Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks open flat ahead of major Trump speech. Gold and silver down from multi-week highs. Bitcoin near all-time high. Trump budget to increase defense, cut EPA, State. Debate over Putin and fake news continues.
Best Of The Web
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday) – Economica
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/28 US Q4 2016 GDP up 1.9% vs 2.1% growth expected – CNBC
2/28 Car dealer’s first overflow lot in 37 years exposes US pileup – Bloomberg
2/28 China’s continuing credit boom – Liberty Street Economics
2/28 U.S. retailers most distressed since Great Recession – MarketWatch
2/28 Correction coming? – Active Trading Partners
2/28 Peak wealth and peak energy – Automatic Earth
2/28 Target plunges most in eight years – Bloomberg
2/28 China moves to defuse local government debt bomb – SCMP
2/28 Americans now hold over $4.1 trillion in consumer debt – My Budget 360
2/28 Former IMF chief sent to jail as Spain prosecutes 65 elite bankers – Zero Hedge
2/28 Japan’s lower house passes record budget, defense spending swells – Xinhuanet
2/28 The “Everything Bubble” – Bert Dohmen
2/28 Everything is going sideways — for how much longer? – FSN Radio
2/28 The enduring mystery of Japan’s economy – Mother Jones
2/28 Wendy’s unleashes 1,000 robots to counter higher labor costs – Zero Hedge
2/28 China accounts for half of all global debt created since 2005 – Zero Hedge
Precious Metals
2/28 What the heck is up with gold miners? – Seeking Alpha
2/28 Great Panther Silver: a solid end to 2016…but what about 2017? – Seeking Alpha
2/28 Shorts digging in against silver, Turk tells KWN – GATA
2/28 Trump and elections angst combine to boost Europe gold ETFs – Bloomberg
2/28 What volatilities look like for mining stocks – Market Realist
2/28 Great Panther Q4 and full year results – Great Panther
2/28 Bullion Star’s gold charts suggest that demand is strong – GATA
2/27 Will Russia attack the dollar by buying gold? – Silver Doctors
2/27 This is the Cartel’s biggest fear – Silver Doctors
2/27 Is 50% of Western Central Bank gold gone? – Gold Broker
2/27 Gold futures buying hasn’t even started yet – Seeking Alpha
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/28 The Fed as inflation wakes from Rip Van Winkle slumber – MarketWatch
2/28 A global eurodollar shortage – MATA SII
2/28 Bitcoin has smashed a record high – Independent
2/28 Is bitcoin finally a serious currency? – Motley Fool
Real Estate Bubble
2/28 Monthly US home-price gains reach a 2½-year high – CNBC
2/27 Pending home sales drop unexpectedly to lowest in a year – CNBC
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
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
2/28 A big Dutch populist win may swell election risk on French bonds – Bloomberg
2/28 French court probes leave Le Pen unscathed as Fillon bid falters – Bloomberg
2/28 A hole in the head – James Howard Kunstler
2/28 Whole world moving to Europe in coming decades, deal with it – BreitBart
2/28 The Oscars became a night of protest against Donald Trump – Huffington Post
2/28 ‘The conservative movement is Donald Trump’ – Politico
2/28 Yes, Marine Le Pen could win in France – Times of Israel
2/27 Emmanuel Macron on course to beat Marine Le Pen in French election – Independent
2/27 The priced-in risk of Marine Le Pen’s victory – Bloomberg
2/27 EU lawmakers call for ‘Federal Union’ of European states – RT
2/27 EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk – AP
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
2/28 Tesla stock slides more than 5% as Goldman downgrades it to sell – MarketWatch
2/28 The big factor that will help Tesla’s Model 3 launch – Motley Fool
2/28 Solar stocks are hot again: here’s what you should know – Motley Fool
2/28 Cleantech investment roundup: still life in this turbulent sector – Greentech Media
2/28 AES plans to buy sPower, a top utility-scale solar developer – Greentech Media
2/28 PACE lender renew financial expects to close $1 billion in 2017 – Greentech Media
2/26 Inside the high-stakes race to build a better energy storage device – Salon
Art of the Collapse
2/27 Truth… hurts – Zero Hedge
2/22 10 reasons why Muslims are the worst – Medium
2/22 Mainstream media strategery – Zero Hedge
2/16 The talking dead – Medium
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
2/28 Deep state’s message: prepare for totalitarianism – Daily Coin
2/28 The police state is alive and well – FFF
2/28 Countering public officials who disrespect free speech and property rights – FFF
2/27 Deep state war? Russian officials keep dying unexpectedly – Zero Hedge
2/27 Iran test-fires cruise missile after Ahmadinejad slams Trump – Zero Hedge
2/27 Stanford University speech exposes “the threat from within” – Zero Hedge
2/26 The futility and corruption of the drug war – Ron Paul Institute
2/26 Documents indicate Germany spied on foreign journalists – Spiegel
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/27 Why you should eat 10 portions of fruit or vegetables a day – Kurzweil
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/28 Russian military declares cyber-war enhancement – Pan European Networks
2/27 Saudi-Iran: proxy wars escalate to direct cyber attacks – HackRead
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/28 Tweeting accountant blamed for Oscar best picture blunder – Reuters
2/28 My failed attempt to defend organic farming – Medium
2/28 Brain-computer interface advance helps paralyzed people type – Kurzweil
2/27 Oscars night was predictable until the very end – Five Thirty Eight
2/27 Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century – Guardian
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
