Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 26

Researchers tracking some particularly sharp seniors
IRS Needs AR-15s for "Standoff Capabilities"?
Bitcoins can be used as money…and fall under the jurisdiction of securities laws, judge rules
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within a year
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Just set fire to Japan's quadrillion debt
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”
No-win in Syria: Barack Obama's perfect war
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
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.
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
Pat Buchanan: 'Whites Are the Only Group That You Can Discriminate Against Legally in America Now'
13 Reasons Why Gold Will Hit $5000/oz
A new CATO Institute study
US debt six times greater than declared - study
Verizon tells employees English only, please
Dave Hodges:  Escape From Wall Street
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?
White House vowing to 'act very deliberately' on Syria
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?
Dangerous Times: Russia Rising in the Middle East
Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle
Lagarde Calls for More Global Coordination as QE Exits Loom
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
Household income below end-of-recession
Homeland Security worker on paid leave after it's discovered he runs a radical website that calls on black people to 'kill more whites than our Christian hearts can count'
Monty Pelerin: Tyranny Rules
401(k)s: Delivery Problems of a Different Nature
Has The Landscape For Gold Changed Forever?
U.S. Treasury Bonds Are Oversold
The Next Frontier In Computing: Your Brain
Is Google Killing Cable?
Why we can kiss the US economy goodbye
Colorado Department of Transportation sign gets hacked
Bond Investors Beware: Mutual Fund Outflows Accelerating as Interest Rates Climb Higher
Judicial Watch: Defense Department Teaching Documents Suggest Mainstream Conservative Views "Extremist"
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
Social Security is crucial to the middle class
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
Frustrated with Syria, White House tries gunboat diplomacy
Thousands march on Mall for civil rights
Diplomacy and Double Standards
Fed's Lockhart: 'comfortable' with cautious September taper
Central bankers debate risks of withdrawing global liquidity
U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel
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
Italian factory owner moves company to Poland while staff are on holiday
Hit in the Gut by the Internet Sales Tax
Google & Facebook paid millions to spy on users
Consulates and the Vatican in chaos as HSBC tells them to find another bank
Russia warns U.S. not to repeat in Syria past mistakes in region
Is there a future for international banks?
What is shadow banking?
Al Qaeda in Syria warns Western aid workers: We'll kill you
Gold Surge Bodes Ill For Economy
Here's The Real Unemployment Rate
Ron Paul And Jim Rogers Discuss Economic Collapse
Peter Schiff - FED Will Continue To Ruin And Cause The US Economy To Collapse!
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