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Russia Strikes Military HQ In Odessa After Ukraine Attacks Crimea With US-Provided ATACMS
02.05.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Strikes Military HQ In Odessa After Ukraine Attacks Crimea With US-Provided ATACMS In yet another among the latest signs that Moscow is escalating its war against Ukraine, pushing sustained strikes deeper into its territory, Russian forces have mounted a large attack against Ukraine's military headquarters for the southern region. The ministry...
China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging
02.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Humiliated Blinken But Blinken Kept Begging Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, It is not clear whether a Chinese official was at the Beijing airport to bid farewell to Secretary of State Antony Blinken as he ended his three-day visit to China on Friday, but the send-off was in any event low-key and Chinese leader Xi Jinping...
'Intel Insidious' - Here's All The 'Grants' Given By Biden's US CHIPS Act
02.05.2024, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Intel Insidious' - Here's All The 'Grants' Given By Biden's US CHIPS Act This visualization shows which companies are receiving grants from the U.S. CHIPS Act, as of April 25, 2024. The CHIPS Act is a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden that authorizes $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of...
Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes
02.05.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules. The...
Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days
01.05.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days Two days after the yen soared after crashing to a 34 year low of 160 against the US, when the Japanese Ministry of Finance reportedly spent around 5 trillion yen, or just over $30 billion, to push the imploding Japanese currency to levels not seen in ... about 48 hours, moments...
Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions
01.05.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions Federal prosecutors are investigating compliance issues at Block, the fintech firm co-founded by Jack Dorsey, according to a new report from NBC, citing "two people with direct knowledge". Questions about the company started swirling back in March...
WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build
01.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build Oil prices extended losses overnight (3rd day lower in a row) following API's report showing an unexpected crude build. Rising stocks would add to bearish headwinds for prices driven by hopes that peace (or some such variant of it) may break out in the Middle East. “The potential for a cease-fire...
The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector
01.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia's LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with...
At Least 30 Men Have Died Trying To Flee Ukraine Draft
01.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - At Least 30 Men Have Died Trying To Flee Ukraine Draft Since Russia's February 2022 invasion, some Ukrainian 30 men have died trying to sneak out of the country and avoid being forced into a war that looks increasingly futile -- and increasingly deadly for those on the losing side. That grim tally was shared by Ukraine's State Border Guard Service...
US, Philippines Working On Intel Sharing Deal Amid Clashes With Chinese Vessels
01.05.2024, 06:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US, Philippines Working On Intel Sharing Deal Amid Clashes With Chinese Vessels Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and the Philippines are working on a new intelligence-sharing deal as tensions are soaring between Manila and Beijing in the South China Sea. The Defense Post reported that US and Philippine officials discussed the potential...
New Biden Energy Rules Will Raise The Cost Of A New Home By $31,000
30.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Biden Energy Rules Will Raise The Cost Of A New Home By $31,000 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, New HUD energy rules will raise the cost of home construction by imposing stricter building codes. Payback time is 90 years... Homes To Become Even More Unaffordable The Wall Street Journal comments on Biden’s New Plan for Unaffordable...
'Affordabiity Crisis' Worsens As US Home Prices Soar Near Record High In Feb
30.04.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Affordabiity Crisis' Worsens As US Home Prices Soar Near Record High In Feb Home prices in America's 20 largest cities rose for the 13th straight month in February (the latest data released by S&P Global Case-Shiller today), up a massive 0.61% MoM (massively more than the 0.1% exp). Source: Bloomberg That pushed the YoY price up a stunning 7.29% (far...
Russia Installs 'Cope Cages' On Oil Refineries As Ukraine Ramps Up Kamikaze Drone Attacks
30.04.2024, 10:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Installs 'Cope Cages' On Oil Refineries As Ukraine Ramps Up Kamikaze Drone Attacks A sudden surge in Ukrainian drone strikes targeting Russia's vast energy industry materialized early last week (read here) and continued into the weekend (read here). To combat drone strikes on refineries and crude and or crude product storage tanks, "cope cages"...
"Remarkable Turn Of Events" - Alleged Chinese Spy Working For AfD MP Was Informant For German Intelligence For Years
30.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Remarkable Turn Of Events" - Alleged Chinese Spy Working For AfD MP Was Informant For German Intelligence For Years Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, The news about Alternative for Germany (AfD) MEP Maximilian Krah’s assistant and his arrest for suspected espionage on behalf of China continues to make national headlines, but as more information...
