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Why Bitcoin’s Failing Its Role As A ‘Safe Haven’ Versus Gold
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 8:55pm ESTWhy Bitcoin’s Failing Its Role As A ‘Safe Haven’ Versus Gold Authored by Francisco Rodrigues via CoinDesk.com, In theory, bitcoin should thrive during times of uncertainty as it’s sound money that’s censorship-resistant. In practice, it’s becoming the first thing investors sell when push comes to shove. As geopolitical tensions flared over the past week, following […]
Appeals Court Denies DOJ’s Bid To Arrest More Minnesota Church Protesters
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 5:40pm ESTAppeals Court Denies DOJ’s Bid To Arrest More Minnesota Church Protesters Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Late last week, a federal appeals court denied the Justice Department’s (DOJ’s) request to arrest more individuals involved in an anti-ICE protest that occurred inside a church in Minnesota earlier this month. Protesters disrupted a Sunday […]
Abandon Big Tech: Ethereum Founder Buterin Calls 2026 The Year To Reclaim Self-Sovereign Computing
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 3:25pm ESTAbandon Big Tech: Ethereum Founder Buterin Calls 2026 The Year To Reclaim Self-Sovereign Computing Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin declared 2026 to be the “year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty,” starting with his own devices. In a Friday post on X, he laid out the software changes he has […]
Mobocracy: Democratic Politicians Compete In Race To The Bottom Over ICE Shooting
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 2:45pm ESTMobocracy: Democratic Politicians Compete In Race To The Bottom Over ICE Shooting Authored by Jonathan Turley, This year, there has been a race to the bottom as Democratic politicians fuel the rage in our streets against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. That continued this last week when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz again rushed to […]
Egon von Greyerz On The Hidden Crisis Behind Silver’s Price Surge
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 1:45pm ESTEgon von Greyerz On The Hidden Crisis Behind Silver’s Price Surge In the following clip, Egon von Greyerz explains why the precious metals market has entered a fundamentally new and unprecedented phase. One which is driven not by speculation or momentum trading, but by deep structural imbalances between physical supply and an unprecedented physical demand. Persistent supply […]
Elon’s X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing ‘Rage Bait’
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 10:55am ESTElon’s X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing ‘Rage Bait’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, While Elon Musk is rightly credited for transforming X into a battleground for unfiltered truth, he dropped two bombshells this week that could significantly reshape the platform. In a move that promises cleaner feeds but sparks fears of shadowy […]
Elon’s X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing ‘Rage Bait’
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 10:55am ESTElon’s X Overhaul: Muting Political Posts And Banishing ‘Rage Bait’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, While Elon Musk is rightly credited for transforming X into a battleground for unfiltered truth, he dropped two bombshells this week that could significantly reshape the platform. In a move that promises cleaner feeds but sparks fears of shadowy […]
“The Discombobulator”: Trump Admits Secret Weapon Used In US Operation To Capture Maduro
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 10:05am EST“The Discombobulator”: Trump Admits Secret Weapon Used In US Operation To Capture Maduro Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump has revealed that U.S. forces used a secret weapon to disable Venezuelan military equipment in the Jan. 3 operation that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. “The Discombobulator. […]
Post-Winter Storm, Deep-Freeze Pushes Power-Grids To Brink As Feds Move To Avert Blackouts
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 8:05am ESTPost-Winter Storm, Deep-Freeze Pushes Power-Grids To Brink As Feds Move To Avert Blackouts The major winter storm that dumped heavy snow and ice across much of the eastern US is finally over, but the cold-weather danger is far from over. Roughly 185 million Americans remain under winter alerts today as Arctic air continues to pour […]
Three Lessons From Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 6:30am ESTThree Lessons From Venezuela’s Economic Collapse Authored by Matthew Mitchell via TheDailyEconomy.org, President Trump has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado. Unlike Machado, however, he does not accept the central lessons that can be gleaned from five decades of Venezuelan misrule. There are three. Lesson 1: […]
Three Lessons From Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 6:30am ESTThree Lessons From Venezuela’s Economic Collapse Authored by Matthew Mitchell via TheDailyEconomy.org, President Trump has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado. Unlike Machado, however, he does not accept the central lessons that can be gleaned from five decades of Venezuelan misrule. There are three. Lesson 1: […]
Visualizing Life Expectancy In The World’s Largest Economies
ZeroHedge - Jan 26th 2026 2:45am ESTVisualizing Life Expectancy In The World’s Largest Economies Despite living in the world’s largest economy, Americans have shorter life expectancies than residents of many other wealthy nations. People in Japan – the world’s fourth-largest economy – live about five years longer on average. Meanwhile, residents in countries like France and Italy outlive Americans by roughly […]
America Can’t Secure Its Future On Imported Minerals
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 11:20pm ESTAmerica Can’t Secure Its Future On Imported Minerals Authored by Jack Bergman via RealClearPolitics.com, If the past few years taught us anything, it’s that national security no longer stops at the water’s edge or the factory gate. It runs through the mines, mills, refineries, and logistics networks that supply the metals inside our jets, ships, […]
JD Vance Notes Something Very Important About Minneapolis Chaos
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 10:10pm ESTJD Vance Notes Something Very Important About Minneapolis Chaos Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge, Last week CPB commander Greg Bovino was asked what makes Minneapolis different from other cities where ICE enforcement operations have taken place. Bovino noted in the Minneapolis region there is no separation between the extremists on the ground and […]
From Vibrancy To Vacancy: America’s Going, Going Gone!
