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Best Of The Web
Weekly commentary: A take on Deutsche Bank – Credit Bubble Bulletin
IMF’s ‘substitution fund’ to kick-start SDR as new global currency? – CDFund
The banquet of consequences is being served – Peak Prosperity
Financial repression and a chronic unemployment problem – FRA
Structural growth and dope dealers on speed-dial – Hussman
26 incredible facts about the economy every American should know – Economic Collapse
How to suffocate your economy: Drown it in massive private debt – Evonomics
3 things: The Fed’s missed window & failed realization – Real Investment Advice
Hell to pay – Peak Prosperity
Like old times: Q2 2016 flow of funds – Credit Bubble Bulletin
How bond yields got this low – Wall Street Journal
What if we’re in a depression but don’t know it? – Charles Hugh Smith
Target zero a “commitment to be irresponsible” – Mish
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/02 Why you should be skeptical of that $5.4 billion Deutsche Bank settlement – CNBC
10/02 Duke University endowment posts 2.6% loss for year ending June – Bloomberg
10/02 How you will bail out state pension systems – Forbes
10/02 The world’s second-largest economy is headed for a hard landing – CNS News
10/02 Collapsing global trade growth foreshadows crash – ValueWalk
10/02 High-yield bonds are turning out to be the real winners – Market Realist
10/02 With 3 this week, global default tally now at 130 this year – Barron’s
10/01 Now Italy is suing Deutsche Bank – Mish
10/01 Deutsche Bank reckons with a new reality – Financial Sense
10/01 Illinois to suspend Wells Fargo from bond, investing work – Bloomberg
10/01 How the IRS helps the rich get richer – Bloomberg
9/30 Deutsche Bank shares spike after report it is near DOJ settlement – CNBC
9/30 Deutsche Bank’s troubles, Europe’s failures – Bloomberg
9/30 ING plans thousands of job cuts – Bloomberg
9/30 China factories limp along, Japan inflation goes backwards – Reuters
9/30 US consumer spending softens in August, inflation rises – MarketWatch
9/30 Everything is in a bubble and it will end in ‘chaos’ – Yahoo!
9/30 Fines, withdrawal, job cuts; ugly day for global banks – Bloomberg
9/30 Deutsche Bank hedge fund clients withdraw excess cash – Zero Hedge
9/30 The loophole for Deutsche Bank’s bailout: game almost over? – Wolf Street
9/30 Vice Index shows the start of a downtrend – Financial Sense
Precious Metals
10/02 Friday’s loss for gold pulls the metal down for the quarter – MarketWatch
10/02 Gold-mining investors hit by the jitters as share rally sputters – Bloomberg
10/02 What are the global implications on gold? – Market Realist
10/02 Rick Rule talks precious metals stocks on BNN – Penny Mining Stocks
10/02 Monthly charts argue for lower prices in precious metals complex – Daily Gold
10/02 Gold predicted to enter long-term bull cycle – Birch Gold
10/02 Gold and silver speculators diverge in their positioning – Seeking Alpha
10/02 Gold miners sending a signal? – Wealth Management
10/01 The US govt. financial disaster vs. gold & silver – SRSrocco Report
10/01 Deutsche danger & gold stock money sticks – 321Gold
9/30 Why Krugman, Roubini, Rogoff and Buffett hate gold – GoldCore
9/30 Secret Alpine gold vaults are the new Swiss bank accounts – GATA
9/30 Ted Butler: The biggest scandal – GATA
9/30 They know a bargain when they make it – Silver Coin Investor
9/30 Three top stock picks from Sprott’s Rick Rule – Globe And Mail
9/30 Pan American Silver: The upside is not over yet – Seeking Alpha
9/30 Royald Gold, Inc’s best business segment in 2016 so far – Motley Fool
9/29 How constant is gold’s purchasing power? – Seeking Alpha
9/29 What the upcoming wealth transfer will look like – GoldSilver
9/29 Russian central bank can’t explain why it keeps buying gold – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/02 To dismay of China haters, yuan goes global on Oct. 1 – Forbes
10/02 How cash constrains lower central bank negative interest rates – Forbes
10/02 Concerns about inflation keep this strategist up at night – CNBC
10/02 Time to prepare for higher inflation – Forbes
10/01 Near ‘collapse,” Minnesota to raise Obamacare rates by half – Bloomberg
9/30 Euro-area inflation accelerates to fastest rate since 2014 – Bloomberg
9/30 Failure to destroy your own currency even when you try – Mish
9/30 China seeking to succeed where Japan failed in yuan global push – Bloomberg
