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Doug Casey On The New American Dream: "You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy"
18.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Doug Casey On The New American Dream: "You'll Own Nothing and Be Happy" Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: According to a recent study by Investopedia, the classic middle-class American Dream now costs over $3.4 million. That’s the estimated lifetime cost of marriage, two children, cars, homes, healthcare, education, and retirement. It’s...
'Hope' Hammered As Empire Fed Plunged In April - Below All Estimates
15.04.2024, 18:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Hope' Hammered As Empire Fed Plunged In April - Below All Estimates New York state factory activity contracted in April for a fifth straight month, printing at -14.3 (dramatically below the -5.2 print expected)... Source: Bloomberg ...that was below all analysts' estimates... Source: Bloomberg ...but even more problematically, prices paid (and received)...
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...
US Domestic Deposits Tumble $60BN As Small Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Most Since SVB
12.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Domestic Deposits Tumble $60BN As Small Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Most Since SVB Money-market funds saw a small outflow last week (surprisingly small given how close to Tax-Day we are), leaving them still near record highs over $6 Trillion (and the trend of increased deposits at banks has been accelerating)... Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, amid...
Dollar Tree Shoppers Revolt Over $7 Items
09.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Dollar Tree Shoppers Revolt Over $7 Items Discount retailer Dollar Tree has sparked a revolt among some of its customers after increasing the price cap of items to $7 across thousands of stores nationwide. "If it were really going to go up like $7 … that'd be too much. I'd rather just get everything at Walmart," Scott Kolack, a Dollar Tree regular...
Here's What Will Push Oil Above $100/Bbl
08.04.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What Will Push Oil Above $100/Bbl Back in early December, just after Powell's dovish pivot shocked everyone, many closet oil bulls like BofA's energy strategist Francisco Blanch, predicted that a dovish Fed would send oil back to $100. Unfortunately for him, oil did nothing and just one month later, as no oil buying had materialized, Blanch threw...
US Bank Deposits Soar Back To Pre-SVB Levels, Reserves Decouple From Stocks
05.04.2024, 22:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Bank Deposits Soar Back To Pre-SVB Levels, Reserves Decouple From Stocks Money-market fund total assets jumped over $70BN last week to a new record high above $6.11TN... Source: Bloomberg And, as the chart above shows, the broad trend for bank deposits has been positive (slow, but positive), slowly returning to pre-SVB levels. And talking of SVB...
Hundreds Of 99 Cents Only Stores Liquidated, Failed Bidenomics & Retail Theft Blamed
05.04.2024, 20:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hundreds Of 99 Cents Only Stores Liquidated, Failed Bidenomics & Retail Theft Blamed A combination of failed 'Bidenomics,' i.e., elevated inflation, disastrous progressive social justice reforms that ignited a tsunami of retail theft nationwide, and snarled supply chains left over from the Covid era have led to the demise of "99 Cents Only" stores...
Scientists Uncover Mechanism Viruses Use To Cause Cancer
02.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Scientists Uncover Mechanism Viruses Use To Cause Cancer Authored by Emma Suttie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Viral infections are thought to be a central cause of between 10 to 20 percent of cancers worldwide, representing a significant portion of the global cancer burden. A recent discovery may further our understanding of how viruses cause...
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...
America's Minsky Moment Approaches
29.03.2024, 14:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Minsky Moment Approaches Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Named after American economist Hyman Minsky, the idea behind a Minsky moment is that a financial markets crisis (especially in credit markets) is caused by a sudden and systemic collapse in asset prices, usually after a sustained period of speculative investment, excessive...
Leaked Document Reveals Amazon To Dump Office Space, In Cost-Cutting Move Amid CRE Tower Crisis
28.03.2024, 12:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Leaked Document Reveals Amazon To Dump Office Space, In Cost-Cutting Move Amid CRE Tower Crisis Readers are well aware that the office segment of the commercial real estate sector has been in turmoil for the past year with soaring vacancy rates, a record amount of available sublease space, and rising defaults. Cost-cutting strategies by major corporations...
Post-FOMC Thoughts: Stocks Seem To Be Behaving Like "Stonks" Again
20.03.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Post-FOMC Thoughts: Stocks Seem To Be Behaving Like "Stonks" Again By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities In the Old Days… Today would have been easy, in the old days, where we got a summary of projections (aka “the dot plot”) and no press conference. The bond market (and stocks) both interpreted the “unchanged” in median for dots for 2024...
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)...
