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Immunity For Me But Not For Thee
27.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Immunity For Me But Not For Thee Authored by William Woodruff via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Whether Presidential Immunity is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing Shouldn’t Depend Upon Party Affiliation “Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official...
Biden Holds Off On Sanctioning IDF Unit In Apparent Reversal
27.04.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Holds Off On Sanctioning IDF Unit In Apparent Reversal Via The Cradle The government of US President Joe Biden has decided against imposing sanctions on Israeli army units responsible for human rights violations against Palestinians, despite initial plans to do so. ABC News reported on Friday that a government assessment determined that three...
These States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter
26.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Conservative states across the country—Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma—are taking border security matters into their own hands, proposing or passing legislation targeting illegal...
Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It
26.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retail Sales Data Suggests A Strong Consumer Or Does It Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The latest retail sales data suggests a robust consumer, leading economists to become even more optimistic about more robust economic growth this year. To wit: “It has been two years since forecasters felt this good about the economic outlook...
JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again
26.04.2024, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPY Plunges To Fresh 34-Year-Lows After BoJ Does Nothing... Again Having already lost more than 10% of its value versus the US dollar this year, the yen plunged further overnight after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated monetary policy will stay easy as he kept rates unchanged and showed little to no support for the embattled currency during...
UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs
26.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UMich Inflation Expectations Accelerated In April To 2024 Highs Short-term inflation expectations rose... again... according to the latest UMich sentiment survey with 1-year expectations at 3.2% final, up from preliminary 3.1% for April, and 2.9% for March. This is the highest level since Nov 2023... Source: Bloomberg The headline sentiment also declined...
Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency
26.04.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Jump As Tech Giants Soar, Yen Plummets After BOJ Refuses To Prop Up Crashing Currency In a rollercoaster 48 hours to close the week, yesterday's early market slump (after the disappointing Meta guidance) has been fully reversed and stock futures are now pointing sharply higher after blockbuster earnings from Microsoft and Alphabet with attention...
"Our Enemy, The Fed"
26.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Our Enemy, The Fed" Authored by George Ford Smith via The Mises Institute, The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject...
Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes
26.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Polish President Admits That Major Infrastructure Project Has Dual Military Purposes Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed in an interview that the Central Communication Port (CPK by its Polish abbreviation) transportation megaproject outside of Warsaw has dual military purposes. He represents Poland’s prior...
The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
Excess Deaths In Japan Hit 115,000 Following 3rd COVID Shot; New Study Explains Why
26.04.2024, 04:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Excess Deaths In Japan Hit 115,000 Following 3rd COVID Shot; New Study Explains Why Authored by Joe Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A new study on harms resulting from the COVID vaccine was published on April 8 in the U.S.-based peer-reviewed medical science journal Cureus. It represents the largest study to date on adverse effects of the...
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
26.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the "we'll literally do anything but cut spending" bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea for our country since prohibition:...
The Ghetto-ization Of American Life
25.04.2024, 23:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Ghetto-ization Of American Life Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized. Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto: 1. The residents can't afford to live elsewhere. 2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited and retailers / service...
As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN
25.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As Tax-Season Ebbs, Money-Market Funds See Return Of Inflows; Fed's Bank Bailout Fund Remains At $126BN After the prior week's almost unprecedented outflows, total money market fund assets rose last week (admittedly by a modest $9.1BN), but remain below the $6TN level ($5.97TN) as tax-season draws roll off... Source: Bloomberg The flows into money-market...
Biden Campaign To Remain On TikTok Even After Signing Bill To Ban App
25.04.2024, 22:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Campaign To Remain On TikTok Even After Signing Bill To Ban App Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, Despite the fact that Joe Biden signed into law a bill that will ban the Chinese social media app TikTok if its parent company does not sell it, his campaign will continue to use the app in the meantime. As Fox News reports, campaign...
Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium
25.04.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Largest Oil ETF Hit With Record Outflow On Subsiding Geopolitical Risk Premium A reduced geopolitical risk premium for Brent crude this week is likely one of the main drivers resulting in the largest daily outflows for the US Oil Fund ETF. Tensions between Iran and Israel have subsided in recent days, and it's entirely possible the White House is...
Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China
25.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, Sovereign yields in China have been falling in recent months, in marked contrast to almost every other major country. This is a key macro variable to watch for signs China is ready to ease policy more comprehensively as its tolerance is tested for...
