Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 21

IRS Needs AR-15s for "Standoff Capabilities"?
Bitcoins can be used as money…and fall under the jurisdiction of securities laws, judge rules
'Defund Obamacare' Letter to Be Unveiled After Heritage Push
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Just set fire to Japan's quadrillion debt
Gold, Silver and Hyperinflation
Eric Sprott On Gold & Bail-Ins
Gold Trader: “Big Money Is Now Trying To Get In—On A Violent Regression To The Mean”
'North Colorado' secession movement inches forward
An Empire in Panic
Demography is Destiny, Hold On To Your Wallet
Gold's New Buy Signal
The Coming Shortage Of Physical Gold That Will Change Everything
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
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
The Secret Sauce in the July Jobs Report
“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
Detroit Bankruptcy a “Game-Changing Event,” Meredith Whitney Says
Summer Retail Is A Bust, But Watch Out For Fall
Why the U.S. Economy Deserves a “B-” Grade
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
Experts: No Appetite for Social Security Disability Reform
Welfare Pays More than Minimum Wage, Discourages Workers
The Smart Money Is Leaving the Building
Socialist Delusion: France Promises Full Employment, a Third Industrial Revolution, an Affordable Housing Utopia in 10 Years
Obamacare Rate Calculator
Uninsured next year? Here's your Obamacare penalty.
Health insurance premiums rise faster than wages
Tight money has already started
Extreme Gold Market:  Supply vs. Demand
Taper Talk, Act 2
A new CATO Institute study
Fear of Fed Retreat Roils India
Germany recognizes Bitcoin as 'private money'
US debt six times greater than declared - study
Don't Save Detroit â€" Sell It
Reality Versus Mirages in Egypt
The NSA: 'The Abyss from Which There Is No Return'
Google Glass allows cops to view live camera feeds
Dave Hodges:  Escape From Wall Street
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
It Is Happening Again:  18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And Today
The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy
They Are Systematically Destroying Our Independence And Making Us All Serfs Of The State
FTC chief keeping eye on Google Glass
Chain Reaction of Breakdowns in Progress--Dr. Jim Willie
Gold And Silver: Load The Boat-Back Up The Truck -- Peter Schiff
Old System Struggling and Dying-Catherine Austin Fitts

Paul Craig Roberts:  Hiding Economic Depression With Spin
Gold Markets Get Strange – Is Economic Danger Near?
America 3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America
Bubbles Bloom Anew in Desert as Buyers Wager on Las Vegas
Here's The Real Reason Why Wall Street Is Freaked Out About The Insider Trading Charges Against SAC Capital
End Foreign Aid to Egypt and Stop Underwriting Repression
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
Obamacare exchange readiness going down to the wire
Spotlight on So-Called Dollars
Monty Pelerin: Tyranny Rules
Has The Landscape For Gold Changed Forever?
Is India Preparing to 'Confiscate' Its Citizens' Gold?
The Wild Card That Could Destroy Your Retirement
Why we can kiss the US economy goodbye
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
Stars Aligned For "Serious" Stock Correction
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
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?
Detroit police 'stop-and-frisk' policy
Northeastern Colorado Is Getting Ready to Secede
Theft By Deficit
When welfare pays better than work
Decision Time for the Global Economy
End Austerity Now
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”
The When: “The Economic Collapse Cannot Be Predicted By Looking at Stock Market Charts or Other Standard Economic Indicators”
What Would You Do If A Bank Stole Everything You Owned?
Jim Willie:  Bullion Banks Have Pilfered 60,000 Tons Of Gold From Allocated Accounts
Massive jump in people who renounced US citizenship last quarter
LinkedIn New Target Market: College-Bound Teens
Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank
US reportedly secretly suspends aid to Egypt
Long-Term Joblessness Taking Toll on Men
IRS may be breaking software copyright laws, audit finds
Pentagon: Aid still flowing to Egypt's military
Gold Surge Bodes Ill For Economy
Here's The Real Unemployment Rate
Peter Schiff - FED Will Continue To Ruin And Cause The US Economy To Collapse!
Bernanke Just Felt a Chill Down His Spine
Marc Faber On Central Banker Actions: "Insane People Don't Realize They're Insane"
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
If "Europe Is Fine" Why Is Deutsche Bank Deleveraging At The Fastest Pace Since The Crisis of 2011?
How Bad Can Things Get?
India Bans All Gold Coin Imports, Increases Capital Controls