Courtesy of John Rubino.
US debt becomes an issue. Bill Gross starts shorting corporate bonds. Great interviews with James Rickards and Helen Chaitman. Yesterday’s strong US economic reports are called into question. China plans to borrow even more. Oil stabilizes and gold continues to correct. Look for next week’s COT report to be a lot less bearish. Bitcoin gets a serious cryptocurrency competitor. Trump clinches the nomination.
Best Of The Web
Here’s why all pension funds are doomed, doomed, doomed… – OfTwoMinds.com
Dominic Frisby interviews James Rickards – Frisby’s Bulls & Bears
Criminal bankers threaten entire world economy – USA Watchdog
Gold: Intelligentsia – you’re fired! – 321Gold
The business of central banks is like pornography – Finanz und Wirtschaft
Stock share buybacks now bought out – The Great Recession
Rick Rule on gold’s bull market – King World News
We’re in the eye of a global financial hurricane – OfTwoMinds.com
The coming Fed-induced pension bust – Hussman Funds
“We are becoming convinced that the system won’t stabilize” – Zero Hedge
Trump victory odds soar as the Hillary Clinton ‘death cross’ strikes – Zero Hedge
What we have now isn’t capitalism – Wall St. For Main St.
Weekly commentary: unambiguous signals disregarded – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Doggie (life) style – AheadOfTheHerd.com
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Breaking News
The Economy
5/28 Japan’s Abe plans up to $90.7 billion stimulus – Bloomberg
5/28 Companies go on worldwide bond bender with $236 billion of sales – Bloomberg
5/28 Trump: Only ‘dummies’ believe Fed’s unemployment figure – New York Post
5/28 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
5/28 Earnings fall at fastest rate since the Great Recession – MarketWatch
5/28 China milks debt bubble for last drop of growth – Barron’s
5/28 June rate hike immaterial – Schiff Gold
5/28 Deflation is a direct result of our attempts to create inflation through easy money – FRA
5/28 Nearly 50% of recent college graduates overqualified for their jobs – My Budget 360
5/28 Durable goods take II: original report vs. revisions – Mish
5/27 Yellen: interest rate rise coming “in months” – MarketWatch
5/27 Global financial crisis coming – GoldCore
5/27 U.S. economic growth revised higher in first quarter; profits rebound – Yahoo!
5/27 Oil slips as $50 level sparks new output fears – Reuters
5/27 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
5/27 How credit fuelled China’s incredible boom – South China Morning Post
5/27 China’s stocks post longest weekly losing streak in 4 years – Bloomberg
5/27 EU warns China to expect new steel tariffs – CNBC
Precious Metals
5/28 Gold futures slide to lowest close in 3 months – MarketWatch
5/28 Gold and silver – at significant support. New “story” developing – Edge Trader Plus
5/28 5 things you need to know about investing in gold – Kiplinger
5/28 ‘Strong hands’ returning to gold in new world of negative yields – Bloomberg
5/28 Gold miner investors could stand to be more paranoid – NewsMax
5/28 What Austria’s gold audit means for you – Sovereign Investor
5/28 Precious metals: Key price levels now – 321Gold
5/28 Gold juniors’ Q1’16 fundamentals – SafeHaven
5/28 National Post mocks gold manipulation without ever questioning a central bank – GATA
5/28 Interviews with Maguire, Embry, and Turk – GATA
5/28 Mark Faber says this could send gold mining stocks surging – Profit Confidential
5/28 Billionaires predict worldwide defaults; should you hold bonds or gold? – Daily Bell
5/28 Gold miners will fall harder than gold – Seeking Alpha
5/27 Market Report: PMs consolidating further – GoldMoney
5/27 Gold looking vulnerable while gold stocks correct – Daily Gold
5/27 India’s banks still dragging their feet with gold monetization scheme – GATA
5/27 Which gold miners can pursue mergers and acquisitions – Market Realist
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
5/28 Why the euro is a doomed currency – Gold Eagle
5/28 Paris and Berlin ready ‘Plan B’ for life after Brexit – Financial Times
5/28 Ethereum is the forefront of digital currency – FinTech
5/28 Helicopter money is putting the yen’s value at ‘great risk’ – Bloomberg
5/28 Russia considers banning bitcoin and making a knockoff – Vocativ
5/28 Who stands in the way of Beijing’s own crude futures? – Sputnik News
5/28 Why are China and Russia selling US debt? – Market Realist
5/27 Japan CPI back below zero, shares rally expecting more stimulus – Mish
5/27 Corporate Japan much more downbeat about escape from deflation – Reuters
5/27 Helicopter money is putting the yen’s value at ‘great risk’ – Bloomberg
5/27 Burned by bitcoin scnadal, Japan is introducing controls – Fortune
5/27 A brief history of bitcoin and bitcoin mining – News BTC
Real Estate Bubble
5/28 A worrisome pileupon of $100 million homes – New York Times
5/28 House prices compared with earnings ‘close to pre-financial crisis levels’ – Guardian
5/28 Toronto’s red-hot market sends property values soaring – The Star
5/27 Ulltimate market timer: “Know what the problem is?” – Wolf Street
DollarCollapse Podcasts
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?
