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Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
25.04.2024, 11:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab...
Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate
25.04.2024, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls For Record High 44.6% Capital Gains Tax Rate By John Kartch of Americans For Tax Reform President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years. Here is a direct quote from the Biden 2025 budget proposal: “Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified...
Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill
24.04.2024, 23:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Takes Swipe At "MAGA Republicans" While Signing 'Vital' Ukraine, Israel Aid Bill During Wednesday's signing ceremony authorizing the House and Senate-approved 95$ billion emergency foreign aid package, President Biden in his remarks took a swipe at "MAGA Republicans" for causing the holdup. "It’s a good day for America, it’s a good day...
"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...
How Nvidia Uses Gold
24.04.2024, 12:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Nvidia Uses Gold Via SchiffGold.com, What is Nvidia? If you’re a committed gamer the question may sound like nonsense. Nvidia, which was founded in 1993, is a tech company that makes GPUs and other products. It originally specialized in making products for the video game industry, that assisted in 3D rendering. If you were a committed...
Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge
24.04.2024, 05:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chinese FX Outflows Soar, Priming The Next Bitcoin Surge Last October, when we pointed out that China's FX outflows had just hit a whopping $75BN - the single biggest monthly outflow since the 2015 currency devaluation - we concluded that the "unfavorable interest rate spread between China and the US will "likely imply persistent depreciation and outflow...
"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...
There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now
23.04.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is So Much For The Market To "Pass"/"Over" Right Now By Michael Every of Rabobank "Pass"/"Over" There is so much for markets to try to pass over right over: and they are certainly doing so. Niall Ferguson warns us again about an escalating global Cold War 2 using Tolkien as an analogy – real Tolkien, not the insult that was The Rings of Power...
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...
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...
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...
Large Structural Short Will Drive Yen Much Higher
23.04.2024, 15:18 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Large Structural Short Will Drive Yen Much Higher Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Focus has been on the growing short position in the yen. But the total size is likely to be small in the scheme of things. The real story is the lack of domestic hedging leading to a large structural short in the yen which will drive the currency...
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...
BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates
23.04.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BlackRock Triples Larry Fink's Home Security As Anti-Woke Backlash Accelerates BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink's efforts to push 'wokesim' or environmental, social, and governance policies across corporate America have been in reverse in recent years amid the backlash from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill and 19 state attorneys general...
Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish"
23.04.2024, 02:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kolanovic Says "Correction Has Further To Go" Even As JPM's Trading Desk Remains "Bullish" On one hand, the technical storm appears to have subsided: as we correctly predicted last night, just days after the biggest CTA shake-out in over a year (thanks to the fake Iran-Israel war, which on Thursday shook out all the sell stops thanks to the latest brutal...
When Will The Yen Carry Trade End?
22.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Will The Yen Carry Trade End? Via SchiffGold.com, Decades of negative interest rate policy in Japan have ended. That could mean the end of the $20 trillion “yen carry trade,” once one of the most popular trades on foreign exchange markets, and a chain reaction in the global economy. The yen carry trade is when investors borrow yen to buy assets...
How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000
22.04.2024, 10:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000 Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so after the COVID-19 pandemic. To gain perspective on this long-term trend, Visual Capitalist's Marcu Lu visualized the debt-to-GDP ratios of advanced economies, as of 2000 and 2024...
Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement
21.04.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement In what's becoming an annual ritual, the IRS has once again waived required minimum distributions for the current year for people who inherited an IRA from someone who died in 2020 or after. That's welcome news, but some uncertainty still hangs over a growing number of people whose...
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...
Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High
19.04.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tech Wrecks As FedSpeak F**ks FOMO-Followers; Gold Hits New Record High Well, that escalated quickly... In a week characterized by data supporting 'no landing' from a growth perspective and disappointment from a disinflation perspective... Source: Bloomberg This was reinforced by FedSpeak that was without exception - hawkish! As they suddenly realized...
Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman'
18.04.2024, 22:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money-Market Fund Assets See Largest Outflows Since 'Lehman' Total money-market fund assets plunged by $112BN in the last week as Tax-Day demands took the total assets below $6 Trillion for the first time sine January (to $5.97 Trillion)... Source: Bloomberg Corporate taxes collected from April 11 through April 17 totaled $100.7 billion, Treasury data...
Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns
18.04.2024, 21:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Huge Bond Wagers Make Some Hedge Funds Too-Big-To-Fail, IMF Warns Who could have seen this coming? btw this is where the next really big crash will start https://t.co/XcK2RezYEk — zerohedge ( zerohedge) February 1, 2024 Bloomberg's Ye Xie reports that a small group of funds has accumulated such large short wagers in the Treasury market that they could...
SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market
18.04.2024, 18:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - SAAB CEO Says Rising War Risk Drives Defense Spending; Missile Stocks In Bull Market Let's start with these five most recent headlines that show why defense spending needs to increase in a world evolving into a multi-polar state marked by conflict and uncertainty: World Stumbles Into "More Dangerous Decade" As Defense Spending Soars, Says Military...
"The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped"
18.04.2024, 16:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Federal Reserve Is Clearly Trapped" 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 his thoughts...
It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again
18.04.2024, 14:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It's Time To Pay Attention To Funding Risks Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, The risk of a squeeze in US funding markets is increasing as the yield curve bear steepens, i.e. longer-term yields rise more than short-term ones. More attractive bill yields and climbing interest-payment costs on government debt are depleting reserves...
Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon
18.04.2024, 06:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Food Is Now An Investment – Here's Why Inflation Isn't Going Away Anytime Soon Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, One of the more difficult aspects of working in economic analysis is the problem of rampant disinformation that you have to dig through in order to get to the truth of any particular issue. In this regard, economics is very...
After Judicial Tyranny, Tesla Asks Shareholders To Approve Musk's $56 Billion Comp... Again
17.04.2024, 16:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - After Judicial Tyranny, Tesla Asks Shareholders To Approve Musk's $56 Billion Comp... Again At his peak, Elon Musk was worth $340BN (Nov 2021) and stood alone as the world's richest man/women/other. According to Bloomberg's billionaires list, he is now worth mere $175BN... sliding to just the fourth-richest in the world as Tesla's share price has declined...
The Bitcoin-Halving Crash-Course – What Is It & Why It Matters
17.04.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Bitcoin-Halving Crash-Course – What Is It & Why It Matters Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, The Honey Badger’s fourth halving is special for several reasons. The Bitcoin blockchain is secured by “Proof-of-Work” (PoW) – which is known as “mining”. In simple terms, it uses specialized computers (ASICs) which are optimized...
"You're Not Going To Be Speaker Much Longer" - Massie Joins MTG In Calling For Johnson's Ouster
17.04.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "You're Not Going To Be Speaker Much Longer" - Massie Joins MTG In Calling For Johnson's Ouster Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie on Tuesday became the second representative to call for an end to Mike Johnson's reign as Speaker of the House, joining Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene. He delivered that news directly to Johnson in a closed-door Republican...
These Are The Top 10 States By Real GDP Growth
17.04.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Top 10 States By Real GDP Growth Fueled by strong consumer spending and a resilient job market, the U.S. economy expanded faster than expected in 2023, with a real GDP growth rate of 2.5%. Oil-rich states were among the strongest performers in the country as production boomed. Much of this was due to the war in Ukraine driving up the...
What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom?
16.04.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What If The Fed's Hikes Are Actually Sparking US Economic Boom? Authored by Ye Xie via Bloomberg, As the US economy hums along month after month, minting hundreds of thousands of new jobs and confounding experts who had warned of an imminent downturn, some on Wall Street are starting to entertain a fringe economic theory. What if, they ask, all those...
Reflation Trade Is The New Bullish Narrative
16.04.2024, 17:54 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Reflation Trade Is The New Bullish Narrative Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economic “reflation” is becoming the next bullish narrative as equity valuation increases continue to outpace earnings gains, at least according to Gold Sachs and Tony Pasquariello. “If GS is correct on the big calls, the macro backdrop is set...
Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge
16.04.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bank of America Reports Solid Earnings But CRE Losses Unexpectedly Surge With JPM, Citi and Wells already in the books, moments ago the last "big 4" money-center bank, Bank of America reported Q1 earnings which for the most part, were stronger than expected, however there were several troubling footnotes, including a sizable, $700MM FDIC special assessment...
Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues
16.04.2024, 14:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Morgan Stanley Shares Rebound On Strong Revenues Morgan Stanley shares are quickly recovering from last week's mauling (after WSJ reported regulatory probes of how the bank handles wealth management clients “who are at risk of laundering money"), this morning after reporting Q1 wealth management and equities trading revenue that beat expectations...
