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Breaking News And Best Of The Web

Courtesy of John Rubino.

US stocks, interest rates, dollar at recent and/or record highs. Worries about valuation are spreading. US housing starts jump in November, auto sales turn down, numerous factories scaling back. Italian banks restructuring and raising capital as government begins bail-out. Deutsche Bank agrees to big fine for mortgage fraud. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany.  

Best Of The Web

Gold and silver prospects in an uncertain global currency market – GoldCore

A broken bond bounce beckons! – MATA SII

2016 year in review – David Collum

Something wicked this way comes – Burning Platform

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

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Breaking News

The Economy

12/25  Is buyback trickery giving us false hope in the market? – Birch Gold

12/25  Ayn Rand and corporate tax cuts won’t mend the economy – New Yorker

12/25  A violent end to the bull market – Market Oracle

12/24  Japan plans record spending as debt piles up – Global Times

12/24  Japanese gov’t lacks sense of crisis on debt reliance – Mainichi

12/24  Sell all your bonds – Daily Reckoning

12/24  Limited room for China to tighten policy as debt fear grows – Reuters

12/23  James Rickards says Trump can’t stop the next financial crisis – MarketWatch

12/23  They’re making this same dumb mistake again… – Nestmann

12/23  95% of all new jobs during Obama era were part-time, or contract – Investing

12/23  World trade falls to 2014 level, just in time for a “trade war” – Wolf Street

12/23  Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse agree billion-dollar fines with US authorities – CNBC

12/23  Protests expected to plunge Italy into chaos – Express

12/23  Red flag on recession in NY Fed’s Coincident Economic Index – Wolf Street

Precious Metals

12/25  Gold speculators cutting long positions. Is a bottom forming? – SA

12/25  The worst silver stock in 2016 – NASDAQ

12/25  Is Goldcorp a better buy than Barrick Gold? – Fox

12/25  Gold: investment with the biggest turnaround potential in 2017 – Birch Gold

12/25  The end of a golden era – Barron’s

12/25  Bundesbank says it’s bringing Germany’s gold home faster than planned – GATA

12/24  Gold as a percentage of global financial assets – Gold Eagle

12/24  Dollar euphoria and gold – Seeking Alpha

12/24  GLD drops 158 tonnes since Independence Day – Seeking Alpha

12/24  Barrick gold: 2017 not looking good – Seeking Alpha

12/24  Great Panther Silver pins future on ability to relive past – Fox

12/24  Deleveraging tightens metals supply and supports prices: part 2 – Seeking Alpha

12/23  Will India support gold prices in the coming days? – Seeking Alpha

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

12/25  Bitcoin surges to outperform gold, stocks – Bloomberg

12/25  Has inflation’s rebirth been over-forecast? – MarketWatch

12/25  Dollar holds near-14-year high against rivals in preholiday trade – MarketWatch

12/25  “Positive ripple” asininity courtesy of Financial Times – Mish

12/25  At new highs, bitcoin is a global safe haven asset – ValueWalk

12/25  CNBC analysts explain bitcoin price surge on mainstream TV – Coin Telegraph

12/24  ECB sees inflation surge, firming global recovery – RTE

12/24  Pound flattens inflation curve as consumers face squeeze – Bloomberg

12/24  ‘Lombard Street’ for a new age – Seeking Alpha

Real Estate Bubble

12/23  Chinese money moving to US commercial property – CNBC

12/23  U.S. new home sales jump to four-month high – Yahoo!

12/22  25-year-olds’ home ownership in England, Wales halved in 20 years – Guardian

12/22  US mortgage rates jump to more than 2-year high – Bloomberg

12/21  Existing-home sales edge up to a 9-year high in November – MarketWatch

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

12/25  Opponents, family feud take shine off Le Pen’s hopes – Reuters

12/25  The chaos theory of Donald Trump: Sowing confusion through tweets – WaPo

12/25  European far right calls for end to open borders – Guardian

12/25  Is populism a phenomenon of 2016? – IB Times

12/25  Marine Le Pen: ‘Frexit is part of my policy’ – AMNA.gr

12/24  Marine Le Pen short of funds for 2017 presidential run – France24

12/24  Donald’s trump card – Ahead Of The Herd

12/24  Yes, 2016 was bad. But next year risks being far worse – Bangkok Post

12/23  ‘If you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do’ – Business Insider

12/23  Israel ‘asked Donald Trump to intervene to avert U.N. vote on settlements’ – Telegraph

12/23  “Russia did it” – the last stand of neoconservatism – Gefira

12/23  Ron Paul: “US interferes in foreign elections all the time” – Zero Hedge

Offshore Investing

12/23  The best countries for your escape plan – International Man

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

Clean Tech

12/25  Solar power: are the promises coming true? – Blue And Green Tomorrow

12/25  Solar power cheapest form of energy in almost 60 countries – Science Alert

12/24  The top 5 solar policy trends of 2016 – Utility Drive

12/24  Oil company’s new bet on wind power – Business Insider

12/23  Solar power’s declining cost – Vox

12/21  Former farm grows solar power now — and it’s dirt cheap – Clean Technica

12/21  Solar is 31% of new generation – Electrek

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

12/25  The United States and the race for global hegemony – Strategic Culture

12/25  How americans respond when liberal states restrict their gun rights – SHTF Plan

12/23  Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri killed in Milan shootout – CNN

12/23  Trump appears to double down on nuclear expansion – Guardian

12/23  ISIS releases holiday attack list of U.S. churches – Zero Hedge

12/22  More details emerge about Berlin truck terrorist – Zero Hedge

12/22  Russia arms Serbia amid tensions with NATO – AP

12/22  EU to boost border checks on cash, gold to tackle ‘terrorism financing’ – Reuters

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

12/24  How physical inactivity increases risk for chronic diseases – Mercola

12/23  Healing tonic that helped climbing expedition conquer Everest – Alternative Daily

12/23  10 good reasons to change jobs every 3 to 5 years – Forbes

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

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

12/22  Link between DNC hacks and aggression against Ukrain – Wall St Journal

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

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

12/25  It may not feel like anything to be an alien – Kurzweil

12/25  New ebola vaccine gives 100 percent protection – NY Times

12/22  Bitcoin-fed plant robot hires artists to make its babies – Singularity Hub

12/21  Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as ‘airpocalypse’ blights half a billion – Guardian

12/21  American lifespan declines as obesity and opioid epidemic takes its toll – Mercola

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

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