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Best Of The Web
Watch a short film Adam Curtis made for VICE about your life – Vice
The world’s most dangerous systemic risks – Deep Connections
Prevailing gray swans: The clear and present danger list – Deep Connections
What triggers collapse? – Peak Prosperity
The perils of a resurgent China credit boom – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Japan’s central bank writes Tokyo a blank check – Stratfor
USA 2017-2020: An ungovernable nation? – OfTwoMinds.com
A mile-high house of cards – International Man
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/18 Goldman Sachs profit soars on bond trading and curtailed costs – Yahoo!
10/18 The rape of America – the core federal election issue – SafeHaven
10/18 World turning away from dollar system, US isolated – GEAB
10/18 US bondholders risk a $1.1 trillion hit if rates spike – Bloomberg
10/18 China’s bad credit – Bloomberg
10/18 Saudi Arabia: Give us your money and stop asking about oil – Bloomberg
10/18 “Change is as necessary as it is impossible” – Zero Hedge
10/18 Why this equity bull is looking for a sharp selloff – Seeking Alpha
10/18 Financial repression is now “in-play”! – FRA
10/18 Japanese regional banks on course to zero – ValueWalk
10/18 Even insiders know that the EU is doomed, Turk tells KWN – GATA
10/18 Empire State kicks off regional manufacturing reports with dismal showing – Mish
10/17 Ford to idle four factories due to slowing car demand – Zero Hedge
10/17 NY Fed’s Empire State business conditions index at lowest since May – CNBC
10/17 Will Italy leave the EU? Follow the money – Bloomberg
10/17 Deutsche Bank’s options to solve capital dilemma seen to be limited – Reuters
10/17 Dallas police retire in droves, fear pension money isn’t there – Mish
10/17 Investing in a Kakistocracy – Forbes
Precious Metals
10/18 Deutsche Bank’s silver-rigging settlement is bigger than it looks – GATA
10/18 Janet, government, & the woodshed – 321Gold
10/18 Moving forward with Marin Katusa – TF Metals Report
10/18 Juniors? The butterflies in the animal farm of the investing world? – 24hGold
10/18 Gold manipulators have already been punished – Seeking Alpha
10/17 Singapore makes another bid for Asia to help set gold price – GATA
10/17 Gold to lose support – Seeking Alpha
10/17 Precious metals off the mat – Seeking Alpha
10/17 Hedge funds are piling into gold; less bullish on S&P 500 – Insider Monkey
10/17 What is 90% silver? – Junk silver – APMEX
10/17 Top 5 facts about gold – APMEX
10/17 Is Great Panther Silver Ltd’s slumping production a concern? – Motley Fool
10/17 First Majestic achieves new record in silver production – Yahoo!
10/17 Is it over for gold? – Forbes
10/17 Three reasons to be bullish on gold – Forbes
10/17 Gold is actually doing great, von Greyerz tells King World News – GATA
10/17 We are putting ourselves out on a limb and calling a gold bottom – Seeking Alpha
10/16 ETF buyers continue to shower gold with love – Seeking Alpha
10/16 GLD & HUI: Where’s the bottom? Is it time to buy? – MunKnee
10/16 A few questions for Sharps Pixley CEO, Ross Norman, other bullion bankers – GATA
10/15 Gold stocks: Accumulation opportunity now – 321Gold
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/18 Carney steels for inflation test as prices jump most since 2014 – Bloomberg
10/18 Treasury yield curve hits widest level in a month after CPI – MarketWatch
10/18 Commodity stocks lift shares; Brexit, inflation in focus – Reuters
10/18 Cashless society is a creepy fantasy – Bloomberg
10/18 Brexit framework: Winners and losers – Mish
10/18 US consumer prices rise on strong gains in gasoline, rents – CNBC
10/18 Inflation set to rise as UK economy faces slowdown – Independent
10/18 Eurozone inflation rises in September – Euro News
10/18 The truth about inflation – Daily Reckoning
10/18 Inflation above target for five straight years and counting – Daily Reckoning
10/18 China’s crucial export commodity is inflation – The Street
Real Estate Bubble
10/18 At low end, homeowners more leveraged than during the bubble – MarketWatch
10/18 Home builder sentiment eases in October, NAHB says – MarketWatch
10/18 Bay Area housing market hits a snag thanks to absurd prices – Dr. Housing Bubble
