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Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests 'Covert' Plans For EV Battery Plant
08.05.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rural Western North Carolina Community Protests 'Covert' Plans For EV Battery Plant Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A group of residents in western North Carolina are protesting their county board’s lack of transparency over furtive moves to welcome an electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing the residents believe...
Why Are More Chinese Migrants Arriving at the U.S. Southern Border?
07.05.2024, 23:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Asylum-seekers and others are making the journey through the risky Darién Gap in the wake of the pandemic....
Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States
07.05.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration and advising schools to ignore the new federal Title IX changes that expand sex discrimination protection to students who identify as the opposite sex, or...
Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance
07.05.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disney Shares Plunge Most In Year On Subscriber Miss, Disappointing Guidance Disney reported fiscal second-quarter profits that exceeded estimates of the average analysts tracked by Bloomberg and raised its full-year earnings guidance. However, shares tumbled in early trading in New York as investors focused more on the Disney+ streaming service, missing...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show
07.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… A Real Cliff, Fake Smile It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine. I have the image of Uncle Sam (or Aunt Yellen) hanging off a cliff with a forced (i.e.,...
Illegal Immigrant Crisis Stings Border Town In Unexpected Way
07.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Illegal Immigrant Crisis Stings Border Town In Unexpected Way Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Benny Rodriguez, an 80-year-old grandfather of seven, beams as he points to faded photographs on the wall and proudly narrates the story of Eagle Grocery, a family-run business since 1939. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty...
Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations
07.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Theft and complaints are taking a toll on self-checkout. Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores. Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts The Wall Street Journal reports Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts...
DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story
07.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security...
A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke
06.05.2024, 18:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disbarred, Serial Perjurer Walks Into A Court And Asks To Take An Oath...Seriously, No Joke Authored by Jonathan Turley, A disbarred, serial perjurer walks into a courtroom and asks to take an oath . . . No, seriously, this is not a joke. Michael Cohen will soon appear in a Manhattan courtroom in what is sure to be one of the most bizarre moments...
Columbia Cancels 2024 Commencement Amid Security Concerns
06.05.2024, 15:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Columbia Cancels 2024 Commencement Amid Security Concerns Columbia University announced Monday that it's canceling its two main 2024 commencement ceremonies on May 15, and will instead hold "smaller-scale, school-based celebrations," according to officials. Columbia University students participate in an ongoing pro-Palestinian encampment on their campus...
Biden Wants The Wealthy To Pay Their "Fair Share", What Percentage Is That?
06.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Wants The Wealthy To Pay Their "Fair Share", What Percentage Is That? By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk What percentage of all income tax collection should the top 1 percent pay? Top 10 percent? Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data Inquiring minds may wish to peruse a Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data, 2024 Update by the Tax Foundation...
OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June
06.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June By John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters Saudi Arabia and its allies in OPEC⁺ are likely to keep oil production unchanged for a further three months when ministers review output allocations on June 1. The tightening of petroleum supplies and depletion of inventories widely anticipated at the start...
Appeals Court Hammers Prosecution About FBI Conduct In Whitmer Kidnap Plot
06.05.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Appeals Court Hammers Prosecution About FBI Conduct In Whitmer Kidnap Plot Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The much-anticipated appeal hearing was held Thursday for Barry Croft and Adam Fox, the alleged “ringleaders” of the 2020 militia conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This combo of images provided by the Kent County...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"
06.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to...
Which States Have The Highest Minimum Wage In America?
05.05.2024, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which States Have The Highest Minimum Wage In America? This year, 22 states are raising their minimum wage, impacting almost 10 million workers across the country. Many states raise the minimum wage each year to adjust to a cost of living index, while others have raised the pay floor for delivery drivers and fast-food workers. Today, the federal minimum...
Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose?
