Courtesy of John Rubino.
US dollar soaring, now at highest level of the year. Interest rates rising, bond prices falling. Mortgage rates up. Gold and silver correcting. Political class still searching for an explanation (see “Best of the Web”). Trump’s cabinet takes shape, with mostly old and a few new faces.
Best Of The Web
The technosphere hiccups – Club Orlov
Did president-elect Trump just kill the golden goose? – MATA SII
No more flyover country – Automatic Earth
The cognitive dissonance cluster bomb – Dilbert
Get ready… change is upon us – Peak Prosperity
Trump won yet gold is falling…why? – Seeking Alpha
Trump’s revolution is over – Gary North
President Trump: How America got it so wrong – Rolling Stone
How to survive the next four years – Vanity Fair
Who lost: a biased media, pundits, pollsters, political parties, more – OfTwoMinds.com
Commentary: The unbearable smugness of the press – CBS News
The ruling elite is protected from the consequences of its dominance – Charles Hugh Smith
Democrats, Trump, & dangerous refusal to learn the lesson of Brexit – Intercept
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Breaking News
The Economy
11/18 Global bonds: biggest two-week loss in quarter century? – Bloomberg
11/18 Inequality, market chaos and angry voters – Spiegel
11/18 Global trade is slowing – Bloomberg
11/18 US recovery is heading towards its death – CNBC
11/18 200 years of US interest rates in one chart – CNBC
11/18 Fed rate rise could come ‘relatively soon’ – Bloomberg
11/18 Treasury yields reach year’s high as Fed preps for rate hike – Bloomberg
11/18 Italy leads euro-area bond selloff – Bloomberg
11/18 Jobless claims in U.S. decline, lowest in four decades – Bloomberg
11/17 Bond vigilantes are back, and Trump better pay attention – CNBC
11/17 Trump digs in for major U.S. trade reset with the world – CNBC
11/17 Canadian province to give every citizen $1,320 income boost – Independent
11/17 David Fischer: All of our problems are solved? – FSN
11/17 Singapore’s Oct. exports shrink 12% on-year, raising recession risks – CNBC
11/17 Rickards: financial crisis coming soon, will be different – Bloomberg
11/17 Another financial warning sign is flashing in China – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
11/18 Gold at 5-1/2-month low on strong dollar, Yellen comments – Reuters
11/18 Strong dollar blocking silver price recovery – Economic Calendar
11/18 May never get to buy gold at this level again – GoldAndOilGuy
11/18 Matt Geiger picks 7 mining companies to buy this year – Streetwise Reports
11/18 Why you need to own physical gold – Mountain Vision
11/17 Islamic gold – vital new dynamic in physical gold market – GoldCore
11/17 No, inflation isn’t bad for gold – Business Insider
11/17 Is India seriously considering a gold import ban? – Oil Price
11/17 India’s currency changes caused a gold rush last week – Washington Post
11/17 Gold set to get a boost as Trump’s spending plans fuel inflation – CNBC
11/17 How a Trump White House could affect gold stocks – Motley Fool
11/17 Peak gold globally – “bullish for gold” – GoldCore
11/17 Gold and the real interest rate – Seeking Alpha
11/17 Forget the narrative, time is on gold’s side – Kitco
11/17 What does the gold-to-silver ratio tell us? – Seeking Alpha
11/16 Gold: what’s next? – Merk Investments
11/16 Gold commitments of traders – SafeHaven
11/16 Soros more than doubles stake in Barrick Gold as shares drop – GATA
11/16 What are fractional coin sizes? – APMEX
11/16 Gold miner Kirkland Lake rises on bid talk; Yamana declines – Reuters
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
11/18 Trump-trade rally pushes dollar to weekly gain as gold declines – Bloomberg
11/18 Europe at risk of collapse; France, Germany must lead – Reuters
11/18 Euro suffers longest losing streak on record – Telegraph
11/18 Renzi’s referendum heading for defeat in Italy – Bloomberg
11/18 Renzi renews pledge to resign if he loses referendum – Local
11/18 China ready to slow yuan descent, worried about capital outflows – Reuters
11/18 Mexico raises overnight rate, Trump’s win wallops peso – Bloomberg
11/18 The next crisis is coming – new world government? – Financial Sense
11/18 Fed’s asymmetric policy: Stagflation Lite coming up? – Mish
11/18 The war on cash just escalated big-time – Daily Reckoning
Real Estate Bubble
11/18 China home price inflation hits new record high – Zero Hedge
11/18 Housing starts surge at best rate since August 2007 – Mish
11/17 Mortgage rates soar to 10-month high after Trump bond rout – Bloomberg
11/17 The $11-trillion commercial property bubble in the US – Wolf Street
11/16 U.S. mortgage applications gauge slumps to lowest since January – Bloomberg
DollarCollapse Podcasts
11/04 Instability on the horizon
10/04 European banks in the eye of the storm
9/13 Markets explain facts of life to Fed
