Wal-Mart, Sysco Fine Suppliers As Labor Shortages Cause Surge In Late Orders

From the gas pump to the grocery aisle, Americans have been suffering from "sticker shock" for the first time in years. While the Fed continues to insist that inflationary pressures will be "transitory", sell-side banks ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/wal-mart-sysco-fines-suppliers-labor-shortages-cause-surge-late-orders

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Johns Hopkins Doctor Dismisses Walensky Fear-Mongering: "Most Of The Country Is At Herd Immunity"

Authored by Scott Morefield via Townhall.com,

Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, disputed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky's contention that COVID-19 variants could set back the...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/johns-hopkins-doctor-dismisses-walensky-fear-mongering-most-country-herd-immunity

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The Blockchain And The Future Of Everything

Authored by Ethan Yang via The American Institute for Economic Progress,

Writing, money, and ledgers, are the three basic building blocks that allowed humanity to progress past the days of foraging for berries and hunting wild game to the advanced ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/blockchain-and-future-everything

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Screw Lumber, Just 3D-Print Your Next Home

With lumber prices up 67% since the start of this year and up 340% from a year ago, according to Random Lengths, a wood products industry tracking firm, adding tens of thousands of dollars to new residential builds, there is a viable new option to ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/screw-lumber-just-3d-print-your-next-home

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Demand For Ass Implants Booms During Pandemic

In the early days of the virus pandemic, things didn't look so hot for the field of plastic survey. Hospitals were overrun with COVID-19 infections and banned all elective procedures, limiting plastic surgeries. But sometime after, when the economy ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/demand-ass-implants-booms-during-pandemic

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Dream Chaser Spaceplane Cleared To Resupply Space Station

The Dream Chaser spaceplaneenteredinto a Use Agreement for Space Florida's Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) to land after resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022.

The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/dream-chaser-spaceplane-cleared-resupply-space-station

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ARKegos: Cathie Wood Admits Bill Hwang Seeded Her ETFs, As Questions Swirl About Trade Similarities

Just hours after we wrote an article titled "ARKchegos Looming" on Thursday, which compared ARK Invest's Cathie Wood to Bill Hwang and started to ask some critical, pointed questions about how many ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/weekend-wood-ark-founder-admits-bill-hwang-seeded-her-etfs-says-she-likes-setup-flagship

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Ethereum Soars To Record High Above $3,800 As JPMorgan Lays Out 6 Reasons Why Explosive Move Will Continue

Back on April 25, we quoted a prominent billionaire VC who said that "Ethereum is the world's most interesting trade right now" and we predicted that "Ethereum Is About To Make An Epic ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ethereum-soars-record-high-above-3800-jpmorgan-lays-out-6-reasons-why-explosive-move-will

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Hedge Funds Are The 'Most Short' Junk Debt Since Lehman

A month ago we warned that The Fed's incessant intervention had put distressed investors out of business as the remarkable rally in even the lowest quality junk debt ('CCC or triple hooks') had created party time for zombie companies ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hedge-funds-are-most-short-junk-debt-lehman

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US Troops Accused Of Pillaging Syrian Grain Silos As Russia Warns Of IncreasedOccupation

Syrian and Russian state sources are reporting late this week that Russia's Defense Ministry is expressing anger over what it described as noticeablyincreased American military activity in Syria's northeast ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-troops-accused-pillaging-syrian-grain-silos-russia-warns-increased-occupation

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Beijing's Elusive Bid For Pricing Power On Rare Earths

Authored by Damien Ma via MacroPolo.org,

Fromventilatorand chip shortages to what kind of ships traverses through which canals, the linkages and nodes ofthe global economy have rarely been in the spotlight as much as they have over the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/beijings-elusive-bid-pricing-power-rare-earths

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Turn Over Routers Or Face Subpoenas, Arizona Lawmakers Tell Maricopa County

Submitted by Zachary Stieber

Votes are counted by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Nov. 5, 2020.

Legislators in Arizona and officials in the states largest county clashed ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/turn-over-routers-or-face-subpoenas-arizona-lawmakers-tell-maricopa-county

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Egypt Prepares To Unveil New 'Octagon'Defense Headquarters

Via AlMasdarNews.com,

Egyptian military sources reportedly toldRT Arabicthis week that Egypt is preparing to open the new headquarters of its armed forces.

