Zerohedge

== overarching premise is wrong ==
Zerohedge has the overarching premise that money is wealth and that history repeats itself, which wrong. Money is only a claim to past, present and future energy production. We are flooded with 1kwh/sqr meter of energy from the sun and all we need is a cheap Heliostat Mirrors solar tracking device to make our own steel, bricks and food. You don't need land for food production, only energy. Black water is endlessly recycled, extracting the phosphate, growing duckweed , eaten by Tilapia fish, creating ammonia for plants . 
:https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/2021-liquidity-supernova-not-just-fed-us-treasury-will-unleash-13-trillion-liquidity-next "...One of the most poignant (and painful to some) lessons of the past decade - especially to contrarian, bearish investors such as Odey and Horseman - is that the Fed can keep print money far longer than any short can remain solvent. And while it was considered in poor taste until earlier this year to admit that the market levitation is entirely due to the Fed's manipulation of markets- a task best left to fringe, tinfoil wearing blogs - all pretense disappeared after Jerome Powell nationalized the bond market in March, and just last week Morgan Stanley's chief rates strategist, Matthew Hornbach, admitted that central bank liquidity is the most critical component of rising macro markets: "It both greases the wheels of transactional finance and changes the opportunity set available to investors...."
Shorts will continue to get burned unless they reconsider their premise that money or letters of credit are actual wealth. Bitcoin has no backing by a sovereign nation state and is thus defined as a commodity and not a currency or "crypto" currency. 
One has to navigate the rhetoric and unfalsifiable conspiracy theories to get some good articles. For example only Zerohedge warned us a head of time that Cyprus was about to implode its banking system and that the Chinese were rehypothecating the same pile of copper to different entities. The rhetorical tone they is annoying, some sort of AI filter would be nice to extract the underlying premises. 
=== Comments are AI chat bots ===
:"....https://www.economist.com/node/21701119/comments I'm extremely happy with The Economist's timing of this cover topic and special report, mainly because just last week I discovered an online 'AI' software that made more than 1500 human-like clever comments to 100 or more articles for over a year unnoticed, I even got a confession from its programmers! If you're curious about this highly sophisticated 'AI' software called Don Dehart Bronkema, you can read its comments at: http://disqus.com/by/don_bronkema/ and mine at: http://disqus.com/by/yamancakiroglu/ Now the question is: in the future will we, as humans, accept an 'AI' software trying to fool us as if it were one of us, or not? ...."
=== Nytimes ===
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-06/exposed-real-author-nyt-anonymous-op-ed-gs-15-cia-analyst.
=== IMF: deep negative rates ===
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/04/29/Enabling-Deep-Negative-Rates-A-Guide-46598 The experience of the Great Recession and its aftermath revealed that a lower bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions. However, the zero lower bound is not a law of nature; it is a policy choice. The central message of this paper is that with readily available tools a central bank can enable deep negative rates whenever needed—thus maintaining the power of monetary policy in the future to end recessions within a short time
=== FED will bailout China ===
https://archive.md/eDqdC Earlier today we pointed out that in what can (obviously) only be a remarkable coincidence, China's largest, and most systematically important real estate developer, China Evergrande (and its $300+ billion in debt), collapsed on the 13th anniversary of Lehman's bankruptcy filing, when Beijing told Evergrande's creditor banks that the insolvent company, which recently hired Houlihan Lokey as bankruptcy advisor, would not pay interest on its debt next week, nor would it repay principal, in effect blessing the coming default.(16 sept 2021)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-19/something-just-broke-china-repo-rate-soars-1000-overnight repo rate spiked to 1000% July 2019, forcing the FED to cut rates end of July or they risk collapsing the Yuan. Oil is unlimited , hence unlimited money printing by the US and EU is possible. Problem is that many are still stuck in the history of high oil prices, history never repeats itself as each generation has different circumstances. 
