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Best Of The Web
Nigel Farage on the EU referendum – Financial Times
Monkey with money at your own peril – Credit Bubble Bulletin
The case for a Super Glass-Steagal – David Stockman
When will the recession start? Deutsche Bank’s disturbing answer – Zero Hedge
Grasshopper nation: Planning for those who aren’t prepared – Peak Prosperity
What makes this jobs report so truly ugly? – Wolf Street
Infographic: Vancouver real estate mania – Visual Capitalist
Hidden in full view – SilverSeek
Bon appetit! – Janus Capital Group
It’s not stupidity. It is apathy (for now) – Alhambra Partners
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
6/07 This job market slump started a while ago – Bloomberg
6/07 US revised Q1 productivity down 0.6% vs. 0.6% decline expected – CNBC
6/07 The shadow looming over China – Bloomberg
6/07 New Zealand sitting on half-trillion-dollar debt bomb – NZHerald.co.nz
6/07 April flashback: 75% of economists expected June hike – Mish
6/07 Why big job misses are likely to continue – Financial Sense
6/07 Don’t bank on rate hikes! – GoldAndOilGuy
6/07 Consumers in Texas begin to react – Wolf Street
6/07 US seeks “total ban” on Chinese steel – Mish
6/07 Federal Reserve plays Jenga with US banking system – Schiff Gold
6/07 US Treasury bull market over? – Mish
6/07 America’s hidden jobless rate is a product of this conspiracy – Daily Bell
6/07 The Left’s not-so-secret agenda for bailing out union pensions – Daily Signal
6/07 Comments from France – Armstrong Economics
6/07 “I’m considering filing bankruptcy” – Zero Hedge
6/07 China’s real unemployment rate is 3x higher than the official number – Zero Hedge
6/06 Oil update – has the advance finally run out of steam? – 24hGold
Precious Metals
6/07 Another gold bull market to begin in 2016? Possible – Profit Confidential
6/07 Single digit silver, confiscation, golden black market – Daily Coin
6/07 The Lone Star State is takign on the entire financial system – Economy & Markets
6/07 Bank of Montreal warns against other banks in gold business – GATA
6/07 US jobs report: Rocket fuel for gold – 321Gold
6/07 Sizzling summer silver – Silver Shield Xchange
6/06 Gold: Major cycle lows – Gary Christenson – 24hGold
6/06 First Majestic Silver soars – 24hGold
6/06 Silver & gold – go East, young man! – Daily Coin
6/06 Will Pan American Silver’s rally continue? – Seeking Alpha
6/06 Andrew Maguire interview – King World News
6/05 Gold and silver – Friday may have marked a pivotal turnaround – Edge Trader Plus
6/05 FX and oil week ahead: Gold shines as the Greenback gets crushed – Seeking Alpha
6/05 How risky is Royal Gold stock? – Motley Fool
6/05 Gold and silver miners soar on teh heels of weaker employment data – Motley Fool
6/05 Are junor gold stocks following 2008-2009 recovery? – GoldSeek
6/04 China just put a huge floor under the gold market – King World News
6/04 As markets crack, nvestors need to see these two charts – SRSrocco Report
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
6/07 China FX reserves slip to four-year low on strong Greenback – Bloomberg
6/07 Sterling swings as polls suggest UK heading for EU exit – Guardian
6/07 Here’s why the Australian cdollar is rocketing higher – Motley Fool
6/07 BREXIT v Yellen – Armstrong Economics
6/07 Inflation is back, ‘stagflation’ is coming, Turk tells KWN – GATA
6/07 Japan Mom & Pop investors shop on Wall St. for debt from home – Bloomberg
6/07 Switzerland’s voters reject basic income plan – BBC
6/07 As bitcoin payouts halve, uncertainty looms – Fortune
6/07 Why bitcoin is a new asset class – CryptoCoins News
6/07 Ready to bypass the dollar and buy into bitcoin? – Personal Liberty
6/07 The ‘uancceptable’ inflation that may end Russian rate pause – Bloomberg
6/06 Pound falls, volatility jumps as polls show momentum for Brexit – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
6/07 Steve Cohen tore down $62 million mansion – CNBC
6/05 It’s the inequality, stupid. Homes should be lived in, not traded – Guardian
6/03 OECD sees ‘dramatic and destabilising’ end to property boom – AFR
6/03 The “dumb money” is finally buying new homes – 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