Blinken Urges Hamas To Take 'Extraordinarily Generous' Ceasefire Deal
30.04.2024, 00:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blinken Urges Hamas To Take 'Extraordinarily Generous' Ceasefire Deal Israeli officials have reportedly given Hamas an ultimatum, saying the group has "one last chance" to reach a deal, according to Axios. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday, "If there is a deal, we will suspend the operation" - in reference to the planned Rafah...
James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election
29.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Trump is ahead in the latest poll. Younger voters leave the Biden camp. James Carville has a meltdown. Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden A CNN poll shows Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge...
Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today
29.04.2024, 20:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today Ahead of Wednesday's full Treasury refunding announcement and FOMC announcement, as well as today's Treasury Borrowing Estimate, a nerdy clash has broken out within the rates market between those who expect the Treasury to surprise to the downside with its upcoming Sources...
Supreme Court Rejects Elon Musk's "Free Speech" Appeal In SEC Case
29.04.2024, 19:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Rejects Elon Musk's "Free Speech" Appeal In SEC Case Another day, another chapter in the Elon Musk vs. SEC saga. The US Supreme Court declined to hear Elon Musk's appeal regarding his ongoing "Twitter sitter" case, Bloomberg reported on Monday, keeping Musk's agreement with the SEC to have a company lawyer approve his social media posts...
"I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month
29.04.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'm Worried...[About] Four More Years" - Dallas Fed Manufacturing Contracts For 24th Straight Month The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Outlook survey has now been in contraction (below zero) every month since May 2022, falling modestly to -14.5 in April (worse than the -11.2 expected). New Orders also remain negative (but did improve) and prices continue...
Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable
29.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank The S Word Last week the data caught up with the public mood. Annualized US GDP for Q1 was +1.6%, well below the 2.5% consensus estimate and even below the most pessimistic estimate of +1.7% in the Bloomberg survey. Meanwhile...
Ukraine Army Chief Admits 'Tactical' Retreat Underway
29.04.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Army Chief Admits 'Tactical' Retreat Underway The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi has just issued a new dire assessment confirming widespread international reports that Ukraine forces are getting beaten back from the frontlines. He has confirmed that his outnumbered troops have fallen back to new positions...
Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings
29.04.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Extremely Busy Week: Fed, Treasury Refunding, Jobs, JOLTS, ISM And Tons Of Earnings As DB's Jim Reid notes, with just two days left in a rollercoaster April for markets - and FX - last week actually saw the best week for the S&P 500 (+2.67%) and NASDAQ (+4.23%) since November, following several weeks of declines, as earnings gave markets...
Biden Embraces G20-Proposed 2% Wealth Tax To Battle 'Racial Wealth Inequality'
29.04.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Embraces G20-Proposed 2% Wealth Tax To Battle 'Racial Wealth Inequality' Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Biden and Yellen support a global minimum tax on corporations. And a new wealth tax scheme is now in the works... Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax The Wall Street Journal says Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax In our new socialist...
Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session
29.04.2024, 14:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise, Yen Downgraded To Banana Republic Currency After Another Rollercoaster Session US equity futures swung between gains and losses and traded near session highs as US traders walked to their desks on Monday morning after a rollercoaster day for the Japanese yen, which increasingly looks like some 3rd world banana republic currency instead...
The Scramble For Antarctica
28.04.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Scramble For Antarctica Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, The “scramble for Antarctica” is slowly gathering steam, and it is not unrelated to a new “scramble for the Americas.” The ramifications for the Indo-Pacific and, indeed, for the global strategic balance are also profound. By 2024, Antarctica had at least 82 bases from...
These Are The Countries That Have Become 'Sadder' Since 2010
28.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries That Have Become 'Sadder' Since 2010 Can happiness be quantified? Some approaches that try to answer this question make a distinction between two differing components of happiness: a daily experience part, and a more general life evaluation (which includes how people think about their life as a whole). The World Happiness...
