Courtesy of John Rubino.
US jobs, factory orders disappoint, lowering odds of September rate hike and sending stocks, oil, gold higher. Japan preparing major new stimulus, Europe considering it. The war on cash heats up. Central bankers losing credibility while buying equities. Major shipping company collapses. Trump visits Mexico, confusing everyone. Clinton emails remain major problem.
Best Of The Web
Sorry losers! – Peak Prosperity
These 3 charts explain the terrifying math behind pension funds’ shortfall – MarketWatch
Unknown voluntary servitude – AheadoftheHerd
Illustration of tiny size of silver market podcast – Smaulgld
Why gold will likely be much higher 10 years from now – Seeking Alpha
The 11 bone-chilling things I gleaned from Yellen’s chart – Wolf Street
Political left and right being upended by globalization politics – Nouriel Roubini
Yellen speaks Japanese – Talk Markets
Jim Rickards: “There will be a war on gold” – Sprott Global
Weekly commentary: Yellen unveiling, Jackson Hole 2016 – Credit Bubble Bulletin
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
9/04 September is market’s weakest month of the year – Birch Gold
9/04 Why our job-creation machine is broken – MarketWatch
9/04 Fewest stocks traded in 32 years – Zero Hedge
9/04 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
9/04 U.S. economy may need much higher interest rates: Fed’s Lacker – Reuters
9/04 The $50 billion Illinois favor factory hums along – Forbes
9/04 Fed vice-chairman admits Fed sponsors wealth inequality – Mish
9/04 America the debt pig – Economic Collapse
9/03 The world’s biggest hedge fund expects a bust in China – Business Insider
9/03 Yield chasing everywhere – ValueWalk
9/03 John Maynard Keynes’ “general theory” eighty years later – Antonius Aquinas
9/03 Are junk bonds becoming the new equities? – Investment News
9/03 The barbershop: Dennis Byrne, proprietor – Chicago Now
9/03 S&P warns high-yield credit quality worst since 2009 – Zero Hedge
9/03 Gained 520k waiters, bartenders, lost 13k manufacturing workers – Zero Hedge
9/03 Retailers demand bailout after Hanjin collapse paralyzes trade – Zero Hedge
9/03 The US economy: bad moon rising – DiMartino Booth
9/02 August U.S. auto sales fall; carmakers say industry has peaked – Reuters
Precious Metals
9/04 Gold sector correction – What happens next? – Acting Man
9/04 Miners’ second-quarter gold hedging is highest for six years – GATA
9/04 The “wildcards” that will push gold prices even higher – Birch Gold
9/04 Gold and silver – Fiat “dollar” says gold and silver will struggle – Edge Trader Plus
9/04 Chinese buy gold, sell Treasuries — should you? – Econimica
9/04 Silver miners’ Q2 2016 fundamentals – Seeking Alpha
9/04 Gold sector correction – what happens next? – Seeking Alpha
9/04 3 best gold stocks to buy – Motley Fool
9/04 An important low for gold and gold stocks? – Daily Gold
9/03 The coming gold super-spike – Daily Reckoning
9/03 Gold & silver: key candlesticks in play – 321Gold
9/03 Deutsche Bank on why it didn’t deliver physical gold – Zero Hedge
9/03 The real reason gold is up 25% in 2016 – Kitco
9/03 Phony US employment numbers, toxic Fed strategies boost gold & silver – Daily Bell
9/02 Gold bounces as weak jobs report cuts odds of rate hike – Kitco
9/02 Physical gold delivery failure by German banks – GoldCore
9/02 Ed Steer interviewed about gold market manipulation – GATA
9/02 How prices get set – 24hGold
9/02 Gold has been a poor investment for over 80 years – Seeking Alpha
9/02 Gold miner ETFs flip to bear territory – Barron’s
9/02 Why the big silver short? – Silver Coin Investor
9/02 China’s monetary ascension is paved with gold – Money Metals
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
9/04 Why low interest rates are now doing more harm than good – Telegraph
9/04 Mexico dumps US Treasuries as Trump marches closer to presidency – Smaulgld
9/04 Deficits, inflation and helicopter money for Japan – Bloomberg
9/04 Bloomberg: Abolish cash to create a freer market – Daily Bell
9/03 ECB throws twelfth zero at inflation – Bloomberg
9/03 Fed’s Fischer says negative interest rates “seem to work” – Money Morning
9/03 Chinese firms dive back into dollar bonds to refinance debt – Reuters
9/03 Venezuela protests: Large anti-Maduro march held in Caracas – BBC
9/03 Solid hiring without wage jump tests Fed hopes for inflation – Bloomberg
9/03 Control inflation? We have to understand it first – Telegraph
Real Estate Bubble
9/04 It starts: Rents drop in 10 of the top 12 US markets – Wolf Street
9/04 Apartment correction to cause Australia-wide recession: report warns – SMH
9/02 Another sign Manhattan real estate is feeling the pain – Bloomberg
9/01 London’s elite ‘pushed out of exclusive postcodes by super rich’ – Guardian
8/31 US pending home sales jump in July – Yahoo!
