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More bad numbers from Japan. More scary predictions from Carl Icahn. Fed officials split on Sept rate hike. Corporations buy back fewer shares, insiders sell more. Money pours into emerging markets. Silver miners gain fans. Trump hires new people, keeps falling in polls.
Best Of The Web
World out of whack: coming this way… demographic shock – Capitalist Exploits
Insanity, oddities and dark clouds in credit-land – Acting Man
Weekly commentary: Inflation – Credit Bubble Bulletin
The one is going to be bad… – GoldSilver
The Brexit vote and endgame time for the EU – David Stockman
Globalization is dead, but the idea is not – Automatic Earth
A crisis of intervention – Sovereign Man
Priced out of the ‘open society’ – SAXO Group
Updating government finance quasi-capitalism – Credit Bubble Bulletin
A global derivatives expert shines the light on systemic risk – Garret Galland
What happens when rampant asset inflation ends? – OfTwoMinds.com
Bernanke’s “enrich-thy-neighbor” doctrine now in “full bloom” – FRA
Impermanence and full-cycle thinking – Hussman Funds
Breaking News
The Economy
8/18 Labor market firming; factories still struggling – Yahoo!
8/18 Philly Fed manufacturing rebounds in August – Business Insider
8/18 US consumer comfort increased last week from 3-month low – Bloomberg
8/18 Steve Eisman’s next big short is hedge fund fees – Bloomberg
8/18 Caterpillar retail orders suffer 2nd biggest plunge since financial crisis – Zero Hedge
8/18 Japan July exports drop 14 pct on-year; imports tumble 24.7 pct – CNBC
8/18 Carl Icahn turns apocalyptic – Zero Hedge
8/18 Bubble risk as ‘tourist’ investors flood into emerging market debt – Financial Magazine
8/18 Fears of liquidity trap may worsen China’s debt problem – VOA News
8/18 How the global elites screw peons (while media fools cheer) – Mish
8/18 The Fed’s failure will cost you – Sovereign Investor
8/18 What next for Japan if Abenomics fails? – Live Mint
8/18 John Rubino interview – Jay Taylor Media
8/17 Fed officials split on September rate hike – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
8/18 How much silver you’ll need to buy a vacation home – GoldSilver
8/18 Did Canada sell its gold to prepare for the NA Union? – Daily Bell
8/18 Koos Jansen: GFMS keeps wildly underestimating Chinese gold demand – GATA
8/18 Silver miners will outperform silver price in coming bull run – GoldAndOilGuy
8/18 GLD: A couple of red flags – Seeking Alpha
8/18 The gold price and global flows – Seeking Alpha
8/18 Spectacular Chinese gold demand in 2015 denied by GFMS, media – Seeking Alpha
8/18 The new gold rush: insurance against the collapse – Sovereign Investor
8/17 Deutsche Bank discloses $2 billion gold and silver mining share portfolio – Smaulgld
8/17 Gold’s popularity dims as ETFs shrink by most this year – Bloomberg
8/17 How risky is Royal Gold, Inc.? – Motley Fool
8/17 45th anniversary of Nixon ending the gold standard – GoldCore
8/17 Gold is at extreme correlations against stocks, bonds and oil – Seeking Alpha
8/17 Gold: Fresh upside breakout is imminent – 321Gold
8/17 Harry Dent sees positive developments for precious metals ahead – Market Sanity
8/17 Another data point benefiting gold and silver – Seeking Alpha
8/17 Why gold mining stocks are trending higher – Market Realist
8/17 Peter Grandich: Why the mother of all gold bull markets has begun – GATA
8/17 Gold falls when China imports it, rises when West imports it – GATA
8/17 British billionaire Cripsin Odey places 86% bet on gold – Kitco
8/17 Bloomberg article bashing gold based on phony jobs report – Daily Bell
8/17 Rickards details the ‘paper gold’ fraud – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
8/18 Talk of higher U.S. interest rates is often just that – MarketWatch
8/18 Man who introduced millions to bitcoin says blockchain a bust – Bloomberg
8/18 A physics lesson for central bankers – Bloomberg
8/18 The idea of the Fed raising the inflation target is outrageous – CNBC
8/18 Brexit latest: pensions black hole widens, inflation accelerates – Independent
8/18 Loomis braces for falling bond prices amid inflation alarms – Bloomberg
8/18 No more inflation? – Huffington Post
8/18 One world currency and the SDR bond – Daily Coin
8/18 The wretched, endless cycle of bitcoin hacks – Bloomberg
8/18 Widening Fed consensus on inflation overshadows rate-hike debate – Bloomberg
8/18 ‘Chaotic fall’ in dollar is likely, Embry tells King World News – GATA
Real Estate Bubble
8/17 What China’s US buying spree means for the future of hospitality – Forbes
8/17 The “housing crisis” in San Francisco strangles demand – Wolf Street
8/17 Parents should expect they’ll have to help their kids buy a house – Business Insider
8/16 US housing starts jump in July – CNBC
8/16 Is California farmland overvalued by $70 billion – Zero Hedge
DollarCollapse Podcasts
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
5/04 Easy money has failed; what’s next?
