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US stocks down, gold and silver fall from multi-week high. Brexit process begins. Protesters and police gearing up for Trump inauguration. Earnings season starting well for banks and miners. Global debt continues to soar, especially in China. Fake news debate rages. Trump and Merkel trade insults.
Best Of The Web
US financial markets – alarm bells are ringing – Acting Man
Fire with fire – Automatic Earth
2017—Shades of 1937 – Financial Sense
Why the stock market has blasted into outerspace – Econimica
Surmount impending markets shocker to profit and protect – 24hGold
Off to an interesting start – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Mad as Hell – Peak Prosperity
How much did it cost to build the Titanic – GoldSeek
RealVision’s 15 “killer charts” for Q1 2017 – Zero Hedge
3 things: consumer debt, NFIB optimism & policy uncertainty – Real Investment Advice
Secular stagnation theory: challenge to Delong, Summers, Bernanke, more – Mish
The calm before the storm for China inflation – Asia Times
Black magic fraud to be exposed in 2017 – gold up 300x – Egon von Greyerz
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/19 Philly Fed index jumps to 23.6 in January – MarketWatch
1/19 Steve Keen exposes next global economic shockwaves – FinFeed
1/19 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
1/19 How Deutsche Bank made −$462 million disappear – Bloomberg
1/19 Industrial production jumps due to weather: good news stops there – Talk Markets
1/19 Populism; the danger? What about debt? – Wix
1/19 No crisis yet in China’s debt-clogged banks, says S&P – Telegraph
1/19 World’s worst tax haven threatens to expand its operations – Wolf Street
1/19 Here’s what keeps Ray Dalio up at night – Forbes
1/19 The spectre of zombie banks – International Banker
1/19 ‘Fiscal sword of Damocles hanging over’ Illinois economy – Sangmon Sun
1/19 Over $100 billion redeemed from hedge funds in 2016 – Zero Hedge
1/18 Target slumps after disappointing holiday season – USA Today
1/18 Chinese province faked fiscal data for several years – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
1/19 Gold prices could soar if Trump says these things – MarketWatch
1/19 Gold is doing something it hasn’t since 2011 – CNBC
1/19 Gold has a lot going for it this year, not only because of Trump – MarketWatch
1/19 What was the ‘strong-dollar policy’ except gold leasing and price suppression? – GATA
1/19 Gold price… commitments of traders – Gold Eagle
1/19 Gold: everyone’s an expert – Seeking Alpha
1/18 Returning gold bulls – SafeHaven
1/18 Gold up 5.5% ytd – hard Brexit cometh, weaker dollar under Trump – GoldCore
1/18 Will gold pull back from recent gains? – GoldAndOilGuy
1/18 Gold becomes overbought; what to do now? – Seeking Alpha
1/18 How to choose entries in gold – Seeking Alpha
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/19 ECB leaves bond-buying program unchanged as inflation gains – Bloomberg
1/19 Draghi urges German patience on inflation as euro area heals – Bloomberg
1/19 Six things China can do next to curb outflows – Bloomberg
1/19 China’s holdings of US Treasuries drop by most since 2011 – Bloomberg
1/19 Trump’s options for weakening dollar extend far beyond tweeting – GATA
1/19 President Trump wants to weaken the dollar. Here’s how he can – Today
1/19 The mad scientists of monetary policy: the war on cash – Seeking Alpha
1/19 The truth about Venezuela’s “economic war” – Zero Hedge
1/19 Jamie Dimon: “the euro zone may not survive” – Zero Hedge
1/18 Treasuries slump, US stocks mixed amid earnings – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
1/19 US housing starts surge in December; jobless claims near 43-year low – Yahoo!
