Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 27

IRS Needs AR-15s for "Standoff Capabilities"?
Wal-Mart hits the brakes on expansion in India: FT
Bitcoins can be used as money…and fall under the jurisdiction of securities laws, judge rules
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Just set fire to Japan's quadrillion debt
India Dealmaking Could Slump on Central Bank Rule
Open Secret About Google's Surveillance Case No Longer Secret
Doug Casey: “We’re Still In The Midst Of The Biggest Bubble In World History”
Gold Trader: “Big Money Is Now Trying To Get In—On A Violent Regression To The Mean”
Indian Gold Dealer: “Gold Is Now Trading At $1800oz.—Small Factories And Workshops Are Shutting Down”
Moody’s eyes downgrade of biggest US banks
Get Ready: The Great Transfer of Wealth in Gold and Silver is Coming
Derivatives Bubble: The Number One Threat That Our Financial System Is Facing
Dire Consequences Await As U.S. Debt Nears A Tipping Point
Foreign Holders Dump A Whopping $40.8 Billion In Long-Term Treasuries
Total Public Debt Now Eclipses GDP
Three Reasons the Walmart Empire Is Collapsing
Job Market Faces New Problem, Hitting One Unlucky Group Really Hard
Next Fed Chair Will Lead Us to ‘Economic Ruin,’ Says Peter Schiff
Walmart Earnings Disaster Exposes a Collapsing Economy
“We Have Become a Nation of Hamburger Flippers”: Dan Alpert Breaks Down the Jobs Report
Buy Gold Now That Soros & Paulson Are Done Liquidating, Says Analyst Bill O’Neill
Summer Retail Is A Bust, But Watch Out For Fall
Why the U.S. Economy Deserves a “B-” Grade
Behind Wal-Mart’s Earnings Miss; Weekly Jobless Claims; What Billionaires Are Buying
Poll: How Wise Is It to Be Unloading Gold?
Eminent Domain and Underwater Mortgages: Solving the Municipal Fiscal Crisis
Retail Sales: Don’t Look to July for Guidance on December
How Washington Could Push Gas Prices Higher
Where the Housing Recovery Is Strongest and Weakest
Cramer:  Giant Reset Looming For Markets
U.S. jobs, inflation data support tapering of Fed bond buying
Israel Warns Syria Against Retaliation If America Strikes
The 7 Most Interesting Minutes on Syria You'll Watch Tonight
The Smart Money Is Leaving the Building
The Lesson Of India's Gold Saga
Obamacare Rate Calculator
Asia Shocks West By Demanding Their Gold Be Sent Home
Feeding Homeless Apparently Illegal in Raleigh, NC
Uninsured next year? Here's your Obamacare penalty.
Defunding wouldn't kill Obamacare taxes
Health Insurance Premiums Rise Faster Than Wages
Obamacare clock stops for your boss, not you
Stocks end higher despite Nasdaq system crash
Physical Gold and the Financial Market
First Signs of Hyperinflation Have Arrived: US National Debt Can Travel From the Earth to the Sun and Back a Stunning 83 Times!
A new CATO Institute study
Has the Shale Bubble Already Burst?
Syria Chemical Attack Raises Sinister Questions
Geithner to the Rescue?
Community South Bank, Tennessee, Becomes Second Largest Bank Failure of 2013
After subpoenas, Bitcoin companies start lobbying Washington
US debt six times greater than declared - study
Dave Hodges:  Escape From Wall Street
Syria's Reichstag Moment
18 Signs That Global Financial Markets Are Entering A Horrifying Death Spiral
40 Percent Of US Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made in 1968
A Quadrillion Yen And Counting – The Japanese Debt Bomb Could Set Off Global Panic At Any Moment
During The Best Period Of Economic Growth In U.S. History There Was No Income Tax And No Federal Reserve
They Are Systematically Destroying Our Independence And Making Us All Serfs Of The State
What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Continue To Rise Rapidly?
Russia warns US strike in Syria would 'sharply aggravate' crisis
Chain Reaction of Breakdowns in Progress--Dr. Jim Willie

Paul Craig Roberts:  Hiding Economic Depression With Spin
Gold Markets Get Strange – Is Economic Danger Near?
Has The CIA's Phoenix Program Been Resurrected In Syria?
Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle
Hedge Fund Gold Bets Reach Six-Month High After Rally
Multiples Growing Fastest Since Dot-Com Bubble as Rally Ages
Obama Officials Said Divided on Fiscal Debate Strategy
Syria Is Headed for Western Strike, Russia Says
Gold Market Update
The Most Important Number For The Market: 2.75%
Pandemic of Pension Woes Plaguing The Nation
Full circle: Joblessness at 2008 level
Top technician: Yes, 2013 does look like 1987
Fitch Rings Warnings On Canadian Banks
Fear of NSA snooping could hurt U.S. cloud vendors
Monty Pelerin: Tyranny Rules
401(k)s: Delivery Problems of a Different Nature
Has The Landscape For Gold Changed Forever?
Dismal Durable Data Drives Dollar Down
Why we can kiss the US economy goodbye
A CIA Hand in an American 'Coup'?
The Leveraged Buyout of America
Bond Investors Beware: Mutual Fund Outflows Accelerating as Interest Rates Climb Higher
Hi-yo silver!
Currency Markets: The Next Crisis Has Begun
Bank of England 0.5% Interest Rates for 7% Unemployment, to Result in 7% Inflation, Ongoing Savings Theft
Gold to the Fed: You are bluffing
NSA having flashbacks to Watergate era
The Era of Easy Money Is Over
Stars Aligned For "Serious" Stock Correction
IRS Attempting to Audit Veteran Service Organizations
The American dream myth: Income mobility; 4 out of 5 Americans struggle with poverty, joblessness, or go on welfare at some point during their lives; and bottom 80 percent of Americans control 7 percent of total wealth
The epic crisis in retirement savings: Vast majority of Americans unprepared for retirement. Median retirement savings for those 25 to 34? Zero dollars.
Suppressing wages and increasing corporate profits: The tough math behind the current economic recovery.
The uneasiness of Quantitative Easing: How QE is ineffective with helping the broader economy in favor of boosting support for too big to fail banks
The accelerating race to a student debt implosion: Federal student loans rose by $266 billion since 2011. 85 percent of consumer debt growth since 2011 because of student debt.
Failure to launch into household formation: Record 36 percent of young Americans (18 to 31) living at home with parents. Where is household formation coming from?
Final Decision On Keystone May Not Come Till 2014
Obama, Assad, and the Credibility Game
Theft By Deficit
Bombing Syria: What's the goal?
The real issue in Syria
Eight College Degrees with the Worst Return on Investment
How To Prepare For An Economic Depression
Dr. Doom Warns Of Major Market Crash This Fall: “20 Percent, Maybe More”
Your Future: “We Are Now at a Point Where the Crisis Will Happen Almost Overnight”
Jim Willie:  Bullion Banks Have Pilfered 60,000 Tons Of Gold From Allocated Accounts
Massive jump in people who renounced US citizenship last quarter
Remarks on Syria
Is Europe still in crisis? "Eurogeddon" was the buzzword on everyone’s lips in 2011. But is a euro recovery real or imagined?
Italian factory owner moves company to Poland while staff are on holiday
Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria
Hit in the Gut by the Internet Sales Tax
Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank
What's next for central banking?
Gold Surge Bodes Ill For Economy
Here's The Real Unemployment Rate
Ron Paul And Jim Rogers Discuss Economic Collapse
Ron Paul w/ Cavuto ~ The American People Are Waking Up To Reality That Something Has To Give
Peter Schiff: The Market That Lives By QE Dies By QE
CIA helped Iraq use chemical weapons on Iran
Obamacare Welcomed By Hypocrite Republican Governors
NSA unaware of the extent of Snowden's leaks
Ron Paul supports Snowden and Manning in Larry King interview
Obamacare Could Cost Delta $100 Million
Peter Schiff - FED Will Continue To Ruin And Cause The US Economy To Collapse!
Millions of Android users vulnerable to security threats, say feds
Bernanke Just Felt a Chill Down His Spine
Record Jobs For Old Workers; For Others - Not So Much
Ten Times More Waiter and Bartender Than Manufacturing Jobs Added in 2013
US Factory Orders Miss (Again); Biggest 4-Month Drop in a Year
Only 40% Of Federal Student Loan Borrowers Are Currently Making A Payment
If Housing Is Booming - Why Do We Need Another Fix?
Peter Schiff On The Half-Full Economy
Visualizing The Collapse In US Job Security
That Which Is Incapable Of Reforming Itself Disappears
US Consumer Bankruptcies Jump By Most In Three Years; Third-Party Collections At All Time High
Compare And Contrast: Public Versus Private Retiree Underfunding In One Chart
Consumer Confidence Misses Expectations By Most On Record
Housing Starts, Permits Miss; Single-Family Housing Market Weakest Since November 2012
How Bad Can Things Get?
India Bans All Gold Coin Imports, Increases Capital Controls