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California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness
27.04.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness Via SchiffGold.com, The solution to a problem shouldn’t make the problem worse. But apparently, California’s policy makers missed that memo. On April 1st, the state instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, the highest in the US. With California’s absurdly high...
Drizzle Drizzle? 'Soft Guy Era' Parody Trend Sheds Light On Feminist Hypocrisy
27.04.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Drizzle Drizzle? 'Soft Guy Era' Parody Trend Sheds Light On Feminist Hypocrisy First, the feminists claimed that they "don't need no man" and promoted a culture of "strong independent women," the idea being that men were holding women back from their true potential. The "patriarchy" conspiracy was an all prevailing issue for woke activists for years...
Chipotle Tells Workers To "Preserve" Chicken Supply As Demand Soars
26.04.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chipotle Tells Workers To "Preserve" Chicken Supply As Demand Soars A surge in restaurant traffic boosted Chipotle Mexican Grill's first-quarter earnings and revenue, topping the average estimate of Wall Street analysts tracked by Bloomberg on Wednesday. Shares are higher by more than 5% in the cash session on Thursday. However, this note will not expand...
Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses
21.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amid Budget Shortfall, San Francisco Reexamines Tax Burden On Big Businesses Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Facing mounting budget woes this election year, as spending far outpaces revenues, the City of San Francisco is scrambling to reform its infamously large and complex tax burden on business. Several San Francisco companies...
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...
Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture
16.04.2024, 04:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Earnings Season Has Started: Here Is The Emerging Picture Banks kicked off Q1 earnings last Friday with a painful start: XLF fell 1.3% on Friday alone led by a 6% plunge in JPM stock, and dropped even more on Monday despite strong results from Goldman. While JPM earnings beat (most) expectations, and left 2024 Net Interest Income guidance unchanged...
Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90%
15.04.2024, 15:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Daytime Solar Power Glut In California, Rooftop Sales Plunge 90% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Demand for rooftop solar systems dries up in California after subsidies drop. 100 contractors go out of business. Fancy that... California Home-Solar Boom Collapses The Wall Street Journal reports The Home-Solar Boom Gets a ‘Gut Punch’ The...
DEI Cronyism And Woke Grifters
11.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEI Cronyism And Woke Grifters Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved...
Inflation Check: Doctors Making $350,000 Per Year Can't Find Homes In Long Island As Prices Surge 50%
11.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inflation Check: Doctors Making $350,000 Per Year Can't Find Homes In Long Island As Prices Surge 50% While every news anchor and talking head in the world of finance continues to congratulate the Fed despite inflation still not being under control, prices are telling another story. Specifically, housing prices. In fact, a new report from Bloomberg...
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...
Fast Feud: Shootings At Wendy's, Chipotle Go Viral
08.04.2024, 00:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fast Feud: Shootings At Wendy's, Chipotle Go Viral Two shootings at fast food restaurants in Democrat-run cities went viral last week, after enraged customers went off on employees during arguments. On Friday night, a trigger-happy customer got into an argument with a Chipotle employee near Detroit, reportedly over guacamole. According to Fox2, customers...
McDonald's Buys Up All Israeli Franchise Restaurants After Boycott Hits Sales
05.04.2024, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Buys Up All Israeli Franchise Restaurants After Boycott Hits Sales Via Middle East Eye McDonald's has bought out all the franchise restaurants in Israel after seeing a sales hit due to boycotts. The locations have become a flashpoint in the Israel-Hamas war, receiving global media attention. Bloomberg reported that McDonald's Corp has...
"Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go?
04.04.2024, 16:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Urban Doom Loop" Of Vacant Offices: How Far Will It Go? Via SchiffGold.com, Even the mainstream is starting to acknowledge the massive problem of vacant office buildings littering American cities, slowly turning them into post-Covid wastelands. While a few pundits are claiming (in somewhat Orwellian fashion) that the surge in empty commercial real...
Ulta Shares Tumble On Beauty Slowdown As Consumers Pull Back
04.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ulta Shares Tumble On Beauty Slowdown As Consumers Pull Back Shares of Ulta Beauty plunged 15% on Wednesday, the largest daily decline since March 2020, after the company warned investors at the JPMorgan Chase & Co. conference that first-quarter demand for beauty products cooled. "We have seen a slowdown in the total category," CEO Dave Kimbell...
