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Best Of The Web
Broken indicators: it’s growing harder to spot troubles in the market – Bloomberg
10 terrifying charts – Gold Republic
Cass Freight Index takes another dive killing August’s “false hope” – Mish
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/19 Hedge fund launches dwindle to 16-year low as returns lag – Bloomberg
10/19 Investor cash levels jump toward levels not seen since 9/11 – Bloomberg
10/19 Curious case of China’s remarkably consistent economic growth – CNBC
10/19 Global money flees Japan stocks at fastest pace since 1987 – AFR
10/19 Massively oversubscribed Saudi bond offering upsized to $17.5 billion – Zero Hedge
10/19 The public pension time bomb is starting to explode – Financial Sense
10/19 Paschi shares surge as board weighs Passera Capital Plan – Bloomberg
10/19 Rickards: Volatility could explode in a matter of weeks – Daily Reckoning
10/19 Australians ignoring a crisis bigger than Brexit: Chinese debt – Brisbane Times
10/19 China injects economy with a quarter trillion in debt in one month – Zero Hedge
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
Precious Metals
10/19 Gold in India trades at premium for first time in 9 months – GATA
10/19 Strong zinc price should continue to benefit these 3 silver juniors – MunKnee
10/19 Currency-neutral measure suggests gold bull continues – MunKnee
10/19 “Higher gold prices” on global trade slowdown – GoldCore
10/19 5 precious metal stocks to buy now – Motley Fool
10/19 Sentiment speaks: Gold will go up if the sun rises tomorrow – Seeking Alpha
10/19 What’s behind First Majestic 33% one-month decline? (AG) – Investopedia
10/19 Hecla Mining reports Q3 2016 production results – Junior Mining Network
10/19 Harmony Gold bullish on cash flows. Increased Q3 output – Mining.com
10/19 Silver Eagle demand returns with a vengeance – SRSrocco Report
10/19 There will be panic – 24hGold
10/19 Seven precious metal companies to create value long term – Streetwise Reports
10/19 Crossing the border with physical gold – Daily Coin
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/19 ECB urges EU to curb virtual money for fear of losing control – GATA
10/19 Consumers getting used to lower prices just as inflation picking up – MarketWatch
10/19 Even insiders expect EU’s collapse, and FT’s anti-gold propaganda gets worse – GATA
10/19 Bank of America tells stock investors to get ‘real’ – MarketWatch
10/19 Bloomberg cheers rising rent and gas prices: parrots vs. humans – Mish
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
Real Estate Bubble
10/19 US single-family housing starts surge; multi-family segment falters – Yahoo!
10/19 Look who’s driving the US housing market – Bloomberg
10/19 China home sales value rose 61% in September from year earlier – Bloomberg
10/18 At low end, homeowners more leveraged than during the bubble – MarketWatch
10/18 Home builder sentiment eases in October, NAHB says – MarketWatch
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
10/19 France to ban all Christian symbols – Catholic
10/19 Vote-rigging Robert Creamer visited White House over 200 times – Zero Hedge
10/19 Hillary Clinton’s email problems just came roaring back – Washington Post
10/19 Hillary Clinton is winning – and it’s not close – NPR
10/19 Hillary Clinton’s play for Arizona – Atlantic
10/19 Showing confidence, Hillary pushes into republican strongholds – NY Times
10/19 Why Hillary Clinton may be the most hated president of all time – Vanity Fair
10/19 The alt-Trump? – New York Sun
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
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
10/19 Batteries may trip ‘death spiral’ in $3.4 trillion credit market – Bloomberg
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
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
10/19 The government’s addiction to ‘secret law’ – New York Times
10/19 The $5 trillion wars – Boston Globe
10/19 Media silent as anti-corporate trade deal protests take Europe by storm – Anti Media
10/19 Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases – Guardian
10/19 Ecuador: We have ‘temporarily restricted’ Assange’s internet – AP
10/19 Police, militarization, and Islamophobia – Chicago Monitor
10/18 Mystery deepens around fate of Julian Assange – Zero Hedge
10/18 Bromance between Xi and Putin grows as US spats escalate – GEAB
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
10/19 World’s mammals being eaten into extinction – Guardian
10/19 Big-data algorithms are manipulating us all – Wired
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
