Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks, interest rates, dollar end the week at recent and/or record highs. Worries about valuation are spreading. 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 recover slightly from post-Fed decline. The “fake news”/Russian hacking debate intensifies.
Best Of The Web
Money under fire – Peak Prosperity
Collateral damage – Capitalist Exploits
Cycles – a fuse, an explosive and the igniting catalyst – MATA SII
“When gold goes above 1430 we whack it” – COMEX we have a problem
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/18 Five reasons Fed won’t hike even twice in 2017 – Mish
12/18 State pensions time bomb spells disaster for the US – Zero Hedge
12/18 Credit card debt highest since the eve of the financial crisis – Business Insider
12/18 Debt nation: the problem, the solutions – Epoch Times
12/18 The real reason China is “dumping” U.S. Treasuries – Birch Gold
12/17 Yellen’s interest rates signal to Trump: take it easy, bad boy – Guardian
12/17 Draghi said to warn EU rising global rates pose crisis risk – Bloomberg
12/17 China firms cancel over $7 bln debt issuance this month amid bond rout – Reuters
12/17 The US Federal Reserve is pushing China into a messy Catch-22 – CNBC
12/17 India’s road to depression – Bert Dohmen
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
Precious Metals
12/18 Radical gold underinvestment bullish for 2017 – Seeking Alpha
12/18 Why things are still positive for gold investors – Seeking Alpha
12/18 Gold: tactics after US rate hike – 321Gold
12/18 Senior gold miners that could outperform after the rate hike – Market Realist
12/18 Gold poised for a comeback in 2017 – Investing.com
12/18 Detail of Fed rate hike has this potential implication for gold – Birch Gold
12/18 Predictions for gold prices in 2017 – Birch Gold
12/17 Royal Gold, Inc. in 5 charts – Motley Fool
12/17 Turks seek gold more than liras in response to Erdogan’s call – Bloomberg
12/17 Gold: tactics after us rate hike – 321Gold
12/17 High gold premiums in China are demand-driven, Maguire tells KWN – GATA
12/17 ‘Tinfoil hat crowd’ was right, and gold mining executives are saps – GATA
12/17 Gold miners and the gold price could crater on US interest rate hikes – Motley Fool
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/18 No demand, no problem: inflation pressures surge – Wolf Street
12/18 Inflation alarms fade after dollar rally provides Fed cushion – Bloomberg
12/18 Pondering a ‘cashless’ society – Seeking Alpha
12/18 Government fears bitcoin will be as awesome as bitcoin fans hope – Reason.com
12/18 5 incredible ways the blockchain is reshaping the supply chain – Huffington Post
12/18 Bitcoin topped all other currencies in 2016 – CryptoCoins News
12/18 Euro parity with dollar ‘only a matter of time’ – CNBC
12/18 Strong dollar could challenge Trump agenda – Nation
12/17 Bank of Japan to hold negative rates, leave JGB yield target unchanged – Reuters
Real Estate Bubble
12/17 Housing starts dive 18.7 percent: mortgage rates soar – Mish
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
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
12/18 ?The French will save the world – US News
12/18 Presidential candidate plays religious ‘threat’ card in politically insecure France – CBC
12/18 France’s presidential front-runner is a Trump-like surprise – USA Today
12/18 ?American radicals and the change we could believe in – Nation
12/18 The conservative plan to tackle poverty – Atlantic
12/17 Why Hillary Clinton bombed with white evangelical voters – Slate
12/17 Clinton says Putin grudge led Russia to hack – CNN
12/17 Trump changed how college students learn about conspiracy theories – Time
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 – CBC
Offshore Investing
12/17 If Europe goes down, we go with it – Nestmann
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
Clean Tech
12/18 Solar power just got mindblowingly cheaper – Upworthy
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
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
12/18 Silence over Fedgov anti-media bills will yield to worse – Daily Bell
12/18 Cold War hysteria vs. US national security – Nation
12/17 China’s navy seizes underwater US drone – NY Post
12/17 China holds first live-fire drills with aircraft carrier, warships – Reuters
12/17 ‘Unlike Western mainstream media, I’ve spent the last 3 days in East Aleppo’ – RT
12/17 Snowden had to break the law to become an NSA whistleblower? – Anti Media
12/17 The lessons of Aleppo (for Trump) – Zero Hedge
12/16 Breakthrough in Japan, Russia islands row eludes PM Abe, Putin – Reuters
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/17 Is your olive oil fake? – Mercola
12/17 “You may sleep better at night by taking vitamin B12 during the day…” – Mercola
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
12/18 Russia’s hacks followed years of paranoia toward Hillary – NY Times
12/17 Cyberwar One has begun, Russian cyber attacks on democracies – Blasting News
12/17 Lord Richards: ‘Cyber war is a two-edged sword’ – BBC
12/17 Charlie Rose talks about Putin and cyberwar – Bloomberg
12/17 Obama sat on knowledge of hack; thought Hillary would win – NewsMax
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/17 New tumor target strategy halts human cancer in 90% of mice – Ars Technica
12/17 The best weird and wonderful photos of 2016 – Totally Cool Pix
12/17 Hopeful images from 2016 – Atlantic
12/17 Stephen Jenkinson: living with meaning – Peak Prosperity
12/17 Heal the planet for profit – Automatic Earth
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
