Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks, interest rates, dollar continue their ascent. US housing starts plunge as higher mortgage rates begin to bite. Italian banks restructuring and raising capital as government begins bail-out. Gold and silver recovering from hard fall post-Fed. The “fake news”/Russian hacking debate intensifies.
Best Of The Web
Are you “living in a death spiral”? – SHTF Plan
Dutch death spiral – from paradise to Bolshevik thought police – Zero Hedge
The march of the billionaires: on Trump’s bait and switch – Common Dreams
Breaking free from the captured media – Peak Prosperity
The soon to erupt euro experiment – MATA SII
Our “gaslight” financial system – Charles Hugh Smith
Cycles – anti-globalization & the end of the debt super cycle – MATA SII
Trump, bonds, peripheries, China and Italy – Credit Bubble Bulletin
A new look – NYSE margin debt and the market – Financial Sense
The guys from ‘Government Sachs’ – New York Times
This map shows how much debt the world is in – M2
What a professional disinformation campaign looks like – Zero Hedge
Decade of negative real interest rates: who benefited? – Mish
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/16 Gundlach sounds Fed alarm, warns of selloff near inauguration day – Think Advisor
12/16 Opinion: Europe is failing, and Merkel can’t save it – MarketWatch
12/16 Trump trade war will hurt US more than China – CNBC
12/16 Stranger things are going into China’s overseas shopping basket – Bloomberg
12/16 Stocks off highs on report of China seizing US underwater drone – CNBC
12/16 Italy prepared to pump 15 billion euros into ailing banks: sources – Reuters
12/16 R.I.P. bond bull market as charts say last gasps have been taken – Bloomberg
12/16 China & Saudi Arabia are dumping Treasuries at a rapid pace – ETF Daily News
12/16 Banking crisis more probable by the day – Mountain Vision
12/16 Trump, the Fed and systemic risk – Daily Reckoning
12/16 Debt burden hangs over China’s economic future – Daily Brief
12/16 European insurers and the curse of low interest rates – Economist
12/16 Record inventory stockpiling by manufacturers: optimism soars – Mish
12/16 Rising rents lift U.S. inflation; labor market tightens – Reuters
Precious Metals
12/16 Fed’s “fool me…”, silver suppression, euro contagion in 2017? – GoldCore
12/16 Sentiment speaks: metals are going lower – Seeking Alpha
12/16 Strong appreciation of U.S. dollar – Money Morning
12/16 Gold: one of the most interesting & complicated stories of 2016 – Tape
12/16 Ignore Royal Gold, Inc.: here are 3 better stocks – Motley Fool
12/16 The main reason to buy gold and silver stocks has shifted – Motley Fool
12/16 Ted Butler: The royal flush – GATA
12/16 Columbus Gold gains attention – Streetwise Reports
12/16 3 top gold stocks to buy now – Motley Fool
12/15 Bron Suchecki: Silver smoking gun to stop dishonest dealing – GATA
12/15 Gold slides to lowest since February as Fed strikes hawkish note – CNBC
12/15 Gold hits 10-month low as Fed signals faster rate hikes in 2017 – CNBC
12/15 Gold, mining ETFs slump after Fed raises rates – Investors
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/16 The multinationals whose bonds the ECB is discreetly buying – Wolf Street
12/16 Crackdown on cash economy an attack on the poor and a reward for banks – Guardian
12/16 Swedish Central Bank winning currency war, but costs mounting – Business Recorder
12/16 Reflections on the war on cash – Mish
12/16 Strange ideas about inflation and interest rate rises in the New York Times – Forbes
12/16 China devalues yuan to weakest fix since may 2008 – Zero Hedge
12/15 US Consumer Price Index rose 0.2% in Nov vs. 0.2% increase expected – CNBC
12/15 Core CPI above Fed mandate for 13th straight month – Zero Hedge
12/15 Dollar surges after Fed’s signal for more interest-rate hikes – MarketWatch
Real Estate Bubble
12/16 US housing starts tumble from nine-year high – Yahoo!
