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US stocks at record high. Inflation is spiking on stronger growth. Fed likely to raise interest rates next month. Gold and silver down from multi-week highs. Trump national security adviser scandal evolving. Debate over Putin and fake news intensifies.
Best Of The Web
Dazed & confused… Treasury buying vs. asset valuations? – Econimica
Michael Belkin interview – King World News
Global trade disaster nearly certain – Mish
The four horsemen of the retirement Apocalypse – Financial Sense
Fed went from lender of last resort to destroyer of American wealth – Danielle DiMartino Booth
Mother of all financial bubbles – Peak Prosperity
China credit and global inflationary dynamics – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Not nearly enough growth to keep growing – Automatic Earth
11 stunning visualizations of gold show its value and rarity – Visual Capitalist
Bucket economics in global macro – Capitalist Exploits
This is how the status quo unravels – Charles Hugh Smith
Global growth in energy consumption (& economic growth) all about China – Econimica
‘Fed Up’ exposes the elite rot inside the Federal Reserve – MarketWatch
Vice-chairman of EuroThinkTank: “euro may already be lost” – Mish
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/22 China’s $9 trillion moral hazard is now too big to ignore – Bloomberg
2/22 Bank for international settlements warns of looming debt bubble – MunKnee
2/22 The IMF lent to Greece knowing it could never pay back debt – CounterPunch
2/22 Sovereign bond yield spreads signal nervousness – MarketWatch
2/22 The next financial crisis might be in your driveway – Bloomberg
2/22 Why we could be on the verge of a major selloff – Casey Research
2/22 Goldman Sachs warns US stocks are now reaching peak optimism – Bloomberg
2/22 Hedge funds continue to chase the herd – Bloomberg
2/22 Dallas police and fire pension backs cutbacks to avoid collapse – Bloomberg
2/22 American car buyers are borrowing like never before – Quartz
2/22 Current stock market valuations not sustainable – Economic Collapse
2/21 Greek gov’t in damage control mode after Brussels – Ekathimerini
2/21 Delinquency rates rise on credit cards and auto loans – WF My News
2/21 The economic consequences of depression economics – Prime Economics
2/21 European bonds decline as PMI data point to faster inflation – Bloomberg
2/21 Fumbling towards collapse – Kunstler
Precious Metals
2/22 Rickards: Gold as the new currency standard – Daily Reckoning
2/22 Inflation rising and real Chinese gold demand higher than “official” – GoldCore
2/22 If gold’s a “barbarous relic,” why do governments want it so much? – Miles Franklin
2/22 2017 – a sterling year for silver? – SafeHaven
2/22 5 gold mining stocks with low debt & low price-to-book ratios – MunKnee
2/22 Rick Rule explains what it takes to be a serial success – Sprott Money
2/22 AngloGold sinks on earnings, despite dividend hike – Barron’s
2/22 James Turk warns massive short squeeze may send silver to $20 – King World News
2/22 The world now faces a devastating endgame – King World News
2/22 These 3 gold stocks are up at least 30% in 2017 – Motley Fool
2/21 Russia gold buying is back – buys one million ounces in January – GoldCore
2/21 Gold & the inflationary firestorm – 321Gold
2/21 Gold falls amid pressure from stronger dollar – Business Live
2/21 Chinese firm said to have used tungsten to manufacture fake gold bars – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/22 France exiting euro would be largest sovereign default in history – CNBC
2/22 After $12.2 trillion of QE, now what? – Gold Republic
2/22 Will the US dollar collapse in 2017? – Lombardi Letter
2/22 Russia considers introducing tax on cash transactions – RT
2/22 Bitcoin prices touch fresh 3-year high – MarketWatch
2/22 Has Trump made Mexico the next hotspot for bitcoin? – Nasdaq
2/22 What you need to know about the bitcoin scaling debate – Decentralize Today
2/21 Beijing’s strategy to avoid a currency war – The News
Real Estate Bubble
2/22 ‘Trapped wealth’ drives Toronto’s speculative real estate dilemma – Bloomberg
2/22 Existing US home sales rise more than forecast as supply drops – Bloomberg
2/22 Housing affordability shows most Americans too broke to buy a home – My Budget 360
