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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...
Hamas Praises Colombia's Breaking Relations With Israel, Urges All Of Latin America To Follow
03.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hamas Praises Colombia's Breaking Relations With Israel, Urges All Of Latin America To Follow Hamas is praising the government of Colombia and its leftist president Gustavo Petro for on Thursday formally cutting diplomatic ties with Israel after accusing its military of genocide against the Palestinian people. A Hamas statement the same day hailed...
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...
Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise
03.05.2024, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Renewed Regulatory Pressure On Bitcoin Is No Surprise Authored by Mark E. Jeftovic via bombthrower.com, Nor will it change anything over the long haul… We’ve always said that the rise of Bitcoin and non-state fintech was a monetary regime change, and that it would be naive to expect the entrenched “powers that be” and incumbent establishment...
Bill Advances Calling For California To Issue Formal Apology For Slavery
02.05.2024, 21:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Advances Calling For California To Issue Formal Apology For Slavery Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, The California Assembly’s Appropriations Committee approved a bill May 1 which would require the state to issue an apology for its role in perpetuating harm related to slavery. Assembly Bill 3089, introduced by Assemblyman Reginald...
Saudi Arabia Worried About Islamist Uprising As US-Backed Normalization With Israel 'Close'
02.05.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia Worried About Islamist Uprising As US-Backed Normalization With Israel 'Close' Via The Cradle Arrests of Saudi citizens over social media posts related to 'Israeli genocide' in Gaza have markedly increased in recent months, as Riyadh is reportedly concerned that "Iran and Islamist groups could exploit the conflict to incite a wave of uprisings...
"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...
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...
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...
Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity’s March Toward Extinction? Viruses Are Our Friends, Not Our Foes
02.05.2024, 09:01 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit … The post Our Species Is Being Genetically Modified. Are We Witnessing Humanity’s March...
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...
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...
Is NATO A Paper Tiger?
01.05.2024, 22:28 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Iran’s successful missile strikes, NATO’s equipment failures in Ukraine, and U.S. military setbacks raise the question: Is NATO a paper tiger, unable to maintain its perceived strength? On April 13, Iran struck back against Israel for an attack on its Syrian embassy by launching over 300 drones and missiles toward Israeli targets. Although...
FOMC Leaves Rates Unchanged (As Expected), Says QT Taper To Start In June
01.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FOMC Leaves Rates Unchanged (As Expected), Says QT Taper To Start In June Since the last FOMC meeting, on March 20th, gold has been the biggest outperformer (interesting along with dollar strength), while stocks, bonds, and crude (and crypto) have all been sold (with bonds and oil equally ugly)... Source: Bloomberg And since March 20th, US macro data...
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...
US Treasury's Funding Mix Will Be Pivotal For Fed's Next Moves
01.05.2024, 13:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Treasury's Funding Mix Will Be Pivotal For Fed's Next Moves Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, How the Treasury intends to meet its borrowing requirements – the mix between shorter-term bills and longer-term coupons – will strongly influence liquidity and thus the performance of risk assets. Quantitative tightening is thus on...
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...
Does The CIA Run America?
30.04.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Does The CIA Run America? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, We’ve all surely had dark thoughts that the CIA is really running the United States, including many media venues. Maybe that’s been true for decades and we just didn’t know it. If so, let’s just say that it would explain a tremendous amount of what has otherwise been clouded...
"The Only Safe Asset" - Chinese Consumers Overtake India In Gold-Buying Frenzy
30.04.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Only Safe Asset" - Chinese Consumers Overtake India In Gold-Buying Frenzy Who could have seen this coming? ICYMI from Nov 2023, when gold was still 1900 Behind The Mysterious Explosion In Gold Prices: China's "Massive Accumulation Of Gold"https://t.co/6Yg2HPmMwf — zerohedge ( zerohedge) April 28, 2024 In November 2023, with gold trading around...
James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election
29.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - James Carville Has Meltdown Over Young Voters Sitting Out The Election Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Trump is ahead in the latest poll. Younger voters leave the Biden camp. James Carville has a meltdown. Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden A CNN poll shows Trump maintains lead over Biden in 2024 matchup as views on their presidencies diverge...
Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today
29.04.2024, 20:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's What The Treasury Will Announce In Its Borrowing Estimate At 3pm Today Ahead of Wednesday's full Treasury refunding announcement and FOMC announcement, as well as today's Treasury Borrowing Estimate, a nerdy clash has broken out within the rates market between those who expect the Treasury to surprise to the downside with its upcoming Sources...
Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable
29.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rabobank: Biden's Dire Rating On His Handling Of The Economy Is Remarkable By Benjamin Picton, senior strategist at Rabobank The S Word Last week the data caught up with the public mood. Annualized US GDP for Q1 was +1.6%, well below the 2.5% consensus estimate and even below the most pessimistic estimate of +1.7% in the Bloomberg survey. Meanwhile...
When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture...
29.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Life Imitates Apocalypse Culture... Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Real world “cancer cure” eerily mirrors zombie flick setup If anybody remembers the opening segment from the Will Smith zombie apocalypse flick I Am Legend, it starts with a comically ironic scene wherein a precocious female scientist, endearingly played by...
Man Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt Killing Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison
28.04.2024, 18:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Man Who Filmed Ashli Babbitt Killing Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), John Earle Sullivan, the onetime racial-justice activist and provocateur who filmed the deadly shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to six years in federal prison by a judge in...
Iran's Nightmares
28.04.2024, 05:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran's Nightmares Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Details of the recent limited Israeli retaliatory strike against Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed...
Putin Did Not Order Alexei Navalny's Death, US Intelligence Finds
27.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Did Not Order Alexei Navalny's Death, US Intelligence Finds In a surprising turn, The Wall Street Journal has issued a new weekend report saying that US intelligence agencies do not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned or ordered the death of opposition activist and politician Alexei Navalny. "U.S. intelligence agencies have...
Boeing 767 Loses Emergency Slide After Departing From New York City
27.04.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Boeing 767 Loses Emergency Slide After Departing From New York City Some Boeing jets, operated by major US carriers, are plagued with persistent issues that concern travelers, prompting a shift toward what is perceived as safer Airbus jets. It appears that hardly a week passes without a new problem with a Boeing jet. The latest near-mid-air disaster...
Emergency-O-Rama...
26.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Emergency-O-Rama... Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “We’ll certainly never forget the dark days of June 6... January 6th, excuse me.” - President “Joe Biden” The plum blossoms are ready to pop here. You can feel your blood rising. The evening sun lingers a little longer every day. Normally you’d celebrate, but not this...
IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive
26.04.2024, 19:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IDF Shelling Hammers Rafah As Egypt Sends Top Intel Official To Avert Ground Offensive Egypt is attempting a last ditch effort to reach a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel at a moment IDF shelling of Rafah has intensified, in what are seen as 'softening' operations ahead of an imminent ground offensive, despite international calls to cancel the operation...
Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men
26.04.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Poland Ready To Help Ukraine Round Up Military-Aged Men Poland says it is ready and willing to help Ukraine with its crisis-level manpower and recruitment problems, as it could be poised to round up Ukrainian military-aged males and return them to their home country. Government officials are now strongly signaling just such a controversial plan. Polish...
The Great Game Returns To Central Asia
26.04.2024, 05:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Game Returns To Central Asia Via EurasiaNet.org, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reanimated US and EU interest in Central Asia. China has eclipsed Russia as the region's largest trade partner. Central Asian trade is diversifying away from Russia and towards the West. The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting...
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:...
Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War
26.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Massive Futuristic Vanity Projects Falter Amid Gaza War Authored by Giorgio Cafiero via The Cradle Launched in 2017, Saudi Arabia’s NEOM, a sprawling high-tech development on the northwestern Red Sea coast, was introduced as the crown jewel of Vision 2030. This futuristic desert megaproject, extending over some Jordanian and Egyptian...
Congress Helps Steer Taiwan Toward the ‘Porcupine Strategy’
25.04.2024, 22:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The national security bill gives Biden more leverage to tell Taiwan what weapons to buy....
