Neueste Heute 02.05.2024 01.05.2024
Bogotá Cuts Ties With Israel Over ‘Genocidal’ War in Gaza
03.05.2024, 01:32 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Colombia is the third Latin American nation to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel since the Israel-Hamas war began....
Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking: Taibbi
03.05.2024, 00:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking: Taibbi Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Last week, in “It’s Not Me, It’s You,’” I wrote about a booming new op-ed genre, the editorial that bashes hick voters for their incorrect “Perception of the Economy.” Pundits attack voters’ “stubbornly low” assessments, producing poll numbers that leave...
No, College Curriculums Aren’t Too Focused on Decolonization
03.05.2024, 00:38 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Critics of campus demonstrations are aiming at the wrong target. We need to study more history, not less....
North Carolina Shooting: Democrats Blame Guns While Letting Repeat Offenders Run Free
03.05.2024, 00:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - North Carolina Shooting: Democrats Blame Guns While Letting Repeat Offenders Run Free Whatever happened to the media coverage of the mass shooting of police officers in Charlotte, NC this week? Only moments after the attack which took the lives of four law enforcement officers and injured four others, mainstream news feeds and social media sites were...
Top House Democrat ‘Deeply Worried’ About Israel’s War Strategy in Gaza
02.05.2024, 22:31 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Israel is losing the support of Democrats over how it’s prosecuting the war, lawmaker warns....
The US Is Constructing A Base In Chaos-Torn Haiti, But It Hit A Major Snag
02.05.2024, 22:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Is Constructing A Base In Chaos-Torn Haiti, But It Hit A Major Snag Authored By Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, The Biden administration’s plan to restore order to Haiti by sending an armed international force has hit another snag: the base that will house the soldiers will not be ready by the date they are set to arrive in the...
When AI Decides Who Lives and Dies
02.05.2024, 21:39 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Israeli military’s algorithmic targeting has created dangerous new precedents....
The Real Cost of Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela
02.05.2024, 20:15 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Sectoral sanctions are hurting the country’s democratic transition—and pushing Caracas closer to U.S. adversaries....
"We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview
02.05.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump (C) holds the bible and his son Barron Trump (R) looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2017. (Chip...
Hurt / The Downward Spiral
02.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hurt / The Downward Spiral By Michael Every of Rabobank Hurt / The Downward Spiral “I hurt myself today; To see if I still feel; I focus on the pain; The only thing that's real” Post-Fed, equities closed slightly lower yesterday (S&P -0.3%), 2-year Treasury bond yields dropped 10bps before rising slightly from that floor, and 10-years were down...
"Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold
02.05.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold Via SchiffGold.com, The yen was once known as a safe-haven currency for investors to protect themselves when broader markets are shaky or other currencies are dropping, but those days are numbered. A stable government and consistent (and low) interest rates have been some of the driving factors...
'Unity': Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine Supporters Chant "F**k Joe Biden" In Solidarity As Democrats In 'Panic Mode'
02.05.2024, 15:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Unity': Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine Supporters Chant "F**k Joe Biden" In Solidarity As Democrats In 'Panic Mode' How it started: How it's going: Biden finally managed to unify the country https://t.co/Oppf7ssAXn — zerohedge ( zerohedge) May 2, 2024 In early March, President Biden and the Democrats called for the "Unity of all Americans." ...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal'
02.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal' Via Schiffgold.com, Peter appeared on OAN’s Real America with Dan Ball to discuss new prospective income taxes, the latest idiotic craze in politics. He starts by explaining why President Biden’s desired policy isn’t even an income tax: “The worst of the capital gains tax is...
Will Trump Survive This?
02.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Trump Survive This? Authored by James Rickards via the Daily Reckoning, This is a highly consequential election year, to say the least. The policy differences between Biden and Trump are enormous. Whether it’s taxes, regulation, borders, energy or foreign policy, the differences couldn’t be clearer. And though I prefer to focus my analysis...
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
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...
U.K. Detains Asylum-Seekers for Deportation to Rwanda
02.05.2024, 01:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Staunch opposition remains, including in Dublin, where officials fear that Britain’s plan will increase unauthorized migration into Ireland....
Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes
02.05.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rules: 6 More States Sue Biden Admin Over "Radical And Illegal" Changes Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules. The...
Congress Gives the Arsenal of Democracy a Boost
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Some experts wonder if it’s enough to respond to China, Russia, and terror threats at the same time....
Iran Makes a Play in South Asia
01.05.2024, 23:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - President Ebrahim Raisi’s recent trip to the region was an opportunity for Iran to showcase its engagement amid instability in the Middle East....
Taper 'Tantrum-ette' - Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Fed 'Eases' Balance-Sheet Pressure
01.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taper 'Tantrum-ette' - Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Fed 'Eases' Balance-Sheet Pressure Powell to traders today... h/t ForexLive The bigger than expected QT taper announcement juiced markets (stocks and bond prices up, dollar down) into Powell's press conference, then got spooked lower as he admitted "inflation has shown a lack of further progress... and gaining...
How Kyiv Plans to Use American Aid
01.05.2024, 21:50 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba joins FP Live for a wide-ranging discussion....
China Crossed Biden's Red Line On Ukraine, So What?
01.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Crossed Biden's Red Line On Ukraine, So What? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, It’s ridiculous to have red lines if you are not going to do anything when they are crossed. So what should Biden do? China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed moans China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine. President...
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Ethnic Minorities Are Under Attack
01.05.2024, 21:33 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - A power struggle between Baghdad and Erbil is targeting the country’s most vulnerable....
Why Won’t More Feminists Speak Up For Israeli Victims of Sexual Violence?
