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, setting the stage for the next bull market. 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
Did Trump just accidentally kill the golden goose? – MATA SII
As exciting as the 1930s – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Ringside with Steve Bannon at Trump Tower – Hollywood Reporter
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
11/22 Don’t blame the buck when the Trump rally gets crushed, in one chart – MarketWatch
11/22 Euro zone nations turn to hedge funds to meet borrowing needs – Reuters
11/22 Why free trade doesn’t work for the workers – Epoch Times
11/22 Fed hike is certainty for bond traders as market odds reach 100% – Bloomberg
11/22 Hedge funds see asset outflows in October, YTD outflows at $77m – Opalesque
11/22 Global wealth: 0.7% of adults control $116.6 trillion in wealth – Zero Hedge
11/22 “Obama set up the next president for a major recession” – SHTFPlan
11/22 Japan tsunami threat downgraded after 6.9-magnitude earthquake – MarketWatch
11/22 Paul Krugman worried about quality of Trump’s spending – Mish
11/22 EU retaliates against US banks, London – Mish
11/22 Why rising interest rates could be “potentially lethal” – Casey Research
11/22 Trump will grow US debt exponentially – 24hGold
11/22 Did the “Trump tantrum” just trigger the next US recession? – MATA SII
11/22 Action and reaction – Hussman Funds
Precious Metals
11/22 Precious metals: key levels for buyers – 321Gold
11/22 Nasty naughty November gold price trend – Gold Eagle
11/21 Physical gold long-term “hedge against governments” – GoldCore
11/21 Silver gets ugly – Seeking Alpha
11/21 Reg Howe: Gold is Trump’s trump – GATA
11/21 Chinese firm wins Barrick’s half of big Australian mine – GATA
11/21 El Dorado Gold is set to outperform – Seeking Alpha
11/21 “Sharia Gold Standard” will add 100 mil investors to gold market – MunKnee
11/21 Gold’s 2016 bull market moving off course – Daily Gold
11/21 Is silver set to surge off significant support? – Zero Hedge
11/20 Gold miners dividend increases may be premature – Reuters
11/20 Gold junior/senior miner ratio not breaking down – Seeking Alpha
11/20 Trump and gold: the look ahead – Daily Reckoning
11/20 Four reasons why gold is a bad investment – Forbes
11/19 U.S. silver market’s two significant developments in August – SRSrocco Report
11/19 Gov coming after your money–how to protect yourself – Casey Research
11/19 Gold miners’ Q3’16 fundamentals – GoldSeek
11/19 Koos Jansen: China’s banks don’t really have much gold – GATA
11/19 Billionaires Stan Druckenmiller, George Soros sold their gold stocks – Motley Fool
11/18 Gold at 5-1/2-month low on strong dollar, Yellen comments – Reuters
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
11/22 Panicky float a risk as yuan weakens – Bloomberg
11/22 Federal Reserve must become world’s ‘dealer of last resort’ – Bloomberg
11/22 Brexit vote wiped $1.5tn off UK household wealth in 2016 – Guardian
11/22 Emerging Asia sees $11 billion outflow on dollar’s rally – Bloomberg
11/22 Bitcoin was supposed to change the world. What happened? – Vox
11/22 End of euro in Italy – Mish
11/22 The IRS just declared war on bitcoin privacy – FEE
11/22 EU parliament to claw back eurosceptics’ funds – EU Observer
11/21 Yuan falls to 8-year low as central bank cuts reference rate – Bloomberg
11/21 France and Italy aversion to fiscal austerity will keep dollar up – CNBC
Real Estate Bubble
11/22 U.S. existing home sales climb to highest since early 2007 – Bloomberg
11/22 Nominating Mnuchin for Treasury: mortgage meltdown controversies – Bloomberg
11/21 Whiff of panic in Miami’s condo market – Wolf Street
11/21 Will Trump economy derail soaring real estate prices? – Our Broker
11/21 Housing in a time of rising mortgage rates – My Budget 360
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
11/22 Merkel’s ‘days are numbered’, warns France’s Le Pen – CNBC
11/22 Willing to oppose Trump, some Senate Republicans gain leverage – Reuters
11/22 Donald Trump’s new world order – American Interest
11/22 Donald Trump keeps cabinet picks under wraps – Fortune
11/22 Theater as a safe space – Wired
11/22 Trump won’t pursue charges against Hillary – Zero Hedge
11/22 Donald Trump and the return of European anti-Americanism – Gatestone Institute
11/22 Trump “exploded” at media execs in off-record meeting – Zero Hedge
11/22 Blaming Hillary Clinton for Trump’s win – Washington Post
11/21 Merkel’s fourth election will be her toughest – Bloomberg
11/21 Sarkozy’s out, but Le Pen isn’t a shoo-in for the French presidency – Guardian
11/21 Fear and loathing inside the deep state – The Saker
11/21 Sarkozy outed in first round of French elections – Mish
11/21 Grey champion assumes command (part two) – Burning Platform
11/21 Clinton’s popular vote lead over trump now exceeds 1.5 million – ABC News
11/21 Hillary Clinton’s campaign was killed in a barrage of friendly fire – Daily Kos
11/20 ‘Political amateurs are conquering the world’ – Euro News
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
11/22 Tesla shock means global gasoline demand has all but peaked – Bloomberg
11/22 The killer apps for batteries – Greentech Media
11/22 What it will take for California to hit 50% renewables – Greentech Media
11/22 How electric vehicles are becoming a tool for grid stability – Greentech Media
11/22 Global utility-scale solar PV O&M market to reach 182GW – Greentech Media
11/21 Trump has little control over green energy and climate change – Salon
11/21 Electric cars provide little threat to oil demand – Oil Price
11/19 Alabama to build largest solar farm, with power for 15K homes – Computer World
Art of the Collapse
11/22 10 victorious Hillary Clinton illustrations that could have been – GQ
11/21 After Trump bashing, SNL goes after mainstream media “fake” news – Zero Hedge
11/20 See Alec Baldwin return to ‘SNL’ as overwhelmed Donald Trump – Rolling Stone
11/20 Did Trump just inadvertently kill the golden goose? – MATA SII
11/14 Dave Chappelle pledges to give Trump a chance in genius “SNL” monologue – Salon
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
11/22 Japanese troops deploy to South Sudan – Zero Hedge
11/21 Police clash with North Dakota pipeline protesters, arrest one – Reuters
11/19 UK lawmakers approve ‘most sweeping’ surveillance powers – Yahoo!
11/19 Obama, EU agree to keep sanctions on Russia – Mish
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
11/20 Chemical, radioactive and heavy metal contamination – Dr. Sircus
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
11/20 US has “clear proof” of Russia’s involvement in cyber attacks – Censor
11/19 Certain android mobile devices can steal your bitcoin – Coin Telegraph
11/17 Wickedly clever USB stick installs a backdoor on locked PCs – Wired
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
11/22 Why don’t we grieve for extinct species? – Guardian
11/21 Airbnb’s ambitious second act will take it way beyond couch-surfing – Vanity Fair
11/21 Amazon to sell fiat Chrysler cars online – Mish
11/19 Woah, Google’s AI is really good at Pictionary – Wired
11/19 OK, J.K. Rowling—enough already with the world-building – Wired
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
