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Former Obama White House Senior Policy Advisor Charged With ‘Child Sex Offenses’
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 10:45am EDTFormer Obama White House Senior Policy Advisor Charged With ‘Child Sex Offenses’ A 46-year-old former senior policy advisor the Obama administration appeared in a UK court over child sex offense charges. Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy, who worked for the White House under both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is accused of arranging […]
Hedge Fund CIO: “That’s Why I See Us Headed Into A 1970s-style Inflation”
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 10:05am EDTHedge Fund CIO: “That’s Why I See Us Headed Into A 1970s-style Inflation” By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “I tried to jump into the Potomac when I was young and my mother nearly killed me,” said the CIO. “Now you could drink from our rivers if you had to, which is […]
Key Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 10:00am EDTKey Events This Week: PCE, GDP, Fed Blackout And Earnings Gallore Hot on the heels of last week’s tech and momentum rout, shaken traders will have to wait until Friday for the main macro event namely the US core PCE print within the income and spending report. Economists expect the core PCE deflator to come […]
Head Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 8:45am EDTHead Of Climate Research At Hedge Fund Andurand Expresses Skepticism Over Carbon-Credit Boom The head of climate research at commodities hedge fund firm Andurand Capital Management says now is not the time to bet on a bull market for carbon credits. There is growing pessimism in the voluntary carbon markets amid turmoil within the world’s […]
Futures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 8:10am EDTFutures Rebound As Geopolitical Fears Fade, Fed Enters Blackout Period US equity futures rose, putting the S&P on pace for its first gain after 6 straight days of losses, as focus shifted from Middle East tensions to a raft of company earnings this week, including four of the Mag7 tech megacaps which got hammered last […]
Sam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 7:45am EDTSam Altman Powers Up America With Clean Energy Startup Investment Sam Altman and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are betting on solar power and energy storage that can supply a low-carbon future to artificial intelligence data centers. Altman, the face of the AI chatbot boom, has also invested in nuclear power technology to fuel America’s powering […]
The Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 6:30am EDTThe Three Oil And Gas Stocks Most Sensitive To Oil Price Swings By Alex Kimani of OilPrice Following a strong rally amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, oil prices have pulled back sharply in the current week as demand worries outweigh geopolitical concerns. WTI crude for May delivery has declined 5.1% from the Friday close to […]
Commercial Real Estate Foreclosures Soar To Levels Not Seen In Nearly A Decade
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 5:45am EDTCommercial Real Estate Foreclosures Soar To Levels Not Seen In Nearly A Decade Larger cracks are appearing in the US commercial real estate market at a time when uncertainty around the regional bank industry flashes red. The latest report from real estate data provider ATTOM shows CRE foreclosures topped 625 in March, up 6% from February and […]
How Trust (Or The Lack Of It) Affects America’s Trajectory
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 5:00am EDTHow Trust (Or The Lack Of It) Affects America’s Trajectory Via SchiffGold.com, America’s trust in its institutions has rapidly eroded over the past 20 years. We have a lower level of trust in our judicial system and elections than most European countries. Some of this is natural, as Americans are uniquely individualistic, but much of it arises from repeated government failures. Americans […]
How Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 4:15am EDTHow Debt-to-GDP Ratios Have Changed Around The World Since 2000 Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so after the COVID-19 pandemic. To gain perspective on this long-term trend, Visual Capitalist’s Marcu Lu visualized the debt-to-GDP ratios of advanced economies, as of 2000 […]
1Desperate To Do Whatever It Takes, Unlikely To Make Any Difference: A Dire Warning From Mario Draghi
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 3:30am EDTDesperate To Do Whatever It Takes, Unlikely To Make Any Difference: A Dire Warning From Mario Draghi By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “We’ve made very clear to China — and many other countries have as well — that they should not be supplying Russia with weapons for use in its aggression […]
US-Funded Experiments In China Could Secretly Manipulate Viruses: Email
ZeroHedge - Apr 22nd 2024 2:45am EDTUS-Funded Experiments In China Could Secretly Manipulate Viruses: Email Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Experiments in China funded by the U.S. government could manipulate coronaviruses and leave no trace, according to newly disclosed emails. An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in […]
The Intel Agencies Of Government Are Fully Weaponized
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 11:20pm EDTThe Intel Agencies Of Government Are Fully Weaponized Authored by ‘sundance’ via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; instead, what they did was take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons only targeted one side of the political continuum. This point is where many people […]
Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 10:45pm EDTUkraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money Democrats cheered and waved Ukrainian flags, chanting “Ukraine, Ukraine!” in some pavlovian response to Congress passing a bill that will send (another) $61 billion to Ukraine with no questions asked Rand Paul, among many others, was incensed: Ukrainian flags […]
Tit-For-Tat Responses From Beijing To Trade Restrictions May Bring About A Full-Blown Trade War
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 10:10pm EDTTit-For-Tat Responses From Beijing To Trade Restrictions May Bring About A Full-Blown Trade War By John Liu, Zhu Lin and Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists China’s most-promising industries are facing a growing threat of trade restrictions from Western governments, blurring the outlook for stocks that have the potential to fuel the nation’s market growth. The […]
Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 9:00pm EDTNorthern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit Authored by Brian Back via The Epoch Times, The city council of San Rafael in Marin County, California, voted unanimously in a public hearing last week, to approve a more relaxed version of its ordinance dealing with homeless camps and where they are allowed. The ordinance […]
Sidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort By Texas State Bar
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 7:50pm EDTSidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort By Texas State Bar Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Sidney Powell speaks during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Sidney Powell, a lawyer who filed lawsuits after […]
15 State Officials Warn Bank Of America About ‘De-Banking’ Of Christians
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 6:40pm EDT15 State Officials Warn Bank Of America About ‘De-Banking’ Of Christians Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A group of 15 financial officials from 13 states sent a notice to Bank of America, raising concerns about the institution’s “de-banking” of Christians. “We write to express our concerns over Bank of America’s troubling track […]
NYC High School Soccer Game Cancelled After Migrants Refuse To Leave The Field
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 6:05pm EDTNYC High School Soccer Game Cancelled After Migrants Refuse To Leave The Field New York City has long been out of space, but the constant stream of migrants arriving in the Big Apple is truly making it clear just how much of a premium real estate really is on the island. And those who pay […]
People Who Rent Will Decide the 2024 Presidential Election
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 5:30pm EDTPeople Who Rent Will Decide the 2024 Presidential Election By Mish Shdlock of MishTalk Immigration won’t decide the election. Polls have not yet captured what will. This may come as a surprise, but the top issue housing. More explicitly, it’s shelter costs. The Economy The economy is a very broad category that encompasses inflation, jobs, […]
Recent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 4:55pm EDTRecent IRA Inheritors Get Another Year With No Distribution Requirement In what’s becoming an annual ritual, the IRS has once again waived required minimum distributions for the current year for people who inherited an IRA from someone who died in 2020 or after. That’s welcome news, but some uncertainty still hangs over a growing number of […]
Pardon Me? Michael Avenatti Flips, Willing To Testify On Trump’s Behalf
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 3:45pm EDTPardon Me? Michael Avenatti Flips, Willing To Testify On Trump’s Behalf Imprisoned former CNN demigod Michael Avenatti has come out in support of Donald Trump, telling the NY Post that he’s willing to testify on Trump’s behalf after being in contact with Trump’s legal defense team about his willingness to testify against his former client, […]
Biden’s Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women’s Progress & Protections “On The Chopping Block”
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 3:10pm EDTBiden’s Title IX Trans-formation Puts Women’s Progress & Protections “On The Chopping Block” Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration’s overhaul of Title IX met with pushback today from lawmakers in favor of preserving female-only spaces. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing […]
“Hard Crash”: Construction Jobs In Philadelphia Set To Plunge As Residential Projects Hit A Wall
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 2:35pm EDT“Hard Crash”: Construction Jobs In Philadelphia Set To Plunge As Residential Projects Hit A Wall Construction jobs in Philadelphia could plunge soon as a result of a “glut” of residential projects finishing up with questionable demand waiting behind them, according to a new report from BisNow. In fact, some developers are calling for a “hard […]
Judge Who Handed Down $454 Million Trump Penalty Set To Rule On Validity Of Reduced Bond
ZeroHedge - Apr 21st 2024 2:00pm EDTJudge Who Handed Down $454 Million Trump Penalty Set To Rule On Validity Of Reduced Bond Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, After weeks of trying to secure a bond and arguing to an appeals court that a $454 million bond was “impossible,” former President Donald Trump secured a $175 million bond to […]