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US employment jumps. Stocks set to open lower. Gold and silver down again. Bitcoin down but still higher than gold. Fed expected to raise rates at next meeting. Obamacare replacement on the table. Wikileaks drops another bombshell.
Best Of The Web
What the hell is going on? – Burning Platform
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/08 Discount retail: the next shoe to drop? – Banyan Hill
3/08 Unfunded liabilities of largest pension plans in US increase – AI-CIO
3/08 Good news on China’s economy is never what it seems – Forbes
3/08 Trillions disappearing from Europe’s negative bond market – Forbes
3/08 ADP: Businesses added booming 298,000 jobs in Feb. – USA Today
3/08 GDPNow Q1 forecast plunges to 1.3% with vehicle sales, factory orders reports – Mish
3/08 ‘Ohama Titanic Syndrome’ has investors fretting – MarketWatch
3/08 The end of calm bond markets – Macro Tourist
3/08 Oil imports lift U.S. trade deficit to near five-year high – Reuters
3/08 Trump enters Obamacare spat as conservatives savage GOP plan – Bloomberg
3/08 Fed to make sequential hikes until ‘something breaks’ – CNBC
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
Precious Metals
3/08 GDX: the cremation of speculator McGee – Seeking Alpha
3/08 Gold weekly: ready for the crash – Seeking Alpha
3/08 Mag Silver’s world-class property just keeps getting better – Streetwise Reports
3/08 The odd withdrawal of Thompson, CME from silver pricing – GATA
3/08 Gold investing 101 – beware unallocated gold accounts… – GoldCore
3/08 The path to $10,000 gold – Daily Reckoning
3/08 Hugo Salinas Price: Where are we today? – GATA
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/08 Hammond urged to tackle ‘catastrophic’ effect of inflation – Guardian
3/08 Inflation is back: now get ready to deal with the consequences – Motley Fool
3/08 Bitcoin could hit $3,000 by the end of the year after recent rally – CNBC
3/08 Bitcoin exceeds $20 billion in market cap – CryptoCoins News
3/07 China reserves post first gain since June amid capital curbs – Bloomberg
3/07 Money and government: everything you need to know – Vogue
Real Estate Bubble
3/08 Boosting leverage to make housing affordable makes no sense – LF Economics
3/08 Vacant homes are a global epidemic – Zero Hedge
3/08 A third of all shopping malls are projected to close – Zero Hedge
3/08 Real estate & rate change – you’ve been warned! – Active Trading Partners
3/07 The next domino to fall: commercial real estate – Charles Hugh Smith
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
3/08 Obama “furious” with Trump over wiretapping allegations – Zero Hedge
3/07 Wikileaks: CIA engages in false flag cyberattacks – Zero Hedge
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
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
3/08 SunEdison to sell stakes in Terraform Yieldcos to brookfield – Bloomberg
3/08 Solar power growth leaps by 50% worldwide thanks to US and China – Guardian
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
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
3/08 Irony: former CIA director complains the media lies – Daily Bell
3/08 CIA contractor on #VAULT7 leak: ‘heavy shit coming down’ – Zero Hedge
3/08 The tipping point – Medium
3/08 Snowden: CIA spying “reckless beyond words” – Zero Hedge
3/08 Former NSA whistleblower: Trump was being monitored – Zero Hedge
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
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
3/08 The Russians are waging cyber war in Europe, says Boris – Daily Mail
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
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
