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Too Narrowly Focused?
20.05.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Too Narrowly Focused? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Too Narrowly Focused? The Citi Economic Surprise Index continues to deteriorate (worst levels in a year). Bond yields have declined (the 10-year Treasury got to 4.31% on Thursday, basically the bottom of our 4.3% to 4.5% range, and crept higher the rest of the week). Bonds in part moved on economic...
When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking
18.05.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - When Ideological Bubbles Trump Economic Thinking Authored by Paul Mueller via The American Institute for Economic Research, Sometimes smart people make remarkably naïve or deeply problematic comments because their view of the world has been molded by narrow ideology, reinforced by significant consensus in their social circles. Recently Esther Duflo...
Biden Agrees To A Debate Between Kamala Harris And Trump's VP Pick
17.05.2024, 17:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Agrees To A Debate Between Kamala Harris And Trump's VP Pick Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, This VP debate will be widely watched and a lot of fun too. I have a suggestion for Trump. Stage Set for VP Debate Politico reports Biden Campaign Agrees to VP Debate on CBS The Biden campaign has accepted an invitation from CBS News for Vice...
Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning?
17.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is Buffett's Cash Hoard A Market Warning? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Every year, investors anxiously await the release of Warren Buffett’s annual letter to see what the “Oracle of Omaha” says about the markets, the economy, and where he is placing his money. “One of the longest-running traditions in modern finance...
Left's "Sue-Till-Green" Strategy Comes To PA
17.05.2024, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Left's "Sue-Till-Green" Strategy Comes To PA Authored by André Béliveau via RealClearPennsylvania, When climate activists use the term “environmental justice,” they mean it literally. Rather than legislating and passing laws (as is customary in a constitutional republic), they’ve turned to the courts to fight their quixotic battles. Pennsylvania...
America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World
16.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America Is No Longer A Hyperpower, And Others Keep On Rocketing The Free World By Michael Every of Rabobank Stocks up, Stonks up, bonds up, gold up, crypto up, and copper up to a new record high. Almost everything rocketed after US CPI came a slither lower than expected --and 30 minutes earlier than scheduled on the BLS website, which markets looking...
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...
Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared
15.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mass Starvation: Here's Why Most Of America Is Completely Unprepared Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, The concept of mass starvation has not been in the forefront of American society for a very long time. Even during the Great Depression the US was majority agrarian and most people knew how to live off the land. In fact, the US has never...
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...
The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance
14.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Broken Magic Trick Behind Dollar Dominance Authored by Peter Reagan via Birch Gold Group, The total debt owed by the United States federal government has reached incredible levels. Today, the total is $34,541,727,970,599.17 – but by the time you read this article, it’ll probably be higher. I say “probably” because the debt is growing...
The Tide Turns: Research On COVID Vaccine Harms, Once A Taboo Subject, Now Appearing In Some Medical Journals
14.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Tide Turns: Research On COVID Vaccine Harms, Once A Taboo Subject, Now Appearing In Some Medical Journals Authored by Joe Wang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), When COVID-19 took the world by storm in early 2020, I mostly relied on reading Nature Medicine, The Lancet, and a few other medical journals to learn the latest on this new disease....
How Americans Feel About Federal Government Agencies
14.05.2024, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Americans Feel About Federal Government Agencies Come election time, America won’t hesitate to show its approval or disapproval of the country’s elected political representatives. That said, feelings about the federal bureaucracy and its associated agencies are a little harder to gauge. Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao charts the results from an...
What's The Inflation Rate Under Biden Vs 7 Previous Presidents?
13.05.2024, 21:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What's The Inflation Rate Under Biden Vs 7 Previous Presidents? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Voters seem angry about inflation despite economists telling us how great things are. A few pictures explain. Why Biden Is Losing on the Economy The Wall Street Journal comments on Why Biden Is Losing on the Economy Democrats and the press keep...
Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can
13.05.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Bumps and Potholes UK Q1 GDP surprised to the upside at the end of last week to print at +0.6%, rather than the more modest 0.4% that market economists had been expecting. That means that Britain is officially out of recession...
Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery
13.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Shocking Headline Of The Day: Germany To Re-Introduce Slavery Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Young Germans will have to choose between the Bundeswehr (military service) and unpaid social service work. Libertarians to a person, will call this slavery, because that is what it is. Germany to Re-Introduce Slavery Please consider the Eurointelligence...
CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests
13.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - CFTC Aims To Ban Derivatives Based On Elections, Athletic Competitions And Awards Contests Previously enjoyed betting on the outcome of an event, like a Presidential election? The CFTC wants to make sure that doesn't happen again. According to the Wall Street Journal, the regulator is now targeting "derivatives contracts based on political elections...
Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls
13.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls In the course of two years, California has turned a $100 billion surplus into a $73 billion deficit, forcing governor Gavin Newson (D) to propose painful (token) spending cuts on Friday while announcing his revised state budget. California Governor...
Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region
12.05.2024, 05:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's Why Russia Is Making A Fresh Push Into Ukraine's Kharkov Region By Andrew Korybko of the Korybko substack The five objectives that are enumerated in this piece encapsulate what Russia nowadays aims to achieve after over two years of intense proxy warfare with NATO. Zelensky claimed on Friday that Russia’s long-awaited offensive had finally...
Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500
11.05.2024, 21:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Average Credit Card Debt In US Now Soaring Past $6,500 Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk in Arlington, Va., on April 6, 2020. (Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images) A just-released report from Scholaroo indicates that the U.S. national average for credit...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
Carnival Rides
10.05.2024, 22:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Carnival Rides Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, “These agencies are not trusted because they are not trustworthy.” — El Gato Malo on “X” The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst...
A Middle East Security Pact Won’t Free Palestine
10.05.2024, 20:50 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - The Biden administration needs to recognize that the problems lie with Israeli politics....
Thursday Humor: What Is The Optimal Temperature For Global GDP Growth?
10.05.2024, 05:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Thursday Humor: What Is The Optimal Temperature For Global GDP Growth? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, A group of climate alarmists have concluded that global GDP will be 23 percent lower on the current path. I was aware of the ridiculous article when it came out. I stopped reading when I noted that all countries were all given equal weighting...
Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms
10.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society...
To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But...
09.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - To Prevent A Banking Crisis, The Fed Must Cut; But... Via SchiffGold.com, In 2009, 140 banks failed, and a recent report from financial consulting firm Klaros Group says that hundreds of banks are at risk of going under this year. It’s being billed mostly as a danger for individuals and communities than for the broader economy, but for stressed...
Denver Illegals Make Demands, Include 'Culturally Appropriate' Food, Lawyers, Unlimited Showers And Warnings Before Evictions
09.05.2024, 16:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Illegals Make Demands, Include 'Culturally Appropriate' Food, Lawyers, Unlimited Showers And Warnings Before Evictions Illegal immigrants at a Denver, Colorado encampment that is set to be removed are refusing to leave until the city meets a list of 13 demands, which include access to "fresh, culturally appropriate ingredients" for food, unlimited...
Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal
09.05.2024, 15:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Partial Arms Embargo On Israel Is Aimed At Pressuring It Into A Regional Peace Deal Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Many observers from the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community alike were shocked when Defense Secretary Austin confirmed on Wednesday during a congressional testimony that the US had withheld “one shipment...
BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing
09.05.2024, 13:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - BOE Keeps Rates Unchanged But Edges Closer To Cutting As Deputy Governor Calls For Easing With both the Swiss SNB and Swedish Riksbank starting to cut rates, many were wondering if the BOE would join the easing cycle next. And while it did not, instead keeping rates unchanged at 5.25% for the sixth straight meeting of its policymakers, in line with...
Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power
09.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Why Germany Is Choosing Natural Gas Over Nuclear Power By Haley Zermba of Oilprice.com The world is experiencing a nuclear renaissance. Uranium prices are soaring as the world snaps up nuclear fuel, public favor for nuclear power is at a 10-year high in the United States, Russia is busily expanding its own nuclear energy empire in emerging economies...
The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt"
09.05.2024, 04:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Behind The Inexplicable "Strength" Of US Consumers Is $700 Billion In "Phanton Debt" Yesterday we discussed the latest consumer credit data, which revealed that the amount of credit card debt across the US has hit a new record high of $1.337 trillion (even though it appears to have finally hit a brick wall, barely rising...
Putin Doesn't Bluff
09.05.2024, 01:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Doesn't Bluff Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Two weeks ago, the Congress passed (and President Biden signed) four key pieces of legislation related to national security. Three of the bills provided assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. They received the most attention. The one that got the least attention was a mixed bag...
US Might Expand Pause On Transferring 'Other Potential Weapons Systems' To Israel
08.05.2024, 22:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Might Expand Pause On Transferring 'Other Potential Weapons Systems' To Israel US defense secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed while testifying before a congressional subcommittee on Wednesday that the Biden administration has paused an arms shipment to Israel, which reportedly includes large bombs and other ammunition being put on hold for transfer...
Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline
08.05.2024, 14:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Denver Sets Up 'Host Migrants In Your Home' Hotline Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Democrat run city of Denver is encouraging residents to host migrant families in their homes and has even set up a hotline so people can volunteer to take in illegals who have no where else to go. FOX31 Denver reports that a charity calling itself...