6/07 It’s official: Hillary wins the Democratic presidential nomination – Zero Hedge
6/07 What comes after the California primary? – LA Times
6/07 Nigel Farage on the EU referendum – Financial Times
6/07 Britain’s Conservatives at each other’s throats in EU debate – Hawaii News Now
6/07 Farage claims migrant sex attacks will be Brexit ‘nuclear bomb’ – Independent
6/07 Brexit update: remain MPs say “vote doesn’t matter” – Mish
6/07 ‘Irritation and anger’ may lead to Brexit, says influential psychologist – Telegraph
6/07 MPs ‘considering using majority’ to keep UK in single market – BBC
6/07 My endorsement for President of the US – Dilbert
6/07 Spotlight Italy: 5 star candidate ahead in battle for Rome – Mish
6/06 Trump rallies are only going to get more dangerous – Vox
6/06 Libertarian presidential bid puts sane drug policy in our grasp – Salon
Offshore Investing
6/04 Why I set up an offshore company – International Man
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
Clean Tech
6/07 Solar will replace nearly all retiring coal in Texas – GTM
6/07 Cleveland soon to be home to first offshore wind farm in fresh water – Eco Watch
6/07 England giving up on wind power – Power Line
6/06 Denmark scares off investors after energy agenda is jettisoned – Bloomberg
6/05 The next solar shakeup: death of the solar lease – Motley Fool
6/05 Is SolarCity Corp the next Sunedison – Profit Confidential
6/05 Scientists discover ‘reverse photosynthesis’ – Good News Network
6/05 There’s so much solar power in Chile that it’s being given away for free – Metro
6/05 Dubai to build huge solar power plant – Your Middle East
6/05 BBC spin hides the great solar energy fiasco – Telegraph
6/04 Did Norway just give Tesla a big win? – CNBC
Art of the Collapse
6/03 Dominic Frisby on Brexit: ‘nothing will ever be possible again’ – wOw
5/30 Economic reality, brick walls, budget balancing act political cartoons – Mish
5/08 ‘Dilbert’ creator’s 6 reasons why Trump will win – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
6/07 A new direction on drugs – CBS News
6/07 20 people serving life sentences for drugs will soon be set free – Fusion
6/07 Report accuses Mexico of crimes against humanity in drug war – NY Times
6/06 Top Syrian Kurdish commander killed in Raqqa campaign – ABC News
6/06 Air strikes kill dozens in Syria’s Aleppo – Aljazeera
6/06 Cuomo to halt state business with groups that back boycott of Israel – NY Times
6/06 Asset forfeiture is worst strategy of failed war on drugs – Chicago Sun Times
6/06 Obama legitimizes the drone wars – American Conservative
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
6/07 A simpler way: crisis as an opportunity – Automatic Earth
6/04 Salicylic acid has cancer-fighting properties – Kurzweil
6/04 Dietary fiber has biggest influence on successful aging, research reveals – Kurzweil
6/03 Fasting for dummies – Dr Sircus
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
6/06 ‘Anonymous’ declares war on mainstream media: attacks Fox, CNN, NBC –Zero Hedge
6/05 Iran-Saudi tensions erupt in ‘cyberwar’ – BBC News
6/04 U.S. lawmakers probe Fed cyber breaches, cite ‘serious concerns’ – Reuters
6/04 NY fed first rejected cyber-heist transfers, then moved $81 million – Reuters
6/02 Fed had many cyber breaches in recent years, Reuters reports – Bloomberg
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
6/07 Marijauna legalization favored by majority of Americans – Inquisitr
6/07 Happy sunday, welcome to rikers – Intercept
6/07 Why the economic payoff from technology is so elusive –NY Times
6/05 Using CRISPR to learn how a body builds itself – Atlantic
6/05 Cabinet vote on decriminalizing cannabis delayed a week – Times of Israel
6/05 We should treat antibiotics like missiles and war planes – BuzzFeed
6/05 The legalization cure for the heroin epidemic – Mises
6/05 Carter’s unpersuasive case against legal prostitution – Economics and Liberty
6/05 Farmer is sweet on beehives to keep elephants away – Good News Network
6/05 What was Thailand’s tiger temple doing with 40 dead cubs in its freezer? – Take Part
6/04 Obama: ‘Muhammad Ali shook up the world’ – MarketWatch