US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But...
25.04.2024, 16:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pending Home Sales Rise In March, But... After new home sales soared (thanks to prior downward revisions) and existing home sales plunged in March (along with the collapse in housing starts and permits in March), this morning's pending home sales data was expected to rise very modestly MoM (less than in February) but remain lower on a YoY basis...
Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News
25.04.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Divide And Conquer: The Government's Propaganda Of Fear And Fake News Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political...
China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs
25.04.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Is Winning Big On Smaller EVs Smaller is better...at least in the world of building EVs for the Asian market. And while less scrupulous publications might take this opportunity to make stereotypical jokes about height, we'll do no such thing and instead will simply report that according to the IEA's Global Electric Vehicle Outlook 2024, released...
Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined
24.04.2024, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cities' "Doom Loops" Are Even Worse Than You Imagined Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, This is why those who understand these dynamics are getting out, even though the city was their home. A correspondent who prefers to remain anonymous sent me this account of the "doom loop" that is playing out in many American cities. The correspondent...
Romney & The Wrong Question: Senator's Statement On Trump's Guilt Captures The Problem With The Manhattan Trial
24.04.2024, 16:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Romney & The Wrong Question: Senator's Statement On Trump's Guilt Captures The Problem With The Manhattan Trial Authored by Jonathan Turley, Yesterday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) had a much covered interaction with CNN’s Manu Raju who asked him about Trump’s criminal trial and whether he was guilty of the underlying criminal conduct. Romney responded “I...
How Nvidia Uses Gold
24.04.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Nvidia Uses Gold Via SchiffGold.com, What is Nvidia? If you’re a committed gamer the question may sound like nonsense. Nvidia, which was founded in 1993, is a tech company that makes GPUs and other products. It originally specialized in making products for the video game industry, that assisted in 3D rendering. If you were a committed...
"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...
'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions
24.04.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions Authored by Wenyuan Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing...
Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover
24.04.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hezbollah Launches Deepest Attack Into Israel Since War's Start, On Passover Hezbollah on Tuesday conducted its deepest strikes into Israeli territory since the start of the war, launching drones at Israeli military bases on the outskirts of the Israeli city of Acre. Israel's military said none of its facilities were hit, and videos circulating online...
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...
World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds
23.04.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Biggest M&A Deal Is Terrible For Bonds Four years ago, we wrote an article, mocking the unspeakable reality that it appeared "The Fed and The Treasury had now merged"... Last week, that reality dawned on one of Wall Street's best and brightest as BofA Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett headlined his latest note with a 'zeitgeist' quote...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
Which Major City Will Completely Collapse First – Los Angeles, Chicago, Or New York City?
23.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Which Major City Will Completely Collapse First – Los Angeles, Chicago, Or New York City? Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, In 2024, virtually all major U.S. cities have certain things in common. First of all, if you visit the downtown area of one of our major cities you are likely to see garbage, human excrement...
Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish"
23.04.2024, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish" On one hand, the technical storm appears to have subsided: as we correctly predicted last night, just days after the biggest CTA shake-out in over a year (thanks to the fake Iran-Israel war, which on Thursday shook out all the sell stops thanks to the latest brutal...
Markets Can Absorb Geopolitic Risks, To A Point
22.04.2024, 23:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Can Absorb Geopolitic Risks, To A Point By Michael Msika and Jan-Patrick Barnert, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Geopolitics is having an impact on investment decisions again, and risks are rising as well as equity volatility. Yet under the hood, the stock market is absorbing the shock relatively well so far. Stress levels...
The Bad Faith Olympics
22.04.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bad Faith Olympics Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought. Institutions lie in smoldering ruins. Poisons handed out like candy. We are Neanderthals with iPhones.”...
NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief
22.04.2024, 21:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Member Rolls Out Red Carpet For Hamas Chief As head of NATO's second largest military, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued to stir controversy among allies by his Hamas-sympathetic stance. As early as last October, just on the heels of the Oct.7 Hamas terror attack, he was bluntly expressing that "Hamas is not a terror organization" but...
Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not
22.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is no coincidence. It is a policy. Governments, along with their so-called experts, attempt to persuade you that inflation stems from anything other than the consistent, albeit slower, rise in aggregate prices year after year. Issuing more currency...