12/16 Brace for falling home prices as Hong Kong follows US in raising interest rate – SCMP
12/16 China’s spiralling property prices – BBC
12/15 Hong Kong property shares turn toxic as mortgage costs spike – Bloomberg
12/15 Mortgage applications fall 4% – CNBC
DollarCollapse Podcasts
12/01 All Eyes On Italy
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
Politics
12/16 Trump, Russia and China – Goldmoney
12/16 Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump’s favor: U.S. officials – Reuters
12/16 Norwegian columnist sacked for backing Le Pen – Sputnik News
12/16 Pollsters tune-up for French election after Trump, Brexit shocks – Yahoo!
12/16 ?is France the final domino for the European Union? – Paste Magazine
12/16 Is Angela Merkel the new leader of the free world? – Journal of Diplomacy
12/16 Is diversity inherently dangerous? – WaPo
12/16 Global warming: the right kind – Mish
12/16 Putin lashes out at Obama: “show some proof or shut up” – Zero Hedge
12/16 Judge orders Colorado electors to vote for Hillary Clinton – Durango Herald
12/16 Hillary Clinton’s loss in Michigan and how leadership teams fail – Forbes
12/15 Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip – Politico
Offshore Investing
12/16 The real winner of the US elections – Mountain Vision
12/13 Singapore is a safe haven for gold investors – GATA
12/11 5 potential offshore traps you should run from – Mountain Vision
10/09 A new era of uncertainty in Europe – Mountain Vision
Clean Tech
12/16 Solar cheaper than wind, says BNEF – Windpower Monthly
12/15 Australia’s blockchain solar power-trading suburbs take shape – CryptoCoins News
12/14 Final EPA study confirms fracking contaminates drinking water – EcoWatch
12/14 US solar power smashes records in 2016 – Climate Change News
12/14 Cleantech: has solar power reached its tipping point? – Profit Confidential
12/13 States are decoupling their emissions from economic growth – Greentech Media
12/13 Legal marijuana opening new market for renewable microgrids – Greentech Media
Art of the Collapse
12/12 A dozen dead oceans – Automatic Earth
12/11 Chicago working around clock to clear 18″ of bullet casings from streets – Onion
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
12/16 Breakthrough in Japan, Russia islands row eludes PM Abe, Putin – Reuters
12/16 Rickards: Obama’s blunder; Trump’s gambit – Darien Times
12/16 Hundreds leave besieged east Aleppo on first day of evacuation – Guardian
12/16 When SWAT raids are routine – American Conservative
12/15 DEA blames the media for making it harder to arrest people over weed – Anti Media
12/15 54% of Americans say police using military weapons “goes too far” – CATO
12/14 There is more than one truth to tell in the awful story of Aleppo – Independent
12/13 Police expect more surplus military gear under President Trump – CBS News
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/12 Happiness depends on health and friends, not money, says new study – Guardian
12/11 10 corporations have a monopoly on almost all supermarket goods – Natural News
12/11 Fish traps to catch your limit – Survival Sullivan
12/09 Foolish to trust the CDC on vaccines – Dr. Sircus
12/08 How to get out of handcuffs and other restraints – Survival Sullivan
12/08 Grow food all year in your home with heat storing greenhouse – David Wolfe
12/07 Pete & Gerry’s cage-free eggs a hit; small farmers can take note – MarketWatch
12/06 Bivy bags – Survival Sullivan
12/04 8 steps to securing online privacy – Sovereign Investor
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
12/16 Mutually assured cyber destruction? – Times of Israel
12/15 Yahoo admits another billion accounts hacked – Zero Hedge
12/14 Cybersecurity’s next phase: cyber-deterrence – Financial Sense
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/16 New map reveals shattering effect of roads on nature – Guardian
12/16 As ‘superbugs’ strengthen, an alarming lack of new weapons to fight them – Reuters
12/14 Crack in Antarctica forming an iceberg the size of Delaware – Pop Sci
12/13 World’s largest reindeer herd plummets – BBC
12/11 The earth itself now accelerating demise of the human species – Daily Kos
12/09 Idiocracy, Last Tango in Paris, 11 other entertainments ruined by 2016 – Vanity Fair
12/09 Polar Vortex is back and it’s going to get ugly – USA Today
12/09 Inhaling through nose stimulates brain and boosts memory – Telegraph
12/09 Life expectancy in U.S. drops for the first time in decades – Zero Hedge
12/09 Mass extinction and mass insanity – Automatic Earth
12/08 Giraffes facing ‘silent extinction’ as population plunges – BBC