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 9:00pm ESTFrom Vibrancy To Vacancy: America’s Going, Going Gone! Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, I hate shopping. I hate crowds. I hate malls. I don’t believe I had entered a mall in over a decade, until Monday. My visit to the once vibrant Montgomery Mall in Montgomeryville, PA was a shocking confirmation […]
Supreme Court Orders CA Dems To Justify ‘Prop 50’ Maps
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 7:50pm ESTSupreme Court Orders CA Dems To Justify ‘Prop 50’ Maps Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, The Supreme Court on Thursday gave California Democrats a week to respond to the California Republican Party’s request to block the new Democrat-drawn congressional district maps from being used in November. The request for a response, issued by Justice […]
“Do The Right Thing”: President Trump Urges “Common Sense” From Democrats
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 6:48pm EST“Do The Right Thing”: President Trump Urges “Common Sense” From Democrats Amid the escalating violence in Minnesota, we calmly ask you to cast your mind back a few years – we know it’s hard, but just try… President Obama gave his ICE chief an award for deporting 409,000 illegals (in 2012). President Trump’s ICE chief […]
Maybe Truflation Is On To Something
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 5:30pm ESTMaybe Truflation Is On To Something By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Fed On the betting apps, it looks like Rick Rieder has become the odds on favorite to win. I like the idea of mixing things up at the Fed and think that having a market practitioner in charge would be an interesting […]
Scientists Pioneer Reverse Solar Panels To Create Energy At Night
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 3:10pm ESTScientists Pioneer Reverse Solar Panels To Create Energy At Night By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are developing a “reverse solar” panel, called a thermoradiative diode, which generates electricity by emitting infrared light (heat) into cold surroundings. The device works by capturing heat absorbed by the Earth […]
“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…”
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 2:00pm EST“Befuddled By The Insanity Swirling Around Me…” Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, Fake It Until You Make It “My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.” — George Carlin The government reported CPI of “only” 2.7% and the financial pundits and Trump toadies celebrated the “lowest inflation in 5 years”. […]
‘Repatriate The Gold’: German Economists Urge Withdrawal From US Vaults
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 9:20am EST‘Repatriate The Gold’: German Economists Urge Withdrawal From US Vaults Authored by Kate Connolly via The Guardian, Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts Germany is facing calls to withdraw its billions of euros’ worth of gold from US vaults, spurred […]
2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market
ZeroHedge - Jan 25th 2026 8:10am EST2026 Is The Year Of Balance Sheet Engineering In The Battery Storage Market By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com In the first quarter of 2026, the global energy storage market is no longer a playground for visionaries… it is a graveyard for the undercapitalized. The data is rough. As of March 2025, QuantumScape sat on $860 […]
Escobar: The Real “Rupture” In Davos
ZeroHedge - Jan 24th 2026 11:20pm ESTEscobar: The Real “Rupture” In Davos Authored by Pepe Escobar, Whatever the barbarians may be potting, the fact that matters is that China is already deep into the next phase, where it is expected to replace the United States as the world’s primary consumer market. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles […]
Would Term Limits Make The DC Swamp Even Worse?
ZeroHedge - Jan 24th 2026 9:00pm ESTWould Term Limits Make The DC Swamp Even Worse? Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Though America is beset by increasingly bitter political divisions, there are two convictions that unite Americans across party and demographic lines. Large majorities are certain that Congress isn’t serving the interests of the American people, and that Capitol Hill would […]
House This Week Passed $839 Billion Defense Bill Bursting With Pork
ZeroHedge - Jan 24th 2026 7:50pm ESTHouse This Week Passed $839 Billion Defense Bill Bursting With Pork Authored by Alan Mosley via AntiWar.com, The House of Representatives on Thursday approved an $838.7 billion fiscal 2026 defense spending bill, moving one of the largest appropriations measures in US history toward final passage in the Senate. In a 341-88 vote that crossed party lines, lawmakers advanced […]