Russia, Iran, & A SWIFT Nuclear First Strike

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

Jim Sinclair, ages ago, told us that the moment the Obama administration threatened the Swiss with SWIFT expulsion over opening up its vaunted banking privacy rules was the equivalent of a nuclear ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-iran-swift-nuclear-first-strike

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"The Costs Are Up, Up, Up. We're Seeing Substantial Inflation" Admits A Surprised Warren Buffett As Powell, Yellen See Nothing

We already touched on two of the more colorful exchanges from Saturday's Berkshire annual videoconference, both of which incidentally starred the traditionally far more ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/costs-are-were-seeing-substantial-inflation-admits-surprised-warren-buffett-powell-yellen

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The Fourth Turning: Why America's "Crisis" May Last Until 2030

Authored by 'FreeSpeechFan' via TheDuran.com,

It is comforting that the Fourth turning is part of a natural cycle but also very disturbing that it is a period of crisis. As we know from previous cycles, many people suffer and die ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/fourth-turning-why-americas-crisis-may-last-until-2030

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"Monster-Size Lava Fountain" Erupts In Iceland

An Icelandic resident uploaded a stunning video on YouTube of a new volcanic eruption early Sunday morning.

YouTube"Sigfs Steindrsson"has been following a new fissure vent that opened a couple of weeks ago and is visible from Reykjavk, the capital of...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/monster-size-lava-fountain-erupts-iceland

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Fake Health Certificates Complicate The Already Messy "Vax Pass" Idea

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

The proliferation of fake health certificates is exposing a logistical blind spot for the airlines. Confusion doesn't stop there.

Airlines Struggle to Police Fake Certificates

In ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fake-health-certificates-complicate-already-messy-vax-pass-idea

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EU Pushes Plan To Revive Tourism By Opening Borders To Vaccinated Travelers

Late last month, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen revealed in an interview with the NYT that the EU would soon allow Americans and others who can prove that they have been fully vaccinated travel to popular ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/eu-pushes-plan-revive-tourism-opening-borders-vaccinated-travelers

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Intel's CEO Says Chip Shortage Could Last "A Couple Of Years" In New '60 Minutes' Interview

Intel's CEO has been the latest in a chorus of voices stating that the ongoing semiconductor shortage is going to last for a "couple of years".

Speaking on 60 Minutes Sunday night,chief executive officer ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/intels-ceo-says-chip-shortage-could-last-couple-years-new-60-minutes-interview

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EBay Plans To Enable Crypto Payments And Break Into NFT Market

With eBay shares sinking on lackluster earnings guidance from the company's latest quarterly report released last week, CEO Jamie Iannone decided to spice things up by revealing in the middle of an interview on CNBC that the auction ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/ebay-plans-enable-crypto-payments-and-break-nft-market

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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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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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