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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...
Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin
01.05.2024, 15:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yields Tumble After Dovish Refunding Reveals Debt Sales In Line With Expectations, No Coupon Auction Increases "For Several Quarters", And Treasury Buybacks Begin Having already revealed its borrowing estimates for Q2 and Q3 on Monday, where we learned that the Treasury expects to sell $41BN more debt than previously expected in Q2, but offset by a...
Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)
01.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Maté: What 10 Years Of US Meddling In Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy) Authored by Aaron Maté via RealClear Investigations, In successfully lobbying Congress for an additional $61 billion in Ukraine war funding, an effort that ended this month with celebratory Democrats waving Ukrainian flags in the House chamber, President Biden...
South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term
01.05.2024, 01:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - South Korea's Central Bank Says May Buy Gold In The Mid To Long-Term Back in 2011, around the time gold hits its previous cycle high, South Korea surprised the fiat world when it revealed that it had spent more than a billion dollars in its first gold purchase in more than a decade, as uncertainty about global growth and sovereign debt push central...
Fani Flees Fulton County Primary Debate, Leaves Opponent Facing Empty Podium
30.04.2024, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fani Flees Fulton County Primary Debate, Leaves Opponent Facing Empty Podium Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is handling former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, skipped a debate against her Democrat primary challenger on Sunday. The debate was...
China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked
30.04.2024, 05:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states. Geopolitics, like any conflict, is dramatic: rivals jostle for hegemony on a 3-D chessboard, war threatens...
Falling From Grace
30.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling From Grace Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those...
Who Has Savings In This Economy?
29.04.2024, 12:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Has Savings In This Economy? Two full years of inflation have taken their toll on American households. In 2023, the country’s collective credit card debt crossed $1 trillion for the first time. So who is managing to save money in the current economic environment? Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao visualizes the percentage of respondents to the...
Bird-Flu, Censorship, & 100 Day Vaccines: 7 Predictions For "The Next Pandemic"
27.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bird-Flu, Censorship, & 100 Day Vaccines: 7 Predictions For "The Next Pandemic" Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, Earlier this month the White House published its new “Pandemic Preparedness” targets. They are far from alone in covering this. Back in March, Sky News was asking: “Next pandemic is around the corner,’ expert warns...
Trump Responds To Main 'Hush Money' Trial Witness's Claims
26.04.2024, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Responds To Main 'Hush Money' Trial Witness's Claims Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Former President Donald Trump praised the first witness in his New York City “hush money” trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, as he is scheduled to deliver more testimony in the case on Friday. “He’s been very nice. David’s...
Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired?
26.04.2024, 15:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, According to the absurd numbers that the government feeds us, the unemployment rate is very low and there are lots of jobs available. But if what they are telling us is true, why are so many...
Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail - As IDF Awaits
26.04.2024, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gaza Aid Flotilla With 1,000 Passengers, Tons Of Supplies Poised To Sail - As IDF Awaits A flotilla of ships packed with a thousand activists, human rights observers and more than 5,500 tons of food and medical supplies is ready to sail from Istanbul to for Gaza. To do so, they'll need the Turkish government to let them leave the port, and then run...
Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy
26.04.2024, 02:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taxing Unrealized Gains Would Obliterate The U.S. Economy Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Having used up all of the rest of the batshit, insane, counterintuitive economic dirty tricks left in the "we'll literally do anything but cut spending" bag, the Biden administration is pushing what could be the most destructive idea for our country since prohibition:...
I Kant Even: German Chancellor Triggered After Putin Quotes Legendary Philosopher
25.04.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I Kant Even: German Chancellor Triggered After Putin Quotes Legendary Philosopher German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is quite upset, after Vladimir Putin quoted German philosopher Immanuel Kant - who the Russian president called "one of the greatest thinkers of both his time and ours," and said that the philosopher's call "to live by one's own wits" is relevant...
Jack Dorsey's Block Announces Development Of 'Full Bitcoin Mining System'
24.04.2024, 14:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jack Dorsey's Block Announces Development Of 'Full Bitcoin Mining System' Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Payments firm Block, formerly known as Square, has announced plans to develop a Bitcoin mining system in response to challenges faced by mining operators. In an April 23 blog post, Block said it had completed development of a...
A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome
24.04.2024, 06:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A $250 Million War Game And Its Shocking Outcome Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, At a cost of $250 million, Millennium Challenge 2002 was the largest and most expensive war game in Pentagon history. With over 13,500 participants, the US government took over two years to design it. The exercise pitted Iran against the US military...
Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok
24.04.2024, 05:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senates Passes $95 Billion Aid Bill For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan, Forces Sale Of TikTok The republicans do what they always do best: fold like cheap lawn chairs. Moments ago, in a 79-18 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package sending $60.8 billion in ammunition and military equipment to Ukrainian...
Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination
24.04.2024, 02:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amash Battling Trump-Endorsed Deep-State Doozie For Michigan Senate Nomination Former Rep. Justin Amash on Monday announced that his Senate campaign had submitted the requisite signatures to appear on Michigan's Aug. 6 primary ballot. The GOP field for a shot at a Democrat-vacated seat includes an archetypal Deep Stater in former Rep. Mike Rogers, who...
Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion
23.04.2024, 23:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Global Military Spending Hits All-Time High Of $2.4 Trillion By Tim Martin at BreakingDefense Global military expenditure surged to a record $2.44 trillion in 2023, the largest year-on-year rise on weapons spending since 2009, according to a new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report. The report, published today, said that the...
Federal Judge Appears Ready To Reimpose Jan. 6 'Disinformation' Monitoring
23.04.2024, 21:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Judge Appears Ready To Reimpose Jan. 6 'Disinformation' Monitoring Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Despite being slapped down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for ordering a Jan. 6 probationer’s computer use be monitored for so-called “disinformation,” a senior federal judge in Washington D.C. appears ready...
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...
'Threat Facing Our Country Is From The Far Left' And Socialistic Thugs, Not Trump: Bill Barr
23.04.2024, 01:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Threat Facing Our Country Is From The Far Left' And Socialistic Thugs, Not Trump: Bill Barr Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Former Attorney General Bill Barr dismissed the idea that former President Donald Trump is a power-hungry “right-wing dictator,” noting that the real threat facing the United States is the...
White House Condemns "Antisemitic" Protests At Columbia University
22.04.2024, 19:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - White House Condemns "Antisemitic" Protests At Columbia University "I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a thread on X. "Hate has no place in our city, and I have instructed the NYPD to investigate any violation of law they receive a report...
Kick Back, Watch It Crumble
22.04.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kick Back, Watch It Crumble Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance The title to this post comes from one of my favorite NOFX songs, Dinosaurs Will Die. While I’m sure the band in absolutely no way agrees with most, if not all, of my political leanings, the critiques they raise about the music industry in the song could serve just as well as many of the...
Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices
21.04.2024, 16:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gold Miners Will Trade At "Multiples" Of Current Prices Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Friend of Fringe Finance Lawrence Lepard released his most recent investor letter this week. He gets little coverage in the mainstream media, which, in my opinion, makes him someone worth listening to twice as closely. Larry was kind enough to allow me to share...
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...
Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem?
20.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Housing Costs Are Crushing The American Middle Class, But How Can We Fix The Problem? In a new poll conducted by the Financial Times and Michigan's Ross School of Business, data shows there is a rare bipartisan agreement among Republicans and Democrats – Both sides believe that there are no housing advantages for the their political opponents and...
Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal
20.04.2024, 03:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Speaker Johnson's Ignominious Betrayal Authored by David Stockman via David Stockman's Contra Corner, Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually...
What Happened To Bitcoin?
19.04.2024, 12:34 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Happened To Bitcoin? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before. Today, no one much cares about what came before, speaking of 2010-2016. They are only watching the upward price momentum and are thrilled...
Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare"
19.04.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia, Russia, Russia!: Watch As Democrats Go Full Russia-Tard During Hearing Over China's "Political Warfare" While China has spent decades conducting deep espionage throughout US institutions - mostly in the form of plucky PhD candidates handling sensitive projects at American universities, and places like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Congressional...
The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education
18.04.2024, 05:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Top 10 Most Cost-Effective Countries To Get A High-Priced Higher Education A new study by Online Gaming Groups has evaluated over 30 countries to determine the most cost-effective higher education systems, focusing on the percentage of average annual income spent on educational expenses. This analysis included countries with the highest university...
The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever
18.04.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teachers' Unions Are More Political than Ever Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, In the past, teachers’ unions concentrated on fighting to keep all teachers employed—competent or otherwise—laying off teachers by seniority when necessary and soaking taxpayers every chance they could. While those activities are still part of their...
Tucker Carlson: Congress Is Lying To You About FISA
18.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tucker Carlson: Congress Is Lying To You About FISA Authored by Tucker Carlson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours) The U.S. House is expected to vote Friday on a two-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, commonly known as FISA. This transcript has been edited for length and reprinted with permission from Tucker Carlson. A few...
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...
