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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...
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...
On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant
23.04.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - On Earth Day, Biden Administration Backs Rooftop Solar With $7 Billion Grant By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com U.S. President Joe Biden is announcing on Monday $7 billion in grants to help more than 900,000 low-income households install residential solar power, the White House said. President Biden will mark today’s Earth Day by traveling to...
What Are Mises' Six Lessons?
20.04.2024, 22:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Are Mises' Six Lessons? Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Ludwig von Mises’s Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow has become quite popular recently. The Mises Book Store has sold out of its physical copies, and the PDF, which is available online for free, has seen over 50,000 downloads in the past few days...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
Watch: Paul, Hawley Torch Mayorkas To His Face On Laken Riley's Killer
19.04.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Paul, Hawley Torch Mayorkas To His Face On Laken Riley's Killer Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, During a hearing Thursday, Senators Rand Paul and Josh Hawley grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas concerning the open border and the murder of Laken Riley. Mayorkas appeared very uncomfortable as Paul took him to task...
Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment
18.04.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Musk Funds National Signature Campaign In Support Of First Amendment Since acquiring the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk has been on a 'free speech' crusade against leftist corporate media, dark money propping up progressive fact-checkers, taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations working under the guise of defending free speech...
Missouri Files Injunction To Block Biden's 'Illegal Student Loan Plan' While Lawsuit Plays Out
17.04.2024, 20:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Missouri Files Injunction To Block Biden's 'Illegal Student Loan Plan' While Lawsuit Plays Out Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Wednesday that the state has filed for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to block the Biden administration's "illegal student loan plan," referred to by a coalition of states as "Plan B," which was implemented...
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...
Biden's New Student Debt Relief Will Add Up To $750 Billion To The Budget Deficit
17.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Student Debt Relief Will Add Up To $750 Billion To The Budget Deficit By The Committee for A Responsible Federal Budget The Biden Administration recently announced a new plan to cancel student debt for up to 30 million borrowers and released a preliminary rule this morning detailing parts of this plan. The proposal, which is being introduced...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver
15.04.2024, 16:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Illegal Veto, Kentucky Becomes 45th State To End Sales Taxes On Gold And Silver Via Money Metals, In a high-stakes showdown with Gov. Andy Beshear over a gold and silver sales tax exemption, the Kentucky legislature today deemed his attempted line-item veto as an illegal act -- and directed the Secretary of State to enroll the exemption into law...
The Passive Investor Problem
11.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Passive Investor Problem Via SchiffGold.com, When John Bogle died in 2019, people around the world mourned. Bogle created the Vanguard Group and made the index fund mainstream. Index funds are investment vehicles that invest in a class of investments as a whole, rather than trying to predict what specific stocks or securities will do best. So...
Staving Off Revolution
10.04.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Staving Off Revolution Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, If the leadership chooses happy-story PR and toothless reforms for show in the hopes it will all blow over, these subterfuges have the potential to push dissatisfaction beyond the point of control. Whatever else we might say or think about the leadership class, they tend to have...
Biden May Not Appear On Ohio Ballot Due To Democratic Convention Timing
08.04.2024, 23:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden May Not Appear On Ohio Ballot Due To Democratic Convention Timing President Biden is in danger of not appearing on Ohio's general election ballot, thanks to the fact that the Democrats' nominating convention is scheduled to take place after the state's candidate certification deadline. The chief legal counsel for Ohio secretary of state Frank...
What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs?
08.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Is Driving Gold To All-Time Highs? Submitted by BullionStar/Jesse Colombo After more than three years of stagnation, gold has awakened with a vengeance since early-March and has promptly surged by nearly $300 an ounce or 14% to an all-time high $2,330 — a sharp move for a safe-haven asset that has a reputation for its slow and steady trends....
World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here's Why It Can't Be Avoided
06.04.2024, 05:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World War III Is Now Inevitable – Here's Why It Can't Be Avoided Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If you’re getting the feeling like the globalists are really pushing hard for WWIII these days, you’re not alone. In the past few months there has been multiple instances of European and US officials hinting at the possibility of a new...