Tesla Q1 Preview: Investors Brace For "Worst Results In 7 Years", AI Pivot, Cybertruck, Robotaxis In Focus
22.04.2024, 20:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Q1 Preview: Investors Brace For "Worst Results In 7 Years", AI Pivot, Cybertruck, Robotaxis In Focus Tesla is slated to report earnings tomorrow and, as FT notes, investors are bracing for the "worst results in 7 years" from the EV manufacturer. Analysts predict that Tesla will post revenues of $22.3 billion for Q1, representing a year-over-year...
White House Condemns "Antisemitic" Protests At Columbia University
22.04.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Condemns "Antisemitic" Protests At Columbia University "I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a thread on X. "Hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law they receive a report...
Former Obama White House Senior Policy Advisor Charged With 'Child Sex Offenses'
22.04.2024, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Former Obama White House Senior Policy Advisor Charged With 'Child Sex Offenses' A 46-year-old former senior policy advisor the Obama administration appeared in a UK court over child sex offense charges. Rahamim 'Rami' Shy, who worked for the White House under both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is accused of arranging...
Head Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom
22.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Head Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom The head of climate research at commodities hedge fund firm Andurand Capital Management says now is not the time to bet on a bull market for carbon credits. There is growing pessimism in the voluntary carbon markets amid turmoil within the world's top arbiter...
When Will The Yen Carry Trade End?
22.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Will The Yen Carry Trade End? Via SchiffGold.com, Decades of negative interest rate policy in Japan have ended. That could mean the end of the $20 trillion “yen carry trade,” once one of the most popular trades on foreign exchange markets, and a chain reaction in the global economy. The yen carry trade is when investors borrow yen to buy assets...
The Iran-Israel War Is Just Getting Started
22.04.2024, 11:49 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - As long as the two countries remain engaged in conflict, they will trade blows—no matter what their allies counsel....
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...
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
21.04.2024, 19:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Should I Stay or Should I Go? Coming up for air after what was an intense week on the geopolitical and market side of things, I’m really being forced to reconsider my current recommendations (bearish bonds, stocks, and credit). I keep thinking: If I go, there will be trouble And if...
"You Are Quite Openly Jewish": London Police Under Fire For Confrontation With Man Near Anti-Israeli March
21.04.2024, 18:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "You Are Quite Openly Jewish": London Police Under Fire For Confrontation With Man Near Anti-Israeli March Authored by Jonathan Turley, The London police are under fire this week for threatening to arrest a man wearing a kippah near a pro-Palestinian march. Officers inform Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog, that he...
Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are "Permanently" Disappearing
21.04.2024, 02:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Securities Analyst Jobs In China Are "Permanently" Disappearing The days of million dollar analyst jobs in the securities industry in China look to be all but gone. That was the topic of a new Bloomberg article last week which detailed exactly how the industry is "retrenching after years of expansion". Bloomberg's description of the industry's cutbacks...
"First Real Image" Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber
21.04.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "First Real Image" Of Chinese Supersonic Drone Attached To Bomber Aviation observers have spotted a supersonic unmanned aerial vehicle under the fuselage of a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) bomber, Defense Blog reports. The new drone can conduct strategic aerial reconnaissance across southeast Asia. Images of the WZ-8 reconnaissance...
The Regime That Doesn't Care
20.04.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Regime That Doesn't Care Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all come across warnings against doom scrolling. This is the practice of waking up in the morning, scouring headlines, seizing on the bad news, and dwelling on the darkness. You do this during downtimes in the day and in the evening. Your mood worsens, permanently....
Major War Just Narrowly Averted & Biden Already Mulls $1BN+ In New Arms For Israel
20.04.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major War Just Narrowly Averted & Biden Already Mulls $1BN+ In New Arms For Israel President Biden is mulling his first new major arms sales to Israel since the unprecedented Iranian missile and drone attack which targeted the country last Saturday. Though the world just narrowly avoided witnessing a major regional war explode with Thursday night's...
Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?
20.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and...
The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits
20.04.2024, 00:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The World's Economic Myths Are Hitting Their Limits Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, There are many myths about energy and the economy. In this post I explore the situation surrounding some of these myths. My analysis strongly suggests that the transition to a new Green Economy is not progressing as well as hoped. Green energy planners...