Courtesy of John Rubino.
Best Of The Web
The IMF and all other losers – Automatic Earth
Rob Arnott interview – King World News
Sorry, central bankers: Risk and volatility cannot be extinguished – OfTwoMinds.com
Down the monetary policy rabbit hole – Financial Sense
What Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio told the New York Fed – Zero Hedge
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/08 Finance leaders issue fresh warnings amid Deutsche worries, pound rout – Reuters
10/08 Consumer borrowing in US rises by most in nearly a year – Bloomberg
10/08 The next recession looms large – Euro Pacific
10/08 Inventory crisis: Can parrots read charts? – Mish
10/08 Manufacturing employment vs. drinking establishment employment – Mish
10/08 Multiple part-time jobs and central bank lies – TF Metals Report
10/08 Japanese investors flock to megabanks’ subordinated debt – Nikkei
10/08 Peter Schiff podcast: Only a recession can help US – Schiff Gold
10/07 The great debt unwind: Business bankruptcies soar 38% – Wolf Street
10/07 U.S. job growth slows; markets bet on December rate hike – Reuters
10/07 US state public pension unfunded liabilities to hit $1.75 trillion – CNBC
10/07 Detusche Bank mismarked 37 deals like Paschi’s – Bloomberg
10/07 Where the September jobs were – Zero Hedge
10/07 US adds 156,000 jobs in September – MarketWatch
10/07 Deutsche Bank said to weigh capital options with banks – Bloomberg
10/07 Warning: Iceberg dead ahead! – Daily Reckoning
10/07 Bank of Japan delivers crazy stimulus, but little growth to show – Economic Calendar
10/07 Central banks wage war on markets: Bill Bonner says they will lose – Mish
Precious Metals
10/07 Physical gold demand will limit price decline: Goldman Sachs – CNBC
10/07 Gold stocks slaughtered: time to buy – Seeking Alpha
10/07 Gold sinks like a stone, which stocks to buy? – Seeking Alpha
10/07 Novagold’s strong cash position protection for weak gold prices – Streetwise Reports
10/07 Gold’s big drop might be associated with British sterling drop – USA Gold
10/07 Central banks suppress gold to help China accumulate it, Rickards says – GATA
10/07 Here is what to expect in the aftermath of the gold plunge – King World News
10/07 Two charts that every gold investor needs to keep an eye on – Bloomberg
10/07 Gold’s recent drop stuns investors: time for gold bulls to panic? – Seeking Alpha
10/07 Dollar firms, U.S. stocks steady before jobs data – Reuters
10/07 Perfect macro storm is making gold a bargain – The Street
10/07 Gold likely to rebound Monday when China resumes trading – GATA
10/06 Silver crashes 10% since Friday – worst week in 42 months – Zero Hedge
10/06 Gold: Is the bull market over? – Financial Sense
10/06 Top gold forecaster: “As quickly as gold fell” may “rally back” – GoldCore
10/06 Great Panther Silver Ltd’s shock explained in 4 charts – Motley Fool
10/06 The flash boys invade the gold market – Seeking Alpha
10/06 Banks must face gold- and silver-rigging lawsuits – GATA
10/06 Market-rigging lawsuit against London gold fix banks can proceed – GATA
10/06 When markets go bump in the night – USA Gold
10/06 GOFO and the gold wholesale market – BullionStar
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/07 Posen says pound decline may mark shift too big for the BOE – Bloomberg
10/07 Who will exit the EU next? – Stratfor
10/07 Bank of Japan going even deeper into negative rates – TruNews
10/07 Gundlach: Negative rates will ruin Europe’s banks – Investopedia
10/07 Yen bull bets rise as Japan yields beat US after inflation – Bloomberg
10/07 Fed’s Lacker says there are signs inflation is heating up – CNBC
10/07 ECB commits to lift inflation with forecast built on market view – Bloomberg
10/07 Brexit: How hard is hard? Searching for a soft, hard-boiled egg – Mish
10/06 The flash boys invade the gold market – Seeking Alpha
10/06 Is Brexit the start of a global movement? – Seeking Alpha
10/06 Nobel laureate Stiglitz sees Italy, others leaving euro zone – Reuters
Real Estate Bubble
10/07 Liar loans surge in Australia’s housing bubble – Wolf Street
10/07 China’s housing boom looks like last year’s equities bubble – Bloomberg
10/06 Vancouver’s property bubble – Financial Sense
10/06 Millennial student loan debt tanks housing market – Schiff Gold
10/05 Manhattan aparment sales plunge 20% – Bloomberg
DollarCollapse Podcasts
10/04 European banks in the eye of the storm
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
Politics
10/08 Hillary Clinton’s Wall St speeches published by Wikileaks – BBC
10/08 Trump makes rare apology for sexually aggressive video – Telegraph
10/07 Donald Trump makes history with zero major newspaper endorsements – Yahoo!
10/07 Foreigners in London ‘horrified’ by May’s immigrant vision – Bloomberg
10/07 IMF, global finance leaders fret over populist backlash – Reuters
10/07 Why democracy rewards bad people – Mises Institute
10/07 Marine Le Pen says EU responsible for “monstrous chaos in Syria” – Zero Hedge
10/07 Renzi must go if he loses Italy referendum – Bloomberg
10/07 White House intervened to suppress Hillary “secret server” scandal – Zero Hedge
10/07 Germany imports child marriage – Gatestone Institute
10/07 In visceral ads for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump does all the talking – New York Times
Offshore Investing
10/07 Panama Papers? Try UNITED STATES Papers? – Mountain Vision
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
Clean Tech
10/08 Molten silicon offers tenfold improvement to solar energy storage – E&T
10/08 Canada’s Alberta government aims for 50% solar power – PV-Magazine
10/08 Solar power: Costs lighten – Financial Mail
10/07 Why it’s so hard to get solar in Florida – Wired
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
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
10/08 A gripping tale of cop corruption in Chicago – Vanity Fair
10/07 EU launches tough border force to curb migrant crisis – Yahoo!
10/07 Do Not Resist charts the rise of militarization in law enforcement – Austin Chronicle
10/07 The FBI’s secret methods for recruiting informants at the border – Intercept
10/07 Gary Johnson equates Syria deaths caused by Assad and West – New York Times
10/07 Say goodbye to military secret weapon boondoggles – SRSrocco Report
10/07 What the ‘world police’ analogy gets wrong – National Interest
10/07 All the ways you can comply and still die during a police encounter – FFF
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
10/08 ‘Hamilton’: The stuff vs. experience debate – MarketWatch
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
10/08 The quest to make porn sites more secure – Wired
10/07 Terror groups likely to be first to unleash cyber weapons – Computer Weekly
10/07 US military applies ‘incredible focus’ in digital war against ISIL – Signal
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/07 Tick bites that trigger severe meat allergy on rise around the world – Guardian
10/06 Nearly half all children in sub-Saharan Africa in extreme poverty – Guardian
10/06 Google’s robo-cars hit 2M miles, confirm driving is dadgum tricky – Wired
10/06 Hurricane Matthew: Mass evacuations ordered – Extreme Weather
10/06 Time we crush the roach motels of philanthro-crony-capitalism – OfTwoMinds.com
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