YOLO Spending, Inflation, & The Wisdom/Madness Of Crowds
04.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - YOLO Spending, Inflation, & The Wisdom/Madness Of Crowds Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The harder the authorities and pundits push the "inflation is under control" narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and "money." YOLO spending--grabbing what you can right now because You Only...
Hazardous Material Containers 'Breached' During Baltimore Bridge Collapse: NTSB
29.03.2024, 22:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hazardous Material Containers 'Breached' During Baltimore Bridge Collapse: NTSB Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The scene after the cargo ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge a day earlier causing it to collapse, in Baltimore, Md., on March 27, 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) The cargo ship that crashed into...
Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom
29.03.2024, 19:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wealth Gap And The Road To Serfdom Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, One of the most interesting conundrums is the surging wealth gap in America. Despite two of the largest bull markets in history since 1980, most Americans struggle with making ends meet and are unprepared for retirement. Such a reality starkly differs from the...
Bad Is Good
28.03.2024, 12:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad Is Good Via PraCap.com, Everyone thinks of inflation as being purely a financial phenomenon. However, it is much more than that. It is also a social phenomenon. As the inflation accelerates, an opportunist class rises to the top of society, and the productive class is impoverished. Inflation re-orients all economic activities, encouraging speculation...
The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV
27.03.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Roberts Court May Force You To Drive An EV Authored by Thomas McArdle via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has just required that the majority of automotive vehicles manufactured be electric by 2032, inflicting upon the American people troublesome cars whose price is an exorbitant $53,500 on average and that cost a fortune to repair. House...
Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates
26.03.2024, 18:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saving Democracy From Itself: The Democratic National Committee Moves To Block Third Party Candidates Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on reported plan of the Democratic National Committee and allied groups to try to block third-party candidates from the 2024 ballot. The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise...
Lockdown's Fourth Birthday
26.03.2024, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lockdown's Fourth Birthday Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Last weekend marked four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time. What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team...
Turns Out We Do Have A 'Deep State'... Amd It's "Awesome"
22.03.2024, 18:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turns Out We Do Have A 'Deep State'... Amd It's "Awesome" Authored by Kit Knightly via Of-Guardian.org, After years of denials, the mainstream media has decided to admit the Deep State does exist…and apparently it’s “awesome”... At least, according to this new video from the New York Times: It Turns Out the ‘Deep State’ Is Actually Kind...
New York Doomed To Be Migrant Central - Other Cities Take Note
21.03.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New York Doomed To Be Migrant Central - Other Cities Take Note Authored by Betsy McCaughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mayor Eric Adams’ agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time illegal immigrants can stay in shelters at taxpayers’ expense, is smoke and mirrors. It’s designed to fool you into thinking he’s solving a problem when...
Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With 'Ultrarich' Tax
20.03.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With 'Ultrarich' Tax Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Tuesday reintroduced her 'Ultra-Millionaire' Tax Act, by which the government would confiscate 2% from households worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and 3% on households worth over $1 billion. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)...
It’s Time For GOP To Unite Behind Trump
20.03.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Time For GOP To Unite Behind Trump Authored by Bernie Marcus via RealClear Wire, For the first time in my 94 years on earth, I fear for the future of our democracy. I see the federal government using its enormous powers with contempt for the governed instead of with the consent of the governed as our founders envisioned. Fundamental change in...
Housing Starts And Permits Surged In February (Despite Plunging Rate-Cut Odds)
19.03.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Starts And Permits Surged In February (Despite Plunging Rate-Cut Odds) Housing Starts and Permits rebounded firmly in February from an ugly January. Starts soared 10.7% MoM (+8.2% exp) recovering some of the 12.3% MoM decline in January and Permits jumped 1.9% (+0.5% exp) from the upwardly revised -0.3% MoM decline in January... Source: Bloomberg...