FDA Approves 1st T-Cell Therapy For Melanoma
23.02.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDA Approves 1st T-Cell Therapy For Melanoma Authored by Amie Dahnke via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Melanoma cancer patients with solid tumors can turn to a new treatment thanks to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of a new class of immunotherapy. The new treatment may offer hope to those facing an otherwise deadly stage...
The 2030 Agenda: The Totalitarian Trojan Horse
21.02.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The 2030 Agenda: The Totalitarian Trojan Horse Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Epoch Times, Upon perusing the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals included in the well-known 2030 Agenda, one may conclude that they are all harmless and entirely reasonable goals. Who could be opposed to reducing poverty and hunger or advancing infrastructure, innovation...
Chicago Hit By Surging Violence From Criminals Out On Probation And Parole
20.02.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chicago Hit By Surging Violence From Criminals Out On Probation And Parole By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner of Wirepoints One thing Chicagoans can’t help but notice when scrolling through news feeds: the number of violent crimes committed by defendants while they were out either on parole, probation or awaiting trial. That’s not surprising given...
"Biden Reelection Chances Do Not Look Favorable": Political, Economic Indicators "Not Promising", Gallup Finds
17.02.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Biden Reelection Chances Do Not Look Favorable": Political, Economic Indicators "Not Promising", Gallup Finds By Jeffrey Jones and Megan Brennan of Gallup Several key indicators of the 2024 election environment indicate that President Joe Biden faces an uphill climb to win a second term. His job approval rating, Americans’ satisfaction with how things...
Cracks Form In Another Corner Of The CRE Market
16.02.2024, 19:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cracks Form In Another Corner Of The CRE Market The banking sector is facing renewed turmoil following significant credit losses and write-downs on US commercial real estate loans, primarily in office and some in multi-family. In recent weeks, such turbulence erupted in New York Community Bank and other global lenders from Japan, Germany, and Canada...
The Fed Is Very Concerned Over Spending and Interest On The National Debt
13.02.2024, 20:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed Is Very Concerned Over Spending and Interest On The National Debt Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A San Francisco Fed report highlights concern over Congressional spending that’s out of control, Social Security, Medicare, and rising interest on the national debt. The Long-Run Fiscal Outlook in the United States Please consider...
Stunning Collapse In Credit Card Debt Change As Average APR Hits New All-Time High
07.02.2024, 21:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stunning Collapse In Credit Card Debt Change As Average APR Hits New All-Time High After several months of wild swings in US consumer debt, culminating with last month's explosion in credit card debt which was the 2nd biggest on record, in December households finally hit a brick wall because according to the latest consumer credit data published by...
Our Moon Is Shrinking And Could Be A Problem
07.02.2024, 16:16 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - A recent study published in the Planetary Science Journal suggests that “moonquakes” may have an effect in the vicinity of the lunar south pole, causing our Moon to shrink, which could be a problem. The study draws attention to a restless Moon that may be causing “moonquakes” that could endanger upcoming explorations –...
S&P Index Set To Hit 5000 As Bull Run Continues, But...
06.02.2024, 18:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - S&P Index Set To Hit 5000 As Bull Run Continues, But... Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In September 2021, I discussed how the markets had set its sights on the S&P 500 index hitting 5000. To wit. “Yes, the rally off the COVID-19 bottom in March 2020 has been extraordinary, but we think there are further gains ahead. Solid...
These Are The US States Losing (& Gaining) Population
06.02.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The US States Losing (& Gaining) Population As pandemic patterns of U.S. population growth are normalizing, three states have remained among the U.S. jurisdictions which are shrinking. Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports that, according to a December release by the Census Bureau, California, Illinois and New York - along with West Virginia...
US Cattle Herd At 73-Year Lows As Retail Beef Prices At Record Highs
05.02.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Cattle Herd At 73-Year Lows As Retail Beef Prices At Record Highs Readers have been well informed about 'beeflation' and why it's happening: Dwindling US Cattle Herd Implies Supermarket Beef Prices May Rise Even More Hamburger Prices Might Continue To Rise As US Cattle Herd Shrinks US Cattle Prices Hit Nine-Year High As National Herd Drops To Half-Century...
US Home Prices Rose For 10th Straight Month In November, But Gains Slow Significantly
30.01.2024, 15:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Home Prices Rose For 10th Straight Month In November, But Gains Slow Significantly Home prices in America's 20 largest cities rose for the 10th straight month in November (the latest data released by S&P Global Case-Shiller today), up 0.15% MoM (considerably slower than the 0.50% MoM expected and 0.63% prior). That is the weakest MoM rise since Jan...
