Breaking News And Best Of The Web

Dominic Frisby interviews James Rickards, and Greg Hunter finds a new sound money heroine. This morning’s strong US economic reports look much better than they really are. China, pensions and oil making news, as usual. Sprott’s Rick Rule on why the gold bull market is for real, while precious metals continue correcting. Look for next week’s COT report to be a lot less bearish. Bitcoin gets a serious cryptocurrency competitor.

Best Of The Web

Dominic Frisby interviews James Rickards – Frisby’s Bulls & Bears

Criminal bankers threaten entire world economy – USA Watchdog

Gold: Intelligentsia – you’re fired! – 321Gold

The business of central banks is like pornography – Finanz und Wirtschaft

Stock share buybacks now bought out – The Great Recession

Rick Rule on gold’s bull market – King World News

We’re in the eye of a global financial hurricane – OfTwoMinds.com

The coming Fed-induced pension bust – Hussman Funds

“We are becoming convinced that the system won’t stabilize” – Zero Hedge

Trump victory odds soar as the Hillary Clinton ‘death cross’ strikes – Zero Hedge

What we have now isn’t capitalism – Wall St. For Main St.

Weekly commentary: unambiguous signals disregarded – Credit Bubble Bulletin

Doggie (life) style – AheadOfTheHerd.com

Observations from the heart of Silicon Valley – Peak Prosperity

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Breaking News

The Economy

5/26    US weekly jobless claims total 268,000 vs 275,000 estimate – CNBC


5/26    US durable goods surge on transportation, but business spending weak – CNBC


5/26    US government quietly cuts historical Capex data by billions of dollars – Zero Hedge


5/26    Gross trying to short credit to reverse decades of instinct – Bloomberg


5/26    Civil unrest erupting in France – Armstrong Economics


5/26    The anger of the unprivileged is rising globally – Charles Hugh Smith


5/26    This is how much your health insurance payment is about to jump by – Zero Hedge


5/26    Regulation – the hidden curse – GoldMoney


5/26    Janet Yellen is raising rates to bail out the banks yet again – Yahoo!


5/26    Will the Fed hike in June? It’s all in the hands of China now – Zero Hedge


5/26    Is there a bear market in progress? – GoldAndOilGuy


5/26    Hard times & false narratives – Burning Platform


5/26    Wilbur Ross in China, yuan, debt & Trump – Barron’s


5/26    Pension costs, by any measure, staggering – OC Register


5/26    China needs massive bailout ‘in the trillions of dollars’ – Straits Times


5/26    Add it up… and it doesn’t add up – Econimica


5/26    Service sector growth weakest since 2009 – Mish


5/25    Stocks rally for day two as crude oil jumps – The Street

Precious Metals

5/26    Miner sees silver price surging ninefold as global gadgets boom – Bloomberg


5/26    Get into gold now! Prices could hit $1,900: Boockvar – CNBC


5/26    Nick Barisheff: The billionaires are wrong on gold – GATA


5/26    Storing precious metals safely is just as important as buying them – SRSrocco Report


5/26    Lower Australian dollar helps gold prices Down Under – CNBC


5/26    Is now the time to buy these gold producers? – Motley Fool


5/26    Gold and silver stocks get slammed, but… – Motley Fool


5/26    Buying the dollar, selling gold? Amateurs… – The Street


5/26    All dressed up with nowhere to go – Seeking Alpha


5/25    Venezuela fights crisis with biggest sovereign gold sale since 2007 – GATA


5/25    Gold and silver “bottom is in” – GoldCore


5/25    Gold perspectives – Armstrong Economics


5/25    Q1 2016 Canadian silver maple sales surge – SRSrocco Report


5/25    How much gold should I buy? – APMEX


5/25    The gold mine Barrick might regret selling – GATA


5/25    Hugo Salinas Price: Mechanical ‘economics’ – GATA


5/24    “Perfect time and place” for gold – GoldCore

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

5/26    Draghi stimulus pushes euro junk-bond yields toward 10-month low – Bloomberg


5/26    The central bank war on savers – Seeking Alpha


5/26    Consequences of NIRP – Bert Dohmen


5/26    Will Britain stay or go? – Armstrong Economics


5/26    Is low inflation permanence the story of 2016? – Bloomberg


5/26    Red alert: China amps up currency war with the Fed and the world – Forbes


5/26    Warning sign: China sets currency at 5-year low – WPTZ


5/26    Big bitcoin startup just took ‘bitcoin’ out of its Twitter bio – Recode


5/26    Lost your shirt in the MtGox Bitcoin mess? Release the kraken! – The Register


5/26    “Ethereum is ahead of bitcoin in many ways” – CryptoCoins News


5/26    Brexit spells ruin of EU, strife for US – Sovereign Investor


5/26    Will the Swiss guarantee 75,000 CHF for every family? – Gold And Liberty

Real Estate Bubble

5/26    Pending home sales up 5.1 pct, highest level in a decade – CNBC


5/26    Mortgage rates jump as Fed turns hawkish – MarketWatch


5/26    Wells Fargo launches 3% down payment mortgage – CNBC


5/26    The debt domino effect of homebuying – CNBC

DollarCollapse Podcasts

5/23    Hard times for obsolete entities


5/14    Chaos spreads to US retailers and Italian banks


5/04    Easy money has failed; what’s next?