Weniger Foodwaste: Restaurants gehen gegen Buffet-Abfälle vor
04.04.2024, 11:00 Uhr. infosperber - Shoutem Feed! - https: - Wer nicht aufisst, zahlt drauf. Auch gegen andere Ursachen von Lebensmittelverschwendung geht die Gastronomie nun vor....
New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci's Failures
03.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Report Details Horrifying Cost Of Fauci's Failures Authored by Ian Miller via The Brownstone Institute, In the post-pandemic period of Covid, there’s now a concerted effort to comprehend and explain the damage that was caused by our capitulating to the hysterical overreaction and overreach of the ‘experts.’ There’s a long list of policy...
Mass Layoffs Begin At California Fast Food Chains As $20 Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect
02.04.2024, 15:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Layoffs Begin At California Fast Food Chains As $20 Minimum Wage Law Takes Effect This result shouldn't surprise anyone. Inflation has driven up operational costs for businesses across the US and shrunk profit margins for major food chains in the past few years. This has led to higher menu prices (like the "$18 Big Mac") and slowing sales for...
California's Deficit Is $222 Billion And The State Is $1.6 Trillion In Debt
02.04.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's Deficit Is $222 Billion And The State Is $1.6 Trillion In Debt By Mike Shedlock of MishTalk Governor Gavin Newsom bragged of a surplus, but California is seriously underwater. The next recession will hit the state extremely hard. Golden State Budget Fantasy The City Journal founder Ed Ring comments on the Golden State Budget Fantasy While...
No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1
01.04.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Fooling: Gov. Newsom's $20 Minimum Wage Hits April 1 Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A sign is posted on the exterior of a Round Table pizza restaurant in Albany, Calif., on March 25, 2024. California fast food restaurants are laying off some staff and reducing hours for other workers as they look to cut costs ahead of...
Secret Docs Reveal Germany's Public Health Agency Warned Lockdowns Cause More Harm Than Good
28.03.2024, 08:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Secret Docs Reveal Germany's Public Health Agency Warned Lockdowns Cause More Harm Than Good Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, Following a long legal battle, Germany’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), has released the confidential protocols that show the RKI was aware that “lockdowns cause more harm than good” and evidence...
Required Reading For Investors
27.03.2024, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Required Reading For Investors Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, What’s the best way to survive a financial crisis with your wealth intact? The answer may surprise you. Many investors would say, “Sell everything, and wait until it’s over!” That’s almost never good advice. In the first place, some assets perform well in crises...
With The Tip Credit Falling, Full-Service D.C. Restaurants Cut 3,700 Jobs
26.03.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - With The Tip Credit Falling, Full-Service D.C. Restaurants Cut 3,700 Jobs By Peter Romeo of Restaurant Business Online Full-service restaurants in Washington, D.C., have cut 3,700 jobs - about 12% of their workforce - since the jurisdiction began rolling back its tip credit in May 2023, according to data newly released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...
US Futures Rebound Ahead Of Busy Data Calendar As New Record High Looms
26.03.2024, 13:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Rebound Ahead Of Busy Data Calendar As New Record High Looms It's as if Monday's modest dip never happened: S&P futures are trading are higher, surpassing Monday's highs, with both Tech and small-caps outperforming, as investors keep a close eye on any potential market impact from the collapse of a major commuter bridge in Baltimore after...
Retirement Goes Rural: More Retirees Ditching Florida For Southern Appalachia
26.03.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Retirement Goes Rural: More Retirees Ditching Florida For Southern Appalachia Despite the fact that Florida has always been "retirement country", those who have the means to move out of the state to retire are now focusing on southern Appalachia, for life in an even more rural setting. The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted the trend of "halfbacks"...
Why Is The National Guard Being Deployed During The Great American Eclipse On April 8th?
25.03.2024, 19:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Is The National Guard Being Deployed During The Great American Eclipse On April 8th? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, The National Guard is only supposed to be deployed in emergency situations. But these days the National Guard is being used for all sorts of things. For example, hundreds of National Guard soldiers are...
Philadelphia Sets 11PM Curfew For All Businesses In Drug-Riddled Kensington Section Of City
24.03.2024, 03:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Philadelphia Sets 11PM Curfew For All Businesses In Drug-Riddled Kensington Section Of City Slowly, but steadily, Philadelphia's drug-ridden Kensington section is all but shutting down. The area, best known for its zombie-like appearance, is now forcing 24 hour businesses like gas stations and convenience stores to shut down between 11 p.m. and 6...
