-2.3 C
New York
Monday, December 22, 2025

Breaking News And Best Of The Web

Courtesy of John Rubino.

Best Of The Web

The central bankers’ experiment: the great bust – Best Minds, Inc.

Jim Grant rejects Rogoff’s “curse of cash” – Zero Hedge

Weekly commentary: reversals – Credit Bubble Bulletin

If everything’s doing so great, how come I’m not? – Peak Prosperity

The (160 to 1) gold-silver ratio every investor needs to know about – SRSrocco Report

Negative interest rates and the war on cash (4) – Automatic Earth

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

—————————————————————–

Breaking News

The Economy

9/16    Why the BOJ might fire the bazooka before a Fed hike – Forbes


9/16    Motor vehicle production +0.5%, motor vehicle sales -4.4% year-over-year – Mish


9/16    On the brink of a market crisis – Sovereign Investor


9/16    How China’s plan to engineer economic growth is a massive failure – Business Insider


9/16    Will your investments hold up for the next financial crisis? – GoldAndOilGuy


9/16    Buy gold – bonds are ‘biggest bubble in world’ – GoldCore


9/16    Bond yields are surging despite deflation, and that is dangerous – Telegraph


9/16    There’s a ‘dangerous situation’ in the debt market now – CNBC


9/16    Nomura on China and defaults – ValueWalk


9/16    Harvard crushes the “Obama recovery” farce with 9 simple charts – Zero Hedge


9/16    Deutsche Bank slapped with $14 billion fine over mortgage probe – Zero Hedge


9/16    Six striking observations about corporate debt – Zero Hedge


9/16    Les deplorables: “Enough is enough” – Zero Hedge


9/15    Weekly jobless claims total a better-than-expected 260,000 – CNBC


9/15    Here’s some perspective on the U.S. national debt – MarketWatch


9/15    Warren: Next administration should probe, maybe jail Wall St. bankers – Bloomberg


9/15    US manufacturing output slumped in August – ABC News


9/15    US retail sales fall more than expected on weak autos – CNBC


9/15    Junk-bond buyers persist in yield hunt amid global market spasms – David Stockman


9/15    Asian junk’s house of cards – Bloomberg


9/15    Americans are drowning in credit card debt – Salon

Precious Metals

9/16    Have your children seen your gold? – Mountain Vision


9/16    Grand ascension or great collapse? – Gold And Liberty


9/16    War is peace, silver is plentiful, and other misconceptions – Silver Coin Investor


9/16    Drill results highlight expansion of Balmoral gold zone – Streetwise Report


9/16    What’s impacting the price performances of senior gold miners? – Market Realist


9/16    New gold discovery for Endeavour (EDV) – Gainesville News


9/16    Is now a golden opportunity to buy Barrick gold? – Motley Fool


9/16    World’s best stock is a 460% gain in Peruvian silver miner – Bloomberg


9/16    Evaluating the “rally”: how long to get to $10,000/oz? – 24hGold


9/16    Price targets, and last call for the Greek warrior – GoldSilver


9/16    Gold: The best performing asset of the 21st Century – Daily Coin


9/15    Will we see a 10/1 gold-silver price ratio? – SRSrocco Report


9/15    Unprecedented global bond bubble threatens holders of cash – Money Metals


9/14    Silver bullion market – “The most bullish story ever told?” – GoldCore


9/14    Janet & gold: does history rhyme? – 321Gold


9/14    Gold warning – pay attention! – Seeking Alpha


9/14    Attacks on gold and silver ‘more frantic,’ Embry tells KWN – GATA


9/14    The gold to housing ratio as a valuation indicator – Seeking Alpha


9/14    End game nears as central banks buying up gold mining companies – Dollar Vigilante


9/14    Hedge funds push bullish gold bets to near-historic highs… again – Kitco


9/13    Jim Cook interviews Ted Butler – 24hGold

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

9/16    August CPI up 0.2%: video – CNBC


9/16    QE and negative rates are a Ponzi scheme: Saxo Bank CEO – CNBC


9/16    Swiss central bank defends negative interest rates – Reuters


9/16    The folly of economists: Negative interest rates – Forbes


9/16    Unprecedented global bond bubble threatens holders of cash – FX Street


9/16    PPI synopsis: Final demand for goods -0.4% – Mish


9/15    BOE stands pat on rates, but signals a cut ahead – MarketWatch


9/14    BOJ to make negative rates centerpiece of future easing – Reuters


9/14    U.S. import prices post first drop in six month – Yahoo!


