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US stocks, interest rates, dollar 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. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany. Gold and silver fall again.
Best Of The Web
Dow 20,000 12-9-16 – Real Investment Advice
Are you a deplorable? Take this quiz to find out – Charles Hugh Smith
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/20 Dollar rises to 14-year peak as Wall Street hits record highs – Yahoo!
12/20 Saving Italy’s banks means missing public debt target again – Bloomberg
12/20 Will the dollar derail the stock market? – Seeking Alpha
12/20 Europe stocks lifted by deal activity inch closer to 1-year high – Bloomberg
12/20 Nine in 10 jobless Greeks receive no unemployment benefit – Ekathimerini
12/20 The bears are dying: even Bob Janjuah turns (somewhat) bullish – Zero Hedge
12/20 Monte Paschi private bailout on edge of collapse – Zero Hedge
12/20 GM, Fiat Chrysler idle 7 plants; over 10,000 workers affected – Zero Hedge
12/20 GM inventories highest in 8 years, multiple plant shutdowns coming – Mish
12/20 The implosion of the global markets has started & can’t be stopped – SRSrocco Report
12/20 The issues still facing the US economy – Korelin Economics Report
12/20 Japan to issue Y1.8 tril of bonds to make up for tax shortfall – Japan Today
12/20 A new Dow high – anyone concerned? – Gold And Liberty
12/20 U.S. economy wholly unprepared for rate hike – Lombardi
Precious Metals
12/20 Gold: the wait for inauguration day – 321Gold
12/20 Gold prices slide again, strong dollar dominates sentiment – Economic Calendar
12/20 Short gold: a win-win situation – Seeking Alpha
12/20 Why it’s time to seriously start considering gold as an investment – BenZinga
12/20 Investing in gold: 3 ways to profit from higher gold prices – Lombardi Letter
12/19 China and India attack gold; here’s why – King World News
12/19 The most exciting time to be a Mining Stock Investor – Penny Mining Stocks
12/19 If gold keeps falling these 5 junior gold miners could t-h-r-i-v-e – MunKnee
12/19 GDX: bulls getting Fed up – Seeking Alpha
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/20 What a stronger dollar means for investments: good, bad and ugly – MSN
12/20 India’s rapidly plunging toward a police state – Zero Hedge
12/20 US feels threatened by increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies – News BTC
12/20 Ethereum and bitcoin: what’s the difference? – Blockgeeks
12/20 Bank of Japan leaves policy unchanged, upgrades economic outlook – Zero Hedge
12/19 Gone in 60 seconds: Chinese snap up dollars as yuan tanks – Bloomberg
12/19 Currency interventions return to ground zero of negative rates – Bloomberg
12/19 A Keynesian challenge: prove deflation is bad for me! – MATA SII
12/19 China’s true FX outflows since August 2015 are double official number – Zero Hedge
Real Estate Bubble
12/20 China talks the talk on property curbs, but can it walk the walk? – Bloomberg
12/19 China to strictly limit property speculation in 2017: Xinhua – Reuters
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
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
12/20 Populist onslaught in Europe likely to fail – Straits Times
12/20 ?2016 In review: The revenge of the forgotten – KPAX
12/20 Trumpenstein! Who created him and why? – GoldCore
12/20 Electors remain faithful to Trump and select him as official winner – CNN
12/20 Trump, optimism and Russia – Korelin Economics Report
12/20 Anti-islam, anti-migration wilders widens lead in Dutch polls – Mish
12/19 Aleppo, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump: your weekend briefing – NY Times
12/19 Trump’s Cabinet picks are among the most conservative in history – LA Times
12/19 Trump’s pick for US ambassador to Israel signals changes in US policy – ABC News
12/19 Rand Paul and Justin Amash push back on Trump’s worst instincts – Reason
12/18 ?The French will save the world – US News
12/18 Presidential candidate plays religious ‘threat’ card in politically insecure France – 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
12/20 The Tesla advantage: 1.3 billion miles of data – Bloomberg
12/20 Japan pulls plug on troubled fast breeder reactor – Daily Mail
12/20 Most read solar power world stories from 2016 – Solar
12/20 Batteries need to get big—like, enormous—for solar power to shine – IEEE
12/20 America invented it… China owns it… opportunity springs from it – Wall St. Daily
12/20 Solar power renaissance as costs keep dropping – Extreme Match
12/20 The next big wave after lithium batteries – SafeHaven
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
12/20 Greek hospitals deepen trauma for refugee women giving birth – Guardian
12/20 Berlin police says it arrested “the wrong man” – Zero Hedge
12/19 Truck plows into crowd at Berlin Christmas market nine dead – Reuters
12/19 Russian ambassador to Turkey assassinated in Ankara – NYT
12/19 Pentagon says China to return drone; Trump says they can keep it – Bloomberg
12/19 CIA meddled in ‘hundreds’ of elections – Mo4ch News
12/19 Lessons of Aleppo – for Trump – AntiWar
12/19 CIA-led coup against American democracy unfolding before our eyes – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/20 Alternative uses for honey – Survival Sullivan
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
12/20 5 problems with CIA claims of Russian hacking – Zero Hedge
12/19 Is the best cyber defense a terrifying cyber offense? – Investors
12/19 Putin is waging cyberwar against Britain with campaign of hack attacks – The Sun
12/19 What does Obama’s retaliation look like in the Russia cyberwar? – Globe And Mail
12/19 US & Russia on the brink of an open cyber war – Inquisitr
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/20 This is the polar bear capital of the world, but the snow has gone – Guardian
12/20 The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint – Reuters
12/19 Trump appointees cause climate change panic – Dr. Sircus
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
