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Best Of The Web
The sell-off is overdone. The correction may not be – Real Investment Advice
Betrayal, infuriating betrayal – Mike Whitney, Unz
The numbers are just monstrous – Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin
Cantillon effect 101 – Sahil Bloom
Revenge of the money launderers – Matt Taibbi
The Fed now owns over $2 trillion in mortgages, what else? – Mish
FinCEN files show criminals moved billions as banks watched – BuzzFeed
Fractional-reserve banking is the elephant in the room – Kelsey Williams
The war on populism: the final act – Consent Factory
Why trump will win – Automatic Earth
Value, margin of safety, & the art of doing nothing – Real Investment Advice
The bill for America’s $50 trillion gluttony of inequality is overdue – Charles Hugh Smith
BREAKING NEWS
The Economy
9/27 Florida drops all covid restrictions, promises no more closures – JTN
9/27 Shocking chart on low income consumers – Upfina
9/27 Will the great American migration from cities last? – Upfina
9/27 Less than 10% of Americans show signs of past coronavirus infection – CNBC
9/27 Covid-19 deaths near 1 million as outbreaks worsen in US, Europe – ZH
9/27 Covid-19 leads to massive labour income losses worldwide – ILO
9/27 The supply chain is broken and food shortages are here – Organic Prepper
9/27 In unprecedented reversal, Nasdaq shorts hit second highest ever – Zero Hedge
9/26 “The U.S. economy is a balloon in search of a needle” – part II – Claudio Grass
9/26 The path by which we got here – Great Recession
Precious Metals
9/27 Our strategy for gold and precious metals miners – buy the dip – SA
9/27 Gold stop-run below $1920 extends miner consolidation – Kitco
9/27 Former Deutsche Bank gold traders found guilty in spoofing trial – GATA
9/27 Short sellers make mixed bets on gold-mining stocks – 24/7 Wall St.
9/27 Invest in dividend paying gold stocks for best returns – Seeking Alpha
9/27 Jan Nieuwenhuijs: central banks are hoarding gold – Market Sanity
9/26 Junior miners: bullish advance decline line – 321Gold
9/26 Aurania Resources confirms extension of silver-gold target in Ecuador – JMN
9/26 Lousy week for monetary metals prompts Sprott to quote GATA secretary – GATA
9/25 Gold continues to struggle even as U.S. manufacturing disappoints – Kitco
9/25 Gold price will see tsunamic increase despite dips, says Frank Giustra – Stansberry
9/25 Opportunities in short term weakness in precious metals – GoldCore
9/25 Despite this week’s drop, silver’s bad luck is over – Kitco
9/25 Gold windfall heading for investors with miners vowing restraint – Yahoo!
9/25 Technical Traders: Gold positioned for a new leg up – Crush The Street
9/25 Low-cost gold miners are better protected during corrections – Casey Research
9/25 3 reasons why this gold correction could be the last below $2,000 – SA
9/25 Five pure-play siver miners with huge potential – Financial Survival
9/25 Russell Napier: I won’t buy bitcoin ahead of “history-proven” gold – CF
9/25 Jeff Clark: as silver crosses $50, what’s the price of First Majestic? – MS
Inflation, Deflation, Cryptos, Currency War
9/27 BofE official defends negative rates as recovery is ‘interrupted’ – GATA
9/27 China to release the world’s first national digital asset— here’s why – CE
9/27 MMT’s Stephanie Kelton meets the grifter of imperial France, John Law – GATA
9/27 Can bitcoin benefit from a currency feud? Maybe, here’s why – AMB Crypto
9/27 Crypto outdoes gold, emerges as the best performing asset in 2020 – CR
9/26 Alasdair Macleod: lessons on inflation from the past – GATA
9/25 Americans are hoarding trillions of dollars in cash before the Nov election – Yahoo!
9/25 Robert Kiyosaki talks a gold and bitcoin price crash – Market Sanity
9/24 Federal Reserve still looking for inflation. We found it – Birch Gold
9/24 How international banks pushed Venezuela to the brink of bankruptcy – OP
9/24 U.S. faces dollar crash, high double-dip recession odds: Stephen Roach – CNBC
9/24 The European Central Bank is being pushed to create more inflation – Forbes
9/24 Bullard: “Inflation could run hotter than expected…” Ya Think? – McAlvany
9/24 Russell Napier on ‘monetary pyrotechnics’ and coming age of inflation – FS
9/24 The currency cold war: four scenarios – Yahoo!
