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Joe Biden Invokes Executive Privilege Over Special Counsel Recordings
16.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Joe Biden Invokes Executive Privilege Over Special Counsel Recordings After the DOJ stonewalled over surrendering an audio recording of Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents, the White House has invoked executive privilege to block House Republicans from obtaining it. On Wednesday,...
Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down"
16.05.2024, 15:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Walmart Soars To Record High After Beating Estimates, Guiding Higher As Consumers "Trade Down" WMT stock surged in premarket trading after the company not only reported Q1 earnings that blew away expectations, but guided even higher than consensus, and now expects the full year to be slightly better than planned as the big-box retailer attracts price-conscious...
Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks
16.05.2024, 14:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Welcome To LaLa Land As Market Jettisons Tail Risks By Simon White, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and analyst The economy is signaling a more volatile, potentially recessionary period. Markets, however, aren’t paying attention. Not only are the twin tail risks of a downturn or resurgent inflation being ignored, but a near-impossible “immaculate...
Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move
16.05.2024, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat At All Time High As Markets Mull Next Move US index futures are flat after notching new record highs on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, spurred on by a miss in the US CPI print and retail sales data on Wednesday, which also boosted bets the Federal Reserve will ease policy. That inflation data, which the market was feverishly anticipating,...
What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs
16.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What About The Non-Superstar Companies That Account For 85% Of US Jobs By Dhaval Joshi of BCA Research The Superstar Economy The stellar performance of the S&P 500 superstars is not representative of the profits of wider corporate America. For the direction of the US jobs market, we should closely monitor the profits of the 6.4 million non-superstar...
Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed
16.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Commodity Index Hits Highest In Year As Sticky Inflation Becomes Nightmare For Fed About a month ago, HSBC Global Research noted a forecast for a "weak" bull market in commodities. New data shows that the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April rose by .3% from the previous month and by 3.4% year-over-year. Although inflation is still increasing,...
"West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable"
16.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "West's Governments Need War" Warns Martin Armstrong "Because Their Debts Are No Longer Sustainable" Interview with Martin Armstrong by Piero Messina for SouthFront Martin Armstrong is one of the most influential economists of our times. Someone called him the “Forecaster”, because that was the title of the biopic film that helped make his...
Get Woke, Go Broke: New "Queer" 'Doctor Who' Suffers Worst Ratings In Series History
16.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Get Woke, Go Broke: New "Queer" 'Doctor Who' Suffers Worst Ratings In Series History Woke activists today often like to hearken back to nostalgic media from the 1960s; what they consider the golden era or genesis moment of far-left movements in British and US history. These were the days when being a progressive was considered "counter-culture" and...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
Convicted Non-Violent Felons Can Own Guns, Ninth Circuit Rules
16.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Convicted Non-Violent Felons Can Own Guns, Ninth Circuit Rules In what must be the first time California's 9th circuit has ruled in favor of the 2nd Amendment, non-violent convicted felons can now own guns. The decision stems from a 2020 case, in which California resident Steven Duarte was arrested after tossing a handgun out of a moving car during...
Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation
16.05.2024, 04:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Toxic Atmosphere At FDIC Spurs Calls For Chair's Resignation Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClearPolitics, The White House did not offer their full faith and credit to the FDIC chairman when asked by RealClearPolitics about a bombshell 234-page investigation that detailed a toxic environment within the agency. Other than noting that Martin Gruenberg...
"Make Innocence Great Again": Mothers Gear Up To Decide The 2024 Elections
16.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Make Innocence Great Again": Mothers Gear Up To Decide The 2024 Elections Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A voter casts her ballot with her child during the midterm primary election at a polling station at Rose Hill Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., on June 21, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) “Make innocence great again...
Mississippi Passes Law Banning Trans-Friendly Bathroom Policies In Public Schools
16.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mississippi Passes Law Banning Trans-Friendly Bathroom Policies In Public Schools A lot of Americans are asking how we so quickly got to a point where a man could simply declare he is the opposite sex, throw on a wig and a leotard, and then walk into a women's restroom while being protected by government officials? In some Democrat controlled states...
US Suspends EcoHealth Funding Over Wuhan Lab Compliance
16.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Suspends EcoHealth Funding Over Wuhan Lab Compliance Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. officials have cut off funding to a nonprofit that funneled government money to a laboratory in China located in the same city where the first COVID-19 cases appeared. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, testifies...
Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market
16.05.2024, 00:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Takes Another Hit And May Be Driving Down Broader Oil Market By John Kingston of FreightWaves With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for the fifth week in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle East conflict and are focused...
Money's Grim Future
15.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Money's Grim Future Authored by Alan Lash via The Brownstone Institute, Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th. Day has written the excellent book The Final Countdown, which carefully describes the increasingly aggressive...
