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Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee
14.05.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Tanks Plunge Deeper Into Rafah As 500,000 Palestinians Flee Israeli tanks have been seen plunging deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah amid reports that some 500,000 people have fled amid the escalating ground offensive. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have initially focused their operation on the eastern section of the city, having seized...
"Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices
14.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn't the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation...
Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds
13.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds Well if Fed Chair Powell couldn't see the 'flation' before, perhaps he can now... After flatlining around 3.,0% for the last four months the median one-year-ahead inflation expectations increased to 3.3%, according to The New York Fed's April Survey...
Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls
13.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls In the course of two years, California has turned a $100 billion surplus into a $73 billion deficit, forcing governor Gavin Newson (D) to propose painful (token) spending cuts on Friday while announcing his revised state budget. California Governor...
Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged
12.05.2024, 22:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged Authored by Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research, Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It is our “moral debt.” She proposes an international 2-percent wealth...
Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500
11.05.2024, 21:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500 Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk in Arlington, Va., on April 6, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) A just-released report from Scholaroo indicates that the U.S. national average for credit...
McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal
11.05.2024, 19:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Admits Consumers Are Broke With Planned Reintroduction Of $5 Meal Deal Gen-Zers, millennials, and baby boomers have something in common: Many of them can no longer afford a Big Mac combo meal at McDonald's following three years of 'McFlation,' which has sent the price of some combo meals as high as $18. This was at a rest stop, but...
"The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening"
10.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The US Economic Picture Appears To Be Softening" By Rabobank The Bank of England left the Bank Rate unchanged at 5.25% yesterday, but the clear signal from the record of votes, and Governor Bailey, is that cuts aren’t far away. This time around the vote split 7-2 in favour of holding (previously 8-1), with arch-dove Dhingra being joined by former...
Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders
09.05.2024, 00:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders It may seem crazy, but here's some advice for heavily indebted Gen-Zers: Put down the smartphone. Stop spending on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Perhaps cancel a few streaming services. Also, the spending party is over despite calls from the White House to cancel student...
Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy
07.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Panama Elects New President Who Vows To Shut Migrant Trail, Restore Economy Voters in the Republic of Panama on Sunday elected a new president who has vowed to sever a key segment of the Latina American migrant trail that leads to the United States while restoring the country's reputation as an investment destination. “We’ll promote a government...
Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further
06.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) - the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness - was released and revealed more of the same: despite...
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...
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...
Japan's Warning For America
02.05.2024, 05:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Warning For America Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Last week, Japan saw its currency, the yen, rapidly depreciate against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies to near record low levels. This drew the attention of financial markets and other observers, and—in some quarters—led to panic. There was concern that Japan...
Fani Flees Fulton County Primary Debate, Leaves Opponent Facing Empty Podium
30.04.2024, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fani Flees Fulton County Primary Debate, Leaves Opponent Facing Empty Podium Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is handling former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, skipped a debate against her Democrat primary challenger on Sunday. The debate was...
Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This
30.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Want To Know What Is Really Going On In Biden's Economy, Read This One can listen to, and believe, the government's lies about the miraculous growth of the economy and the stellar job that Bidenomics is doing... or one can listen to the truth straight from the countless small companies that make up the economy. We prefer the latter, which is why we...
"On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman'
30.04.2024, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "On The Verge Of Panic" - Dallas Fed Services Survey Suffers Longest Slump Since 'Lehman' It has been a terrible day for 'soft' survey data... Source: Bloomberg And it was just capped off by a big drop in Dallas Fed's Services survey (which compliments yesterday's Dallas Fed Manufacturing meltdown). The headline print dropped from -5.5 to -10.6. That...
Does The CIA Run America?
30.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Does The CIA Run America? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues. Maybe that’s been true for decades and we just didn’t know it. If so, let’s just say that it would explain a tremendous amount of what has otherwise been clouded...
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...
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...
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...