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  • How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 4:20pm EDT

    How Did Satoshi Think Of Bitcoin? Authored by Unchained CSO Dhruv Bansal via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin is often compared to the internet in the 1990s, but I believe the better analogy is to the telegraph in the 1840s. The telegraph was the first technology to transmit encoded data at near-light speed over long distances. It marked […]

  • The U.S. Is Facing Record Drug Shortages

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 2:35pm EDT

    The U.S. Is Facing Record Drug Shortages And just like that, the supply chain crisis we saw for pharmaceuticals during Covid has returned. ABC reported this week that drug shortages in the United States have reached an “all-time high”.  In the first quarter of 2024, the U.S. faced 323 active medication shortages, surpassing the previous […]

  • Woman Who Went Viral For Hugging Trump At Chick-Fil-A Explains Why Black Voters Support Him

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 2:00pm EDT

    Woman Who Went Viral For Hugging Trump At Chick-Fil-A Explains Why Black Voters Support Him Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A woman who recently went viral for hugging former President Donald Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Georgia and telling him not to worry about dishonest media coverage has revealed why she thinks […]

  • US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 1:25pm EDT

    US Pressuring China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia To Halt Attack Plans On Israel The past days have seen American diplomats in a global push to get countries to hold back Iran from launching a retaliatory attack on Israel for its April 1st embassy attack in Damascus. Washington is especially leaning on China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia […]

  • ‘Do The Right Thing’: Assange Supporters Urge As Biden Mulls Dropping Case

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 12:15pm EDT

    ‘Do The Right Thing’: Assange Supporters Urge As Biden Mulls Dropping Case President Joe Biden this week for the first time said his administration is weighing the Australian government’s requests to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been deprived of his freedom since 2010 and is currently jailed in London’s notorious Belmarsh […]

  • Is Silver About To Do A Cocoa?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 11:40am EDT

    Is Silver About To Do A Cocoa? Authored by Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, Silver prices have rocketed higher in recent days, and they have been surging today (with great volatility). As a futures market, more of it trades on exchange relative to its annual physical supply compared to cocoa. Therefore it’s not inconceivable silver could […]

  • Biden’s Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 11:05am EDT

    Biden’s Sticky Inflation: Auto Insurance Rates Record Biggest Annual Jump Since 1976 Joe Biden’s sticky inflation continues to ravage the working poor as Bidenomics falls flat on its face. The president’s ally at the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has yet to achieve the 2% inflation Fed target ahead of the November elections.  As inflation heats up in […]

  • Let’s Be Honest: The Economy Is NOT Doing Well

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 10:30am EDT

    Let’s Be Honest: The Economy Is NOT Doing Well Authored by Connor O’Keeffe via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The American economy is not all right. But to see why, you need to look beyond the dramatic numbers we keep seeing in the headlines and establishment talking points. Money in a file illustration photograph. (Thomas […]

  • This Next Bean Is Hyperinflating, And It’s Not Cocoa 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 9:55am EDT

    This Next Bean Is Hyperinflating, And It’s Not Cocoa  The next bean hyperinflating is Robusta coffee futures in London, hitting fresh record highs on Friday. This comes as poor harvests in Vietnam, the world’s second-largest producer of robusta beans, fuels concerns about global shortages. Also, arabica futures are erupting. Futures for robusta, the cheaper coffee […]

  • It’s Official: Reflation Is Here

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 9:20am EDT

    It’s Official: Reflation Is Here Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the […]

  • These Are The Most Valuable Housing Markets In America

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 8:45am EDT

    These Are The Most Valuable Housing Markets In America The residential real estate market in the U.S. stands as one of the largest asset classes in the country, worth $47.5 trillion in 2023. Despite a slowdown in home sales, the total value of homes increased $2.4 trillion last year as low inventory levels pushed up prices. Affordable […]

  • Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 8:10am EDT

    Zelensky Is Lying About An Upcoming Counteroffensive Out Of Desperation To Receive More Aid Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Zelensky told German media in an interview earlier this week that Ukraine is planning another counteroffensive against Russia, which is why it requires production licenses from its partners in order to build up its domestic military-industrial capacity […]

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  • Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 13th 2024 7:35am EDT

    Where Does One US Tax Dollar Go? Come tax season, a common refrain is: “what do my taxes even pay for?” To answer that question, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu visualized U.S. federal government spending by function, referencing expenditure to a single federal tax dollar. Data is for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023 from the U.S. […]