9/24 The U.S. could seize China’s Treasury holdings – Daily Reckoning
Real Estate Bubble
9/27 Salt Lake City home prices up nearly twice the national average – KSL News
9/27 Canadian home prices predicted to drop seven percent in 2021 – Straight
9/27 Orange County ranked 2nd least-affordable place to buy a home – OC Register
9/26 Here’s evidence that “the great property bust is underway” – Elliott Wave
9/25 Home prices up more than 14% during pandemic in Massassachusetts – WCVB
9/25 SoCal home prices jump 12% in August – LA Times
9/24 New home sales surge in August to levels not seen in 14 years – MarketWatch
9/24 Coronavirus pandemic fuels affordability crisis for homebuyers – CNBC
9/24 China developer Evergrande warns of liquidity crunch, spooking investors – Yahoo!
Politics
9/27 Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearing set to start Oct. 12 – NBC
9/27 I was wrong about the Democratic Party – Georgia H
9/27 Amy Coney Barrett is a brilliant and decent jurist – USA Today
9/27 This Supreme Court nomination is a testament to the values of feminism – Hill
9/27 In which we debunk a covidiot pamphlet – Moon of Alabama
9/27 Oregon governor declares emergency ahead of Proud Boys demonstration – YM
9/27 Academic appropriation? Biden claims attendance at a black college – Turley
9/27 Trump again calls for pre-debate ‘drug test’ of “sleepy Joe” – Zero Hedge
9/27 Republicans assert sense of inevitability on Barrett’s confirmation – Politico
9/27 Trump’s legacy is now the Supreme Court – Politico
9/27 What’s the difference between ‘villain’ Assange & ‘intrepid’ Woodward? – CP
9/27 How Biden quashed investigation of company paying son $80k/month – JTN
9/27 How a pledge to dismantle the Minneapolis police collapsed – NY Times
9/27 The virus sent droves to a small town. Suddenly, it’s not so small – NY Times
9/27 An easy way to solve the mail-in vote dilemma – Mish
9/27 When Biden calls a ‘lid,’ Democrats wet the bed – Politico
9/27 Trump says U.S. election winner might not be known for months – Reuters
9/27 Incompetence “r” us – Automatic Earth
9/27 John Legend threatens to ‘leave country’ if Trump reelected – Zero Hedge
9/27 Bank of America issues $2 billion bond to fight “race inequality” – Zero Hedge
9/27 Why are so many American voters politically homeless? – Zero Hedge
Clean Tech
9/27 Is lab-grown food the future? Cultured meat pros & cons – Food Revolution
9/25 Why 3 hydrogen fuel-cell stocks crashed today – Motley Fool
9/25 How covid-19 could change our relationship with meat – CS Monitor
9/24 Tesla’s stock skids 6% as promised ‘Battery Day’ innovations disappoint – MW
9/23 Plastic pollution: washed clothing’s synthetic mountain of ‘fluff’ – BBC
9/23 Neonicotinoids pose undocumented threats to food webs – PNAS
9/23 Elon Musk: Tesla deliveries to rise 30% to 40% in 2020 – CNBC
9/22 Tesla shares fall as Musk dampens Battery Day expectations – CNBC
9/22 How South Australia is dealing with rampant solar growth – Greentech Media
9/22 Can a novel zinc battery deliver clean multiday backup power? – Greentech Media
9/22 The age of electric cars is dawning ahead of schedule – NY Times
9/22 EU’s new 2030 climate target signals accelerated renewable deployment – GTM
9/22 The race is on to build the biggest batteries in Texas – Greentech Media
9/22 Hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles market may set new growth story – Chron
9/22 Nikola founder gets to keep $3.1 billion under separation deal – CNBC
9/21 Nikola founder Trevor Milton to step down as executive chairman – CNBC
9/21 Singapore’s food tech startups serve up lab-grown milk, ‘fake’ shrimp – CNBC
Art of the Collapse
9/27 Trump: I’ll only leave office if a challenger beats me in ritual combat – BB
9/25 Government & media ridicule – Burning Platform
9/23 NBA players wear special lace collars to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg – BB
9/23 What it’s like living in California now – AwakenWithJP
9/22 Trump fires giant pink glitter cannon to reveal gender of SCOTUS nominee – BB
9/21 I watched “Cuties” because you told me to – ShoeOnHead
9/21 All the reasons I wear my mask – Mind Stretch
