Courtesy of John Rubino.
Good news from Europe and the US sends stocks higher. The dollar is rising and so is inflation. Corporate debt and earnings becoming major near-term risks. China’s mortgage bubble is the biggest ever. US auto sales start to fall. Major cyber attack hits US east coast. Clinton way up in polls after final debate.
Best Of The Web
Bill Fleckenstein interview – King World News
Ungovernability – Automatic Earth
Gold’s secular bull market continues – 50 amazing charts – Mountain Vision
Politicians must tell free market from corporate stitch-up – Telegraph
Prepare for the unthinkable – Acting Man
Welcome to neocolinialism, exploited peasants! – OfTwoMinds.com
Why the global economy will disintegrate rapidly – Automatic Earth
Inflation about to explode higher – Burning Platform
The cult of the expert – and how it collapsed – Guardian
Fed risks repeating Lehman blunder as US recession storm gathers – Telegraph
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
10/25 The deficit is too small, not too big – Hill
10/25 Ratings inflation is back, subprime style – Bloomberg
10/25 Why there’s no economically sustainable price for oil anymore – Talk Markets
10/25 Monte Paschi plunges as much as 39% on debt-for-equity fears – Zero Hedge
10/25 1/5 of young adults live with their parents or grandparents – Important News
10/25 Flash manufacturing report shows strongest upturn year – Mish
10/25 “A problem so massive…” – King World News
10/25 Basic income expands in France – Daily Bell
10/25 How long can share buybacks support rising stock prices? – Campaign Archive
10/25 Why you should still be skeptical about corporate earnings – Casey Research
10/25 Caterpillar retail sales decline for 46 consecutive months – Zero Hedge
10/24 Japan’s exports drop for 12th month in dismal year for trade – Bloomberg
10/24 Oil down as Iraq says no cuts – Reuters
10/24 Chicago Fed’s national index shows subdued inflation – MarketWatch
10/24 America, land of opportunity? Not for young people – McClatchy DC
10/24 Europe’s banks think they’re incredibly safe – Bloomberg
10/24 Two sets of solutions as the status quo crumbles – OfTwoMinds.com
Precious Metals
10/25 Gold & central bank confidence – 321Gold
10/25 Indian, Chinese love affairs with gold turn financial – GATA
10/25 As yuan sinks, Goldman sees rising gold demand in China – GATA
10/25 How one billionaire became a gold bug – Mish
10/25 Shanghai settles 96% of gold trades in physical metal – Gold Eagle
10/25 Gold price: Hedge funds abandoning market at record pace – Mining.com
10/25 Endeavor Silver’s high grade, silver-gold vein mineralization – Junior Mining Network
10/25 Imploding demographics, the ultimate central bank killer – Miles Franklin
10/25 If you are worried about the action in gold & silver – King World News
10/24 Marc Faber on why commodity prices will rise, oil to hit $70 soon – CNBC
10/24 For gold miners, a huge week ahead – Seeking Alpha
10/24 Gold: This is a dip, so buy it; do not sit on the fence – MunKnee
10/24 Gold green lights upleg – 24hGold
10/24 Gold, interest rates, & inflation and deflation – 24hGold
10/24 Koos Jansen: Austrian central bank conceals gold audit and bar list – GATA
10/24 Canadian gold miner’s $1.1B buy of Colorado’s Thompson Creek Metals – 9News
10/24 Gold and the USD: You’ve been warned – Investing
10/24 This new fund invests exclusively in physical silver bullion – MunKnee
10/23 Gold rallies while speculators sell – Seeking Alpha
10/23 GLD bleeds out; weekly gold update – Talk Markets
10/23 Will a rising US dollar crush gold’s fledgling bull? – Daily Gold
10/22 Gold miner Zijin stands out as overseas acquisition pioneer – SCMP
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
10/25 US dollar spikes to fresh 8-month highs as Dec rate hike odds top 70% – Zero Hedge
10/25 Offshore yuan trades near record low as PBOC seen allowing drop – Bloomberg
10/25 The eurozone is turning into a poverty machine – Telegraph
10/25 BOE optimism wilts in long-term debt as Brexit sparks rout – Bloomberg
10/25 German inflation could exceed 1% at year-end: Bundesbank – OANN
10/25 Will inflation end investors’ rush to long-term debt? – MSN
10/25 Lower bound for Swiss rates not reached yet: SNB’s Jordan – Reuters
10/24 Dollar breakout sends Chinese yuan to lowest on record – Zero Hedge
10/24 German push grows for Chinese investment curbs – Bloomberg
10/24 Brexit bulletin: bankers prepare for exodus from London – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
