“An economic recovery based around high debt is really no recovery” … Charles Hugh Smith: The next financial crisis is right on schedule (2019) … Michael Moore predicts ‘evil genius’ Trump will be a two-term president … Tesla share plunge on news of criminal investigation of Musk’s tweets … Gold and silver open the week higher, as Casey Research predicts “commodities boom for the ages.”
Best Of The Web
The world diverges from the US – Lance Roberts, Real Investment Advice
What Putin really wants – Atlantic
The beginning of the end of the dollar – AheadOfTheHerd
What keeps them up at night? – Burning Platform
$250 trillion in debt: the world’s post-Lehman legacy – Bloomberg
Bad money – Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity
Ten years after the crash, we’ve learned nothing – Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
The submerging global economy – Egon von Greyez
Edgy investors are retreating from risky economies – New York Times
The ritual burial of the US Constitution – Automatic Earth
US dollar and gold: Is this time different? – USA Gold
The next money catastrophe starts here—take these three steps today – Casey
Breaking News
The Economy
9/18 An economic recovery based around high debt is really no recovery – Guardian
9/18 The $20 trillion elephant in the room – David Stockman
9/18 The Committee to Destroy the World: the Federal Reserve – Gold Telegraph
9/18 The risk of derivatives isn’t gone. It’s merely morphed – Bloomberg
9/18 China implements $60 billion in tariffs on the US effective Sept. 24 – CNBC
9/18 Wealthy Americans may be warning of the stock market collapse to come – MW
9/18 Milken fires investment grade bond warning – AFR
9/18 The next financial crisis is right on schedule (2019) – Charles Hugh Smith
9/18 China’s debt bomb – Bloomberg
9/18 Trump unwisely escalates trade war: expect a “rare earth” response from China – Mish
9/17 China’s stocks drop to lowest level in nearly four years – Bloomberg
9/17 U.S. 10-year yield hits highest in four months – Reuters
9/17 China “won’t just play defense” in a trade war with the US – CNBC
9/17 Repo 105 – Epsilon Theory
9/17 At least 17 are dead from Florence and the worst flooding is yet to come – CNBC
Precious Metals
9/18 Silver Is ‘Undervalued’ Relative to Stocks, Bonds, Gold – Goldcore
9/18 Which precious metals are better investments during a market crash? – SRSRocco
9/18 Ted Butler: Is the COT report still valid? – GATA
9/17 Gold mining stocks: top 3 junior take-over candidates – Kitco
9/17 Gold vs. bitcoin: clarifying the energy debate – Crypto Slate
9/17 U.S. dollar rally weakens gold price outlook – Seeking Alpha
9/17 A gold price forecast for 2019 – Investing Maven
9/17 Silver bear scaring investors away right at a major bottom – Investing Maven
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
9/17 World’s richest economies enjoy biggest pay raise in a decade – Bloomberg
9/17 Turkish lira slides as Isbank fallout dilutes rate-hike support – Bloomberg
9/15 The dollar is central to the next crisis – GoldMoney
9/15 ICOs ‘in a lot of trouble’ if bitcoin stays below 10K – Bitcoinist
9/15 Import prices unexpectedly drop 0.6%, most in 18 months – Mish
9/15 Russia pivots to rate increases after first hike since 2014 – Bloomberg
9/15 Why are there still no bitcoin ETFs? – Fool
9/14 IMF’s $3 billion tranche to Argentina on hold as talks go on – Reuters
9/13 ECB stays on course to curb stimulus even as growth risks rise – Reuters
Real Estate Bubble
9/18 Mortgage lenders may again lower standards as applications drop, Citi says – MW
9/17 What can cause the next mortgage crisis in the US? – Wolf Street
9/17 We’re all to blame for Australia’s looming housing market crash – 9 News
9/14 Manhattan landlords sacrifice higher rents to fill apartments – Bloomberg
9/14 Seattle home prices soared by 100 percent over past six years – Komo News
9/14 Home values 8% above bubble peak – Builder Online
9/13 August rents rose in 89% of top 252 cities: fastest pace in 18 months – Talk Markets
9/13 3 reasons to worry about the housing market – CBS
Politics
9/18 Trump is ‘a symptom and not the cause’ of the trade war with China – CNBC
9/18 Trump orders more Russia-related probe documents to be declassified – Reuters
9/18 Netherlands prosecutes citizen for calling Turkish dictator a “goat f*cker” – SM
9/18 “Resist everything”: Socialist within State Dept in Veritas “Deep State” sting – ZH
9/18 Historical nonsense underpins UK’s Brexit floundering – Irish Times
9/18 D.C. swamp still reeling from Hurricane Donald – Washington Times
9/18 Michael Moore believes ‘evil genius’ Trump will be a two-term president – CNN
9/18 Political hit job: Kavanaugh’s mother ruled against accuser’s parents – Mish
Offshore Investing
7/27 Where should I go? – Strategic Wealth
7/27 Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names – Guardian
Clean Tech
9/18 Tesla’s stock tanks after reports of an SEC criminal investigation – Quartz
9/18 Utility solar booms as the residential market stabilizes in Q2 2018 – GTM
9/18 ‘World’s first’ hydrogen-powered train enters into service – CNBC
9/18 Transition time: Volkswagen announces “electric for all” campaign – Mish
9/17 Musk says “sorry”: production hell morphs into delivery hell – Mish
9/17 Tesla dips after Saudi wealth fund invests $1 billion in competitor Lucid Motors – CNBC
9/17 Europe’s meat and dairy production must halve by 2050, expert warns – Guardian
9/16 California just signed the world’s most aggressive climate bill – Oil Price
Art of the Collapse
9/13 This micro-horror film sums up your experience with bitcoin – Fast Company
9/11 Who killed Lehman Bros? – Last Week Tonight
8/30 Group therapy for the overly woke – The Bull and the Bear
8/30 Net worth – Chris Eaton
8/25 Fake news keeps missing the target – Ben Garrison
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
9/18 US spies on journalists using foreign intel services – Intercept
9/18 Syria hit by missiles just hours after Russia, Turkey make deal – NW
9/17 Bill Browder strikes back in Europe – Tom Luongo
9/17 ‘Deadly Exchange’ criticizes Israel’s role in militarizing US law enforcement – Telesur
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Health, Survival
9/17 Preventing muscle loss as we age – New York Times
9/17 Preharvest use of Glyphosate poisons kids’ food – Mercola
9/17 Should the elderly attempt to bug out? – Survival Sullivan
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
9/17 With a stroke of a pen the U.S. brings cyberwarfare closer to home – Int’l Policy
9/07 North Korean hackers facing charges for Sony hack, Wannacry ransomware – CNBC
8/28 China hacked Clinton’s private email server – Zero Hedge
Off-Topic
9/18 Gold miner finds 50,000-year-old puppy mummified in permafrost – Pickle
9/17 Seven endangered species that could (almost) fit in a single train carriage – Guardian
9/17 A new robotic fly dips and dives like the real thing – Wired
9/17 New Mexico observatory closed for security reasons to reopen – USNews
9/16 On waste plastics at sea, she finds unique microbial multitudes – Quanta
9/16 Will global warming sink the Netherlands? – Armstrong Economics
9/15 NM solar observatory has been evacuated. Not even the guards know why. – CT