Beijing Bans Four New Zealand MPs For "Crossing Red Line" With Taiwan Visit

Rising Interest Rates: Why The Narrative Fails Against The Data Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last Friday closed with the 10-year Treasury yield at 4.60%, a one-year high, and the doom commentary about rising interest rates was waiting before the bell even rang. Hyperinflation. Bond market breakdown. Paradigm shift. A 1981 fair-value retest. The Fed is about to “push the brrrr button” or pop “the everything bubble.” If you spent any time on social media over the weekend that followed, you saw a version of every one of those. So I posted a short thread...

UK Gov't Promises More Social Media "Restrictions" Authored by Kit Knightly via OffGuardian.org, While embattled PM Sir Keir Starmer takes a pointless grilling on the even more pointless existence of Peter Mandelson, other members of his cabinet were busily paving the way for the next construction phase of our increasingly dystopian society. Speaking to Sky News earlier today, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson promised… “more action to keep young people safe online, including around social media”. Which is delightfully vague. Education Minister Olivia Bailey kept her cards similarly close to her chest, whilst trying to sound forceful: “It is a...

Palantir, Flock, & Data Centers: The Battle Dividing The Right The political right spent much of the last decade united against Big Tech, government surveillance, and the unprecedented expansion of state power during COVID. But the rise of artificial intelligence has brought with it an urgent need for data centers, and firms like Palantir and Flock are providing government with increasingly sophisticated tools for mass-surveillance… severing the coalition that once simultaneously maintained the slogans “back the blue” and “don’t tread on me”. 7pm ET on the ZH home/X feed. Tonight, ZeroHedge Debates...