Courtesy of John Rubino.
Best Of The Web
The central bankers’ experiment: the great bust – Best Minds, Inc.
Jim Grant rejects Rogoff’s “curse of cash” – Zero Hedge
Weekly commentary: reversals – Credit Bubble Bulletin
If everything’s doing so great, how come I’m not? – Peak Prosperity
The (160 to 1) gold-silver ratio every investor needs to know about – SRSrocco Report
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
9/17 Zatlin: Expect layoffs come January as US nears inflection point – Financial Sense
9/17 If gold investors thought Brexit was exciting – Seeking Alpha
9/17 China’s growth imperative trumping debt risks – Hellenic Shipping News
9/17 China’s infrastructure spending goes off the rails – AFR
9/17 US does not need to jail Wall Street bankers – Daily Bell
9/17 Real hourly earnings decrease 0.1%, real weekly earnings drop 0.4% – Mish
9/17 The disintegration of US infrastructure – SRSrocco Report
9/17 Federal Reserve is out of ammo to prop up the economy – Market Sanity
9/16 Why the BOJ might fire the bazooka before a Fed hike – Forbes
9/16 Motor vehicle production +0.5%, motor vehicle sales -4.4% year-over-year – Mish
9/16 On the brink of a market crisis – Sovereign Investor
9/16 How China’s plan to engineer economic growth is a massive failure – Business Insider
9/16 Will your investments hold up for the next financial crisis? – GoldAndOilGuy
9/16 Buy gold – bonds are ‘biggest bubble in world’ – GoldCore
9/16 Bond yields are surging despite deflation, and that is dangerous – Telegraph
9/16 There’s a ‘dangerous situation’ in the debt market now – CNBC
9/16 Nomura on China and defaults – ValueWalk
9/16 Harvard crushes the “Obama recovery” farce with 9 simple charts – Zero Hedge
9/16 Deutsche Bank slapped with $14 billion fine over mortgage probe – Zero Hedge
9/16 Six striking observations about corporate debt – Zero Hedge
9/16 Les deplorables: “Enough is enough” – Zero Hedge
Precious Metals
9/17 Hope in currencies is a poor investment strategy – Commodity Trade Mantra
9/17 Book review: The New Case For Gold – Daily Reckoning
9/17 Gold bulls spooked by US rate uncertainty – Financial Review
9/17 Silver bull flag & key GDX level – 321Gold
9/17 Indian gold market – an infographic from BullionStar – Zero Hedge
9/16 Have your children seen your gold? – Mountain Vision
9/16 Grand ascension or great collapse? – Gold And Liberty
9/16 War is peace, silver is plentiful, and other misconceptions – Silver Coin Investor
9/16 Drill results highlight expansion of Balmoral gold zone – Streetwise Report
9/16 What’s impacting the price performances of senior gold miners? – Market Realist
9/16 New gold discovery for Endeavour (EDV) – Gainesville News
9/16 Is now a golden opportunity to buy Barrick gold? – Motley Fool
9/16 World’s best stock is a 460% gain in Peruvian silver miner – Bloomberg
9/16 Evaluating the “rally”: how long to get to $10,000/oz? – 24hGold
9/16 Price targets, and last call for the Greek warrior – GoldSilver
9/16 Gold: The best performing asset of the 21st Century – Daily Coin
9/15 Will we see a 10/1 gold-silver price ratio? – SRSrocco Report
9/15 Unprecedented global bond bubble threatens holders of cash – Money Metals
9/14 Silver bullion market – “The most bullish story ever told?” – GoldCore
9/14 Janet & gold: does history rhyme? – 321Gold
9/14 Gold warning – pay attention! – Seeking Alpha
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
9/17 Good news for inflationists: Medical costs and rent surge – Mish
9/17 UK interest rates are heading in only one direction – Guardian
9/17 Central banks may choose helciopter money over negative rates – Mises
9/17 Article 50 expected January or February – Mish
9/17 Japan Inc sees bank of Japan stimulus as failing to spur inflation – OAN
9/16 August CPI up 0.2%: video – CNBC
9/16 QE and negative rates are a Ponzi scheme: Saxo Bank CEO – CNBC
9/16 Swiss central bank defends negative interest rates – Reuters
9/16 The folly of economists: Negative interest rates – Forbes
9/16 Unprecedented global bond bubble threatens holders of cash – FX Street
Real Estate Bubble
9/16 China’s housing market is going nuts again – Business Insider
9/16 Why China’s debt levels are all about property prices – Bloomberg
9/16 Vancouver tax on empty homes to target near-zero rental supply – Bloomberg
9/15 U.S. mortgage rates climb to post-Brexit high – MarketWatch
9/15 Luxury housing prices are crashing – Bert Dohmen
DollarCollapse Podcasts
9/13 Markets explain facts of life to Fed
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?
Politics
9/17 New poll shows Clinton and Trump nearly tied in Michigan – Detroit Free Press
9/17 Stockman: Trump is going after the Fed – Daily Reckoning
9/17 Allegations of fraud over recurring “one time” donations to Hillary – Mish
9/17 Donald Trump wades into Obama “birther” issue again – CBS
9/16 Brutal polls for Clinton show Trump winning in several swing states – CNBC
9/16 One nation divisble – Bloomberg
9/16 Milo Yiannopoulos is the pretty, monstrous face of the alt-right – Bloomberg
9/16 Full interview with Elizabeth Warren on Trump – CNBC
9/16 Le Penn: Junker’s state of the unijon speech a funeral for the EU – Independent
9/16 A new problem for Hillary emerges – Zero Hedge
9/16 Clinton foundation CEO admits to pay-for-play – Zero Hedge
Offshore Investing
9/14 4 totally legal reasons to use an offshore structure – Nestmann
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
Clean Tech
9/16 Solar rooftop revolution fizzles in US on utility pushback – Bloomberg
9/16 Tesla tackles California energy woes with massive energy-storage deal – CNBC
9/14 Batteries necessary to support solar power don’t exist – Daily Caller
9/13 New technology puts solar power to work all night long – Science Daily
9/13 Why solar power is surging in the US – Fiscal Times
9/13 Record year for solar expected as installations surge 43% – Oil Price
9/12 UK Labour Party pledges 65% renewables by 2030 – Wind Power
9/10 Feds outline new strategy to scale up offshore wind power –NRDC
9/08 Scotland is constructing one new wind turbine every day – Greentech Media
Art of the Collapse
9/14 Book review of Dave Stockman’s “Trumped!” – Mish
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
9/17 Germany arrests 3 terrorists disguised as Syrian refugees – Armstrong Economics
9/16 US confidence in media hits fresh low: Gallup – Yahoo!
9/16 Pardon Edward Snowden – New York Times
9/15 US to provide Israel with record $38 billion in military aid – Zero Hedge
9/14 European civil war looms – Zero Hedge
9/14 Record U.S. military aid deal for Israel to be signed in days – Reuters
9/14 ‘A constitutional crisis’: the CIA turns on the Senate – Guardian
9/12 “Real and nearly unprecedented” spike in homicides around US – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
9/16 The changing paradigm on drugs – Dr. Sircus
9/10 Objective information about financial planning and retirement – Telegraph
9/10 50 items to keep handy for an evacuation – Survival Sullivan
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
9/17 The Cold War is over. The cyber war has begun – Washington Post
9/14 Cyber bombs reshape US battle against terrorism – NPR
9/11 Tech expert: Cyber war is real and it’s here – NWI
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
9/17 Solid gold toilet ‘symbolising the greedy 1%’ is open for public use – Mirror
9/17 Here’s what it’s like to ride in Uber’s self-driving car – Wired
9/16 Paralyzed man regains use of arms after experimental stem cell therapy – Kurzweil
9/16 The mystery of Thomas Heatherwick’s top-secret Hudson yards project – Vanity Fair
9/16 Zika is here, and America has no plan to fight it! – Bloomberg
9/15 Self-driving vehicle revolution to wipe out 4 million jobs – Wolf Street
9/15 Sex ed is negative, sexist and out of touch – Time
9/13 A gorgoeous – and unsettling – video of evolution in action – Wired
9/13 Elon Musk has ‘not ruled out’ a UFO hitting SpaceX rocket – VGR
9/13 “Half the forms of life on Earth will be gone by 2050” – Zero Hedge
9/13 Cannabis industry expected to be worth $50 Billion in ten years – Bloomberg