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The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
"Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings
09.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings One theme we've spotted this earnings season has been an increasing number of companies warning about low-income consumers. From McDonald's to Starbucks to Tyson Foods, executives on earnings calls have warned about mounting headwinds hitting the...
House Votes To Nullify SEC's Anti-Crypto Policy, Biden Vows To Veto
09.05.2024, 03:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Votes To Nullify SEC's Anti-Crypto Policy, Biden Vows To Veto Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraoph.com, The United States House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that overturns controversial Securities and Exchange Commission guidance preventing banks from owning crypto. On May 8, the House voted to pass a bipartisan bill dubbed...
Putin Doesn't Bluff
09.05.2024, 01:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Doesn't Bluff Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Two weeks ago, the Congress passed (and President Biden signed) four key pieces of legislation related to national security. Three of the bills provided assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. They received the most attention. The one that got the least attention was a mixed bag...
Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene's Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson
09.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene's Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson By Joseph Lord of Epoch Times The House of Representatives on May 8 overwhelmingly voted to block a measure to strip House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of the gavel advanced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) forced a vote on a motion to...
Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall
09.05.2024, 00:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Office Tower Turmoil In NYC Worsens Ahead Of Trillion Dollar Maturity Wall A combination of factors, including remote work, an exodus of progressive cities, higher interest rates for longer, and diminished credit availability, continues to pressure the office tower market nationwide. The latest example of challenges facing the $20 trillion commercial...
500 Individuals Recount Discrimination, Sexual Harassment At FDIC In New 200-Page Report
09.05.2024, 00:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 500 Individuals Recount Discrimination, Sexual Harassment At FDIC In New 200-Page Report Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The Federal Deposit Insurance (FDIC) failed to provide its employees a safe workplace free from “sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct,” a new report released on Tuesday concluded...
Be Careful What You Wish For: Weaker Yen A Blessing And A Curse For Japan
08.05.2024, 23:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Be Careful What You Wish For: Weaker Yen A Blessing And A Curse For Japan By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist A weaker yen will boost inflation in Japan, but it may do so to an undesirable extent, especially as there are growing signs price growth is becoming embedded. Be careful what you wish for. For years, Japan has yearned...
Disney Cast Biological Male As "Evil Queen" At Florida Wilderness Lodge, Outraged Father Claims
08.05.2024, 23:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Disney Cast Biological Male As "Evil Queen" At Florida Wilderness Lodge, Outraged Father Claims Video surfaced this week from Walt Disney World in Florida where, at the Wilderness Lodge resort, the company appears to have cast a biological male to play the role of Snow White's wicked queen. “....the Evil Queen without a doubt had a man’s voice...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
US Might Expand Pause On Transferring 'Other Potential Weapons Systems' To Israel
08.05.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Might Expand Pause On Transferring 'Other Potential Weapons Systems' To Israel US defense secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed while testifying before a congressional subcommittee on Wednesday that the Biden administration has paused an arms shipment to Israel, which reportedly includes large bombs and other ammunition being put on hold for transfer...
The Three Reasons People Hate Trump...
08.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Three Reasons People Hate Trump... Authored by Brent Hamacheck via American Greatness, In my recently published book, Dissidently Speaking: Change the Words. Change the War: I use both logic and empiricism to prove (I do mean prove) that there is absolutely no such thing as “right wing-left wing” as we use the terms in this country. They...
Someone Is Lying: Atlanta Fed Claims US GDP Is 4.2% While DOE Reports Lowest Gasoline, Diesel Demand Since Covid
08.05.2024, 21:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Someone Is Lying: Atlanta Fed Claims US GDP Is 4.2% While DOE Reports Lowest Gasoline, Diesel Demand Since Covid On one hand, the Atlanta Fed triumphantly blasted earlier today that Bidenomics is the greatest thing since sliced bread, helping push its Q2 GDP Nowcast to a whopping 4.2%, up from its latest estimate of 3.3%. On the other hand, Biden's...
Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed
08.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Creditors Of Bankrupt FTX To Receive As Much As 142% Of What They Are Owed Back in March, when eyeing the tremendous rebound in the crypto space, we joked that creditors in Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt exchange, FTX, would recover 200% of their claims. FTX bankruptcy will be the first Chapter 11 where creditors recover 200% of their claims — zerohedge...
Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop
08.05.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan Is Now Caught In A Doom Loop By Russell Clark, author of the Capital Flows and Asset Market substack Japan and Treasuries My interest in Japan dates from 1991 when I was fresh faced high school exchange student in Kobe. There are no prizes for finding me in the above photo. I was the only “foreigner” in the school, and would go days without...
Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic
08.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On the heels of Apple’s latest earnings report, the Wall Street Journal shared an article discussing how Apple became such an oversized investment of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway. Given their success with Apple shares we think...
NYC Mayor, NYPD Offer $15K Cash Reward For Info On World War I Memorial Vandals
08.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYC Mayor, NYPD Offer $15K Cash Reward For Info On World War I Memorial Vandals Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has contributed $5,000 of his own money to a reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for vandalizing a World War I memorial. The 107th United States...
Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks
08.05.2024, 17:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Passes Bill To Recruit Prisoners For Depleted Army Ranks The severe manpower crisis of Ukraine's armed forces continues to be on display, particularly after the recent decision of the government to deny embassy and consular services for Ukrainian men of fighting age who live abroad but refuse to come back home. Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday...
Pro-Palestinian GWU Student "Tribunal" Calls For Campus Leaders To Be Beheaded On Guillotines
08.05.2024, 17:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pro-Palestinian GWU Student "Tribunal" Calls For Campus Leaders To Be Beheaded On Guillotines By Jennifer Kabbany, of The College Fix Video that emerged over the weekend from the pro-Palestinian occupation encampment at George Washington University shows some students gleefully cheering for their campus leaders to be executed on guillotines. The footage...
Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb
08.05.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Druckenmiller Dropped The Biggest 'F' Bomb By Michael Every of Rabobank F is for Fed; Biden; Trump; and the 1980s In a sea of lurid, stupid headlines today, it was billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller who arguably dropped the biggest F bombs via a TV interview. First: “Bidenomics, If I was a professor, I’d give him an ‘F’. Basically, they...
Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court
08.05.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Trump Trial Derailed: Fani-Donating Judge's Decision To Keep Her On RICO Trial Under Scrutiny By Appeals Court One day after former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely after we learned that the DOJ mishandled evidence in the case (with Judge Aileen M. Cannon citing a mountain of 'outstanding' pre-trial...
Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones
08.05.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Stanley Druckenmiller says the Fed should get rid of forward guidance and just do their job. I totally endorse a view by Stan Druckenmiller, the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance. Partial Video Transcript Squawk Box: I’ve been perplexed...
Brazen Election Interference: Illinois Democrats Retroactively Change Law To Knock Out Republican Challengers
08.05.2024, 15:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brazen Election Interference: Illinois Democrats Retroactively Change Law To Knock Out Republican Challengers By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints As an alternative to a primary election, Illinois law allowed for a party to get its candidates on the ballot for General Assembly spots by party slating procedure, along with collection of a requisite number of...
Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline
08.05.2024, 14:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Democrat run city of Denver is encouraging residents to host migrant families in their homes and has even set up a hotline so people can volunteer to take in illegals who have no where else to go. FOX31 Denver reports that a charity calling itself...
Tesla Tumbles On Reports Of DoJ Securities Fraud Probe Over Deceptive Self-Driving Capabilities
08.05.2024, 14:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Tumbles On Reports Of DoJ Securities Fraud Probe Over Deceptive Self-Driving Capabilities In what appears to be just the latest 'lawfare' angle of attack against Elon Musk (and his freedom of speech enabling platform), President Biden's Department of Justice is examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations'
08.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations' Authored by Ruchir Sharma via FT, At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that not too long ago were billed as star performers but are now breaking down. All are among the world’s 50 largest economies...
The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't
08.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Stablecoin Debate That Isn't Authored by Omid Malekan, Stablecoins have been in the news lately, thanks to another round of failed legislation, a well-intentioned but poorly-designed analytics dashboard compliments of Visa, and false equivocation by a columnist at the FT. Meet the wire transfer Nic Carter just published an epic review of the...
The Illusion Of Revolution
08.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Illusion Of Revolution Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance One of the topics I discussed with Matt Taibbi during my interview with him this weekend was the palpable loss of soul that has taken place on the Democratic side of the political aisle. And, as Matt Damon reminded us in Good Will Hunting whilst quoting Henry Ward Beecher: “Liberty...
China's Xi In Serbia Says 'Never Forget' This Unprecedented US Atrocity
08.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Xi In Serbia Says 'Never Forget' This Unprecedented US Atrocity Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been in France since Sunday where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron to talk about range of topics but especially the Ukraine war and trade between China and the European Union. But on Tuesday he traveled to Serbia, and importantly the...