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
9/04 Hillary Clinton, those emails and the whiff of scandal that won’t go away – Telegraph
9/04 Le Pen promises French referendum on EU if elected president – Times Daily
9/04 Angela Merkel and Marine Le Pen: one of them will shape Europe’s future – Guardian
9/04 Tensions deepen between Donald Trump and RNC – NY Times
9/04 Donald Trump to address black Detroit church Saturday – ABC News
9/04 What Donald Trump and Anthony Weiner have in common – NY Times
9/03 Here’s what Donald Trump said in his big immigration speech, annotated – WaPo
9/03 Le Pen backs Donald Trump, says Clinton will bring ‘war and devastation’ – Express
9/03 Italy’s Five Star Movement may be the heir to Mussolini’s fascists – Nation
9/03 Did Trump’s campaign manager lie to Rachel Maddow’s face? – MSN
9/03 This is why Donald Trump needs to make nice with Mexico – CNBC
9/03 What unauthorized immigrants heard from Donald Trump: be very afraid – Vox
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
9/04 Oklahoma quake matches record even after fracking waste restricted – Bloomberg
9/03 Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel – Phys
9/03 California reaches $900 million spending deal to cut emissions – Midwest Energy News
9/03 JP Morgan asset management acquires solar developer Sonnedix – Reuters
9/03 Trina solar starts Japan battery storage subsidiary – ReCharge
9/02 US wind power surpasses 75 GW and Americans love it – Huffington Post
9/02 Elon Musk is pushing Tesla hard – Bloomberg
9/02 Elon Musk faces cash squeeze at Tesla, SolarCity – Wall Street Journal
9/01 Floating offshore wind farm could be the future of renewable energy – GE Reports
Art of the Collapse
9/03 Why you should enroll in the chartered central bank watcher – Zero Hedge
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
9/04 The rising tide against Muslim immigrants – Dr Sircus
9/04 Prohibition and mass incarceration – Cato Institute
9/04 Conservatives just don’t get it on the drug war – Lew Rockwell.com
9/03 Homeland security to save us from ‘rigged elections’? – Ron Paul Institute
9/03 Saudi: 2000 lashes, 10 years in jail for being atheist – Jihad Watch
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
9/04 Syngenta terrorized scientist for 15 years to quell concerns about Atrazine – Mercola
9/03 Keep your family warm when the furnace is out – Reluctant Preppers
9/02 Intelligent parents are refusing vaccinations – Dr. Sircus
8/29 ‘Property a better bet than pensions’, says Bank of England – Telegraph
8/29 Mediterranean diet better for the heart than taking statins – Telegraph
8/28 Grow your own by all means, but self-sufficiency is not the answer – Guardian
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
9/04 Hack turns Mac computers into spying devices – Telegraph
9/04 Forget software – now hackers are exploiting physics – Wired
9/03 Understanding the military buildup of offensive cyberweapons – ZD Net
9/03 Cybercrime and cyberwar: The groups that are out to get you – ZD Net
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
9/03 No batteries required: The first autonomous, entirely soft robot – Tech Xplore
9/02 All aboard the most ridiculous, stupidly huge cruise ship on Earth – Wired
9/02 ‘Our living dinosaurs’ – CNN
9/02 SpaceX rocket blast destroys satellite for Facebook project – Bloomberg
9/01 Cheaper taxi fares coming up – Mish
9/01 The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age – Guardian
8/31 Drone meets shotgun: 65 year-old woman blasts it out of the sky – Mish
8/31 More than half of south Asia’s groundwater is contaminated – study – Guardian
8/30 The hype-and hope-of artificial intelligence – New Yorker
8/30 Here are the winners of the first beauty contest judged by AI – Observer
8/30 Surge in heroin overdoses “unlike anything we’ve seen before” – Telegraph
