Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks finish the week just below record levels. Gold and silver down from multi-week highs. Bitcoin now higher than gold. Fed expected to raise rates at next meeting. Trump budget to increase defense, cut EPA, State. Trump’s secretary of state forced to recuse himself from Russia investigation.
Best Of The Web
Auto lending – someone please explain how this is not a bubble – Zero Hedge
Fake risk, fake return? – Merk Investments
19,20,21…faster, faster! – Doug Wakefield
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/04 The Fed’s getting ready to raise into weakness – Daily Reckoning
3/04 Pension benefit guarantee corporation running out of cash – Mish
3/04 The Fed’s open conspiracy – Daily Reckoning
3/04 Eurozone capital flight intensifies: Target2 imbalances widen again – Mish
3/04 There’s more equity in China, but a lot of it’s debt – Bloomberg
3/04 Traders start betting on quicker Fed path through 2019 – Bloomberg
3/04 A 30 year mess in the making – Economic Prism
3/03 US service industries grow at fastest pace since October 2015 – Bloomberg
3/03 Yield curve flattens considerably: surprising economic strength revisited – Mish
3/03 Go long chain makers – Automatic Earth
3/03 The next financial implosion is not going to be about the banks! – MATA SII
3/03 Morgan, Goldman should ‘hang heads in shame’ over Snap IPO – CNBC
3/03 Global banks have paid $321bn in fines since financial crisis – Independent
3/03 Greece’s ‘desperate households’ – Ekathimerini
3/03 Euro-area economy expands most since 2011 as recovery broadens – Bloomberg
3/03 The Fed is preparing $1 trillion in QE for the next recession – Zero Hedge
3/03 Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure dream faces the same old nightmares – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
3/04 More downside potential in the gold stocks – Daily Gold
3/04 Let’s get real: why you must own precious metals – SafeHaven
3/04 Silver and gold smack-down – News Doctors
3/04 The first thing Doug Casey looks for in a gold stock – Casey Research
3/04 Germany’s gold remains a mystery as mainstream media cheerleads – GATA
3/04 Gold: last opportunity before it races higher? – Seeking Alpha
3/04 Why Endeavour Silver Corp. lost its luster and fell 23% – Military Technologies
3/04 Hecla Mining sets record in 2016; is another on tap for 2017? – Motley Fool
3/03 Gold miners retracing back to 61% Fibonacci level? – Seeking Alpha
3/03 The “strong dollar” catch-22 – SilverSeek
3/03 Bill Holter: 115 million ounces — not even close to possible – GATA
3/03 Rickards: Gold rises even if Fed hikes rates – Daily Reckoning
3/03 Gold bulls get a wake up call as US rate-hike odds surge – Bloomberg
3/03 Rick Rule’s top investing ideas: March 2, 2017 – BNN
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/04 Bitcoin versus gold – CryptoCoins News
3/04 What bitcoin lacks to become major currency – Coin Telegraph
3/03 Kuroda’s core price gauge rises for the first time in a year – Bloomberg
3/03 Fed and ECB go their separate ways – Reuters
3/03 The tyranny of a cashless society coming? – Western Journalism
3/03 Cap on cash that can be held by individuals and companies? – Economic Times
Real Estate Bubble
3/04 More homeowners cashing in on their new housing wealth – CNBC
3/03 Million-dollar home contagion spreads to Toronto suburbs – Bloomberg
3/03 Home ownership in England at a 30-year low, official figures show – Guardian
3/03 Property investors are getting interest rate jitters – CNBC
3/02 UK house price inflation picks up in February: nationwide – Market News
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
3/03 EU escalates ‘visa war’, Americans set to lose visa-free travel to Europe – Telegraph
3/03 Le Pen says leaving euro a question of time as she praises Trump – Bloomberg
3/03 Marine Le Pen faces possible prosecution over graphic Tweets – NPR
3/03 French election monitor: risk of a Le Pen victory eases in markets – Bloomberg
3/03 The resistance will have all the proper permits – Bloomberg
3/03 A goat would beat Le Pen in France’s presidential election – CNBC
3/03 Jeff Sessions recuses himself from Russia inquiry – NY Times
3/03 French Republicans abandon Fillon as scandal engulfs campaign – Bloomberg
3/03 Juncker’s latest lie: “less is more” – Mish
3/03 Political suicide for Republicans who don’t call for Russian investigations – WaPo
3/03 Demand slows for firearms, sending shares of major gunmaker down 5% – CNBC
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
3/04 Fuel for Thought: Cheapest solar power in the world? – National
3/04 Amazon.com plans big solar-power rollout at warehouses – Seattle Times
3/04 China smashes solar energy records, coal use & CO2 emissions fall – Think Progress
3/04 Wild world of batteries: from capturing the sun to plant-based storage – Medium
3/03 FPL announces sites selected for eight new solar power plants – Yahoo!
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
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
3/04 Leveraging the Doomsday Clock – AheadOfTheHerd.com
3/03 China takes another jab at US in South China Sea – SCMP
3/03 N Korea claims Kim Jong Nam likely died of a heart attack – NPR
3/03 Tucker Carlson interviews UK journalist about Sweden and crime – Twitchy
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
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
3/03 Hackers accessed private email account Pence used for official business – WaPo
3/03 Medical devices are the next security nightmare – Wired
3/03 The latest hot start-ups to emerge from Israel’s cybersecurity war machine – CNBC
3/03 DNI nominee puts ‘cyberwarfare’ at top of threat list – Oodaloop
3/03 Legislators grapple with cyber war rules – The Hill
3/02 Computer scientists, law scholars untangle complexities of cyberconflict – Yale
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/04 The story behind that ‘future that liberals want’ photo – Wired
3/03 Lake worshipped by Incans now littered with trash – AP News
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