"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...
Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles
24.04.2024, 15:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering Tumbles On Profit Warning As Gucci Revamp Stumbles Gucci owner Kering SA's problems in mainland China are only mounting as the French luxury giant issued a profit warning. As a result, shares of the company in Paris plunged to a six-year low. Lackluster Chinese demand for the luxury goods maker, which includes the Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega...
Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State
24.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State On more than one occasion this primary season, the Biden-Harris campaign has been found itself on the wrong side of significant protest votes -- for example, when 13.3% of Michigan Democrats voted "uncommitted" to register their deep dissatisfaction with his handling...
AI Chatbots Refuse To Produce 'Controversial' Output - Why That's A Free Speech Problem
24.04.2024, 11:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI Chatbots Refuse To Produce 'Controversial' Output - Why That's A Free Speech Problem Authored by Jordi Calvet-Bademunt and Jacob Mchangama via TheConversation.com, Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people. Adobe...
"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...
Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill
24.04.2024, 03:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kim Jong Un Oversees "Nuclear Counterattack" Drill North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw salvo launches of the country’s "super-large" multiple rocket launchers in what state media presented as simulation drills of a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media revealed Tuesday. The day prior, the South Korean and Japanese militaries...
Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated
24.04.2024, 01:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cannabis Use Greatest Among Lower-Income And Less Educated By Dan Witters of Gallup Nine percent of U.S. adults report that they use cannabis regularly, defined as at least 10 days of consumption per month. Regular usage differs by education and income, with the highest rates seen among those with a high school education or less (13%) and those living...
Jan 6 Committee Chair Offers Bill To End Secret Service Protection For Convicted Felons
23.04.2024, 23:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jan 6 Committee Chair Offers Bill To End Secret Service Protection For Convicted Felons In a move aimed at Donald Trump, House Democrats have introduced a bill that would remove Secret Service protection for any former executive sentenced to prison for a federal or state felony. The bill comes from Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson,...
Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over?
23.04.2024, 19:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Just A Correction, Or Is The Bull Market Over? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Is this just a correction after a strong bullish advance from November, or is the bull market ending? If you read some of the headlines, you would suspect the latter. As noted by MarketWatch last week: “For the first time since early November 2023...
"Let Me Go Home, Okay?": Mistrial Declared For Arizona Rancher Accused Of Killing Illegal Immigrant On His Property
23.04.2024, 17:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Let Me Go Home, Okay?": Mistrial Declared For Arizona Rancher Accused Of Killing Illegal Immigrant On His Property A mistrial was declared in the case of an Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting an illegal immigrant on his property near the US-Mexico border, after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision following two full days of deliberation...
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...
NYU, Columbia, Yale Crack Down On Demonstrators As Anti-Israel Protests Intensify
23.04.2024, 16:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NYU, Columbia, Yale Crack Down On Demonstrators As Anti-Israel Protests Intensify Several pro-Palestinian protests at major universities have been forcibly shut down, as tension simmer over the Israel-Hamas war. NYU staff join protests (AFP via Getty Images) The protests, which have been growing in size and intensity over the last week, were met with...
'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being
23.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Its The Economy, Stupid!' Black And Hispanic Voters Embrace Trump On Economics And Well-Being Authored by J.G. Collins via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Epoch Times reporter Tom Ozimek recently wrote in these pages of former President Donald Trump’s encounter with Kayla Montgomery, a young Republican political consultant whose business is to “engage...
Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields
23.04.2024, 14:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Extend Rebound Into Second Day Ahead Of Tesla Earnings Despite Rising Yields US equity futures are higher for the second day, even as small-caps underperform after bond yields rise about +4bps and trade near session highs. As of 7:40am S&P and Nasdaq futures were 0.3% higher after Wall Street’s rebound from a $2 trillion selloff; European...
'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...
No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report
22.04.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - No Evidence FBI Used Counterterrorism Tactics on Catholics: Government Watchdog Report Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An independent governmental watchdog investigation concluded that there was no evidence to support that the FBI was targeting Catholics based on a leaked memo. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan...