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Odds of rate hike go up after Yellen speech. US GDP Q2 lowered, expected to rise in Q3. World trade continues to contract. Gold and US stocks down last week. US manufacturing, home sales disappoint. Negative interest rates getting a lot of attention, mostly critical. Europe doesn’t seem fixable. Trump hires new people, keeps falling in polls. Clinton emails remain major problem.
Best Of The Web
All is calm, all is not right – Best Minds, Inc.
The reckoning – Alhambra Partners
French support for the EU project is crumbling on the Left and Right – Telegraph
Eight! – FOFOA
These Olympian gold royalty companies are insanely attractive – US Funds
Monetary policy has nationalized the Japan stock market – CNBC
Bubbles in bond land – a central bank made mania, part 1 – David Stockman
The “neutral rate” – Credit Bubble Bulletin
The decade of zero and its chaotic unwinding – Hussman Funds
The marginal buyer holds the pin that pops every asset bubble – Peak Prosperity
Negative interest rates – S&P Global
World out of whack: coming this way… demographic shock – Capitalist Exploits
Insanity, oddities and dark clouds in credit-land – Acting Man
Breaking News
The Economy
8/27 The market’s being set up for a hard fall – Daily Reckoning
8/27 Pensions, oy vey – Capitalist Exploits
8/27 Yellen discusses “tools” – Mish
8/27 What the Federal Reserve really is – Daily Reckoning
8/27 Fed up Friday: August 20-26 – Schiff Gold
8/27 Follow the government money – Sovereign Investor
8/27 Rate hike odds soar following Yellen’s speech – Mish
8/26 QE Infinity: Are we heading into the unknown? – CNBC
8/26 Bank supervisors’ bark may exceed bite on EU capital revamp – Bloomberg
8/26 Euro area banks see net profit fall 20 percent in first quarter – Reuters
8/26 Europe was a union for the ages, until suddenly it wasn’t – Bloomberg
8/26 Finns to get free money in sttate experiment set to start in 2017 – Bloomberg
8/26 Yellen: Case for raising rates has strengthened ‘in recent months’ – CNBC
8/26 US Q2 growth trimmed to 1.1% – CNBC
8/26 States face pension fund gap approaching $1 trillion – CNBC
8/26 From the era of high yields to the ‘speculate or starve’ era – SafeHaven
8/26 Uncertainty soars in China and UK – Mish
8/26 World-bond funds grapple with Japan’s negative yields – MorningStar
Precious Metals
8/27 The 1929 Great Depression vs. the next great collapse – SRSrocco Report
8/27 Gold juniors’ Q2’16 fundamentals – 321Gold
8/27 The precious metals sector and the Fed – 24hGold
8/27 Gold: Divided we stand – 321Gold
8/27 A zombie financial system, black swans and a gold share correction – 321Gold
8/27 Gold just broke a 5-year downtrend – Casey Research
8/26 GDX has just made a powerful bull flag – SafeHaven
8/26 Broker Charles Schwab now recommending gold to clients – SRSrocco Report
8/26 The GLD vs GOLD – Strategic Wealth Possession
8/26 Something very interesting happening with Middle East gold flows – Seeking Alpha
8/25 Fed’s change in tone could mean gold takes a breather – Seeking Alpha
8/25 Japan is signaling the end-game for the US – Research Dynamics
8/25 Royal Gold, Inc’s best move in 2016 so far – Motley Fool
8/25 Gold futures see massive $1.5 billion “non profit” liquidation in “one minute” – GoldCore
8/25 Sal. Oppenheim’s gold ban: beware investment firms limiting options – Seeking Alpha
8/25 Gold futures drop to a 1-month low as Yellen watch continues – MarketWatch
8/25 Just wait until it’s hypothecated into 145 tonnes – GATA
8/25 A gold standard “comes after war, not before” – Zero Hedge
8/25 This is a serious test of gold holders’ intestinal fortitude – Seeking Alpha
8/25 Gold and silver price manipulation – Smaulgld
8/24 Jim Grant is “very bullish on gold” – GoldCore
8/24 45 years after the gold standard: what did it bring us? – Gold Republic
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
8/27 Negative rates advocate spells out the obstacles at Jackson Hole – Bloomberg
8/27 Fed’s Bullard warns Yellen on credibility, sticks with forecast – Mish
8/26 Japan’s deflationary spiral worsens as ‘Abenomics’ falters – Guardian
8/26 Japan July consumer prices post biggest annual fall in three yrs – Reuters
8/26 Why negative interest rates are mad, bad – and dangerous – Spectator
8/26 How do negative interest rates work? – Nasdaq
8/26 When will helicopter money take off, and consequences for markets – Mountain Vision
8/26 What does inflation really mean? – Schiff Gold
8/26 S&P: Jury is out on the impact of negative interest rates – The Street
8/26 Three charts show why the Swiss love negativ rates – Bloomberg
8/26 Stop worrying about interest rates – CNBC
Real Estate Bubble
8/25 S&P increases capital risk weightings for NZ banks – Total Property
8/24 British house-buyers dance with the devil – Bloomberg
8/24 Demographic HomeMageddon underway… will last until at least 2035 – Econimica
8/24 Existing home sales decline in July – CNBC
8/24 McMansions define ugly in a new way: they’re a bad investment – Bloomberg
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
8/27 Stephen Bannon’s abuse charges deepen Trump’s “woman problem” – Vanity Fair
8/26 Millions from maxed-out Clinton donors flowed through loophole – Bloomberg
8/26 Judge orders search of new Clinton emails for release by Sept. 13 – Reuters
8/26 What you like falls on party lines – Wall Street Journal
8/26 FBI: Clinton used software designed to “prevent recovery” of emails – Zero Hedge
8/26 Clinton takes 10-point national lead over Trump in post-shakeup poll – CNBC
8/25 Nigel Farage: ‘I wouldn’t vote for Hillary if you paid me’ – Politico
8/25 The battle to be France’s Bernie Sanders – Politico
8/25 WikiLeaks: More of Clinton’s “unexpected”, game-changing emails loom – Zero Hedge
8/25 Nigel Farage encourages Trump’s supporters to form ‘people’s army’ – Telegraph
8/24 Voters with student debt flock to Clinton in poll – Bloomberg
8/24 Many who met Clinton as secretary of state donated to foundation – CNBC
8/24 Clinton ad questions Trump’s temperament – Washington Post
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
8/26 EV revolution set to cripple more than just the oil industry – Oil Price
8/25 Could a lithium shortage de-rail the electric car boom? – Oil Price
8/25 Solar market anticipated to reach $53.7 billion by 2020 – Roshani Gavali
8/25 The headache-free way to have solar power – Clean Technica
8/25 The falling costs of US solar power, in 7 charts – Vox
8/24 Man-made “wind trees” will be capable of powering homes – Quartz
8/24 Tesla unveils world’s fastest production car: 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds – Bloomberg
8/24 Tesla boosts battery, Elon Musk promises ‘fastest car in the world’ – MarketWatch
8/23 Bright future for solar power – Vergnet
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
8/26 Suicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey – Reuters
8/26 Turkey fires on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in Syria offensive – Reuters
8/26 The broken chessboard: Brzezinski gives up on empire – CounterPunch
8/26 At least 1 dead, multiple injured in major explosion in Belgium – Zero Hedge
8/25 Nuke miniaturization threat convenient as Pentagon seeks $1 trillion – Daily Bell
8/25 Kurds, not ISIS, are Turkey’s real target in Syria invasion – AntiWar.com
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
8/25 What life will be like after an economic collapse – Survival Sullivan
8/25 Cancer epidemic getting worse – Dr. Sircus
8/23 Baking soda and lemon juice – Dr. Sircus
8/22 How to boost your immune system – Dr. Sircus
8/22 Dry skin brushing: benefits and how to – Mercola
8/21 Scientists discover why mediation and yoga work – Kurzweil
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
8/26 Apple issues global iPhone security update for unprecedented spyware – CNBC
8/25 Of course everyone’s already using the leaked NSA exploits – Wired
8/24 Who are the NSA’s elite hackers? – Vice
8/22 New Snowden documents confirm leaked NSA tools are real – Verge
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
8/26 A possible habitable planet is only four light-years away – Kurzweil
8/26 His name is Meow Meow, and he hacks DNA – Bloomberg
8/25 Singapore beats Pittsburgh to world’s first self-driving taxis – Mish
8/25 Italy quake death toll hits 250 as rescuers search – Reuters
8/25 Domino’s launches drone pizza delivery, shows what it will look like – Zero Hedge
8/25 Earthquake in Italy: Rescue efforts continue through the night – Telegraph
8/25 Blood red moon over New York captured in spectacular photos – Telegraph
8/25 New Lidar chips for self-driving vehicles tiny, $10 to manufacture – Mish
8/24 The senator’s daughter who raised prices on anti-allergy EpiPen – Bloomberg
8/24 CA Supreme Court decides “grossly ineffective” teachers keep jobs – Zero Hedge
8/24 Hunter kills bear with spear, and Under Armour kills sponsorship – MarketWatch
