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Best Of The Web
Negative interest rates and the war on cash (4) – Automatic Earth
Negative interest rates and the war on cash (3) – Automatic Earth
Deadpool – StockResearch
The matrix exposed – First Rebuttal
Magical thinking – Financial Sense
Negative interest rates and the war on cash (2) – Automatic Earth
The anti-Cinderella man (part one) – Burning Platform
Negative interest rates and the war on cash (1) – Automatic Earth
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
9/08 U.S. jobless claims fall as labor market remains strong – Yahoo!
9/08 Tens of thousands of jobs go as China’s biggest banks cut costs – Bloomberg
9/08 An economic mystery: Why are men leaving the workforce? – NPR
9/08 Why China’s $1 trillion merger makeover could fail – Bloomberg
9/08 China’s murky world where e-commerce meets student lending – Bloomberg
9/08 Stock market bubble will pop, social mood will get ugly – Mish
9/08 Wall St’s latest retail fleecing product exposed – structured CDs – Liberty Blitzkrieg
9/08 European Central Bank leaves all three rates unchanged – Bloomberg
9/08 German industrial production drops sharply in July – ABC News
9/08 The one trillion dollar consumer auto loan bubble – Economic Collapse
9/08 World out of whack: the “bomber Harris” of central banks – Capitalist Exploits
9/08 Target2 liabilities unexpectedly soar to record high – Zero Hedge
9/08 Illinois pension funds more than $100 billion in the hole – NewsTribune
9/08 Negative-yielding junk bonds coming to Europe – Seeking Alpha
9/07 Job openings in the US unexpectedly jump to record high – Zero Hedge
9/07 No alternative to stocks? Just wait for the next bear market – Barron’s
9/07 First factories, now services signal cracks in US economy – Bloomberg
9/07 Citi: More QE probably won’t work – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
9/08 Sell everything and buy gold – Seeking Alpha
9/08 History says gold and silver could bubble off the charts – GoldSilver
9/08 The bullish case for gold today remains the same as in 2011 – ETF Daily News
9/08 China’s foreign exchange reserves fall to their lowest since 2011 – Fortune
9/08 Backed by Sprott, ‘Flash Boys’ protagonists aim a new exchange at gold – GATA
9/08 Sidelines could be more dangerous than the field – Money Metals Exchange
9/08 Analyzing sentiment: which silver miner do analysts favor? – Market Realist
9/08 Silver miners: Which stocks have comfortable liquidity profiles? – Market Realist
9/07 Why is gold not at $2,000/oz? – Gold Republic
9/07 Gold investing htis 2012 level post-Brexit – 24hGold
9/07 Post Labor Day could be a whole new world for gold – MunKnee
9/07 Gold is’very timely way to invest in monetary disorder’ – NewsMax
9/07 Gold & silver: good times are here – 321Gold
9/07 A monumental buying opportunity in precious metals – Energy And Gold
9/07 Fed fails, gold & silver to rise under inflation or deflation – Crush The Street
9/07 War on cash intensifies as gold & silver head into strongest months – Money Metals
9/07 Gold outlook – not laborious at all – Seeking Alpha
9/07 Gold: the good and the not yet good – Slope of Hope
9/06 Gold pops on weaker dollar, Fed indecision – MarketWatch
9/06 Before you buy an ounce of gold or silver, watch this – GoldSilver
9/06 Hedge funds drop bullish gold bets to two-month lows – Kitco
9/06 Central banks’ monetary policies a good reason to own gold – Gold And Liberty
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
9/08 Hyperinflation versus deflationary collapse – 24hGold
9/08 Sou should pay attention to America’s quiet war on cash – Anti Media
9/08 Negative rates a counterproductive overreach… – Real Clear Markets
9/08 Swiss banks bet big on negative interest rates – TruNews
9/08 Blockchain tech disrupts traditional banking architecture – Blockchain Investor
9/07 ECB is set to extend QE well into next year – CNBC
9/07 Kuroda feels the double-edged sword of negative rates – Reuters
9/07 Cash in a box catches on as Swiss negative rates bite – Bloomberg
9/07 Negative interest rates coming to the Fed? – Financial Post
9/07 A global milestone at the G-20 China – Daily Reckoning
Real Estate Bubble
9/08 NYC luxury real estate weakness spreading as lower pricing tiers tank – Zero Hedge
9/07 New Zealand tops world house price increase – Guardian
9/07 Vancouver housing bubble burst crashes local consumer sentiment – Zero Hedge
9/06 As housing reignites, even bust towns are booming again – MarketWatch
9/06 Auckland’s surging house prices top Sydney, parts of NY – 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
9/08 Dallas Morning News: Don’t vote for Trump –Statesman
9/08 How Donald Trump lost his mojo – Rolling Stone
9/08 Will Trump or Clinton win? The 11 states deciding the race – Hill
9/08 Merkel strikes back, defends migrant policy after election rout – Reuters
9/08 Wikileaks: New Clinton revelations coming as early as next week – Planet Free Will
9/08 Jill Stein blasts ‘two-party cartel’ controlling presidential debates – Common Dreams
9/07 Philippines scrambles to soothe tensions after Obama slur – Reuters
9/07 Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now? – Washington Post
9/07 Unpopularity contest: France vs. US – Mish
9/07 New national poll shows Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied – NY Times
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
9/08 Scotland is constructing one new wind turbine every day – Greentech Media
9/07 What company (besides Tesla) would consider buying SolarCity? – GTM
9/07 A cheap, long-lasting, sustainable battery for grid energy storage – Kurzweil
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
Art of the Collapse
9/08 Daily Show dissects Trump’s attempts to win black votes – Huffington Post
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
9/08 Russian fighter jet makes ‘unsafe’ intercept of US aircraft – CNN
9/08 Work to begin on ‘big wall’ at Calais to block migrants – Telegraph
9/08 Nearly half of all refugees are children, says Unicef – Guardian
9/08 How Snowden escaped – National Post
9/08 Russia, Syria and Turkey have agreed on joint operations in Syria –Katehon
9/07 The building blocks of the American police state from A-Z – Casey Research
9/07 Cuba: Operation Northwoods, the forgotten insanity – Who What Why
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
9/08 Exercise can cancel out the booze, says study – CNN
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
9/08 Obama threatens to wage a cyber war against Russia. – Global Research
9/06 11 ghostly things I got out of NSO group’s iPhone hack – Wolf Street
9/04 Hack turns Mac computers into spying devices – Telegraph
9/04 Forget software – now hackers are exploiting physics – Wired
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
9/06 Warming oceans are ‘sick,’ global scientists warn – Yahoo!
9/06 World’s largest gorillas ‘one step from going extinct’ – Yahoo!
9/05 “Half the forms of life on Earth will be gone by 2050” – Zero Hedge
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
