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Breaking News And Best Of The Web

Courtesy of John Rubino.

Best Of The Web

Negative interest rates and the war on cash (3) – Automatic Earth

Deadpool – StockResearch

The matrix exposed – First Rebuttal

Magical thinking – Financial Sense

Negative interest rates and the war on cash (2) – Automatic Earth

The anti-Cinderella man (part one) – Burning Platform

Negative interest rates and the war on cash (1) – Automatic Earth

Sorry losers! – Peak Prosperity

These 3 charts explain the terrifying math behind pension funds’ shortfall – MarketWatch

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

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Breaking News

The Economy

9/07    Job openings in the US unexpectedly jump to record high – Zero Hedge


9/07    No alternative to stocks? Just wait for the next bear market – Barron’s


9/07    First factories, now services signal cracks in US economy – Bloomberg


9/07    Citi: More QE probably won’t work – Bloomberg


9/07    Sorry, the trend is not your friend – 24hGold


9/07    Reader questions on yield curve inversions – Mish


9/07    Fed’s labor-market conditions index sinks into negative territory  – MarketWatch


9/07    Global oil demand set to tumble as China cracks down on teapot refiners – Zero Hedge


9/07    Betting on Crazylegs in the final race – International Man


9/07    40k students in limbo, 8k employees fired as ITT shuts down – Zero Hedge


9/07    Database reveals US as financial house of horrors – Wall St. On Parade


9/07    All time highs and lows …and the great collapse – Deviant Investor


9/07    Hanjin’s ghost ships seek havens with dwindling necessities – Bloomberg


9/07    Drowning Hanjin may not be alone among global shippers – Japan Times


9/07    Chinese consumers embrace credit to stoke car sales – Auto News


9/06    US service sector growth drops to 6-year low – Bloomberg


9/06    ECRI Weekly Leading Index at multi-year highs – Financial Sense


9/06    California court case opens door for pension benefit reductions – Bloomberg

Precious Metals

9/07    Why is gold not at $2,000/oz? – Gold Republic


9/07    Gold investing htis 2012 level post-Brexit – 24hGold


9/07    Post Labor Day could be a whole new world for gold – MunKnee


9/07    Gold is’very timely way to invest in monetary disorder’ – NewsMax


9/07    Gold & silver: good times are here – 321Gold


9/07    A monumental buying opportunity in precious metals – Energy And Gold


9/07    Fed fails, gold & silver to rise under inflation or deflation – Crush The Street


9/07    War on cash intensifies as gold & silver head into strongest months – Money Metals


9/07    Gold outlook – not laborious at all – Seeking Alpha


9/07    Gold: the good and the not yet good – Slope of Hope


9/06    Gold pops on weaker dollar, Fed indecision – MarketWatch


9/06    Before you buy an ounce of gold or silver, watch this – GoldSilver


9/06    Hedge funds drop bullish gold bets to two-month lows – Kitco


9/06    Central banks’ monetary policies a good reason to own gold – Gold And Liberty


9/05    Are the gold guys ready for prime time? – 24hGold


9/05    5 gold juniors trading at big discounts – MunKnee


9/05    Gold fundamentals still in progress – Seeking Alpha


9/05    Barrick to focus on scaled-back Pascua-Lama project – GATA


9/04    Gold sector correction – What happens next? – Acting Man


9/04    Miners’ second-quarter gold hedging is highest for six years – GATA


9/04    The “wildcards” that will push gold prices even higher – Birch Gold


9/04    Gold and silver – Fiat “dollar” says gold and silver will struggle – Edge Trader Plus

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

9/07    ECB is set to extend QE well into next year – CNBC


9/07    Kuroda feels the double-edged sword of negative rates – Reuters


9/07    Cash in a box catches on as Swiss negative rates bite – Bloomberg


9/07    Negative interest rates coming to the Fed? – Financial Post


9/07    A global milestone at the G-20 China – Daily Reckoning


9/07    This one chart should drive investors into buying gold & silver – SRSrocco Report