Bill Hwang Wanted To Become A "Wall Street Legend", Prosecutors Allege In Opening Statements
15.05.2024, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Hwang Wanted To Become A "Wall Street Legend", Prosecutors Allege In Opening Statements As the Bill Hwang trial began making its way through its first week, prosecutors described the family office manager as someone attempting to "become a legend on Wall Street" to jurors, according to the Financial Times. The trial of Hwang in Manhattan began...
Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency
15.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Precarious: One Misfortune Away From Insolvency Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency. We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one word: precarity, as life for the bottom 90%...
Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid
15.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Soft CPI & Sloppy Sales Spark Run To Record Highs For Stocks; Bonds, Bullion, & Bitcoin All Bid Nothing good - all bad... and new record highs for stocks. SuperCore CPI hotter than expected (but headline and core CPI in-line/small miss), Retail sales way uglier than expected (but gas station spending surged), homebuilder sentiment slumped, and Empire...
Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow
15.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the pandemic-related bazooka of fiscal stimulus, the outstanding Federal debt has risen appreciably. In nominal dollar terms, the recent debt surge is mindboggling. However, the increase is on par with the government’s negligent ways over the last...
Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment"
15.05.2024, 19:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Warns Copper "Is Having A Cocoa Moment" In a Goldman Materials note this morning covering China and copper, analyst James McGeoch pointed out that the base metal is "having a Cocoa moment." Comex copper futures for July delivery jumped nearly 5% to $5.12 a pound, exceeding an earlier record for the most active contract set in March...
Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout
15.05.2024, 19:08 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Grain That Feeds The World Is At Risk Of An Upside Breakout Rice is a staple food for over 3.5 billion people worldwide, especially in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. It's grown in over 100 countries, with 90% of the world's rice produced in Asia. We have been tracking the prices of Thai white rice, which surged to 15-year highs in 2023 and...
When and Where Will Israel’s Aimless, Endless War End?
15.05.2024, 18:54 Uhr. Global Research - https: - All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button … The post When and Where Will Israel’s Aimless, Endless War End? appeared...
Venezuela Moves "Substantial Quantities" Of Troops To Guyana Border
15.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Venezuela Moves "Substantial Quantities" Of Troops To Guyana Border By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Venezuela has moved “substantial quantities of [military] personnel and equipment to the border with Guyana amid its territorial dispute over the Essequibo region. The update comes from the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington...
Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot
15.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico has been shot, according to breaking news reports, after which he was rushed to the hospital and appears to be alive according ot early reports. According to emerging details in The Associated Press, Fico "was injured in a shooting and taken...
US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print
15.05.2024, 13:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Coiled Tightly Ahead Of Key CPI Print Equity futures were set to hold yesterday's gains ahead of today's CPI report, but will move violently either higher or lower after today's CPI number is released, which will either validate or reject Jerome Powell’s latest signals that interest rates will be higher for longer (our CPI preview is here)...
Here’s Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 12:56 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Amidst historical prosperity, most Americans remain unprepared for the looming threat of famine, lacking essential skills and infrastructure resilience, despite recent awakenings to economic instability and growing interest in survivalists. This reality is underscored by the dire situation in North Korea, where human rights activists, as reported by...
Rail Union Warns German Train System Turning Into "Battleground" Thanks To Male Migrants
15.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rail Union Warns German Train System Turning Into "Battleground" Thanks To Male Migrants Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The head of a German rail union warns that the country’s train system is turning into a “battleground” thanks to a wave of violence and intimidation being unleashed by male asylum seekers against female staff...
Where Wealth Is Concentrated In Africa
15.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Wealth Is Concentrated In Africa 56 percent of Africa’s millionaires and over 90 percent of its billionaires lived in just five countries in 2023 - South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and Morocco, according to The Africa Wealth Report 2024 published by Henley & Partners and New World Wealth. There were 135,200 people who owned wealth of 1...
7 In 10 Europeans Say Governments Allowing Too Much Immigration
15.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 7 In 10 Europeans Say Governments Allowing Too Much Immigration Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A survey encompassing all 27 countries in the European Union has found that most citizens believe their countries are taking in too many foreign migrants. The poll conducted by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German...
Elections And Devaluations
15.05.2024, 04:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elections And Devaluations Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, Yves here. It’s revealing that Serious Economist Jeffrey Frankel limits himself to third-world examples in his case studies below on post-election devaluations. Perhaps it would be unseemly to look at, say, the US, UK, Japan, South Korea, or even Australia (admittedly the latter...
"The Russians Just Walked In": Ukraine Border Defense Funds Diverted To Fake Companies In Massive "Betrayal"
15.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "The Russians Just Walked In": Ukraine Border Defense Funds Diverted To Fake Companies In Massive "Betrayal" Authored by Thomas Stevenson via Human Events (emphasis ours), Head of the Mezha Anti-Corruption Center, Martyna Bohuslavets, has written a report in Pravda asking "Where are the fortifications?" She reports that millions of dollars that were...
FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner
15.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - FDA Preparing For Possible Bird Flu Spread Among Humans: Commissioner Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing for a scenario in which the highly pathogenic avian influenza starts spreading among humans, the agency’s commissioner said on May 8. “This virus, like all viruses, is mutating...
Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed
15.05.2024, 03:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why 1960 Alternate Electors Succeeded Where 2020 Ones Failed Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A November election decades ago produced a clear winner in a hotly contested presidential race. Yet the popular vote immediately came under scrutiny in several states. In one, auditors discovered clear errors in tabulating vote...
Target To Limit LGBT Pride Products To Online And 'Select Stores' After Last Summer's Controversy
15.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Target To Limit LGBT Pride Products To Online And 'Select Stores' After Last Summer's Controversy Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Target has announced that its LGBT-themed merchandise will only be sold online and at select stores this June, a decision made after last year’s Pride Month marketing campaign divided customers...
Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars
15.05.2024, 00:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Goldman Finds Commercial Power Demand In Virginia Explodes Higher As 'Next AI Trade' Soars All eyes are on the powering-up America theme as the surge in artificial intelligence sparks a nationwide boom in data center building. The urgent need to overhaul the nation's power grid to meet the skyrocketing demand for electricity is now front and center...
Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns
15.05.2024, 00:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Record Household Debt, Jump In Delinquencies Signal "Worsening Financial Distress", Fed Warns While the market remains focused on tomorrow's CPI print, and to a lesser extent the April retail sales reports due at the same time, which will both be released at 8:30am on May 15. we should to flag another important report that doesn’t typically get a...
Snyder: "Demographic Winter Is Coming" As Fertility Rates Plummet All Over The Globe
14.05.2024, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Snyder: "Demographic Winter Is Coming" As Fertility Rates Plummet All Over The Globe Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, Fertility rates have fallen way below replacement level throughout the entire industrialized world, and this is starting to cause major problems all over the globe. Aging populations are counting on...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?
14.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what...
List Of Countries Where Recreational Cannabis Is Legal
14.05.2024, 22:06 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - Based on data from Wikipedia, below is a list of countries where recreational cannabis is legal, with only nine nations having made the recreational use of cannabis lawful on a national level. After Malta and Luxembourg, Germany became the third nation in the European Union to legalize cannabis for personal use in 2024. Based on […] The post List...
Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source
14.05.2024, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source Via SchiffGold.com, Last week, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment. Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the Federal Reserve...
Clearing Demand
14.05.2024, 20:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Clearing Demand By Ahmed Bin Sulayem Since its establishment in 2005, the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) has been the central counterparty for clearing and settlement services to the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX). Emerging as the largest clearing house in the MENA region by volume, DCCC is now poised to play a far more multinational...
Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back
14.05.2024, 19:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Moving Average Crossovers Suggest The Bull Is Back Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, While there is much debate over whether another bear market is imminent, weekly moving average crossovers suggest a different outcome for now. There are many current concerns, from geopolitical risk to still inverted yield curves, slowing economic...
Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar
14.05.2024, 19:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Copper Scrappers Target Tesla Superchargers As Metal Prices Soar In the early 1950s, a notorious bank robber, one of the first fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, was asked after his capture: Why did you rob banks? William Sutton's response: "Because that's where the money is." Fast-forward to today. Thieves are targeting electric vehicle...
'Good News Is Bad News' Is The Worst News For Stocks
14.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Good News Is Bad News' Is The Worst News For Stocks Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, We’re back in a “bad news is good news” regime for stocks, where weak economic data prompts higher prices. That’s typically a supportive backdrop for equities, but investors should be alert for when stocks fail to rally on good news as this...
Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems
14.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Thanks Americans For Billions In Aid, But Pleads For More Patriot Systems Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made another trip to Ukraine, appearing in Kiev alongside Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, and the US top diplomat vowed that some of the US aid from Biden's recently approved $60 billion for Ukraine is "now on...
I've Got A Bad Feeling About This
14.05.2024, 16:43 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - I've Got A Bad Feeling About This By Michael Every of Rabobank Ideally, I would have written this on May 4th not 14th, but I am going to talk Star Wars. I was a fan in 1977, kept the flame alive when only battered VHS cassettes of the original trilogy existed, and was delighted to get prequels. Until the opening crawl announced, “The taxation of trade...
Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination
14.05.2024, 16:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proportions On Cross Examination Authored by Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will...