The headquarters of the new Egyptian army, dubbed "the Octagon", was designed to ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypt-prepares-unveil-new-octagon-defense-headquarters

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The Energy Crisis That No One Is Talking About

Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,

We live in a world where words are very carefully chosen. Companies hire public relations firms to give just the right spin to what they are saying. Politicians make statements which suggest that ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-crisis-no-one-talking-about

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The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed

Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog,

The monster known as inflation has been unleashed upon the world and will not easily retreat into the night. This is reflected in soaring commodity and housing prices. Due to the stupid and self-serving ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/inflation-monster-has-been-unleashed

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$170,000 Per Year: The Post-COVID Hiring Crunch Is Hitting The World Of AI Data Scientists

We already know that minimum wage payers are having trouble recalling workers for their post-Covid plans. And why wouldn't they? Laid off workers have been making more on unemployment and PPP loans over the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/post-covid-hiring-crunch-hitting-world-ai-data-scientists

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Uneven Recovery Leaves Working-Poor Communities In The Dust

The US economy is fragmented more than ever. Millions of Americans continue to suffer job loss and housing and food inequities. At the same time, 650 billionaires in the US saw their net worth increase by more than $1 trillion since the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/uneven-recovery-leaves-some-communities-behind

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Ranking US Generations On Their Power And Influence Over Society

Were on the cusp of one of the most impactful generational shifts in history.

As it stands, the Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964) are Americas most wealthy and influential generation. But, as Visual Capitalist's Carmen Ang details below...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ranking-us-generations-their-power-and-influence-over-society

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Antony Blinken Continues To Lecture The World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates: Greenwald

Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com,

Continuing his world tour doling out righteous lectures to the world, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday proclaimed ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/antony-blinken-continues-lecture-world-values-his-administration-aggressively-violates

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What The Boom In Fraud Says About The Current Market Environment, Part 2

Authored by Jesse Felder via TheFelderReport.com,

Just about three months ago, I wrote ablog postwhich featured this quote, from Charles P. KindlebergersManias, Panics and Crashes: Swindles are a response to the appetite for...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/what-boom-fraud-says-about-current-market-environment-part-2

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"The Staffing Shortage Is Real" - Manhattan Restaurants Struggle To Hire As Millions Paid Not To Work

Long-suffer NYC restauranteurs may have been tempted to celebrate when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that the Big Apple would "fully reopen" on July 1. But just as the problem of COVID-...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/manhattan-restaurants-struggle-hire-servers-too-many-workers-get-paid-stay-home

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Victoria "F*ck The EU" Nuland Is Now Highest-Ranking Member Of US Foreign Service

Authored byRick Rozoff via AntiWar.com,

On Thursday the USSenate confirmed Victoria Nuland as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, which has been described as the fourth most important position in the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victoria-fck-eu-nuland-now-highest-ranking-member-us-foreign-service

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Berkshire Profit Soars As It Sells Others, Buys Back Its Own Stock

Over a decade into the biggest metaphorical massacre of value investors by the Federal Reserve (which sadly was also literal in the case of Charles de Vaulx, a renowned value investor and co-founder of International Value Advisors...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/berkshire-posts-near-record-operating-profit-amid-2nd-highest-stock-sales-5-years

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Rates Can Still Come Down Some Even As The Reflation Trade Continues

Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog,

Last weekwe wrotehow interest rates may have room to come down a bit before ultimately heading higher later this year and into next year. This line of thinking was ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rates-can-still-come-down-some-even-reflation-trade-continues

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One-Third Of Basecamp Employees Quit After Ban On Political Discussions At Work

Roughly one-third of employees at Basecamp are quitting after the company instituted a 'controversial' ban on wokeness in the workplace, according to TechCrunch.

After CEO Jason Fried announced in a Monday blog post ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/one-third-basecamp-employees-quit-after-ban-political-discussions-work

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McConnell Urges Biden Administration To Drop "Divisive, Radical" 1619 Project From Grant Programs

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times,

Thirty-seven Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday penned a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mcconnell-urges-biden-administration-drop-divisive-radical-1619-project-grant-programs

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Senate Intelligence Leaders Say Mystery Sonic Weapon Attacks On US Officials Increasing

After it was revealed Thursday that US intelligence is investigating at least two potential "directed energy" sonic attacks on White House personnel - one of which is alleged to have happened just ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-intelligence-leaders-say-mystery-sonic-weapon-attacks-us-officials-increasing

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Biden Unveils New Strategy For North Korea & Wants You To Know It's "Not Trump's"

On Friday the Biden administration announced the completion of its major review of US policy toward North Korea, which revealed deep White House pessimism toward prior Trump efforts to strike a "grand bargain" with ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-unveils-new-strategy-north-korea-wants-you-know-its-not-trumps

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Niall Ferguson: How Ike's 1950s America Beat The 'Asian Flu' With Science & Common Sense

This essay is adapted from Mr. Fergusons new book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, which will be published by Penguin Press on May 4. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/niall-ferguson-how-ikes-1950s-america-beat-asian-flu-science-common-sense

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California To Offer Early Release To Over 63,000 Violent Felons

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is giving 76,000 inmates - 63,000 of which are violent and repeat felons - the chance to leave prison early, allowing inmates with good behavior to shorten their sentences by 1/3 instead of the 1/5 ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-offer-early-release-over-63000-violent-felons

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