9/30 Got bitcoin? Despite early setbacks, some say it is stronger than ever – CNBC
9/29 Negative interest rates have made everyone better off – Business Insider
9/29 Desperate central bankers – Project Syndicate
Real Estate Bubble
10/02 Has Vancouver found the solution to a super-heated housing market? – Guardian
10/01 Echoes of Japan’s bubble era in China’s red-hot market – Straits Times
10/01 ‘Housing party’ in the U.S. may be coming to an end – MarketWatch
9/30 ‘This is just the start’: China’s passion for foreign property – Guardian
9/29 China’s red-hot property market risks missing lessons from Japan’s crash – Bloomberg
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
10/02 Will Donald Trump play infidelity card at debate? Clinton camp girds – New York Times
10/02 As America sleeps, Donald Trump seethes on Twitter – New York Times
10/02 Donald Trump’s long pattern of attacking women’s sex lives – Time
10/02 How Donald Trump could disappear from the political scene – New Yorker
10/02 Donald Trump definitely wants to be president. Right? – Rolling Stone
10/02 How could religious conservatives nominate Donald Trump? – Telegraph
10/02 Europe seems to be losing its long struggle to overcome hate – Ottawa Citizen
10/01 After the debate, the deluge? – Garret Galland
10/01 David Cay Johnston: The making of Donald Trump – Jesse’s Cafe Americain
10/01 Emotional Obama tearfully thanks Trump for granting him citizenship – New Yorker
10/01 Computer voting revolution already crappy, buggy, obsolete – 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
10/01 What is the learning curve and what does it mean for alt energy? – UCSUSA
9/29 Ontario scraps 600MW of new wind – Wind Power
9/29 New wind turbines could power Japan for 50 years after single typhoon – Gizmodo
9/28 Surge in wind power output hits German spot – Reuters
9/27 Solar power cost down 25% in five months – Electrek
9/27 Talking mines and money with Rick Rule and Frank Holmes – Stockhouse
9/27 SolarCity accused of taking shingling technology secrets – Bloomberg
9/27 Future of solar power brightens – Omaha
9/26 Clean energy gets a boost with California regulations – Oil Price
Art of the Collapse
9/24 2016 debate preparation begins – Zero Hedge
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
10/02 The “pardon Snowden” case just got stronger – CATO Institute
10/01 Orwellian tools used by law enforcement to spy on activists – Activity Post
10/01 Message sent – Burning Platform
9/30 Turkey pulls plug on 20 radio, TV channels – Reuters
9/30 Pakistan ‘completely rejects’ Indian claim of cross-border strikes – Reuters
9/30 Syrian army, rebels wage fierce battles in Aleppo – Reuters
9/30 3 Chinese fishermen killed in confrontation with S. Korea coastguard – Reuters
9/29 India raids Pakistan, claims “significant casualties” inflicted – Mish
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
10/01 Infographic: Only 10 companies own all the world’s food brands – Good Food
9/30 How to make your own toothpaste – Peak Prosperity
9/29 What are doctors and patients going to do? – Dr. Sircus
9/28 China wants GMOs. The Chinese people don’t – Bloomberg
9/27 Bayer and Monsanto – 2 destructive behemoths become 1 – Mercola
9/19 These six plant extracts could delay aging – Kurzweil
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
10/02 So now we have a federal CISO – Tech Crunch
9/28 Russian hackers breached democrats’ cell phones: FBI – Zero Hedge
9/25 Is the Yahoo hack evidence of an international cyberwar? – SCPR
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/02 Elephants have learned to avoid poachers by hanging out with rangers – Konbini
10/02 Bees added to US endangered species list for the first time – Guardian
10/02 Suburban technology should die a deserved death – Daily Bell
10/01 Sex robot cafe offers Londoners fellatio with morning coffee – RT
10/01 Scientists trace society’s myths to primordial origins – Scientific American
9/30 The South Hills Crossbill is evolving in a seriously bizarre way – Wired
9/30 Suburbs will soar on wings of tech – Bloomberg
9/29 You can’t strip dancers of the right to bare all – Bloomberg
9/29 Meet the world’s first ‘three-parent’ baby – MarketWatch
9/28 Single clothes wash may release 700,000 microplastic fibres – Guardian
9/28 Marilyn Monroe and Bobby Kennedy ‘were an item’ – Telegraph