Several Common Drugs Are Linked To Dementia
29.01.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Several Common Drugs Are Linked To Dementia Authored by Marina Zhang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It is well-known that dementia is often a result of aging. However, sometimes it can be caused by medications. (Life science/Shutterstock) Drug-induced dementia, the late neurologist and neurosurgeon K.K. Jain wrote, is a type of reversible dementia...
The House Panel Giving Washington A Reality-Check On China
22.01.2024, 05:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The House Panel Giving Washington A Reality-Check On China Authored by Terri Wu and Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Through the back door of a New York City building, some of the most potent American business leaders were smuggled in for a tabletop exercise simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty...
2024 Starts With Deposit Flight From Large Banks, Loan Volumes Shrink; But Trouble Is Brewing For Small Banks
12.01.2024, 22:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 2024 Starts With Deposit Flight From Large Banks, Loan Volumes Shrink; But Trouble Is Brewing For Small Banks Bank reserves at The Fed rose considerably last week expanding The Fed's balance sheet by the most since the SVB crisis last March - as usage of The Fed's BTFP bank-bailout facility pushed to a new record high (amid increasing arbitrage flows)...
JPM Reports Mediocre Q4 Earnings But Impresses With Stellar 2024 Forecast (Which Is Based On 6 Fed Cuts)
12.01.2024, 14:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPM Reports Mediocre Q4 Earnings But Impresses With Stellar 2024 Forecast (Which Is Based On 6 Fed Cuts) As happens every quarter, moments ago JPM - the largest US bank - officially fired the starting gun on Q3 earnings season when it reported earnings which - largely still courtesy of the bank's taxpayer-funded g(r)ift of First Republic earlier this...
Large Bank Loan Volumes Continue To Shrink Despite Soaring Deposit Inflows
05.01.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Bank Loan Volumes Continue To Shrink Despite Soaring Deposit Inflows After losing more than a trillion dollars in deposits in 2023 - and seeing usage of The Fed's emergency funding facility soar to a record high yesterday - total bank deposits rose by $24.2BN in the week-ending 12/27/23 (on a seasonally-adjusted basis) - that is the 4th straight...
ECB Rate-Cut Odds Tumble As EU Inflation Re-Accelerates In December
05.01.2024, 14:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - ECB Rate-Cut Odds Tumble As EU Inflation Re-Accelerates In December Eurozone inflation re-accelerated in December, breaking seven months of declines, leaving analysts questioning whether The ECB will be able to cut rates as aggressively as the market had thought. Euro area headline HICP inflation rose 52bp in December to 2.92% YoY, in line with consensus...
Corruption, Chaos, & Conflict - The Fourth Turning Erupts In 2024
01.01.2024, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Corruption, Chaos, & Conflict - The Fourth Turning Erupts In 2024 Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Americans today are increasingly polarized, as if they constitute two separate nations.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will...
Israel To Withdraw Some Troops From Gaza, But Signals Plan To Fight Through All 2024
01.01.2024, 19:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel To Withdraw Some Troops From Gaza, But Signals Plan To Fight Through All 2024 Israel's military announced Monday it is about to initiate its first major drawdown of troops from Gaza since the ground offensive began. This is to involved pulling back multiple thousands of reserve soldiers to begin with, at least temporarily. "This move is expected...
Lousy Labor Data Sends Yields Lower; Bitcoin, Big-Tech, & The Buck Soar
05.12.2023, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lousy Labor Data Sends Yields Lower; Bitcoin, Big-Tech, & The Buck Soar The post-November-FOMC plunge in US macro data continued today with bloodbathery hitting the labor market (JOLTs tumbled) but ISM Services beat providing another glimpse at 'Goldilocks' (especially with prices paid moderating too)... Source: Bloomberg The 'bad' news in JOLTs sparked...
Silver Looks Like A Real Bargain Right Now
05.12.2023, 01:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Silver Looks Like A Real Bargain Right Now Via SchiffGold.com, At the current price, silver is a real bargain. Gold went on a run late last week, setting an all-time record high last Friday and breaking the $2,100 level for a brief time in overseas trading Sunday night. Silver also rallied but continues to lag behind gold. In fact, silver looks significantly...
Back To 2-And-A-Half Wars?
01.12.2023, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Back To 2-And-A-Half Wars? Authored by John Mills via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A plaque of the Department of Defense seal is seen at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 26, 2012. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Commentary An overarching tenet for decades in the American national security planning environment was the ability for the...
Night Of The Living Ed: Zombie Public Schools, Drained Of Pandemic Lifeblood, Haunt The Land
29.11.2023, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Night Of The Living Ed: Zombie Public Schools, Drained Of Pandemic Lifeblood, Haunt The Land Authored by Vince Bielski via RealClear Wire, Call them “zombie” schools. A significant but unknown number of public schools across the U.S., particularly in big cities, have lost so many students in the last half-decade that many of their classrooms sit...
Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over
28.11.2023, 14:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Slide To Session Lows Amid Growing Concerns Rally Is Over US equity futures and European stocks both fell for a second day amid signs the November rally in equities is overstretched with even such bullish Goldman luminaries (and flow gurus) as Scott Rubner calling an end to the meltup this week. As of 8:15am ET, S&P and Nasdaq futures are...
Fed Bank Bailout Program Borrowing Surged In November
27.11.2023, 15:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Bank Bailout Program Borrowing Surged In November Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The financial crisis that kicked off in March continues to bubble under the surface... Total outstanding loans in the Federal Reserve’s bank bailout program jumped by just over $5 billion in November. There was a sudden spike in banks tapping into...
64 US Bank Branches File To Shut Down In A Single Week; Are You Affected?
27.11.2023, 12:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 64 US Bank Branches File To Shut Down In A Single Week; Are You Affected? Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Big banks such as PNC Bank and JPMorgan Chase have filed to close several branch offices in multiple states amid a troubling pattern of rising branch shutdowns in recent years. Between Nov. 12 and 18, several banks filed to close...
Shrinkflation: Robbing Us Quietly In Back Alleys
22.11.2023, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shrinkflation: Robbing Us Quietly In Back Alleys Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, Inflation robs you of purchasing power by driving up the price of everything you buy. You see the impacts of inflation every time you go to the store. But sometimes inflation hits you in a more subtle way that’s difficult to see – through “shrinkflation...
Europe Plunges Into Chaos After Germany Freezes Public Spending Following Shock Top Court Decision
22.11.2023, 13:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe Plunges Into Chaos After Germany Freezes Public Spending Following Shock Top Court Decision Europe, already sliding into a stagflationary recession, is about to unleash the same crushing austerity that brought the continent to the verge of collapse over a decade ago. One day after the German constitutional court ruled a decision to move €60BN...
China's Share Of The Global Economy Is Shrinking At The Fastest Pace Since The Mao Era
21.11.2023, 04:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Share Of The Global Economy Is Shrinking At The Fastest Pace Since The Mao Era By Ruchir Sharma, chair of Rockefeller International In a historic turn, China’s rise as an economic superpower is reversing. The biggest global story of the past half century may be over. After stagnating under Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 70s, China opened...
Target Doubles Down, Faces Conservative Backlash As 'Woke' Christmas Decor Hits Shelves
17.11.2023, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target Doubles Down, Faces Conservative Backlash As 'Woke' Christmas Decor Hits Shelves Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Target has once again triggered conservative criticism after the retailer rolled out Christmas decorations that some saw as too "woke," like a black Santa in a wheelchair or a figurine draped in rainbow-colored...
Walmart And Costco Considering Ditching Self-Checkout Lines Amidst "Backlash"
16.11.2023, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart And Costco Considering Ditching Self-Checkout Lines Amidst "Backlash" Companies like Walmart and Costco are finally starting to rethink the idea of self-checkout lines, as "backlash" against it has grown, according to a new Yahoo Finance report. British supermarket chain Booth's is leading the way, removing them in all 28 of its stores. Managing...
Target Shares Soar After Big Earnings Beat On 'Inventory Management'; Comp Sales Drop Most Since 2009
15.11.2023, 14:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target Shares Soar After Big Earnings Beat On 'Inventory Management'; Comp Sales Drop Most Since 2009 Shares of Target jumped in premarket trading in New York after it reported adjusted earnings per share for the third quarter that beat Wall Street expectations. There were fewer markdowns and more efficiencies in inventory management following the big-box...
Israel's Knesset Held Meeting To Mull Netanyahu Impeachment
15.11.2023, 09:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel's Knesset Held Meeting To Mull Netanyahu Impeachment Via The Cradle, Knesset members on Monday discussed the potential ousting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once the war between Palestinian resistance factions and Tel Aviv comes to an end. Israel’s Channel 13 reports that ministers and members of the Knesset from Netanyahu's...
US Beef Prices Hit Record High As Nation's Cattle Herd Expected To Shrink Through 2025
15.11.2023, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Beef Prices Hit Record High As Nation's Cattle Herd Expected To Shrink Through 2025 Brazilian processor Marfrig Global Foods SA warned the US cattle herd will continue shrinking through the midpoint of the decade. Less supplies will pressure meatpackers and keep the prices of steak and hamburgers at elevated levels. During a conference call,...