  • The Political Left Has Proven Beyond A Doubt That They Are Authoritarians

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 11:40pm EDT

    The Political Left Has Proven Beyond A Doubt That They Are Authoritarians Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Nearly 20 years ago when I started my work in the independent media the common mantra among my peers was noting the existence of the “false left/right paradigm” – The idea that Democrats and Republicans were essentially […]

  • BJP Dominates Election Polls But Loses Southern India

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 11:20pm EDT

    BJP Dominates Election Polls But Loses Southern India According to an opinion poll carried out in March in all of India’s 543 constituencies by India TV and CNX, Narendra Modi’s BJP and its allies are projected to win almost three quarters or 399 seats in India’s lower house Lok Sabha in this year’s national election which […]

  • Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 11:00pm EDT

    Landmark Study Reveals ‘Transgender’ Kids Actually Have Other Mental Health Diagnoses Authored by Sara Parshaall Perry via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s been a red-letter week for destroying the gender narrative. And the trans juggernaut just hit another speed bump. Transitioning children not only harms them physically and psychologically, but it also causes medical conflicts. (Sangiao […]

  • Did Lockdowns Set A Global Revolt In Motion?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 9:40pm EDT

    Did Lockdowns Set A Global Revolt In Motion? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, My first article on the coming backlash – admittedly wildly optimistic – went to print April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of lockdown, I confidently predicted a political revolt, a movement against masks, a population-wide revulsion against the elites, a demand […]

  • Buying Votes: Biden Cancels Student Debt For 277,000 Borrowers Ahead Of Presidential Elections

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 9:20pm EDT

    Buying Votes: Biden Cancels Student Debt For 277,000 Borrowers Ahead Of Presidential Elections On Friday, President Joe Biden announced that he would cancel the federal student debt of more than 277,000 Americans, equating to about $7.4 billion. This would bring the total of what is considered classical vote buying ahead of the November presidential elections to more […]

  • 20 Women Soccer Players Withdraw From League Over Transgender Players

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 9:00pm EDT

    20 Women Soccer Players Withdraw From League Over Transgender Players Authored by Jim Birchall via The Epoch Times, Concerns over the physical safety of female-born football (soccer) players competing against transgender athletes have compelled at least 20 players to quit, according to a source from within a Sydney-based league. Calling itself the “biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s […]

  • School District Takes Next Step In Ditching Seattle Gifted Program

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 8:20pm EDT

    School District Takes Next Step In Ditching Seattle Gifted Program Authored by Jason Rantz via mynorthwest.com (emphasis ours), Privileged progressives, donning their white knight armor, are in the next phase of a plan to end Seattle Public Schools’ gifted students program — known locally as its Highly Capable Cohort (HCC). They complained the HCC was […]

  • The Freedom That Once Was The Internet

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 7:40pm EDT

    The Freedom That Once Was The Internet Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It’s time to declare as regards the internet of old: Requiescat in Pace. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen in London, England, on April 13, 2006. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) It’s […]

  • Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 7:20pm EDT

    Biden Punishes Drillers With 15-Fold Increase In Permitting Costs, Plans To Block Arctic Oil Extraction One week after the Biden administration slapped new regulations on key power grid components, the Washington Post reports that US oil and gas companies will face a 15-fold increase in costs to drill on federal land, under a new rule […]

  • “I Cannot Afford To Live”: Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 7:00pm EDT

    “I Cannot Afford To Live”: Americans Get Emotional As The US Economy Goes Off The Rails Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, As we approach what is likely to be the most chaotic presidential election in U.S. history, troubling signs are starting to erupt for the U.S. economy.  In fact, CNN is actually […]

  • Gun Control Activist David Hogg “Gets Wrecked” By Chinese Immigrant Who Escaped Communism

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 6:40pm EDT

    Gun Control Activist David Hogg “Gets Wrecked” By Chinese Immigrant Who Escaped Communism Earlier this week, elite liberal-leaning Ivy school Dartmouth College hosted a debate about gun control between radical leftist David Hogg and Libertarian vice presidential candidate Jeremy “Spike” Cohen. Late in the discussion, a Chinese immigrant who escaped the brutal hell of communism told Hogg […]

  • Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants

    ZeroHedge - Apr 12th 2024 6:20pm EDT

    Denver Cuts Taxpayer Services, Diverts $90 Million To Support Illegal Immigrants Authored by Jana J. Pruet via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a major shift Wednesday in the city’s response to the illegal immigrant crisis, extending support to six months but with only about 1,000 spaces. Illegal immigrants rest at […]