White House Uses "Walkers" To Conceal Biden's Old-Man Shuffle
27.04.2024, 20:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Uses "Walkers" To Conceal Biden's Old-Man Shuffle With the presidential election still more than six months away, President Biden's handlers are under increasing pressure to divert Americans' eyes from his obvious and accelerating mental and physical decline. Where his deteriorating mental abilities are concerned, we've already seen them...
Boeing 767 Loses Emergency Slide After Departing From New York City
27.04.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing 767 Loses Emergency Slide After Departing From New York City Some Boeing jets, operated by major US carriers, are plagued with persistent issues that concern travelers, prompting a shift toward what is perceived as safer Airbus jets. It appears that hardly a week passes without a new problem with a Boeing jet. The latest near-mid-air disaster...
IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive
26.04.2024, 19:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive Egypt is attempting a last ditch effort to reach a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel at a moment IDF shelling of Rafah has intensified, in what are seen as 'softening' operations ahead of an imminent ground offensive, despite international calls to cancel the operation...
Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It
26.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest retail sales data suggests a robust consumer, leading economists to become even more optimistic about more robust economic growth this year. To wit: “It has been two years since forecasters felt this good about the economic outlook...
UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs
26.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs Short-term inflation expectations rose... again... according to the latest UMich sentiment survey with 1-year expectations at 3.2% final, up from preliminary 3.1% for April, and 2.9% for March. This is the highest level since Nov 2023... Source: Bloomberg The headline sentiment also declined...
Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency
26.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency In a rollercoaster 48 hours to close the week, yesterday's early market slump (after the disappointing Meta guidance) has been fully reversed and stock futures are now pointing sharply higher after blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet with attention...
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...
European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows
26.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European ESG Funds Witness Heavy Decline In Inflows Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, European exchange-traded funds with a focus on ESG investing saw a substantial decline in inflows in the first quarter amid what Morningstar called “an existential crisis”. According to the Financial Times, net inflows into these funds totaled 7.1 billion...
Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
26.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian...
Get Ready To Be Hammered By Property Taxes
25.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Get Ready To Be Hammered By Property Taxes It's not just record capital gains taxes that Americans have to look forward to if they choose "4 more years, pause" of the senile occupant in the White House: As Epoch Times' Jeffrey Tucker reports, property taxes are also about to soar. Below we excerpt from his latest report on where the Biden tax tsunami...
US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site
25.04.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US-Led Gaza Pier Project Comes Under Mortar Fire As UN Officials Tour Site The US military's ambitious project to erect a large pier off Gaza's coast (all within a war zone) to allow maritime shipments of humanitarian aid to Palestinians is off to a rocky start, after new reports that the construction site has come under fire. UN officials were reportedly...
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...
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...
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...
Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland?
25.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The Anglo-American Axis Really Deploy Nukes To Poland? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda confirmed in an interview during his latest trip to the US that “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of nuclear sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we...
These Countries Saw The Largest 'Happiness' Gains Since 2010
25.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Countries Saw The Largest 'Happiness' Gains Since 2010 In 2011, Bhutan sponsored a UN resolution that invited governments to prioritize happiness and well-being as a way to measure social and economic development. And thus, the World Happiness Report was born. In 2012, the first report released, examining Gallup poll data from 2006–2010...
Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"?
25.04.2024, 04:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"? Just over a week ago, we asked our readers a very straightforward question: Who is funding this chaos? This question followed incidents where pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted critical infrastructure, such as shutting down airport terminals...
ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary
25.04.2024, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ATF Rule-Change Creates A Trap For The Unwary Authored by Christopher Roach via American Greatness, On Friday, the 31st anniversary of the massacre of Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, the ATF issued new regulations that make it more difficult to comply with federal laws regulating gun dealing and background checks. Since the 1930s, federal law has required gun...
China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs
25.04.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs Smaller is better...at least in the world of building EVs for the Asian market. And while less scrupulous publications might take this opportunity to make stereotypical jokes about height, we'll do no such thing and instead will simply report that according to the IEA's Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2024, released...
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...
Police Officer Disciplined Over Undercover Conduct On Jan. 6: Agency
24.04.2024, 20:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Police Officer Disciplined Over Undercover Conduct On Jan. 6: Agency Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A police officer in Washington was disciplined after violating rules guiding the conduct of undercover law enforcement, according to Washington’s police department. The investigator “was disciplined for violating...
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...