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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...
Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War
10.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huawei's New 'Made-In-China' Smartphone Sources More Chips Locally Amid US Tech War With draconian export controls and blacklisting by Washington elites, Chinese tech giant Huawei is still operating and, in fact, producing new high-tech smartphones with components increasingly sourced from domestic suppliers. A new teardown analysis by tech repair...
WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec
08.05.2024, 16:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rises After Crude Draw, Biden Admin Adds Most To SPR Since Dec Oil prices are rebounding off overnight lows - once again testing the technical support of the 100-day moving average - after sliding following API's report of across the board inventory builds last night. Oil has been on a downtrend since early April, posting losses in three of the...
Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country
07.05.2024, 02:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country Amidst the recent expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized data from Quid (accessed via Stanford’s 2024 AI Index Report) to highlight the top 15 countries which have seen the most AI startup activity over the past decade. The figures in this graphic represent...
Shell Sold Millions In Carbon Credits That It Never Earned
06.05.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shell Sold Millions In Carbon Credits That It Never Earned The carbon credit con band plays on... The most recent chapter in the 'green' initiative has been supermajor Shell being found to have sold 'phantom' carbon credits that were twice the volume of emissions the company actually avoided, according to FT. Shell has reportedly sold millions of carbon...
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...
BLM 2.0? Will Campus Chaos Across America's Woke Universities Spread To The Streets
02.05.2024, 12:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BLM 2.0? Will Campus Chaos Across America's Woke Universities Spread To The Streets Before diving into the overnight turmoil of violent clashes at some of America's most progressive universities, let's begin with this post from a user on X, suggesting that the woke mind virus is at work here: I can't believe I have to explain what's happening...
A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out
02.05.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out Authored by Jennifer Sweenie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There is a link between salt intake and stress, and it’s probably not what you think. While we are well aware of the purported dangers associated with a high-sodium diet, many of us are not aware that too little sodium comes with its own set...
Biden Considering Bringing Some Refugees From Gaza To The US
01.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Considering Bringing Some Refugees From Gaza To The US With scenes like this spreading across the country, as standoffs at various liberal campuses turn increasingly more violent... PANDEMONIUM IN NYC pic.twitter.com/6E6na2r14k — The_Real_Fly ( The_Real_Fly) May 1, 2024 ... the Biden administration appears to have gotten its Soros marching orders...
$3.5 Billion Slipped Into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To 'Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East'
30.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - $3.5 Billion Slipped Into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To 'Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East' Tucked away in the $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is a $3.5 billion slush fund to open new processing centers for Muslim migrants, in what Sen. Eric Schmitt described as a bid to "supercharge mass migration from the...
Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone
29.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stablecoin Volumes Are Tracking A Record $15 Trillion On Ethereum Alone By Marcel Kasumovich, Deputy CIO of Coinbase Asset Management Crypto sparked a renaissance in real-time payments. Sleepy you say? Time for a wake-up call – payment solutions are at the cutting edge of crypto’s integration into the mainstream, and it has plenty of competition...
Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico
29.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico Qatar has had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. While we knew about the EU's 'Qatargate,' investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advancing Qatar's interests, Politico reports that the Biden family's...
Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks
28.04.2024, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Is Built To Last: How The Network Defends Against Attacks Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin is one of the most robust distributed systems in the history of mankind. For fifteen years it has ticked along block by block with only two disruptions in its first few years that were very quickly handled by responsive developers the minute they manifested...
From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes
27.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Bird Flu To Climate Snakes Authored by Breeauna Sagdal via The Brownstone Institute, Seasoned veterinarians and livestock producers alike have been scratching their heads trying to understand the media’s response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warn of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu after...
US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration
27.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Should Adopt UK's 'Rwanda Plan' To Address Illegal Immigration Authored by Simon Hankinson via The Epoch Times, After nearly two years of legal and political challenges, Britain’s parliament has finally passed a law confirming that Rwanda is a safe place to send people who arrive in the UK illegally by sea. This is a major policy win for the Conservative...
Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones
27.04.2024, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Ukrainian military planners have been ramping up Kamikaze drone strikes against the Russian energy industrial complex this week, including an overnight attack damaging an oil refinery as Western sanctions fail to crush Putin's oil-rich economy that funds the "special military operation"...
