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Best Of The Web
The arrival of the “unavoidable pension crisis” – Real Investment Advice
Tina’s orgy: anything goes, winners take all – Charles Hugh Smith
The path to monetary collapse – GoldMoney
Coronavirus conspiracies, by Israel Shamir – Unz Review
What re-opening success or failure means for metals – Ahead of the Herd
The first city of capitalism: silver’s time to shine – Marin Katusa
The global forest fire is here – Egon von Greyerz
The pandemic gives us permission to get what we always wanted – CHS
NY Times describes the journalistic pathology of ‘resistance journalism’ – Greenwald
After the crisis, big business could get even bigger – American Prospect
The Fed enters monetary light speed – Real Investment Advice
Our fate is sealed, vaccines won’t matter as four long cycles align – Charles Hugh Smith
Surviving the intentional demolition of warning signs – Hussman Funds
Too big to fail: the entire private sector – NY Times
How many people die each day? – Visual Capitalist
US population, employment, debt, NIRP, monetization – Economica
5 reasons why gold miners have massive outperformance in the tank – KL
Aaron Mate on the Russiagate farce – Useful Idiots
Breaking News
The Economy
5/26 ‘Toxic’ Illinois budget relies on federal bailout that might not come – CS
5/26 Europe’s debt reckoning may mean tough choices on who to tax – JT
5/26 “If it’s in Zerohedge, central banks already have a plan to stop it” – ZH
5/26 Bank of America is wrong: we’ve all become preppers now – CCN
5/26 Mike Maloney: will you be able to get cash from banks in a crisis? – MS
5/26 America is dead and buried: Doug Casey – Market Sanity
5/26 Virginia reports record jump in new cases two weeks after reopening – ZH
5/26 “Designed to infect humans”: covid-19 ‘cell culture’ theory gains steam – ZH
5/26 500 doctors write to Trump warning lockdown will cause more deaths – Summit
5/26 Hedge fund CIO: “Future prosperity has been pulled to the present” – ZH
5/25 German optimism fuels stock gains, euro investors eye EU summit – Reuters
5/25 GM’s pickup production derailed by lack of parts, extending layoffs – FP
5/25 China unveils US$500 bil fiscal stimulus, refrains from going all-in – SCMP
5/25 Japan eyes stimulus plan worth over $929b to battle pandemic – TRT World
5/25 Coronavirus forces 100k NY small businesses to close permanently – Yahoo
5/25 How Russia’s coronavirus crisis got so bad – Politico
5/25 More patients than beds in Mumbai as India faces surge in virus – Reuters
5/25 Big Pharma rejected EU plan to fast-track vaccines in 2017 – Guardian
5/25 Cvid-19 spreads into parts of Brazil without ICUs or clean water – Bloomberg
5/25 Rabobank: “We may be just weeks away from the levee breaking” – ZH
5/25 Post-covid capitalism… – Adventures in Capitalism
5/25 “Only a matter of time before developing-market stocks unravel” – Zero Hedge
5/25 Hedge funds have never been more concentrated into the same stocks – ZH
5/25 Brazil is the new covid-19 epicenter – The Street
5/25 Unemployment rate signals a Dow Jones crash to this level – SRSrocco
Precious Metals
5/26 Greyerz – Jim Sinclair $87,000 gold and China’s 20,000 tonnes of gold – KWN
5/26 Gold is soaring in price. Here’s why I’d still buy more for my ISA – Yahoo
5/26 Bill Fleckenstein: Inflation and gold headed up, stocks headed down – KWN
5/26 Will silver prove a better investment than gold this summer? – National
5/26 Gold juniors in top gear as they ride the hottest mining game in town – SC
5/26 Cats and dogs living together! Kitco admits gold market manipulation – GATA
5/26 Investors should stay on the sidelines with gold – Casey Research
5/26 JPMorgan: Surging gold a sign of eroding confidence in fiat currencies – ZH
5/25 Yes, this is a gold bull market – Bullion Vault
5/25 Own gold as government and central banks erase downside risk – Kitco
5/25 Hecla Mining breaks into new 52-week high on May 22 – Equities
5/25 Mid-tier gold miners in a sweet spot – Bull Australia
