Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks open lower after Wednesday’s melt-up. 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
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What financial disaster awaits us next – Jay Taylor
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/02 US initial jobless claims drop to lowest in almost 44 years – Bloomberg
3/02 Data-dependent Yellen running out of reasons to delay hike – Bloomberg
3/02 The end of a 100 year global debt super cycle is way overdue – Economic Collapse
3/02 David Stockman: Trump Will Create a Debt Crisis Like Never Before – Fox Business
3/02 New risks loom for China local debt, this time in dollars – Bloomberg
3/02 S&P ETF saw biggest inflow in 27 months yesterday – Zero Hedge
3/02 “Facing greatest debt crisis in human history” – SHTF Plan
3/02 Investor sentiment hasn’t been this high since two bubbles ago – CNBC
3/02 GDPnow forecast plunges to 1.8% – Mish
3/02 U.K. consumers return to debt as inflation rises – MarketWatch
3/02 Inflation-adjusted spending declines most since September 2009 – Mish
3/02 US equities setting up for a big correction? – HoweStreet
3/02 The next signal to watch – Daily Reckoning
3/01 U.S. consumer spending slows; inflation pushes higher – Reuters
3/01 ISM manufacturing index climbs to best level in more than two years – MarketWatch
3/01 US drives global growth – Active Trading Partners
3/01 Euro-area manufacturing picks up as inflation pressures build – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
3/02 Gold loses luster as dollar reaches 2-month high – MarketWatch
3/02 2 reasons you need to own gold miners immediately – Motley Fool
3/02 2016 growth at Silver Standard Resources Inc. didn’t break the bank – Madison
3/02 Why Coeur Mining Inc’s fourth-quarter loss was a good thing – Motley Fool
3/02 5 gold juniors with more revenue than market cap! – MunKnee
3/02 Can Agnico Eagle Mines stock jump another 60% in 2017? – Motley Fool
3/02 Shine back in gold as Indian imports touch 50 tonnes – Rediff
3/02 Focus on gold – Wells Fargo
3/02 Talk with author of ‘Precious Metals Investing for Dummies’ – MarketWatch
3/01 Will the Fed tell every American to buy gold before it destroys the dollar? – 24hGold
3/01 US Mint releases new Fort Knox “audit documentation” – 24hGold
3/01 Gold stocks: the need to bleed – 321Gold
3/01 Gold starts the year off strong, and some say it’s about to get better – CNBC
3/01 Great Panther Silver’s (GPL) CEO Robert Archer on Q4 – Seeking Alpha
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/02 Euro-area inflation hits 2 percent as ECB debates policy – Bloomberg
3/02 Bitcoin reaches parity with gold – Zero Hedge
3/02 UBS says Swiss franc could surge on more gains for Le Pen – Reuters
3/02 Federal Reserve, not bitcoin, will destroy US dollar – Economic Collapse
3/02 Italy’s inflation accelerates in February – Morningstar
3/02 Winklevoss bitcoin ETF a nervy wager – Press Reader
Real Estate Bubble
3/02 UK house price inflation picks up in February: nationwide – Market News
3/01 US construction spending tumbles as federal building crashes – Zero Hedge
3/01 Sydney home prices surge at fastest annual pace since 2002 – Bloomberg
3/01 This chart signals China’s housing bubble may burst soon – Mauldin Economics
2/28 Monthly US home-price gains reach a 2½-year high – 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
3/02 Top Republicans call on US attorney general to recuse himself – Reuters
3/02 Once again, Trump succeeded where he was supposed to fail – WaPo
3/02 Trump’s world increasingly shaped by Fox News, and Fox by Trump – Bloomberg
3/02 Trump’s speech: good, bad, and ugly point-by-point – Mish
3/02 Big government sneakily gets bigger – FFF
3/02 Sean Spicer’s tailspin – WaPo
3/02 World out of whack: it’s coming, watch out for these 4 catalysts – Capitalist Exploits
3/01 3 in 4 Americans approve of Trump address – Zero Hedge
3/01 MEPs vote to lift Marine Le Pen’s immunity for tweeting violent ISIL images – Telegraph
3/01 Marine Le Pen may be losing election momentum — and investors like it – CNBC
3/01 Trump’s softer tone masks hard road ahead for agenda in Congress – 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
3/02 5 lithium juniors highly levered to the ‘lithium rush’ – MunKnee
3/01 NASA takes solar power generation to a whole new level – Wall Street Pit
3/01 Trump can’t stop this: global renewable energy booms – Medium
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
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
3/02 Meet ‘silent hunter’ – China’s new ‘armored vehicle slicing’ laser gun – Zero Hedge
3/02 Trump ramps up military for China war – Market Oracle
3/02 Five uncomfortable truths about US and Russia – FFF
3/01 This brilliant plan could stop drone terrorism. too bad it’s illegal – Wired
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/02 The best EDC items for self-defense – Survival Sullivan
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/02 Computer scientists, law scholars untangle complexities of cyberconflict – Yale
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/02 Over-fishing wipes out 90% of Caribbean predatory fish – Daily Mail
3/02 World’s oldest fossils found in Canada, say scientists – Guardian
3/02 Boston dynamics’ new rolling, leaping robot an evolutionary marvel – Wired
3/02 Yes, organic farming will kill us all – NewCo
3/01 Google’s Robocar lawsuit could kill Uber’s future, jail execs – Wired
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
