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US stocks down from yesterday’s record high. Fed likely to raise interest rates next month. Gold and silver at multi-week highs. Bitcoin near all-time high. Trump national security adviser scandal evolving, EPA chief controversy ramping up after email release. 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
2/24 Stocks fall ahead of Trump’s fiscal policy speech – Bloomberg
2/24 Preparing for the next great disruption – Garret Galland
2/24 Debt rattle February 24 2017 – Automatic Earth
2/24 How France scrapping the euro could go beyond a ‘Lehman moment’ – CNBC
2/24 Former IMF chief, dozens of former bank execs just sentenced to jail – Wolf Street
2/24 Trump’s ‘big fat bubble’ trouble in the stock market – Politico
2/24 JC Penney to shut as many as 140 stores as industry slumps – Bloomberg
2/24 Is the Trump trade over? Here is the “barometer” BofA uses to decide – Zero Hedge
2/24 Treasury eyeing issuance of 100-year U.S. government debt – GATA
2/24 Angela Merkel cheers as Germany’s budget surplus hits record – Mish
2/24 Andrew Hoffman – beware of the Ides of March! – Financial Survival Network
2/24 Danielle Park – Trump recession? – Financial Survival Network
2/24 We have a debt problem – Banyan Hill
2/24 Calexit – beat the crowd – Miller On The Money
2/23 Melissa and millions like her are just one unpaid bill away from the abyss – Guardian
2/23 Why Greece’s crisis has broken all previous records – Ekathimerini
Precious Metals
2/24 Gold up 9% YTD – 4th higher weekly close – GoldCore
2/24 Trump’s stock market report card says “buy gold” – Daily Reckoning
2/24 Powerful gold & silver coiled springs – SRSrocco Report
2/24 The golden rule (podcast #29) – Financial Survival Network
2/24 Silver Standard reports fourth quarter and year-end 2016 results – PR Newswire
2/23 “Hold gold”: why this country wants its people to buy gold – 24hGold
2/23 The problem with gold-backed currencies – OfTwoMinds.com
2/23 Are rate hikes bad for gold? – Mish
2/23 Why this “pig” is buying gold again – Casey Research
2/23 $250 silver – Rosen Market Timing Report
2/23 First Majestic Silver reports profitable quarter, record production – First Majestic
2/23 Is 50% of Western central bank gold gone? – Gold Broker
2/23 Gold investors smell a rat in stock markets – Birch Gold
2/23 A crucial week for silver – Silver Doctors
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/24 German 2y yield plunges to record -0.95% – Zero Hedge
2/24 Canadian inflation surges to 2.1% in January on gas prices – Bloomberg
2/24 President Trump, please smash the dollar – The Week
2/24 Trump needs a strong-dollar policy — and fast – Bloomberg
2/24 Why Brexit’s backers think the scaremongers were wrong – MarketWatch
2/24 Even China can’t kill bitcoin – GATA
2/24 Trump suggests he wants a weak dollar to help U.S. exporters – GATA
2/24 The biggest bitcoin crashes in the last 10 years – ValueWalk
Real Estate Bubble
2/24 Starwood REIT CEO: “the Manhattan high-end condo market is a catastrophe” – Zero Hedge
2/23 Landlords are taking over the US housing market – Bloomberg
2/23 Norway insane property boom or capital flight from Eurozone? – Armstrong Economics
2/23 San Francisco tech driven real estate insanity – Dr. Housing Bubble
2/22 ‘Trapped wealth’ drives Toronto’s speculative real estate dilemma – 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
Politics
2/24 Marine Le Pen refuses to testify in assistants probe – Politico
2/24 Marine Le Pen refuses to testify in assistants probe – Politico
2/24 The United States of permanent war – CounterPunch
2/24 The libertarians versus the conservatives – WaPo
2/24 The spooks have come home to roost – WaPo
2/24 Ron Paul Institute: Nikki Haley “completely clueless” – Fits News
2/24 Donald Trump has given the Mexican president the biggest gift he could wish for – WaPo
2/24 All the favors Donald Trump has performed for Wall Street – Huffington Post
2/24 Thousands of EPA chief emails just hit the Internet – Mother Jones
2/24 Germany’s Social Democrats overtake Merkel’s conservatives in poll – Reuters
2/24 The walking dead in Washington – Paul Gilding
2/23 French bonds rally after Macron boosts presidential campaign – Bloomberg
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
2/24 SunPower signs to construct 5GW “overlapped-cell module” capacity in China – Energy Trend
2/24 Synthetic clothing and tires could be polluting the oceans in a big way – CNBC
2/23 Inside the race to build the battery of tomorrow – Wired
2/23 Tesla posts wider-than-expected loss of 69 cents a share – CNBC
2/23 Bill Nye-backed startup makes solar panels 60% cheaper – Computer World
2/23 Taking Elon Musk seriously, not literally – Bloomberg
2/23 First Folar making progress on turnaround plan – Motley Fool
2/23 The biggest loser: First Solar drops 8.4% – Barron’s
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
2/24 The war hawks rolled Donald Trump – Ron Paul Institute
2/24 What would happen if Martial Law were declared? – Survival Sullivan
2/23 French police clash with youths at protest rally, arrest eight – Reuters
2/23 Trump revokes Obama guidelines on transgender bathrooms – Reuters
2/23 Appeals Court says filming the police is protected by the First Amendment – Tech Dirt
2/23 Turkish provocations test Greek resolve – Ekathimerini
2/22 China prepares deployment of SAM batteries on S China Sea islands – Zero Hedge
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
2/24 The greatest privacy threat of all: our connected devices – Vivek Wadhwa
2/23 Malware lets drone steal data by watching computer’s blinking LED – Wired
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/24 Plan to save Great Barrier Reef set back decades: experts – France24
2/24 Now anyone can deploy Google’s troll-fighting AI – Wired
2/24 10 incredible things seen by humankind only once – List Verse
2/23 Social media are driving Americans insane – Bloomberg
2/23 7 Earth-like worlds orbit a star we didn’t know existed – Wired
2/23 The invisible touch – Medium
2/23 The future of economics: from complexity to commons – Medium
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