BODEN & TREMP - The Memecoins We Deserve For Financializing Attention
19.03.2024, 12:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BODEN & TREMP - The Memecoins We Deserve For Financializing Attention Via FinTech Blueprint, Today we highlight the following: DIGITAL ASSETS: Solana's soaring memecoins and the echoes of King Lear's fool CURATED UPDATES: Financial Institutions and Adoption; DeFi and Digital Assets; Blockchain Protocols; NFTs, DAOs and the Metaverse DIGITAL ASSETS:...
Student Loan Forgiveness Is Robbing Peter To Pay Paul
13.03.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Student Loan Forgiveness Is Robbing Peter To Pay Paul Via SchiffGold.com, With President Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan set to extend more student loan relief to borrowers this summer, the federal government is pretending it can wave a magic wand to make debts disappear. But the truth of student debt “relief” is that they’re...
NY Fed Finds Medium, Long-Term Inflation Expectations Jump Amid Surge In Stock Market Optimism
11.03.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NY Fed Finds Medium, Long-Term Inflation Expectations Jump Amid Surge In Stock Market Optimism One month after the inflation outlook tracked by the NY Fed Consumer Survey extended their late 2023 slide, with 3Y inflation expectations in January sliding to a record low 2.4% (from 2.6% in December), even as 1 and 5Y inflation forecasts remained flat,...
Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany's Nose?
11.03.2024, 07:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany's Nose? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, There are indeed plans for a conventional Western intervention in Ukraine despite their leaders’ denials over the past two weeks, but they’ve yet to fully form and their execution can’t be taken for granted, but they also can’t...
University Of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year
10.03.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - University Of Virginia Spends $20 Million On 235 DEI Employees, With Some Making $587,340 Per Year By Adam Andrzejewski of Open The Books substack The University of Virginia (UVA) has at least 235 employees under its “diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)” banner — including 82 students — whose total cost of employment is estimated at $20 million...
Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine
09.03.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Senior Fellow Alex Pollock drew my attention to an important quotation by Smedley Butler: 1935 speech and later a book by Major General Smedley D. Butler (USMC), includes “… A racket is best described, I believe, something...
Watch: Indian Navy In Dramatic Sea Rescue Of True Confidence Crew After 3 Sailors Died
08.03.2024, 02:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch: Indian Navy In Dramatic Sea Rescue Of True Confidence Crew After 3 Sailors Died On Wednesday we reported on the deadly Houthi missile strike on the MV True Confidence, a Liberian-owned vessel, in the Red Sea. The attack resulted in the first fatalities since the Houthi campaign against international shipping began in reaction to the Israeli offensive...
Ron Paul: Fed's "Dollar Destruction" And Moral Crisis
07.03.2024, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ron Paul: Fed's "Dollar Destruction" And Moral Crisis Via SchiffGold.com, Ron Paul’s recent op-ed from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, reprinted in the Orange County Register, breaks down the profound damage caused by central bank money printing: it pits savers against speculators, encouraging consumers to use debt to fund basic needs...
"Politics Is So Confusing Right Now" - Dems & Reps Have Switched Sides & Now Half Of Voters Identify 'Independent'
10.01.2024, 23:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Politics Is So Confusing Right Now" - Dems & Reps Have Switched Sides & Now Half Of Voters Identify 'Independent' Authored by Peter Savodnik via The Free Press, The Great Scramble Democrats and Republicans have switched sides—and nearly half of voters now call themselves independent. Peter Savodnik meets the politically...
How To Navigate The Fed's New Paradigm Shift
09.01.2024, 20:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How To Navigate The Fed's New Paradigm Shift Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Will it come in March? Or the summer? When the Federal Reserve makes its first rate cut and when it tapers or ends quantitative tightening will in the first instance be a function of reserves, not the economy. It is through this prism that the Fed’s dovish...