4/27 Okay, I’ll say it: run for the hills
Politics
8/18 Hillary picks TPP, fracking advocate to set up her White House – Intercept
8/18 How Russia saw Donald Trump’s big speech on foreign policy – Time
8/18 Donald Trump appoints media firebrand to run campaign – New York Times
8/18 Marion Le Pen’s delight as Front National wins mayoral vote – Express
8/18 Libertarian Gary Johnson bags money haul – US News
8/17 Trump shakes up staff after Ailes is said to urge big changes – Bloomberg
8/17 Clinton’s email woes persist as FBI sends notes to Congress – Bloomberg
8/17 Iceland calls elections six months early in wake of scandal – GEAB
8/17 Austria’s “anti-immigration” presidential candidate resurgent – Zero Hedge
8/17 Donald Trump’s poll numbers are collapsing – Vanity Fair
8/17 Donald Trump lays the blame – Time
8/17 Donald Trump’s invented history of Iraq war – Atlantic
8/17 Conservatives are from Mars, libertarians are from… Woodstock? – Reason
Offshore Investing
7/20 Costa Rica: Central America’s hidden gem – Sovereign Investor
7/08 Time to adjust your wealth plan – Mountain Vision
7/08 We pulled the ripcord on daily life and moved to Costa Rica – International Living
7/02 America’s offshore tax cheats are feeling the heat once again – Bloomberg
Clean Tech
8/18 Australia finds out wind power doesn’t really work – Daily Bell
8/17 Indonesia plans to add 5 GW of solar PV capacity in 2 – 3 years – Solar Server
8/16 Offshore wind: a revolution is on the horizon – Energy Post
8/16 Solarworld sees second half sales slump, bucking price pressures – Bloomberg
8/15 Tesla spontaneously catches fire, burns down during test drive in France – Zero Hedge
8/15 Britain’s vast national gamble on wind power may yet pay off – Telegraph
8/13 Wind generates 100% of Scotland’s electricity needs for entire day – EcoWatch
8/11 SMA warns of pricing pressures in inverter market – PV Magazine
8/11 SunPower’s shock profit warning makes for tense earnings call – MarketWatch
Art of the Collapse
8/17 The hardest job in the world: Donald Trump’s campaign surrogates – Daily Show
8/09 How you got screwed – a user’s guide to a rigged system – Zero Hedge
8/08 Greed corrupts in thrilling ‘Junk’ – San Diego Union-Tribune
8/08 Trump to replace Constitution with the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition – News Thump
8/02 Homer Simpson: “And that’s how I became a Democrat” – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
8/17 Video shows hundreds of Chinese ships near disputed islands – Zero Hedge
8/17 New York man in court charged with murdering Muslim cleric, assistant – Reuters
8/17 Turkey to free 38,000 people from prisons to hold alleged coup plotters – Guardian
8/17 China sides with Russia in Syrian war – Zero Hedge
8/17 Scott Walker activates National Guard as chaos continues in Milwaukee – Vanity Fair
8/17 The true story of how war broke out in Syria – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
8/17 The ultimate urban survival guide – Survival Sullivan
8/17 Olympic training for the brain? – NICABM
8/16 Why prolonged sitting may increase risk of death – Kurzweil
8/16 Eating more plant protein associated with lower risk of death – Kurzweil
8/16 Sanderson Farms refuses to reduce use of antibiotics – Mercola
8/15 A record number of Americans attend universities – My Budget 360
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
8/18 Why a leak of Clinton foundation documents is imminent – Zero Hedge
8/17 Edward Snowden explains the historic NSA hack – Zero Hedge
8/17 This is the future of war – Business Insider
8/16 Mysterious group hacks the NSA – Zero Hedge
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
8/18 This drug could end America’s painkiller epidemic – Bloomberg
8/17 Floridians fear ‘Pandora’s box’ of genetically altered mosquitos – Guardian
8/17 Thousands evacuated as California wildfire grows – Bloomberg
8/16 This has been the worst 12 months for floods in US history – Most Important News
8/14 How to break the power of money – Yes Magazine
8/13 16 abandoned Olympic venues from around the world – Life Daily
8/11 A population plague spreads around the globe – Bloomberg
8/09 More than 60% of Maldives’ coral reefs hit by bleaching – Guardian
8/09 “Zika zone” turns into ghost-town as planes spray neurotoxins – Zero Hedge
8/08 If flossing is out, prepare for a lot of bad breath – MarketWatch
8/08 Humpback whales are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas – MNN
