Breaking News And Best Of The Web – May 17

China’s debt bomb debated and visualized. Noam Chomsky on who really rules the world. The negative feedback loop that’s chasing investors out of the market. Meanwhile, global debt keeps rising, corruption keeps spreading, more big name money managers go negative, corporate earnings continue to disappoint, and fans of gold debate the new bull market.

Best Of The Web

• CERN discovers new particle called the FERIR – Automatic Earth
• “The global negative feedback loop” – Zero Hedge
• China’s debt bomb: no one really knows the payload – Visual Capitalist
• Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, the challenges of 2016 – Tom Dispatch
• The inevitability of unintended consequences – Peak Prosperity
• Ominous portents – Credit Bubble Bulletin
• Ludwig von Mises’s top 9 quotes on gold – Mises Institute
• Finance + stress = suicide – Automatic Earth
• Corruption and cronies – Financial Sense
• Cash bans, gold, NIRP, and the zombie apocalypse – Seeking Alpha
• Satyajit Das: The age of stagnation – Financial Repression Authority
• The endgame – GoldMoney
• The debtors and the savers 2016 – FOFOA
• Latent risks and critical points – Hussman Funds

The Economy

• 5/17    Oil prices near six-month high as outages support – CNBC
• 5/17    Deutsche Bank’s woes may be ‘insurmountable’ – Bloomberg
• 5/17    The Humongous Depression – Burning Platform
• 5/17    Shadow banks make diciest loans while Wall St. retains risk – Bloomberg
• 5/17    Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
• 5/17    China’s economy is past the point of no return – David Stockman
• 5/17    As insurance losses mount, so do refusals – Mish
• 5/17    The “longest uninterrupted smart money selling streak in history” – Zero Hedge
• 5/17    A week later, China’s debt keeps flowing at record rate – Fortune
• 5/17    China’s debt bubble is getting only more dangerous – Washington Post
• 5/17    Kyle Bass, Leon Cooperman debate economy, markets – ValueWalk
• 5/17    Warren Buffett just disclosed a billion-dollar bet on Apple – Yahoo!
• 5/17    Financial Armageddon looms on the horizon – Gold Eagle
• 5/17    Weekend show – Korelin Economics Report
• 5/17    Why America’s federal debt is a clear and present danger – Econimica
• 5/17    The dismal retirement picture for America’s older generation – Talk Markets
• 5/17    “Markets have no purpose any more” – Zero Hedge

Precious Metals

• 5/17    Top 10 gold junior takeover targets for 2016 – Seeking Alpha
• 5/17    George Soros is making a big new bet on gold – Fortune
• 5/17    Make America gold again – GATA
• 5/17    University of Michigan to invest in gold, copper mining fund – GATA
• 5/17    Paulson cut gold bets again as Soros, others rushed back – GATA
• 5/17    Why the gold and silver futures market is like a rigged casino – Zero Hedge
• 5/17    Hedge funds buy silver as silver bullion deficit surges – GoldCore
• 5/17    The elite’s new case for gold – Daily Reckoning
• 5/17    Why gold is a better investment than Apple – Forbes
• 5/17    Joint venture between Golden Arrow, Silver Standard Resources? – Seeking Alpha
• 5/17    China’s ICBC buys 2,000-ton London gold vault from Barclays – Bloomberg
• 5/17    Eldorado Gold to sell remaining assets in China – Mining.com
• 5/17    Central bankers’ wisdom faulted as gold holdings surge 25% – Bloomberg
• 5/17    Infographic: COMEX Gold Futures Market – BullionStar
• 5/17    Fresh mainstream nonsense on gold demand – Talk Markets
• 5/17    Central bankers’ wisdom faulted as gold holdings surge 25% – Bloomberg
• 5/17    Infographic: COMEX Gold Futures Market – BullionStar
• 5/17    Fresh mainstream nonsense on gold demand – Talk Markets

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

• 5/17    US Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in April vs. expected 0.3% – CNBC
• 5/17    Brexit vote looms, U.S. banks review European commitments – Reuters
• 5/17    The ECB grants debt relief to all Eurozone nations except Greece – Vox
• 5/17    The leftwing case for Brexit (one day) – Guardian
• 5/17    The death of the euro – Armstrong Economics
• 5/17    The inflationary process and its beneficiaries – Schiff Gold
• 5/17    Fiscal constraints mean BOJ likely to keep helicopter grounded – Reuters
• 5/17    Why don’t we have inflation? – Forbes
• 5/17    Venezuela declares state of emergency, orders factory seizures – Oil Price

Real Estate Bubble

• 5/17    Chinese investors have spent $300 billion on US property – CNBC
• 5/17    Governments terrified of popping foreign-buyer housing bubble – CBC
• 5/17    The great foreclosure fraud – Prospect.org
• 5/16    Home-builder sentiment steady at 58 in May – MarketWatch

