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US stocks mixed, gold and silver near three-week low. President Trump begins with flurry of changes to Obamacare and NAFTA, meets with UK prime minister and speaks to Mexican president, plans summit with Putin. Global debt continues to soar, especially in China. Fake news debate rages. Marine Le Pen catches a break.
Best Of The Web
A dubious monetary backdrop – Credit Bubble Bulletin
How to listen to authoritarians (without losing your mind) – Umair Haque
Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right – Coinbase Blog
Doomsday prep for the super-rich – New Yorker
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/29 A side effect of China’s debt binge – Seeking Alpha
1/29 2016 economy matches worst year since Great Recession – Wolf Street
1/29 IMF says Greece debt ‘explosive’ in long term – Yahoo!
1/29 Want to know how society’s doing? Forget GDP – try these alternatives – Guardian
1/29 Elroy’s Elliott Wave weekly – Seeking Alpha
1/29 Debt levels versus economic development, 1960-2015 – BlackRock
1/29 Trump’s attack on Germany and the global economy – Spiegel
1/29 This week in money – HoweStreet
1/28 Blackrock: China’s debt risk is worsening – Jay Taylor Media
1/28 The US ‘debt bomb is going to explode,’ strategist Peter Schiff says – CNBC
1/28 An omen of global collapse – Daily Reckoning
1/28 2016 GDP slowest growth in 5 years: many troubling items – Mish
1/28 US auto industry in crisis amid “inventory bubble” – Zero Hedge
1/28 The next financial crisis: Depression or hyperinflation? – Daily Coin
Precious Metals
1/29 Gold stock update: short-term bearish, otherwise bullish – 321Gold
1/28 Gold price: Physical demand from India, China craters – Mining.com
1/28 Which senior gold miners could re-rate after their 4Q16 results? – Market Realist
1/28 Barrick Gold reports preliminary operating results for 2016 – Yahoo!
1/28 Gold market correction: key tactics – 321Gold
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/28 Europe proposes “restrictions on payments in cash” – Zero Hedge
1/28 Japan’s inflation data shows signs of progress – MarketWatch
1/28 Negative rates have made Danes richer than ever – Bloomberg
1/28 Key euro zone inflation gauge tops 1.8 pct, in region of ECB target – Yahoo!
1/28 The dollar will die with a whimper, not a bang – Daily Reckoning
1/28 Ghost of 1990s is haunting dollar and slowing further gains – Bloomberg
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
Real Estate Bubble
1/28 Consider Southern Chile – SCP
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
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
1/29 California threatens to cut off funds to Washington – Zero Hedge
1/29 Airport chaos: Trump’s travel restrictions leave some stranded – Mish
1/29 Trump shuns establishment ‘board meeting’ – Zero Hedge
1/28 Donald Trump and Theresa may: an odd couple – New York Times
1/28 Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump – Newsweek
1/28 Mexican president and Trump have “very friendly” phone conversation – Mish
1/28 Infographic: what we learned during the largest instagram protest ever – Medium
1/28 Marine Le Pen on anti-Trump protests & French vote – RT
1/28 French frontrunner rocked by probe handing opening to rivals – Bloomberg
1/28 As France’s far-right National Front rises, memory of its past fades – WaPo
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
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
1/28 Member states reject solar trade duties – Solar Power Europe
1/28 America torn apart by partisan politics–except in buying solar power – Quartz
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
Art of the Collapse
1/29 This Dutch video on Trump has gone viral because, well, just watch it – Mashable
1/26 Bad Lip Reading’s video on Trump’s inauguration is hysterical – The Blaze
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
1/29 Trump, Putin discuss “real coordination” against ISIS in phone call – Mish
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/29 When the rich become preppers, it’s time to worry – Peak Prosperity
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/28 Hacker, tailor, soldier, spy: the future is cyberwar – Vocativ
1/28 Quantum computers versus hackers, round one. Fight! – Wired
1/28 The sound of surveillance – Medium
1/28 Information supremacy is the new frontier of combat – Medium
1/28 Cyberwar and disinformation – Confluence Investment
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/28 The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had – BBC
1/28 Are we destined to fall in love with androids? – Medium
1/28 The giant zero – Nonlocal
1/28 VR & the great unbundling – IoT for All
1/28 Intelligent agents + things – Medium
1/28 Infographic: sci-fi and the future of transport – Electric Lit
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
