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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...
Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever
02.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin ETFs Suffer Worst Day Ever Despite the lack of total carnage in spot bitcoin prices, yesterday was an ugly (nay the ugliest) day for the newly minted ETFs (although bitcoin is down over 10% this week). Most notably, BlackRock’s ETF saw around $37 million in outflows for the first time, while the remaining spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively notched...
Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims
02.05.2024, 14:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thursday Humor: Jobless Claims With WARNs high, JOLTS data tumbling - led construction jobs collapsing, and Challenger-Grey layoffs remarkably elevated, why would anyone question the government's official data on jobless claims - that continues to languish (in a good way) near record lows. Last week saw 208,000 Americans file for jobless benefits for...
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...
The Great Gold Vs Bitcoin Debate: ZeroHedge Presents Roubini And Schiff Against Scaramucci And Vorhees
01.05.2024, 18:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Gold Vs Bitcoin Debate: ZeroHedge Presents Roubini And Schiff Against Scaramucci And Vorhees Proponents of gold and bitcoin often hail from the same ideological background: Austrian economists, dollar bears, Libertarians tired of State manipulation of fiat currencies and, generally, the anti-Fed crowd. Yet shared principles have not eased...
Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm
01.05.2024, 17:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fed Policies Turn The Wealth Gap Into A Chasm Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and other Fed policies eased financial conditions, bolstering...
Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision
01.05.2024, 16:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Markets Are Very, Very Nervous Going Into The FOMC Decision By Michael Every of Rabobank Higher for Longer Anxiety Markets are very, very nervous going into the FOMC decision. The Wall Street Journal’s Timiraos tells us the Fed’s message will be “higher for longer”, language that had been dumped in December. It's another wait-and-see meeting...
"House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy
01.05.2024, 04:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "House Destocking": China Politburo Hints New PLan To Fix BIggest Drag On The Economy China's Politburo meeting on economic policy took place today, and as SocGen's Wei Yao reports, the most important takeaway from the meeting is that policymakers are shifting their attention to housing destocking, as they pledged to 'study measures'. As usual about...
Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near
30.04.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unification Of CBDCs? Global Banks Are Telling Us The End Of The Dollar System Is Near Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s...
We Have Reached The Geo-Populist Tipping Points: Here Are Four Examples
30.04.2024, 16:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Have Reached The Geo-Populist Tipping Points: Here Are Four Examples By Michael Every of Rabobank Beg, Borrow, or Steel Yesterday’s JPY slump from 158 to 160, surge to 155 on BOJ intervention, and stop over 156 underlines how volatile markets are as long-run fundamentals finally reach tipping points. Tomorrow’s FOMC decision should make that...
Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed
30.04.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: Stagflation Finally Revealed Via SchiffGold.com, In this week’s episode, Peter covers the dismal figures released Thursday and Friday, horrible tax policies, and the appalling lack of transparency in our government. Stagflation is back in the economy, as last week’s GDP and PCE figures reveal. The US GDP growth metric for...
Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start
30.04.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Von Greyerz: The Real Move In Gold & Silver Is Yet To Start Authored by Egon von Greyerz via VonGreyerz.gold, Since the October 2023 gold low of just over $1,600 gold is up but is anyone buying? Well no, certainly none of the normal players. Gold Depositories, Gold Funds and Gold ETFs have lost just under 1,400 tonnes of their gold holdings in the last...
"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...
Biden Embraces G20-Proposed 2% Wealth Tax To Battle 'Racial Wealth Inequality'
29.04.2024, 16:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Embraces G20-Proposed 2% Wealth Tax To Battle 'Racial Wealth Inequality' Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Biden and Yellen support a global minimum tax on corporations. And a new wealth tax scheme is now in the works... Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax The Wall Street Journal says Watch Out for a Global Wealth Tax In our new socialist...
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...
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...
The Teams Are Set For World War III
27.04.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Teams Are Set For World War III Authored by Toby Rogers via The Brownstone Institute, I’ve seen some crazy things over the last few years but this is off-the-charts insane. Last week, Michael E. Mann spoke at the EcoHeath Alliance: Green Planet One Health Benefit 2024. Just to recap who each of these players are: Michael E. Mann is the creator...
Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas
27.04.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tesla Attorneys Target Shareholder Trying To Stop Moving Musk's Pay Fight To Texas Richard Tornetta, who was at the center of Tesla shareholders' claim that Elon Musk was taking an excessive pay package, is now at the center of claims that Tesla should not be reincorporating to Texas to approve Musk's voided pay plan. But Tesla is firing back at Tornetta...
Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones
27.04.2024, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Another Russian Oil Refinery Hit By Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Ukrainian military planners have been ramping up Kamikaze drone strikes against the Russian energy industrial complex this week, including an overnight attack damaging an oil refinery as Western sanctions fail to crush Putin's oil-rich economy that funds the "special military operation"...
California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness
27.04.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - California's New Minimum Wage: A Cure That Exacerbates The Sickness Via SchiffGold.com, The solution to a problem shouldn’t make the problem worse. But apparently, California’s policy makers missed that memo. On April 1st, the state instituted a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers, the highest in the US. With California’s absurdly high...
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...
Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency
25.04.2024, 19:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sixth Time The Charm? Meet The ZiG: Zimbabwe's New 'Gold-Backed' Currency Authored by Peter C. Earle via The American Institute for Economic Research, Zimbabwe’s historical relationship with money has been inundated with mistakes, recklessness, and hardship. During the peak of its 2008 hyperinflation, the nation experienced a catastrophic economic...
Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality
25.04.2024, 14:39 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Initial & Continuing Jobless Claims Continue To Ignore Reality In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch:...
The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US
24.04.2024, 22:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Next Global Hegemon Has To Be Even Larger Than The US By Michael Every of Rabobank "Where it will end is very much up for grabs." Yesterday’s manufacturing PMIs shouted “stagflation”, even if some heard “rate cuts”. German manufacturing was 42.2, French 44.9, and Eurozone 45.6, as services were 53.3, 50.5, and 52.9 - but Europe must now...
"They Think There Are Too Many Of Us On The Planet" - Alex Newman Warns Of Tyrannical UN Plans For Our Future
24.04.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "They Think There Are Too Many Of Us On The Planet" - Alex Newman Warns Of Tyrannical UN Plans For Our Future Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State” and the new best-selling book called “Indoctrinating Our Children to Death,” says the UN’s quest for total tyrannical...
'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions
24.04.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Merit' Makes A Comeback: More Universities Reinstate Testing Requirement For Admissions Authored by Wenyuan Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Harvard, following in the footsteps of its Ivy League peers (Dartmouth and Yale) has reinstated standardized testing in its undergraduate admissions. America’s oldest private university, after popularizing...
VIP: Backstage Access, Private Dinner At ZeroHedge Crypto Debate Featuring Schiff, Roubini, Scaramucci And Voorhees
24.04.2024, 00:09 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VIP: Backstage Access, Private Dinner At ZeroHedge Crypto Debate Featuring Schiff, Roubini, Scaramucci And Voorhees On May 3, ZeroHedge is partnering with Crypto Banter to bring together top macroeconomic minds to debate Cryptocurrency: is it the financial engine of the future or a worthless bubble? In the anti-crypto corner is the man whose name is...
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...
Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not
22.04.2024, 20:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Governments Could Stop Inflation If They Wanted... They Will Not Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation is no coincidence. It is a policy. Governments, along with their so-called experts, attempt to persuade you that inflation stems from anything other than the consistent, albeit slower, rise in aggregate prices year after year. Issuing more currency...
The Immense Hunger
21.04.2024, 20:36 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create economic and political conditions that allow their wealth to be built on the backs of the …...
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...
Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds
20.04.2024, 16:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Middle Class Can't Afford Homes In Nearly Half Of Top 100 US Metros, Study Finds By Sam Bourgi of CreditNews, Housing is becoming an exclusively upper-class privilege in a growing number of cities. According to a new study by Creditnews Research, in 2024, middle-class households could afford to buy an average home in just 52 of the country’s 100 largest...
FBI Warns Of Risk Of Chinese Hack Attack On Energy Infrastructure
20.04.2024, 02:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FBI Warns Of Risk Of Chinese Hack Attack On Energy Infrastructure Authored by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com, The director of the FBI has warned that the Chinese state has its sights set on U.S. critical infrastructure to compromise U.S. economic and national security. Speaking at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, Christopher...
Living On Uneasy Street
19.04.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Living On Uneasy Street Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, It's nice to anticipate sunny weather, but it's a good idea to carry an umbrella just in case the forecasts prove overly optimistic. Yes, the market will rally if World War III didn't start last night. The market will also rally if World War III does start, because the Federal...
Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey'
18.04.2024, 14:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jobless Claims Remains Deader Than Joe Biden's 'Uncle Bosey' In the real world labor market, 2024 has been a shitshow of layoffs... 1. Everybuddy: 100% of workforce 2. Wisense: 100% of workforce 3. CodeSee: 100% of workforce 4. Twig: 100% of workforce 5. Twitch: 35% of workforce 6. Roomba: 31% of workforce 7. Bumble: 30% of workforce 8. Farfetch: 25%...
Bidenomics - Inflation Persists And Jobs Decay: Gingrich
18.04.2024, 03:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bidenomics - Inflation Persists And Jobs Decay: Gingrich Authored by Newt Gingrich via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Last week brought bad news for the American people and President Joe Biden. Inflation persists and jobs are decaying. President Joe Biden speaks about Bidenomics at CS Wind, in Pueblo, Colo., on Nov. 29, 2023. (Michael Ciaglo/Getty...
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...
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)
18.04.2024, 00:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984'... Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do...
AI, Gold, & Nuclear War
17.04.2024, 22:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AI, Gold, & Nuclear War Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. Meanwhile, gold has shot up like a rocket over the past couple of months. In mid-February, gold was trading at $1,990. Two months later, gold is trading above $2,400 — a $410 gain in just two months. So here’s...
Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation?
17.04.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Are We On Japan's Path Of Stagnation? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for its stock market to set its recent record high. Many pundits claim the U.S. is following Japan’s path. The path...
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...
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...
Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal
16.04.2024, 15:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Rebound On Strong Earnings Even As Global Market Mood Remains Dismal S&P futures traded modestly in the green, erasing earlier losses and signaling a recovery after the S&P 500 fell more than 1% in the past two sessions, following stronger than expected earnings from index heavyweight UnitedHealth Group which soared 6% after reporting first-quarter...
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...
Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive
16.04.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Financial Forecast 2025-2032: Please Don't Be Naive Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Rather than attempt to evade Caesar's reach, a better strategy might be to 'go gray': blend in, appear average. Let's start by stipulating that I don't "like" this forecast. I'm not "talking my book" (for example, promoting nuclear power because...
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...