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A Chipotle Double Steak Bowl Is Now $39 In California
29.04.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Chipotle Double Steak Bowl Is Now $39 In California By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Food away from home has risen at least 0.3 percent for 34 out of the last 36 months CPI data from the BLS, California Fast Food Prices Gordon Haskett Sticker Shock in California Higher state minimum wage went into effect April 1; chains say burritos and burgers are getting...
California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness
27.04.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness Via SchiffGold.com, The solution to a problem shouldn’t make the problem worse. But apparently, California’s policy makers missed that memo. On April 1st, the state instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, the highest in the US. With California’s absurdly high...
Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City
27.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why You Can't Afford Most Hotels In New York City Authored by Fred Roeder via RealClearMarkets, On a Friday night in March 2011, I stayed at an upscale W Hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City for $124. That hotel later became The Maxwell, but sadly it didn’t survive the pandemic and is now permanently closed. Today the average hotel stay in...
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...
Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired?
26.04.2024, 15:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, According to the absurd numbers that the government feeds us, the unemployment rate is very low and there are lots of jobs available. But if what they are telling us is true, why are so many...
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
26.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the "we'll literally do anything but cut spending" bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea for our country since prohibition:...
'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions
24.04.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions Authored by Wenyuan Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing...
Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement
21.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement In what's becoming an annual ritual, the IRS has once again waived required minimum distributions for the current year for people who inherited an IRA from someone who died in 2020 or after. That's welcome news, but some uncertainty still hangs over a growing number of people whose...
Judge Who Handed Down $454 Million Trump Penalty Set To Rule On Validity Of Reduced Bond
21.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge Who Handed Down $454 Million Trump Penalty Set To Rule On Validity Of Reduced Bond Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, After weeks of trying to secure a bond and arguing to an appeals court that a $454 million bond was “impossible,” former President Donald Trump secured a $175 million bond to stay judgment only to now have to make...
Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices
21.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
"Southwest Stop!": Near Runway Disaster At Washington-Reagan Recorded On Shocking Audio
20.04.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Southwest Stop!": Near Runway Disaster At Washington-Reagan Recorded On Shocking Audio Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is caught in one of the worst aviation crises in American history, as Boeing jets fall apart in mid-air and while on the runway. The latest near-disaster happened when a JetBlue flight nearly collided with a Southwest...
US Push For A 'Middle East NATO' Failed To Emerge During Iran Strikes
17.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Push For A 'Middle East NATO' Failed To Emerge During Iran Strikes Via Middle East Eye The Islamic Republic’s Saturday attack on Israel was a made-for social media moment. It was also the ultimate test of US efforts to cobble together a coalition of Arab states and Israel in a so-called Middle East NATO, to jointly defend an attack from Tehran...
RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP
17.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr Won't Pursue Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him To Be VP After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he's confident he'll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish...
California's 'Rape Club' Federal Prison To Close
16.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's 'Rape Club' Federal Prison To Close Authored by Beige Luciano-Adams via The Epoch Times, Just weeks after a seventh prison employee was sentenced in a wide-ranging sex abuse scandal that has plagued a federal women’s correctional facility in the City of Dublin, about 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, officials announced April...
"I Cannot Afford To Live": Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails
13.04.2024, 01:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I Cannot Afford To Live": Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, As we approach what is likely to be the most chaotic presidential election in U.S. history, troubling signs are starting to erupt for the U.S. economy. In fact, CNN is actually admitting that “the long-predicted...
Swing-State Poll Shows Black Voters Abandoning Biden In Huge Numbers
12.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swing-State Poll Shows Black Voters Abandoning Biden In Huge Numbers Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Blacks constitute only 14 percent of the voting age population, but the swings toward Trump are so huge they could decide the election. WSJ Swing State Poll, anecdotes in blue by Mish According to a Wall Street Journal Swing State Poll,...
"Support Your Local Antifa": Alabama Man Arrested In Alleged Political Bombing
12.04.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Support Your Local Antifa": Alabama Man Arrested In Alleged Political Bombing Authored by Jonathan Turley, Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, has become the latest Antifa member arrested for alleged political violence. Calvert is accused in the explosion of an IED device outside of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office in downtown Montgomery...
Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left
12.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Montana State Supreme Court. (Screenshot via GoogleMaps) Commentary The Epoch Times reported on March 28 that the Montana Supreme Court struck down four state “election integrity” laws. The court’s decision appears to be part of...
Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations
11.04.2024, 18:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations Authored by Katie Spence via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts July, August, and September will be hotter than usual. And for those who view warmer temperatures...
Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam Of All Time
11.04.2024, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam Of All Time Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to “pay your fair share” of taxes. It turns out he’s right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn’t Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street...
"Have You Checked If Your Hair Is On Fire Today?"
08.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Have You Checked If Your Hair Is On Fire Today?" Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Bang-and-Whimper “Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” - VV Putin Have you checked if your hair is on fire today? Here comes an eclipse of the sun. Our moon will cast a totality...
