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World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
The TikTok Ban Is The Next Patriot Act
10.05.2024, 05:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The TikTok Ban Is The Next Patriot Act Authored by Aaron Sobczak via The Mises Institute, HR 7521, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, is a recent development in American politics. TikTok has been in the news for the past few years, after the public became aware of its connections to China. The popular...
The (Anti) Social Cost Of Carbon
10.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The (Anti) Social Cost Of Carbon Authored by Jonathan Lesser via RealClearEnergy, Forty-two was the mystical number that explained “life, the universe, and everything” in Douglas Adams’ comic novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Today, another mystical number, the so-called social cost of carbon (SSC), is providing the excuse for the...
These Are The Countries With The Most Students Studying Abroad
08.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Countries With The Most Students Studying Abroad The world's two most populous nations, China and India, have the highest numbers of students studying overseas. Statista's Anna Fleck reports that, according to data published by UNESCO, more than one million Chinese students were studying abroad in 2021. India’s total was close to...
Trudeau Government Offers Free Access To National Parks For Migrants Only
08.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trudeau Government Offers Free Access To National Parks For Migrants Only Via The Post Millennial, Parks Canada has decided to offer a real break in 2024 for people looking to enjoy some of Canada’s glorious outdoors and backwoods. But only people who are newcomers and new Canadian citizens. In a Parks Canada post, the federal government agency announced...
A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Question To Challenge The Deflationary Mindset Authored by Louis-Vincent Gave via Gavekal Research blog, The rise in US treasury yields this year initially caused the usual casualties: the yen, won, euro, and British pound. From exchange rates, it seems that the US interest rate wrecking ball is now wreaking destruction among richly-valued technology...
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...
Vietnam wird digitale IDs für den Zugang zu Dienstleistungen ausstellen und plant, auch Ausländer einzubeziehen
01.05.2024, 07:32 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Vietnam will digitale ID-Karten ausgeben, die die Bürgerinnen und Bürger für Interaktionen mit den Behörden nutzen können und die VNeID Mobile App ergänzen. Nach Angaben des Ministeriums für öffentliche Sicherheit wird die digitale ID ab Anfang Juli für Dienstleistungen des öffentlichen Sektors zur Verfügung stehen. Um sie nutzen zu können...
Senator Tells Taxpayers On Gaza Pier: "Cost Has Not Just Risen, It Has Exploded"
30.04.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senator Tells Taxpayers On Gaza Pier: "Cost Has Not Just Risen, It Has Exploded" An initial US Navy ship has reached Eastern Mediterranean waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip where its crew has begun constructing a floating platform for the ambitious Gaza humanitarian pier project ordered by President Biden, new satellite images published by Planet...
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...
Chipotle Tells Workers To "Preserve" Chicken Supply As Demand Soars
26.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chipotle Tells Workers To "Preserve" Chicken Supply As Demand Soars A surge in restaurant traffic boosted Chipotle Mexican Grill's first-quarter earnings and revenue, topping the average estimate of Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg on Wednesday. Shares are higher by more than 5% in the cash session on Thursday. However, this note will not expand...
Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing
25.04.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lawmaker Suggests Iran Is Ready For Nuclear Weapon Testing Via Middle East Eye Iranian military commanders and high-ranking officials have warned they could change their approach in developing the country’s nuclear program after increasing tensions with Israel, implicitly announcing their readiness to take it into a military phase. Before the recent...
US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases
25.04.2024, 02:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US Navy will convert surplus oil rigs in the western Pacific into mobile military bases as part of the US military buildup aimed at China, The Defense Post reported on Tuesday. The naval engineering firm Gibbs & Cox developed the concept, known as the Mobile...
Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks
24.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise For Third Day As Tesla, Texas Instruments Surge Boosts Tech Stocks Equity futures rose for the third day in a row - last week's brutal drubbing a distant memory - with tech outperforming as Tesla soars premarket after Elon Musk vowed to launch less-expensive vehicles as soon as late this year while Texas Instruments jumped 7% after...
Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period
22.04.2024, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period US equity futures rose, putting the S&P on pace for its first gain after 6 straight days of losses, as focus shifted from Middle East tensions to a raft of company earnings this week, including four of the Mag7 tech megacaps which got hammered last week. At 7:40am, S&P emini futures...
Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit
22.04.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times, The city council of San Rafael in Marin County, California, voted unanimously in a public hearing last week, to approve a more relaxed version of its ordinance dealing with homeless camps and where they are allowed. The ordinance was originally...
The Great Firewall: China Orders Apple To Remove WhatsApp, Threads From App Store
19.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Firewall: China Orders Apple To Remove WhatsApp, Threads From App Store The Cyberspace Administration of China asked Apple on Friday to remove Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China due to national security concerns. Signal and Telegram—two foreign messaging apps—were also removed from the Chinese App Store...
Apple's Dominance On Watch: Huawei Unveils New Smartphone Lineup With Advanced Chip
18.04.2024, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple's Dominance On Watch: Huawei Unveils New Smartphone Lineup With Advanced Chip China's smartphone market has stumbled into a downturn as economic woes turn consumers cautious. At the same time, consumers are ditching Apple's new iPhone 15 and have embraced domestic brands. Huawei Technologies Co. is one of those domestic brands that gained popularity...
Biden's Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976
13.04.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976 Joe Biden's sticky inflation continues to ravage the working poor as Bidenomics falls flat on its face. The president's ally at the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has yet to achieve the 2% inflation Fed target ahead of the November elections. As inflation heats...
Starlink Reportedly Instructed To Shutdown In Zimbabwe By Government
12.04.2024, 20:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Starlink Reportedly Instructed To Shutdown In Zimbabwe By Government Authored by L.S.M Kabweza via TechZim.co.zw, Techzim can reveal that the government of Zimbabwe has instructed Starlink to shut down services in the country. Users of the service received an email from the satellite internet service provider today, advising them it had been directed...
Intel, AMD Slide After Beijing Tells Telecoms To Phase Out Foreign Chips
12.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Intel, AMD Slide After Beijing Tells Telecoms To Phase Out Foreign Chips The newest phase of the technology war between the US and China involves Beijing's plan to eliminate American-made semiconductor chips from Chinese telecommunications systems by 2027. This strategy is expected to impact US chip manufacturers such as Intel and Advanced Micro Devices...
Norfolk Southern To Pay $600 Million To East Palestine Over Toxic Train Derailment
09.04.2024, 18:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Norfolk Southern To Pay $600 Million To East Palestine Over Toxic Train Derailment Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the toxic train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio, causing nearly half of the town's population to evacuate. The agreement, which is pending court approval, would resolve all...
Gen Z Is Trapped In A Virtual Cage
08.04.2024, 18:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen Z Is Trapped In A Virtual Cage Authored by Timothy S. Goeglein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), On Jan. 31, a groundbreaking hearing was held on Capitol Hill as the CEOs of five major social media platforms were called to testify (three only after having to be forced by subpoena) about the alleged harm—sometimes fatal—they have inflicted...
Apple Developing Robot As "Next Big Thing" After Dumping Electric Car Project
03.04.2024, 21:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Developing Robot As "Next Big Thing" After Dumping Electric Car Project After shocking its fans - and everyone else - with the recent decision to give up on developing an electric car after sinking billions of dollars into the now defunct project, Apple - perhaps deciding to quietly move on beyond the neck brace also known as the Vision Pro -...
Blaming Russia For "Havana Syndrome" Pushes The Opposite Narrative Than Intended
02.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blaming Russia For "Havana Syndrome" Pushes The Opposite Narrative Than Intended Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, For Russia to have successfully used a mobile directed energy weapon over 1,500 times, including against the US’ “top 5%, 10% performing officers across the Defense Intelligence Agency,” then it must have deeply penetrated...
Leaked Cell Phone Location Data Reveals 200 Mystery Guests On Epstein's "Pedo Island"
02.04.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Leaked Cell Phone Location Data Reveals 200 Mystery Guests On Epstein's "Pedo Island" Data from nearly 200 mobile devices reveal the exact path taken by visitors to Jeffrey Epstein's notorious 'pedo island,' which was tracked to 80 cities around the world spanning 26 states or territories. The data, obtained by Wired, came from recently bankrupt company...