10/18 Rents are down in Manhattan. You still can’t afford to live there – Bloomberg
10/17 Property bubble in Ireland developing again – GoldCore
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
10/18 Rejecting Trump, Wall Street Republican donors scatter largesse – Reuters
10/18 SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon announces new independence referendum bill – GEAB
10/18 Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman – Guardian
10/18 “Shadow government” protected Hillary in email investigation – Zero Hedge
10/18 Trump-bashing Amy Schumer greeted with boos as fans walk – Zero Hedge
10/18 Clinton operatives admit to inciting “anarchy” at Trump rallies – Zero Hedge
10/18 22 toxic days for Hillary Clinton – Politico
10/18 Favorability: Clinton vs. Trump, Hollande vs. Le Pen vs. Sarkozy – Mish
10/18 The odor of desperation – 24hGold
10/18 Hillary Clinton holds 15-point lead over Trump in Virginia – Washington Post
10/18 Trump in striking distance of Clinton despite groping allegations – Washington 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
10/18 Tepco shares slump after anti-nuclear novice wins Japan election – GEAB
10/18 Tesla, Apple and Uber push lithium prices even higher – Oil Price
10/18 Canadian Solar has a debt problem: time to worry? – Investor Guide
10/18 Tesla to expand with new solar production deal – Greentech Media
10/18 Sonnen raises $85M to scale behind-the-meter battery business – Greentech Media
10/18 Wal-Mart leads the nation in corporate solar deployments – Greentech Media
10/17 SolarReserve planning world’s largest solar farm for $5 billion – Bloomberg
10/17 The Paris Agreement is officially coming into effect – Good
10/16 Global deal reached to limit powerful greenhouse gases – Bloomberg
Art of the Collapse
10/18 SNL’s presidential debate isn’t complete without Ken Bone – E! Online
10/12 Late-night TV hosts have field day with Donald Trump-Billy Bush video – WaPo
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
10/18 Mystery deepens around fate of Julian Assange – Zero Hedge
10/18 Bromance between Xi and Putin grows as US spats escalate – GEAB
10/18 For U.S. and Obama, Mosul campaign is calculated risk – Reuters
10/18 Syria rebels reject Aleppo withdrawal after Russian statement – Reuters
10/18 Guess which record was broken for the 17th consecutive time? – Bearing Arms
10/17 Mosul fight begins; 131 killed across Iraq – AntiWar
10/17 Russia and the West: Where did it all go wrong? – BBC
10/17 “Thank God for Wikileaks – doing the job that MSM won’t” – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
10/18 How to inspect your survival stockpile – Survival Sullivan
10/17 Here’s why you need vitamin B12, and where you can find it – Washington Post
10/16 Conquering cancer – Dr. Sircus
10/12 Power lines, air pollution, lack of sunshine may raise risk of dementia – Telegraph
10/12 How to start and maintain a worm compost bin – Peak Prosperity
10/09 5 ways to turn your dream of buying farmland into reality – Modern Farmer
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
10/18 Cyberwar between Russia and US. Moscow preparing for counter-attack – Belsat.eu
10/17 The clear and present danger list for the week ending October 14 – Medium.com
10/16 Europe launches largest “cyber wargame” in history – Zero Hedge
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/18 Greece in 2050: A country for old men – Ekathimerini
10/18 Americans work 25% more than Europeans – Bloomberg
10/18 The greatest bubble ever… & the Federal Reserve can’t see it? – Econimica
10/17 Hunted to brink, Africa’s reviled vultures vital in fight against disease – Guardian
10/15 Visualizing America’s $18 trillion economy (in 3 stunning maps) – Zero Hedge
10/14 Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize – Vanity Fair
10/14 Subsidizing disaster – American Conservative
10/12 Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart – Guardian
10/12 Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 million BC – 2016) – Outside Online
10/12 Twitter’s woes signal the end of the social wars – Wired
10/12 You’ll never see Earth from space. But this book is close – Wired
