Burning Platform: From American dream to American nightmare … CNBC: Small business closures tick back toward covid pandemic highs … Mish: The middle class shrinks globally for the first time in nearly three decades … Charles Hugh Smith: Is a cultural revolution brewing in America? … Birch Gold: Gold to rise to $2,000 on low rates, weak dollar …
Best Of The Web
Archegos & Credit Suisse – tip of the iceberg – Gold Switzerland
From American dream to American nightmare – Burning Platform
Journey to the end of San Pedro Bay – Economic Prism
The global debt problem – GoldMoney
Is a cultural revolution brewing in America? – Charles Hugh Smith
Keeping the dance party rolling – Credit Bubble Bulletin
‘A small, sanitised existence’: How will the pandemic effect today’s babies? – Guardian
Keeping us masked forever? The Davos set’s dystopian ambitions are very clear – RT
Archegos: snowflake that triggers the avalanche? – Jim Rickards
Gold’s singular role – Kelsey Williams
Disorder will come – as Confucius warned – Egon von Greyerz
Survey of retail investors shows the blind lead the blind – Real Investment Advice
Archegos and Ponzi finance – Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin
When central bankers take credit for “solving” crises they created – Mark E. Jeftovic
The world’s billionaires are going absolutely bunkers – Jessica Wildfire
Breaking News
The Economy
4/12 Small business closures tick back toward covid pandemic highs – CNBC
4/12 The number of billionaires has absolutely exploded during the pandemic – TMIN
4/12 Powell says it’s ‘highly unlikely’ the Fed will raise rates this year – CNBC
4/12 Fed changes FOI rules right before audit & admits inflation risks rising – MI
4/12 This could be the hottest summer ever — for freight – Freight Waves
4/12 The middle class shrinks globally for the first time in nearly three decades – Mish
4/12 We’re in uncharted territory – Peak Prosperity
4/11 China’s antitrust crackdown on behemoths widens – Reuters
4/11 Firms are showering employees with gifts to avoid a “retention crisis” – ZH
4/11 Janet Yellen is serious, and that’s really sad – AIER
4/11 German govt plans new harsh covid-19 restrictions in draft law – RT
4/11 South African variant can ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine, study says – Reuters
4/11 DMX was given covid vaccine days before lethal heart attack – NOQ Report
4/11 Over 1 million Brits are reportedly suffering from “long covid” – Zero Hedge
Precious Metals
4/12 Gold miners bottom & 3 ways to add value – Daily Gold
4/12 Gold to rise to $2,000 on low rates, weak dollar – Birch Gold
4/12 Introducing “the Jimmy” and where gold is headed next – Katusa Research
4/12 Think silver will rally back to $30? These 2 stocks could be big winners – TM
4/11 Gold miners: the upside breakouts begin – 321Gold
4/11 This could push gold price to $1,800 next week – Kitco
4/11 The four horsemen of the gold price apocalypse – Lobo Tiggre
4/11 Should you be buying up real assets? Precious metals ‘appear cheap’ – Kitco
Inflation, Deflation, Cryptos, Currency War
4/12 Expect inflation to accelerate? 8 reasons to expect decelerating inflation – Mish
4/12 Largest increase in margin debt since 2007 fuels stock market – Mish
4/12 Is the Fed hiding something? Money supply data just got discontinued – Steve Hanke
4/12 Goldman: The Fed wants higher inflation, and it will get it – Zero Hedge
4/12 The next big thing in NFTs: breaking them apart – Dercypt
4/11 Purchasing power of the U.S. dollar over time – Visual Capitalist
4/11 “You’d have to shut down the internet” to ban bitcoin, says SEC – CS
4/11 Cryptos: scarcity cred – Professor Galloway
4/11 Watch U.S. inflation for hidden price momentum – Yahoo
4/11 Rising debt means a weaker dollar – Stefan Gleason Blog
4/10 Fast money: M2 velocity and US inflation – Datatrek
4/10 Section 230 isn’t the problem, payment networks are – Mad at the Internet
4/10 A rising dollar sinks all boats – Tom Luongo
Real Estate Bubble
4/12 Manhattan bargain hunters scoop up apartments in discount frenzy – Zero Hedge
4/10 US homes “snatched up right away” as market drained of supply – Zero Hedge
4/09 Mall vacancy rate hits another record high – Retail Drive
4/09 Bubble, bubble, but limited housing trouble… for now – Zero Hedge
4/09 Spokane County’s median home price soars to $341,750 in March – Spokesman
4/09 Another month, another record for home prices in Colorado Springs – Gazette
4/08 How long will home price growth last, as Californians flock to the desert – Mansion
4/08 Las Vegas home prices rise again, to another all-time high – Vegas Inc.
