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Relentless Chinese Bond Rally Hints at Yuan Challenge Ahead
29.04.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Relentless Chinese Bond Rally Hints at Yuan Challenge Ahead By Charlie Zhu and Helen Sun, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists Three things we learned last week: 1. China’s bond rally seems unstoppable amid a shortage of quality assets for investments. From government bonds to corporate debentures, traders keep hunting for yields in all...
Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico
29.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joe Biden's Brother Embroiled In High-Ranking Qatari Scheme To "Provide Wealth Of Introductions" Through "My Family": Politico Qatar has had a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. While we knew about the EU's 'Qatargate,' investments with the Kushner family, and of course Sen. Bob Menendez advancing Qatar's interests, Politico reports that the Biden family's...
PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives
28.04.2024, 14:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PM Orbán At CPAC: The 5 Methods Of Oppression Liberals Use To Silence Conservatives Authored by John Cody via ReMix News, In the run-up to major elections across the West, including the U.S. presidential election and the EU parliament elections in June, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that conservatives face unprecedented pressure from...
The Scramble For Antarctica
28.04.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Scramble For Antarctica Authored by Gregory Copley via The Epoch Times, The “scramble for Antarctica” is slowly gathering steam, and it is not unrelated to a new “scramble for the Americas.” The ramifications for the Indo-Pacific and, indeed, for the global strategic balance are also profound. By 2024, Antarctica had at least 82 bases from...
Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan
25.04.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia To Seize $440 Million From JPMorgan Seizing assets? Two can play at that game... Just days after Washington voted to authorize the REPO Act - paving the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign assets which sit in US banks - it appears Moscow has a plan of its own (let's call it the REVERSE REPO Act) as a Russian...
Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China
25.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling Bond Yields Show It's Crunch Time In China Authored by Simon Black, Bloomberg macro strategist, Sovereign yields in China have been falling in recent months, in marked contrast to almost every other major country. This is a key macro variable to watch for signs China is ready to ease policy more comprehensively as its tolerance is tested for...
"We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k"
24.04.2024, 22:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "We Need To Splinter The UniParty Into A Thousand Pieces" - Stockman Slams Washington's Foreign Aid "Clusterf**k" Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The UniParty's Day Of Infamy, Part 1 The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security...
"That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing"
24.04.2024, 04:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "That's Concerning": US Indo-Pacific Commander Warns China Becoming More Aggressive As Economic Recovery "Failing" One of the biggest questions of our time is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides's Trap. It seems that, in the short term, the US will likely avoid direct conflict with China, but in the long term, there will be...
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...
Iran-Linked Iraq Militia Says It Is Resuming Attacks On US Forces
23.04.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran-Linked Iraq Militia Says It Is Resuming Attacks On US Forces The prior period of constant attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria which corresponded with the opening first half of Israel's operations in Gaza could soon resume, after a Sunday incident saw at least five rockets fired on an American base in northeastern Syria. The Iraqi militant...
REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine
22.04.2024, 16:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - REPO Act Passage Has Authorized Biden To Confiscate Russian Assets & Transfer To Ukraine When the House voted to pass Biden's long sought after foreign aid package Saturday, which will deliver over $60 billion to Ukraine, included in this was passage of the REPO Act, which paves the way for the Biden administration confiscate billions in Russian sovereign...
Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia
21.04.2024, 13:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden To Withdraw Troops From Niger As Region Increasingly Turns To Russia In what is simultaneously a humiliating setback for the Deep State and a welcome victory for noninterventionist American taxpayers, the White House on Friday announced that US military forces will be withdrawn from Niger over the coming months. The move comes after Niger's mid-March...
Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow?
20.04.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Is Gold Rising Now, Where Is It Headed Tomorrow? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Needless to say, we at VON GREYERZ spend a good deal of time thinking about, well… gold. The Complex, the Simple, the Math and the History Year after year, and week after week, there is always a new way to examine gold price moves and decipher...
Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher?
18.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's 'Dumping' Driving US Treasury Yields Higher? Tonight's TIC data held few surprises and nothing of significant note, but it got us thinking... For the 9th month of the last 11, China's Treasury holdings declined in February (the latest TIC data), dropping by $22.7BN. Additionally, it has now been 24 of the last 28 months that China's Treasury...