9/14    The Bank of Japan unleashes chaos – Zero Hedge

Real Estate Bubble

9/16    China’s housing market is going nuts again – Business Insider


9/16    Why China’s debt levels are all about property prices – Bloomberg


9/16    Vancouver tax on empty homes to target near-zero rental supply – Bloomberg


9/15    U.S. mortgage rates climb to post-Brexit high – MarketWatch


9/15    Luxury housing prices are crashing – Bert Dohmen

DollarCollapse Podcasts

9/13    Markets explain facts of life to Fed


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?

Politics

9/16    Brutal polls for Clinton show Trump winning in several swing states – CNBC


9/16    One nation divisble – Bloomberg


9/16    Milo Yiannopoulos is the pretty, monstrous face of the alt-right – Bloomberg


9/16    Full interview with Elizabeth Warren on Trump – CNBC


9/16    Le Penn: Junker’s state of the unijon speech a funeral for the EU – Independent


9/16    A new problem for Hillary emerges – Zero Hedge


9/16    Clinton foundation CEO admits to pay-for-play – Zero Hedge


9/15    Democrats panic: “This nightmare is about to become our reality” – Zero Hedge


9/15    New York attorney general opens probe of Trump Foundation – Reuters


9/15    Colin Powell calls Trump ‘a national disgrace’ in leaked emails – Bloomberg


9/15    UK likely to invoke article 50 in January, Nigel Farage says – Bloomberg

Offshore Investing

9/14    4 totally legal reasons to use an offshore structure – Nestmann


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

Clean Tech

9/16    Solar rooftop revolution fizzles in US on utility pushback – Bloomberg


9/16    Tesla tackles California energy woes with massive energy-storage deal – CNBC


9/14    Batteries necessary to support solar power don’t exist – Daily Caller


9/13    New technology puts solar power to work all night long – Science Daily


9/13    Why solar power is surging in the US – Fiscal Times


9/13    Record year for solar expected as installations surge 43% – Oil Price


9/12    UK Labour Party pledges 65% renewables by 2030 – Wind Power


9/10    Feds outline new strategy to scale up offshore wind power –NRDC


9/08    Scotland is constructing one new wind turbine every day – Greentech Media

Art of the Collapse

9/14    Book review of Dave Stockman’s “Trumped!” – Mish


9/08    Daily Show dissects Trump’s attempts to win black votes – Huffington Post


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

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

9/16    US confidence in media hits fresh low: Gallup – Yahoo!


9/16    Pardon Edward Snowden – New York Times


9/15    US to provide Israel with record $38 billion in military aid – Zero Hedge


9/14    European civil war looms – Zero Hedge


9/14    Record U.S. military aid deal for Israel to be signed in days – Reuters


9/14    ‘A constitutional crisis’: the CIA turns on the Senate – Guardian


9/12    “Real and nearly unprecedented” spike in homicides around US – Zero Hedge


9/11    North Korea nuclear test: South would reduce Pyongyang ‘to ashes’ – BBC

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

9/16    The changing paradigm on drugs – Dr. Sircus


9/10    Objective information about financial planning and retirement – Telegraph


9/10    50 items to keep handy for an evacuation – Survival Sullivan


9/08    Exercise can cancel out the booze, says study – CNN


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

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

9/14    Cyber bombs reshape US battle against terrorism – NPR


9/11    Tech expert: Cyber war is real and it’s here – NWI


9/10    Corporate media becomes sales force for cyberwar – Shadow Proof

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

9/16    Paralyzed man regains use of arms after experimental stem cell therapy – Kurzweil


9/16    The mystery of Thomas Heatherwick’s top-secret Hudson yards project – Vanity Fair


9/16    Zika is here, and America has no plan to fight it! – Bloomberg


9/15    Self-driving vehicle revolution to wipe out 4 million jobs – Wolf Street


9/15    Sex ed is negative, sexist and out of touch – Time


9/13    A gorgoeous – and unsettling – video of evolution in action – Wired


9/13    Elon Musk has ‘not ruled out’ a UFO hitting SpaceX rocket – VGR


9/13    “Half the forms of life on Earth will be gone by 2050” – Zero Hedge


9/13    Cannabis industry expected to be worth $50 Billion in ten years – Bloomberg


9/13    Google’s self-driving car project is losing out to rivals – Bloomberg


9/12    Maker of drug fueling heorin overdose epidemic is lobbying to keep weed illegal – ZH

Visit John’s Dollar Collapse blog here

Subscribe
Notify of
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Stay Connected

149,800FansLike
396,312FollowersFollow
2,560SubscribersSubscribe

Latest Articles

0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x