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Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit
17.05.2024, 19:06 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Platinum Enters Its Second Year Of "Substantial" Deficit Via SchiffGold.com, Platinum is entering its second year of substantial deficit, according to the Platinum Quarterly report from the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC). Report authors labeled the Q1 deficit of 369k oz “significant” and predicted that the deficit will continue...
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...
Selected Articles: Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe
17.05.2024, 15:24 Uhr. Global Research - https: - Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe By Joachim Hagopian, May 17, 2024 Now facing the worst economic collapse ever, unable to heat their homes and factories during the winter, the West is undergoing the elites’ controlled demolition, gutting … The post Selected Articles: Western Liars Aggressively Promote WWIII in Europe appeared...
Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week
17.05.2024, 12:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Flat In Quiet End To Torrid Week US equity futures are flat to end a torrid week which saw all indexes hit a fresh all-time high while the terminally anachronistic Dow Jones briefly topped 40,000. Pre-market, MegaCap Tech are mixed: AMZN +20bp, MSFT +20bp, META -22bp, GOOGL -18bp. WMT is down 27bps pre-mkt, after its +7.0% rally post-earnings...
The Trouble With World Government
17.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Trouble With World Government Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, Well, at least that’s one setback for world government. A court in Australia has told the government’s own eSafety Commission that Elon Musk is correct: One country cannot impose censorship on the world. The company X, formerly known as Twitter, must obey national...
France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan
17.05.2024, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Blames Deadly New Caledonia Uprising On TikTok, Russia, & Azerbaijan More shocking images have come out of the ongoing unrest and riots which have gripped the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, as additional French troops, including reports of elite security forces, are en route to help authorities restore order. Determined to suppress...
US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable
17.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish public opinion of the West dropped due to the Iraq War and has not recovered. There have been almost constant issues since, with both sides fanning the flames – the US with its arrogance and Turkish President...
Whistling Past The National Train Wreck
17.05.2024, 05:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Whistling Past The National Train Wreck Authored by Donald Jeffries via I Protest, There are only so many ways one can say that America is collapsing. That the Fat Lady is nearing the end of her song. That we’re running on fumes. If Yogi Berra were around, he’d say it’s over. We had a good run, as far as civilizations go. We were the light of...
Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000
16.05.2024, 22:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stocks Pause After Dow Briefly Touches Historic 40,000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged above the historic 40,000 mark in late morning and early afternoon trading. Euphoria was high as bulls celebrated Dow 40,000. This week's gains across broad equity indexes were primarily driven by a cooler April CPI print and dismal retail data on Wednesday...
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...
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...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom
16.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” - Simone Weil, French philosopher We...
These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US
16.05.2024, 01:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - These Are The Most Polluted Cities In The US According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is responsible for 7 million deaths annually, and could cost the global economy between $18–25 trillion by 2060 in annual welfare costs, or roughly 4–6% of world GDP. And with predictions that 7 in 10 people will make their homes in urban...
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...
Will Tariffs Outweigh CPI?
14.05.2024, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Tariffs Outweigh CPI? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Markets shrugged off high headlines on PPI, for a variety of valid reasons. Now we can move on to CPI (where I see the “whisper number” as a lower than expectations print). I’m more focused on tariffs. My recollection of tariffs was that far more economists reacted negatively...
'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...
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...
AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher
14.05.2024, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - AMC Raised $250 Million In ATM Offering As 'Meme' Stocks Rocket Higher With AMC Entertainment and GameStop's short squeezes causing significant losses for short sellers on Monday, we noted the growing likelihood that "bankers are burning the phones at GME and AMC pitching ATM equity offerings for after the close." You know jefferies bankers are burning...
Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
14.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Transitioning conventional truck fleets to electric vehicles (EVs) pushes up annual operational costs, which subsequently increases economic inflation, according to a recent report from transportation...
"Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices
14.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Combat Illegal Corporate Behavior" - Dem Lawmakers Urge Biden To Use Executive Action Against High Food Prices Greedflation is a myth, and Democrats are well aware of this. However, they will never acknowledge that corporate greed isn't the root cause of inflation, as greed tends to be constant in the economy. What changed is the overstimulation...
Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid
13.05.2024, 22:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hedge Funds Hammered As 'Roaring Kitty' Returns; Bitcoin & Black Gold Bid The return of 'Roaring Kitty' sent GME soaring higher (up 110% at its highs)... Source: Bloomberg ...and prompted squeezes/panic-covering across the 'most shorted' names and 'retail favorites (memes)' soared... Source: Bloomberg As John Flood noted from Goldman's trading desk:...
EV Charging Station Costs $1 Billion
13.05.2024, 18:46 Uhr. GreatGameIndia - https: - According to the Washington Post, EV charging stations cost US taxpayers $1 billion. However, after two years, only seven chargers and a meager 38 parking spaces have been built out of the allocated $7.5 billion. This is what people mean when they complain about paying taxes and the government being the worst conceivable capital allocator: […]...
Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds
13.05.2024, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Household Finance Fears Worst Since COVID As Inflation Expectations Surged In April, NY Fed Survey Finds Well if Fed Chair Powell couldn't see the 'flation' before, perhaps he can now... After flatlining around 3.,0% for the last four months the median one-year-ahead inflation expectations increased to 3.3%, according to The New York Fed's April Survey...
Orange Juice Prices Primed For Breakout After Forecast Warns Brazil Set For Worst Harvest In Decades
13.05.2024, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Orange Juice Prices Primed For Breakout After Forecast Warns Brazil Set For Worst Harvest In Decades Breakfast lovers are in for another jolt as orange juice prices surge to near-record levels. A new report released on Friday indicates that Brazil, the leading global exporter of OJ, is facing its worst harvest in over three decades. This alarming...