Will The World's Most Pro-Bitcoin Politician Embrace Gold?
17.04.2024, 20:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The World's Most Pro-Bitcoin Politician Embrace Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, Since Nayib Bukele became president of El Salvador, El Salvador has been in American media and global political discussion more than ever. While much of the attention focuses on Bukele’s mass incarceration of gang members and a decline in homicide of over 70%, Bukele has...
US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR
17.04.2024, 18:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Prepares To Reimpse Venezuela Oil Ban As Biden Seeks Scapegoat To Resume Draining SPR For much of the past year, we had joked that behind the facade of western Democratic ideals, was a cold hard truth: the price of oil must not be allowed to go up in an election year. This was obvious in Biden's "kid gloves" treatment of Iran's regime, it was obvious...
Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis
16.04.2024, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Watch Live: House Subcommittee Reveals Chinese Gov't Involvement In America's Fentanyl Crisis Submitted by David Asher, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and former senior advisor to the State Department on China, At 0800 ET, the China Subcommittee in the House of Representatives will convene a critically important hearing on the Chinese government's...
UK, France, Germany Join Biden's Call For Israel's Restraint While Russia Defends Iran's Strike As 'Self-Defense'
15.04.2024, 14:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UK, France, Germany Join Biden's Call For Israel's Restraint While Russia Defends Iran's Strike As 'Self-Defense' As Israel's war cabinet again meets Monday to debate how to respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack on Israel, intense international reaction continues, with leading European countries joining the Biden White House in urging restraint...
Wie die CIA das moderne Deutschland schuf
14.04.2024, 12:44 Uhr. >b's weblog - https: - Berlin, particularly in the wake of reunification, has successfully presented itself to the world as sovereign, led by sensible people acting in the best interests of their nation, and Europe. In truth, ever since 1945, Germany has been a heavily occupied nation, drowning under the weight of US military installations, and its politics, society and culture...
Buying Votes: Biden Cancels Student Debt For 277,000 Borrowers Ahead Of Presidential Elections
13.04.2024, 03:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Buying Votes: Biden Cancels Student Debt For 277,000 Borrowers Ahead Of Presidential Elections On Friday, President Joe Biden announced that he would cancel the federal student debt of more than 277,000 Americans, equating to about $7.4 billion. This would bring the total of what is considered classical vote buying ahead of the November presidential...
Washington Offers Tehran Negotiations To Avoid Striking Israel: Report
08.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Washington Offers Tehran Negotiations To Avoid Striking Israel: Report Via The Cradle Iranian diplomatic sources say the US is trying to convince Iran not to retaliate against Israel for its bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month, Al-Jarida newspaper reported on Monday. The Israeli strike targeted a building attached to the Iranian...
'Brazil's Darth Vader' Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk After Defying X Court Order
08.04.2024, 16:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Brazil's Darth Vader' Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk After Defying X Court Order Brazil's activist Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered an investigation into Elon Musk, after the billionaire vowed to defy a court order as part of an ongoing probe into social media accounts allegedly spreading misinformation and 'hate' speech....
Escobar: How The "Order" Based On Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery
08.04.2024, 09:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: How The "Order" Based On Made-Up Rules Is Descending Into Savagery Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Europeans will never be able to replicate the time-tested Hegemon money laundering machine... The awful shadow of some unseen PowerFloats tho’ unseen amongst us, -visitingThis various world with as inconstant wingAs summer winds that creep from...
The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV
08.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Geopolitics Of Chaos: Apocalypse Scenario IV Submitted by Tuomas Malinen In this entry I will expand the analysis we presented in the March Deprcon Outlook of GnS Economics. Issues discussed: ‘Craziness’ driving the world towards WWIII is increasing. Geopolitics is dominating in the background, but people tend to forget it’s a two-way street...
Iran Threatens Israel's Embassies: "No Longer Safe"
07.04.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Threatens Israel's Embassies: "No Longer Safe" The Iranian government is apparently seeking to capitalize on the Israeli public and leadership being on edge due to continuing fears that an Iranian retaliation attack is imminent after last week's Israeli airstrike on Iran's embassy complex in Damascus. An adviser to Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday...