01.05.2024, 20:19 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Israel’s government has promoted misinformation around Oct. 7, but that doesn’t mean victims should be ignored....
Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser?
01.05.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser? The Fed meeting later today has had the market feeling (and positioned for) “HAWKISHNESS,” especially after the ECI pile-on yesterday, which didn’t simply “upside surprise,” but re-accelerated to 1.2% after ending 2023 at 0.9%, and showing that persistent wage pressures further...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
Nobody Is Competing With the U.S. to Begin With
01.05.2024, 15:46 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Conflicts with China and Russia are about local issues that Washington can’t win anyway....
Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin
01.05.2024, 15:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin Having already revealed its borrowing estimates for Q2 and Q3 on Monday, where we learned that the Treasury expects to sell $41BN more debt than previously expected in Q2, but offset by a...
Israel Has Failed to Restore Deterrence
01.05.2024, 15:27 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The concept that has always guided Israeli strategy may not survive the current war....
Without Indonesia’s Nickel, EVs Have No Future in America
01.05.2024, 15:26 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The IRA and Senate opposition to a free trade deal with Jakarta are undermining the United States’ green transition....
Turmoil in Georgia Could Draw in Russia
01.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The likely passage of a Kremlin-style law has Georgians fighting for their democracy....
Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms
01.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Slide In Damp Start To New Month As Fed Decision Looms US equities were set for a second day of losses, as investors weighed disappointing tech earnings and braced for today's Quarterly Refunding Announcement and Fed rate decision and Powell press conference where the Fed chair is expected to signal a delay to rate cuts. S&P 500 futures slid 0...
US Treasury's Funding Mix Will Be Pivotal For Fed's Next Moves
01.05.2024, 13:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Treasury's Funding Mix Will Be Pivotal For Fed's Next Moves Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, How the Treasury intends to meet its borrowing requirements – the mix between shorter-term bills and longer-term coupons – will strongly influence liquidity and thus the performance of risk assets. Quantitative tightening is thus on...
It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It
01.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's The End Of The Foreign Exchange Reserves As We Know It... Don't Feel Fine About It Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, “Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, Boom!” — R.E.M. The world we’ve known is over. The US Congress finally pushed the big red button. When the West froze around $300 billion of Russia’s foreign...
Chad’s Great-Power Balancing Act
01.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Déby courts Russia and expels U.S. troops ahead of elections....
Pentagon Chief Engaged In Pressuring EU Countries To Give Up Their Patriot Systems
01.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pentagon Chief Engaged In Pressuring EU Countries To Give Up Their Patriot Systems America's top defense official is engaged in efforts to pressure European countries to give up their own US-made anti-air defenses for Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he's been actively encouraging countries to donate their Patriot missile systems...
"House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy
01.05.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy China's Politburo meeting on economic policy took place today, and as SocGen's Wei Yao reports, the most important takeaway from the meeting is that policymakers are shifting their attention to housing destocking, as they pledged to 'study measures'. As usual about...
The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes
01.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World Health Organization’s Pandemic Treaty Ignores Covid Policy Mistakes Authroed by Kevin Bardosh & Jay Bhattarcharya via RealClearPolicy, The World Health Organization is urging the U.S. and 193 other governments to commit next month to a new global treaty to prevent and manage future pandemics. Current estimates suggest over $31 billion...
Employers Must Honor Preferred Pronouns, Bathrooms For Employees Identifying As Transgender: Feds
01.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Employers Must Honor Preferred Pronouns, Bathrooms For Employees Identifying As Transgender: Feds Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Biden administration has rolled out a set of new guidelines, under which an employer would be deemed liable for harassment for referring to a worker by an unwanted pronoun or requiring the worker...
Appeals Court Says State Health Policies Excluding Transgender Surgeries Violate Constitution
01.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Appeals Court Says State Health Policies Excluding Transgender Surgeries Violate Constitution Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled against two state-level health policies that exclude so-called “gender-affirming” treatments, teeing up potential review by the U.S. Supreme Court... Judge...
Apollo Slapped With Lawsuit Alleging "Widespread Fraudulent Human Life Wagering Conspiracy"
01.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apollo Slapped With Lawsuit Alleging "Widespread Fraudulent Human Life Wagering Conspiracy" Apollo Global Management has been entangled in a scandalous lawsuit and accused of acquiring illegal life insurance policies on senior citizens through a complex web of shell trusts. The company allegedly used an affiliate, Financial Credit Investment...
Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
30.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s...
Netanyahu Promises Rafah Attack ‘With or Without a Deal’
30.04.2024, 23:16 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Far-right voices in the Israeli prime minister’s cabinet seem to be eclipsing foreign warnings against the planned offensive....
Xi Believes China Can Win a Scientific Revolution
30.04.2024, 23:10 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Beijing’s techno-nationalist policies are more geopolitical than economic....
The Very Real Limits of the Russia-China ‘No Limits’ Partnership
30.04.2024, 22:04 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Intense military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is a problem for the West. Their bilateral trade is not....
Former Binance CEO 'CZ' Sentenced To Only Four Months In Jail For Money Laundering
30.04.2024, 21:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Binance CEO 'CZ' Sentenced To Only Four Months In Jail For Money Laundering Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao ("CZ") was sentenced to four months in jail on Tuesday in a Seattle federal court, according to The Wall Street Journal. Late last year, CZ pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges and relinquished his position as the head of Binance...
Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana
30.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Bears Squeezed On Report DEA Is Preparing To Reclassify Marijuana The Associated Press has learned the US Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to reclassify marijuana to a less dangerous drug category. Shares of cannabis-related companies erupted on the news. Here's more from AP news: The DEA's proposal, which still must be reviewed...