Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks down, gold and silver flat. 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. Brexit hits speed bumps.
Best Of The Web
What’s behind the collapse in global exports in the US, Japan, EU – Mish
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/27 Weak exports curb U.S. fourth-quarter economic growth – Yahoo!
1/27 Dow breaks the 20,000 mark as national debt approaches $20 trillion – Sprott Money
1/27 Republicans making little progress on Obamacare repeal strategy – Bloomberg
1/27 US stocks are now the most overpriced since the 2000 crash – Sovereign Man
1/27 Forget Dow 20,000… this indicator tells the real story – Casey Research
1/27 Trump, Yellen and systemic risk – Daily Reckoning
1/27 Steen Jakobsen “Trump increases odds of US recession” – Mish
1/27 Japan’s budget surplus goal elusive with worsening fiscal health – Mainichi
1/27 New year, same old pension problems for Pennsylvania – WESA
1/27 It takes $4 of debt to create a single dollar of GDP growth in China – ValueWalk
1/27 China banks extend record $1.84tril loans in 2016 as debt worries mount – The Star
1/27 The downfall of a “yield at any price” strategy – Seeking Alpha
1/27 “When will it end?” BofAML’s 10-point checklist – Zero Hedge
1/26 China is becoming ‘increasingly risky’ because of its economy – CNBC
Precious Metals
1/27 Dow 20k… US debt $20 trillion… Trump and $15,000 gold – GoldCore
1/27 Future silver supply will be more vulnerable than other metals – SRSrocco Report
1/27 Gold investors prefer miners to physical gold – Seeking Alpha
1/27 Can Goldcorp maintain valuation premium versus peers in 2017? – Yahoo!
1/27 Is silver more valuable as precious metal or an industrial metal? – Market Realist
1/27 Kirkland Lake: my number 1 gold stock pick is just getting started – Seeking Alpha
1/26 Switzerland’s gold exports to China surge to 158 tons in December – GoldCore
1/26 Jeffrey Christian on the short and long term future of gold – Financial Sense
1/26 Gold: what a fickle market – Seeking Alpha
1/25 What is Goldcorp seeking in the mergers and acquisitions space? – Market Realist
1/25 How to profit from Trumponomics – Streetwise Reports
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/27 “Short the euro, collapse may come in 12 to 18 months” – Financial Sense
1/27 Japanese inflation gives BOJ buyer’s remorse – Reuters
1/26 China’s FX regulator announces latest steps to keep cash at home – Bloomberg
1/26 Investors shun Italian bonds as political outlook remains cloudy – Bloomberg
1/26 Why Ben Bernanke thinks the Fed shouldn’t shrink its balance sheet – Zero Hedge
1/26 Are you ready for an inflationary depression? – Project Chesapeake
1/26 Monero, the drug dealer’s cryptocurrency of choice, is on fire – Wired
1/25 More evidence inflation will force the Fed to raise rates in Q2 – Yahoo!
1/25 China approaching the limits of currency management – Financial Sense
1/25 Expect yelling from China, Mexico, Europe, importers – Mish
Real Estate Bubble
1/26 Commercial realty loan defaults booming – Financial Sense
1/26 US new-home sales tumble in December – Mercury News
1/25 Americans are flipping houses like it’s 2006 – Bloomberg
1/25 Existing-home sales for 2016 best in decade – Financial Sense
1/25 A $90 billion debt wave shows cracks in US property boom – 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
1/27 State department personnel resign, are fired as Tillerson takes control – Zero Hedge
1/27 France’s neighbors sound alarm over election ‘catastrophe’ risk – Bloomberg
1/27 NATO, Russia and trade top the agenda for Trump talks with Britain’s May – Reuters
1/27 Thank God for Donald Trump – Daily News
1/27 Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do – CNN
1/27 US consumers to pay for wall – Mish
1/27 Mexican president cancels meeting with Trump – Mish
1/27 Tulip Siddiq resigns as Corbyn imposes bars MPs from blocking Article 50 – Telegraph
1/27 Trump’s impulses now carry the force of the presidency – New York Times
1/27 Watch ABC’s full-length Donald Trump interview – Digg
1/27 French presidential hopeful François Fillon denies claims about wife – Guardian
1/26 Trump prepares orders aiming at global funding and treaties – 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
1/26 EPA data under scrutiny by Trump administration’s political staff – CNBC
1/25 Donald Trump claims ‘environmentalism is out of control’ – Independent
1/25 How solar power might burn dry bulk shipping – Seeking Alpha
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
Art of the Collapse
1/26 Bad Lip Reading’s video on Trump’s inauguration is hysterical – The Blaze
1/24 Watch: SNL pays tribute to Obama — ‘don’t go!’ – BreitBart
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
1/27 US, UK will no longer ‘remake the world in their own image’ – Independent
1/27 Donald Trump’s plan for China relations is to be unpredictable – Guardian
1/27 Donald Trump says torture ‘absolutely works’ — but does it? – CNN
1/26 Six shot during vigil for gunshot victim in Chicago – Reuters
1/26 ISIS video unveils new weaponized drone program – Zero Hedge
1/25 China says will protect South China Sea sovereignty – Reuters
1/25 China’s missiles near Russian borders target USA analyst believes – Before It’s News
1/25 Gun-controlled Paris deploys soldiers to protect the wealthy – BreitBart
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/27 Standing for mental clarity and physical health – Mercola
1/27 How Pete & Gerry’s cage-free eggs are a model for other small farmers – MarketWatch
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/26 Seymour Hersh: media uncritically promoting Russian hacking story – Intercept
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/27 Genetically-modified CYBORG dragonflies that can be remotely controlled – Daily Mail
1/27 Dogs are happier listening to soft rock and reggae, study finds – Telegraph
1/27 End of tasteless tomatoes as scientists discover long-lost ‘flavour genes’ – Telegraph
1/27 Human-pig embryos breakthrough for organ transplants – Telegraph
1/26 Purdue Pharma: corporate fraud with a body count – AlterNet
1/25 Bumblebee added to US endangered species list – VoA
1/25 Cab industry on verge of collapse? Capital One’s Taxi NPL rate >50% – Zero Hedge
1/25 6 areas of AI and machine learning to watch closely – Medium
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
