Courtesy of John Rubino.
Best Of The Web
Matthew, near misses and flash crashes – Credit Bubble Bulletin
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/09 Still no Deutsche Bank agreement: Dillutive stock sale coming up? – Mish
10/09 Fed vice chair Fischer admits Fed is waiting for Godot – Wolf Street
10/09 Global debt increasing rapidly: Every inhabitant on Earth indebted $20,000 – In Serbia
10/09 The silent majority, those not in the labor force – My Budget 360
10/09 Deutsche Bank CEO returns empty-handed after failing to reach ‘deal’ – Zero Hedge
10/09 Texans are cutting back, wheels come off Houston economy – Wolf Street
10/08 GDP Apocalypse Now – Sovereign Investor
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
Precious Metals
10/09 Gold and silver bid for a bottom – Seeking Alpha
10/09 Bring on a gold crash, I’ll be buying – The Street
10/09 Technical selling hits precious metals as Fed weighs buying stocks – Seeking Alpha
10/09 Saudi threat to crash dollar might send a shockwave through gold prices – Birch Gold
10/09 Gold set to suffer a ‘deeper dive’ and drop another $200 – CNBC
10/09 Gold is buried ‘knee-deep inside a commodity bear super-cycle’ – Business Insider
10/09 Gold on pace for worst week in two years; traders discuss what’s next – The Street
10/09 Which gold stock is the best investment? – Guru Focus
10/08 Gold’s, miners’ stops run – 321Gold
10/08 GATA chairman Murphy interviewed by Proven & Probable – GATA
10/08 Big drops do not mark final gold bottoms – 321Gold
10/08 Bob Moriarty: I am ready to buy silver at $16 – Energy And Gold
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/09 Wells Fargo or the Federal Reserve: Who’s the bigger fraud? – Mises Institute
10/09 Live free or mine: How libertarians fell in love with Bitcoin – Coin Desk
10/09 Prepaid debit cards to be heavily regulated, Bitcoin cards alternative – Coin Telegraph
10/08 EU imposes import duties of up to 73.7% on cheap Chinese steel – Guardian
10/08 EU leaders insist UK pay a high price for Brexit stance – Guardian
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
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
10/09 Hillary responds to Trump’s (latest) lewd comments about women – Huffington Post
10/09 Hillary Clinton might just have won married women – Politico
10/09 Leaked speech excerpts show Hillary at ease with Wall Street – New York Times
10/09 Mainstream media implodes over Trump sex comments – Daily Bell
10/09 Sanders supporters furious over Hillary’s leaked Wall St. speeches – Zero Hedge
10/09 Republican national committee begins to redirect funds from Trump – Zero Hedge
10/08 Marine Le Pen praises Brexit and insists Europe ‘will REJECT EU’ – Express
10/08 Marine Le Pen’s youth brigade – Foreign Policy
10/08 A must-win debate for Donald Trump, but not a must-rehearse one – New York Times
10/08 Can Donald Trump recover from this? – CNN
10/08 Donald Trump’s debate prep is going great! – Washington Post
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
10/09 Hennepin County judge confronts police use of ‘military style’ tactics – Star Tribune
10/09 Yemen’s rebel funeral hall attack ‘kills scores’ – BBC
10/09 The still raging drug war ruined millions of lives in 2015 – FEE
10/09 Libertarianism and war – AntiWar.com
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
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
10/09 US publicly blames Russia for hacking to disrupt elections – Bloomberg
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/08 Hounds hot on the heels of poachers in rhino country – Guardian
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
