Populists sweeping EU elections, Le Pen beats Macron in France … Wolf Street: Lousy durable goods data sink GDP forecasts for Q2 … World faces ‘clear and present danger’ from trade war escalation … Rob Arnott: U.S. is the most expensive stock market in the world … Gold and silver down on trade tensions, weak seasonal demand; “Without gold the wealthy will be wiped out” …
Best Of The Web
The ignore them, then panic dynamic – Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin
Pain is inevitable; but suffering is optional – Adam Taggart, Peak Prosperity
Assange smearers finally realize his fate is tied to theirs – Medium
Political media is a hucksters’ paradise – Rolling Stone
The golem strikes back – James Howard Kunstler
Ghost chart – NorthmanTrader
Regime change for the Fed — honest rates – NY Sun
As Europe keeps falling, the implications for Europe and everyone else – Alhambra Partners
Breaking News
The Economy
5/26 Lousy durable goods data sink GDP forecasts for Q2 – Wolf Street
5/26 Is this the first recession warning? – Upfina
5/26 U.S. banks are terrified of Chinese payment apps – Bloomberg Video
5/26 The bulls continue to bet on the Fed – Investing
5/26 President Trump opens state visit to Japan by talking trade – Time
5/26 World faces ‘clear and present danger’ from trade war escalation – Reuters
5/26 You know things are falling when.. – Great Recession
5/26 Corporations leverage Fed’s rate pause to lock-in lower rates on junk debt – Birch
5/26 Rob Arnott: U.S. most expensive stock market in the world – Financial Sense
5/26 It begins: For the first time ever, China takes over an insolvent bank – Zero Hedge
5/26 JP Morgan slashes second-quarter GDP forecast to just 1% – CNBC
5/25 How tech unicorns are just like China’s “ghost cities” – Real Investment Advice
5/25 Stocks suffer worst streak in 8 years as trade tempest sparks rates rout – ZH
5/25 The lubricant is not working anymore – World Out Of Whack
5/25 After helping Oxy maker ‘turbocharge’ sales, McKinsey cuts ties with Purdue – ZH
5/25 Mexican economy shrinks in first quarter, economists downgrade outlook – Reuters
5/25 Rural America is on the verge of collapse – Zero Hedge
Precious Metals
5/25 Global currencies sinking – gold to emerge as savior – Birch Gold
5/25 The gold standard did not create the Great Depression; the Fed did! – Libertraian
5/25 Once again, gold and silver go up when most everything goes down – SRSrocco
5/25 Without gold the wealthy will be wiped out – Matterhorn
5/25 Eric Sprott discusses this week’s economic news and precious metals – Market Sanity
5/25 Russian Central Bank looking into gold-backed cryptocurrency – Kitco
5/25 What it will take for gold prices to hit highs – Kitco
5/25 Gold stocks: key moving averages in play – 321Gold
5/24 Does Ray Dalio really not know better than to invest in GLD? – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
5/26 Bitcoin vs ethereum vs litecoin – Yahoo!
5/26 Great crypto expectations: 20 crypto jokes – Crypto News
5/26 Bitcoin cash miners undo attacker’s transactions with ‘51% attack’ – Coindesk
5/26 The CPI is underrepresenting food inflation by 40%: here’s The proof – Zero Hedge
5/26 Congressman wants to ban bitcoin because it threatens the Federal Reserve – SM
5/26 ‘Bitcoin will disappear,’ Craig Wright rants in blistering ‘Satoshi’ manifesto – CCN
5/25 US is considering duties on countries that undervalue their currencies – CNBC
5/25 Schiff: Russians buying gold to prepare for the impending dollar crisis – SA
5/25 The world is growing tired of government-controlled fiat currencies – Mises Institute
5/24 Bitcoin: institutions are all over it – Forbes
Real Estate Bubble
5/26 With higher home prices in Seattle, homebuyers are migrating south – Komo
5/25 Median price of a San Francisco home finally drops amid IPOs – Curbed
5/25 Manhattan home prices fall most since 2010 – Bloomberg
5/24 Bankers stunned as negative rates sweep across Danish mortgages – Bloomberg
5/24 China trade war leads to lower mortgage rates for Americans – CNBC
5/24 No inflation? Google buys Manhattan building for 100 times 1996 price – GATA
5/24 Are ‘iBuyers’ propping up the US housing market? – Zero Hedge
Politics
5/26 Le Pen beats Macron in France as nationalists gain in EU vote – Yahoo
5/26 Centrist parties slip in EU elections; turnout up for first time – Idaho
5/26 Europeans vote in bigger numbers to set EU course – Reuters
5/26 Global elites started the Russia nonsense. – Human Events
5/26 Nigel Farage’s real target is Britain’s ‘failed’ democracy, not Brexit – Guardian
5/26 Belgian Yellow Vests clash with riot police on election day, tear gas deployed – ZH
5/26 Why Farage wins the country and Corbyn wins only a party – Gilad
5/26 Federal judge blocks part of Trump’s US-Mexico border wall – Vox
5/26 Trump goes scorched earth against impeachment talk – The Hill
5/26 Plunge of CNN, MSNBC ratings reveals fake news as bad business strategy – AT
