• GAO: ‘Unclear’ If Pentagon Tracking Reports Of Misused Aid In Ukraine

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 2:00pm EDT

    GAO: ‘Unclear’ If Pentagon Tracking Reports Of Misused Aid In Ukraine Authored by Philip Wegmann via RealClear Wire, While the Pentagon has assured Congress that no U.S. military equipment sent to Ukraine has been diverted, stolen, or otherwise misappropriated, a new report from the Government Accountability Office could not determine if the Department of Defense […]

  • Weaponization Of Crude: Russian Oil Refiners Under Drone Attack 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 1:25pm EDT

    Weaponization Of Crude: Russian Oil Refiners Under Drone Attack  Brent crude prices climbed to their highest level in four and a half months last week following attacks on multiple Russian oil refineries by Ukrainian drones. Additionally, this morning, drone strikes on two more oil refining facilities were reported deep within Russia.  Bloomberg reports drone strikes targeted […]

  • America The Snackable

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 12:50pm EDT

    America The Snackable Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, There is only one pathway to health and sanity: stop consuming snackables of any kind. Everything in America has become snackable: devoid of value, easily consumed, intentionally addictive, and ultimately destructive to all that is healthy for individuals, communities and society at large. The core […]

  • Gen Z, The Most Pessimistic Generation In History, May Decide The Election

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 11:40am EDT

    Gen Z, The Most Pessimistic Generation In History, May Decide The Election Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Young adults are more skeptical of government and pessimistic about the future than any living generation before them. This is with reason, and it’s likely to decide the election. Rough Years and the Most Pessimism Ever The […]

  • Europe Panics As Trump Rises From The Political Grave

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 10:30am EDT

    Europe Panics As Trump Rises From The Political Grave Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, So last week was fun. It started with the US Supreme Court’s 9-0 beatdown of using the 14th Amendment to punish political opponents. Then the Wicked Witch of Kiev, Vic(Toria) “Cookies” Nuland was forced out at […]

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  • Peter Navarro Asks Supreme Court To Allow Him To Avoid Reporting To Prison Pending Appeal

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 9:20am EDT

    Peter Navarro Asks Supreme Court To Allow Him To Avoid Reporting To Prison Pending Appeal Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro on March 15 asked the Supreme Court to allow him to avoid reporting to prison for a contempt of Congress conviction as the matter is being appealed. Peter Navarro, a former advisor to […]

  • Macron Again Talks Up NATO Troops For Ukraine: ‘We Cannot Allow Russia To Win’

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 8:45am EDT

    Macron Again Talks Up NATO Troops For Ukraine: ‘We Cannot Allow Russia To Win’ Even after his first round of comments resulted in significant pushback from among European allies, French President Emmanuel Macron has once again declared that NATO should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, which would set the West on a path […]

  • Guinness: Well Known, But Not So Well Liked?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 7:35am EDT

    Guinness: Well Known, But Not So Well Liked? Apart from Irish whiskeys, one of the most significant culinary exports and best-known brands from the independent part of the island is Guinness. The characteristically dark dry stout might be an acquired taste due to its richness and malty flavor, but it’s nevertheless consumed in many countries around […]

  • Ukraine Is Facing The Scenario Of Asymmetrical Partition

    ZeroHedge - Mar 16th 2024 7:00am EDT

    Ukraine Is Facing The Scenario Of Asymmetrical Partition Submitted by Andrew Korybko Asymmetrical partition between Ukraine’s western neighbors into “spheres of economic influence” alongside a de facto Korean-like partition between NATO and Russia is much more foreseeable than its western neighbors like Poland formally reincorporating their lost territory due to financial and political reasons. Russian […]

  • ‘Belt And Road’ Western Hemisphere Investments Has China Firmly Rooted In America’s Backyard

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 11:40pm EDT

    ‘Belt And Road’ Western Hemisphere Investments Has China Firmly Rooted In America’s Backyard Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, The United States has been so focused on global security concerns that it has overlooked investing in its own backyard’s economic and military needs for decades. But China hasn’t. With its Belt and Road […]

  • How Much Does The US Depend On Russian Uranium?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 11:20pm EDT

    How Much Does The US Depend On Russian Uranium? The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a ban on imports of Russian uranium. The bill must pass the Senate before becoming law. In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti visualizes how much the U.S. relies on Russian uranium, based on data from the United States Energy Information […]

  • The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 11:00pm EDT

    The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity Authored by Bert Olivier via The Brownstone Institute, Bernard Stiegler was, until his premature death, probably the most important philosopher of technology of the present. His work on technology has shown us that, far from being exclusively a danger to human existence, it is a pharmakon – a poison as well […]

  • Doha Hunts For Whistleblowers Who Revealed Qatar’s Funding Of ISIS

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 9:40pm EDT

    Doha Hunts For Whistleblowers Who Revealed Qatar’s Funding Of ISIS Via The Cradle Qatar National Bank (QNB) and Qatar Charity (QC) are attempting to uncover the identities of confidential sources that supplied documents to lawyers representing the family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff, which allege the financial institutions – acting at the behest of Qatar’s royal […]

  • McDonald’s Stores Hit By Multi-Nation “Technology Outage”

