Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks up, 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
1/24 Senate democrats to unveil $1 trillion infrastructure plan – NY Times
1/24 U.S. manufacturing PMI beats in January, new orders surge – Investing.com
1/24 Eurozone manufacturing PMI exceeds five-year high – Digital Look
1/24 Japan January flash mfg PMI shows fastest expansion in almost three years – Reuters
1/24 Brexit plans unlikely to be slowed by Article 50 defeat – Reuters
1/24 80% of central banks plan to buy more stocks – Zero Hedge
1/24 Cramer: Here is why Target’s shortfall is so frightening for retail – CNBC
1/24 A rising tide of used cars threatens Ford’s profits – Bloomberg
1/24 Teamsters’ Jimmy Hoffa lavishes praise on Trump on trade policy – BreitBart
1/24 Bill Fleckenstein interview – King World News
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
Precious Metals
1/24 Gold consolidates after notching nearly 10-week high – MarketWatch
1/24 “Global liquidity will move into precious metals in the next 3 – 6 months” – 24hGold
1/24 History tells us that silver will lead – GoldCore
1/24 Gold fundamentals confirm up move – Seeking Alpha
1/24 It’s all about COMEX – SafeHaven
1/24 The price of gold is less manipulated now – Seeking Alpha
1/24 GDX: when the facts change, so should you – Seeking Alpha
1/24 The ice-nine lockdown – Daily Reckoning
1/24 Using gold as money – Goldmoney
1/24 Big movement ahead in the silver market – Silver Doctors
1/24 Rick Rule warns US will devalue the dollar – Silver Doctors
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/24 Global markets turn back on euro as economic woes reinforce dollar – Telegraph
1/24 Fed debate over $4.5 trillion balance sheet looms in 2017 – Bloomberg
1/24 Dollar steadies after stumble, Brexit ruling saps sterling – Reuters
1/24 German inflation likely to rise 2 pct in January – EconoTimes
1/24 Not even Trump can clean up this mess – Casey Research
1/24 Gallo: inflation can become a ‘nightmare’ for ECB – Bloomberg
1/24 Le Pen risk flashes in tightest yield spread to Spain since 2010 – Bloomberg
1/24 Bitcoin is shrugging off some big news out of China – Business Insider
1/24 Bitcoin can serve as a foreign exchange international platform – Coin Telegraph
1/23 China’s central bank ‘playing dangerous game’ to prop up yuan – CNBC
Real Estate Bubble
1/24 US existing home sales fall as supply hits lowest level since 1999 – CNBC
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
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
1/24 Theresa May, Trump to hold talks on trade deal that cuts tariffs – Telegraph
1/24 Fillon challenges Merkel on Russia, immigration, Turkey – Mish
1/24 Marine Le Pen’s surprise supporters – Politico
1/24 Europe’s far-right leaders unite at dawn of the Trump era – Time
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
Offshore Investing
1/24 Switzerland: still a safe country for storage… but only for physical gold – GoldBroker
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
Clean Tech
1/24 Renewables with vanadium batteries to reshape $27bn off-grid market – SafeHaven
1/24 Trump signs orders renegotiating Keystone XL, Dakota access pipelines – Zero Hedge
1/24 US solar employs more people than oil, coal, gas combined – Independent
1/24 Solar could be a cheaper power source than coal within a decade – Oil Price
1/24 Theresa May seeks clean energy to buoy vision of global Britain – Bloomberg
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
Art of the Collapse
1/24 Watch: SNL pays tribute to Obama — ‘don’t go!’ – BreitBart
1/16 “Mainstream mediasaurus” – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
1/24 Netanyahu approves 2,500 more homes in settlement territories – MRC TV
1/24 Trump White House vows to stop China taking South China Sea islands – Reuters
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/24 What does roundup do to your liver? – Mercola
1/24 Dirty dairy is in panic mode – Mercola
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
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