5/26 CNN lays off staffers after massive ratings drop – Zero Hedge
5/26 Inside Trump’s hunt to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington – Politico
5/26 Nigel Farage takes down another Tory government — bye bye Theresa May – TL
5/25 Whatever happens now, Nigel Farage has already won – Yahoo
5/25 Trump wants investigation into Australia’s role in ‘Russian hoax’ – Guardian
5/25 Lone US Senator decries use of Espionage Act against Assange – RT
5/25 How many times must Assange be proven right before people listen? – Medium
5/25 Theresa May resigns: what happens next? – CNBC
Offshore Investing
4/15 For big gains in gold, stay out of the U.S. — invest in these countries – Banyan Hill
3/19 Consistency: the success of the Cayman Islands – SWP
3/14 Why I got stuck on the “Island of Magic” – Casey Research
2/11 Runaway slaves – SWP
Clean Tech
5/26 Glyphosate exposure linked to fatty liver disease in humans – Beyond Pesticides
5/26 “This is hardcore”: Elon Musk confronts the “bear case” – Vanity Fair
5/26 The new solar economy: a hazy path forward – Think Realty
5/26 The hype and reality of hydrogen as a power source – Hellenic
5/26 Every bounce in Tesla stock can be shorted – GoldSeek
5/25 There is no point speculating in Plug Power stock – Investor Place
5/25 California adds 40th hydrogen refueling station – Inside EVs
5/24 California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage – Guardian
5/23 Bendigo gold miner plans 60mw solar farm on old evaporation ponds – Renew
5/23 Tesla bears on the rise as Citi lowers price target to $191 – Yahoo!
5/23 EVs and batteries can drive growth in rooftop solar – IEEFA
5/23 Morgan Stanley warns Tesla is facing bankruptcy – ZH
Art of the Collapse
5/17 Klan rally 70 percent undercover reporters – Onion
5/14 Australia’s 2019 election – Honest Government
5/14 Preferential voting in Australia – Honest Government
5/05 Diners eating Impossible Burgers doused with beet juice by meat-rights activists – Onion
4/22 Media condemns Assange for exposure of their bad time management – Onion
4/21 Hilarious video of 8-year-old imitating and mocking AOC – Mish
4/16 We’re America’s bitch – Juice Media
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
5/26 Heavy fighting in Libyan capital – Reuters
5/26 Libya’s Haftar rules out Tripoli ceasefire, dismisses UN-led talks – Yahoo
5/26 Army virtue-tweet backfires: 1000s expose “heartbreaking” horrors of war – ZH
5/26 Bolton & Pompeo ‘looking for fight’ with Iran, Trump trapped in the middle – RT
5/26 The U.S. media is in the crosshairs of the new Assange indictment – Lawfare
5/26 U.S. troop move to Middle East “dangerous for international peace” – Reuters
5/26 Journalism is under unprecedented assault – Medium
5/25 Pretexts for an attack on Iran – Lew Rockwell
5/25 What Assange charges could mean for press freedom – BBC
5/25 US economic war with Iran is hurting the wrong people – Phil’s Stock World
5/25 Curt Mills on John Bolton’s war with Iran – Scott Horton
5/25 From golden boy to “deflated:” the media trajectory of Juan Guaido – Mint
5/25 “We’re being played”: Tucker Carlson on leaked Syria chemical attack memo – ZH
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Health, Survival
5/25 Short film reveals fluoride’s side effects – Mercola
5/22 Here’s exactly where you should retire — based on what’s important to you – MW
5/20 Here’s how many U.S. households will run out of money in retirement – Yahoo!
5/20 The path from survival to significance – Peak Prosperity
5/20 Why Airpods—and earbuds like them—are especially bad for your hearing – Medium
5/20 Anthony Kovic – everyone should prep – Financial Survival Network
5/19 Rethinking gluten free – Heated
5/19 My week with a doomsday prepper deep in the outback changed me – ABC
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
5/16 Trump declares national emergency over IT threats – BBC
5/16 Microsoft warns wormable Windows bug could lead to another Wannacry – Ars Technica
5/10 US seizes North Korean ship amid tense moment in relations – ABC
5/09 Amazon merchants hit by extensive six-month fraud – Yahoo
5/09 Iranian hackers get hacked – CPO
5/04 Small businesses beware: cyberwar is right around the corner – SC Media
Off-Topic
5/26 Did scientists get it wrong about global warming? – Channel 4
5/25 ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I’m terrified’ – Conversation
5/25 Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off – Guardian
5/25 If bats perish, where does that leave us? – Medium
5/25 Superbugs and the ultimate economic weapon: food – Charles Hugh Smith
5/20 Friend, foe or unknown force flying overhead? Congress should find out – Hill
5/19 Evolution of Boston Dynamics robots – YouTube
5/18 The sound of millions of monarch butterflies! – Jungle Diaries
5/18 The week in wildlife – in pictures – Guardian
5/17 Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive – Reuters