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US stocks finish at record high. 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
Risk on/risk off face-off – Credit Bubble Bulletin
It’s bubble time! – Peak Prosperity
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/26 The fiscal horror show playing soon in Washington – Daily Reckoning
2/26 Global sovereign debt to hit new all-time high – Reuters
2/26 Congratulations N.C., you owe $42 billion – Independent Tribune
2/26 The coming federalization of NJ pension and benefits crisis – NJ Spotlight
2/26 Goldman perplexed by the “relentless bull market” – Zero Hedge
2/25 No way in hell this ends well – Casey Research
2/25 TSX posts worst day of the year with 247-point loss – CBC
2/25 Global (economic) warming – GoldSeek
2/25 Trump and the national debt – CFR
2/25 Germany, Italy, France insist UK accept €60 billion Brexit bill – Mish
2/25 The roundtable insight – have central banks reached the “coffin corner”? – FRA
2/25 Bundesbank braces for QE losses after lowest profit in decade – Reuters
2/25 Weekend reading: errant thinking – Real Investment Advice
2/24 Stocks rise 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
Precious Metals
2/26 Central banks may have been evil with gold but not stupid – GATA
2/26 The world’s top 10 silver mining companies – Lombardi Letter
2/26 Sandstorm Gold: All you need to know about Q4 2016 results – SA
2/26 GLD vs GDX – Update on which to buy – Seeking Alpha
2/25 Underperformance in gold stocks argues for interim peak – Daily Gold
2/25 Gold’s rally: key tactics for profits – 321Gold
2/25 Silver Standard Resources 2016 Q4 – Seeking Alpha
2/25 The discoveries keep on coming for Balmoral Resources – Streetwise Report
2/25 Seabridge Gold ups the ante with Nevada acquisition deal – Streetwise Reports
2/25 Einhorn: gold will benefit from political uncertainty, inflation – Jay Taylor Media
2/25 Investors flock to supercharged gold bet that’s returned 180% – Bloomberg
2/25 Silver Standard Resources’ CEO Paul Benson on Q4 2016 results – Seeking Alpha
2/25 Maguire: financial houses suppress news of gold market rigging – GATA
2/24 Gold up 9% YTD – 4th higher weekly close – GoldCore
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/26 Buckle up: inflation at 58-month high – Streetwise Reports
2/26 Canadian inflation jumps sharply – Tradebeat
2/26 Bitcoin devaluing China’s currency but China won’t do much about it – Salon
2/26 Singapore inflation accelerates to 2-yr high, easing bets recede – PressReader
2/25 As bitcoin surges to record, China prepares digital currency – Mish
2/25 Why bitcoin could soon be worth more than gold – Time
2/25 Bitcoin hits record high above $1,200 on talk of ETF approval – CNBC
2/24 German 2y yield plunges to record -0.95% – Zero Hedge
Real Estate Bubble
2/26 Toronto housing market may need Vancouver-style cooling – Bloomberg
2/25 New home sales rise half of economists’ expectations, supply surges – Mish
2/25 Mall REITs rocked by news of J.C. Penney store closures – MarketWatch
2/24 “The Manhattan high-end condo market is a catastrophe” – Zero Hedge
2/23 Landlords are taking over the US housing market – Bloomberg
DollarCollapse Podcasts
2/06 Things that WON’T change
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
2/26 Neoliberalism is finally on its knees, and so is the left – Guardian
2/26 Marine Le Pen: Madame Présidente? – Atlantic
2/26 Mayor of Paris trolls Donald Trump and his friend Jim – Intercept
2/26 Trump lashes out at FBI – US News
2/26 Someone please ask Donald Trump this simple question about Russia – Intercept
2/26 Trump says he will skip White House correspondents’ dinner – Zero Hedge
2/25 White House bars CNN, NYT, others from media briefing – Zero Hedge
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
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
2/26 Inside the high-stakes race to build a better energy storage device – Salon
2/25 Net-zero solar powered house could ease city’s affordable housing crisis – TreeHugger
2/25 Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems – Economist
2/25 SunPower to construct 5GW 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
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
2/26 The futility and corruption of the drug war – Ron Paul Institute
2/26 Documents indicate Germany spied on foreign journalists – Spiegel
2/25 Trump vows military build-up, hammers nationalist themes – Reuters
2/25 Source protection in 2017: a starter guide – Medium
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/26 Fight inflammation and chronic disease by walking barefoot on the Earth – Mercola
2/26 Some doctors prescribe food instead of pills to treat certain patients – CBS
2/26 The fountain of youth may be closer than you ever thought – Natural News
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/26 What will the cyberwars of the future look like? – The Week
2/25 Massive bug may have leaked user data from millions of sites – Wired
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/26 Fasting diet ‘regenerates diabetic pancreas’ – BBC
2/26 Town to seed 1,000 acres to aid bee, butterfly populations – True Activist
2/26 The building blocks of life are much more common than we thought – Extreme Tech
2/26 Uber’s leather boys – Back Channel
2/25 Did Chinese scientists find autism’s missing puzzle piece? – Healthcare in America
2/25 VR is a killer app for blockchains – Medium
2/25 New anti-prostitution law in Ireland is not really about trafficking – Daily Bell
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
