, which on Thursday shook out all the sell stops thanks to the latest brutal...
Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself
19.04.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, I live in a small village at the edge of lands surrounded by very harsh nature. Those who occupied these valleys in ages past lived ruthlessly dangerous lives, where starvation was a constant worry, the sea just as often nurtured...
23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover
19.04.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 23andMe Saved From Collapse After CEO Floats Private Takeover DNA-testing company 23andMe soared in the early cash session in New York on news that Anne Wojcicki, the CEO, plans to take the struggling company private after three years on the public markets. The company once sported a $6 billion valuation and has since collapsed to $235 million. ...
Futures Tumble, Oil And Gold Soar On Reports Of "Huge Explosions" In Central Iran, Israeli Airstrikes In Iraq And Syria
19.04.2024, 03:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble, Oil And Gold Soar On Reports Of "Huge Explosions" In Central Iran, Israeli Airstrikes In Iraq And Syria And just like that, Israel - having once again ignored Biden's pleadings not to escalate the already tense situation - is retaliating against Iran's weekend strike. Moments ago futures dumped, oil prices spiked, and treasury yields...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...
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...
Ukraine's Opposition To The Assimilation Of Its Refugees Is Extremely Hypocritical
17.04.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Opposition To The Assimilation Of Its Refugees Is Extremely Hypocritical Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is the opposite of how Ukraine treats its indigenous Russian minority... Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba warned on Friday that “It has become clear that assimilation would be extremely fast if we do not change...
A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety
17.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety Authored by David Zaruk via RealClear Politics, In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible...
Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal
16.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal S&P futures traded modestly in the green, erasing earlier losses and signaling a recovery after the S&P 500 fell more than 1% in the past two sessions, following stronger than expected earnings from index heavyweight UnitedHealth Group which soared 6% after reporting first-quarter...
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...
US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel
13.04.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel The past days have seen American diplomats in a global push to get countries to hold back Iran from launching a retaliatory attack on Israel for its April 1st embassy attack in Damascus. Washington is especially leaning on China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia in hopes that a united...
Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid
13.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic...
Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants
13.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday in the city’s response to the illegal immigrant crisis, extending support to six months but with only about 1,000 spaces. Illegal immigrants rest...
Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress
12.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Kishida Slams China In Address To Congress Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivered an address to Congress on Thursday and declared China the "greatest strategic challenge" facing the world. "Close coordination between Japan and the US is required more than ever to ensure that deterrence that...
Gold & The Dollar Surged This Week, Stocks & Crypto Purged As Reflation & WW3-Risk Wreck Rate-Cut Hopes
12.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold & The Dollar Surged This Week, Stocks & Crypto Purged As Reflation & WW3-Risk Wreck Rate-Cut Hopes Inflation fears/promises/threats were realized this week with CPI and PPI hot (yes PPI) and UMich infl exp rising too. Inflation data has been surprising to the upside all year and growth data not so much... Source: Bloomberg ...and that rising inflation...
Moscow Calls Switzerland's Ukraine Conference A 'Road To Nowhere'
12.04.2024, 18:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moscow Calls Switzerland's Ukraine Conference A 'Road To Nowhere' The Kremlin has issued a comprehensive response to the planned Switzerland-hosted international Ukraine peace conference which the Swiss government formally announced Wednesday as set for June 15-16 at the lakeside Bürgenstock resort near Lucerne. As we underscored previously, while...
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...
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...
Biden Admin Finalizes Controversial Rule To Expand Background Checks On Gun Sales
12.04.2024, 04:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Admin Finalizes Controversial Rule To Expand Background Checks On Gun Sales Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has submitted the final version of a controversial rule to change the definition of what it means to be “Engaged in the Business” of dealing...
Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal For Scientist Who Tried To Kill Colleague
11.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkeley Prosecutors Cut Probation Deal For Scientist Who Tried To Kill Colleague Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been a criminal defense attorney for my entire career, but there is a case out of Berkeley, California that is a real head scratcher... David Xu was the chief metallurgist for a company called Berkeley Engineering and Research (BEAR)...
DEI Cronyism And Woke Grifters
11.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEI Cronyism And Woke Grifters Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved...