Nike Warns Of Sales Squeeze During Sneaker Shift
22.03.2024, 12:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nike Warns Of Sales Squeeze During Sneaker Shift Nike shares fell in premarket trading following the sportswear company's announcement on Thursday that sales are expected to decrease to the low single digits during the first half of the fiscal year. This comes as the company makes efforts to adjust its product lineup to more closely align with consumer...
Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse Owner Darden Warns Lower Income Customers Are Pulling Back
21.03.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse Owner Darden Warns Lower Income Customers Are Pulling Back Darden Restaurants, a top full-service US restaurant group with 1,914 locations across 50 states under its eight brands—Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's, Yard House, Ruth's Chris, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze, and Eddie V's—warned...
Elon Musk Reveals Two "Very Mentally Ill" People With Guns Tried To Assassinate Him
18.03.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk Reveals Two "Very Mentally Ill" People With Guns Tried To Assassinate Him On Sunday night, Elon Musk revealed in an X Spaces with Dr. Gad Saad, a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Montreal's Concordia University, that two "very mentally ill" people have tried to kill him in Austin, Texas. Near the end of the...
What Will Happen When They Give The Green Light To Millions Of Radicals To Cause Widespread Chaos All Over America?
17.03.2024, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will Happen When They Give The Green Light To Millions Of Radicals To Cause Widespread Chaos All Over America? Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Violence and crime are already completely out of control all over the United States. In fact, you definitely wouldn’t want to be caught in the streets when hordes of our lawless...
Harvard Medical School Professor Was Fired Over Not Getting COVID Vaccine
17.03.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Harvard Medical School Professor Was Fired Over Not Getting COVID Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Harvard Medical School professor who refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine has been terminated, according to documents reviewed by The Epoch Times. Martin Kulldorff, epidemiologist and statistician, at his home in...
McDonald's Stores Hit By Multi-Nation "Technology Outage"
16.03.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - McDonald's Stores Hit By Multi-Nation "Technology Outage" A major technology outage forced McDonald's stores in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom to either shutter operations or suspend online ordering on Friday, CNN reported. "Many stores across the country have temporarily suspended operations," McDonald's Japan wrote in an X post...
How Overpaid Are State And Local Government Workers Compared To Private
14.03.2024, 20:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Overpaid Are State And Local Government Workers Compared To Private Two weeks ago we observed that as private sector wage growth was slowing sharply, government worker wage growth had just hit a new all time high and was gingerly moving ever higher. Someone tell the MMT lunatics on CNBC what "the debt is buying": the highest government wage growth...
Justice Arthur Engoron 'Shot' New York With 'Absurd Decision'
14.03.2024, 02:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Justice Arthur Engoron 'Shot' New York With 'Absurd Decision' Authored by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It remains to be seen to what extent New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron put a stake in the heart of the once-great, now-beleaguered, city of New York, but he certainly didn’t help when he issued his draconian judgment...
'Bougie Broke' - The Financial Reality Behind The Facade
13.03.2024, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Bougie Broke' - The Financial Reality Behind The Facade Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Social media users claiming to be Bougie Broke share pictures of their fancy cars, high-fashion clothing, and selfies in exotic locations and expensive restaurants. Yet they complain about living paycheck to paycheck and lacking the means...
Expect Another Surge In Food Prices Fueled By 'Dynamic Pricing'
11.03.2024, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expect Another Surge In Food Prices Fueled By 'Dynamic Pricing' Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Restaurants are moving towards dynamic menu prices. Expect big surcharges for peak times. Don’t expect off peak prices to drop much. Labor costs are rising too. CPI food indexes prices, data from the BLS, chart by Mish Surge Pricing Is Coming...
Beige Book Warns Consumer Spending Slowing Due To "Heightened Price Sensitivity", Mounting CRE Concerns
06.03.2024, 20:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beige Book Warns Consumer Spending Slowing Due To "Heightened Price Sensitivity", Mounting CRE Concerns One month after the lukewarm January Beige Book found "little or no change" In US economic activity, which in turn followed the fare more downbeat November Beige Book found which economic activity was "slowing", moments ago the Fed released the latest...
