Courtesy of John Rubino.
Central banks making big promises, which traders seem to like. S&P 500 near all-time high. Gold corrects; several analysts see a top here. Oil falls for the week. Corporate earnings mixed so far. Brexit is slowing world economy, European hedge funds struggling, Italian banks hopeless. Another terrorist attack, this time at a German shopping mall. Trump makes long, dark acceptance speech, very well-received by Republicans. Clinton picks Tim Kaine for VP.
Best Of The Web
The central planning virus mutates – Acting Man
Cycle of insurgency: cops are being targeted, what’s next? – The Fifth Column
The real reason pharma companies hate medical marijuana – Liberty Blizkrieg
The world is taking its revenge against elites – Guardian
This ‘market’ discounts nothing except monetary cocaine – David Stockman
Something big happened in the gold market – SRSrocco Report
Put your hope in radical decentralization – Mises Institute
From the levellers to the leavers: a history of revolt – Prospect
Stockman: No, Donald, it’s not a ‘World War’ – Daily Reckoning
No, Donald, it’s not a “world war” – David Stockman
Goodbye Leniin, hello Bernanke – ABC
Deutsche Bank loves helicopter money – Zero Hedge
The rising danger of a bidless market – Peak Prosperity
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Breaking News
The Economy
7/23 China’s ballooning corporate debt a key tail risk for global credit – Reuters
7/23 Negative interest bites Switzerland’s big banks harder in 2016 – Reuters
7/23 Junk-bond rally hides some cracks – Bloomberg
7/23 If we can’t be honest, no solution is possible – OfTwoMinds.com
7/22 Gold: Plan B – SafeHaven
7/22 The serious warning no one’s talking about – Casey Research
7/22 Oil prices extend losses, face weekly decline as glut fears persist – CNBC
7/22 The real numbers behind GE’s “beat” – Zero Hedge
7/22 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
7/22 U.S. sides with HSBC to block release of money laundering report – Reuters
7/22 Pension funds are underwater – and taking us with them – ValueWalk
7/22 The subprime US economy is imploding – SRSrocco Report
7/22 How to escape the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme – Casey Research
7/22 The big picture hasn’t changed – Casey Research
7/22 Japan’s $190 billion stimulus; less than meets the eye – Reuters
7/22 VIX spells recession but Mrs. Yellen disagrees – Mountain Vision
7/22 Here’s what happens when the easy money dries up – Casey Research
7/22 11 signs that the US economy is rapidly deteriorating – Most Important News
Precious Metals
7/23 Gold miners justify surging shares as better results roll in – Bloomberg
7/23 Gold correction: key technical highlights – 321Gold
7/23 These gold miners could break into ASX’s top 100 – Forbes
7/23 Will Yamana Gold skyrocket like a mid-tier gold stock usually does? – Yahoo!
7/23 These six mining stocks could be the next acquisition targets – ETF Daily News
7/23 Storing gold: allocated vs. unallocated storage – Schiff Gold
7/23 Precious metals guide – how to buy gold & silver – APMex
7/23 Magic charts of technical analysis can’t penetrate central bank trading rooms – GATA
7/23 Gold market: hidden risks and hedging tactics – Seeking Alpha
7/23 Silver – caught inside – Silver-Coin-Investor.com
7/22 Is gold set to hit $1,500 per ounce? – GoldCore
7/22 Silver mining vs. gold mining: the dynamics explained – Sprott Money
7/22 Sentiment speaks: What is in store for gold? – Seeking Alpha
7/22 After doubling shares, this gold miner says rally will go on – NewsMax
7/22 Gold may not be as safe of a haven as you thought – USA Today
7/22 After doubling shares, this gold miner says rally will go on – NewsMax
7/22 Gold miner Newmont cuts cost forecast, beats market – Reuters
7/22 Why gold’s bond with the dollar has broken – MarketWatch
7/22 Jim Rickards and Egon von Greyerz discuss $10,000 gold – 24hGold
7/22 A timeline for the next rally in gold – TF Metals Report
7/22 Academic study says central banks rig markets with gold lending – GATA
7/22 If you can’t touch it, you don’t own it – Gold Price
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
7/23 Who buys bonds with a negative interest rate? – NPR
7/23 Why ethereum succeeded where bitcoin failed – Fightland
7/23 Texan gets 1.5 years in prison for running bitcoin Ponzi scheme – Reuters
7/23 The long-awaited horse-drawn Ferrari in digital asset speculation – Seeking Alpha
7/23 700% inflation, 10% GDP contraction in Venezuela this year – SOTT
7/23 How the Fed and most economists ignore inflation – David Stockman
7/23 Large investors become major buyers of Bitcoin – GoldAndOilGuy
7/22 How sub-zero gov bonds turned hunt for yield upside down – Bloomberg
7/22 Pound plummets on renewed recession fears – Zero Hedge
7/22 China produced more steel than rest of the world last month – Business Insider
Real Estate Bubble
7/23 Global real estate market – Bert Dohmen
7/22 Denmark faces ‘out of control’ housing market – Bloomberg
7/21 Low mortgage rates help boost US home resales to 9-year high – CNBC
7/21 House bubble warning will ‘shake Government’ – NZ Herald
7/20 Bank earnings: Wall Street is running out of jobs to cut – CNBC
