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US stocks at all-time highs on Trump tax-reform promise, gold and silver fall from multi-week highs. Trump immigration plan challenged in court, loses. Debate over Putin intensifies. French election uncertainty rocks euro bonds
Best Of The Web
The AI threat isn’t Skynet. It’s the end of the middle class – Wired
Bubbles, money and the VIX – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Are you prepared for “unencumbered” interest rate policy? – Daily Reckoning
The misleading comfort of calm – SafeHaven
Which assets are most likely to survive the inevitable “system re-set”? – OfTwoMinds.com
A murderous complacency – Peak Prosperity
It’s finally happening – Macro The Tourist
Equity valuations, an everything bubble and “policy Trumpacho” – Mish
Extreme vetting, but not for banks – RollingStone
Weekly commentary: the wraths – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Great expectations – Real Investment Advice
The persuasion filter and immigration – Dilbert
Liberals, not Trump, to blame for backlash – Mish
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/13 Why does economic growth keep slowing down? – St. Louis Fed
2/13 Greece: the low-noise collapse of an entire country – Failed Evolution
2/13 Active managers named and shamed as ‘closet indexers’ – CNBC
2/13 S&P reaches $20 trillion market cap for first time – CNBC
2/13 Japan’s GDP highlights the export risks that Abe hopes to curb – Bloomberg
2/13 Is shorting this market ‘easy money’? – Seeking Alpha
2/13 Farmers rattled by Trump’s NAFTA rescinding plans – Mish
2/13 Understanding the federal debt part II – Standard Journal
2/13 ECB rate pledge could be German solace – Times of Man
2/13 Schools near ‘breaking point’ with inflation, salaries, pensions – Mirror.co.uk
2/13 America’s biggest creditors dump treasuries in warning – Bloomberg
2/13 Trump administration is ‘complete insanity’ – CNBC
2/12 Bank for International Settlements warns of looming debt bubble – Forbes
Precious Metals
2/13 Gold is pouring into ETFs world-wide this month – GoldSeek
2/13 Sentiment speaks: gold and silver are on the launching pad – Seeking Alpha
2/13 Gold mining: spectacular chart, bear market resistance test ongoing – Seeking Alpha
2/13 Western central bank gold is running low – GATA
2/13 Gold and silver set to take off – Daily Economist
2/13 Trump and the gold price – Bull
2/12 Great precious metals market disconnect: ticking time bomb – SRSrocco Report
2/12 Russia notes that German gold in U.S. was just a mirage – GATA
2/12 Even if the path isn’t straight, gold’s bullish trajectory is set – Birch Gold
2/12 Here’s why these gold stocks popped in January – Nasdaq
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/13 Copper jumps to 20-month high on double mine closure – CNBC
2/13 Inflation jumps as vegetable shortages set to push up prices – Telegraph
2/13 Most depressing chart showing US 2016 imports, exports – My Budget 360
2/13 Egypt: Inflation rose nearly 30 percent in January – Fox News
2/13 Norway inflation hits 3-year low – Financial Tribune
2/13 Bitcoin or bust: taking British banking out of exchanges – Forbes
2/13 Bitcoin’s transaction backlogs are now becoming common – CryptoCoins News
2/13 Bitcoin markets slide as China steps up regulatory scrutiny – Yahoo!
