Courtesy of John Rubino.
Beware the ides of March? Has Wall Street found its next Big Short? China’s economic miracle is over. Stocks are wildly overvalued and this is the lull before the storm. Gold and silver stable 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
3/14 Iceland’s recovery shows benefits of letting overreaching banks go bust – Telegraph
3/14 This is the most overvalued stock market on record – MarketWatch
3/14 Why Robert Shiller is worried about the Trump Rally – Bloomberg
3/14 Saudis tell OPEC they eased cuts by pumping 10 million barrels – Bloomberg
3/14 Wall Street has found its next Big Short – Bloomberg
3/14 The lull before the storm – Daily Reckoning
3/14 Raising the ides of March debt limit – BATR
3/14 New oil price war looms as OPEC deal falls short – Oil Price
3/14 One chart shows how relaxed investors are about rising interest rates – MarketWatch
3/14 US rate increase will worsen developing country debt crisis – Guardian
3/14 Oil holds losses as supply glut looms – Bloomberg
3/14 The ides of March could be critical turning point for stocks – MarketWatch
3/14 China’s economic miracle is over – MarketWatch
Precious Metals
3/14 The secret behind the Chinese gold market – GATA
3/14 Of useful idiots and COMEX silver speculators – Safe Haven
3/14 Managed money traders MIA in Friday’s silver COT report – Sprott
3/14 Digital gold on blockchain: for now, caveat emptor – Goldcore
3/14 Gold is undervalued or overvalued, depending on how you look at it – MW
3/14 Silver One makes a big acquisition – FSN
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/14 US producer prices climbed more than forecast in February – Bloomberg
3/14 PBOC’s talks dim prospects of bitcoin in China – Daily Fx
3/14 Bitcoin could exceed Clif High’s $13,000 prediction – Coin Telegraph
3/14 Bitcoin-based pyramid schemes flourishing in regulatory vacuum – LiveMint
3/13 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
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
3/14 Fillon formally charged with misuse of public funds, French stocks tumble – Zero Hedge
3/14 EU crisis becoming existential — tomorrow’s vote and why it matters – Goldcore
3/14 Why facts don’t change our minds – New Yorker
3/14 A bottom line look at Trump’s new Washington – WaPo
3/14 Trump’s trade hammer aims to pound China, Mexico, WTO – Bloomberg
3/14 Worlds will collide when cautious Merkel meets impetuous Trump – MW
3/13 President Trump: Workaholic in Chief, part 2 – FSN
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
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
3/14 Fukushima evacuees forced to return home despite radiation – Guardian
3/14 Will Germany’s 100% EV plan actually cut emissions? – Oil Price
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
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
3/14 American citizens: US border agents can search your cell phone – NBC
3/14 Debunking America’s “good” occupation – American Conservative
3/14 Turkey threatens to unleash thousands of refugees – Zero Hedge
3/14 Refugees fleeing violence in Central America piling up in Mexico – