Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks set to open down, gold and silver near multi-week high. President Trump begins with flurry of changes to Obamacare and NAFTA. 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
These are the countries with the biggest debt slaves – Wolf Street
Everything is awesome! – Mish
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/23 Trump’s massive infrastructure, defense plans will lead to ruin – CNBC
1/23 Retail malaise puts pressure on chains to shutter more stores – Bloomberg
1/23 Huge shock will bring world to its knees – King World News
1/23 Trump warns “we are going to be imposing a very major border tax” – Zero Hedge
1/23 India – on a downward spiral – Acting Man
1/23 US stocks open slightly lower – CNBC
1/23 Jim Rogers says dump stocks if Trump launches trade war – MarketWatch
1/23 Trump to oversee ‘fiscal bloodbath’ instead of prosperity – CNBC
1/23 Weekend edition: comparing the 1930s and today, part II – Casey Research
1/23 Extreme optimism confirms a short-term top in the markets – Gold-Eagle
1/23 Public employee unions guarantee national bankruptcy – BATR
1/23 Goldman: “All our clients are confused and unsettled” – Zero Hedge
1/22 Republicans, Democrats, and voodoo economics – 24hGold
1/22 After the crash: “What does the future hold for average people? Feudalism.” – 24hGold
Precious Metals
1/23 Gold price to 2 month high as Trump declares world order – GoldCore
1/23 History tells us that silver will lead – Seeking Alpha
1/23 PGMs – a great start to 2017 but divergence remains – Seeking Alpha
1/23 Most pension fund managers shy away from gold – guess why – MunKnee
1/23 Russia hasn’t done this with gold reserves in 2 years – Seeking Alpha
1/23 Why Barrick Gold is a long term pick – Yahoo!
1/23 Ringing in the New Year with a bullish case for gold – Fox
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/23 China’s central bank ‘playing dangerous game’ to prop up yuan – CNBC
1/23 Basic incomes in Finland & Scotland reaction to Trump’s politics – Daily Bell
1/23 PBOC conducts 60 billion yuan China open-market operations – Bloomberg
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
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
1/23 China slams Western democracy as flawed – Bloomberg
1/23 Trump makes revised trade deals an early priority – Wall Street Journal
1/23 The inauguration, and the counter-inauguration – Atlantic
1/23 Now that Trump is president, let’s talk about Vladimir Putin – CNBC
1/23 Germany: That “presidential speech” was a declaration of war – Zero Hedge
1/23 Women’s March wrapup: LA, Chicago, DC, NY, Antarctica – Mish
1/23 French first round socialist primary winner proposes tax on robots – Mish
1/23 Marine Le Pen extols far right during speech in Germany – NY Times
1/23 Emmanuel Macron will come to be known as France’s answer to Trump – Independent
1/23 In France primaries, dire predictions for the left – VoA
1/22 Anti-Trump parade in Chicago cancelled: too many people – Mish
1/22 Trump’s declaration of war – Paul Craig Roberts
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
1/23 Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar power – ABC News
1/23 Solar panels cheaper than ever. But some manufacturers are losing money – Pri
1/23 Desalination tech advances; oceans may hold answer to world’s water crisis – Salon
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
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
1/23 China party paper says no ‘provocation’ can stop its military drills – Reuters
1/23 Erdogan seeks powers to stay in office until 2029 – Mish
1/23 Netanyahu wants to discuss iran ‘threat’ with Trump – BreitBart
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/23 How sun exposure improves your immune function – Mercola
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
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
1/23 Last time oceans got this warm, sea levels were 20-30ft higher – LA Times
1/23 Government ‘tried to bury’ its own alarming report on climate change – Independent
1/23 AI performs better than 75% of American adults on visual IQ test – Kurzweil
1/23 Utopian ideas on climate change will get us precisely nowhere – Guardian
1/23 Why are world leaders visiting Antarctica? – USA Watchdog
1/23 This book outlines both the history and future of marijuana – Salon
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