San Diego Official Says City Is "New Epicenter" Of Border Crisis
27.04.2024, 05:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - San Diego Official Says City Is "New Epicenter" Of Border Crisis Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, A San Diego County official has branded the city the “new epicenter” for illegal immigration and claimed that Border Patrol has become “the ‘Uber’ for migrants” entering the county. “San Diego is the new epicenter for migrants...
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas
26.04.2024, 14:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries Again Despite White House Pleas Just days after the Biden administration signed a new military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Biden's top officials have pleaded with Kyiv to stop attacks on Russia's...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck
25.04.2024, 14:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Tumble After Facebook Implodes; GDP Data On Deck The three-day rebound from last week's rout ended with a thud after the close yesterday when Meta imploded, plunging as much as 17% and losing $200 billion in market cap, after the company revealed disappointing revenue guidance coupled with higher capex projections. The report sent US futures...
Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal
25.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Is Running On Eastern Coal Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, When your cell phone gets hot, that means its processors are computing faster or you have a lot of apps open. The same is true for “server farms,” which Gigabyte.com explains are “a large number—up to thousands—of servers grouped...
Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"?
25.04.2024, 04:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are Pro-Palestinian Protests Being Hijacked By Marxists To "Destroy Capitalism, Freedom & Democracy"? Just over a week ago, we asked our readers a very straightforward question: Who is funding this chaos? This question followed incidents where pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted critical infrastructure, such as shutting down airport terminals...
US Steps Up Monitoring As FDA Warns Bird Flu Found In Pasteurized Milk From Grocery Stores
24.04.2024, 23:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Steps Up Monitoring As FDA Warns Bird Flu Found In Pasteurized Milk From Grocery Stores Dairy cattle moving between states must be tested for the bird flu virus, U.S. agriculture officials said Wednesday as they try to track and control the growing outbreak. AP reports that the federal order was announced a day after health officials said they...
"Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister
24.04.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Let's Debunk The Myth That Mass-Migration Brings An Economic Benefit", Says Former UK Immigration Minister Authored by Thomas Brooke via ReMix News, The notion that mass immigration brings a net economic benefit to a developed nation is a myth that needs to be debunked, a former U.K. government minister who resigned over the spiraling numbers arriving...
Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health'
23.04.2024, 18:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Migrant Child Rapist Won't Be Deported Because It Would 'Harm His Mental Health' Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A migrant from Eritrea who is a convicted child rapist has won an appeal not to be deported from the UK after arguing that it would harm his mental health. Yes, really. The migrant has been in prison for TEN YEARS after attacking...
The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here
22.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here Via SchiffGold.com, With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines aging and not enough projects to match demand with supply, the forecasted copper shortage has finally arrived in earnest. Coupled with persistently high inflation in the US, EU, and elsewhere, I predict...
How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water
19.04.2024, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Big Tech Is Consuming America's Electricity And Water Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As federal net-zero policies attempt to shift transportation, heating, and other essentials onto the electric grid, one of the hottest growth sectors of America’s economy is poised to increase electricity demand exponentially,...
Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction
19.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures market shows that cocoa prices in New York surged above the $12,000 per ton level today as the pace of processing in factories remains robust. This indicates that demand destruction has yet to emerge despite...
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...
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...
The Spear In AI's Back
18.04.2024, 13:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Spear In AI's Back Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, That real harm will result from the use of AI tools is a given. AI is like the powerful character in an action movie who looks invincible until they turn around, revealing a fatal spear embedded in their back. The spear in AI's back is the American legal system, which has been...
Federal Judge Clears Facebook's Zuckerberg Of Personal Liability In 25 'Social Media Addiction' Cases
17.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Clears Facebook's Zuckerberg Of Personal Liability In 25 'Social Media Addiction' Cases Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has ruled Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not face personal liability in 25 legal complaints alleging his social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, have harmed children...
Investors Bet On Further Rise In US Gasoline Prices
14.04.2024, 03:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Investors Bet On Further Rise In US Gasoline Prices By John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters Portfolio investors have amassed one of the largest bullish positions in U.S. gasoline futures and options since before the coronavirus pandemic, anticipating that prices will continue climbing over the next few months. U.S. gasoline has emerged as the...
Afghan Migrant On Terror List Released By Immigration Judge, Free To Roam USA
14.04.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Afghan Migrant On Terror List Released By Immigration Judge, Free To Roam USA An Afghan man and illegal immigrant who's on the FBI terror watchlist has been twice apprehended in the United States only to be released by a federal apparatus that continues to make a mockery of the very notion of "border security." Mohammad Kharwin, 48, was first arrested...
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...