CJ Hopkins Warns Americans: The 1st Amendment Will Not Save You
08.01.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CJ Hopkins Warns Americans: The 1st Amendment Will Not Save You Authored by CJ Hopkins via Substack, So, I’m getting my German ducks in a row in advance of my appearance in criminal court in Berlin on January 23rd. As most of my readers know, I am being prosecuted by the German authorities on trumped-up charges of tweeting Nazi propaganda, i.e., these...
Inflation Expectations Tumble To Lowest Since Jan 2021, As Do Wage And Spending Growth, In Latest NY Fed Survey
08.01.2024, 18:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inflation Expectations Tumble To Lowest Since Jan 2021, As Do Wage And Spending Growth, In Latest NY Fed Survey After a few months of late summer increases in the 1-Year inflation expectation as tracked by the NY Fed's monthly consumer survey, December saw the third consecutive decline in this series which traditionally is also a proxy for the price...
'Make-Believe' Crisis
04.01.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Make-Believe' Crisis Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, The ease with which any critical thinking individual can obliterate the climate change narrative makes you realize it has nothing to do with the climate or saving the planet. The entire climate change scam is nothing more than a means to control the masses, enslave them through...
Why Are So Many Californians Dying?
04.01.2024, 15:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Are So Many Californians Dying? Authored by Thomas Buckley via The Brownstone Institute, Covid has claimed about 105,000 lives in the state since 2020. In that same time period, 82,000 more Californians died from everything else than is typical. Adjusted for the decline in population, that non-Covid “excess death” figure becomes even more concerning...
The Wuhan Cover-Up: RFK Jr. Has The Receipts
01.01.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Wuhan Cover-Up: RFK Jr. Has The Receipts Authored by Meryl Nass via The Brownstone Institute, When Bobby Kennedy talked about writing this book a couple of years ago, I asked him, why? Mindful of how the truth about everything Covid (and much else) was being memory-holed, he said he wanted to create an accurate historical record of what happened...
America's Top New Year's Resolutions For 2024
01.01.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Top New Year's Resolutions For 2024 Bidenomics... Planning to save more money is top of mind for many Americans making resolutions for 2024. As Statista's Anna Fleck highlights, this is a notable shift. Where in previous years the vows to exercise more, eat healthier and lose weight had come in top positions, now the financial goal has leapfrogged...
ESG, DEI, & The Rise Of Fake Reporting
30.12.2023, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ESG, DEI, & The Rise Of Fake Reporting Authored by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker via The Brownstone Institute, We know that the modern West has developed a jaw-dropping degree of totalitarianism, wherein the bureaucracies of the state and the corporate sector coordinate together to cripple humans outside their power networks and media...
Why Goldman Expects The Most Flawless Fed Landing Ever: S&P 5,100 With GDP Double Consensus, Jobs, & Wage Growth ... Yet 5 Rate Cuts As Inflation Tumbles
27.12.2023, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Goldman Expects The Most Flawless Fed Landing Ever: S&P 5,100 With GDP Double Consensus, Jobs, & Wage Growth ... Yet 5 Rate Cuts As Inflation Tumbles Back on November 15, when the S&P was trading at 4500, Goldman's chief equity strategist David Kostin triumphantly published his 2024 US equity outlook and S&P price target, one which was supposed...
President Trump’s Plan To Save America’s Cities: Gingrich
23.12.2023, 00:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - President Trump’s Plan To Save America’s Cities: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via RealClear Wire, With all the devastating news about urban crime, drug overdoses, illegal immigration, rampant homelessness, out-of-control budgets, and educational failures, it is encouraging that President Donald Trump has committed his next administration to...
Bhandari: The Structure - Or Lack Thereof - Of India
20.12.2023, 00:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bhandari: The Structure - Or Lack Thereof - Of India Authored by Jayant Bhandari via LewRockwell.com, Even in the urban centers in India, you can hire a daily wage worker for as low as US$4 per day. This laborer has no day off, no employment insurance, no vacations, no health benefits, and no pension. If he cannot find work one day, he must sell a utensil...