Courtesy of John Rubino.
Beware the ides of March? China’s debt is “out of control”, it’s economic miracle over. Stocks are wildly overvalued. Gold and silver at multi-week lows. House Intelligence panel wants wiretapping evidence. SEC rejects bitcoin ETF, price plunges then recovers. Fed expected to raise rates at next meeting. Obamacare replacement facing opposition from both right and left.
Best Of The Web
Stagflation is stalking the world – SafeHaven
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/13 Oil holds losses as supply glut looms – Bloomberg
3/13 The ides of March could be critical turning point for stocks – MarketWatch
3/13 China’s economic miracle is over – MarketWatch
3/13 A third of American families have roller coaster finances – MarketWatch
3/13 Three charts that show unprecedented stock valuations – Felder
3/13 Here’s why interest rates are rising: jobs, wages, inflation – MarketWatch
3/13 Trump wants faster growth. The Fed isn’t so sure – NYT
3/13 China’s debt spirals out of control – Australian
3/13 If China and the World Bank are right, Depression is coming – Zero Hedge
3/13 Crude dips below $48 for first time since November – Mish
3/13 These four charts are issuing a warning on stocks – US China News
3/13 US bank loan creation suddenly tumbles to 5-year low – Zero Hedge
Precious Metals
3/13 Charting the race in gold reserves among senior gold miners – Market Realist
3/13 One key metric for Silver Standard Resources investors – Motley Fool
3/13 India’s gold paperization scheme is a total flop – GATA
3/13 Grant Williams interviews Egon von Greyerz – GATA
3/12 Ed Steer’s Gold and Silver Daily available here – GATA
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/13 Bitcoin could exceed Clif High’s $13,000 prediction – Coin Telegraph
3/13 Bitcoin-based pyramid schemes flourishing in regulatory vacuum – LiveMint
3/12 Why bitcoin didn’t need an ETF to begin with – Cointelegraph
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
Real Estate Bubble
3/13 Concerns about riskier mortgages are sprouting – CNBC
3/12 NYC rents crash again in February – US China News
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
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
3/13 GOP healthcare bill hangs in the balance – The Hill
3/13 The deep state and the dark arts – Counterpunch
3/13 Flynn attended intel briefings while working for Turkey – CNBC
3/13 House intelligence committee calls for Trump wiretap evidence – The Hill
3/13 ACLU launches nationwide training in protest and resistance – ABC
3/13 How Trump became and accidental totalitarian – Vanity Fair
3/13 French election beset by criminal investigations, fake news – Business Insider
3/13 The peroxide blond crusader who could soon top Dutch elections – WaPo
3/13 Republican civil war breaks out over trade in White House meeting – Mish
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
3/13 The good news from the CIA hacks – Hackernoon
3/13 Turkey’s Erdogan warns Dutch will pay price for dispute – BBC
3/13 Global leaders rattle sabers as world marches towards war – Economic Collapse Blog
3/13 Ron Paul calls Wikileaks CIA revelations “fantastic” – AntiWar
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
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
3/13 Crippling snowstorm hits East Coast – USA Today
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