US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China
11.04.2024, 11:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Drones Are Expensive And Error-Prone So Ukraine Turns To China Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Drones from American startups are glitchy and expensive prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China. The Wall Street Journal comments American Drones Failed to Turn the Tide in Ukraine The Silicon Valley company Skydio sent hundreds...
Swiss-Hosted Ukraine Peace Summit To Include 100 Countries, But Not Russia
10.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss-Hosted Ukraine Peace Summit To Include 100 Countries, But Not Russia The much anticipated Switzerland-hosted international Ukraine peace conference is finally coming together, the Swiss government announced Wednesday; however, it will not include Russian representation. "Switzerland’s government said Wednesday it will host a high-level international...
Staving Off Revolution
10.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Staving Off Revolution Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If the leadership chooses happy-story PR and toothless reforms for show in the hopes it will all blow over, these subterfuges have the potential to push dissatisfaction beyond the point of control. Whatever else we might say or think about the leadership class, they tend to have...
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...
One More Hot CPI Print Could Prove Existential Difference Between “Being And Nothingness” For Traders
09.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - One More Hot CPI Print Could Prove Existential Difference Between “Being And Nothingness” For Traders By Michael Every of Rabobank Being and Nothingness With a solar eclipse as the epic backdrop, and 10-year US Treasury yields over 4.40% and testing towards 4.50% despite (or because of?) pledged Fed rate cuts, markets are focused on US CPI tomorrow...
Israel Pulls Troop Division From Gaza, Re-Enters Truce Talks, Cooling Geopolitical Pressure
08.04.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Pulls Troop Division From Gaza, Re-Enters Truce Talks, Cooling Geopolitical Pressure Israel's military has confirmed that for the first time it is actually pulling troops from southern Gaza instead of adding them. Specifically ground forces are being withdrawn from Khan Younis following months of intense fighting which has destroyed much of the...
Fixing FDR's Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard To Fiat Folly And Back
07.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fixing FDR's Biggest Blunder: From Gold Standard To Fiat Folly And Back Authored by Jp Cortez via The Epoch Times, Today, states across the country are beginning to actively embrace pro-sound-money legislation, inviting a critical examination of how America abandoned the gold standard of money and racked up $34.5 trillion in debt. To understand how...
Oil & Gold Soar On Week, But 'Good Data' Wrecks Rate-Cut Hopes, Slamming Stocks & Bonds
05.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil & Gold Soar On Week, But 'Good Data' Wrecks Rate-Cut Hopes, Slamming Stocks & Bonds It was a 'good' week for macro data... Source: Bloomberg ...but 'soft' survey data remains mired in depression as the 'aggregate' hard data holds strong... Source: Bloomberg Of course, good news is bad news for the doves and rate-cut expectations for 2024 are down...
What Orwell And Huxley Got Wrong And Kafka Got Right
04.04.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Orwell And Huxley Got Wrong And Kafka Got Right Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What Kafka got right is how societies can become busily dysfunctional. For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to the present distemper. Orwell's account of full-spectrum technological totalitarianism maps...
"Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go?
04.04.2024, 16:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go? Via SchiffGold.com, Even the mainstream is starting to acknowledge the massive problem of vacant office buildings littering American cities, slowly turning them into post-Covid wastelands. While a few pundits are claiming (in somewhat Orwellian fashion) that the surge in empty commercial real...
Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls
03.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Closes At Record High For 5th Straight Day, Dollar Dumps As Bond Bloodbath Stalls Another mixed bag of data today - something for everyone - ADP showed better job gains than expected (but wage growth soared, re-igniting inflation fears). S&P Global's Services PMI dropped (but prices paid soared) and ISM Services PMI also dropped (notably more than...
WTI Dips After Surprise Crude Inventory Build
03.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Dips After Surprise Crude Inventory Build Oil prices are extending gains to new cycle highs (WTI $86) ahead of the official inventory data (after API reported across the board draws). The move followed reports that OPEC+ chose to stick with oil supply cuts for the first half of the year, keeping global markets tight and potentially sending prices...
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...
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...
The Hidden Cost Of The Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About
02.04.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Hidden Cost Of The Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mass illegal immigration is pushing rescue crews in this small Texas border town close to their breaking point. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) The mighty Rio Grande has become...
Two Weeks To Flatten Became Eight Months To Change The Election
02.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Two Weeks To Flatten Became Eight Months To Change The Election Via The Brownstone Institute, In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such...