Best of the Web

Why Greece is the next precursor to the global debt crisis – Peak Prosperity
Reflections on "uncertainty" – Mish
Eric Holder, Wall Street double agent, comes in from cold – Rolling Stone
Why the stock market may be overvalued, in 10 charts – ETF Reference
Triggers – Gordon T. Long
The big picture – Euro Pacific
Slavoj Žižek on Greece: This is a chance for Europe to awaken – New Statesman
Has the global run on silver begun? – SRSrocco Report
Why the eurocrats are petrified – David Stockman
Citigroup just cornered the "precious metals" derivatives market – Zero Hedge
"Everyone is wondering when the volcano will erupt" – Wolf Street
The fourth turning - an interview with Neil Howe – Erico Matias Tavares
Fed's full normalization – GoldSeek
This is why the euro is finished – Automatic Earth
Economic stagnation and the global bubble – David Stockman
Now's really not the time for a liquidity crisis – Financial Sense
Markets are highly unstable, China is crashing – Peak Prosperity
Flatline investing & dead end debt schemes – Best Minds Inc.
In gold we trust 2015 – GoldSilverWorlds
Whither bonds, after the demographic dividend – Rob Arnott

Breaking News

The Economy

7/11    Greek lawmakers back bailout reform plan – New York Times
7/11    The big achievement of Tsipras's proposal is to sow division – Implode-O-Meter
7/11    Why today's huge rally is totally meaningless – Casey Research
7/11    The one common feature in every financial crisis – Sovereign Man
7/11    China's annotated collapse into centrally-planned market hell – Talk Markets
7/11    A desperate message from Beijing... – Talk Markets
7/11    China lost the equivalent of 14 Greeces over the last month – My Budget 360
7/10    US wholesale inventories rise more than expected – CNBC
7/10    Here is the flashing red light in the inventory-sales ratio – Zero Hedge
7/10    China stock worries hit auto sales – CNBC
7/10    Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
7/10    Maintaining the illusion of stability now requires ever-greater extremes – Of Two Minds
7/10    The shift of Australia's economy in one painful chart – Sydney Morning Herald
7/10    US primary bond market seized up, junk bond issuance frozen – Wolf Street
7/10    Chinese stocks jump again as emergency measures bit – Yahoo!
7/10    Markets love Greek proposal – Bloomberg
7/10    10 very strange things from the past few weeks – End of the American Dream

Precious Metals

7/11    Major buyers continue to stockpile silver – SRSrocco Report
7/11    Gold & silver triple play – 321Gold
7/11    Pan American Silver: inflation hedge with excellent balance sheet – Seeking Alpha
7/11    The Shanghai stock crash and China gold demand – USA Gold
7/11    3 stocks to watch in silver mining – Motley Fool
7/10    Greece, China news is not what’s driving gold – Daily Gold
7/10    More downside potential in precious metals complex – Daily Gold
7/10    Silver shortage: the breakdown with Mike Maloney – Mike Maloney
7/10    Is it time to buy gold as Grexit looms? – Motley Fool
7/10    China is laying the groundwork for a gold standard right now – Talk Markets
7/10    Gold and the "Grexit" threat – Talk Markets
7/10    China wants to steal gold-market ‘reins’ from New York, London – MarketWatch
7/10    Silver Standard will go much higher – Seeking Alpha

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

7/11    Currency devaluation, the most destructive policy of all – Talk Markets
7/11    Bitcoin soars by 10%: does someone know something? – Talk Markets
7/10    Fed doesn't have 'smoking gun' to raise rates: David Rosenberg – CNBC
7/10    Grisis a reminder European Union was a terrible idea to begin with – Washington Post
7/10    Drachma sightings appear on hotel bill – Mish
7/10    Fed’s Evans delays his rate-hike call to middle of 2016 – MarketWatch
7/10    China June inflation edges up, producer deflation stays entrenched – Reuters
7/10    Fed's Williams still prefers two rate hikes this year – Reuters
7/10    Venezuela inflation seen hitting triple-digit levels as crisis deepens – Reuters
7/09    Steel 'cheaper per ton than cabbage' in China – Guardian
7/09    Policy lessons from the eurodebacle – New York Times
7/09    Absurd IMF warning on US rate hikes – Mish
7/09    How much cash should one have outside of banks? – Armstrong Economics

Real Estate Bubble

7/10    The renterfication of the United States – Dr. Housing Bubble
7/09    The London property market is crashing – Armstrong Economics
7/08    Las Vegas real estate in June: sales increased 12.8% YoY – Calculated Risk
7/02    US mortgage rates rise with 30-year at a 2015 high – Bloomberg
7/02    US housing stages ‘lopsided’ recovery – CNBC
7/01    Housing bubble 2 soars, industry drools, but it's doomed – Wolf Street
7/01    U.S. construction spending rises to 6-1/2-year-high – Yahoo!
6/30    Home price gains slowed in April – Housing Wire
6/29    U.S. pending home sales hit nine-year high – Yahoo!
6/25    Housing still in depression – Talk Markets
6/24    Are foreign buyers driving up the price of real estate? – Dr. Housing Bubble
6/24    WSJ prints housing whoppers as housing industry PR firm it is – Talk Markets

Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Elizabeth Warren

7/09    Ron Paul: the Keynesian crisis will continue – Market Sanity
7/07    For normal relations with Cuba, end US interventionism –24H Gold
6/26    "They can't print money forever" – Gold Core
6/24    Ron Paul warns seizure of Russian assets will hasten dollar demise – Zero Hedge
6/23    Will seizure of Russian assets hasten dollar decline? – 24H Gold
6/22    Ron Paul: stock market 'day of reckoning' is near – CNBC
6/11    Jamie Dimon says he's unsure if Elizabeth Warren understands global banking – Blomberg