AfD Politician Convicted For Warning About Gang Rapes
08.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AfD Politician Convicted For Warning About Gang Rapes Junge Freiheit via The European Conservative, The Verden regional court in Lower Saxony has upheld a verdict against Rotenburg AfD leader Marie-Thérèse Kaiser for incitement to hatred. The 27-year-old was also found guilty in the appeal hearing on Monday of inciting hatred against Afghan local...
Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather
07.05.2024, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat As Post-FOMC Rally Takes A Breather US stock futures are flat after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 both closed 1% higher on Monday, helped by growing optimism among investors that the economy is finally slowing greenlighting earlier rate cuts by the Fed. As of 8:00am ET S&P futures were unchanged at 5,206, trading about 1% above its 50DMA,...
Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations
07.05.2024, 02:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Death Of Self-Checkout, Walmart Charges For It In Some Locations By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk Theft and complaints are taking a toll on self-checkout. Now, Walmart wants you to pay $98 a year for Walmart+ for the self-checkout privilege at some stores. Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts The Wall Street Journal reports Retailers Scale Back Self-Checkouts...
Russia's Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercises Are Meant To Deter A NATO Intervention In Ukraine
06.05.2024, 16:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia's Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercises Are Meant To Deter A NATO Intervention In Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Sputnik reported on Monday that the Russian General Staff is preparing to carry out drills for practicing the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which follows Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova warning over the...
Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks
06.05.2024, 15:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Berkshire's Growing Cash Pile Has A Hidden Message On Stocks Authored by Ven Ram, Bloomberg cross-asset strategist, US stocks are seeing no evil and certainly hearing none, but Berkshire Hathaway’s ever-growing cash pile should hold a tacit warning for those who are overexuberant. Berkshire’s war chest surged to a record $189 billion at the end...
Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices
06.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's New Carbon Capture Mandates Will Cause Blackouts, Increases Prices By Mish Shedlock of MishTalk The lie of the day is from the EPA: Carbon capture will pay for itself (thanks to IRA subsidies). No, it won’t even with subsidies. Expect blackouts and a higher price for electricity. Suite of Standards to Raise Costs, Reduce Output Let’s take...
Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze
06.05.2024, 06:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Yen's First Intervention Rally Owed Very Little to Short Squeeze By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist The first of Japan’s apparent twin interventions last week may have capped USD/JPY for some time to keep the pair under 160. But that had very little to do with flushing out yen short positioning at least with the initial...
Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6
06.05.2024, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Marine Vet With PTSD Given More Than 5 Years In Prison, Fined $200,000 Over Jan. 6 Authored by Joseph M. Hanneman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Ryan Taylor Nichols, a Marine Corps veteran and disaster-rescue specialist who argued that post-traumatic stress drove his behavior at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on May 2 to more than five...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism"
06.05.2024, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to...
"Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted?
06.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Economics Works In Mysterious Ways": Is China's Wealth Effect Being Substituted? By Teeuwe Mevissen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Is the wealth effect being substituted? Summary China’s real estate market suffered heavy losses early this year while stock market investors continue to face huge uncertainty. This will add to the deterioration...
Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian
05.05.2024, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pritzker Doubles-Down With $827 Million Taxpayer Handout To Troubled EV-Maker Rivian Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org, At $1.5 million per job, this new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs. Gov...
Trump Leads Biden By 10 Points In Latest Election Poll: Rasmussen Reports
05.05.2024, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Leads Biden By 10 Points In Latest Election Poll: Rasmussen Reports Despite the 'betting' odds still favoring President Biden in November (according to PredictIt)... ...Former President Donald Trump has boosted his lead over President Joe Biden to ten percentage points ahead of the upcoming elections, according to a recent poll. In a three-way...
Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away
05.05.2024, 17:40 Uhr. Global Research - https: - … The post Pezzullo: The Warmonger Who Won’t Go Away appeared first on Global Research....
David Stockman On The $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room
05.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - David Stockman On The $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, These people have to be stopped! We are talking about the nation’s unhinged monetary politburo domiciled in the Eccles Building, of course. It is bad enough that their relentless inflation of financial assets has showered the 1% with untold...
Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won't, Why?
04.05.2024, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won't, Why? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, “Unaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.” Europeans Ditch Net Zero The Wall Street Journal reports Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It You know you’ve stumbled through the looking...
Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men
03.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine's Biggest Problem Isn't Weapons, It's Lack Of Fighting Men Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Now that Congress rammed through a huge weapons package for Ukraine, what will Ukraine do with the weapons and how long will they last? Ukraine’s Real Bottleneck Ukraine touts Russian casualties, no doubt exaggerated, while Russian published...
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...