5/25 China has more official gold than U.S., Von Greyerz tells KWN – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
5/26 Peter Schiff: You need to vaccinate your portfolio against inflation – SA
5/26 What the birth of crypto can predict for the post-covid-19 world – CT
5/26 Peter Schiff goes after BTC… again – Live Bitcoin News
5/26 Goldman’s anti-crypto CIO is speaker in bitcoin conference – Cryptopolitan
5/25 China lowers yuan midpoint to weakest since Great Recession – Reuters
5/25 Euro steadies in a big week for Europe’s policymakers – Reuters
5/25 Mexican exports plunge most on record despite historic peso rout – Zero Hedge
5/25 Why isn’t the dollar collapsing given trillions in printing? – The Street
5/25 US: Inflationary pressures are highly unlikely – Global Risk Insights
5/25 Inflation risks are flaring. Protect yourself! – Fool
5/25 Goldman Sachs woos investors on bitcoin, gold and inflation – Naija247
5/25 Stark bitcoin warning issued as crash fears resurface – Forbes
Real Estate Bubble
5/26 Virginia’s April housing market exceeds expectations amid covid-19 – NBC12
5/26 Ease or plummet: that’s the key question for NZ house prices – News Hub
5/26 What is going on in the US housing market? – Brink
5/26 Canadian house prices have declined by 10% – Property Wire
5/25 Home sales plunge to 9-year low, mortgage delinquencies to soar – Bitcoin
5/25 Home price head-fake as home sales plunge, condo sales collapse – Wolf Street
5/25 Most ingredients are in place for a property crash later this year – Guardian
5/25 Historical data shows housing, bitcoin will boom after the crisis – Forbes
5/25 Can builders save SoCal housing from a coronavirus tumble? – SBSUN
5/25 This chart shows how America’s malls depend on struggling retailers – CNBC
Politics
5/26 What the coronavirus revealed about life in red vs. blue states – NY Times
5/26 Joe Rogan is the new mainstream media – NY Times
5/26 Charlamagne Tha God says Biden could bring ‘voter depression’ – Federalist
5/26 How did masks become this political dividing line? – The Street
5/26 Ron Paul says coronavirus lockdowns are a ‘scandal’ – Inquisitor
5/26 Mexican border city tightens checks on US visitors – KVOA
5/25 Biden should be named in criminal probe in Ukraine, judge rules – CN
5/25 Trump has won the propaganda war with China – Strategic Culture
5/25 Michael Flynn and the presumption of guilt – NY Times
5/25 We want to know the future of the coronavirus. Too bad – NY Times
5/25 The end of the new world order – NY Times
5/25 Trump plans $1M ad blitz after Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ stumble – Politico
5/25 Biden tells black people “you ain’t black” – YouTube
5/25 Trump declares churches ‘essential,’ calls on them to reopen – AP
5/25 Trump will “cheat” to win election, Michael Moore predicts – Deadline
5/25 Farage and Soros warn Italexit will follow Brexit – Express
5/25 Global anger builds as elites worldwide break quarantine rules – Zero Hedge
Clean Tech
5/25 3D printing in ‘valley of despair,’ but may have a catalyst – CNBC
5/23 Carbon emissions dropped 17 percent globally amid coronavirus – NBC News
5/23 Renewable energy sources outproduce coal for 40 straight days – Newsweek
5/23 Europe set to unveil its $500 billion ‘green deal’ – Oil Price
5/22 Accelerating the cultured meat revolution – New Scientist
5/22 The coronavirus and a world without meat – NY Times
5/20 Carbon emissions down nearly 20% since lockdowns began – JTN
5/19 Onshore wind compromise averts German solar market crisis – Greentech Media
5/19 Wind and solar: the race between falling costs and declining revenue – GTM
5/19 Hawaiian Electric ignites solar-storage bonanza – GTM
5/18 Chinese EV makers risk running out of road amid virus-stricken times – AN
5/18 Turkey plans 1 GW solar tender before October – PV Magazine
5/18 Solar as the beating heart of the energy transition – Solar Plaza
5/17 Sergey Young: will technology save us? – Peak Prosperity
5/17 Can lab-grown meat save the planet — and dinner? – EE News