Experts Warn Of 'Digital Enslavement' As Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service
01.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Experts Warn Of 'Digital Enslavement' As Amazon Pushes Palm-Scan Payment Service Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), E-commerce giant Amazon has just launched new tech that makes it far easier to sign up for its palm-scanning payment service, sparking renewed concerns among privacy experts, with some warning it’s another pebble...
In 2024, Digital Is Everything In Politics
31.03.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In 2024, Digital Is Everything In Politics Authored by Scott Farmer via RealClear Politics, As the 2024 election heats up, now is the time for campaigns to invest wisely. Questions abound: Do you invest in cable news advertising? Door-to-door canvassing? Social media? Something else? For answers, I look back to the past. In 2000, I oversaw the South...
The Road To A New McCarthyism
29.03.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Road To A New McCarthyism Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, I wonder how many people have recoiled with horror at what happened in the House of Representatives recently. I am referring to the decision, effectively, to ban the social media platform, TikTok, in the United States (to ‘protect Americans from foreign adversaries’)...
Facebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents
28.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Facebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. At the request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook officials developed a program called In-App Action Panel (IAAP)...
Planet Fitness Cancels Membership Of Woman Who Exposed Biological Male Using Women's Locker Room
18.03.2024, 01:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Planet Fitness Cancels Membership Of Woman Who Exposed Biological Male Using Women's Locker Room Planet Fitness is defending its decision to ban the membership of a customer in Alaska who spoke out about a “man in women’s locker room shaving.” Patricia Silva left the gym in Fairbanks, Alaska and shared a video on Facebook where she said: “I...
These Are The Top 15 Global Tank Fleets
17.03.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Top 15 Global Tank Fleets Heavily armed and armored, the modern tank is a versatile and mobile weapons platform, and a critical piece of contemporary warfare. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Chris Dickert, shows the top 15 global tank fleets, using data from the 2024 Military Balance report from the International Institute...
McDonald's Stores Hit By Multi-Nation "Technology Outage"
16.03.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Stores Hit By Multi-Nation "Technology Outage" A major technology outage forced McDonald's stores in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom to either shutter operations or suspend online ordering on Friday, CNN reported. "Many stores across the country have temporarily suspended operations," McDonald's Japan wrote in an X post...
Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous
15.03.2024, 21:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers? It’s funny how things work. Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and 70-14% among conservatives...
Expect Another Surge In Food Prices Fueled By 'Dynamic Pricing'
11.03.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expect Another Surge In Food Prices Fueled By 'Dynamic Pricing' Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Restaurants are moving towards dynamic menu prices. Expect big surcharges for peak times. Don’t expect off peak prices to drop much. Labor costs are rising too. CPI food indexes prices, data from the BLS, chart by Mish Surge Pricing Is Coming...
SpaceX-Backed Flying Car Startup Gets FAA Nod
10.03.2024, 19:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SpaceX-Backed Flying Car Startup Gets FAA Nod Authored by Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com, Alef Aeronautics, based in San Mateo, California, has seen an impressive number of pre-orders for its two-seater eVTOL vehicle, Model A, with plans to develop a four-seater sedan, Model Z, by 2035. The company has received a Special Airworthiness Certificate...
From Pioneer To Fallen Giant: How Hewlett Packard's Long List Of Failed Acquisitions Cost Its Reputation, Part 2
10.03.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Pioneer To Fallen Giant: How Hewlett Packard's Long List Of Failed Acquisitions Cost Its Reputation, Part 2 Part 2 in the series "From pioneer to fallen giant: How Hewlett Packard’s long list of failed acquisitions cost its reputation." Read Part 1 titled "Billion dollar bungles" here. The Autonomy Deal – Part 1: Leo Apotheker's Downfall In...
Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China
08.03.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-Google Engineer Arrested, Charged With Stealing AI Trade Secrets For China Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former Google software engineer has been indicted on charges of stealing artificial intelligence-related trade secrets while working for Chinese competitors seeking to gain an edge in the AI race. Google Cloud's logo...