Offshore Investing

6/27    The advantages of a second passport – Sovereign Investor
6/26    Cayman Islands to begin reporting everyone on October 1 – Armstrong Economics
6/25    New currency law now could be devastating for anyone holding US dollars – Crux
6/23    Internationalization: the road to financial freedom – Dollar Vigilante
6/17    The economic alamo –International Man

Clean Tech

7/10    Battery storage breakthroughs accelerate the race to renewables – Agri Pulse
7/10    How solar power is learning to share: the rapid growth of community –Climate Progress
7/10    What could Elon Musk's SolarCity be hiding? – Street
7/10    Statoil plans to build world's first floating wind farm – Oil Price
7/10    Noose tightening on coal industry – Oil Price
7/10    Spanish government to tax solar power – Oil Price
7/09    'By 2017, we'll be under a dollar per watt fully installed' – Greentech Grid
7/09    Sunrun preps for $100 M IPO raise – Greentech Solar
7/09    Tesla declines for second day after Pacific Crest downgrade –Bloomberg
7/09    SolarCity launches its California energy storage – Clean Technica
7/09    UK solar energy capacity to reach 10GW by 2016 –Solar Plaza
7/09    Solar Star, largest PV power plant in the world, now operational – Greentech Solar
7/08    Solar panels: not just for rich home owners anymore –Fortune
7/08    Plug power surges after announcing record second-q sales – Bloomberg
7/08    Solar power grows more than 300% in New York – Patch
7/07    Georgia Power is launching its own rooftop solar business – Greentech Solar
7/07    Why global solar demand will be off the charts – Greentech Solar
7/07    The rooftop solar arena is heating up –Seeking Alpha

Art of the Collapse

6/12    Experts say best option now is keeping nation comfortable until end – Onion
5/27    Wuss – Chris Britt
4/18    Shell assures nation most arctic wildlife to go extinct – Onion
5/13    Dilbert on college graduate career options – Zero Hedge
5/01    Crossing – Jeff Stahler
4/30    Changing tactics – Ted Rall
4/28    Aussie comedians Clarke & Dawe: gov't is your fault – Wolf Street
4/24    How to eliminate illegal competition – Mish
4/24    The difference Stuart Carlson – Go Comics

War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Nullification, Secession, Creeping Fascism, Police State

7/10    FBI and DOJ target new enemy in crypto wars – Intercept
7/10    Keep it quiet, aide tells shouting Kerry and Iran minister –Bloomberg
7/10    Insanity on the Thames – Daily Bell
7/10    How the US managed to make Afghanistan the world's top heroin exporter – Counter Punch
7/09    FBI seized child porn website with 215,000 users – Reuters
7/09    Court begins hearing Philippines, China dispute over South China Sea – Reuters
7/09    Jade Helm, terrorist attacks, surveillance and other fairy tales – Daily Bell
7/09    The Gaza Strip: "it's just that dystopian" – Anti War
7/09    FBI and Comey find new Bogeyman for anti-encryption arguments –Intercept
7/09    New swat documents give snapshot of ugly militarization of US police – Intercept
7/09    It's time to put a rein on civil asset forfeiture – Washington Examiner
7/09    These states let police take and keep your stuff –Bloomberg
7/08    Now ISIS says it can shoot down aircraft –Daily Beast
7/07    Iran nuclear talks on verge of another missed deadline – Bloomberg
7/07    Are you ready for the e-Patriot act? – Zero Hedge

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

7/09    The pursuit of food freedom – Peak Prosperity
7/09    Orthodox doctors are full of misinformation – Dr Sircus
6/29    A 4th grader's short documentary about school lunch – Mercola
6/25    Cocktail of chemicals may trigger cancer – Kurzweil
6/19    France bans sale of Monsanto's roundup in garden centers – GEAB
6/19    The sad state of the financial web – Fund Reference

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

7/10    Is this what the first world cyber war looks like – Zero Hedge
7/10    Stop worrying about Cyber Pearl Harbor and start collecting data – OUP Blog
7/10    Hackers stole US data on more than 20 million people – Bloomberg
7/10    Corporate spies hack billion dollar corporations – Hacked
7/09    Forget the F35; NSA Pentagon and USCC are busy with cyber war games – WCCF Tech
7/09    Can commercial VPNs really protect your privacy – Tech Dirt
7/09    Hacking team data leak portends grim future of global cyberwar – IBT
7/09    You won't believe how much a cyberwar really costs – Fiscal Times
7/08    Cyber War is hell – E Security Planet
7/08    Cyber threat has oil and gas majors on edge – Oil Price
7/05    Ireland gears up for cyber war –Silicon Republic
7/03    Harvard computer networks hacked as US officials investigate – Bloomberg
6/30    US panel aims to shield planes from cyberattack – Wall Street Journal
6/26    Why cyber war is dangerous for democracies – Atlantic

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

7/10    Hit by drought and seawater, Bangkok tap water may run out in a month – Reuters
7/10    California farms are using drilling wastewater to grow crops – Bloomberg
7/10    IBM discloses working version of a much higher-capacity chip – NY Times
7/07    Chile's growing desert is closing in on the country's capital – Bloomberg
7/07    Judge dismisses charges against Sergey Aleynikov – Zero Hedge
7/02    Walking in nature lowers risk of depression – Kurzweil
7/01    Significant, prolonged heat wave to blanket Europe over next week – Gawker