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US stocks up, gold and silver near multi-week high. Protesters and police face off at Trump inauguration. Brexit process begins. 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
What is this ‘crisis’ of modernity? – Automatic Earth
Weekend edition: comparing the 1930s and today, part I – Casey Research
The global war on cash – Visual Capitalist
Stock market indicators: S&P 500 buybacks & dividends – Yardeni
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/22 Republicans, Democrats, and voodoo economics – 24hGold
1/22 After the crash: “What does the future hold for average people? Feudalism.” – 24hGold
1/22 Greek wealth worth one year’s GDP has been lost since 2009 – Ekathimerini
1/22 IBM “beats” thanks to record low effective tax rate – Zero Hedge
1/22 23.5 million Americans aged 25-to-54 outside the labor force – Zero Hedge
1/21 One big, fat, ugly bubble – Casey Research
1/21 Despite reforms, city and county pension funds are billions short – Voice of San Diego
1/21 China default storm brewing as record junk debt comes due – Banking Finance
1/21 Real markets are not ‘pop economics’ – Daily Bell
1/21 Investors seek safe havens in Treasuries, gold – Bloomberg
1/20 Secular shift in interest rates? – Financial Sense
1/20 UK retail-sales slump hints at cracks in Brexit boom – Bloomberg
1/20 Amazon is going to kill more American jobs than China did – MarketWatch
1/20 A default storm is brewing over China junk bonds – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
1/22 The new gold rush of 2017! – GoldAndOilGuy
1/22 Gold price suppression is vital to govt. currencies but will fail – GATA
1/22 Royal Gold, Inc.’s absolute best move in 2016 – Motley Fool
1/21 Gold market tactics: tighten profit locks – 321Gold
1/21 Gold futures looking bullish – GoldSeek
1/21 Gold: CNBC drawing comparisons to 2011 – Seeking Alpha
1/21 Trump and a new gold-backed dollar – International Man
1/20 Gold’s gains 15% in inauguration years since 1974 – GoldCore
1/20 Why silver’s small rally packed a big punch – 24hGold
1/20 When silver price suppression ends, phenomenal returns – Silver Doctors
1/20 Gold – a primer for 2017 – GoldMoney
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/22 Surging dollar under Trump biggest threat to global economy – Telegraph
1/22 Inflation won’t take off in 2017 – Barron’s
1/22 Asia’s newest fear: a Trump currency war – Japan Times
1/22 Bitcoin could take over these 7 multi-trillion dollar markets – Coin Telegraph
1/22 Euro zone underlying inflation remains weak – ECB survey – RTE
1/22 Why a bitcoin ETF may not be coming any time soon – Zero Hedge
1/22 Draghi: a country can leave Eurozone but must “settle bill first” – Zero Hedge
1/21 Yellen not worried about surge of inflation – MarketWatch
1/21 Inflation is alive and well – Seeking Alpha
1/20 GATA forwarded a fabulous link yesterday – Silver Doctors
Real Estate Bubble
1/22 Housing bubble pops, Chinese real estate firms halt pricing data – Zero Hedge
1/22 Immediately, Trump suspends FHA mortgage fee cut – Zero Hedge
1/21 Day one action: Trump suspends FHA premium reduction – Mish
1/20 Floor caving in on Europe real estate stocks bashed by rates – Bloomberg
1/20 Apartment starts up, single family down. What’s going on? – Mish
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
1/22 Anti-Trump parade in Chicago cancelled: too many people – Mish
1/22 Trump’s declaration of war – Paul Craig Roberts
1/22 Over 1 million join anti-Trump women’s marches worldwide – Bloomberg
1/22 Putin: a nationalist with nuclear weapons – Gary North
1/22 Why Trump’s inauguration is not the beginning of an era?—?but the end – Medium
1/22 Each side of partisan divide thinks other living in alternate reality – Medium
1/22 Scattered thoughts on the Obama “legacy” – Medium
1/22 Far-right leaders meet to discuss ‘free Europe’ vision – Reuters
1/22 Brexit ‘will bring down all of Europe’, Marine Le Pen declares – MSN
1/22 Here’s how the Trump presidency will play out – Saker
1/21 Saturday protest marches on track to make history – Seattle Times
1/21 Police injured, more than 200 arrested at DC Trump protests – CNN
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
1/21 White House climate change web page disappears – Mish
1/21 Solar crowns new panel leader as Jinko expands at wrong time – Bloomberg
1/21 Blockchain tech: hidden gem of innovation for the solar industry – Solar Plaza
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
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
1/22 With new constitution, Erdogan eyes for one-man rule – Globe Post
1/22 One final expansion of the surveillance state as Obama closes term – Reason.com
1/21 Jeff Sessions on marijuana and civil asset forfeiture – WaPo
1/21 It’s about to get even easier to hide on the dark web – Wired
1/20 Finland prepares for ‘manifold warfare’ as Russia feeds paranoia – Bloomberg
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/22 Persistence is undervalued – Signal v. Noise
1/22 Why planning your day the night before drastically increases productivity – Medium
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/21 The emergence of the ‘cyber cold war’ – NBC
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/22 Being antinatalist – Medium
1/21 NASA finally admits it’s going to get colder – Armstrong Economics
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