Now The Robots Are Coming For Your Opinions
05.03.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Now The Robots Are Coming For Your Opinions Authored by Will Johnson via RealClear Wire, We’ve long been warned about robots taking our jobs, but now they’re coming for our opinions as well. Caller ID, mobile phones, and cord-cutters have long since forced market researchers and pollsters to conduct surveys online rather than reaching people by...
Pakistan's New Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, Installed As Pro-Khan Protests Hit Parliament
04.03.2024, 01:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pakistan's New Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, Installed As Pro-Khan Protests Hit Parliament Shehbaz Sharif, the chairman of the PML-N party (Pakistan Muslim League-N), has been elected as the new prime minister of Pakistan by lawmakers in Pakistan's National Assembly on Sunday, according to national broadcasters. This will be the 72 year-old Sharif's...
A Great Variety Of Moron Symptoms Appear
27.02.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Great Variety Of Moron Symptoms Appear By Michael Every of Rabobank A great variety of moron symptoms appear Like Gramsci, look around and see the old is dying and the new cannot be born; see the great variety of morbid symptoms appearing as a result; and the greater variety of moron symptoms. AI is not the new tech bubble, honest, even if there appears...
Die Polizei von Montpellier benutzt mobile Dieselgeneratoren, um ihre E-Fahrzeuge zu laden
25.02.2024, 11:49 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Die Polizei von Montpellier benutzt mobile Dieselgeneratoren, um ihre E-Fahrzeuge zu laden...
Cell Service Outages Reported Across US
22.02.2024, 12:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cell Service Outages Reported Across US The website Downdetector has detected a surge in outage reports from users of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Consumer Cellular, Boost Mobile, US Cellular, and Straight Talk. Outage reports for the carriers began around 0345 ET. Geographically, the outages have been reported across some major US cities. Users of...
FBI Warns Of 'Widespread' QR Code Scams By Cybercriminals To Steal Your Money
20.02.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI Warns Of 'Widespread' QR Code Scams By Cybercriminals To Steal Your Money Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI has issued a new warning to Americans that they should exercise caution when scanning QR codes with their smartphones because cybercriminals tamper with the codes to steal login and financial information....
Deutsche Bank verschlechtert Angebot von Finanzdiensten und Bargeld auf dem Land drastisch
20.02.2024, 17:01 Uhr. Geld und mehr - https: - 20. 02. 2024 | Die Deutsche Bank plant nach einem Bericht des Handelsblatts nicht nur 250 von 550 Filialen ihrer Tochter Postbank zu schließen, sondern außerdem bis Ende 2025 alle rund 1800 Partnershops, die Finanzdienstleistungen der Postbank anbieten. Damit wird sich vor allem auf dem Land für viele wenig mobile Menschen die Möglichkeit an...
Russia Says NATO Troops, Disguised As Mercenaries, Control Air Defenses In Ukraine
20.02.2024, 08:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Says NATO Troops, Disguised As Mercenaries, Control Air Defenses In Ukraine The Russian military has made the accusation that NATO troops are actually manning and directly overseeing Ukraine's advanced anti-air defense systems which were provided by the West. The charge comes after weeks of the Kremlin saying that French mercenaries have been...
Is Artificial Intelligence Hope? Hype? Or A Market Disaster In The Making?
17.02.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Artificial Intelligence Hope? Hype? Or A Market Disaster In The Making? Authored by J.G. Collins via The Epoch Times, When I first moved to New York City in the mid-1970s, cab drivers - or “hacks,” as they were called once - were a skilled profession. The Checker Taxi Cab, once ubiquitous on NYC Streets, is now a rare sight and hired now mostly...
You Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For Us
16.02.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - You Will Live In Tiny Homes & Drive EVs And Be Happy: This Is The Future They Have Planned For Us Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, In recent years, “van life’, “car life” and “tiny homes” have all become extremely hot topics on social media. Millennials and Generation Z have been particularly eager to try out these...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Flood Of Economic Data
15.02.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise Ahead Of Flood Of Economic Data Tuesday's post-hot CPI dump now seems like a distant bad dream as US equity futures continued their rebound, following a tech fueled rally on Wednesday that drove the S&P 500 back above 5,000. As of 8:05am, S&P 500 futures were up 0.1%, also approaching pre-CPI levels; Nasdaq futures were as usual even stronger...