The Guardian | Bitcoin offers an alternative to the conventional, state-sanctioned banking system. Maybe that’s why powerful institutions are so wary of it.

Tekoa Da Silva | “It’s now in their bag of tricks.”

Economic Collapse | Do you think that you know how to prepare for the collapse of the economy? If so, are you putting that knowledge into action?

Mike Adams | Bitcoin is a powerful, game-changing crypto currency that may literally change the world.

Matt Clinch | Analysts are warning that investors should brace for further trouble ahead as fiscal tightening begins to take its toll.

Bloomberg | Distrust of the Federal Reserve and concern that U.S. dollars may become worthless are fueling a push in more than a dozen states.

Mac Slavo | Concern about how to protect wealth is growing exponentially.

New Europe | Will deprive state of 1.5bn euros in savings that government considers necessary to meet terms of Eurozone’s 78bn euro bailout package negotiated with EU, ECB, and IMF.

Breitbart | Budget proposal aims to prevent individuals from accumulating “millions of dollars in these accounts.”

The Guardian | Offshore financial industry leak exposes identities of 1,000s of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world.

Zero Hedge | Things just keep getting worse for the American worker.

The Chosun Ilbo | Hollande said he would introduce legislation requiring government ministers and MPs to declare and publish details of their personal wealth.

Economic Collapse | What would you do if you logged in to your bank account someday and it showed that you had a zero balance and your bank had no record that you ever had any money in your account?

Saman Mohammadi | Obama Ben Bernanke is to America what Osama bin Laden was to Islam: poison.

zerohedge.com | A 14x rise since the start of the year.

Washington Post | “…could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.”

Infowars.com | Stock market’s “dangerous casino” is a bubble waiting to burst.

Mike Adams | I’d like to share a lesson in economics today, and I call it the “Production, Coercion and Theft” lesson.

Zero Hedge | With every passing day, it becomes clearer and clearer the Cyprus deposit confiscation “news” was the most unsurprising outcome for the nation’s financial system.

Zero Hedge | The ‘Troika-imposed’ responsibility will, “turn Cyprus into a colony of the worst possible type.”

Zero Hedge | European depositors are increasingly coming to the realization that deposits in their local bank are not ‘safe’ places to put their spare cash.

testosteronepit.com | US-centric balance of economic power has been destabilized by the crumbling of EU welfare states.

The Atlantic | The reason a record number of Americans are on food assistance is that a record number are in poverty.

Lew Rockwell Blog | Here’s an account (literally).

Economic Collapse | The politicians of the western world are coming after your bank accounts. In fact, Cyprus-style “bail-ins” are actually proposed in the new Canadian government budget.

sovereignman.com | Bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes.

Business Insider | Faber: “My concern is that we are going to have a systemic crisis where it is going to be very difficult to hide.”

Economic Collapse | Don’t be surprised when the global elite confiscate money from your bank account one day.

dollarvigilante.com | Free market has moved in to help Cypriots get access to their money via other means.

Russia Beyond the Headlines | Move is expected to boost banks’ cash reserves and put a damper on Russia’s shadow economy.

Zero Hedge | The result, at least for Europe, is quite scary…

Bloomberg News | The biggest emerging markets are uniting to tackle under-development and currency volatility with plans to set up institutions that encroach on the roles of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Paul Joseph Watson | Cyprus bailout deal loots 40% of bank deposits.

Mike Adams | Entire accounts seized indefinitely.

New York Times | Would leave the government still deeply in debt a decade from now.

Daily Mail | Leader under fire as he faces just four days to save country from collapse.

Washington’s Blog | Bernanke Entirely Fails to Answer Question.

dailybail.com | No one ever answers the question.

forbes.com | American workers have very good reason to be afraid.

MineWeb.com | Measure also counters taxing gold or silver coins and bullion minted by the U.S. Government as property, since it is to be considered money.

Economic Collapse | Why is the global economy in so much trouble?

Bloomberg | Freddie Mac lawyer: “Defendants’ fraudulent and collusive conduct caused USD LIBOR to be published at rates that were false, dishonest, and artificially low.”

Economic Collapse | Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started.

Economic Collapse | The global elite have now proven that when the chips are down they are going to go after any big pile of money that they think they can get their hands on.

Mike Adams | This use of the term “haircut” to describe government theft of private banking accounts has got to stop.

Zero Hedge | People are dancing around the edges while the propaganda machines of Europe are churning out the usual bunk.

Michael Snyder | Cyprus is a beta test. 

Zero Hedge | It is difficult to describe the weekend bailout package to Cyprus in any other way.

Zero Hedge | Europe has done it again.

dailybail.com | A perfect example of White House deception when it comes to slowing the growth of government.