9/07    ‘Helicopter money’ may give Fed the inflation it wants – MarketWatch


9/06    US dollar hegemony questioned – Financial Sense


9/06    Draghi nears his QE3 as EB seen relying on more stimulus – Bloomberg


9/06    Negative interest rates and the war on cash (1) – Market Oracle

Real Estate Bubble

9/07    New Zealand tops world house price increase – Guardian


9/07    Vancouver housing bubble burst crashes local consumer sentiment – Zero Hedge


9/06    As housing reignites, even bust towns are booming again – MarketWatch


9/06    Auckland’s surging house prices top Sydney, parts of NY – Bloomberg


9/05    Home sales plunge: A good reason to panic – Sputnik

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

9/07    Philippines scrambles to soothe tensions after Obama slur – Reuters


9/07    Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now? – Washington Post


9/07    Unpopularity contest: France vs. US – Mish


9/07    New national poll shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied – NY Times


9/07    Merkel’s election humiliation could help U.K. in Brexit talks – MarketWatch


9/07    Trump edges Clinton by two points in national poll – MarketWatch


9/06    Le Pen promises Frexit and vows to crush radical Islam – Express


9/06    Trump cuts into Clinton’s lead as crucial stretch begins – Politico


9/06    Hillary Clinton flies with the traveling press corps for the first time – CNN


9/06    Hillary Clinton fights back coughing attack – NBC News


9/06    German anti-immigrant party beats Merkel in her home district – Reuters

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

9/07    What company (besides Tesla) would consider buying SolarCity? – GTM


9/07    A cheap, long-lasting, sustainable battery for grid energy storage – Kurzweil


9/04    Oklahoma quake matches record even after fracking waste restricted – Bloomberg


9/03    Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel – Phys


9/03    California reaches $900 million spending deal to cut emissions – Midwest Energy News


9/03    JP Morgan asset management acquires solar developer Sonnedix – Reuters


9/03    Trina solar starts Japan battery storage subsidiary – ReCharge


9/02    US wind power surpasses 75 GW and Americans love it – Huffington Post


9/02    Elon Musk is pushing Tesla hard – Bloomberg

Art of the Collapse

9/03    Why you should enroll in the chartered central bank watcher – Zero Hedge


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

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

9/07    The building blocks of the American police state from A-Z – Casey Research


9/07    Cuba: Operation Northwoods, the forgotten insanity – Who What Why


9/07    Inside Menwith Hill – Intercept


9/07    Chicago hits 500 homicides for 2016 after deadly Labor Day weekend – USA Today


9/07    Operation Condor: A transnational criminal conspiracy, uncovered – Open Democracy


9/06    Migrant crisis: Hungary police recruit ‘border-hunters’ – BBC


9/06    Philippine leader issues foul-mouthed warning to Obama – Politico

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

9/04    Syngenta terrorized scientist for 15 years to quell concerns about Atrazine – Mercola


9/03    Keep your family warm when the furnace is out – Reluctant Preppers


9/02    Intelligent parents are refusing vaccinations – Dr. Sircus


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

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

9/06    11 ghostly things I got out of NSO group’s iPhone hack – Wolf Street


9/04    Hack turns Mac computers into spying devices – Telegraph


9/04    Forget software – now hackers are exploiting physics – Wired


9/03    Understanding the military buildup of offensive cyberweapons – ZD Net

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

9/06    Warming oceans are ‘sick,’ global scientists warn – Yahoo!


9/06    World’s largest gorillas ‘one step from going extinct’ – Yahoo!


9/05    “Half the forms of life on Earth will be gone by 2050” – Zero Hedge


9/03    No batteries required: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot – Tech Xplore


9/02    All aboard the most ridiculous, stupidly huge cruise ship on Earth – Wired


9/02    ‘Our living dinosaurs’ – CNN


9/02    SpaceX rocket blast destroys satellite for Facebook project – Bloomberg


9/01    Cheaper taxi fares coming up – Mish


9/01    The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age – Guardian


8/31    Drone meets shotgun: 65 year-old woman blasts it out of the sky – Mish


8/31    More than half of south Asia’s groundwater is contaminated – study – Guardian

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