Art of the Collapse
5/22 How to get rich during the quarantine – Awaken with JP
5/15 Baby Trump! – YouTube
5/10 What it’s like to believe everything the media tells you – AwakenWithJP
5/07 China lays off popaganda team as US media doing their job for them – BB
5/05 Explaining the pandemic to my past self – Julie Nolke
5/05 Quarantine panic attack – Julie Nolke
5/01 The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics – Politico
4/29 Michael Moore presents: Planet of the Humans full documentary – YouTube
4/20 Pandemic playlist: songs for crisis – Psychology Today
4/20 Adam Sandler debuts his quarantine song – YouTube
4/20 Coronavirus: best songs for your social distancing soundtrack – USA Today
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
5/25 Turkey threatens another migrant crisis with Greece after coronavirus – GCT
5/25 China threatens action if U.S. intervenes in Hong Kong – Reuters
5/25 Former HK governor: China’s aggression should be on G7 agenda – Reuters
5/25 U.S. likely to impose sanctions against China over Hong Kong law – CNBC
5/25 Iranian fuel tanker reaches Venezuela without US interference – Guardian
5/24 Thousands protest Chinese security law in Hong Kong – Reuters
5/24 Why China’s move to rein in Hong Kong is just the start – NY Times
5/23 What does winning mean in a forever war? – Pat Buchanan
5/23 Hong Kong braces for rallies; police issue warning – Yahoo
5/23 British health officials: coronavirus vaccine could be mandatory – Summit
5/23 Covid-19 has replaced Bin Laden as the fall guy for lost liberties – SC
5/22 Migrants riot for fourth consecutive night in Paris – Summit News
Self Reliance, Health, Survival
5/23 Inside ultra-luxurious disaster survival kits; £4k night vision goggles – BW
5/23 How to start prepping in a single afternoon – Survival Sullivan
5/17 Bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus – RGB
5/17 “Everybody is a believer” – covid sparks apocalypse bunker boom – Zero Hedge
5/17 Study: vitamin D deficiency may be linked to covid-19 mortality – Yahoo!
5/16 Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for covid-19 – Mercola
5/16 Heavy cannabis use linked to genetic changes – IFL Science
5/16 How retirees can protect themselves against inflation – Forbes
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
5/22 China’s cyber war against America – Gatestone Institute
5/22 All’s fair in cyberwar: 6 things to know for May 20 – Times of Israel
5/21 How we deal with a cyberwar crisis – RUHR
5/12 This cyberthreat could derail race to develop a coronavirus vaccine – CNBC
5/11 Hackers attack WHO by posing as think tank and broadcaster – IOL
5/07 Adult cam site Cam4 exposed 10.88 billion records online – Wired
4/26 As the west fights coronavirus, its enemies wage cyberwar – Bloomberg
4/23 SBA reports data breach in disaster loan application website – AP
4/18 FBI official says foreign hackers targeting covid-19 research – VOA News
4/08 Let’s make this simple: Zoom is malware – Zero Hedge
4/05 Information warfare: biggest botnet takedown ever – Strategy Page
4/04 Marriott discloses data breach possibly affecting over 5 million customers – CNN
Off-Topic
5/23 Silence is golden for whales as lockdown reduces ocean noise – Guardian
5/21 Wildlife thrives in closed US national parks – Guardian
5/20 Dating after coronavirus – NY Times
5/17 Meet the woman who helped 600 women murder their husbands – Medium
5/15 USGS reports magnitude-6.4 earthquake in western Nevada – CNBC
5/13 Giant Asian gypsy moth threatens trees in Washington – UPI
5/11 U.S. marriage rate hits historic low – US News
5/10 It’s already too hot and humid in some places for humans to survive – Verge
5/09 A black hole is ‘almost on our doorstep’ – Atlantic
5/07 Watch: massive inferno engulfs another UAE skyscraper – Zero Hedge
5/07 NZ zoo first in 20 years to hatch goliath bird-eating tarantulas – IFLS
5/07 Record heat in the West, record cold in the East – CNN
5/07 Scientists discover antibody that stops covid from infecting cells – IFLS