Victor Davis Hanson: Gaming The 2024 Campaign
15.04.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Victor Davis Hanson: Gaming The 2024 Campaign Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, We have seen enough of the Biden-Trump race so far to predict what lies ahead over the next seven months of the campaign. Currently, the polls are about dead even. Trump, however, for now enjoys small leads in the majority of the fickle swing/purple...
Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking
15.04.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Soars On "Near-Perfect" Top To Bottom Beat As Solomon Sees Rebound In Dealmaking With JPMorgan tumbling on Friday on a net interest income miss and disappointing guidance, suffering its worst earnings-day slump in decades, financials needed a solid report this morning and got it from the bank that once was the envy of all its Wall Street peers...
Johnson, Trump Announce Election Integrity Bill To Require Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
15.04.2024, 13:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Johnson, Trump Announce Election Integrity Bill To Require Proof Of Citizenship To Vote Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and former President Donald Trump are urging support for a bill aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting in federal elections. Republican presidential candidate...
Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
15.04.2024, 12:07 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes to …...
Why Mankind Remains So Lost In Economic-Ignorance & Triablistic-Warmongering
15.04.2024, 08:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Mankind Remains So Lost In Economic-Ignorance & Triablistic-Warmongering Authored by Jorge Besada via The Mises Institute, Carl Menger's Overlooked Vital Evolutionary Insights Carl Menger is widely recognized as one of the economists leading the so-called marginalist revolution along with William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras. There are two other...
The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I
14.04.2024, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Hidden Cost Of Progressivism, Part I Authored by David Parker via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. Constitution, the Founding Fathers created a nation of maximum individual freedom, maximum individual responsibility, limited government, and classical liberalism. Having fled anti-democratic European aristocracy, privileged class structure, and limited...
How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures
13.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Failed To Reduced Electricity Costs In Pictures Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let’s check in on the not exactly impressive energy and inflation results of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)... Data from the BLS, chart by Mish Biden’s energy policy has been an inflationary disaster. And make...
It’s Official: Reflation Is Here
13.04.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - It’s Official: Reflation Is Here Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head...
These Are The Most Valuable Housing Markets In America
13.04.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most Valuable Housing Markets In America The residential real estate market in the U.S. stands as one of the largest asset classes in the country, worth $47.5 trillion in 2023. Despite a slowdown in home sales, the total value of homes increased $2.4 trillion last year as low inventory levels pushed up prices. Affordable metropolitan...
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...
US Domestic Deposits Tumble $60BN As Small Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Most Since SVB
12.04.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Domestic Deposits Tumble $60BN As Small Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Most Since SVB Money-market funds saw a small outflow last week (surprisingly small given how close to Tax-Day we are), leaving them still near record highs over $6 Trillion (and the trend of increased deposits at banks has been accelerating)... Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, amid...
The Beauty Parlor's Full Of Sailors And The Circus Is In Town
12.04.2024, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Beauty Parlor's Full Of Sailors And The Circus Is In Town Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” - Eugyppius This is that part of the movie where the hero — you — tumbles off the cliff...
Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks
12.04.2024, 15:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Tumble On Disappointing JPM Earnings, Surging Geopolitical Risks Futures are tumbling this morning, hit by disappointing earnings and outllook from the largest US bank, JPMorgan whose stock is down around 3% in a soggy launch to Q1 earnings season, while growing fears of an imminent conflict between Israel and Iran have sent oil surging and...
JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints
12.04.2024, 14:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - JPMorgan Slides After Dimon Warns On Net Interest Income, Outlook Disappoints Q1 earnings season officially opened moments ago when JPM became the first mega bank to reports results, and even though JPM beat on across the board - and even unexpectedly released reserves instead of setting money aside for yet another quarter - the stock is lower by more...
GODL! Precious Metal Soars Above $2,400 After Sudden Gap Higher
12.04.2024, 03:58 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - GODL! Precious Metal Soars Above $2,400 After Sudden Gap Higher Crypto bulls - at least those who didn't sell previously - have had their day in the sun for the past 3 months as bitcoin and most other fiat alternatives soared, making it clear why, despite the difficult, it can be so very profitable to HODL, especially with the US is approaching the...