Mike Krieger | The sneaky thing about Amazon’s increased dominance in so many key aspects of our lives is that much of the perniciousness is hidden.

Zero Hedge | How do you know we are living through the biggest bubble in history? Simple: when a painting, doesn’t matter who the artist is, doesn’t matter who rare and prized, sells for half a billion dollars.

Michael Snyder | We have not seen a “leadership reversal”, a “Hindenburg Omen” and a “Titanic Syndrome signal” all appear simultaneously since just before the last financial crisis.

RT | If a conflict happens, oil prices could increase 500 percent.

Reuters | Trump tweeted some tax bill suggestions early on Monday that were starkly different from the two Republican plans being considered in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Zero Hedge | A horrendous reflection of the creeping erosion in living standards across the broad swath of the population.

Michael Snyder | Is the retail apocalypse in the United States about to go to a whole new level?

Bloomberg | Between the FAANG quintet and China’s rivaling BAT companies, gains in the world’s top technology shares are nearing a whopping $1.7 trillion in market value this year.

Truth Revolt | Pay gap myth promotes “victim-hood mentality” among women.

Michael Snyder | The only other times in our history when stock prices have been this high relative to earnings, a horrifying stock market crash has always followed.

Daily Mail | POTUS launches thinly veiled slap at China just hours after leaving Beijing.