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Best Of The Web
Is Deutsche Bank the next Lehman? – McAlvany Weekly Commentary
Doubling down – Janus Capital
This is why US gov. deficit numbers are a BIG lie – Wolf Street
Michael Belkin interview – King World News
Weekly commentary: A take on Deutsche Bank – Credit Bubble Bulletin
IMF’s ‘substitution fund’ to kick-start SDR as new global currency? – CDFund
The banquet of consequences is being served – Peak Prosperity
Financial repression and a chronic unemployment problem – FRA
Structural growth and dope dealers on speed-dial – Hussman
26 incredible facts about the economy every American should know – Economic Collapse
How to suffocate your economy: Drown it in massive private debt – Evonomics
3 things: The Fed’s missed window & failed realization – Real Investment Advice
Hell to pay – Peak Prosperity
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/05 U.S. private sector adds 154,000 jobs in September: ADP – Yahoo!
10/05 Detusche Bank, Lehman and the end-of-days debate – Bloomberg
10/05 Euro zone business growth at 21-month low in September – Reuters
10/05 Backlash to world economic order clouds outlook at IMF talks – Bloomberg
10/05 S&P: Speculative-grade default rates hit 6-year high – HighYieldBond.com
10/05 Famed investor: negative rates threaten to decimate banks – Bloomberg
10/05 Rescue of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi gets ‘dark’ & ‘complicated’ – Wolf Street
10/05 Italy’s first 50-year bond sale had huge demand – Business Insider
10/05 Pension bond “Halloween” madness – Mish
10/05 Stock buyback plans drop to 5 year low – Zero Hedge
10/05 Illinois renegotiates derivative deals as rating approaches junk – Bloomberg
10/05 Bank of Italy sees alternatives if sale of rescued banks flops – Reuters
10/05 Deutsche Bank needs a bail-in — here’s how it could be done – MarketWatch
10/05 For Crispin Odey this is the endgame – Zero Hedge
10/05 TARGET2 shows Europe’s banking crisis is escalating again – Zero Hedge
10/05 Subprime auto-loan backed securities turn toxic – Wolf Street
10/05 ING announces 7,000 job cuts as unions condemn ‘horror show’ – Guardian
10/04 Are US banks safer today than they were in 2008? – CNA Finance
10/04 Systemic risk: Deutsche Bank #1 at $100 billion – Financial Sense
Precious Metals
10/05 Gold buying ‘opportunity’ after surprise 3.4% drop – GoldCore
10/05 The demise of gold – Seeking Alpha
10/05 A massive dip in precious metals – no pain no gain – Seeking Alpha
10/05 How much gold and silver do you need for retirement? – Gold And Liberty
10/05 Five reasons for buying precious metals – APMEX
10/04 Gold: The end game & current headwinds – 321Gold
10/04 Gold down sharply to 3-month low on stronger dollar – CNBC
10/04 This will be the catalyst for higher gold prices – Kitco
10/04 Beware: Russia’s hoarding gold, not just nukes – Daily Reckoning
10/03 Precious metals versus stock market investing – APMEX
10/03 Why gold may be glittering to risk parity funds – Seeking Alpha
10/03 What is the COMEX? – APMEX
10/03 India’s gold imports drop for ninth month, GFMS says – GATA
10/03 GBP gold rises 1.3% as sterling slumps on ‘hard brexit’ concerns – GoldCore
10/03 Gold is ‘money’ because it is plentiful, not because it is scarce – 24hGold
10/03 Noonan’s last analysis of the gold & silver market – MunKnee
10/03 Silver way undervalued – 24hGold
10/03 Gold: Bulls have left the building, next stop $1,500 – Seeking Alpha
10/03 Gold and silver – Quarterly, monthly charts – Edge Trader Plus
10/02 Friday’s loss for gold pulls the metal down for the quarter – MarketWatch
10/02 Gold-mining investors hit by the jitters as share rally sputters – Bloomberg
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/05 Pound sterling falls under July post-Brexit referendum low – CNBC
10/05 Rothbard on the glorious effects of falling prices – 24hGold
10/05 Sterling tumbles to 31-year low; oil up, stocks slip – Yahoo!
