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Strong home sales and good jobs report raise odds of US rate hike. Japan considering major new stimulus. Central bankers losing credibility but buying equities. US consumer spending rises, Q2 GDP lowered, expected to rise in Q3. World trade continues to contract. Trump hires new people, keeps falling in polls. Clinton emails remain major problem.
Best Of The Web
Unknown voluntary servitude – AheadoftheHerd
Illustration of tiny size of silver market podcast – Smaulgld
Why gold will likely be much higher 10 years from now – Seeking Alpha
The 11 bone-chilling things I gleaned from Yellen’s chart – Wolf Street
Political left and right being upended by globalization politics – Nouriel Roubini
Yellen speaks Japanese – Talk Markets
Jim Rickards: “There will be a war on gold” – Sprott Global
Weekly commentary: Yellen unveiling, Jackson Hole 2016 – Credit Bubble Bulletin
All is calm, all is not right – Best Minds, Inc.
The reckoning – Alhambra Partners
French support for the EU project is crumbling on the Left and Right – Telegraph
Eight! – FOFOA
These Olympian gold royalty companies are insanely attractive – US Funds
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Breaking News
The Economy
8/31 Bond king Gross says Fed has ‘mastered market manipulation’’ – GATA
8/31 Chicago business conditions soften, PMI shows – MarketWatch
8/31 King ofdebt vs. queen of deficits – 24hGold
8/31 Oil prices sink as US crude stocks rise by 2.3M barrels – CNBC
8/31 Your retirement income is at risk! (Part 2) – Deviant Investor
8/31 US farm incomes to hit lowest level since 2009 – Wall Street Journal
8/31 Trade Why the central pillar of global order could collapse – Telegraph
8/31 Debts, deficits & economic warnings – Zero Hedge
8/31 Survey: US companies add a solid 177,000 jobs in August – US News
8/31 What rail freight volume just said about China – Wolf Street
8/31 How much of the S&P’s value is due to central banks – Zero Hedge
8/31 Swiss Central Bank holds $129 billion in equities – Mish
8/31 What the subprime loan crisis could mean for the economy – Casey Research
8/31 All time highs and lows… and the great collapse – Gold And Liberty
8/31 If Fed doesn’t re-implement QE, spread inversion imminent – Econimica
8/31 The global economy: drunk on debt – Sovereign Investor
8/31 Sentiment speaks: ‘Fed’ up with the manipulation excuses – Seeking Alpha
8/30 Japan’s household spending and unemployment fall in July – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
8/31 Silver Wheaton Corp. is quietly becoming a top gold stock – Motley Fool
8/31 Gold: jobs report & Fed are key – 321Gold
8/31 2 silver mining stocks for a shiner portfolio: PAAS & HL – Yahoo!
8/31 What’s the correlation between miners and gold? – Market Realist
8/31 Gold’s strong summer may be harbinger of things to come – USA Gold
8/31 Why gold fell & what turning Japanese had to do with it – Seeking Alpha
8/31 Why gold isn’t keeping up with central bank balance sheets – GATA
8/31 Gold and silver stocks are exceptionally cheap according to this metric – Motley Fool
8/31 Gold may be worth much more than you think – Kitco
8/30 “Why case against gold is wrong” – GoldCore
8/30 Fed recommits to propping up markets no matter what – Money Metals Exchange
8/30 The night that is upon us and the dawn of a new era – GATA
8/30 The golden week: Upside opportunity as Fed fear fades – Seeking Alpha
8/30 A rate hike won’t stop this bull market – Seeking Alpha
8/30 Gold and silver stocks are exceptionally cheap according to this metric – Motley Fool
8/30 Gold doing something it’s only done twice in past decade – Business Insider
8/29 Expect gold profit taking – Seeking Alpha
8/29 New gold discoveries are big investment opportunity – Future Money Trends
8/29 Ignore Yellen and buy the dip in precious metals – Seeking Alpha
8/29 Dutch Central Bank won’t publish gold bar list for dubious reasons – Seeking Alpha
8/29 Gold 101 – lesson 1 – Seeking Alpha
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
8/31 FOMC vice chair Stan Fischer endorses negative interest rates – 24hGold
8/31 Oops! How negative interest rates will lead to higher rates – Gold Republic
8/31 China turmoil looms as traders bet on post-G-20 yuan tumble – Zero Hedge
8/31 Central bankers worldwide embrace race to the bottom – Huffington Post
8/31 Major bank launch plot against dollar – Daily Reckoning
8/31 Crypto-currencies and the Fate of the Dollar – Daily Reckoning
8/31 Peter Schiff: The Fed is a dove in hawk’s clothing – Seeking Alpha
8/31 Fed’s Stanley Fischer: negative interest rates ‘seem to work’ – Economic Collapse
8/31 The death of negative rates as a policy tool – OppenheimerFunds
8/31 Payments, digital gold and the prisoner’s dilemma – Roger Bass
8/31 Risk of bitcoin hacks and losses is very real – Fortune
Real Estate Bubble
8/31 US pending home sales jump in July – Yahoo!
