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Best Of The Web
The only thing that grows is debt – Automatic Earth
A false sense of global security? – AEI
Nigel Farage on the EU referendum – Financial Time
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
The Economy
6/08 Pensions timebomb in “slow motion detonation” – GoldCore
6/08 ‘Brump’ or ‘Trexit’? Markets may conflate year’s biggest risks – Reuters
6/08 The Keynesians stole the jobs – 24hGold
6/08 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
6/08 Beveridge hiring tumbles despite job openings rising – Zero Hedge
6/08 Global stocks “most expensive” in 6 years – Zero Hedge
6/08 Lather. Rinse. Repeat. – GoldSeek
6/08 Euro-area economy grows faster as consumption gathers pace – Bloomberg
6/08 European firms find ‘increasingly hostile’ environment in China – Wall Street Journal
6/08 Lowest-ever coupon on corporate bond in Toyota sale – Bloomberg
6/08 China’s massive piling-on of debt is reminiscent of the lead-up to the GFC – AFR
6/08 Bank of Japan’s sovereign debt endgame is the naked emperor – Financial Post
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
Precious Metals
6/08 The Midas Touch consulting report – SafeHaven
6/08 Fortuna Silver Mines to acquire Goldrock mines – Yahoo!
6/08 UK’s Royal Mint will sell pension investors gold they can never see – GATA
6/08 Gold sector M&A to be smaller in scale – Sydney Morning Herald
6/08 Gold hits 2-week high as rate hike fears recede – CNBC
6/08 Triple-digit upside from higher silver prices? – Profit Confidential
6/08 Gold and silver miner ETFs top performers so far in 2016 – Nasdaq
6/08 Buy gold for what it does; not for its price – Schiff Gold
6/08 Mervyn King joins Alan Greenspan in advocating gold ownership – USA Gold
6/08 Gold: the barbarian is back – Seeking Alpha
6/08 China paused monthly gold purchases in May after prices surged – GATA
6/07 The Lone Star State is taking 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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
6/08 Switzerland’s voters reject basic income plan – Reuters
6/08 Beyond Brexit; favorable opinion of EU plunges everywhere – Mish
6/08 “It’s a seismic shift” – Zero Hedge
6/08 These are the bonds the ECB is now buying – Zero Hedge
6/08 Ahead of Brexit vote, support for EU falls across Europe – DW
6/08 Fed’s rate normalization will be far from normal – SafeHaven
6/08 UK’s Referendum, a prerequisite to restarting Europe – GEAB
6/08 Billions of pounds taken out of the British economy amid fears of Brexit – Indpendent
6/08 History and headless chickens: Brexit odds change (but not enough) – Mish
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
Real Estate Bubble
6/08 A sign Manhattan’s real estate bubble is ready to pop – Economy And Markets
6/08 Time to get out of real estate – Sovereign Investor
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
DollarCollapse Podcasts
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?
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
Politics
6/08 Richard Maybury: FDR, London & tribal alliances – McAlvany Weekly
6/08 Clinton declares historic victory, turns fire on Trump – CNBC
6/08 Clinton wins NJ and NM, Sanders ND – CNBC
6/08 Would Warren even want to be VP? – Atlantic
6/08 Party crashing and political revolution – CounterPunch
6/08 State department blocks release of Hillary Clinton-era TPP emails – IBTimes
6/08 Elizabeth Warren details ‘extreme’ Republican obstruction – Huffington Post
6/08 You’ll need a cigarette after Warren’s latest Trump nad-stompin’ – Wonkette
6/08 Nausea rising – Jim Kunstler
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
Offshore Investing
6/08 Get this second passport before the price goes up – Nestmann
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
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
6/08 Taylor Swift, robots, uber star in timely new book on America’s dollar – NY Sun
6/08 Why to legalize marijuana – JP Sears
6/08 Debt buyers – John Oliver
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
6/08 Only 10 countries in the world are actually free from conflict – Indpendent
6/08 China’s imperialism on the South China Sea – Washington Times
6/08 IRS reveals list of tea party groups targeted for scrutiny – Washington Times
6/08 Quit overfeeding the war pigs – Sovereign Investor
6/08 Turkey warns Europe it will unleash refugees – Zero Hedge
6/08 ISIS savages burn 19 Yazidi girls alive for refusing sex – Gateway Pundit
6/08 Bilderberg group hates Brexit, conspires to stop it – WRC
6/08 Andrew Cuomo’s flagrant foul on the Constitution – Week
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
6/08 New anti-gun control ads seek to rally women, LGBT voters – Time
6/08 How to easily dig a well on your property – Survival Sullivan
6/07 A simpler way: crisis as an opportunity – Automatic Earth
6/04 Salicylic acid has cancer-fighting properties – Kurzweil
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
6/08 Tech terrorism: Saudis blamed for hacking Iranian newspaper – Sputnik
6/08 Now theft and sabotage instead of just spying – Register
6/08 Catch ‘Cyberwar Threat’ Wednesday @ 9 – WVUT
6/06 ‘Anonymous’ declares war on Fox, CNN, NBC – Zero Hedge
6/05 Iran-Saudi tensions erupt in ‘cyberwar’ – BBC News
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
6/08 Zika virus is widespread and expected to grow in Puerto Rico – MarketWatch
6/08 Arctic sea ice hit a stunning new low in May – Washington Post
6/08 EU nations refuse to back new license for glyphosate – GEAB
6/08 A shocking find in a cave in France – Atlantic
6/08 America’s obesity epidemic hits a new high – CNBC
6/08 The great barrier reef: a catastrophe laid bare – Guardian
6/07 Marijuana 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