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 9:20pm EDT

    McDonald’s Stores Hit By Multi-Nation “Technology Outage” A major technology outage forced McDonald’s stores in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom to either shutter operations or suspend online ordering on Friday, CNN reported. “Many stores across the country have temporarily suspended operations,” McDonald’s Japan wrote in an X post, adding, “There is currently a system […]

  • Bitcoin Has No Top Because Fiat Has No Bottom: Understanding Monetary Debasement

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 9:00pm EDT

    Bitcoin Has No Top Because Fiat Has No Bottom: Understanding Monetary Debasement Via Bitcoin Magazine, Bitcoin has been touted as the solution to monetary debasement, but what is debasement really, and where does it come from? MONETARY DEBASEMENT Debasement refers to the action or process of reducing the quality or value of something. When talking […]

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  • Realtor Group Settles Lawsuits By Slashing Commissions, Risks Mass Exodus Of Agents 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 8:40pm EDT

    Realtor Group Settles Lawsuits By Slashing Commissions, Risks Mass Exodus Of Agents  For those bartenders who became realtors over the past decade, attracted to the fast and easy money during multiple real estate booms fueled by historically low mortgage rates, there’s concerning news out on Friday: Commissions are expected to drop following the National Association of Realtors’ decision […]

  • Democrat-Darling Rachael Rollins Disbarred After Justice Refuses To Prosecute One Of Its Own

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 8:20pm EDT

    Democrat-Darling Rachael Rollins Disbarred After Justice Refuses To Prosecute One Of Its Own Authored by Jonathan Turley, We previously discussed the controversy surrounding Rachael Rollins, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts nominated by President Biden who was implicated in alleged criminal and unethical conduct. The case presented a glaring contrast to how the Justice Department treats its own officials […]

  • Riley Gaines, 15 Other Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Madness

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 7:20pm EDT

    Riley Gaines, 15 Other Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Madness In the latest attack on transgender madness in women’s sports, former University of Kentucky Wildcats swimmer Riley Gaines and 15 other female athletes have filed suit against the NCAA alleging violations of federal Title IX law arising from its insertion of man-to-woman transgender athletes […]

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  • US To Back Nevada Lithium Project With $2.26 Billion Loan

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 6:20pm EDT

    US To Back Nevada Lithium Project With $2.26 Billion Loan By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Lithium Americas Corp has received a conditional commitment for a $2.26-billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy to help it build lithium processing facilities in Nevada, as the Biden Administration looks to support America-produced lithium and reduce dependence on Chinese supply. […]

  • “I Can’t Even Save”: Americans Are Getting Absolutely Crushed Under Enormous Debt Load

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 6:00pm EDT

    “I Can’t Even Save”: Americans Are Getting Absolutely Crushed Under Enormous Debt Load While Joe Biden insists that Americans are doing great – suggesting in his State of the Union Address last week that “our economy is the envy of the world,” Americans are being absolutely crushed by inflation (which the Biden admin blames on […]

  • Does Big Tech Have The Right Talent To Win Our Confidence With Its AI Creation?

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 5:00pm EDT

    Does Big Tech Have The Right Talent To Win Our Confidence With Its AI Creation? Authored by Shannon Edwards via The Epoch Times, The biggest generative AI gaffes of late, including Google Gemini’s text-to-image portrayal of “a Pope” as a woman, our Founding Fathers as Asian and black, and text responses suggesting false equivalencies between […]

  • US Banks See Large Deposit Inflows As Bailout Fund Expires, RRP Liquidity Plunges

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 4:40pm EDT

    US Banks See Large Deposit Inflows As Bailout Fund Expires, RRP Liquidity Plunges With The Fed’s bank bailout facility now expired (and the one-year term loans starting to mature), it is perhaps not surprising that we saw a very large liquidity drain from The Fed’s Reverse Repo facility in the last two days – over […]

  • Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 4:20pm EDT

    Taibbi: Why The TikTok Ban Is So Dangerous Authored by Matt Taibbi via Racket News, Did they tell you the part about giving the president sweeping new powers? It’s funny how things work. Last year at this time, Americans overwhelmingly supported a ban on TikTok. Polls showed a 50-22% overall margin in support of a ban and […]

  • Thinking About Moving? These Five States Just Recorded Largest Housing Inventory Surges 

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 4:06pm EDT

    Thinking About Moving? These Five States Just Recorded Largest Housing Inventory Surges  Can’t find a house to buy? The underlying problem remains a persistent housing shortage and elevated mortgage rates that have paralyzed the housing market nationwide.  However, don’t fear ahead of the spring housing season. New housing data from industry researcher ResiClub reveals pockets of housing […]

  • ‘Bad News’ Battered Bonds, Big-Tech, & Banks On The Week; Copper & Crude Rip

    ZeroHedge - Mar 15th 2024 4:00pm EDT

    ‘Bad News’ Battered Bonds, Big-Tech, & Banks On The Week; Copper & Crude Rip An ugly week on the macro side – hotter than expected inflation, slower than expected growth, weaker than expected labor market data… Source: Bloomberg …but the inflation issues sent rate-cut expectations reeling (now less than 3 cuts priced in for 2024)… […]