Neueste Heute 18.04.2024 17.04.2024
Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself
19.04.2024, 21:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate Worries Are Non-Credible, Luxury Beliefs That Harm Civilization Itself Authored by Joakim Book via The Mises Institute, I live in a small village at the edge of lands surrounded by very harsh nature. Those who occupied these valleys in ages past lived ruthlessly dangerous lives, where starvation was a constant worry, the sea just as often nurtured...
Have Israel and the United States Done Enough to Deter Iran?
19.04.2024, 19:52 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - U.S. allies intercepted hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, and then Israeli forces counterattacked in a limited strike—but the threat of regional war remains....
How Much Leverage Does China Really Have Over Iran?
19.04.2024, 18:36 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Washington wants Beijing to rein in Tehran, but experts say it’s not that simple....
Modi’s ‘Make in India’ Didn’t Make Jobs
19.04.2024, 18:10 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - India’s prime minister could win re-election without having fixed his country’s unemployment crisis....
Iran Shrugs off Israeli Strike, Allaying Escalation Fears—for Now
19.04.2024, 16:59 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Experts say the attack was designed to showcase Israel’s capabilities without further provoking Tehran....
With 'Halving' Imminent, Peter Schiff Says 'Bitcoin Has No Value'
19.04.2024, 15:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With 'Halving' Imminent, Peter Schiff Says 'Bitcoin Has No Value' Via SchiffGold.com, Peter recently appeared on Market Overtime with Oliver Renick for an interview. In their wide-ranging discussion, Peter speaks on monetary policy, the reliability of inflation data, and reasons to avoid Bitcoin. Contrary to the popular narrative, gold’s recent rise...
Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation
19.04.2024, 14:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Reverse All Losses, Oil Slides After Iran Plays Down Israeli Attacks, Signals No Retaliation While US futures are still modestly in the red, they are not only well off the worst overnight levels, but they are almost unchanged since yesterday's close following a performative Israeli retaliation. which followed a performative Iranian attack, which...
Latin American Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
19.04.2024, 14:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - From fintech to AI, investors are enthusiastic about the region’s growth potential....
Why Arab States Haven’t Broken With Israel
19.04.2024, 12:54 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Arabs across the region are angry, but regimes can’t afford to sever ties....
Forget About Chips—China Is Coming for Ships
19.04.2024, 11:35 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Beijing’s grab for hegemony in a critical sector follows a familiar playbook....
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine
19.04.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won't Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defense of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds to claim that there are double standards at play. Ukraine became jealous like never...
BRICS - The Project Of The Century
19.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BRICS - The Project Of The Century Authored by Peter Hanseler via VoiceOfRussia.com, The Western media are prioritizing the Ukraine conflict, the green revolution and the woke revolution. In the shadow of this media coverage, BRICS is changing the world. We bring you the latest figures and place them in the current geopolitical environment. – An analysis...
Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC
19.04.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soros Nonprofit Gives 8-Figure Sum To Far-Left Super PAC Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, One of the many nonprofits run by far-left billionaire George Soros donated tens of millions of dollars to a major super PAC that funds multiple left-wing groups. According to Fox News, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records posted Monday reveal...
World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts
19.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World Bank Report Highlights Advantage Of Central Bank Gold Revaluation Accounts By Jan Nieuwenhuijs of Gainesville Coins Recently the World Bank released a handbook for asset managers on why to invest in gold. At Gainesville Coins I have written numerous articles on gold revaluation accounts and how these can be deployed by central banks to absorb...
U.S. and Israel Meet to Discuss Rafah Operation
18.04.2024, 23:01 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Biden administration fears an offensive would result in a high civilian death toll....
The Terrorist Threat the West Still Ignores
18.04.2024, 22:19 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Domestic far-right terrorism has been increasingly internationalized—and requires a coordinated response....
Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds
18.04.2024, 22:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin & Bullion Bid As Hawkish FedSpeak Hammers Stocks & Bonds Stocks had limped higher all night after four straight days lower but into the cash open, Fed's Williams ruined the party by admitting that while rate-hikes are not 'his baseline' they are possible if the data warrants. But that dip was bought aggressively after the open. Stocks were spooked...
