Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 22

IRS Needs AR-15s for "Standoff Capabilities"?
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
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”
NSA collected thousands of US communications
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
A U.S. manufacturing comeback won't rebuild the middle class
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
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
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
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
UPS Cuts Health Insurance for Employees' Spouses
Woman Uses 50 Identities to Collect Unemployment in 8 States
The Smart Money Is Leaving the Building
The Lesson Of India's Gold Saga
Obamacare Rate Calculator
Uninsured next year? Here's your Obamacare penalty.
Fed confusion leads to 6th straight loss for Dow
Extreme Gold Market:  Supply vs. Demand
Looking for Clues Before the Fed Minutes
A new CATO Institute study
Mediterranean Gas Outlook Threatened by War
New Solar Drone Remains Airborne Three Times Longer
President Obama's Arab Spring Nightmare
US debt six times greater than declared - study
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
The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy
They Are Systematically Destroying Our Independence And Making Us All Serfs Of The State
Court: NSA collected domestic emails, violating the Constitution
Top Dem sues IRS over tax exemptions
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?
Get Ready For The Death Of The Petrodollar
ObamaCare and the Food Police
Feds have no clue what data Snowden took
Syria conflict: 'Chemical attacks kill hundreds'
Treasuries Fall as Fed Policy Makers 'Comfortable' With Tapering
Wells Fargo Said to Eliminate 2,300 Mortgage Jobs
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
Monty Pelerin: Tyranny Rules
Has The Landscape For Gold Changed Forever?
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
Dollar up as Fed reaffirms slowing purchases
Fed says taper on track by the end of the year
Fed tapering: The math investors need to know
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
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?
The Congressional Loophole Widens
Theft By Deficit
Gangster State US/UK
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”
Jim Willie:  Bullion Banks Have Pilfered 60,000 Tons Of Gold From Allocated Accounts
Massive jump in people who renounced US citizenship last quarter
Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank
Fed debated ways to prolong easy-money policies
CARSON: When servants behave as rulers
How Technology Complicates, Benefits Innovation
Declassified Documents Prove NSA Is Tapping the Internet
Gold Surge Bodes Ill For Economy
Here's The Real Unemployment Rate
Keiser Report 486 - Burn your money! It's worthless anyway
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