Brazil Reinstating Visa Requirements, Including Submitting Bank Statements, For U,S, Travelers
13.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brazil Reinstating Visa Requirements, Including Submitting Bank Statements, For U,S, Travelers Brazil is reinstating its visa requirement for US tourists, previously lifted in 2019. Although e-visas were briefly available, the system was abolished. The processing time for visas averages five working days, but officials advise applying two months in...
Largest US Oil Refinery Suffers Partial Shutdown After Sudden Power Loss Due To Severe Weather
11.04.2024, 14:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest US Oil Refinery Suffers Partial Shutdown After Sudden Power Loss Due To Severe Weather Motiva's Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, Texas, the largest refinery in North America, with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude oil per day, shuttered several processing units on Wednesday following a power failure due to severe weather...
The Scale Of Food Waste In Europe
10.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Scale Of Food Waste In Europe Each person in the European Union generated an average of 131 kilograms of food waste in 2021, according to estimates by the European statistics office Eurostat. This is based on data from the 27 member states. Total food waste in the EU amounted to over 58 million tons in 2021. Private households made up 54 percent...
How Will Tehran Respond To Israel? Could Iranian Stealth Drones Target Critical Oil Infrastructure?
10.04.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Will Tehran Respond To Israel? Could Iranian Stealth Drones Target Critical Oil Infrastructure? Iran's foreign minister said on Monday that Washington military leaders gave Israel the "green light" to conduct a missile strike on its consulate building complex in Damascus last week that killed several of its top military officials, including two...
Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls
05.04.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound As Oil Remains Above $90; All Eyes On Payrolls US futures rebounded from yesterday's late day rout even as European stocks slumped the most in almost two months and Asian markets tumbled the most in a month, tracking Thursday's broad market retreat as oil prices held near five-month highs above $90 and investors braced for today's...
Bitcoin Vs Gold: The Debate Continues
05.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Vs Gold: The Debate Continues Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, In a few short weeks since SEC approval Inflows into Bitcoin ETF funds had reached just over $59 billion on Good Friday, according to btcetffundflow.com. Meanwhile the unloved and disrespected GLD [gold] ETF holds $54 billion, despite its thousand year pedigree...
Ethereum Layer 2s To Hit $1 Trillion Market Cap By 2023; VanEck
05.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ethereum Layer 2s To Hit $1 Trillion Market Cap By 2023; VanEck Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum’s layer 2 scaling networks will hit a $1 trillion market capitalization in six years and will be made up of thousands of use case-specific chains, according to analysts from investment manager VanEck. Layer-2 blockchains are set...
China Weaponizes Gallium Flows To West As US Miner Reveals New Discovery In Montana
05.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Weaponizes Gallium Flows To West As US Miner Reveals New Discovery In Montana China dominates the global production of the rare earth metal gallium, a critical component in semiconductor manufacturing and advanced weapon systems used by the United States. Since China restricted gallium and germanium flows to the US last summer - seen as...
CDC Releases Hidden Trove Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Reports
04.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CDC Releases Hidden Trove Of COVID-19 Vaccine Injury Reports Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released previously hidden reports of facial paralysis and other adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
How GPUs Are Disrupting High-Performance Computing
04.04.2024, 03:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How GPUs Are Disrupting High-Performance Computing Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing applications (HPC), from AI training to zooplankton classification. To help understand this pivot, Visual Capitalist teamed up with HIVE...
Top US Egg Supplier "Temporarily Ceases" Operations At Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak
04.04.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Top US Egg Supplier "Temporarily Ceases" Operations At Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak The largest egg producer in the US has temporarily halted production at one of its facilities after bird flu—also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI—was detected. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. wrote in a press release that HPAI was detected...
Escobar: The Sahel's 'Axis Of Resistance'
03.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: The Sahel's 'Axis Of Resistance' Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path... The emergence of Axes...
Chinese Illegal Immigrant Arrested After Sneaking Onto Marine Corps Base, Refusing To Leave
03.04.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Illegal Immigrant Arrested After Sneaking Onto Marine Corps Base, Refusing To Leave A Chinese national illegally in the United States was arrested last week after sneaking onto a Marine Corps base in California and refusing to leave, according to an official from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In a March 29 post on X, Sector Chief Patrol...
The Hidden Cost Of The Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About
02.04.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Hidden Cost Of The Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mass illegal immigration is pushing rescue crews in this small Texas border town close to their breaking point. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times) The mighty Rio Grande has become...