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
Reality vs. the neutral rate – Credit Bubble Bulletin
The four horsemen of the retirement Apocalypse – Charles Hugh Smith
Rigged system: fake risk, fake return – Mish
The coming great wealth transfer – Peak Prosperity
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/05 A selloff is looming as fear stalks the stock market rally – MarketWatch
3/05 The Fed is embarking on a path that usually ends with a recession – Yahoo!
3/05 Brexit: UK could quit EU without paying a penny, say Lords – Guardian
3/05 Is retirement for the middle class about to go up in smoke? – Birch Gold
3/05 The only chart Americans should be worrying about right now – Zero Hedge
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
Precious Metals
3/05 ‘Paper vs. physical dilemma’ can power gold, Tice tells CNBC – GATA
3/05 Mining entrepreneur Giustra concedes gold price suppression – GATA
3/05 With money in their pockets, prospects improve for small miners – Reuters
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/05 Mike Kosares: Will banks’ excess reserves fuel a monetary crisis? – GATA
3/05 Is the boom of bitcoin a bubble that’s about to burst? – PBS
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
Real Estate Bubble
3/05 This house was 3D-printed in under 24 hours at a cost of just $10,000 – Zero Hedge
3/05 Wave of Indian & Middle East millionaires into London – Property Magazine
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
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
3/05 Trump administration to propose ‘dramatic reductions’ in foreign aid – Reuters
3/05 Trump’s dangerous anti-libertarian nationalism – FFF
3/05 Despite early denials, Russia continues to haunt White House – WaPo
3/05 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: NZ not immune from radical Islam – Stuff.co.nz
3/05 These rights are not yours to give – Pensive Post
3/05 POTUS at SOTUS – James Howard Kunstler
3/05 Milo Yiannopoulos isn’t going away – Rolling Stone
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
Offshore Investing
3/05 How to find the best offshore banks – Casey Research
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
Clean Tech
3/05 White House proposes steep budget cut to leading climate science agency – WaPo
3/05 China’s coal consumption drops, boosting leadership on climate change – CS Monitor
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!
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
3/05 Tulsi Gabbard: to solve refugee crisis, stop funding terrorism – Zero Hedge
3/05 Erdogan anger as Germany-Turkey war of words escalates – BBC
3/05 Are we being set up for a national ID system? – FFF
3/05 Visualizing the worrying decline of freedom around the world – Zero Hedge
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
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
3/05 Trump inherits a secret cyberwar against North Korean missiles – NY Times
3/05 You are the target of today’s cyberwars – Back Channel
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/05 Schemers, investors, dreamers bewitched by a giant green rock – Wired
3/05 Are insects the future of food? – Lucky Peach
3/05 Tiny fossils could be oldest evidence of life on Earth – SCPR
3/05 What do Uber, Volkswagen and Zenefits have in common? – Medium
3/05 Why Snapchat won’t make it through the year… – NewCo
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