9/18 The Shadowpunk Revolution: a sci-fi rock drama about invisibility – Dominic Frisby
9/18 Netflix’s The Social Dilemma sees people delete Facebook, Instagram – CNBC
9/18 ‘Riding the dragon’ documentary alleges Biden family China corruption – JTN
9/18 Pandemic hotline – AwakenWithJP
9/16 Big bang theory: how blowing up a transit van wiped out £1m of debt – Guardian
9/13 Academy strips ‘Schindler’s List’ of Oscar due to lack of diversity – Babylon Bee
9/13 Woodward withheld interview since ‘journalism hasn’t worked’ on Trump – Onion
9/13 DNC pours funding into NY, CA to win popular vote by even more than 2016 – Onion
War, Police State, Creeping Fascism, Civil Unrest, Privacy
9/27 CA driver plows through pro-Trump rally, charged with attempted murder – Yahoo
9/27 China is doubling down on its territorial claims across Asia – CNN
9/27 The Guardian’s deceit-riddled new statement on Julian Assange – JC
9/27 Avoiding a climate lockdown – Project Syndicate
9/27 Belarusian police use tear gas, stun grenades against protesters – Reuters
9/27 German prof arrested after speaking at “we do not consent” rally in London – ZH
9/27 Will a military coup undo the November elections and the Republic itself? – SC
9/27 Portland protests get underway as Proud boys gather for rally – NY Times
9/27 The war on Assange is a war on truth – Ron Paul
9/27 Governor declares state of emergency, activates Missouri National Guard – ET
9/27 Taiwan’s armed forces strain in undeclared war with China – Reuters
9/27 Congress to probe ‘gross misuse’ of $1 billion in covid Pentagon funding – CD
Self Reliance, Health, Survival
9/27 Why children are far less vulnerable to covid-19 than adults – ZH
9/27 Home fire-safe checklist – Peak Prosperity
9/27 Panama is still an obvious escape hatch – Sovereign Man
9/25 Best evidence yet that vitamin D reduces covid-19 risk – IFL Science
9/25 The Norwegian concept of open-air living could help us this winter – NG
9/25 Panama is still an obvious escape hatch – Sovereign Man
9/24 Mexico tackles covid-19 pandemic with junk food bans – Mercola
9/24 A personal letter to stressed out preppers who are tired of this apocalypse – OP
9/21 Zinc is key to HCQ protocol – Mercola
9/18 Vaping increases youths’ risk of covid-19 – Mercola
9/18 Gardening and integrity – Peak Prosperity
9/17 Study links Tylenol consumption with risk taking – Green Tech Media
9/16 Why you should eat two apples a day – GreenMedInfo
Cyber-war, Cyber-terrorism, Cyber-crime
8/07 Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry – Wired
8/05 Connected-car cyber-attacks have skyrocketed 99% in the past year – Zero Hedge
7/24 More than 1,000 at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts – Reuters
7/23 Chilling deepfake shows Nixon delivering different Apollo 11 speech – IFLS
7/23 How the Twitter hackers will (maybe) escape with their bitcoin loot – Fortune
7/23 Chinese consulate in Houston was hotspot for spying, say officials – CNBC
7/23 Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts – Reuters
Off-Topic
9/25 How much have lockdowns really let nature recover? – IFL Science
9/23 380 whales dead in worst mass stranding in Australia’s history – Guardian
9/19 Woman scripts – how to never feel frustrated with your man again – AwakenWithJP
9/19 The rise of molds – Vimeo
9/13 The world lost two-thirds of its wildlife in 50 years. We are to blame – NPR
9/12 Rise of ‘technosexuals’ – 14% of men are aroused by Amazon Alexa – ZH
9/12 When the otters vanished, everything else started to crumble – NY Times
9/12 These hummingbirds take extreme naps, may even hibernate – NY Times
9/12 How long until you fall in love with a robot? – NY Times
9/11 Insect Flight: capturing takeoff & flying at 3,200 FPS – Ant Lab
9/10 Wildlife in ‘catastrophic decline’ due to human destruction, scientists warn – BBC
9/10 Rooster and Dog in michigan play game of tag – Daily Mail
9/04 These black holes shouldn’t exist, but there they are – NY Times
9/03 Amazon tragedy repeats as Brazil rainforest goes up in smoke – Guardian
9/03 Tesla, FBI foil ‘serious’ Russian bitcoin ransomware attack – Forbes
9/03 Amazon tragedy repeats as Brazil rainforest goes up in smoke – Guardian