2/22 Manhattan’s luxury homes are sitting on the market for longer – Mansion Global
2/21 Why Toronto inflates housing bubbles to the bitter end – Wolf Street
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
2/22 Revised Trump travel ban will face legal hurdles, too – Bloomberg
2/22 Did Marine Le Pen just become France’s president? – Red State
2/22 Farage echoes Trump, claims Sweden ‘rape capital’ of Europe – Independent
2/22 Why populist American leaders love Russia – Time
2/22 Donald Trump’s Jewish problem – Slate
2/22 French elections: another “unthinkable” result coming up? – Mish
2/22 Everything you need to know about the man hovering over Trump’s shoulder – Rantt
2/22 How do you solve a problem like Sharia? – Aha Foundation
2/22 The intellectual who might get through to Trump – Slate
2/22 How Trump might save the EU – NY Times
2/22 Trump’s demands on NATO defense spending driving wedge into Europe – Time
2/22 Welcome to Sweden, Eldorado for migrants! – Zero Hedge
Offshore Investing
2/22 Record Americans say goodbye to Uncle Sam (and the taxman) – Nestmann
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
Clean Tech
2/22 Trump kills solar – here’s how you profit – Daily Reckoning
2/22 Renewable energy: Another nail in fossil fuel’s coffin – Trends Research
2/21 The age of the giant battery is almost upon us – Bloomberg
2/21 Saudis kick off $50 billion renewable energy plan to cut oil use – Bloomberg
2/21 2017 forecast: Bright, sun-shiny days for utility solar – Utility Dive
2/21 Lancaster, CA requires new houses to be solar powered – Greentech Media
2/21 FPL accelerates plans to add solar power – Miami Herald
2/21 Solar-powered Africa “never more possible and less expensive” – Reuters
Art of the Collapse
2/22 10 reasons why Muslims are the worst – Medium
2/22 Mainstream media strategery – Zero Hedge
2/16 The talking dead – Medium
2/13 Weekend update on appeals court ruling – SNL
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
2/22 China prepares deployment of SAM batteries on S China Sea islands – Zero Hedge
2/22 The illusion of freedom: the police state is alive and well – Rutherford
2/21 Trump’s ISIS plan: another US invasion? – SafeHaven
2/20 Bill Gates: terrorists could use viruses to kill millions – MarketWatch
2/20 Kim Jong Nam assassination caught on tape – Zero Hedge
2/20 War is the climate risk that Europe’s leaders are talking about – Bloomberg
2/20 Tensions escalate in Aegean after Turkish boat fires shots – Ekathimerini
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/22 Why you should be planning for 2018, not 2017 – Medium
2/21 Privacy is power – Standard Notes
2/20 Medical cannabis — a vastly underutilized therapeutic option? – Mercola
2/19 13 things you should give up if you want to be successful – Medium
2/19 The price of farming humanely – Medium
2/19 What’s your dog really eating? – Medium
2/17 The 4 principles of financial success you can’t ignore – Medium
2/15 Organic food’s demand “gold rush” for producers – Natural News
2/14 Monsanto’s roundup must carry cancer warning label, judge decrees – Mercola
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/19 NSA split from cyberwar command inevitable – Intercept
2/19 76 popular apps confirmed vulnerable to silent interception – Medium
2/16 Encryption apps help White House staffers leak—and maybe break the law – Wired
2/15 How democracies lose in cyberwar – Atlantic
2/14 Russian hackers pose increasing threat to UK’s national security – Independent
2/08 Trump’s impending crackdown on cybersecurity – Daily Reckoning
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/22 This is what real human genetic engineering looks like – PSMag
2/21 “I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change” – Dr. Sircus
2/20 First they got sick, then they moved into a virtual utopia – BackChannel
2/20 A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking – Medium
2/20 During internment, Japanese teens created this heartbreaking scrapbook – Timeline
2/20 Defend the sacred: documentary – Vimeo
2/20 Fukushima aborts latest robot mission inside reactor – Zero Hedge
2/19 Behind the scenes of Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto – Back Channel
2/19 Oklahoma hits 100° in the dead of winter – Think Progress
2/19 Can secretive VR company magic leap repair its reputation? – The Ringer