Iran’s Nuclear Crisis Has No Military Solution
18.04.2024, 21:15 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Whether Tehran weaponizes its program remains tied to threat perceptions by political leadership....
Iran Has Defined Its Red Line With Israel
18.04.2024, 20:49 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - With last weekend's attack, Tehran has undertaken a strategic shift in the region....
Israel’s Military Risks Being Overstretched
18.04.2024, 19:32 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - It’s been at war for six months—and now faces another front with Iran....
Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated
18.04.2024, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Workers Who Had Their Middle-Class Status Offshored By 40-Years Of Neoliberalism Are Finally Vindicated By Benjamin Picton of Rabobank An Eye For An Eye Treasury yields fell yesterday for the first time this week. The 2-year was down 5.5bps to 4.93%, while Brent crude gave up 3% to be sitting well below the $90/bbl again. Crude is sending some interesting...
SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market
18.04.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market Let's start with these five most recent headlines that show why defense spending needs to increase in a world evolving into a multi-polar state marked by conflict and uncertainty: World Stumbles Into "More Dangerous Decade" As Defense Spending Soars, Says Military...
Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak
18.04.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Will Face Resistance While Liquidity Backdrop Is Weak Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The impulse from central-bank reserves in the US, or the change in their change on a monthly basis, points to further short-term resistance for stocks. The Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening program is ongoing, but bank reserves...
African Lending Needs a Better World Bank
18.04.2024, 16:59 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Bretton Woods institutions are due a revamp from their colonial roots....
"Yikes": Impeachment 'Whistleblower' Was In The Loop Of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed
18.04.2024, 15:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Yikes": Impeachment 'Whistleblower' Was In The Loop Of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClear Wire, The ‘whistleblower’ who sparked Donald Trump’s first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump wanted probed, newly obtained...
Senate Can Stop Expansion Of Government Surveillance
18.04.2024, 14:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Can Stop Expansion Of Government Surveillance Authored by Bob Goodlatte & Mark Udall via RealClear Wire, When the U.S. House passed the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), which reauthorizes the FISA Section 702 surveillance authority, it overlooked something big – an amendment that would drive the greatest expansion...
Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses
18.04.2024, 14:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise After 4 Straight Days Of Losses US equity futures are higher after four consecutive days of selling, although that is the same pattern we have seen all week as futures initially rise only to dump later in the day. As of 7:40am, S&P futures are up 0.3% while tech stocks were set to outperform, pushing the Nasdaq 0.4% higher after TSMC delivered...
Arab Countries Have Israel’s Back—for Their Own Sake
18.04.2024, 12:35 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Last weekend’s security cooperation in the Middle East doesn’t indicate a new future for the region....
Selected Articles: Expanding Middle East War. Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, The War on Energy, Strategic
18.04.2024, 06:06 Uhr. Global Research - https: - Expanding Middle East War. Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, The War on Energy, Strategic Waterways By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 17, 2024 Israel and the Zionist lobby in the U.S. are NOT exerting undue influence AGAINST U.S. foreign policy … The post Selected Articles: Expanding Middle East War. Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran, The War...
The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever
18.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers employed—competent or otherwise—laying off teachers by seniority when necessary and soaking taxpayers every chance they could. While those activities are still part of their...
It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus
18.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Not Rate Hikes That Are "Sparking An Economic Boom", It's The Fiscal Stimulus By Michael Every of Rabobank The Polybius Crisis Take a step back (in time), and see that our neoliberal, debt-addled, was-lower-for-longer global system is not just in a Polycrisis but a Polybius Crisis - referring to the ancient Greek historian. Polybius Methodology:...
Hezbollah Retaliates for Israel Killing Two Militant Commanders
18.04.2024, 01:35 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - With Iran’s backing, Hezbollah is one of the most powerful militias in the Middle East....
