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Best Of The Web
This is why US gov. deficit numbers are a BIG lie – Wolf Street
Michael Belkin interview – King World News
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/03 It’s not just Deutsche. European banking is utterly broken – Telegraph
10/03 Systemic risk: Deutsche Bank #1 at $100 billion – Mish
10/03 Manufacturing in US expanded at modest pace in September – Bloomberg
10/03 US construction spending crashes into contraction – Zero Hedge
10/03 How arrogant Deutsche Bank fell from grace – MarketWatch
10/03 Deutsche Bank received US bailout twice as big as Lehmans – Wall St. On Parade
10/03 Deutsche Bank shares slip again in race to reach U.S. settlement – Reuters
10/03 Kuroda ruined chance of second term, Abe aide Nakahara says – Bloomberg
10/03 Jail Wells Fargo CEO and chariman John Stumpf! – Moyers & Company
10/03 Here’s how the government is turning the entire US into a debt prison – Anti Media
10/03 WSJ reports “no settlement deal” between Detusche, DOJ – Zero Hedge
10/03 Christine Lagarde, scourge of tax evaders, pays no tax – Guardian
10/03 Meanwhile, Saudi stocks crash near 7 year lows – Zero Hedge
10/03 Is the glut coming to an end? Cushing stocks fall to 10 month low – Oil Price
10/03 Will Hollande keep his word or will he humiliate himself? – Mish
10/03 Commentaries by Leeb and von Greyerz at King World News – GATA
10/03 Global bond markets shackled to Japan by Kuroda’s 0% quest – Bloomberg
10/03 Hungary PM claims EU migrant quota referendum victory – BBC
10/03 Ironman! The global slowdown since the Great Recession – Anthony B Sanders
10/02 Why you should be skeptical of that $5.4 billion Deutsche Bank settlement – CNBC
Precious Metals
10/03 Precious metals versus stock market investing – APMEX
10/03 Why gold may be glittering to risk parity funds – Seeking Alpha
10/03 What is the COMEX? – APMEX
10/03 India’s gold imports drop for ninth month, GFMS says – GATA
10/03 GBP gold rises 1.3% as sterling slumps on ‘hard brexit’ concerns – GoldCore
10/03 Gold is ‘money’ because it is plentiful, not because it is scarce – 24hGold
10/03 Noonan’s last analysis of the gold & silver market – MunKnee
10/03 Silver way undervalued – 24hGold
10/03 Gold: Bulls have left the building, next stop $1,500 – Seeking Alpha
10/03 Gold and silver – Quarterly, monthly charts – Edge Trader Plus
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/03 Stocks decline before US data as pound slides on Brexit angst – Bloomberg
10/03 Pound nears three-decade low as May sets date for Brexit trigger – Bloomberg
10/03 BOJ deploys World War II tactics that failed to spur prices – Bloomberg
10/03 SDR poised to become de facto global reserve currency – Business Insider
10/03 Yuan becomes world’s fifth reserve currency, can bitcoin be sixth? – Coin Telegraph
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
Real Estate Bubble
10/03 As NYC rental prices drop, landlords offer more perks – Curbed
10/03 Singapore home prices slide by most in more than seven years – Bloomberg
10/03 Do you believe in housing market cycles? – Dr. Housing 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
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
10/03 Hillary Clinton’s positive message? That was the plan, at least – New York Times
10/03 Trump’s tax numbers sharpen focus on treatment of losses – Wall Street Journal
10/03 Woman who accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct slams Hillary – The Hill
10/03 Clinton cancels joint events with Sanders – Examiner
10/03 Sanders sees no slight in Clinton’s basement-dweller comments – Bloomberg
10/03 Trump said to resist pressure to show taxes after NYT story – Bloomberg
10/03 Low turnout invalidates Hungary ballot on EU refugee quotas – AP
10/03 How Hillary Clinton grappled with Bill Clinton’s infidelity – New York Times
10/03 Doug Casey explains why democracy is uncivilized – Casey Research
10/03 Theresa May to trigger article 50 by end of March 2017 – Guardian
10/03 Erdogan says Turkey in ‘endgame’ over EU membership – Yahoo!
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
10/03 Thailand gears up efforts on solar power – Nation Multimedia
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
Art of the Collapse
10/03 Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression on ‘Saturday Night Live’ – Washington Post
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
10/03 Pentagon caught paying PR firm to make fake terrorist videos – Activity Post
10/03 Hundreds gather for police protest in south LA – CBS LA
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
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
10/03 Fukushima radiation has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean – Zero Hedge
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