8/16 A tough time to manage money
7/27 Random violence and political instability: the new normal
7/21 It’s not the event but the response to the event that matters
7/01 Brexit was just the beginning
6/25 The deeper meaning of Brexit
6/08 Gold Will Soar, Marijuana Will Be Legal
5/23 Hard times for obsolete entities
Politics
11/18 Trump selects senator Jeff sessions for attorney general – NY Times
11/18 Why Italy is the next country to fall to Trumpism – David McWilliam
11/18 Could Marine Le Pen win the French elections? – MSN
11/18 Europe’s biggest populist danger – Economist
11/18 Political correctness has marginalized the working class – Charles Hugh Smith
11/18 UC Irvine curriculum for “life under avowed white supremacist president” – Zero Hedge
11/17 GOP rushes to embrace Trump – The Hill
11/17 How America decided, at the last moment, to elect Donald Trump – Washington Post
11/17 For a libertarian foreign policy: five key fixes – Ron Paul Institute
11/17 The real reason Rand Paul opposes John Bolton for secretary of state – WaPo
11/17 Noam Chomsky: similarities between Trump, Brexit, Marine Le Pen – Blasting News
11/17 Marine Le Pen could win presidential election in 2017 – Independent
11/17 You are still crying wolf – Slate Star Codex
11/17 War-torn Hillary emerges – Zero Hedge
11/17 The one big thing I got wrong about Donald Trump – Washington Post
11/17 Hillary Clinton’s popular-vote victory unprecedented and growing – Nation
11/16 Why aren’t Donald Trump’s epic conflicts of interest illegal? – Fortune
Offshore Investing
10/28 Social mood is changing – prepare your offshore nest egg – Mountain Vision
10/07 Panama Papers? Try UNITED STATES Papers? – Mountain Vision
9/14 4 totally legal reasons to use an offshore structure – Nestmann
7/20 Costa Rica: Central America’s hidden gem – Sovereign Investor
Clean Tech
11/18 Power to the people: Solar panel sales to soon surpass leasing – ITWorld
11/18 Tesla’s solar shingles will cost less than a dumb roof – Bloomberg
11/17 What is solar energy’s future under Trump? – Medill
11/17 Tesla’s ludicrously fast car may get more punch – CNBC
11/16 Can Chevy Bolt wake Americans up to advantages of electric cars? – Salon
11/15 Fears over solar and wind power reliability ‘overblown’ – Telegraph
11/15 Microsoft announces biggest-ever wind energy buy – Fortune
11/15 Can Trump derail the EV revolution? – Oil Price
Art of the Collapse
11/14 Dave Chappelle pledges to give Trump a chance in genius “SNL” monologue – Salon
11/11 Samantha Bee slams white women after Donald Trump’s win – Vanity Fair
11/10 Breaking news from Canada – Burning Platform
11/07 SNL’s biting criticism of Donald Trump’s media coverage – WaPo
11/04 Black Jeopardy is best political sketch this year – WaPo
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
11/18 Why the world needs WikiLeaks – New York Times
11/18 America’s top spy talks Snowden leaks and our ominous future – Wired
11/17 NATO prepares for Trump presidency – Spiegel
11/17 Nick Turse, America, the election, and the dismal tide – Tom Dispatch
11/17 Russians launch “massive strikes” on syrian terrorist targets – Zero Hedge
11/16 Ron Paul: don’t confuse defense spending with military spending – Noozhawk
11/16 The terrifying prospect of an Attorney General Giuliani – Washington Post
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
11/16 How do startup robo advisers stack up against the big banks? – MarketWatch
11/14 These survival food and water mistakes could kill any prepper – Survival Sullivan
11/10 Poison – Dr. Sircus
11/09 Prepping mistakes (all of them are here) – Survival Sullivan
11/08 The ultimate zero to hero guide to prepping – Survival Sullivan
11/07 This FRUIT PEEL fights pain, heart attack and stroke – Lose The Back Pain
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
11/17 Wickedly clever USB stick installs a backdoor on locked PCs – Wired
11/14 Security news this week: what Trump’s win means for cybersecurity – Wired
11/11 Trump’s win signals open season for Russia’s political hackers – Wired
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
11/18 The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal – WaPo
11/17 The absurdity of laws against prostitution – FFF
11/17 Trump’s environmental adviser: pesticides aren’t bad for you – Mother Jones
11/17 Brahms & democracy – Antonius Aquinas
11/16 Could these marijuana stocks continue buzzing from election results? – MunKnee
11/16 Humans aren’t just changing the climate, but life itself – Bloomberg
11/16 Denver is first city in US to allow pot in bars, restaurants – CNBC
11/15 Germany, Denmark step up bird flu controls – DW
11/15 Trump will quit global climate accord – hurray! – Dr. Sircus
11/14 As Trump heads to WA, global warming nears tipping point – Bloomberg
11/11 Marijuana wins big, as dark struggles loom – AlterNet
