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Breaking News And Best Of The Web

Courtesy of John Rubino.

Best Of The Web

Sorry, central bankers: Risk and volatility cannot be extinguished – OfTwoMinds.com

Down the monetary policy rabbit hole – Financial Sense

What Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio told the New York Fed – Zero Hedge

Is Deutsche Bank the next Lehman? – McAlvany Weekly Commentary

Doubling down – Janus Capital

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

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Breaking News

The Economy

10/07  The great debt unwind: Busienss bankruptcies soar 38% – Wolf Street


10/07  Where the September jobs were – Zero Hedge


10/07  US adds 156,000 jobs in September – MarketWatch


10/07  Deutsche Bank said to weigh capital options with banks – Bloomberg


10/07  Warning: Iceberg dead ahead! – Daily Reckoning


10/07  Bank of Japan delivers crazy stimulus, but little growth to show – Economic Calendar


10/07  Central banks wage war on markets: Bill Bonner says they will lose – Mish


10/07  The coming collapse of the world’s biggest economy – Casey Research


10/06  ISM non-manufacturing: A stunning September PMI bounce – Financial Sense


10/06  Abusing our trust is the business model of modern finance – Financial Sense


10/06  Deutsche Bank’s $14 billion scare – Bloomberg


10/06  EU readies plan for clearing crisis, the new too-big-to-fail – Bloomberg


10/06  The noose is tightening quickly on the global economy – Zero Hedge


10/06  Goldman warns of “upward shock” to rates, hints at trillions in losses – Zero Hedge


10/06  Two thirds of young American adults live with their parents – Zero Hedge


10/06  The latest Deutsche Bank scandal reeks of Enron – Zero Hedge


10/06  Global debt hits all-time high of $152 trillion – Telegraph


10/06  Is the inevitable debt collapse predictable? – Dohmen Capital Research


10/06  Columbia University endowment posts 0.9% loss as CEO departs – Bloomberg

Precious Metals

10/07  Physical gold demand will limit price decline: Goldman Sachs – CNBC


10/07  Gold stocks slaughtered: time to buy – Seeking Alpha


10/07  Gold sinks like a stone, which stocks to buy? – Seeking Alpha


10/07  Noagold’s strong cash positionprotection for weak gold prices – Streetwise Reports


10/07  Gold’s big drop might be associated with British sterling drop – USA Gold


10/07  Central banks suppress gold to help China accumulate it, Rickards says – GATA


10/07  Here is what to expect in the aftermath of the gold plunge – King World News


10/07  Two charts that every gold investor needs to keep an eye on – Bloomberg


10/07  Gold’s recent drop stuns investors: time for gold bulls to panic? – Seeking Alpha


10/07  Dollar firms, U.S. stocks steady before jobs data – Reuters


10/07  Perfect macro storm is making gold a bargain – The Street


10/07  Gold likely to rebound Monday when China resumes trading – GATA


10/06  Silver crashes 10% since Friday – worst week in 42 months – Zero Hedge


10/06  Gold: Is the bull market over? – Financial Sense


10/06  Top gold forecaster: “As quickly as gold fell” may “rally back” – GoldCore


10/06  Great Panther Silver Ltd’s shock explained in 4 charts – Motley Fool


10/06  The flash boys invade the gold market – Seeking Alpha


10/06  Banks must face gold- and silver-rigging lawsuits – GATA


10/06  Market-rigging lawsuit against London gold fix banks can proceed – GATA


10/06  When markets go bump in the night – USA Gold


10/06  GOFO and the gold wholesale market – BullionStar

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

10/07  Posen says pound decline may mark shift too big for the BOE


10/07  
Who will exit the EU next? – Stratfor


10/07  Bank of Japan going even deeper into negative rates – TruNews


10/07  Gundlach: Negative rates will ruin Europe’s banks – Investopedia


10/07  Yen bull bets rise as Japan yields beat US after inflation – Bloomberg


10/07  Fed’s Lacker says there are signs inflation is heating up – CNBC


10/07  ECB commits to lift inflation with forecast built on market view – Bloomberg


