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US stocks open lower. 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. Obamacare replacement meets resistance. Trump’s secretary of state forced to recuse himself from Russia investigation.
Best Of The Web
A new look at NYSE margin debt and the market – Advisor Perspectives
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/07 German factory orders slump most since 2009 on investment – Bloomberg
3/07 The world economy can’t handle even one US rate hike – CNBC
3/07 China’s banking system overtakes eurozone – Independent
3/07 Great expectations (not) – James Howard Kunstler
3/07 Greece’s economy performed worse than expected at end of 2016 – Business Insider
3/07 OECD sees lots to worry about in the global economic outlook – Bloomberg
3/07 Hedge funds are bracing for a market selloff – Bloomberg
3/07 Signs of slowdown grow as Britain gears up to trigger EU divorce – Reuters
3/07 US stocks open lower; biotech tumbles – CNBC
3/07 This iconic American company just flashed a major warning – Casey Research
3/07 House GOP releases plan to repeal, replace Obamacare – CNBC
3/07 Glass-Steagall essential banking regulation – BATR
3/07 Why the Fed’s almost-certain rate hike is an even bigger deal than normal – CNBC
3/07 Russian roulette: the geopolitics of debt – Market Mogul
3/07 Bullish commodity bets hit record highs – Fox
3/07 Factory order details disappoint again – Mish
Precious Metals
3/07 Gold slips to 3-week low on Fed rate hike expectations – CNBC
3/07 Gold, US dollar strong; good sign for gold? – Kitco
3/07 Bear raids on silver are losing force, Turk tells KWN – GATA
3/07 Bitcoin price will triple gold in 2018 – Coin Telegraph
3/06 London trader dissects 150 million oz silver massacre – Silver Doctors
3/06 Trump address to Congress a blip on gold price – GoldBroker
3/06 Avery Goodman: Explosion in Comex gold offtake hints at LBMA defaults – GATA
3/06 “I wouldn’t call it a pull-back”: Eric Sprott is fired up! – Silver Doctors
3/06 When will gold manipulation end!? – Silver Doctors
3/06 The Deep State’s gold scam – Silver Doctors
3/06 Precious metals decouple from the Fed – Lear Capital
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/07 China reserves post first gain since June amid capital curbs – Bloomberg
3/07 Money and government: everything you need to know – Vogue
3/07 The rise and fall and rise of bitcoin – The Week
3/07 Unlike gold, bitcoin once in generation investment opportunity – Coin Telegraph
3/07 We love bitcoin, but stop comparing it to gold – CS Monitor
3/07 Will a bitcoin ETF keep bitcoin worth more than gold? – 24/7 Wall St.
Real Estate Bubble
3/07 The next domino to fall: commercial real estate – Charles Hugh Smith
3/07 Housing benefit cuts ‘put young people at risk of homelessness’ – Guardian
3/06 Average Toronto selling price soars 28% y-o-y in February! – MunKnee
3/06 Coconut Grove with 45-month supply of luxury condos for sale – Condo Vultures Realty
3/06 The government doesn’t actually want housing to be more affordable – SMH
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
3/07 Trump’s new travel ban is much narrower — and possibly courtproofed – CNBC
3/07 Trump signs Muslim ban 2.0 – Think Progress
3/07 The Deep State attempts to “decapitate” Donald Trump – Daily Reckoning
3/07 Despite topping polls, Juppé rules out replacing Fillon – Mish
3/07 Wikileaks releases encrypted “vault 7” torrent – Zero Hedge
3/06 FBI director asked DOJ to publicly reject Trump wiretapping claims – Zero Hedge
3/06 It sounds like Paul Ryan just confirmed Trump’s wiretap story – Red State
3/06 Trump scares the crap out of liberals – Huffington Post
3/06 What liberals don’t get about free speech in the age of Trump – Establishment
3/06 Foreign & economic policy under Trump? – Jay Taylor Media
3/06 Confused by Trump? That’s exactly what he wants – Extra Newsfeed
Offshore Investing
3/06 The richest people in the world want this passport (clue: it’s European) – MarketWatch
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
Clean Tech
3/06 Automakers near a victory on rollback of fuel standards – NY Times
3/06 Renewable energy’s problem – AheadOfTheHerd.com
3/06 Another record year for utility-scale solar – Solar Server
3/06 Regulation may stall the future of energy storage – Oil Price
3/06 China says it will drastically cut back on coal power – MarketWatch
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
Art of the Collapse
3/06 Jeff Sessions at the bus stop – SNL
2/27 Truth… hurts – Zero Hedge
2/22 10 reasons why Muslims are the worst – Medium
2/22 Mainstream media strategery – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/07 WikiLeaks releases ‘entire hacking capacity of the CIA’ – Fox
3/07 America’s predator retires, but the reaper lies in wait – Bloomberg
3/07 You’ll never think about mass media the same way – Raw Story
3/07 Police give all clear after London Bridge area evacuated – RT
3/07 So many black people locked up it warped our sense of reality – WaPo
3/07 War-scarred Syrian children may be ‘lost to trauma’: aid group – Yahoo!
3/07 China warns of arms race after US deploys missile defense – NY Times
3/07 Oregon bill would help block federal militarization of police – Tenth Amendment Center
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
3/06 Russian hackers said to seek hush money from liberal groups – Bloomberg
3/06 The golden age of email hacks is only getting started – Wired
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/07 A history and future of the rise of the robots – Hacker Noon
3/06 A survival guide for the coming AI revolution – Financial Sense
3/06 The most (and least) worthwhile degrees – Zero Hedge
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
