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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...
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...
Supreme Court Rules Biden Administration Must Face False Debt Reporting Lawsuits
10.02.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Rules Biden Administration Must Face False Debt Reporting Lawsuits Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 8 rejected an attempt by the Biden administration to avoid a lawsuit stemming from false debt reporting, with the landmark ruling opening the door for consumers to sue federal agencies...
Beijing Appoints Capital Markets Veteran As Regulatory Chief Amid Stock Meltdown
07.02.2024, 14:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Beijing Appoints Capital Markets Veteran As Regulatory Chief Amid Stock Meltdown China has appointed capital markets veteran Wu Qing to head the nation's securities regulator just one day after the country's sovereign wealth fund said it would ramp up buying shares in the open market amid a three-year rout that has wiped out a staggering $7 trillion...
Exter's Inverted Pyramid Of Risk
06.02.2024, 21:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Exter's Inverted Pyramid Of Risk Via SchiffGold.com, In the landscape of economic foresight, John Exter, a distinguished hard money advocate and former precious metals expert for The Fed, offers a model that resonates with the principles upheld here at SchiffGold. Developed in the 1970s, Exter’s Inverted Pyramid of Risk remains as relevant as ever...
A Trial Palestinian State Must Begin in Gaza
06.02.2024, 19:24 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - After a test period of peaceful sovereign rule and recognition by the major powers, statehood could be extended to the West Bank....
The Fed Cannot Cut Rates As Fast As Markets Want
06.02.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fed Cannot Cut Rates As Fast As Markets Want Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Market participants started the year with aggressive expectations of rapid and large rate cuts. However, after the latest inflation, growth, and job figures, the probability of a rate cut in March has fallen from 80 to 19%. Unfortunately for many, headline figures will support...
Chinese Stocks Soar Overnight As Regulators Brief Xi On $7 Trillion Trainwreck
06.02.2024, 14:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese Stocks Soar Overnight As Regulators Brief Xi On $7 Trillion Trainwreck After tumbling the prior day following remarks on heavy tariffs from presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Chinese stocks rallied significantly across the board overnight after reports that regulators planned to brief President Xi Jinping on the financial market as soon...
Futures Flat As Interest Rates Grind Higher After Two-Day Surge
06.02.2024, 14:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Interest Rates Grind Higher After Two-Day Surge US index futures traded flat on Tuesday, with European markets fading earlier gains while Chinese stocks surged on fresh hopes of government intervention in markets, as continued euphoria about artificial intelligence lifted the shares of Nvidia though broader indexes drifted. As of 7:50am...
China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East
06.02.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Joins Russia In Condemning US Strikes In Middle East After the Friday large-scale US strikes on Iranian proxy positions in Iraq and Syria, and following the Saturday and Sunday Western coalition attacks on Houthi positions in Yemen, China on Monday issued a blistering condemnation of what is sees as aggression against sovereign countries China’s...
Open Borders & Closed Courts: How The Supreme Court Laid The Seeds For The Immigration Crisis
05.02.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Open Borders & Closed Courts: How The Supreme Court Laid The Seeds For The Immigration Crisis Authored by Jonathan Turley, The upcoming impeachment vote on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has caused a deep rift even among his critics, including some Republican members of Congress. Many view Mayorkas as an unmitigated disaster as Homeland...
Are Bankruptcies Of Some US States In The Future?
04.02.2024, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are Bankruptcies Of Some US States In The Future? Authored by Stephen Anderson via The Mises Institute, Bankruptcy is a developing twenty-first century theme in America. We see bankruptcy in federal government policy and spending, many corporate boardroom decisions, nonprofit and religious groups’ overspending and arrogance, individuals, some United...
Is A Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan Imminent?
03.02.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is A Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan Imminent? Authored by Tarik Solmaz via RealClear Wire, The recent victory of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Lai Ching-te in Taiwan’s presidential election has heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, renewing the debate on a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan. While most defense analysts do not perceive...
China Poised To Take Further Control Of Iraq's Key Southern Oil Assets
03.02.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Poised To Take Further Control Of Iraq's Key Southern Oil Assets Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, China is over the halfway mark in completing its strategically vital oil project in the critical Iraqi energy hub of Nasiriyah. This facility will act as a storage hub and supply conduit for 3.0-3.5 million barrels of crude oil. Even before...
It's Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right)
02.02.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Biden Vs Texas (And Texas Is Right) Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, In what can only be a surprising move, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has openly defied the White House and invoked Article 1 section 10 of the US constitution as a reason to ignore the Biden Administration's demand that the State government cease erecting a border...
The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of January 2024
01.02.2024, 20:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Best And Worst Performing Assets Of January 2024 Despite the S&P hitting multiple all-time highs toward the end of the month, January was a mixed month as far as markets were concerned, because as DB's Henry Allen writes, financial assets saw a fairly divergent performance. On the one hand, economic data kept surprising on the upside for the most...
The US Is Living On Borrowed Time
01.02.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Is Living On Borrowed Time Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, In late December, I published a final report on the themes of 2023 while looking ahead at their implications for the year to come. I repeated my claim that debt markets and debt levels made the future of Fed policies, currency moves, rate markets and gold’s endgame...