Because of the false premise that money is wealth, many have developed a mental health problem, all the way from Keizer report to hyperbolic blogs like Zerohedge. 
https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2019/02/china-continues-to-prop-up-its.html 
https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/04/28/the-art-of-chinese-bank-fraud/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-18/chinese-insurer-warns-mass-defaults-social-unrest-due-mass-redemptions-run
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/china-is-playing-a-9-trillion-game-of-chicken-with-investors
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-19/investors-rage-after-3-billion-yuan-vanish-chinas-largest-private-bank
http://thediplomat.com/2013/12/chinas-shadow-currency/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-16/worlds-biggest-aluminum-producer-faces-default-warns-dramatic-social-unrest-without-
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-05-26/meanwhile-china-cow-collateralzed-stock-buybacks and the eventual crash http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-24/chinas-largest-dairy-operator-suddenly-crashes-85-record-low-muddy-waters-says-worth
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/there-s-only-one-buyer-keeping-the-s-p-500-s-bull-market-alive
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-01/chinese-cash-flow-shocker-more-half-commodity-companies-cant-pay-interest-their-debt
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-05/chinese-credit-bubble-full-frontal
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/five-years-great-financial-crisis-no-growth-no-deleveraging
=== China 2 ===
China used more cement and concrete than in ten years that the us used the last 100. Ecologically this can't be sustained because building sand is becoming scarce and the damage to rivers and ocean bottom is unacceptable.
The senate and congress has been stalling an infrastructure spend and stimulus since the crises of 2008 resulting in quantitive contraction, placing the burden on China stimulus measures to prevent an implosion. Bernanke's eventually late but never quantitative easing prevented a depression and war. As we can see with Europe's gas price surge of 600% , QE only works if the energy is available else you have inflation. Congress learnt from the great depression of 1930's and 2008 recession and didn't repeat their mistake, flooding liquidity into the world economy preventing a global war with the pandemic shutdowns.
Money isn't wealth, we can only have a scarcity of commodities and the energy need to create such. Under the Obama administration, Bernanke lamented that the FED can purchase bonds but can't make oil. River building sand is one commodity we are running low of. Moroccan desert sand, which has the highest silica content can be turned into bricks with solar furnaces, but this needs an accurate tracking device, similar to what is used on satellites, only much cheaper. Iraq's desert gypsum can't be used.
China has 90,000 dams that attempts to control flooding,with each controlled by a CCP patronage network not cooperating with the others to balance out storm surges and maintenance, flooding china's coal mines. This resulted in China's current power black outs and the problem won't go away as repairing the dams is to costly. The three gorges dam has buckled and could fail at any moment as the steel rebar needed to anchor the dam to the bedrock wasn't inserted: cement was slapped on top of it, with the sheer weight of the dam preventing its collapse. 
Jiang Zemin formented a $10trillion Ponzi scheme, creating empty cities with enough space for 90mil people, soaking up the savings of the Chinese people. Half the income for example of Evergreen were paid out in dividends to the CCP patronage network every year instead of reducing the debt. The true debt burden is hidden via off balance sheet shadow banking schemes.
China's attempts at world domination was thwarted with the CIA installing Trump as president, allowing agent Lighthizer(has never given an interview to media) to torpedo's China's high tech quest for dominance. Europe is to distracted with Germany's third attempt at taking over Europe , attempting to achieve what it couldn't do with the two world wars, the CIA again has prevented chaos. The Dutch government had to be instructed by the CIA not sell the lithography equipment to China. Democracy will lead to our deaths, the CIA shadow government is essential in preventing our demise.
