Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 23

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 Trader: “Big Money Is Now Trying To Get In—On A Violent Regression To The Mean”
Jindal blasts 'radical left' for blocking Keystone XL
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
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
Rockets from Lebanon Fired at Northern Israel, No Casualties
The Smart Money Is Leaving the Building
The Lesson Of India's Gold Saga
Obamacare Rate Calculator
This Town: America's Gilded Capital
Uninsured next year? Here's your Obamacare penalty.
Stocks end higher despite Nasdaq system crash
Fed hits the kill switch
A new CATO Institute study
Overseas Americans: Time to Say 'Bye' to Uncle Sam?
Get Ready for Enrollment in Health Exchanges
Syria Opposition Calls on U.N.
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
What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Continue To Rise Rapidly?
Chain Reaction of Breakdowns in Progress--Dr. Jim Willie

Paul Craig Roberts:  Hiding Economic Depression With Spin
New Chemical Weapons Attack In Syria Another False Flag?
Gold Markets Get Strange – Is Economic Danger Near?
Moving American Government Back to America
Saul Alinsky and the 2013 Budget Fight
Health Care Costs are Still Growing Rapidly
Why the U.S. Power Grid's Days Are Numbered
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
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
Household income has dropped 4.4% since recession ended
Bank of England 0.5% Interest Rates for 7% Unemployment, to Result in 7% Inflation, Ongoing Savings Theft
How the Fed could cause another 1987 crash
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?
Theft By Deficit
Cyprus Bank's Bailout Hands Ownership to Russian Plutocrats
Barack Obama can't get ahead of NSA story
The great Democratic hope: Government shutdown
The swing states of Obamacare
West presses Syria to let U.N. team reach "poison gas" scene
At Apple, Tim Cook leads a quiet cultural revolution
U.S. Fed may need to drain up to $2 trillion: Barclays
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
The West Strikes Back in Syria
West sees greatest danger in chemical weapons' spread
Why We're Still Not Intervening in Syria
Against the Dollar Coin
France Is Talking About Using 'Force' in Syria Now
An 'Overwhelmed' NSA Still Doesn't Know What Snowden Took
Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping
Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank
Federal Cash to Help Homeowners Will Raze Properties Instead
Egypt extends crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood
Churchill Was Right
Gold Surge Bodes Ill For Economy
Here's The Real Unemployment Rate
Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie?
Top central bankers are no-shows at Jackson Hole - economy
U.S. and Egypt Set on Collision Course
Gerald Celente - Jeff Rense Show - August 14, 2013
Peter Schiff - FED Will Continue To Ruin And Cause The US Economy To Collapse!
Mark Leibovich "This Town"
Tesla Says Model S Set Safety-Test Record | Tesa Motors News
Keiser Report 487 - NSA-spread Digital AIDS
Bernanke Just Felt a Chill Down His Spine
Maintaining the Illusions of Growth For China and the US
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
Compare And Contrast: Public Versus Private Retiree Underfunding In One Chart
Jackson Hole Begins As 10 Year Slouches Toward 3.00%
How Bad Can Things Get?
India Bans All Gold Coin Imports, Increases Capital Controls