7/20 US housing starts total 1.18M in June vs. 1.17M expected – CNBC
DollarCollapse Podcasts
7/21 It’s not the event but the response to the event that matters
7/01 Brexit was just the beginning
6/25 The deeper meaning of Brexit
6/08 Gold Will Soar, Marijuana Will Be Legal
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
Politics
7/23 Trump goes ‘all-in.’ How will Clinton respond? – Five Thirty Eight
7/23 Donald Trump’s RNC speech turned his white supporters’ fear into a weapon – Vox
7/23 The public is losing confidence in the political class to protect them – National Memo
7/23 Nigel Farage: Trump is right that NATO should pay its own way – TPM
7/23 Elizabeth Warren gives up hope of being Clinton’s VP – NY Post
7/23 Donald and Hillary deadlocked in Ohio – NY Times
7/23 Fact-checking the truth that Donald Trump promised – NY Times
7/23 Gary Johnson supporters at Repub convention to woo the never Trump crowd – Street
7/23 ‘Trump supporters rising up, disgusted with elites, no trust in media’ – Question More
7/23 World reacts to Donald Trump’s acceptance speech – CNN
7/22 Clinton picks Tim Kaine as running mate – Salon
7/22 CNN probably regrets polling viewers after Trump speech – BPR
7/22 His tone dark, Donald Trump takes GOP mantel – New York Times
7/22 Tim Kaine seems likely for Hillary Clinton’s No. 2 – NY Times
Offshore Investing
7/20 Costa Rica: Central America’s hidden gem – Sovereign Investor
7/08 Time to adjust your wealth plan – Mountain Vision
7/08 We pulled the ripcord on daily life and moved to Costa Rica – International Living
7/02 America’s offshore tax cheats are feeling the heat once again – Bloomberg
Clean Tech
7/23 Tesla’s Musk sees electric truck & bus, defends Solar City deal – Investors
7/23 China’s monthly PV grid connection in June estimated to exceed 10GW – Energy Trend
7/21 Solar photovoltaic arrives as a mainstream technology – Market Watch
7/21 SunEdison taking steps to sell its stake in TerraForm Global – Bloomberg
7/21 Cox: Iron Man Musk wages war on too many fronts – Reuters
7/21 US has potential for more than a billion tons of biomass annually – Kurzweil
7/21 Molten salt a boost for solar power generation – Engineers Australia
7/21 Musk sees Tesla’s future: Trucks, transit and solar in a push to sustainability – CNBC
Art of the Collapse
7/17 Obama’s 11-point response to the French tragedy – Zero Hedge
7/13 Artist’s impression of Hillary’s inauguration – Zero Hedge
7/03 Debunking Utopia – Future of Freedom Foundation
6/21 Explore bank bailouts, Cyprus anonymous, and more – Pinterest
6/19 Artist’s impression of the opening ceremony at the Rio Olympics – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
7/23 Munich shooting suspect found dead as carnage shakes Germany – Bloomberg
7/23 Turkey: how a dictatorship is engineered – Bert Dohmen
7/23 Without due process: from mass incarceration to assassination – Truth Out
7/23 How extrajudicial executions became “war” policy in Washington – Tom Dispatch
7/23 Going after whistleblowers – Freedom
7/22 Multiple deaths reported in shooting at Munich shopping mall – Reuters
7/22 Snowden designs a device to warn if your iphone’s radios are snitching – Wired
7/22 Erdogan vows Turkish military shake-up as emergency rule takes hold – Reuters
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
7/23 These powders are powerful – Bloomberg
7/17 Sticking germy fingers in mouth may give upper hand on health – ARS Technica
7/17 Paying farmers to go organic, even before the crops come in – NY Times
7/17 Obama expected to sign industry-backed GMO label bill into law – Automatic Earth
7/15 U.S. GMO food labeling bill passes Senate – Reuters
7/15 The prepper’s plan – down the rabbit hole – Survival Sullivan
7/12 Farmland becoming more popular amenity than a golf course – MarketWatch
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
7/23 Trump doesn’t understand cyberwar – Atlantic
7/22 Experts: GOP cyber platform “detrimental to global stabiltiy” – Fed Scoop
7/14 China hacked the FDIC – and US officials covered it up, report says – CNN Money
7/12 NATO: ‘New realities’ make internet a potential front line in conflict – ZD Net
7/12 As global feuds arise, expect increased cyberwar, says NATO analyst – Mother Board
7/09 Crooks are winning the ‘cyber arms race’, admit cops – ZD Net
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
7/23 A brief history of Marijuana legalization – Marijuana
7/23 Fighting the most dangerous animal in the world – Spiegel
7/21 Musk sees Tesla’s future: Trucks, transit and solar in a push to sustainability – CNBC
7/21 ‘Millennial dorms’: A new kind of group living for urbanites – CNBC
7/21 This year’s record arctic melt is a problem for everybody – Gizmodo
7/19 Here’s why there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ drugs – not even heroin – Guardian
7/19 Kim Kardashian West’s feud with Taylor Swift just went nuclear – Vanity Fair
7/18 Artificial intelligenc swarms Silicon Valley on wings and wheels – NYT
7/18 Anthony Weiner’s tormented communications director relives her horror – Vanity Fair
7/18 Toxic wheat, GMOs and the precautionary principle – Automatic Earth
7/18 More than half of US adults under age 30 reject capitalism – Most Important News