10/07  Brexit: How hard is hard? Searching for a soft, hard-boiled egg – Mish


10/06  The flash boys invade the gold market – Seeking Alpha


10/06  Is Brexit the start of a global movement? – Seeking Alpha


10/06  Nobel laureate Stiglitz sees Italy, others leaving euro zone – Reuters

Real Estate Bubble

10/07  Liar loans surge in Australia’s housing bubble – Wolf Street


10/07  China’s housing boom looks like last year’s equities bubble – Bloomberg


10/06  Vancouver’s property bubble – Financial Sense


10/06  Millennial student loan debt tanks housing market – Schiff Gold


10/05  Manhattan aparment sales plunge 20% – Bloomberg

DollarCollapse Podcasts

10/04  European banks in the eye of the storm


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

Politics

10/07  Donald Trump makes history with zero major newspaper endorsements – Yahoo!


10/07  Foreigners in London ‘horrified’ by May’s immigrant vision – Bloomberg


10/07  IMF, global finance leaders fret over populist backlash – Reuters


10/07  Why democracy rewards bad people – Mises Institute


10/07  Marine Le Pen says EU responsible for “monstrous chaos in Syria” – Zero Hedge


10/07  Renzi must go if he loses Italy referendum – Bloomberg


10/07  White House intervened to suppress Hillary “secret server” scandal – Zero Hedge


10/07  Germany imports child marriage – Gatestone Institute


10/07  In visceral ads for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump does all the talking – New York Times


10/07  Concerns about Hillary Clinton’s health drop significantly – Huffington Post


10/07  Hillary Clinton is all strategy – Weekly Standard

Offshore Investing

10/07  Panama Papers? Try UNITED STATES Papers? – Mountain Vision


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

Clean Tech

10/07  Why it’s so hard to get solar in Florida – Wired


10/04  Solar power on brink of huge boom, social research indicates – Clean Technica


10/04  Tesla tops estimates for 3Q deliveries – Yahoo!


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

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

10/07  EU launches tough border force to curb migrant crisis – Yahoo!


10/07  Do Not Resist charts the rise of militarization in law enforcement – Austin Chronicle


10/07  The FBI’s secret methods for recruiting informants at the border – Intercept


10/07  Gary Johnson equates Syria deaths caused by Assad and West – New York Times


10/07  Say goodbye to military secret weapon boondoggles – SRSrocco Report


10/07  What the ‘world police’ analogy gets wrong – National Interest


10/07  All the ways you can comply and still die during a police encounter – FFF


10/07  How the ‘use of force’ industry drives police militarization – Waging Nonviolence

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

10/05  Go bag essentials – Survival Sullivan


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

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

10/07  Terror groups likely to be first to unleash cyber weapons – Computer Weekly


10/07  US military applies ‘incredible focus’ in digital war against ISIL – Signal


10/07  Trump joins Clinton in pushing for cyberwar – Tech Dirt

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

10/07  Tick bites that trigger severe meat allergy on rise around the world – Guardian


10/06  Nearly half all children in sub-Saharan Africa in extreme poverty – Guardian


10/06  Google’s robo-cars hit 2M miles, confirm driving is dadgum tricky – Wired


10/06  Hurricane Matthew: Mass evacuations ordered – Extreme Weather


10/06  Time we crush the roach motels of philanthro-crony-capitalism – OfTwoMinds.com


10/05  ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined – Guardian


10/05  “Pope Francis:” Traitor to western civilization – Antonius Aquinas


10/05  9 dead as hurricane Matthew hammers Haiti – Zero Hedge


10/05  Here’s everything Google announced today – Wired


10/04  Bid for strongest protection for all African elephants defeated – Guardian


10/04  FL, NC declare state of emergency for Hurricane Matthew – Zero Hedge

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