World War II Didn't End The Great Depression
06.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World War II Didn't End The Great Depression By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities A principal goal of Stark Realities is to “expose fundamental myths across the political spectrum” — and few myths are as universally embraced as the notion that US participation in World War II lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression. This...
Biden Admin Installs New Rule Making It Harder To Fire Bureaucrats
06.04.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Admin Installs New Rule Making It Harder To Fire Bureaucrats Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration has issued a new rule that makes it harder to fire government employees in an apparent bid to thwart former President Donald Trump’s pledge to fire “rogue bureaucrats” and radically reshape the...
These Are The Countries With The Highest Corporate Tax Rates
06.04.2024, 03:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries With The Highest Corporate Tax Rates In 1980, the global average corporate tax rate stood at 40.2% - a level notably higher than today... Over the last several decades, corporate tax rates have declined across every region, with the average now falling at 23.5% as of 2023. As tax rates have sunk lower, U.S. Treasury Secretary...
RFK Jr. Is Right About Joe Biden
05.04.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr. Is Right About Joe Biden Authored by David Harsanyi via PJMedia.com, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can be an unhinged leftist and crackpot, but he also happens to be correct about President Joe Biden's attacks on constitutional order, particularly free expression. Speaking to an incredulous Erin Burnett on CNN this week, Kennedy argued that Biden was...
Gold Vs. Bitcoin: The Winner Is...
03.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Vs. Bitcoin: The Winner Is... Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The ultimate competition to become the world’s dominant money will have only one winner. Anything else would amount to an inefficient barter system, which is why international monetary networks tend to converge on one thing as dominant money at the base layer....
China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling
03.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is The World Leader In Battery Recycling As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it comes the need for batteries. While these batteries - also needed for home, industrial and grid energy storage - are being newly manufactured, Statista's Anna Fleck reports...
Can America's Middle Class Still Afford Homeownership In 2024
03.04.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can America's Middle Class Still Afford Homeownership In 2024 Submitted by Sam Bourgi of CreditNews The middle class today isn’t what it was even as recently as just a few years ago. After the highest inflation breakout in nearly 50 years, many middle-class families have been priced out of the standard of living that most Americans took for granted...
Google Settles 'Incognito' Suit, Commits To Wiping User Browsing Data
02.04.2024, 16:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Settles 'Incognito' Suit, Commits To Wiping User Browsing Data Authored by Stephen Katte via The Epoch Times, Tech giant Google has agreed to settle with plaintiffs who alleged that the company invaded users’ privacy by tracking online activities even when they were using Chrome browser’s private incognito mode. Five plaintiffs filed a class...
Mass Layoffs Begin At California Fast Food Chains As $20 Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect
02.04.2024, 15:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Layoffs Begin At California Fast Food Chains As $20 Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect This result shouldn't surprise anyone. Inflation has driven up operational costs for businesses across the US and shrunk profit margins for major food chains in the past few years. This has led to higher menu prices (like the "$18 Big Mac") and slowing sales for...
Trump Posts $175 Million, Preventing Seizure Of Buildings In Civil Fraud Case As NY 'Hush Money' Case Judge Expands Gag Order
02.04.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Posts $175 Million, Preventing Seizure Of Buildings In Civil Fraud Case As NY 'Hush Money' Case Judge Expands Gag Order Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump has posted $175 million in his New York civil fraud case, meeting the 10-day deadline given on March 25 and staying execution of judgment in the case...
California's Deficit Is $222 Billion And The State Is $1.6 Trillion In Debt
02.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Deficit Is $222 Billion And The State Is $1.6 Trillion In Debt By Mike Shedlock of MishTalk Governor Gavin Newsom bragged of a surplus, but California is seriously underwater. The next recession will hit the state extremely hard. Golden State Budget Fantasy The City Journal founder Ed Ring comments on the Golden State Budget Fantasy While...
No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1
01.04.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1 Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A sign is posted on the exterior of a Round Table pizza restaurant in Albany, Calif., on March 25, 2024. California fast food restaurants are laying off some staff and reducing hours for other workers as they look to cut costs ahead of...
The Declining Value Of The US Federal Minimum Wage
28.03.2024, 11:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Declining Value Of The US Federal Minimum Wage This graphic illustrates the history of the U.S. federal minimum wage using data compiled by Statista, in both nominal and real (inflation-adjusted) terms. The federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 per hour in July 2009, where it has remained ever since. Nominal vs. Real Value The data Visual...
Escobar: The Nuland/Budanov/Tajik/Crocus Connection
27.03.2024, 07:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: The Nuland/Budanov/Tajik/Crocus Connection Authored by Pepe Escobar, Let’s start with the possible chain of events that may have led to the Crocus terror attack. This is as explosive as it gets. Intel sources in Moscow discreetly confirm this is one of the FSB’s prime lines of investigation. December 4, 2023. Former chairman of the Joint...