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
Politics
5/27 Leaked TISA docs reveal secret ‘global constitution’ – Daily Bell
5/27 How Donald Trump is winning over Wall Street – Daily Bell
5/27 Bernie agrees to debate Trump – CNBC
5/26 Warren on Trump: “A small, insecure money-grubber” –Salon
5/26 What Sanders’ new endorsements say about his future plans – Washington Post
5/26 Here’s why Clinton should still be worried about Sanders – Fortune
5/26 State department rules Hillary created “security risks” – Mish
5/26 Ryan said to tell confidants he’s ready to end Trump Impasse – Bloomberg
5/26 Brexit: wrong discussion, wrong people, wrong arguments – Automatic Earth
5/26 Trump 2016: Poll results are baffling experts – Profit Confidential
5/26 Trump’s new attack ad targets claims of rape against Bill Clinton – Examiner
5/26 Clinton cash coming to a threater near you – Armstrong Economics
5/25 Sanders scores a big victory in his battle with Clinton – Fiscal Times
5/25 Lower away! – 24H Gold
Offshore Investing
5/20 EU to compile common blacklist of tax havens, sanction them – Reuters
5/17 Panama Papers: dozens of Americans tied in – Panama Papers
5/17 Panama Papers hub in Miami: Citigroup’s private bank – Wall St on Parade
5/12 Crooks, terrorists, tax evaders: Can new shell company rule stop them? – Reuters
Clean Tech
5/27 Generation wind – building a bridge to America’s clean energy future – Huffington Post
5/27 Wind Power to supply 10% of US Electricity by 2020 –Clean Technica
5/27 How fast can solar and wind grow? –Oil Price
5/26 DOE wants grid to be able to handle 100% mid-day peak solar – Electrek
5/26 Saudi Arabia to revive its solar power program at smaller scale – Bloomberg
5/26 Australian lithium miners in focus on rising demand for electric vehicles – CNBC
5/25 Largest US power grid supply costs drop 39% in auction – Bloomberg
5/25 Tesla compared to Enron, Ponzi scheme in scathing new research report – ZH
5/25 Q2 On special assignment: Wind power blowing across Montana – KTVQ
5/24 Tesla confirms details of Powerwall improvements – GTM
5/24 Google’s project sunroof expands to 42 states and millions more rooftops – GTM
5/24 SolarCity Corp surges on news of solar power system Implementation –Value Walk
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
5/27 Secret text in senate bill would give FBI warrantless access to email – Intercept
5/27 The NY Times’ abject cowardice on Israel –Intercept
5/27 Trump rallies reveal civil unrest – Most Important News
5/27 Male doctor helps Saudi woman deliver baby – and is then shot by husband – J Post
5/26 IRS malfeasance gives a glimpse of larger gov’t corruption –Daily Bell
5/25 Saudi culture exports extremism, former 9/11 commissioner says –Bloomberg
5/25 Shootings in Chicago are up astonishing 50% year-over-year – Zero Hedge
5/24 Obama’s fatal fatalism in the Middle East – Washington Post
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
5/27 Living a longer life with baking soda – Dr Sircus
5/27 The hidden side of Wall Street’s “mischief”– Economy and Markets Daily
5/24 Magnesium deficiency: How to know to avoid chronic disease –Natural Health
5/24 Can cancer really be prevented? – Dr Sircus
5/24 The five ‘hidden killers’ that could send you to an early grave – Daily Mail
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
5/22 Cyberwar: The smart person’s guide – Tech Republic
5/21 Yet another major cyberheist in ‘secure’ global payments system – Zero Hedge
5/20 Cyber-war gets real – Baseline Mag
5/20 Cyber war vs. Islamic State ‘work in progress’ – VOA News
5/20 Cyberspace’s invisible armies – ECNS
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
5/27 The worst of Wall Street is taking over sports betting – Vocativ
5/27 Kelly Slater built the perfect wave. Can he sell it to the world? – Bloomberg
5/27 A clever tweak to how apples are sold makes us eat more of them –Wash Post
5/26 The empty brain – Aeon
5/25 Nasdaq rejects cannabis company’s listing application – MarketWatch
5/25 NFL tried to fund govt concussion research to influence it – MarketWatch
5/25 Gene helps prevent heart attack, stroke, aging – Kurzweil
5/25 Will this augmented reality machine really replace your PC? – Bloomberg