Zelensky Angry That Israel Prioritized By West, Says Ukraine Running Out Of Missiles To Defend Airspace
17.04.2024, 18:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Angry That Israel Prioritized By West, Says Ukraine Running Out Of Missiles To Defend Airspace On Wednesday Russian missiles slammed into the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, killing at least 17 people and wounding scores more, according to local officials. The attack came during a busy time of the day in a downtown district. President...
The US-Mexico Dispute Over GM Corn Safety Could Transform American Agriculture
16.04.2024, 23:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US-Mexico Dispute Over GM Corn Safety Could Transform American Agriculture Authored by Amy Denney via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Mexico’s effort to keep genetically modified corn out of the country is triggering a trade dispute with the United States and Canada that could affect the future of agriculture. (Illustration by The Epoch Times...
Border Outranks Ukraine As Moderate Voter Priority In Swing States: Poll
16.04.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Border Outranks Ukraine As Moderate Voter Priority In Swing States: Poll Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An April survey of swing, or moderate, voters in six battleground states suggests the impacts of an open southern border is concerning them more than events in Ukraine. Federal law enforcement agents and officers...
These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do
16.04.2024, 15:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Inflation Trades Have Most Catching Up To Do Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Markets are unprepared for price growth that is becoming entrenched. But even though the risk-reward in shorting Treasuries or buying gold or Bitcoin is diminishing, we can instead pinpoint the assets that have the most potential to catch up to persistent...
'Transgender Archeology' PhDs And Degrees In 'Magic' Being Funded With UK Taxpayer Money
16.04.2024, 09:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Transgender Archeology' PhDs And Degrees In 'Magic' Being Funded With UK Taxpayer Money Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A Conservative MP in the UK has called for a thorough review of government higher education funding after it was revealed that taxpayer money is being spent on ridiculous university courses, including a PhD researcher...
California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can't Account For Money Spent
16.04.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California Auditor Finds Homeless Council Can't Account For Money Spent Authored by John Seiler via The Epoch Times, Responsible businesses do regular audits of their finances to see which areas are making money and which not. Families also do audits, if only at tax time to see how much they owe. Contrast that with government. California State Auditor...
Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals
15.04.2024, 15:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Aluminum, Nickel Soar Then Slide After Western Sanctions On Russian Metals Over the weekend we reported that, in a surprise move, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper and nickel in the latest bid to curb President Vladimir Putin’s ability to fund his war machine (as discussed previously, Russian oil is now trading...
The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System
15.04.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trump Trial In Manhattan Is An Indictment Of The New York Legal System Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have long been critical of the case as a clear example of the weaponization of the criminal justice system. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg would have spent this time and money to prosecute what is ordinarily a state misdemeanor if the...
"This Memory-Holing Bull$hit Makes Me Go Ballistic" - CJ Hopkins' Greatest Satiricial Ragefest Yet
15.04.2024, 11:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Memory-Holing Bull$hit Makes Me Go Ballistic" - CJ Hopkins' Greatest Satiricial Ragefest Yet Authored by CJ Hopkins via Substack, Thank God for the German Hate Police! Or heil … or whatever the appropriate salutation is for these unsung heroes. They just saved us all from “hate” again! Yes, that’s right, once again, democracy-loving people...
Israel's Defense Against Iran Attack Overnight 'Likely Cost Over $1 Billion'
14.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel's Defense Against Iran Attack Overnight 'Likely Cost Over $1 Billion' Via Middle East Eye It cost Israel more than $1bn to activate its defense systems that intercepted Iran's massive drone and missile attack overnight, according to a former financial adviser to Israel's military. "The defence tonight was on the order of 4-5bn shekels [$1-1...
'Do The Right Thing': Assange Supporters Urge As Biden Mulls Dropping Case
13.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Do The Right Thing': Assange Supporters Urge As Biden Mulls Dropping Case President Joe Biden this week for the first time said his administration is weighing the Australian government’s requests to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been deprived of his freedom since 2010 and is currently jailed in London’s notorious...
Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill
13.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Google Begins Blocking News From California Outlets Over State Bill Google has temporarily blocked access to California-based news outlets for some state residents, as the search giant escalates its battle with the state over a landmark bill which would force tech giants to pay online publishers for their content. In doing so, the company has revived...
Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants
13.04.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday in the city’s response to the illegal immigrant crisis, extending support to six months but with only about 1,000 spaces. Illegal immigrants rest...
Avian Flu Found In Seventh State As Cattle Restrictions Grow
12.04.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Avian Flu Found In Seventh State As Cattle Restrictions Grow Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), North Carolina authorities on April 10 reported that cows in the state tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza, as the state became the latest to impose restrictions on the movement of cows. Cows in New Mexico in...