Mexico Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Ecuador After Police Raid On Quito Embassy
06.04.2024, 20:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mexico Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Ecuador After Police Raid On Quito Embassy Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is severing diplomatic relations with Ecuador following a police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador's capital, where they arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought political asylum in the embassy...
US Intelligence Is 'Convinced' Major Iranian Response Against Israel Imminent
06.04.2024, 00:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Intelligence Is 'Convinced' Major Iranian Response Against Israel Imminent US intelligence is 'convinced' that Iran is readying a retaliation response against Israel for the Monday attack on the Iranian embassy complex in Syria, US officials have told CBS News, and that an attack could be imminent. The officials say that the US "has picked up intelligence...
Gold's Defiance Of Real Yields Can't Last Unless Trouble Brewing
04.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold's Defiance Of Real Yields Can't Last Unless Trouble Brewing By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg markets live reporter and strategist Gold’s surge to record highs is extraordinary — coming as it does in the face of elevated real yields that would normally bring it crashing down. That signals the metal is likely to rapidly reverse this year’s climb...
China's Plunge Protection Team Bought $6.8 Billion In Stocks In The Second Half Of 2023
03.04.2024, 23:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's Plunge Protection Team Bought $6.8 Billion In Stocks In The Second Half Of 2023 By John Liu and April Ma, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists A new dataset is giving China investors a peek into stock purchases by state-backed funds, promising to offer some clarity on the role played by them in supporting the world’s second-largest...
Escobar: The Sahel's 'Axis Of Resistance'
03.04.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: The Sahel's 'Axis Of Resistance' Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism – ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path... The emergence of Axes...
US Assures Iran It "Had No Involvement" In Embassy Strike As IDF Claims Only A 'Military Building' Hit
02.04.2024, 17:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Assures Iran It "Had No Involvement" In Embassy Strike As IDF Claims Only A 'Military Building' Hit The Biden administration was notified just minutes before the major Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus on Monday, US and Israeli officials have told Axios; however, the Israeli side wasn't asking for a greenlight, the report...
The Implications Of Fatal Debt? Expect More Lies
02.04.2024, 01:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Implications Of Fatal Debt? Expect More Lies Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz/gold, If you want to understand the direction of debt, rates, the USD, inflation, risk asset markets, gold and the US endgame, it might be better not to listen to the experts. In fact, Johny Cash is a far better source… Five Feet High & Rising In a classic...
Idaho Bans Medicaid For Transgender Procedures
01.04.2024, 23:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Idaho Bans Medicaid For Transgender Procedures Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill Wednesday that prevents individuals enrolled in the state Medicaid program from being covered for transgender-related treatments. Idaho Gov. Brad Little speaks at the White House in Washington on...
PBOC's Yuan Flip-Flop Sows Confusion Among Traders
01.04.2024, 04:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - PBOC's Yuan Flip-Flop Sows Confusion Among Traders By John Liu and Zheng Wu, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and analysts 1. The use of a familiar tool to stabilize the yuan sowed confusion and touched off a debate among investors. The People’s Bank of China stepped in to halt a drop in the currency last week by strengthening the fixing, and...
America's Ongoing Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts
30.03.2024, 22:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Ongoing Death-By-A-Thousand-Cuts Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, Oh Say Can You See? “A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” - Sam Faddis, Retired CIA Who was not impressed...
Sick Of It All
29.03.2024, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sick Of It All Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Every week, usually once or twice, I sit down to put onto paper my thoughts about the market. And every week, my disgust not only for the rigged system that encompasses our equity markets, but also for the sound of my own whining, grows exponentially. When I sit down to perfunctorily prattle on about...
Bahrain Opposition Activist Arrested For Criticizing McLaren Ownership
28.03.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bahrain Opposition Activist Arrested For Criticizing McLaren Ownership Via Middle East Eye A leading opposition activist has been arrested and detained in Bahrain for criticizing on social media the island kingdom’s ownership of the sportscar brand, McLaren. Ebrahim Sharif was arrested by Bahraini authorities on Monday morning over social media...
Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants
28.03.2024, 19:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Appeals Court Extends Block On Texas Arrests Of Illegal Immigrants Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A divided appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction against the State of Texas, continuing to stall the enforcement of Senate Bill 4 (S.B. 4), a state law targeting illegal immigration that allows the state to arrest...
Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter
28.03.2024, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Expect A Financial Crisis In Europe With France At The Epicenter Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The EU never enforced its Growth and Stability Pact or Maastricht Treaty rules. The crisis is coming to a head with France and Italy in the spotlight. The first casualty will be Green policy. Image composite by Mish from the European Commission...
Biden Vows To Fight Ban On Pride Flags At US Embassies After Signing It
27.03.2024, 17:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Vows To Fight Ban On Pride Flags At US Embassies After Signing It Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, Joe Biden was apparently fooled into signing into law a ban on flying gay pride flags at American embassies, with his administration vowing to fight the measure despite his signature approving it. As reported by Axios, the ban was...
Russian Hypersonic Missiles Pummel Kiev After Ukraine Drone Damages Rosneft Refinery
25.03.2024, 20:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Hypersonic Missiles Pummel Kiev After Ukraine Drone Damages Rosneft Refinery Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on Monday morning, with US Ambassador Bridget Brink writing on X that she observed "Loud explosions in Kyiv" as "Again this morning Russia is attacking Ukraine with hypersonic missiles. Loud explosions in Kyiv. Over the...
Spending Deal Bans Flying Pride Flag Over US Diplomatic Buildings
23.03.2024, 17:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spending Deal Bans Flying Pride Flag Over US Diplomatic Buildings Authored by Caden Pearsen via The Epoch Times, The government spending bill that House lawmakers passed on Friday included an effective ban on pride flags flying over diplomatic buildings but dropped nearly all of the 45 GOP-included provisions targeting LGBT concerns. Specifically, the...
Wake-Up Call
22.03.2024, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wake-Up Call Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “Those who organized the disaster will take advantage of the inevitable discontent arising from efforts to overcome it, for if there is one thing that they are skilled in, it is demagoguery.” - Theodore Dalrymple Can you feel it? The tension rising to the red-line? It runs clear through...
Bretton Woods Revisited
21.03.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bretton Woods Revisited Submitted By Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman of DMCC in Dubai It’s been a busy few weeks for both Bitcoin (BTC) fans and gold hawks, with both assets reaching record highs on the back of soaring inflation, market volatility and high rates, and while both assets typically attract quite polarising investors, their simultaneous...
US Military Desperately Seeking To Stay In Niger Despite Order To Leave
21.03.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Military Desperately Seeking To Stay In Niger Despite Order To Leave The Pentagon is desperately seeking to stay in Niger despite the military-led government telling US troops to leave in the wake of accusations from American officials that Niger could be poised to transfer uranium to Iran. Niger was outraged at the allegations and rejected them...
QE By A Different Name Is Still QE
20.03.2024, 19:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - QE By A Different Name Is Still QE Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Fed added Quantitative Easing (QE) to its monetary policy toolbox in 2008. At the time, the financial system was imploding. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke bought $1.5 trillion U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed securities to staunch a financial disaster. The drastic...
Niger Severs Ties With US Military After Alarm Raised Junta Will Supply Uranium To Iran
18.03.2024, 13:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Niger Severs Ties With US Military After Alarm Raised Junta Will Supply Uranium To Iran Niger announced over the weekend that it is suspending military cooperation with the United States, in a significant blow to the Pentagon's presence in West Africa, which is likely to result in Washington being forced to withdraw its troops, also in a major blow...
Who Is "Mr. 100"? Mysterious Bitcoin Whale Becomes 14th Biggest BTC Holder
16.03.2024, 20:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Is "Mr. 100"? Mysterious Bitcoin Whale Becomes 14th Biggest BTC Holder Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, A mysterious Bitcoin whale, nicknamed “Mr. 100,” has sparked curiosity in the cryptocurrency space after amassing over 52,996 Bitcoin, worth over $3.5 billion, on-chain data shows. Who is Bitcoin’s “Mr. 100”? The Mr...
Johnson Whips Out Ukraine Funding Promise To Appease Senate, No Mention Of Border Security
14.03.2024, 17:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Johnson Whips Out Ukraine Funding Promise To Appease Senate, No Mention Of Border Security House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Republican Senators that the House would be sending over legislation to send more US taxpayer funds to defend Ukraine's border. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images This bite at the apple, however, will "look substantially...