Politics
4/12 Biden’s latest scheme to fix border crisis: paying illegals to stay home – AT
4/12 The funniest Russia-gate headlines of all time (video) – Jimmy Dore
4/12 Charles Barkley stuns with truth about how politicians profit off division (video) – Hill
4/11 Frederick Forsyth: UK govt has launched “campaign of mass fear” – Summit
4/11 Republicans deflated as nation shrugs at Hunter Biden revelations – Guardian
4/11 Conservative filmmakers start to fight back – Real Clear Investigations
4/10 Canada to censor political taunts, implement Internet kill switch – Bomb Thrower
4/10 Nearly 40% of marines have rejected coronavirus vaccine – RT
4/10 Teenage mutant ninja virus – Automatic Earth
4/10 Will America survive Joe Biden? – James Howard Kunstler
4/10 Jimmy Kimmel joins the Hunter Biden reclamation project – Turley
4/10 Frederick Forsyth: Gov’t launches “campaign of mass fear” against public – Summit
4/10 Daily Mail exposes Hunter Biden bombshells after ‘tell-all’ book holds back – ZH
4/10 Woke prayer book: “dear God, please help me to hate white people.” – SM
4/10 Biden’s border czar abruptly quits despite ‘no crisis’ – Zero Hedge
4/10 The two faces of Joe Biden – Matt Taibbi
4/10 Spotify continues removing some Joe Rogan experience episodes – ZH
4/10 Anti-war activist visited by police after posting embarrassing AOC video – GZ
Clean Tech
4/12 Bill Gates backs project to ‘dim the sun’, Tucker Carlson reacts – Fox
4/10 Japan: dumping Fukushima radioactive water in Pacific is “unavoidable” – TMU
4/10 Hydrogen – the future of energy and medicine – Dr. Sircus
4/10 Electric Silverado joins GM’s EV lineup – Market Crumbs
4/08 Beyond Meat opens its first factory in China – NY Post
4/08 Alt-meat company Mission Barns raises funding for “kosher bacon” – Fortune
4/08 Eat Just’s Josh Tetrick on what it will take to normalize cultured meat – Spoon
4/07 Israel is a fake meat powerhouse – Wired
4/06 Global net zero climate change targets are ‘pie in the sky’ – Mish
4/06 South Korea’s LG abandons smartphones in favor of EVs – Zero Hedge
4/05 Here’s all the climate science you missed so far this year – Yahoo
4/05 Tesla shares jump after first-quarter sales surge – CNBC
4/05 GM unveils electric Hummer SUV topping $110,000 – CNBC
4/05 Did Elon Musk lie about model S/X January production? – Zero Hedge
4/04 Florida reservoir full of “radioactive wastewater” could collapse “at any time” – CBS
Art of the Collapse
4/12 New rule: the Debbies (video) – Real Time With Bill Maher
4/12 Why they moved the All Star Game to Colorado (video) – AwakenWithJP
4/09 Explaining the pandemic to my past self – 1 year later – Julie Nolke
4/08 Scenes from 2030 – OffGuardian
4/06 Why the Georgia voter ID law is horrific – AwakenWithJP
4/01 Biden passes Alzheimer’s test with flying colors, silencing doubters – Caitlin Johnstone
4/01 Meet the comedian behind the fake Amazon worker who trolled Twitter – DD
3/29 15-year-old boys’ soccer team demands equal pay – Babylon Bee
3/29 Key takeaways from the Capitol security review – The Onion
3/29 The vaccine works great! – Dave Collum
3/18 Anti-mask flashmob – Gare du Nord – Piaf Edit
3/18 Woman who thought being a princess was too hard wants to run for president – BB
3/17 Fun with numbers: “infinity” – Tom Nicholson
3/16 New rule: losing to China – Bill Maher
3/15 Welcome to the ‘upside-down’ – WhatsHerFace
War, Police State, Creeping Fascism, Civil Unrest, Privacy
4/12 Portland ICE building burns amid night of violent protests – NY Post
4/12 Iran nuclear incident at Natanz facility a ‘terrorist action’ – MSN
4/12 China blasts US military interventions in human rights report – Antiwar