DollarCollapse Podcasts

• 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
• 4/21    Corporate earnings (among other things) go from bad to horrendous
• 4/13    A potentially brutal earnings season kicks off
• 4/06    The end of privacy = risk off and soaring gold
• 3/30    The inevitable is now imminent
• 3/22    Huge government deficits coming
• 3/17    Same mistakes, bigger scale
• 3/07    It’s all about the central banks

Politics

• 5/16    Welcome to a Bernie Sanders wiccan ritual – LA Times
• 5/16    Sanders giving Clinton a taste of her own medicine – Chicago Tribune
• 5/16    Vote Leave shoot themselves in the foot by pushing Farage away –Telegraph
• 5/16    Farage backs ‘Prime Minister Boris,’ slams ‘coward’ Cameron – Daily Star
• 5/16    Hillary has a bigger problem with men than Trump has with women – Breitbart
• 5/16    Trump leads Hillary among Hispanic voters –Daily Caller
• 5/16    Trump fires back over “lame hit piece” on women – CBS News
• 5/16    Mark Cuban being recruited to run against Trump –Fox Sports
• 5/16    Trump targeting crossover support to remake US election map – Bloomberg
• 5/15    This is one weak nominee: Clinton’s problem is herself –Salon
• 5/15    Donald Trump and the twilight of white America – Atlantic
• 5/15    Donald Trump’s butler problem – CNN
• 5/15    Crossing the line: How Trump behaved with women in private – NY Times

Offshore Investing

• 5/12    Crooks, terrorists, tax evaders: Can new shell company rule stop them? – Reuters
• 5/10    Panama Papers database of offshore companies goes public – Chicago Tribune
• 5/10    Panama Papers: dozens of Americans tied in – Panama Papers
• 5/10    Anonymous Panama Papers source demands government action – Daily Bell

Clean Tech

• 5/16    Obama sets stage for huge emissions cuts – Bloomberg
• 5/16    Economics can’t support the new “solar economy” –Town Hall
• 5/16    Eye-catching Solar stocks update: SolarCity, SunEdison –News Is Money
• 5/16    How SolarCity can win the market back – Buffalo News
• 5/16    SunRun materially misleads – Seeking Alpha
• 5/15    Update from the Gigafactory: Tesla’s ambitious plans – Bloomberg
• 5/15    Elon Musk ‘burns up cash’ for SolarCity, Tesla – Guardian
• 5/15    YieldCo boom and bust – GTM
• 5/15    AES CEO: solar is ‘the future’ but utilities must buy in – GTM
• 5/15    To make fresh water without CO2, countries eye solar power –MIT
• 5/15    Global solar demand monitor: Q2 2016 – GTM
• 5/15    “Acts of god” could also crush Tesla motors –Motley Fool

Art of the Collapse

• 5/08    ‘Dilbert’ creator’s 6 reasons why Trump will win – Zero Hedge
• 5/06    The book that will save banking from itself – Bloomberg
• 5/04    America’s best and brightest – 321 Gold
• 4/25    Hillary Clinton’s full speech to Goldman Sachs – Liberty Blitzkrieg

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

• 5/15    US sees China boosting military presence after island-building spree – CNBC
• 5/14    Wake-up call: confronting the abuse of power head-on – Trend Research
• 5/12    Russia furious as US launches European ballistic missile shield –Zero Hedge
• 5/11    The shameful truth about the government’s secret experiments – Zero Hedge
• 5/11    When member of EU parliament tries to read TTIP – Liberty Blitzkrieg
• 5/09    Turkish artillery kills 55 ISIS fighters in North Aleppo – Anti War
• 5/08    For Russia & China, it’s “accept American hegemony” or “go to war” – ZH
• 5/08    Erdogan “Prince of Europe” rejects EU demands to reform terrorist law – Mish

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

• 5/16    Tiny is so very big– Mother Earth News
• 5/16    Relying on a “defined benefit” pension? Don’t –Money Week
• 5/12    Could your kids’ student loan debt jeopardize your retirement? – Schiff Gold
• 5/10    Why the Cancer Moonshot should be heading for the sun – Mercola
• 5/10    This vitamin stops the aging process in organs – Kurzweil

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

• 5/15    World’s oldest hacking profession doesn’t rely on internet– CNBC
• 5/14    Cyberwar: what it will look like – FPRI
• 5/14    How Steel City became the front line in America’s cyber war– Foreign Policy
• 5/14    Second bank hit by malware – Reuters
• 5/07    DARPA to develop engine capable of identifying hackers – Sputnik

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

• 5/15    3 things to know about the future of virtual reality – Time
• 5/15    High flying advertising exec gives up job to help animals – Daily Mail
• 5/15    New KFC run entirely by robots – Kurzweil
• 5/15    Men face charges for killing endangered fish in drunken rampage – Guardian
• 5/14    US bee colonies continue to decline as pests, chemicals blamed – Bloomberg
• 5/14    White House launches the national microbiome initiative –Atlantic
• 5/14    ‘Death Awaits’: Africa faces worst drought in half a century – Spiegel
• 5/12    New era of ‘super fires’ as climate change triggers hotter, drier weather – CNBC