Biden Plan To Recover $700 Billion Through IRS Audits Is Unrealistic: Former Officials

The Biden administration's plan to count on $700 billion over the next decade from enhanced IRS audits of the wealthy and corporations - a major source of funding for his economic agenda - is wishful thinking, ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-plan-recover-700-billion-through-irs-audits-unrealistic-former-officials

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So It Looks Like Nationalizing Student Loans Has Simply Turned Into One Giant Ponzi Scheme

We've all known that nationalizing student loan debt would turn out to be a terrible decision (just as it is when the government nationalizes any industry). We have been saying it on this site for years: it ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/so-it-looks-nationalizing-student-loans-has-simply-turned-one-giant-ponzi-scheme

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China Pollutes More Than US And All Developed Countries Combined: Report

China's 2019 greenhouse gas emissions exceeded those of the United States and the rest of the developed world combined, according to CNBC, citing a Thursday report by the Rhodium Group - a New York-based advisory group founded...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/china-pollutes-more-us-and-all-developed-countries-combined-report

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Atlas Is Shrugging: Forget 'The Great Reset', Here Comes 'The Great Reject'

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com,

The Jackpot Chronicles Scenario #4: Atlas Shrugged

Never mind The Great Reset. Here comes The Great Reject.

It occurred to me that I never did finish the final instalment ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/atlas-shrugging-forget-great-reset-here-comes-great-reject

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Slap On The Wrist: Honeywell Fined For Sharing F-35, Other Secrets To China

Via South Front,

On May 5th, the US State Departmentannouncedthat it had reached a $13 million settlement with defense contractor Honeywell.

The settlement is over allegations it exported technical drawings of parts for ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/slap-wrist-honeywell-fined-sharing-f-35-other-secrets-china

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Space Force Chief Scientist Says Developing Augmented 'Super Soldiers' Is "Imperative"

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

The top scientist in the US Space Force said last week thathuman augmentation should be embracedand that it is "imperative"for the US military to start working on such ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/space-force-chief-scientist-says-developing-augmented-super-soldiers-imperative

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Buffett's Refusal To Split Berkshire Stock Is Creating A 'Y2K-Like' Problem For Nasdaq

After years of lackluster performance, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has seen its Class A shares climb 20% so far this year, bolstered by the reflation trade that has sapped tech stocks. But Buffett's old-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffetts-refusal-split-berkshire-stock-creating-y2k-problem-nasdaq

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Goldman Announces Formation Of New Crypto Trading Desk

2018 was not a good year for bitcoin, and for cryptos in general: after hitting an all time high of (only) $20,000 in December of 2017, much of the remainder of 2018 was spent with the crypto bubble deflating, with early crypto investors first...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-announces-formation-new-crypto-trading-desk

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Tesla Admits Its Still "Firmly In Level 2" Autonomy, Won't Have Full Self Driving By Year's End

Elon Musk said in January of this year that he was"highly confident [a Tesla] will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human this year."

To many of us, we knew it was nonsense. Musk ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-admits-its-still-firmly-level-2-and-wont-have-full-self-driving-years-end

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Ayatollah Khamenei Calls Israel "Not A Country, But A Terrorist Base" As Vienna Talks Intensify

In a fiery Friday sermon on the occasion of "Quds Day"an Iranian Islamic holiday that commemorates the expected "liberation of Jerusalem" and which falls every yearon the last Friday of RamadanIran's ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ayatollah-khamenei-calls-israel-not-country-terrorist-base-vienna-talks-intensify

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COVID Vaccine Makers Prepares For Long Legal Battle As US Backs IP Waiver

Now that Germany has broken with the US over the question of whether to back a waiver for COVID vaccine IP that's been proposed at the WTO, pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer that were planning on COVID-19 vaccines becoming a...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-vaccine-makers-prepares-long-legal-battle-us-backs-ip-waiver

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JPM: Biden's Infra Bill Faces Enough Dem Opposition That It Will Be Materially Lower Than $4 Trillion

After weeks of bombastic announcements by the Biden administration, which included an utterly unprecedented $6trln in new federal spending split between The American Families Plan, American Jobs ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jpm-bidens-infra-bill-faces-enough-dem-opposition-it-will-be-materially-lower-4-trillion

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Here Are The Best Performing Assets In April And YTD

April was another solid month for financial markets, with 31 of the 38 non-currency assets in Deutsche Bank's main sample gaining ground (alas, unlike Goldman, DB refuses to include cryptos to the main sample of assets it tracks).

As DB's Henry...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-are-best-performing-assets-april-and-ytd

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Vaccine Passports Are Coming To Sports Venues

Vaccine passports (or passes or certificates) are being deployed at over 60 US stadiums and other venues this summer to get the economy "back to normal," according toReuters.

Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants and New York Mets are some of ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/vaccine-passports-coming-sports-venues

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Peruvian Presidential Front-Runner Says He'll Seize 70% Of Profits From Overseas Businesses

In a model that is surely going to soon be adopted and pushed by AOC and other deep thinkers on the left in the U.S., Peru's presidential front-runner Pedro Castillo has come out and said he would "seize ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peruvian-presidential-front-runner-says-hell-seize-70-profits-overseas-businesses

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World's Most Powerful Tidal Turbine Deployed Off Scotland's Coast

Bank of America equity strategist Haim Israel recently told clients by 2030, Europe will generate about 85% of its electricity from renewable sources. Solar and wind have stolen the spotlight in the green energy transition. But ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/worlds-most-powerful-tidal-turbine-deployed-scotlands-coast

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"The World's Biggest Problem" - Kissinger Warns Of "Colossal" Dangers In Growing US-China Tensions

Former US national security adviser Henry Kissinger has warned that strains between Washington and Beijing pose the biggest problem for the world, and a failure to improve them risks a cold war ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/worlds-biggest-problem-kissinger-warns-colossal-dangers-growing-us-china-tensions

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Dogecoin Spikes 50% Intraday, Cripples Robinhood's Crypto Trading

While most eyes were on the surge in Ethereum this morning, the real animal spirits are in Dogecoin, which is up 50% today, topping 60c for the first time ever...

Doge has now surged above Ripple to become the 4th largest ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/dogecoin-spikes-50-intraday-cripples-robinhoods-crypto-trading

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"You'll Never Be White" - Black Teacher's Racist Rant Highlights Need To Equip All Officers With Body Cameras

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

For years, I and others have argued for body camera (and police interrogation cameras) to be used in every jurisdiction. Despite the obvious value of such ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youll-never-be-white-black-teachers-racist-rant-highlights-need-equip-all-officers-body

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Panic Hoarding Guns Now Enters 16th Month As Biden Seeks Ban

Americans continued to panic hoard guns for the 16th straight month in April, according to theFBI'sNational Instant Criminal Background Check System's (NICS) statistics report. The data provides insight into the trends behind Americans ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/panic-hoarding-guns-now-enters-16th-month-biden-seeks-ban

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Chauvin Seeks New Trial, Alleges Prosecutorial & Jury Misconduct

In what will likely come as no surprise to many - especially given the judge's own remarks during closing arguments - Derek Chauvin's lawyerfiled a motionon Tuesday in Hennepin County, Minnesota, for a new trial on multiple grounds ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chuavin-seeks-new-trial-alleges-prosecutorial-jury-misconduct

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Biden Versus Biden On "Is America A Racist Country?"

Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.

So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Bidens address to Congress.

Asked the next day what he thought of ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-versus-biden-america-racist-country

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Australia Boomerangs On 'Racist' India Flight Ban After Backlash

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has majorly backtracked from statements made by treasurer Josh Frydenberg - who said last week that citizens trying to return home from COVID-stricken India will face fines and jail time, ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/australia-boomerangs-racist-india-flight-ban-after-backlash

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New York Times Subscriptions Slow 'Sharply' In First Post-Trump Quarter

The New York Times just announced that in the first quarter since former President Donald Trump left office, digital subscriptions have slowed 'sharply' despite revenue rising 6.6%, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-york-times-subscriptions-slow-sharply-first-post-trump-quarter

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Noah Didn't Yield To FOMO, Neither Should You

Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth reads the first sentence of the bible. Later in the book of Genesis, God created cycles.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, Both of these ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/noah-didnt-yield-fomo-neither-should-you

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Archegos Reportedly Files For Bankruptcy As Banks Scramble To Recoup $10 Billion In Losses

The other day, we learned that Credit Suisse, which was left on the hook for $5 billion after dumping blocks of stocks owned by its prime brokerage on behalf of Archegos Capital Management, earned just $17MM...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/archegos-reportedly-files-bankruptcy-banks-scramble-recoup-10-billion-losses

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US Space Command Closely Tracking Large Chinese Rocket's Out-Of-Control Fall To Earth

The Pentagon and US Space Command are said to be tracking a large Chinese rocket which is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere at some point this coming weekend, likely "around May 8th" according to the latest DoD ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/us-space-command-closely-tracking-large-chinese-rockets-out-control-fall-earth

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'50 Cent' Flees New York For Texas After Complaining About COVID Restrictions, High Taxes

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson has joined the wave of Americans fleeing New York, announcing that he had moved to Texas after complaining about draconian COVID-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/50-cent-flees-new-york-texas-after-complaining-about-covid-restrictions-high-taxes

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How Bezos Got Revenge Against The Tabloids For Exposing His Relationship With Lauren Sanchez

As Bill and Melinda Gates divorce shocks corporate America, even capturing the attention of main street given their status as a preeminent global power couple, many observers have been looking for ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-bezos-got-revenge-against-tabloids-exposing-his-relationship-lauren-sanchez

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Watch: Thousands Of Ford Pickups Sit Idle In Kentucky Lots, Awaiting Semi Chip-Related Components

Alongside Interstate 71, there sits thousands of Ford Super Duty trucks, parked in rows and waiting on parts.

The scene is the latest sign of an ongoing semiconductor crisis that has stung not only ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/photos-thousands-ford-pickups-sit-idle-kentucky-lots-awaiting-semi-chip-related-components

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