Who Are We Protecting, And From What?
13.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Are We Protecting, And From What? Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com, Gambling is increasingly legal in the US: Casinos, sports betting, the lottery, and so on. The economic benefits of most forms of gambling are limited. There is some job creation and collection of additional taxes, but these benefits come at the expense of players. Put differently:...
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...
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill
13.05.2024, 00:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint For Dystopia In Horrific Speech Bill Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, On February 21st, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a press conference in Edmonton, announcing his government’s decision to introduce the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63. It was described in Canadian media as a “bill...
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden's Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024
12.05.2024, 18:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden's Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024 “It’s death by 1,000 cuts. It’s the worst presidency with regard to energy policy I’ve ever seen — and I’ve been involved in energy for 40 years, my entire career.” Those were the words of Steve Pruett, chief executive of Elevation Resources, to Financial...
The Investment "Holy Grail" Doesn’t Exist
12.05.2024, 15:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Investment "Holy Grail" Doesn’t Exist Authored by Lance Roberts via realinvestmentadvice.com, When it comes to the financial markets, investors have a litany of investment vehicles to choose from. The choices are nearly unlimited, from brokered certificates of deposit to complex derivative instruments. Of course, investment vehicles’ proliferation...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
12.05.2024, 03:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has - in two years - produced just 7 charging stations...
Chevy Forced To Ditch Its Long-Running Malibu Model As Forced Transition To EVs Continues
12.05.2024, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Chevy Forced To Ditch Its Long-Running Malibu Model As Forced Transition To EVs Continues One of Chevy's longest running vehicle models has now fallen at the hands of the company's transition to EVs. The Chevy Malibu will be no longer, according to a new report from Car and Driver. The Chevy Malibu, one of the longest-running and most successful...
Racist Secession? Conservatives Escape Democrat-Run Baton Rouge With Creation Of New City
11.05.2024, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Racist Secession? Conservatives Escape Democrat-Run Baton Rouge With Creation Of New City The battle started a decade ago with conservative parents in the eastern areas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana seeking the right to send their children to better public schools. Their requests for a redistricting to build a new school in their area was denied by the...
World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies
11.05.2024, 11:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - World's Oldest Central Bank Keeps Sounding Alarm On Fragility Of Cashless Economies Authored by Nick Corbishley via naked capitalism, At a time when the dominant narrative around cash is that its demise is all but inevitable, as well as broadly desirable, the 2024 payment report by Sweden’s Riksbank may offer a cautionary tale. In October last year...
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...
"Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial
10.05.2024, 18:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Worst Case Scenario": MacroGenics Crashes After Five Patient Deaths In Experimental Drug Trial A Rockville, Maryland-based biotech company called MacroGenics crashed in premarket trading in New York after it revealed five deaths in a clinical trial of its investigative therapy for prostate cancer, according to Bloomberg. MacroGenics finished...
What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis?
10.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Securing an appointment to see a doctor in the United States is exacerbated by soaring health care demand and fewer doctors. Many specializations are increasingly affected by this...
As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation
10.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Economics trumps sentimentality, and gold’s elevated price has some people raiding the family jewelry box to pay bills. “Young people are not wearing grandma’s jewels. Most of the young people, they want an Apple watch. They don’t...
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...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
We Need To Talk About Recession Risk Again
09.05.2024, 18:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - We Need To Talk About Recession Risk Again Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, It’s time once more to increase vigilance for a US recession. Soft, survey data is starting to deteriorate, while hard data is already fragile. Expectations of a downturn are currently low, but they could quickly swing higher. Stocks – which experience...
House Passes 'Electoral Integrity' Bill To Restore Citizenship Question To Census
09.05.2024, 17:24 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - House Passes 'Electoral Integrity' Bill To Restore Citizenship Question To Census Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a measure that would add a citizenship question to the next U.S. census, as part of the latest efforts by conservatives to “protect America’s democracy and electoral...
Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains
09.05.2024, 14:19 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Drop As Treasury Yields Extend Gains US equity futures are weaker as yields resume their rise and the USD strengthens after the BOE signaled it was ready to cut rates. As of 7:45am, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures dipped 0.3% as all Mag7 names and most semis were red in the premarket. Most European markets are lower, tracking US...
"Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings
09.05.2024, 03:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Is Consumer Travel Spending Easing?" - BofA Identifies New Trend As Travel Companies Miss Earnings One theme we've spotted this earnings season has been an increasing number of companies warning about low-income consumers. From McDonald's to Starbucks to Tyson Foods, executives on earnings calls have warned about mounting headwinds hitting the...
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...
Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones
08.05.2024, 16:14 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Forward Guidance: The Fed Sounds Like A Wizard Reading Chicken Bones Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Stanley Druckenmiller says the Fed should get rid of forward guidance and just do their job. I totally endorse a view by Stan Druckenmiller, the Fed Should Stop Forward Guidance. Partial Video Transcript Squawk Box: I’ve been perplexed...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations'
08.05.2024, 13:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Warning For Washington From The 'Breakdown Nations' Authored by Ruchir Sharma via FT, At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that not too long ago were billed as star performers but are now breaking down. All are among the world’s 50 largest economies...
Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever
08.05.2024, 02:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bad-Loans Hit Record-High As Used-Car Prices Suffer Worst Bear-Market Ever A bear market in the used car market was confirmed in November and has since worsened through April. At the same time, negative equity values are hitting new record highs while auto insurance rates have soared the most since the mid-1970s. While gas prices at the pump are...
The Marine Corps That Should Have Been
08.05.2024, 01:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or missile has been fired from what is left of it since the start of fighting. Compare this with the relative ineffectiveness of American efforts stop Yemen's Houthis from slinging...