4/12 Social unrest erupts after police killing of man in Minnesota – Zero Hedge
4/12 Media concern trolling about Afghanistan withdrawal again – CJ
4/11 History of the espionage act and how it ensnared Julian Assange – CN
4/11 Escobar: Ukraine redux – war, Russophobia, & pipelineistan – Zero Hedge
4/11 How Bellingcat launders national security state talking points into the press – MP
4/10 Kissinger: Seek new global system or face a pre-WWII geopolitical situation – GR
4/10 What is behind the violence in northern Ireland? – BBC
4/10 Infrastructure bills don’t lead to recovery, only increased federal control – Birch
4/09 Taiwan reports 11 Chinese aircraft in defense zone – Reuters
4/09 Taiwan threatens to shoot down China drones as PLA holds drills around island – IBT
4/09 Iran ship said to be Red Sea troop base off Yemen attacked – ABC
4/09 US delivers military cargo to Ukraine as it hypes Russian military movements – Antiwar
4/09 Details of sweeping effort to counter China emerge in U.S. Senate – Reuters
Self Reliance, Health, Survival
4/12 To live longer, healthier, and happier be more like a tortoise – Mish
4/10 Why most people are deficient in minerals – Mercola
4/10 A&E ‘swamped’ with patients seeking help for mild covid jab side-effects – Guardian
4/07 Masks are a ticking time bomb – Mercola
4/07 7 downsides of living on a Mexican beach for $1,200 a month – CNBC
4/05 Study suggests high vitamin D levels may protect against covid-19 – U Chicago
4/05 Covid is a vitamin D deficiency pandemic – Dr. Sircus
4/04 Is this the most effective weapon against viral infections? – Mercola
4/03 Viagra may also lengthen a man’s lifespan, Swedish study finds – Zero Hedge
4/03 Trump was right: Sunlight destroys covid 8x faster than scientists believed – ZH
4/02 ‘Quadruple therapy with ivermectin is effective in treating covid-19’ – Hindu
4/01 Surviving burnout – Peak Prosperity
Cyber-war, Cyber-terrorism, Cyber-crime
4/10 Is 2021’s fictional cyberattack simulation prepping us for cyber pandemic? – OP
4/04 Facebook data on millions of users leaked online in latest breach – DW
3/29 Biden team boosts effort to shield power grid from cyber threats – Yahoo
3/29 Google exposes counter-terror hacking op by ‘friendly’ government – RT
3/25 NSA: Recent cyber attacks show increased nation state activity – BW
3/22 Square’s cash app vulnerable to hackers, customers claim – Yahoo!
3/22 Americans are losing billions due to Internet crime – Zero Hedge
3/18 Why America will never be safe from cyberattacks – Yahoo!
3/14 China’s dangerous step toward cyber war – Diplomat
3/14 China steps up cyber-attacks after Pangong Lake – Money Central
Off-Topic
4/10 “Lost golden city” rises from the Egyptian sand – Zero Hedge
4/09 Fermilab results: something strange is happening to reality – IE
4/08 Humans were apex predators for two million years – PhysOrg
4/05 AI-powered backpack for blind people to replace guide dogs – Zero Hedge
4/05 NASA’s Marscopter to attempt first powered flight in Martian atmosphere – RW
4/04 Giant pieces of ancient alien planet may be lodged under earth’s surface – JTN
4/04 The enduring terror of violent crime victimhood – Glenn Greenwald
4/02 How a new digital archive preserves—and protects—indigenous folk medicine – SM
4/02 Analytical tool reveals massive DNA damage caused by Crispr/cas9 gene editing – GMW
3/30 SpaceX launches Starship SN11 but crashes on landing attempt – CNBC
3/28 Elon Musk’s brother starts ‘million garden movement’ – Good News Network
3/28 LA becomes ‘no-kill’ city as animal shelters achieve 90% save rate – SS
3/28 The American bald eagle population has quadrupled since 2009 – Sunny Skyz
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