05.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We Destroying The Economy On Purpose? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance In one of the most fascinating discussions I’ve had in a while, I spoke last weekend with my friend Andy Schectman about the state of the world, markets, geopolitics and the economy. What started as a friendly catch-up quickly turned into delving into angles on the state of...
Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph
05.05.2024, 13:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Develops 'Detailed' Plan On Achieving Ukraine Peace: Telegraph Trump has long touted on the campaign trail that he can stop the Ukraine war in 24 hours while taking shots a Biden's inability to oversee a negotiation that would ultimately end the war. The Daily Telegraph is now reporting, citing an unnamed source who is said to be close to the...
Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization
05.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Review On Transgender-Youth Medicine Finds Insufficient Evidence For Medicalization Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), England may be the third country to withdraw from a “gender-affirming” treatment pathway due to recommendations from a long-awaited report. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, The Cass Review, Getty...
US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal
04.05.2024, 23:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Demands Qatar Expel Hamas If Group Rejects Israeli Truce Deal Via The Cradle US officials have told Qatar to expel Hamas’ political leadership if the Palestinian militant group rejects the latest proposal for a ceasefire with Israel, The Washington Post reports Saturday. A US official speaking on the condition of anonymity with The Post said...
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...
Evil Unleashed: Israel’s Move to Destroy the Palestinian Authority Is a Calculated Plan, Long in the Making. Prof Tanya Rheinart
04.05.2024, 17:06 Uhr. Global Research - https: - Featured image: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak This article, –which at first sight seems to point to the current and ongoing “Evil Unleashed” by the Netanyahu government– was written 23 years ago by the late Professor Tanya Reinhart. The … The post Evil Unleashed: Israel’s Move to Destroy the Palestinian...
People With More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses More Likely To Contract COVID-19: Study
04.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - People With More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses More Likely To Contract COVID-19: Study Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), People who received more than one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to contract COVID-19, according to a new study. A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in an undated...
Trump Urges Dismissal Of Mar-a-Lago Case, Claims 'Selective And Vindictive Prosecution'
04.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Urges Dismissal Of Mar-a-Lago Case, Claims 'Selective And Vindictive Prosecution' Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump docketed a brief to support his motion to dismiss the classified documents indictment against him in Florida, citing “selective and vindictive prosecution” on Thursday...
Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender
04.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money Is A Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government...
Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup
03.05.2024, 23:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Americans Continue To Name Inflation As Top Financial Problem: Gallup By Jeffrey Jones at Gallup For the third year in a row, the percentage of Americans naming inflation or the high cost of living as the most important financial problem facing their family has reached a new high. The 41% naming the issue this year is up slightly from 35% a year ago...
Behavioral Traits That Are Killing Your Portfolio Returns
03.05.2024, 19:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behavioral Traits That Are Killing Your Portfolio Returns Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmetntAdvice.com, Investor psychology is one of the most significant reasons individuals consistently fall short of their investment goals. While one of the most common truisms is that “investors buy high and sell low,” the underlying reason is the...
Come For The Education, Stay For The Amputation: Iran Offers Free Scholarships To US Students
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Come For The Education, Stay For The Amputation: Iran Offers Free Scholarships To US Students Authored by Jonathan Turley, Now this could truly be educational. Students protesting on our campuses have been offered free scholarships at Shiraz University in Fars. So, while Northwestern has reached a settlement with protesters to give scholarships...
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...
Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback
03.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback With most of the megatechs having already released earnings, all eyes were on the last Mag7 to report during the heart of earnings season (there is still Nvidia, but due to a calendar quirk that's not for a month) which is also the company which...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
"This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump
02.05.2024, 19:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has called for an investigation into claims made by a CIA "senior intelligence officer with a top-secret" during an undercover encounter with a journalist working for James O'Keefe of O'Keefe Media Group...
"We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview
02.05.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump (C) holds the bible and his son Barron Trump (R) looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2017. (Chip...
Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility
02.05.2024, 17:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Carry Trade Ever More Exposed To Rising FX Volatility Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Rising volatility in USD/JPY will make the yen carry trade less attractive. Dollar-yen is now more correlated with US 2-year yields compared to the 10 year, meaning FX volatility is likely to keep rising the closer the Federal Reserve gets...
Hurt / The Downward Spiral
02.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hurt / The Downward Spiral By Michael Every of Rabobank Hurt / The Downward Spiral “I hurt myself today; To see if I still feel; I focus on the pain; The only thing that's real” Post-Fed, equities closed slightly lower yesterday (S&P -0.3%), 2-year Treasury bond yields dropped 10bps before rising slightly from that floor, and 10-years were down...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
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...
'Unacceptable': Trump Campaign Slams Commission's Refusal To Hold Earlier Debates
02.05.2024, 03:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Unacceptable': Trump Campaign Slams Commission's Refusal To Hold Earlier Debates Authored by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump campaign on Tuesday issued a rebuke of the Commission on Presidential Debates’ refusal to move up its debate schedule until after millions of Americans have already cast their ballots, calling it...
The Countries Where The Most People Buy Organic
02.05.2024, 02:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Countries Where The Most People Buy Organic According to the Statista Market Insights, more than 15 percent of food sales in Denmark are of organic products, making the country the biggest market for organic food in relative terms. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland are the only other countries...
Exxon To Win FTC Approval For $60 Billion Pioneer Deal, Creating Energy Supergiant
01.05.2024, 22:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exxon To Win FTC Approval For $60 Billion Pioneer Deal, Creating Energy Supergiant Having adversely intervened in virtually every other M&A deal in the past 3 years, the Biden FTC will reportedly allow Exxon's $60 billion purchase of Pioneer to go through after the companies agreed to minor concessions, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with...
The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters
01.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jonathan Turley, Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment for scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments...
Lu-Lu-Leveraged: Lululemon Founder Pledges Shares For Margin Loan
01.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lu-Lu-Leveraged: Lululemon Founder Pledges Shares For Margin Loan Lululemon's founder is taking on some lu-lu-leverage - and it's coming at a time when Lululemon's stock is more than 20% off its recent highs. Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon, has reportedly used a significant portion of his stake in the company to secure financing from Goldman...
Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy"
01.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy" Authored by Jonathan Turley, When Robert Mueller appointed Andrew Weissmann as one of his top advisers, many of us warned that it was a poor choice. Weissmann seemed intent to prove those objections correct in increasingly unhinged and partisan statements...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
Watch Live: Peter Daszak Testifies Days After Whistleblower Documents Expose More About Dangerous Wuhan Research
01.05.2024, 15:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: Peter Daszak Testifies Days After Whistleblower Documents Expose More About Dangerous Wuhan Research British epidemiologist Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, is testifying today in front of Congress, where Congressional investigators will try and get to the bottom of multiple inconsistent statements he's made about gain-of-function research...
It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It
01.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, “Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, Boom!” — R.E.M. The world we’ve known is over. The US Congress finally pushed the big red button. When the West froze around $300 billion of Russia’s foreign...
Who Is Crossing The English Channel?
01.05.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Is Crossing The English Channel? Five more people, including a child, died when trying to cross the English Channel by boat last Tuesday (April 23). The news came the same day that Rishi Sunak’s government pushed through the next steps of its Rwanda legislation, supposed to deter such attempts to cross from happening. The Rwanda bill has sparked...
Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets
01.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets With shares of CCJ tumbling earlier today after the company reported soggy Q1 earnings, despite its recent initiating coverage report by an enthusiastic Goldman Sachs which sees the Uranium company at the forefront of the "Next AI trade" and slapped it...
Meet The Lawyers Taking Big Government To The Supreme Court... And Winning
01.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Meet The Lawyers Taking Big Government To The Supreme Court... And Winning Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As the administrative state implements more regulations on Americans, a team of legal veterans has come together to fight the expansion of unelected government agency power. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock...