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Doug Casey on Banking with the Fed
• Casey Research - Doug CaseyAbolish the Federal Reserve...Regular readers have heard Doug Casey make this suggestion many times. He's been arguing in favor of this for years.

The Corporate Bond Market Is Getting Junkier
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Danielle DiMartinoFew investors realize the ticking time bombs populating what they believe are the safest parts of their portfolios.

The Real Data Show The Real Economy Hit A Wall
• http://news.goldseek.com, by Dave KranzlerThe economy is melting down – the only support for the Propaganda Narrative of a "booming economy" is a rising stock market. Without a doubt Trump has ordered the Working Group on Financial Markets – AKA "the Plunge Protection Team" – t

RED ALERT! Everything Bubble Going To POP!
• https://www.youtube.comChris Duane Everything Bubble going to pop...

Housing Bubble and Everything Bubble in One Simple Picture
• https://www.themaven.netTo understand the magnitude of the housing bubbles simply compare the index of wages to the index of prices.

Weekend Roundup: Mall Vacancies, Soybeans, Chinese Defaults, Taxes, US Politics
• https://www.themaven.netI have a basket of stories on my screen, over 50 tabs open. Here is a peek at some of the stories that caught my eye.

Peter Schiff Explains Why Sagging Productivity Is Bad News For Your Pocketbook
• by SchiffGold.comUS productivity numbers for the first quarter of this year were disappointing, to say the least.

Economists Won't Predict the Next Crash -- Because They Can't
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, by Thorsten PolleitYou get a lot of attention if you shout out things like "The stock market is about to collapse", or "The US dollar crash is just around the corner", or "The housing market slump is about to unfold".

Seven Rate Hikes and a Big Stumble
• https://www.themaven.netAlpine Macro put together an interesting set of charts with commentary. Let's take a look.

Bond Market Disagrees With Fed Economic Assessment: So Do I
• https://www.themaven.netFed Minutes Show Concern Over Trump's Tariffs in Otherwise Bullish Assessment. Please consider Minutes of the June 12-13, 2018 FOMC Meeting released today. Tariff Concern

Asset Prices TOTALLY Detached From Reality!
• https://www.youtube.comChris Duane-Asset Prices TOTALLY Detached From Reality!

Eric Peters: "People Assume That Stocks Always Rise Over Time. They're Wrong"
• https://www.zerohedge.comThis week on the MacroVoices podcast, host Erik Townsend welcomed Eric Peters, the CEO and CIO of One River Asset Management, for a discussion about the long-term future of the US economy, and how demographics, the expanding US debt, and the waning i

One More Hike To Inversion -
• zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden- Treasury Curve Plunges To Flattest Since July 2007

We Are Witnessing Unusual Stock Market Behavior That Is Unlike Anything That We Have Seen Since 2008
• https://www.prisonplanet.comWe have not seen Wall Street this jumpy since just before the great financial crisis of 2008.

Car Sales Rise, Beating Expectations
• https://www.themaven.netAuto sales at GM, Ford, and Toyota beat expectations

096: I was just offered a $500 million investment deal… and I worry it's a sign the top is in
• https://www.sovereignman.comIn today's podcast, I share the details of a deal a well-known private bank just offered me (and its roster of other high-net worth clients). It's a bad deal in every way… the asset in question is valued insanely high, there's likely a ton

Key Events This Week: All Eyes On Friday
• https://www.zerohedge.comIt may be a holiday-shortened week in the US, but there is still a lot of market-moving data over the next 5 days with payrolls report and FOMC minutes to look forward as well as a number of manufacturing sector reports around the world. Politics sh

Fed's Rosengren: Now Is The Time To Prepare For The Next Recession
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenThanks to the Trump fiscal stimulus, the economy may be decoupling from the rest of the world...

US Banks Are Down 12 Days In A Row - The Longest Losing Streak In History
• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden'Stress Tests would be the catalyst', they said... and now 'CCAR will be the catalyst', but US financials ETF (XLF) is now down 12 days in a row - by far the longest losing streak in its 20 year history...

US Home Price Growth Slows - Weakest April Since 2011
• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler DurdenWith YoY growth having endlessly risen to its strongest since June 2014, April's Case-Shiller data was a sudden disappointment with growth slowing to 6.56% YoY (slowest since Jan)...

BofA Shows The Staggering Amount Of Stock It Bought Back For Clients
• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler DurdenWhile it is well known that stock buybacks have been among the primary contributors for the solid stock performance in the US in 2018...

Dear High School Graduates...
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Charles Hugh SmithYou deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.

Dear High School Graduates...
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Charles Hugh SmithYou deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.

Ike Was Right!
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Bill BonnerWe wait for the world to fall apart.

How Baby Boomers Broke America
• http://time.comHow did we get here? How did the world's greatest democracy and economy become a land of crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?

The Dollar Is Nosediving
• https://www.zerohedge.comTough to say what the catalyst was for this kneejerk lower aside from severe weakness in Philly Fed (which is admittedly a 2nd tier economic data series at best), but the dollar is tumbling...

Blain: "Back In The Markets, There Is So Much To Worry About"
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Bill BlainIceland, Rising worries about immigration, trade and oil prices... whatever next. "A free man can live on fish. Independence is better than meat."

We're seeing the greatest asset inflation bubble in 20 years, fund manager warns
• https://www.wsj.comNobody wants to use the 'B' word, but a bubble is upon us, a growing number of market watchers are warning.

Yield Curve Gets Serious: 10-Year to 7-Year Treasury Spread Collapses to 4 BPs
• https://www.themaven.netJP Morgan is following yield spreads on the GBI broad bond index. Things are getting serious says one analyst in a Tweet