1/19 Japan’s mortgage market slammed by higher rates – Nikkei
1/19 Swiss pension funds buy property to dodge negative rates – Bloomberg
1/18 Home-builder sentiment slips in January as postelection elation eases – MarketWatch
1/18 China new home prices rise 12.4% y/y in December – CNBC
DollarCollapse Podcasts
12/21 Blow-Off Top
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
Politics
1/19 Fortress Washington prepares for protesters to descend on the Capitol – ABC
1/19 Hands off EU, Trump; we don’t back Ohio secession – Reuters
1/19 Ron Paul on executive power in the age of Trump – AntiWar
1/19 China warns Trump against pulling US out of Paris climate pact – Huffington Post
1/19 Trump’s blast sends chill across Europe – CNN
1/18 Biden “we have no freakin’ idea what Trump’s gonna do” – Mish
1/18 Top NATO general concedes alliance is “obsolete” – Zero Hedge
1/18 War on the streets of DC during the inauguration? – Economic Collapse
1/18 Clear, concise Brexit idea from Theresa May – Mish
1/18 Ads reportedly offer money to inauguration agitators – Zero Hedge
1/18 Video exposes anti-Trump group plans to shut down DC bridges – 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
1/17 Large corporations are driving America’s renewable energy boom – Greentech Media
1/17 John Doerr, TJ Rodgers Invest $10M in microinverters and storage – Greentech Media
1/17 How and why Las Vegas embraced solar energy – Greentech Media
1/17 The danger of solar’s ‘hot-hand fallacy’ – Greentech Media
1/17 World could enjoy utopian future with sustainable development – Independent
1/16 German power battery storage to grow three-fold this year – Reuters
1/16 Charging a Tesla goes from free to dirt cheap – Quartz
Art of the Collapse
1/16 “Mainstream mediasaurus” – Zero Hedge
1/16 Pee-pee party press conference – SNL
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
1/19 LA sheriff’s plans to launch drones sparks backlash – Northridge Patch
1/18 Julian Assange ready for US extradition, one of his lawyers suggests – Guardian
1/18 As caliphate crumbles, Islamic State lashes out in Iraq – Reuters
1/18 The issue is not Trump, it’s US – TeleSurTV
1/17 Trust in CEOs plummets and hits all-time low: Global survey – CNBC
1/17 China will ‘take off the gloves’ if Trump continues on Taiwan – CNBC
1/17 Trump slams NATO, floats Russia nuke deal – Bloomberg
1/17 Spotted in Davos: anti-drone guns – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/19 How to protect your online life – International Man
1/16 12 Google tricks that will change how you search – Medium
1/16 A guide to becoming unstoppable with your money – Medium
1/08 US seafood consumption up, but many still making unhealthy purchases – Mercola
1/08 A month without sugar – New York Times
1/06 As Calpers flails, don’t bank on your pension – Investor Place
1/03 How to survive a mass shooting – Survival Sullivan
1/03 Say goodbye to kale: the superfood trends for 2017 – Telegraph
1/03 SRSrocco top 2016 posts & my commentary for 2017 – SRSrocco Report
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/19 2016 was a record year for data breaches – Bloomberg
1/19 Inside a multinational cyber weapons deal that went bust – Bloomberg
1/17 Russian hackers were only getting started in the 2016 election – Fortune
1/16 The year’s biggest hacks, from Yahoo to the DNC – Wired
1/15 Alexa may have won CES, but it still has a fight ahead – Wired
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/19 If you were an elephant… – Guardian
1/19 Over half of world’s wild primate species face extinction – Guardian
1/19 Why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2C – Guardian
1/19 Earth breaks heat record in 2016 for third year in a row – Yahoo!
1/19 Alexa is conquering the world. Now Amazon’s real challenge begins – Wired
1/17 Not taking multivitamins during pregnancy could set child back – Telegraph
1/17 Cyberwarfare, driverless cars, and quantum computing – Financial Sense
1/15 Woman died from superbug resistant to all available antibiotics – CBS News
1/15 The climate “doomsday” is already here – Extra Newsfeed
1/15 Trump meets with professor who thinks global warming is positive – Daily Bell
1/14 Driverless shuttles hit Las Vegas – Mish