The State Of The Media's Double Standard
26.03.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The State Of The Media's Double Standard Authored by Frank Miele via RealClear Politics, I’m sure everyone has heard enough about President Biden’s recent State of the Union address, certainly enough to know that the mainstream media thought it was admirable of Biden to scream at the top of his lungs that Republicans are detestable worms. You also...
RFK Jr Picks Nicole Shanahan As VP, May Seek Libertarian Nomination
26.03.2024, 16:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr Picks Nicole Shanahan As VP, May Seek Libertarian Nomination The Wall Street Journal reports that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked Nicole Shanahan, a California-based attorney who was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate for his long-shot presidential bid, according to people familiar with the decision. Shanahan...
FAA Turning Over Newark's Air Traffic Control Duties To Philadelphia To "Address Staffing Issues"
23.03.2024, 18:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FAA Turning Over Newark's Air Traffic Control Duties To Philadelphia To "Address Staffing Issues" As air traffic is on the verge of breaking records heading into the summer, Newark, New Jersey's airspace is being turned over to Philadelphia. The move, prompted by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, seeks to "address staffing issues and congested...
Treasuries Still Winners In Historic Week Filled With Surprises
22.03.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasuries Still Winners In Historic Week Filled With Surprises Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, It’s been nothing short of a historic week for the global financial markets, but the yen continues to stay unloved, while front-end Treasuries will continue to be the winners given the Fed’s clear bias to cut interest rates. The...
Retirement Crisis Faces Government And Corporate Pensions
22.03.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retirement Crisis Faces Government And Corporate Pensions Authored by Lance Roberts via ReaslInvestmentAdvice.com, It is long past the time that we face the fact that “Social Security” is facing a retirement crisis. In June 2022, we touched on this issue, discussing the stark realities confronting Social Security. “The program’s payouts have exceeded...
"Everyone Is Panicking": Major Cocoa Processor Scrambles To Find Beans As Prices Hyperinflate
22.03.2024, 11:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Everyone Is Panicking": Major Cocoa Processor Scrambles To Find Beans As Prices Hyperinflate One of the world's largest cocoa processors is scouring the globe for beans as weather and disease spark massive crop failures across West Africa and catapult prices in New York to record highs. "Everybody is panicking," said Brandon Tay Hoe Lian, chief...
Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With 'Ultrarich' Tax
20.03.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With 'Ultrarich' Tax Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday reintroduced her 'Ultra-Millionaire' Tax Act, by which the government would confiscate 2% from households worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and 3% on households worth over $1 billion. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)...
BlackRock Seeds Ethereum-Backed Digital Liquidity Fund With $100 Million
20.03.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BlackRock Seeds Ethereum-Backed Digital Liquidity Fund With $100 Million Having surpassed Microstrategy in the size of its holdings amid the furious success of spot bitcoin ETFs... ...the world’s largest asset manager has taken “the next step forward” toward a single ledger, instantaneous settlement and ending illicit activities, in the view of...
AI Infiltrates Oil Industry To Speed Up Drilling, Cut Costs
19.03.2024, 17:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Infiltrates Oil Industry To Speed Up Drilling, Cut Costs Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, AI-powered technologies are helping the industry to produce more oil and gas for less money. Bloomberg: AI tech hadshelped shale drillers shorten the average period for drilling a new well by a whole day and the period for fracking that well by three...
In Ukraine, Graham Urges Expanded Conscription Despite Mounting War Fatigue
19.03.2024, 12:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Ukraine, Graham Urges Expanded Conscription Despite Mounting War Fatigue On his latest of far too many visits to Ukraine, Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday urged legislators to expand the pool of citizens subject to being drafted and thrown into the country's losing war against Russia, saying, "We need more people in the line." The Ukrainian military...
Trump Reveals Plan To Impose 100 Percent Tariffs On Chinese Cars Made In Mexico
19.03.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Reveals Plan To Impose 100 Percent Tariffs On Chinese Cars Made In Mexico Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico once reelected, double the 50 percent he stated earlier. Republican presidential candidate and former...
Four-Star Sellouts
16.03.2024, 22:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Four-Star Sellouts Authored by Citizen Soldier via RealClear Wire, “The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy. One must go in to fetch a diamond out.” I’ve been thinking about that line from Arthur Miller’s masterpiece, Death of a Salesman, as I watch prominent men risk prison or disgrace to enrich themselves. Look at the news. Sen. Bob...
NATO's 'Welfare' States: Treating The US As 'Room Service'
15.03.2024, 07:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO's 'Welfare' States: Treating The US As 'Room Service' Authored by Pete Hoekstra via The Gatestone Institute, Last month, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg conceded what former US President Donald Trump has been warning about for nearly a decade: America's allies are not paying their fair share -- as they had agreed -- for national defense. After four...