4/27    Okay, I’ll say it: run for the hills


4/21    Corporate earnings (among other things) go from bad to horrendous


4/13    A potentially brutal earnings season kicks off


4/06    The end of privacy = risk off and soaring gold


3/30    The inevitable is now imminent


3/22    Huge government deficits coming


3/17    Same mistakes, bigger scale

Politics

5/26    Warren on Trump: “A small, insecure money-grubber” –Salon


5/26    What Sanders’ new endorsements say about his future plans – Washington Post


5/26    Here’s why Clinton should still be worried about Sanders – Fortune


5/26    State department rules Hillary created “security risks” – Mish


5/26    Ryan said to tell confidants he’s ready to end Trump Impasse – Bloomberg


5/26    Brexit: wrong discussion, wrong people, wrong arguments – Automatic Earth


5/26    Trump 2016: Poll results are baffling experts – Profit Confidential


5/26    Trump’s new attack ad targets claims of rape against Bill Clinton – Examiner


5/26    Clinton cash coming to a threater near you – Armstrong Economics


5/25    Sanders scores a big victory in his battle with Clinton – Fiscal Times


5/25    Lower away! – 24H Gold


5/25    Who paid Hillary Clinton from 2013-2015 – Zero Hedge


5/25    Internet reformation: undeterred by current elections – Daily Bell


5/25    Trump escalates, calls Vince Foster suicide “very fishy” – Zero Hedge

Offshore Investing

5/20    EU to compile common blacklist of tax havens, sanction them – Reuters


5/17    Panama Papers: dozens of Americans tied in – Panama Papers


5/17    Panama Papers hub in Miami: Citigroup’s private bank – Wall St on Parade


5/12    Crooks, terrorists, tax evaders: Can new shell company rule stop them? – Reuters

Clean Tech

5/26    DOE wants grid to be able to handle 100% mid-day peak solar – Electrek


5/26    Saudi Arabia to revive its solar power program at smaller scale – Bloomberg


5/26    Australian lithium miners in focus on rising demand for electric vehicles – CNBC


5/25    Largest US power grid supply costs drop 39% in auction – Bloomberg


5/25    Tesla compared to Enron, Ponzi scheme in scathing new research report – ZH


5/25    Q2 On special assignment: Wind power blowing across Montana – KTVQ


5/24    Tesla confirms details of Powerwall improvements – GTM


5/24    Google’s project sunroof expands to 42 states and millions more rooftops – GTM


5/24    SolarCity Corp surges on news of solar power system Implementation –Value Walk


5/24    World Bank approves $750 Million for Indian solar power projects – Clean Technica


5/24    $4 billion wind farm for Scotland as it leads push for wind energy –CNBC


5/23    Top hedge fund sees solar power viability –Value Walk

Art of the Collapse

5/08    ‘Dilbert’ creator’s 6 reasons why Trump will win – Zero Hedge


5/06    The book that will save banking from itself – Bloomberg


5/04    America’s best and brightest – 321 Gold


4/25    Hillary Clinton’s full speech to Goldman Sachs – Liberty Blitzkrieg

War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State

5/26    IRS malfeasance gives a glimpse of larger gov’t corruption –Daily Bell


5/25    Saudi culture exports extremism, former 9/11 commissioner says –Bloomberg


5/25    Shootings in Chicago are up astonishing 50% year-over-year – Zero Hedge


5/24    Obama’s fatal fatalism in the Middle East – Washington Post


5/24    How the Pentagon punished NSA whistleblowers – Guardian


5/23    Afghan peace still far away after US kills Taliban leader –Bloomberg


5/23    ‘Niger Delta Avengers’: Who they are, and what they want – CNBC


5/23    These Americans are preparing for war with their own gov’t – Zero Hedge

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

5/24    Magnesium deficiency: How to know to avoid chronic disease –Natural Health


5/24    Can cancer really be prevented? – Dr Sircus


5/24    The five ‘hidden killers’ that could send you to an early grave – Daily Mail


5/24    Can you bug in if you live in the city? – Survival Sullivan


5/23    Tiny is so very big– Market Watch

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

5/22    Cyberwar: The smart person’s guide – Tech Republic


5/21    Yet another major cyberheist in ‘secure’ global payments system – Zero Hedge


5/20    Cyber-war gets real – Baseline Mag


5/20    Cyber war vs. Islamic State ‘work in progress’ – VOA News


5/20    Cyberspace’s invisible armies – ECNS

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

5/26    The empty brain – Aeon


5/25    Nasdaq rejects cannabis company’s listing application – MarketWatch


5/25    NFL tried to fund govt concussion research to influence it – MarketWatch


5/25    Gene helps prevent heart attack, stroke, aging – Kurzweil


5/25    Will this augmented reality machine really replace your PC? – Bloomberg


5/23    Dirty driving: Ride-hailing services worst culprits for germs, study says – CNBC


5/23    Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million – Guardian


5/23    New evidence about the dangers of Monsanto’s roundup – Intercept