Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks up, gold and silver flat but near 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
3 things: returns, nothing but “net”, overly optimistic – Real Investment Advice
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/20 Dow briefly jumps 100 points ahead of Trump inauguration – CNBC
1/20 Why student loan payback is worse than the government thought – MarketWatch
1/20 Soros says markets to slump with Trump, EU faces disintegration – Bloomberg
1/20 IBM “beats” thanks to record low effective tax rate – Zero Hedge
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
Precious Metals
1/20 Gold – a primer for 2017 – GoldMoney
1/20 2 gold producers set to shine in 2017 – Seeking Alpha
1/20 Endeavour Silver confident reserves will rebound – Proactive News
1/20 Watch out when reality breaks through fake news, manipulated markets – GATA
1/20 Chinese investors exit bitcoin, flood into gold ETFs – Zero Hedge
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/20 Rates to stay low in Europe for some time – Reuters
1/20 Why Japan benefits from a crashing currency and Mexico does not – Epoch Times
1/20 China, Japan still dumping U.S. debt. But Russia is buying – CNN
1/20 Trump and Janet Yellen look to be on a collision course – NY Times
1/20 Washington lawmakers are trying to keep bitcoin out of pot shops – CoinDesk
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
Real Estate Bubble
1/20 Apartment starts up, single family down. What’s going on? – Mish
1/20 Will real estate investors take over Airbnb? – Zero Hedge
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
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
1/20 The official Donald Trump inauguration drinking game – Rolling Stone
1/20 Washington prepares for Donald Trump’s big moment – CNN
1/20 Ideological civil war in Davos – Mish
1/20 He’s just not that into you – Automatic Earth
1/20 Police, protesters clash at anti-Trump rally in DC – live feed – Zero Hedge
1/20 A post-apocalyptic guide to preparing for Donald Trump – Medium
1/20 Marine Le Pen leads polls in race for French president – Forward
1/20 Europe’s right-wing populists to flex muscles in Germany meeting – Times of Israel
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
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
1/20 Tesla cleared in fatal accident investigation; price target raised – Investors.com
1/20 Why big oil is unprepared for the coming energy war – Yahoo!
1/20 PVMA estimates global PV installations at 75 GW in 2016 – Solar Server
1/20 39 groups apply to build solar plants in Chernobyl wasteland – PV Magazine
1/20 India may be a bright spot for global solar markets this year – Bloomberg
1/20 PV plants can rival frequency response services from natural gas peakers – Greentech Media
1/17 Large corporations are driving America’s renewable energy boom – Greentech Media
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
1/20 Republicans propose bills to criminalize peaceful protest – Intercept
1/20 NYT on Snowden: right in 2014, right today – Mish
1/20 FBI ‘honors’ MLK Jr., 50 years after plotting to ‘neutralize’ him – AlterNet
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
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
1/20 Google’s Sergey Brin ‘surprised’ by speed of AI advancements – Bloomberg
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
