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Elon’s Test Of Employment
03.05.2024, 02:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon’s Test Of Employment Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk's photo through a Twitter logo on Oct. 28, 2022. (Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters) Commentary No question that Elon Musk is a genius but his real power lies with his common sense. These days this is a rare quality in business. People in higher levels...
Ralph Baric Admits Covid-19 Lab Origin Possible
03.05.2024, 01:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ralph Baric Admits Covid-19 Lab Origin Possible Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (purple) infected with a variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (pink), isolated from a patient sample. (NIAID via The Epoch Times) A top scientist said in newly disclosed testimony that...
Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback
03.05.2024, 01:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Soars After iPhone, China Sales Drop Less Than Feared; Unveils Record-Breaking $110 Billion Buyback With most of the megatechs having already released earnings, all eyes were on the last Mag7 to report during the heart of earnings season (there is still Nvidia, but due to a calendar quirk that's not for a month) which is also the company which...
Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking: Taibbi
03.05.2024, 00:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Paul Krugman's Magical Thinking: Taibbi Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Last week, in “It’s Not Me, It’s You,’” I wrote about a booming new op-ed genre, the editorial that bashes hick voters for their incorrect “Perception of the Economy.” Pundits attack voters’ “stubbornly low” assessments, producing poll numbers that leave...
Trump To Address Libertarian Convention In Move That Has Members Debating Merits
02.05.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump To Address Libertarian Convention In Move That Has Members Debating Merits Donald Trump will address the Libertarian Party national convention, in a move that promises publicity for America's largest "third party" while giving Trump an opportunity to shake some non-uniparty votes in his direction. At the same time, however, Trump puts himself...
Whistleblower Reveals How "New Knowledge" Cybersecurity Firm Created Disinformation In American Election
02.05.2024, 23:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistleblower Reveals How "New Knowledge" Cybersecurity Firm Created Disinformation In American Election Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle, Some of the shine on the disinformation industry has gone dull in recent years, as many misinformation experts having been caught trafficking in misinformation themselves, or exposed for...
Israeli Warplanes Strike Damascus As Iran Tensions Still On Edge
02.05.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Warplanes Strike Damascus As Iran Tensions Still On Edge Israeli aircraft have reportedly attacked a location on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus late Thursday (local), a security source told Reuters. While there has been no immediate confirmation via Syrian state media, widely circulating images have emerged on social media showing...
Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction
02.05.2024, 22:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Chop As Wall Street Awaits Apple Earnings After Bell, NFP Friday For Market Direction US equities ended their two-day slide as tech companies surged late in the session. The trading day has been choppy, with Wall Street now turning its attention to Apple's earnings after the bell. Some analysts anticipate Apple will reveal a major buyback...
US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In Ukraine...Except It's Tear Gas
02.05.2024, 21:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Russia Using "Chemical Weapons" In Ukraine...Except It's Tear Gas The Biden administration has just leveled a somewhat bizarre chemical weapons accusation against Russia, coming a day after the US Treasury came out with nearly 300 new anti-Moscow sanctions. Those previously reported sanctions targeted Russia's defense-industrial sector, including...
The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas
02.05.2024, 20:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices In Texas By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Permian producers are not shutting in oil wells with associated natural gas despite the fact that the Texas regional gas price has been stuck at below-zero levels since early March. Major pipeline operators in the Permian basin haven't yet seen any effect...
COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection
02.05.2024, 19:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - COVID-19 Linked To 'Alarming Rise' Of Rare And Highly Lethal Fungal Infection Authored by Megan Redshaw, J.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Freepik/Shutterstock) The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an alarming rise of an aggressive and highly fatal secondary fungal infection among those with active or recovered COVID-19. Research suggests that...
Biden Calls US Allies Japan & India 'Xenophobic': "They Don't Want Immigrants"
02.05.2024, 19:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls US Allies Japan & India 'Xenophobic': "They Don't Want Immigrants" President Biden chose a strange moment to lash out at allies and humiliate them, given his administration is busy trying to build international consensus against Russia as it continues the war in Ukraine, and on sensitive flashpoint issues like the Israel-Hamas conflict....
"We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview
02.05.2024, 18:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Have To Have Law And Order": Trump Lays Out Plan For Second Term In TIME Interview Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump (L) takes the oath of office as his wife Melania Trump (C) holds the bible and his son Barron Trump (R) looks on, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2017. (Chip...
Hurt / The Downward Spiral
02.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hurt / The Downward Spiral By Michael Every of Rabobank Hurt / The Downward Spiral “I hurt myself today; To see if I still feel; I focus on the pain; The only thing that's real” Post-Fed, equities closed slightly lower yesterday (S&P -0.3%), 2-year Treasury bond yields dropped 10bps before rising slightly from that floor, and 10-years were down...
Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever
02.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever Despite the lack of total carnage in spot bitcoin prices, yesterday was an ugly (nay the ugliest) day for the newly minted ETFs (although bitcoin is down over 10% this week). Most notably, BlackRock’s ETF saw around $37 million in outflows for the first time, while the remaining spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively notched...
"Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold
02.05.2024, 16:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Safe Haven" Yen Trending Towards Zero Against Gold Via SchiffGold.com, The yen was once known as a safe-haven currency for investors to protect themselves when broader markets are shaky or other currencies are dropping, but those days are numbered. A stable government and consistent (and low) interest rates have been some of the driving factors...
US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners
02.05.2024, 15:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Traders Took Powell's Pivot More Seriously Than Foreigners Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Most of the hawkish tilt in yields and rise in Federal Reserve interest rate expectations this year has come in non-US trading hours. A dovish repricing would therefore require (other things equal) a change of trading direction only in...
Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide
02.05.2024, 14:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rise As Dovish Fed Boosts Sentiment, Reverse Bizarre Post-Powell Slide After a bizarre reversal when US stocks first slumped and then dumped after Powell's very dovish FOMC statement and press conference, US equity futures have regained their footing this morning and advanced as traders took comfort from the Fed’s signal that there’s no...
All Hell Breaks Out At UCLA As Marxist Protesters Battle Cops
02.05.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - All Hell Breaks Out At UCLA As Marxist Protesters Battle Cops With the anti-Israel protesters (or just brainwashed Marxist kids and some paid agitators) disbanded by the New York Police Department in the overnight hours, attention has shifted onto the chaos unfolding at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California...
Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal'
02.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff Blasts Biden's Proposed Taxes As 'Blatantly Illegal' Via Schiffgold.com, Peter appeared on OAN’s Real America with Dan Ball to discuss new prospective income taxes, the latest idiotic craze in politics. He starts by explaining why President Biden’s desired policy isn’t even an income tax: “The worst of the capital gains tax is...
BLM 2.0? Will Campus Chaos Across America's Woke Universities Spread To The Streets
02.05.2024, 12:59 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BLM 2.0? Will Campus Chaos Across America's Woke Universities Spread To The Streets Before diving into the overnight turmoil of violent clashes at some of America's most progressive universities, let's begin with this post from a user on X, suggesting that the woke mind virus is at work here: I can't believe I have to explain what's happening...
Will Trump Survive This?
02.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Trump Survive This? Authored by James Rickards via the Daily Reckoning, This is a highly consequential election year, to say the least. The policy differences between Biden and Trump are enormous. Whether it’s taxes, regulation, borders, energy or foreign policy, the differences couldn’t be clearer. And though I prefer to focus my analysis...
Fighting Monsters
02.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fighting Monsters Authored by CJ Hopkins via off-guardian.org, Fighting monsters by serbiandude Published: Jan 3, 2023 So, I gave a little speech about art, and war. The Internationale Agentur für Freiheit, a Berlin art and cultural association, asked me to do that to open their exhibition, Make Art Not War. I couldn’t turn them down. As my readers...
Visualizing The Size Of The Global Senior Population
02.05.2024, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing The Size Of The Global Senior Population The growth of the senior population is a consequence of the demographic transition towards longer and healthier lives. Population aging, however, can pose economic and social challenges. Here, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu maps the size of the world’s population aged 65+ for 1980, 2021, and 2050...
Japan's Warning For America
02.05.2024, 05:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Japan's Warning For America Authored by Michael Wilkerson via The Epoch Times, Last week, Japan saw its currency, the yen, rapidly depreciate against the U.S. dollar and other world currencies to near record low levels. This drew the attention of financial markets and other observers, and—in some quarters—led to panic. There was concern that Japan...
CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths
02.05.2024, 04:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CDC Found Evidence COVID-19 Vaccines Caused Deaths Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials found evidence that the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines caused multiple deaths before claiming that there was no evidence linking the vaccines to any deaths...
Colombian Government Severs Relations With Israel
02.05.2024, 04:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Colombian Government Severs Relations With Israel It's been no secret that the fiercest and most sustained criticism of Israel's military operation in Gaza has come from Global South countries. Many of these have also supported South Africa's taking Israel before the International Criminal Court (ICC) on allegations of genocide. But now the next big...
"It Was Brutal": 2nd Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Dies
02.05.2024, 03:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "It Was Brutal": 2nd Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Dies A whistleblower at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems died Tuesday morning following a struggle with a 'sudden, fast-spreading infection,' the Seattle Times reports. 45-year-old Joshua Dean, a former mechanical engineer and quality auditor from Wichita, Kansas, alleged that Spirit leadership ignored...
Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint
02.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Workers Sacked Over Israel Protests File Federal Labor Complaint Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Dozens of Google workers who were fired for protesting the tech giant’s cloud deal with the Israeli government filed a complaint on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over their termination. The complaint, obtained...
A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out
02.05.2024, 01:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Low Sodium Diet May Be Stressing You Out Authored by Jennifer Sweenie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There is a link between salt intake and stress, and it’s probably not what you think. While we are well aware of the purported dangers associated with a high-sodium diet, many of us are not aware that too little sodium comes with its own set...
Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery In Russia
02.05.2024, 01:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery In Russia By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Just as Russia had started to bring back some refinery capacity damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this year, a new wave of drone attacks hit a major refinery owned by Rosneft, for a second time. Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery southeast of Moscow caught fire...
House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests
02.05.2024, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Approves 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' Aimed At Cracking Down On Campus Protests Late in the afternoon Wednesday the House approved a bill which seeks to crackdown on antisemitism on college and university campuses following days of protests and unrest driven by pro-Palestinian activists. The Antisemitism Awareness Act has been approved in a 320-91...
Congress Gives the Arsenal of Democracy a Boost
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Some experts wonder if it’s enough to respond to China, Russia, and terror threats at the same time....
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
01.05.2024, 23:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Disappointing First Year For Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Nearly one year ago, Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s removal from office. Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her abrasive politics. In her place was Brandon Johnson,...
Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days
01.05.2024, 22:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days Two days after the yen soared after crashing to a 34 year low of 160 against the US, when the Japanese Ministry of Finance reportedly spent around 5 trillion yen, or just over $30 billion, to push the imploding Japanese currency to levels not seen in ... about 48 hours, moments...
The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies From A To Z
01.05.2024, 22:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies From A To Z Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” - Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American...
Taper 'Tantrum-ette' - Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Fed 'Eases' Balance-Sheet Pressure
01.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taper 'Tantrum-ette' - Stocks Pump'n'Dump As Fed 'Eases' Balance-Sheet Pressure Powell to traders today... h/t ForexLive The bigger than expected QT taper announcement juiced markets (stocks and bond prices up, dollar down) into Powell's press conference, then got spooked lower as he admitted "inflation has shown a lack of further progress... and gaining...
China Crossed Biden's Red Line On Ukraine, So What?
01.05.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Crossed Biden's Red Line On Ukraine, So What? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, It’s ridiculous to have red lines if you are not going to do anything when they are crossed. So what should Biden do? China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed moans China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine. President...
The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters
01.05.2024, 21:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Path Of Least Resistance: Northwestern Reaches Controversial Settlement With Pro-Palestinian Protesters Authored by Jonathan Turley, Northwestern University has agreed to a controversial settlement with pro-Palestinian protesters encamped on its campus this week, including a commitment for scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments...
Wall Street Reacts To Powell Unleashing His Inner Dove
01.05.2024, 20:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wall Street Reacts To Powell Unleashing His Inner Dove Ahead of today's FOMC statement and Powell presser, we said that the bogey for a dovish interpretation today will come not from the Fed's rate decision, which we knew would be unchanged, but the QT tapering decision... The big question for today: how much will Fed taper QT by? If Taper goes to $30BN...
Lu-Lu-Leveraged: Lululemon Founder Pledges Shares For Margin Loan
01.05.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Lu-Lu-Leveraged: Lululemon Founder Pledges Shares For Margin Loan Lululemon's founder is taking on some lu-lu-leverage - and it's coming at a time when Lululemon's stock is more than 20% off its recent highs. Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon, has reportedly used a significant portion of his stake in the company to secure financing from Goldman...
Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy"
01.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Robert Mueller's Right Hand Man Warns SCOTUS: You're "One Vote Away From... The End Of Democracy" Authored by Jonathan Turley, When Robert Mueller appointed Andrew Weissmann as one of his top advisers, many of us warned that it was a poor choice. Weissmann seemed intent to prove those objections correct in increasingly unhinged and partisan statements...
Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser?
01.05.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Can Powell Walk The 'Asymmetric' Tight-Rope At Today's Presser? The Fed meeting later today has had the market feeling (and positioned for) “HAWKISHNESS,” especially after the ECI pile-on yesterday, which didn’t simply “upside surprise,” but re-accelerated to 1.2% after ending 2023 at 0.9%, and showing that persistent wage pressures further...
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
01.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You're Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on the 10 year treasury...
Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions
01.05.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Scrutinizing Block's Square And Cash App, Eyeing If Transactions Funded Terror And Skirted Sanctions Federal prosecutors are investigating compliance issues at Block, the fintech firm co-founded by Jack Dorsey, according to a new report from NBC, citing "two people with direct knowledge". Questions about the company started swirling back in March...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
AMD's Muted AI Sales Forecast Fails To Unleash Bulls
01.05.2024, 17:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMD's Muted AI Sales Forecast Fails To Unleash Bulls Advanced Micro Devices, the second-largest maker of computer processors, disappointed investors with its sales outlook for processors used in data centers. The company also reported weak demand for chips used in gaming hardware, which could serve as a warning for Nvidia bulls as they await the...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels
01.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Job Openings Tumble, Quits Plunge, Hires Unexpectedly Crater To January 2018 Levels After several months of relatively boring JOLTS prints, this morning Janet Yellen's favorite labor market indicator once again got exciting, and not in a good way. Starting at the top, according to the March JOLTS reported, job openings unexpectedly tumbled by 325K -...