10/25 Case-Shiller home prices rise to 2006 record highs – Zero Hedge
10/24 Europe’s banks think they’re incredibly safe – Bloomberg
10/24 Fake divorce path to riches buying hot China real estate – Bloomberg
10/24 Ultra-wealthy still interested in buying real estate – CNBC
10/23 Chinese home prices surge most on record, ignore “cooling” measures – Zero Hedge
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
10/25 2016: The final season of the United States reality show – Anti Media
10/25 Clinton leads by 5 heading in to final two weeks – CNN
10/25 How democrats killed their populist soul – Atlantic
10/25 Slouching towards election day – Kunstler
10/25 Barclays warns ‘politics of rage’ will slow global growth – Bloomberg
10/25 Hillary Clinton increasingly pitches down-ballot Democrats – CBS News
10/25 On Nov. 9, let’s forget Donald Trump happened – Bloomberg
10/25 For republicans abandoning Donald Trump, Obama says, “too late” – New York Times
10/24 “Clinton foundation is corrupt, it’s a scandal” – Zero Hedge
10/24 Put Republican come-to-Jesus moment on the calendar for Nov. 9 – MarketWatch
10/24 Donald Trump is America – Al Jazeera
10/24 Hapless eurocrat Juncker faces no confidence vote in EU parliament – Express
10/24 Wikileaks provides status update on Julian Assange, US election – Zero Hedge
10/24 Hillary so far ahead in polls she ‘doesn’t think about’ Trump anymore – Telegraph
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
10/25 Two clashing visions of how America will power its cars, homes – Reuters
10/25 Recording on plan to confuse FL voters about solar amendment – Greentech Media
10/25 A look at Pegasus Solar’s PV mounting system – Greentech Media
10/25 Is SolarCity abandoning Silevo’s high-efficiency PV technology? – Greentech Media
10/25 Tesla’s self-driving car plan seems insane – Wired
10/25 GE Renewable Energy revenues up 66% in Q3 – Wind Power Monthly
10/24 Solar game is fast changing and cheaper to play – National
10/24 New process discovered to convert CO2 to ethanol – E-Catworld
10/24 End of gasoline powered autos by 2030? – Mish
Art of the Collapse
10/25 Trump and Clinton’s third debate gets mocked brilliantly by SNL – BGR
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
10/25 Islamic State claims attack on Pakistan police academy, 59 dead – Reuters
10/25 Prison contractors exposed for ensuring people jailed for marijuana – Activity Post
10/25 CIA Torture victims describe how mental scars never go away – ACLU
10/25 We’re not in a new Cold War – it’s far worse – The Real News
10/25 The elimination of reason – International Man
10/24 Terrorists have cheap new weapon that’s surprisingly simple to deploy – CNBC
10/24 NATO continues to prepare for war with Russia – Zero Hedge
10/24 Saudi Arabia ‘deliberately targeting impoverished Yemen’s farms’ – Independent
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
10/24 Video: Losses hurt more than gains help – Peak Prosperity
10/24 How LED lighting may compromise your health – Mercola
10/24 8 fall-blooming flowers friendly to bees, birds, and butterflies – Modern Farmer
10/21 This is what happens when you get rid of 75% of your stuff – MarketWatch
10/21 The top spots in the US to bug out – Survival Sullivan
10/21 Making your shelter visible – Survival Sullivan
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
10/25 How experts traced the DNC hack to Russian spies – Bloomberg
10/25 Inside the cyber attack that shocked the US government – Wired
10/25 Elegant physics (and some Linux) threaten Android phones – Wired
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
10/25 ‘Siri, catch market cheats’: Wall Street watchdogs turn to A.I. – Reuters
10/24 ‘Arrogant’ Bob Dylan angers Nobel authorities – CNBC
10/24 Male pill one step closer as scientists make ‘startling’ discovery – Telegraph
10/23 Geoengineering – First order insanity – Dr. Sircus
10/23 US support for legalizing marijuana hits all-time high – Zero Hedge
10/22 What Californians teach rest of country about policy change – LA Times
10/21 The sharing economy is creating a Dickensian world – MarketWatch
10/21 Tesla, rivals joust over how to put self-driving cars on the road – Reuters
10/20 Use of strongest antibiotics rises to record levels on European farms – Guardian
10/19 World’s mammals being eaten into extinction – Guardian
10/19 Big-data algorithms are manipulating us all – Wired