'Weaponized Migration' - A Coordinated Effort Playing Out Deep In The Panama Jungle
06.03.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Weaponized Migration' - A Coordinated Effort Playing Out Deep In The Panama Jungle Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The ripe smell of garbage baking in the tropical sun mixed with the stench of human waste is one of the first things visitors notice at Bajo Chiquito, one of four large migrant camps in the Darién...
Swiss Voters Give Themselves Extra Month Of Pension, Reject Raising Retirement Age
05.03.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Swiss Voters Give Themselves Extra Month Of Pension, Reject Raising Retirement Age Dear lazy Americans: this is how the Swiss do it... Over the weekend, Swiss voters gave themselves an extra month's pension each year, in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly. The government had warned that the increased payments would...
Iran's Jewish Population Belies Claims Of Tehran's Genocidal Intent
02.03.2024, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Jewish Population Belies Claims Of Tehran's Genocidal Intent By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities For decades, Israeli government officials — chief among them, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have accused Iran of plotting a new Holocaust against the millions of Jews who call Israel home. Netanyahu has said Iran is “planning another...
A Global, Digital Coup d'État
01.03.2024, 03:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Global, Digital Coup d'État Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, There was a time. What seemed to be unfolding was a huge intellectual error for the history books. A new virus had come along and everyone was freaking out and smashing all normal social functioning. The excuse turns out just to be the cover story. Still, it bears...
Gavin Newsom Faces Criticism For Minimum Wage 'Bread' Carveout That Benefited Top Donor
29.02.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gavin Newsom Faces Criticism For Minimum Wage 'Bread' Carveout That Benefited Top Donor Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) is facing greater scrutiny after it was discovered that a minimum wage carveout he is pushing for would benefit one of his top campaign donors. According to the Washington...
Wendy's Walks Back 'Surge Pricing' Report After CEO Comments
29.02.2024, 21:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wendy's Walks Back 'Surge Pricing' Report After CEO Comments Fast food giant Wendy's has refuted reports that they're going to use 'surge pricing' - the practice of raising prices when demand is the highest, after comments by CEO Kirk Tanner, who told market analysts earlier this month that the company would use "dynamic pricing" as part of a $20...
How The Economy Changed: There's No Bargains Left Anywhere
28.02.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How The Economy Changed: There's No Bargains Left Anywhere Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What changed in the economy is now nobody can afford to get by on working-class wages because there's no longer any bargains. The economy has changed in many ways, and it's difficult to track the glacial movements over decades. One change...
Wendy's To Test 'Surge Pricing' Using 'High-Tech Menu Boards' That Change In Real Time
27.02.2024, 18:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wendy's To Test 'Surge Pricing' Using 'High-Tech Menu Boards' That Change In Real Time Wendy's is about to test a surge pricing model similar to Uber, in which the cost of menu items will fluctuate throughout the day on 'high-tech menu boards' that can update prices in real-time, meaning a burger and fries will cost people more during the lunch or dinner...
Biden Operative Inserted Into Fani Team According To Insider; Jim Jordan Reveals New Whistleblower
26.02.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Operative Inserted Into Fani Team According To Insider; Jim Jordan Reveals New Whistleblower Two stunning reports have emerged that spell trouble for Fulton County DA Fani Willis. For starters, Breitbart News reports from multiple sources that the Biden administration "planted a Democrat operative in the Fulton County office to target former President...
Fani Scrambles: Fulton DA Demands Judge Reject Cellphone Evidence
25.02.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fani Scrambles: Fulton DA Demands Judge Reject Cellphone Evidence Fulton County DA Fani Willis is reeling after evidence was submitted to the court suggesting that she and special prosecutor Nathan Wade lied about when their romantic relationship began. To recap, Wade and Willis claimed that their relationship began sometime in early 2022 - after Willis...
COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment To Freedom. Three Years Later, We're Still Failing
22.02.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment To Freedom. Three Years Later, We're Still Failing Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The remedy is worse than the disease.” - Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one thing it is that, as Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged...
A Market Only A Mother Or AI Could Love
19.02.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Market Only A Mother Or AI Could Love By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Generally, I like to focus on what will happen, rather than what happened, because people reading this already know what happened. But I found last week so confusing/disturbing/annoying on so many levels, that I think it is worth revisiting what happened. We saw narratives...