As an Italian-American I’m allowed to say it: Italians are an amusing mess. They go on about “la dolce vita,” the sweet life of long lunches and short work days and pretty girls on little scooters – without acknowledging or apparently even realizing that the whole show is based on other people’s money. Take away [...]
Politics
The fiscal cliff was always going to end with a whimper because that was the obvious path of least resistance. In the end, simply avoiding big tax increases and spending cuts while adding a few more trillion to the coming decade’s deficit was rewarded by the markets with a huge rally. Everybody went home happy, [...]
The premise of this series is that once a country’s debt rises to a certain level, the country becomes impossible to govern. Voters accustomed to a relatively easy life based on other people’s money won’t accept the truth that they’re not actually rich, so each new leader sees his or her popularity plunge almost immediately and [...]
One of the lessons of medieval history (I’m listening to one of those recorded lecture series on the subject this week) is that Europe wasn’t always made up of today’s familiar countries. Italy, Germany, and Spain in particular started out as a patchwork of smaller kingdoms and principalities that were eventually rolled up by the [...]
Europe’s political problems are hogging the headlines, with good reason. So much debt is coming due so soon that big decisions about Greece and Spain have to be made within the next couple of months to avoid a systemic melt-down. But the US has some deadlines of its own, with no consensus on what to [...]
For the first time in 250 years, politics has become irrelevant. Not uninteresting or unimportant; obviously the way a society organizes itself matters to its citizens and its place in the world. But today there are no policies left on the “possible” menu that will save us from what’s coming. So a rational person’s time [...]
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James Grant Interview – King World News
Kuroda's Gambit – Doug Noland, PrudentBear
The Mad Science of the National Debt – Rolling Stone
And The Band Played On – Burning Platform
We'll See The 1980s Peak of $850 Equals $9000 Today – Charleston Voice
Andrew Maguire Interview – King World News
Glimpsing the Hereafter 2 – FOFOA
Financial Euphoria – Doug Noland, Prudent Bear
Gold Stock News, May 2013 – Bull & Bear
William Kaye Interview, Part II – King World News
William Kaye Interview – King World News
The Bernanke Agenda - It Isn't What You Think It – Seeking Alpha
Rick Rule: This Is Fun – Casey Research
Catherine Austin Fitts On Precious Metals and Digital Currencies – GoldMoney
Andrew Maguire Interview – King World News
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5/25
Long-term doom, short-term profits – Daily Bell
5/25
Discussion in Spain on leaving the euro; euro exit manifest – Mish
5/25
Bubble economics are not sustainable – Daily Bell
5/25
Michael Pento interview – King World News
5/25
Beppe Grillo supports "referendum on the euro within a year" – Mish
5/25
Bass sees BOJ bond purchases overwhelmed as investors dump debt – SFGate
5/25
Japan stock market 7% plunge was just a warning! – Market Oracle
5/25
The Fed's hands are tied… – Zero Hedge
5/24
Durable goods orders point to factory resilience – Yahoo! News
5/24
Pessimism reaches its lowest in one year – Wall St. Cheat Sheet
5/24
Why do people feel poor even though the stock market is at a record high? – My Budget 360
5/24
Japanese bond rout continues – Mish
5/24
The Cyprus nightmare - who's next? With John Rubino – Jason Hartman
5/24
Debt limit: a mere warm-up to a new sequester fight – Fiscal Times
5/23
The data the financial media ignored on Wednesday – Options Trading Signals
5/23
Nikkei plunges 1,143 points – Mish
5/23
Jobless claims sink by 23,000 to 340,000 – MarketWatch
5/23
China manufacturing slips back into contraction – Mish
5/23
Japan market crash jolts ETFs tied to Tokyo, gold, silver – MarketWatch
Precious Metals
5/25
Gold and silver - markets provide us the best information – GoldSilverWorlds
5/25
Gold is money, in spite of Mr. Keynes – Library of Economics and Liberty
5/25
Chile freezes Barrick’s Pascua-Lama, orders ‘urgent measures’ – GlobeAndMail
5/25
Weekly metals wrap – King World News
5/25
Gold market report: bullion banks going net-long – GoldMoney
5/25
