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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. US auto sales turn down, numerous factories scaling back. Italian banks restructuring and raising capital as government begins bail-out. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany.
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
12/21 Europe: “Civil war, unrest, and utter chaos – Business Insider
12/21 From Glass-Steagall to the Fed dominating the UST market in 11 years – ValueWalk
12/21 China blowing major bubbles in 2017 – Forbes
12/21 Chinese banks: bad loans and hot money – Fox Business
12/21 China’s bond rout triggers turmoil as leverage curbs bite – Bloomberg
12/21 What to watch out for in 2017 – Forbes
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
Precious Metals
12/21 Gold: the wait for inauguration day – 321Gold
12/21 Axis of gold – Daily Reckoning
12/21 The Rosen Market Timing Letter – 321Gold
12/21 Cash confiscation and the case for gold – Sovereign Investor
12/21 Krugman: Trump’s cabinet “a gathering of gold bugs” – Zero Hedge
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/21 Brexit: The flight of capital has begun – Business Insider
12/21 Hackers have stolen millions of dollars in bitcoin – Forbes
12/21 Bitcoin and the cashless future – Forbes
12/21 Is India the next Venezuela? – Zero Hedge
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
Real Estate Bubble
12/21 Mark Hanson: Why “a 1% mortgage rate surge changes everything” – Zero Hedge
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!
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
12/21 Do you have an offshore backup plan? – Sovereign Investor
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
Clean Tech
12/21 Former farm grows solar power now — and it’s dirt cheap – Clean Technica
12/21 Solar is 31% of new generation – Electrek
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
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
12/21 Merkel rift widens following truck massacre; “state of war” – Mish
12/21 Egyptian police bust staged photo shoot of “wounded Aleppo children” – Zero Hedge
12/21 The CIA, Washington Post, and Russia: what you’re not being told – Anti Media
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
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