10/05 Negative interest rates until 2021? – Chris Ciovacco
10/05 Fiat currency: What it is, how it affects gold prices and its history – APMEX
10/05 The hyperinflationary death watch – Silver Coin Investor
10/04 The end of the dollar dominance? – Merk Funds
10/04 Is the US dollar set to soar? – Financial Sense
10/04 Interview with OECD’s William White – Financial Sense
10/04 Dollar’s recent strength will hit this coming earnings season – CNBC
10/04 Italy’s first 50-year bond heaps pressure on beleaguered market – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
10/05 Manhattan aparment sales plunge 20% – Bloomberg
10/05 China’s southern megacities roll out measures to cool property market – Reuters
10/05 Sales of Manhattan’s cheaper apartments are way down – Fortune
10/03 As NYC rental prices drop, landlords offer more perks – Curbed
10/03 Singapore home prices slide by most in more than seven years – Bloomberg
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
10/05 Clinton: I don’t recall joking about droning Julian Assange – Politico
10/05 Five takeaways from the vice presidential debate – The Hill
10/05 How Pence upstaged Kaine … and his boss, too – CNBC
10/05 Russian government gave millions to Clinton foundation – Free Beacon
10/05 Presidential temperament – Dilbert
10/05 Clinton foundation allegedly hacked: thousands of donor databases – Zero Hedge
10/04 Very awkward! Bernie Sanders struggles to defend Hillary Clinton – GOP
10/04 Hillary on WikiLeaks founder: “Can’t we just drone this guy?” – Mish
10/04 Post-debate, Clinton takes the lead – CNN
10/04 FBI agreed to destroy laptops of Clinton aides with immunity deal – Fox News
10/03 Hillary Clinton’s positive message? That was the plan, at least – New York Times
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
10/04 Solar power on brink of huge boom, social research indicates – Clean Technica
10/04 Tesla tops estimates for 3Q deliveries – Yahoo!
10/03 Thailand gears up efforts on solar power – Nation Multimedia
10/01 What is the learning curve and what does it mean for alt energy? – UCSUSA
9/29 Ontario scraps 600MW of new wind – Wind Power
9/29 New wind turbines could power Japan for 50 years after single typhoon – Gizmodo
9/28 Surge in wind power output hits German spot – Reuters
9/27 Solar power cost down 25% in five months – Electrek
9/27 Talking mines and money with Rick Rule and Frank Holmes – Stockhouse
Art of the Collapse
10/03 Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression on ‘Saturday Night Live’ – Washington Post
9/24 2016 debate preparation begins – Zero Hedge
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
10/05 Russia delivers anti-aircraft missiles to Syria – Zero Hedge
10/05 Baghdad bridles at Turkey’s military presence, warns of ‘regional war’ – Reuters
10/05 At least 28 migrants dead off Libya: coastguard – France 24
10/05 John Oliver says police are held accountable less than we realize – Newsweek
10/05 Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence – CNBC
10/05 More than 6,000 migrants plucked from sea in a single day, 22 dead – Reuters
10/04 Award-winning documentary on the militarization of police – Business Insider
10/04 Erdogan extends state of emergency 90 days – Mish
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
10/05 Go bag essentials – Survival Sullivan
10/01 Infographic: Only 10 companies own all the world’s food brands – Good Food
9/30 How to make your own toothpaste – Peak Prosperity
9/29 What are doctors and patients going to do? – Dr. Sircus
9/28 China wants GMOs. The Chinese people don’t – Bloomberg
9/27 Bayer and Monsanto – 2 destructive behemoths become 1 – Mercola
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
10/02 So now we have a federal CISO – Tech Crunch
9/28 Russian hackers breached democrats’ cell phones: FBI – Zero Hedge
9/25 Is the Yahoo hack evidence of an international cyberwar? – SCPR
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/05 ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined – Guardian
10/05 “Pope Francis:” Traitor to western civilization – Antonius Aquinas
10/05 9 dead as hurricane Matthew hammers Haiti – Zero Hedge
10/05 Here’s everything Google announced today – Wired
10/04 Bid for strongest protection for all African elephants defeated – Guardian
10/04 FL, NC declare state of emergency for Hurricane Matthew – Zero Hedge
10/03 Fukushima radiation has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean – Zero Hedge
10/02 Elephants have learned to avoid poachers by hanging out with rangers – Konbini
10/02 Bees added to US endangered species list for the first time – Guardian
10/02 Suburban technology should die a deserved death – Daily Bell
10/01 Sex robot cafe offers Londoners fellatio with morning coffee – RT