2/12 GBP winning currency war benefits London’s economy – Daily FX
Real Estate Bubble
2/13 5 years of luxury condos for sale in Bal Harbour Miami – Condo Vultures
2/12 There are 66,719 empty mansions in Vancouver – Zero Hedge
2/10 Serial house sitters shed the shackles of a mortgage – CNBC
2/08 $1 trln of Australian mortgages and some now worry of what’s next – AFR
2/08 Houses are the least affordable they’ve been in seven years – CNBC
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
Politics
2/13 Is Trump’s White House headed for its first shakeup? – CNBC
2/13 Why Ayn Rand would have cast Trump as a villain – FEE
2/13 Germany’s new president sees stormy US ties ahead – Bloomberg
2/13 A new Jacksonian era? – Burning Platform
2/13 How populism is influencing monetary policy – CS Monitor
2/13 Trump, Shinzo Abe express close bonds after N. Korea’s missile launch – Denver Post
2/13 How Donald Trump is helping Democrats build a winning movement – Time
2/13 Half of French police ‘back Front National’ – Express.co.uk
2/13 France’s Marine Le Pen says if elected, she will ban dual citizenship – Algemeiner
2/13 Francois Fillon faces protests as he begins campaign tour of Réunion – Telegraph
2/12 Russians come in from cold as Trump, commodity markets align – Bloomberg
2/12 What’s behind Trump’s bungling of immigration-ban order? – MarketWatch
2/12 Sidney Blumenthal returns to eviscerate Donald Trump – Vanity Fair
Offshore Investing
2/01 FATCA needs to go, but the FATCA “refugees” are never coming back – Zero Hedge
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
Clean Tech
2/13 Energy storage set to boom in 2017 – Oil Price
2/13 Solar power breaks a price barrier – Hindu
2/11 The great solar power scam – The Age
2/11 Mosaic met its goal of $1 bln in solar loans – Solar Server
2/10 This rampant polluter just broke a record – Attn
2/10 Solar power now provides twice as many jobs as coal in US – Inhabitat
2/10 Canadian investments in solar power tanked for 2nd year – Huffington Post
Art of the Collapse
2/13 Weekend update on appeals court ruling – SNL
2/13 Spicer returns – SNL
2/13 SNL’s Donald Trump takes his frustrations to ‘The People’s Court’ – WaPo
2/13 Meryl Streep to Donald Trump: I am the ‘most overrated’ actress – Variety
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
2/13 China “seriously concerned and opposed” after Trump backs Japan – Zero Hedge
2/13 N Korea says test launch of new missile type a success – CNBC
2/12 Snowden: report Russia may ‘gift’ him to Trump proves he is not a spy – Guardian
2/12 US special forces deployed to 70% of the world in 2016 – Zero Hedge
2/11 Civil asset forfeiture ruining lives, failing to stop crime – FM Shooter
2/11 Russian government considers offering Snowden as “gift” to Trump – Zero Hedge
2/11 Military-grade spy gear flooding into local police depts – Defense One
2/11 What about Trump’s terror policies after an attack? – Guardian
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/12 How to add value to your life – Medium
2/12 5 small financial mistakes that can lead to a major cash crisis – Medium
2/11 How to improve your fitness with variable-intensity interval training – Mercola
2/10 New risks of GMOs, glyphosate – Non-GMO Report
2/07 Trump could approve a giant merger that’s scaring American farmers – MSN
2/07 FDA milk prohibition is dirty dairy’s scheme – Mercola
2/05 A complete guide to keeping your digital identity short and sweet – Medium
1/31 Worried about the Apocalypse? Here’s a shopping guide – Bloomberg
1/31 Importance of enzymes for health, longevity, disease prevention – Mercola
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/08 Trump’s impending crackdown on cybersecurity – Daily Reckoning
2/02 Privacy and security stuff you should read: 1/31/2017 – Forbes
2/01 Credit-card thieves move online as chips thwart in-store fraud – Bloomberg
2/01 Protect your digital privacy in the era of surveillance, public shaming – Pacific Standard
2/01 Get ready for the cyber war in 2017: know your enemy – Information Age
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/13 Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age – CNBC
2/13 100k people evacuating over “imminent failure” of CA’s Oroville Dam – Zero Hedge
2/13 The future of agriculture is already here – World Positive
2/13 The best Super Bowl commercials, from avocados to Zelda – Wired
2/12 Tech and the fake market tactic – Medium
2/12 Middle class jobs to be taken by ROBOTS – Daily Mail
2/12 When your hotel has robot delivery, you order more room service – Bill Fold
2/10 Hell hole on Earth discovered at Fukushima – Dr. Sircus
2/10 Facebook is terrifying – Medium
2/10 The impending crisis of the internet of things – Pacific Standard