Boeing sieht sich nach dem Tod von zwei Whistleblowern mit 10 weiteren konfrontiert: “Menschenleben stehen auf dem Spiel”.
08.05.2024, 08:55 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - A second whistleblower has died under mysterious circumstances, just two months after another one allegedly shot himself in the head — and the attorneys for both men hope their deaths don’t scare away the at least 10 more whistleblowers who want the company to clean up its act.Ein zweiter Whistleblower ist unter mysteriösen Umständen gestorben...
AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect
08.05.2024, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AstraZeneca Pulls Covid Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect In yet another damning development for the 'safe and effective' crowd, AstraZeneca has announced the worldwide withdrawal of its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, branded as Vaxzevria, due to a rare but serious side effect. This decision marks the end of the vaccine once hailed as a "triumph...
Yes, The Constitution Does Matter... A Lot
08.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yes, The Constitution Does Matter... A Lot Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Most of my columns for this newspaper relate to the Constitution. A common reaction among some readers—both in the online “comments” section and in direct correspondence—is that I’m wasting my time because the Constitution doesn’t matter...
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...
Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation
08.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wisconsin Voter Roll Transparency Challenged By Public Interest Legal Foundation Authored by Steven Kovac via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Public access to Wisconsin’s state voter roll is too restricted and too expensive, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a national election integrity watchdog organization. Residents cast...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
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...
Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever
08.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are...
The Marine Corps That Should Have Been
08.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging...
FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed
08.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI File On Jeff Bezos' Grandfather, A DARPA Co-Founder, Has Been Destroyed What's not widely known is that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' grandfather, Lawrence Preston Gise, helped form the Pentagon's supersecret Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA—renamed DARPA) in 1958. Years later, DARPA developed the internet and spurred breakthroughs in high-speed...
Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F"
08.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F" Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government "misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was -- we were going into a depression." Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the...
Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens
08.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trojan Tomato: A New GMO Is Designed To Infiltrate America's Gardens Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As spring gardening approaches, a new contender has entered the fray—the genetically modified (GM) Purple Tomato. Unlike its GM predecessors, the GM Purple Tomato is not destined solely for the fields of commercial...
F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers "Mishap" At Savannah Airport
08.05.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - F-22 Stealth Fighter Suffers "Mishap" At Savannah Airport Isn't it remarkable that while the military-industrial complex, neoconservative warmongers, and radical leftists in the White House seem to push for further conflict in Eastern Europe without even a hint of suggesting peace negotiations with Russia, some of America's most advanced military...
Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic
07.05.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Is A Rorschach Test For The Body Politic Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It is no secret that Donald Trump is a hot wire that either fires up the imagination of voters or fries the brain. For those of us who experience Trump as a Promethean bringer of enlightening fire to the dark barren fields of modern politics, it is hard to...
Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After 'Mishandled Evidence' Bombshell
07.05.2024, 23:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Classified Document Trial Postponed Indefinitely Days After 'Mishandled Evidence' Bombshell One day after postponing a filing deadline in Donald Trump's classified documents case, Judge Aileen M. Cannon has postponed the whole thing indefinitely. In a Tuesday decision, Cannon vacated (canceled) Trump's May 20 trial date, and wrote that setting...
7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen
07.05.2024, 23:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture has been transformed at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking. When I was growing up, I was convinced that I believed in a shared set of national values that most other Americans...
Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global
07.05.2024, 22:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Withdrawing From The Rat-Race Is Going Global Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they're withdrawing from the competition en masse. The world has changed over the past two generations in ways that don't fit the heavily promoted narratives of "growth" and "progress." The "growth"...
Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High
07.05.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Collapse In Credit Card Debt Growth Just As Card APRs Hit All Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month's jump in credit card debt to a new all time high despite record high credit card rates, in March households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data...
New Star Wars Animated Series Features A 'They/Them' Jedi
07.05.2024, 21:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Star Wars Animated Series Features A 'They/Them' Jedi Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Disney+ is taking more flak for crowbarring a them/them character into its latest Star Wars series. The animated show Tales of the Empire, is made up of six shorts, with one of the episodes featuring a non-binary Jedi. In a scene below, the they/them...
One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report
07.05.2024, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report Authored by Samantha Swenson via The College Fix, More than one third of Stanford University students say using physical violence to stop a speech is acceptable in at least some circumstances, according to a new report. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression conducted...