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US stocks up slightly after strong jobs report. Gold and silver at multi-week lows. SEC rejects bitcoin ETF, price plunges then recovers. Fed expected to raise rates at next meeting. Obamacare replacement on the table, facing opposition. Wikileaks drops another bombshell.
Best Of The Web
When this all blows up… – Peak Prosperity
Silver market poised for big reversal – SRSrocco Report
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/12 US jobs report means Fed rate hike is a bolt-on certainty – Guardian
3/12 America has too much debt to achieve 3% growth – Business Insider
3/12 The market’s scariest warning sign – Daily Reckoning
3/12 David Stockman: debt crisis countdown begins – Daily Reckoning
3/12 What could turn this bull market into a total financial collapse? – Hedge Folios
3/12 The Shiller CAPE, rate cycles & financial repression – FRA
3/12 China’s corporate debt ‘too high’ – Taipei Times
3/12 The US is following Italy’s lead without realizing it – Forbes
3/12 Rising household debt a concern across Asia – Edge Property
3/11 Oil’s plunge below $50 sends options trading into a frenzy – Bloomberg
3/11 US subprime auto loan losses reach highest level since crisis – Bloomberg
3/11 US stocks rise, dollar falls as data back hike: markets wrap – Bloomberg
3/11 Germany’s ‘powerhouse’ economy is cracking and investors need to be wary – CNBC
3/11 Solid jobs report – Mish
3/11 One in six UK households struggles with more pain ahead – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
3/12 Gold’s longest losing streak in 20 months: some spot a buying opportunity – CNBC
3/12 Asanko Gold ups 2017 gold production guidance – Mining Review
3/12 The power of a penny – Banyan Hill
3/11 Gold $10,000 coming – “time to prepare is now” – GoldCore
3/11 Gold bottom is near: key tactics – 321Gold
3/11 The next big gold rally could happen as soon as this spring – Business Insider
3/11 Gold to jump $200 by end of the year, Bank of America says – CNBC
3/11 Gold is suffering its longest losing streak since last May – CNBC
3/11 A gold market update from Andrew Maguire – TF Metals Report
3/11 3 reasons why investors should avoid gold ETFs – Forbes
3/11 Backers of tax cut for gold coin sales bring in Paul – Mohave Daily News
3/11 An analog for the gold stocks correction – Daily Gold
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/12 U.S. regulators reject Bitcoin ETF – Reuters
3/12 Savers warned: inflation to rise faster than expected – Telegraph
3/12 Donald Trump and Fed are a net plus for dollar – Barron’s
3/12 Why Trump left Saudi Arabia off his immigration ban – Casey Research
3/12 Brazil inflation surprise firms up bets on faster rate cuts – Bloomberg
3/11 Learning to do money with 40% inflation – Bill Fold
3/11 As ECB charts economic course, politics complicate the picture – NY Times
3/11 Is inflation a problem? – Silver Investor
Real Estate Bubble
3/12 Are realtors behind the next economic collapse? – Birch Gold
3/11 One in three UK homeowners earns more from property than work – Bloomberg
3/10 It’s not just America—the rent is high everywhere – Bloomberg
3/09 Mortgage rates jump to 2017 high – MarketWatch
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
3/12 Republican civil war breaks out over trade in White House meeting – Mish
3/12 Justice Department fires all remaining Obama administration U.S. attorneys – WaPo
3/12 Marine Le Pen’s perfect storm – National Interest
3/12 Marine Le Pen could still win French presidential election – Independent
3/12 Donald Trump and the Reagan playbook on LGBTQ rights – Huffington Post
3/12 Thomas Frank asks how America’s Democrats got it so wrong on conversations – ABC
3/12 10 best quotes from Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” – Daily Bell
3/12 The bag holder and his bag – James Howard Kunstler
3/11 Le Pen loses lead as Macron set to clinch first round victory – Express
3/11 ‘Total disaster’ if Le Pen wins the French election – WaPo
3/11 America needs Ron Paul back – IVN
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
3/11 US solar market has record-breaking year – Greentech Media
3/11 Solliance sets 12.6% efficiency record for roll-to-roll perovskites – Renewables Now
3/11 Sungevity cuts staff by two-thirds as downward spiral continues – Greentech Media
3/10 Fukushima mysteries rattle Japan’s nuclear industry – WSJ
3/10 Renewable energy’s problem – AheadOfTheHerd.com
3/10 2016 a record year for solar power in Nevada – Review Journal
Art of the Collapse
3/11 ‘Reasons to vote for Democrats’ jumps to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list – CNBC
3/09 Malcolm Evans – Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Daily Blog
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/12 FBI uses “geek squad” for illegal spying – Daily Bell
3/12 Police falsely told a man he couldn’t film them – WaPo
3/11 Assange says leaks show CIA’s ‘devastating incompetence’ – Yahoo!
3/11 The Left’s great Russian conspiracy theory – FFF
3/11 Death in al Ghayil – The Intercept
3/11 From deep state insurgency to deep state spying – FFF
3/11 Russia’s neighbours ask for US help – Eurasia Times
3/10 China stealth jet enters service, navy building ‘first class’ fleet – Reuters
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/11 Surgeons were told to stop prescribing so many painkillers – WaPo
3/10 The scary thing about GMO that nobody’s talking about – Medium
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/12 What happens when the plug gets pulled? – Trumpet
3/11 Wikileaks :’Cyberwar’ programs are a serious proliferation risk – GEAB
3/11 Uncle Sam may want you for cyber war – Military
3/10 Huge vulnerability discovered in the Ring Doorbell – IOT For All
3/09 China, Russia dangerously ahead of U.S. in cyberwar capabilities – The Stack
3/09 Next WikiLeaks worry: the release of the code – USA Today
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/12 Driverless trucks test cooperative adaptive cruise control – Mish
3/11 Preparing for our posthuman future of artificial intelligence – Kurzweil
3/11 Scientists create artificial mouse ‘embryo’ from stem cells for first time – Cam.ac.uk
3/10 Within 30 years, humanity will transform with exponential growth – Medium
3/10 Why Ring, not Amazon Echo, is the killer IoT product – Hacker Noon
3/09 US fertility rate at lowest point since records began in 1909 – Zero Hedge
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