8/31 Case-Shiller Home Price Index declines 0.1% – Mish
8/30 House price gloom in Canada a lesson for Australia – Financial Review
8/30 US home price gains ease in June: S&P/Case-Shiller – CNBC
8/30 Vancouver’s housing market implodes – Zero Hedge
DollarCollapse Podcasts
8/16 A tough time to manage money
7/27 Random violence and political instability: the new normal
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
Politics
8/30 John McCain is in the fight of his political life in the age of Donald Trump – WaPo
8/30 Hillary Clinton piles up research in bid to needle Donald Trump – NY Times
8/30 Marine Le Pen calls for Frexit – Express
8/29 Libertarian Johnson: US election so nuts I just might win – Bloomberg
8/29 Donald Trump’s debate prep is exactly what you’d expect it to be – Red State
8/29 Donald Trump has a massive Catholic problem – Washington Post
8/29 Clinton ad pushes issue of rage against Donald Trump – NY Times
8/28 Trump just threw a wrench into the immigration debate – Business Insider
8/28 Trump links shooting of Dwyane Wade’s cousin to election, sparking outrage – CNBC
8/28 BleachBit brags of wiping Hillary’s servers, claims it “stifled FBI investigation” – ZH
8/28 Donald Trump in 2004: ‘nothing matters’ – Huffington Post
8/28 Hey, Donald Trump: It turns out that immigrants really just want to work – WaPo
8/28 Donald Trump finally did a non-Fox News interview. It didn’t go very well. – WaPo
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
8/30 California climate change laws: More electric cars, solar power – Mercury News
8/29 The price of solar is declining to unprecedented lows – Scientific American
8/28 Renewable energy generation breaks records every month in 2016 – Eco Watch
8/28 Wind power finally getting out from solar’s shadow – Oil Price
8/26 EV revolution set to cripple more than just the oil industry – Oil Price
8/25 Could a lithium shortage de-rail the electric car boom? – Oil Price
8/25 Solar market anticipated to reach $53.7 billion by 2020 – Roshani Gavali
8/25 The headache-free way to have solar power – Clean Technica
8/25 The falling costs of US solar power, in 7 charts – Vox
Art of the Collapse
8/17 The hardest job in the world: Donald Trump’s campaign surrogates – Daily Show
8/09 How you got screwed – a user’s guide to a rigged system – Zero Hedge
8/08 Greed corrupts in thrilling ‘Junk’ – San Diego Union-Tribune
8/08 Trump to replace Constitution with the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition – News Thump
8/02 Homer Simpson: “And that’s how I became a Democrat” – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
8/30 Syria war: US warns over Turkish-Kurdish violence – BBC
8/30 Rockets hit Saudi border town as Yemen war flares anew – Reuters
8/30 Chicago records “most violent month in 20 years” – Zero Hedge
8/29 Rebranded Al Qaeda group in Syria receiving US weapons – Shadow Proof
8/29 Europe migrant crisis: Germany expects ‘up to 300,000’ this year – BBC
8/29 Will the Pentagon’s effor to whip up war fever work in this internet era? – Daily Bell
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
8/29 ‘Property a better bet than pensions’, says Bank of England – Telegraph
8/29 Mediterranean diet better for the heart than taking statins – Telegraph
8/28 Grow your own by all means, but self-sufficiency is not the answer – Guardian
8/25 What life will be like after an economic collapse – Survival Sullivan
8/25 Cancer epidemic getting worse – Dr. Sircus
8/23 Baking soda and lemon juice – Dr. Sircus
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
8/30 Clear and present danger to your life as of now from cyberblitzkrieg – Kurzweil
8/30 FBI finds “foreigners” breached two state election databases – Zero Hedge
8/28 What would a real ‘cyber war’ with Russia look like? – Fox News
8/26 Apple issues global iPhone security update for unprecedented spyware – CNBC
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
8/30 The hype-and hope-of articial intelligence – New Yorker
8/30 Here are the winners of the first beauty contest judged by AI – Observer
8/30 Surge in heroin overdoses “unlike anything we’ve seen before” – Telegraph
8/29 50 posters that rocked the world – Xerox
8/29 49ers fans burn Kaepernik jerseys after ‘black-oppression’ – Zero Hedge
8/28 Israel black hole breakthrough – WWLP
8/28 NASA spacecraft Juno makes closest ever approach to Jupiter – Telegraph
8/26 A possible habitable planet is only four light-years away – Kurzweil
8/26 His name is Meow Meow, and he hacks DNA – Bloomberg
8/25 Singapore beats Pittsburgh to world’s first self-driving taxis – Mish
8/25 Italy quake death toll hits 250 as rescuers search – Reuters