https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2019/02/china-continues-to-prop-up-its.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-16/china-accounts-more-60-all-new-credit-created-globally-past-ten-years
https://econimica.blogspot.com/2018/10/chinas-imminent-implosion-charts-of-day.html
https://econimica.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-this-plays-out-deceleration_39.html
https://econimica.blogspot.com/2019/02/census-bureau-treasury-eia-detail.html
=== demographics ===
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2017/07/demographics-central-bankers-nightmare.html
=== AI effects on society ===
https://econimica.blogspot.co.za/2017/01/how-america-recovered-from-great.html Kennedy school
=== stuff.co.nz ===
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/92133145/china-debt-rising-at-alarming-pace--bank-official 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/84477678/fear-that-china-debt-bubble-will-burst 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/73954976/Five-myths-about-the-Chinese-economy 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/88105605/chinas-economic-growth-could-slow-to-65-pct-in-2017 
=== conflictsforum ===
http://www.conflictsforum.org/2017/what-is-this-crisis-of-modernity/
=== Stratfor intelligence ===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnPgscg0vU CIA agent Friedman on chances for global war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_cPG4sPKdc mauldin economics 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voqht3i3xtg intermarium this increased German hostility to the United States and to Poland. Germany had agreed to impose sanctions on Russia, but since Berlin did not want a significant confrontation with Russia, let alone a war, they were fairly inconsequential. Poland and the United States seemed far more prepared for conflict than Germany could afford to be. This was the foundation of the U.S.-Polish relationship. The Americans and the Poles both wanted an active containment of Russia. Germany wanted an accommodation. German hostility toward the U.S. and Poland was rooted in this, as was U.S. and Polish distrust of Germany.
=== wikileaks ===
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-25/assange-outlines-six-reasons-why-democratic-party-doomed Agent Assange on Democrats. archive backup https://archive.is/HhTCn 
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spvr6n archive(https://archive.is/LjAGo) proposes the democrat base breaks away into a separate party. The US isn't a multiparty democracy but a constitutional republic. Such an event, together with Jill Stein's Greenpeace would forever keep the presidency republican. It should be obvious that Assange is a CIA troll, the democrats know this and are hopping mad but wouldn't dare to implicate the CIA. 
Nancy Pelosi is fuming that she was played for the fool by the CIA: she drank from a poisoned chalice. Gulping down all sorts of secret information was a ruse, now the Democrats can't ever implicate the CIA in electing Trump.
=== Zeihan ===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io Peter Zeihan At IdeaFestival 2014, Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan provides deep insight and context to the rapidly changing global scene and its potential impact on international business, finance and the US. By dissecting global demographic, cultural, political and economic trends, Zeihan paints a fascinating picture of what the interconnected geopolitical landscape could look like in the not too distant future.
=== IQ ===
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-10/world-faces-uphill-battle-average-iq-just-82 Lists the average IQ per country. archive https://archive.is/F31dY
=== OIL ===
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/tverberg-why-great-reset-based-green-energy-isnt-possible 1] The economy isn’t really like a computer that can be switched on and off; it is more comparable to a human body that is dead, once it is switched off. debunking lower oil supply The basic issue is that the economy is nterconnected, because energy is required for every activity that is considered part of GDP. Energy is required for any kind of heat or any kind of movement. Energy is even required for electricity. Without energy from the sun, food can’t grow; without supplemental energy of some kind (such as using electricity to heat an electric stove or burning animal dung or sticks), it becomes impossible to cook food or smelt metals.
=== news outlets ===
https://disobedientmedia.com/2019/05/bolton-is-choking-on-foreign-policy-heres-who-should-replace-him/ 
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/03/ret_col_macgregor_us_doesnt_win_wars_anymore.html 
=== links ===
Water wars 
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And while BofA's forecast may seem a little extreme, others expect even higher prices. David Tawil, president of Maglan Capital, told Fox Business last week that “incredible demand,” inflation, and shareholder pressure on oil supermajors to drastically cut emissions could lead to an oil crisis within three years, with very high oil and gasoline prices. Oil prices are set to rise “consistently and considerably now into the end of the year,” Tawil said. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20190629141951/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-28/great-transformation-robots-will-displace-20-million-jobs-2030 robots will displace millions by 2030, UBI is needed. 
https://www.globalresearch.ca/turkmenistan-secret-u-s-base-for-afghanistan-iraq-iran-campaigns/20411 
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2017/07/06/ANALYSIS-In-bid-to-regain-ancient-glory-has-Iran-struck-a-Faustian-bargain-with-Russia-.html 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUb-ua-LxOZ1d6WhThgMGRA Mauldin economics, biotech 
http://cnnphilippines.com/ 
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