Russia Restoring Oil Refining Capacity After Ukrainian Suicide Drone Strikes
18.04.2024, 00:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Restoring Oil Refining Capacity After Ukrainian Suicide Drone Strikes With Western sanctions widely failing against Russia, as well as Ukraine's depleted air force unable to patrol its skies, Western leaders have said General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets would be game-changing in the war (these are the same leaders that said the...
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)
18.04.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984'... Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do...
Can Israel Harness Its Rare Moment of Regional Support?
17.04.2024, 23:16 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Israel has launched a diplomatic offensive to further isolate Iran after its attack....
The World’s Biggest Election Is Set to Begin
17.04.2024, 23:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - In India, the question is not whether Modi and his party will win but by how much....
IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year'
17.04.2024, 22:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IMF Warns Biden's Fiscal Profligacy Poses "Significant Risks" To Global Economy 'In Great Election Year' The IMF said the the quiet part out loud today (admittedly wrapped in 100s of pages of PhD-ese) in their benchmark Fiscal Monitor this morning: pointing out that America's recent economic performance is partially the result of the country's unsustainable...
Russia Just Helped Swing a European Election
17.04.2024, 22:32 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Slovakia’s new Russia-friendly president won office with the help of a barrage of pro-Kremlin disinformation....
The Moral Hazard of Biden’s Support for Israel
17.04.2024, 22:15 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The U.S. president can’t stop Israel from retaliating against Iran, but he can choose whether to help Israel manage the consequences....
Why Modi Is So Popular
17.04.2024, 21:57 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Soon likely to win a third term, India’s prime minister has shaped the country in profound ways....
"Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech
17.04.2024, 21:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Do Not Touch Me... I Am A Faculty Member": Cornell Professor Disrupts Coulter Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, Monica Cornejo, an assistant professor of interpersonal communication, was forcibly removed from a Cornell University event this week after disrupting a speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter. She is only the latest faculty member...
Fear and Hoarding on Ukraine’s Eastern Front
17.04.2024, 21:29 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Ammo shortages are costing lives and time....
Washington Should Squeeze Europe Like It’s 1945
17.04.2024, 21:13 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - U.S. support for NATO and Ukraine needs to be part of a new trans-Atlantic bargain....
Will The World's Most Pro-Bitcoin Politician Embrace Gold?
17.04.2024, 20:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The World's Most Pro-Bitcoin Politician Embrace Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, Since Nayib Bukele became president of El Salvador, El Salvador has been in American media and global political discussion more than ever. While much of the attention focuses on Bukele’s mass incarceration of gang members and a decline in homicide of over 70%, Bukele has...
Sudan Is Not a Lost Cause
17.04.2024, 20:30 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - A year into the conflict, fatalistic rhetoric continues to limit the world’s attention—and actions—toward Sudan....
US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR
17.04.2024, 18:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR For much of the past year, we had joked that behind the facade of western Democratic ideals, was a cold hard truth: the price of oil must not be allowed to go up in an election year. This was obvious in Biden's "kid gloves" treatment of Iran's regime, it was obvious...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
Ex-Mossad Chief Says Hitting Iran's Nuclear Facilities 'On The Table'
17.04.2024, 17:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ex-Mossad Chief Says Hitting Iran's Nuclear Facilities 'On The Table' Several statements were issued by Iranian leaders on Wednesday as they attended a military parade at a base north of Tehran which featured displays of attack drones and ballistic missiles, just days after Iran's unprecedented Saturday night attack on Israel. The head of Iran's military...
Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs
17.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound After 3 Day Rout As Rates Drop From 2024 Highs US equity futures and European markets are higher, reversing several days of losses after positive earnings from some of Europe’s biggest companies lifted the mood as markets were roiled by a more hawkish outlook for interest rates. Futures on the S&P 500 rose by 0.4% reversing three days...
Peter Schiff: The Data Looks Grim For The Dollar
17.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: The Data Looks Grim For The Dollar Via SchiffGold.com, Peter’s back in Puerto Rico this week for his podcast after another week of record gold prices. In this episode, he discusses media coverage of inflation, this week’s CPI report, and Bitcoin’s weakening price relative to gold. Peter starts by recapping this week’s price action...