From paper reserves to gold reserves – GoldMoney
5/25
An analysis of the world's top 50 gold producing mines – MunKnee
5/25
Suppliers & bank clients denied gold as shortage intensifies – King World News
5/25
8 criteria for choosing a top-notch gold mining company – MunKnee
5/25
Hold on (to those gold coins and bars)! – FOFOA
5/25
How to be an (educated) optimist – The Gold Report
5/25
Russia: The sleeping giant of gold producing countries – USA Gold
5/24
The falling COMEX gold stocks – SafeHaven
5/24
Central banks should be manipulating gold higher, not lower – Financial Sense
5/24
Silver mining, sentiment and the confidence game – Silver Coin Investor
5/24
Currency market rigging likely would paint gold's tape – Casey Research
5/24
Interview with Chris Powell about precious metals market manipulation – Gold Broker
5/24
10 questions for precious metals investors – GoldSilverWorlds
5/24
Platinum and palladium: a fundamental shift – Casey Research
Inflation/Deflation
5/25
The biggest loser wins – Daily Bell
5/25
A truce in global currency wars? – BBC
5/25
'New Deal' to tackle Europe's mass youth unemployment – The Telegraph
5/25
HSBC bullish on dollar as currency war 'intensifies' – CNBC
5/25
Flash: currency war caused US dollar to soar – FX Street
5/25
Will it be inflation or deflation? The answer may surprise you – Zero Hedge
5/25
The case for 4% inflation – Vox
5/24
A new global currency; the rise of the East; and peak oil – GoldMoney
5/24
Japan's weak currency means tourism – Yahoo! News
5/24
Are covert operations underway in the global currency wars? – Financial Sense
5/24
Bitcoin attracts major investors – Kurzweil
5/24
Aussie dollar is villain as Ford ends Mad Max land output – Bloomberg
5/24
Yuan gold trade in Hong Kong triples as currency gains cut risk – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
5/25
Some borrowers need more equity to sell homes – New York Times
5/25
South Bay housing prices up double digits on low inventory – The Beach Reporter
5/25
SNL Regional Report: Housing tailwind aids Florida – Aba Banking Journal
5/24
Ave. days on market drops from 117 days to 99 – Space Coast Daily
5/24
See how low inventories are juicing home prices – MarketWatch
5/23
NY state home sales and prices gain momentum in early 2013 – LoanSafe
5/23
Houston home sales hit highest point in six years as prices rise – CultureMap
5/22
Existing home sales highest in almost three-and-a-half years – Reuters
5/22
Mercer Island home sales up 24% as real estate inventory recovers – Seattle Pi
5/21
Home-buying frenzy: Strong demand collides with scarce inventory – Miami Herald
5/21
Redmond real estate: active homes fall to 1.3 mo. inventory, sales up 25% – Seattle Pi
5/21
Lumber Prices decline Sharply over last month – Calculated Risk
5/20
First Coast home sales, prices way up, jobless figures dip down – Jacksonville
5/19
China April housing inflation quickens – CNBC
5/18
Toronto home sales slump 10 per cent in mid-May, but prices continue to climb – The Star
Ron Paul
5/21
Ron Paul: "The IRS's job is to violate our liberties" – Zero Hedge
5/20
Ron Pau's revolution continues (interview) – Liberty Crier
5/19
Ron Paul's Podcast Nation #12 - IRS targets – Liberty Crier
5/13
The war on drugs – Ron Paul Podcast
5/12
Ron Paul: states rejecting failed federal war on drugs – Liberty Crier
5/06
Ron Paul: Federal Reserve blows more bubbles – Liberty Crier
4/24
"If I can't put it in my pocket, I have reservations" – Zero Hedge
4/19
Ron Paul isn't worried about falling gold prices – Slate
4/13
Ron Paul curriculum – Ron Paul
4/09
Emulate Ron Paul – Daily Bell
Offshore Investing
5/24
A killer combination: low property prices & big rental potential – Path Finder
5/23
Doug Casey's primer on internationalization – Casey Research
5/22
For crisis, read opportunity – Daily Reckoning
5/20
Thai stocks are on fire – ThaiStocks.com
5/19
Find out why this couple chose a Caribbean resort lifestyle – Path Finder
5/17
Could Cuba's past be your future? – Casey Research
5/15
Mover over Cancun… it's Tulum's turn to shine – Path Finder
Clean Tech
5/24
Japanese solar PV market grows three-fold – Solar Plaza
5/24
Forget peak oil—start worrying about peak water – Mother Earth News
5/24
Is the solar energy bubble finally bursting? – Oil Price
5/24
Why Yingli Green Energy pulled solar stocks higher – Motley Fool
5/24
The solar boom has just begun – Motley Fool
5/24
Solar stocks on fire as shipments improve – Fox Business
5/23
Electric carmaker Tesla pays off U.S. loan – Yahoo! News
5/22
JA Solar posts another quarterly loss – Solar Plaza
5/22
Revenue at Bloom Energy falls in Q1 – GreenTech Media
Art of the Collapse
5/10
Currency wars: are we winning? – Merk
4/16
'You signed a social contract!' – Liberty Classroom
4/15
A libertarian love story where the bad guys work at the Fed – Washington Post
4/11
LA artist Alex Schaefer is back with new JPMorgan bankster snuff art – Implode-O-Meter
4/11
Cracking the safe – Lisa Benson
3/27
Let's attack them again! – GoComics
3/18
Hitler bails out Cyprus – YouTube
2/19
Sterlageddon – Max Keiser
1/28
Bernanke to Oprah: "I've been doping for years" – Shiff Report
1/18
Charles Ponzi in gold vault – Colonel Flick
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Nullification, Secession, Creeping Fascism, Police State
5/25
Privacy advocates wary of push to mandate auto 'black boxes' – Liberty Crier
5/25
Why the IRS cannot be reformed – CATO
5/25
Now the Gibson Guitar raids make sense – Liberty Crier
5/24
Only Nixon harmed a free press more – New York Times
5/24
Tyranny just around the corner – Washington Times
5/24
Bipartisan predators – American Conservative
5/24
Another chilling leak investigation – New York Times
5/24
The civilization genome project – Huffington Post
5/23
Five unsavory ways America conducts its "global war on terror" – GlobalResearch
5/23
Our govt. is turning in to a surveillance state that's almost impossible to stop – AlterNet
5/22
IRS - incredible abuses of democracy – USA Watchdog
5/21
"It's not a conspiracy theory… it is happening right now" – SHTF Plan
5/20
Alarming: Nigeria to force all its citizens to go cashless – Charleston Voice
5/20
AUMF, never-ending war, and America's 'instruments of tyranny' – AntiWar
5/19
Our civil liberties, RIP – AntiWar
5/19
Beware the IRS – Reason.com
5/18
Scandal: and they shall eat their own – Daily Bell
5/18
The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties – The Guardian
5/18
Secrecy, drones, prisons and kill lists – CounterPunch
5/18
Pentagon unilaterally grants itself authority over 'civil disturbances' – LongIslandPress
5/17
Justice Dept's pursuit of AP's phone records is extreme and dangerous – The Guardian
5/17
US drone strikes: 'deadly and dirty' warns new book – The Guardian
5/17
James Bovard: a brief history of IRS political targeting – Wall Street Journal
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
5/24
Mitochondrial medicine – Dr. Sircus
5/24
15 foods that can be regrown from scraps – Mrs. Happy Homemaker
5/23
Sell your surplus with a farm stand – Mother Earth News
5/22
Report: 'US government in GM industry's pocket' – DW
5/22
The cold, hard facts behind funding your retirement – Miller's Money
5/20
Tune in, turn on, opt out – OfTwoMinds.com
5/19
Taxpayer dollars are helping Monsanto sell seeds abroad – Liberty Crier
5/18
Organic pest control series: beneficial insects – Mother Earth News
5/16
New app lets you boycott Koch brothers, Monsanto – Liberty Crier
5/16
Retirement is not what I thought it would be – Miller's Money
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
5/25
Suppliers and bank clients denied gold as shortage intensifies – King World News
5/23
Approaching the cyberwar precipice – Computer World UK
5/16
FBI briefs US bank executives on wave of cyberattacks – CIO
5/15
Skyscraper grows crops, produces clean energy, cleans the air – Oil Price
5/14
Shooting ignites Taiwan-Phillipines cyber war – Focus Taiwan
5/13
Cyberattacks on the rise against US corporations – New York Times
5/12
DOD confirms China’s cyberwar strategy, White House unveils open data policy – Sys-Con Media
5/12
For banks in cyber heist, how to get their money back? – Yahoo! News
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
5/25
'Overspending has become a modern form of mating deception' – The Atlantic
5/16  
Human stem cells created by cloning – Kurzweil
5/14  
A spiritual awakening is about to happen – Financial Survival Network
5/13
Getting our story straight is a matter of life and death – Peak Prosperity
5/10
Mind-blowing map of world population – Peak Prosperity
5/07
Why brain controlled gadgets will blow your mind – Laptop Mag
5/03
Scientists discover how to slow down aging in mice and increase longevity – Kurzweil

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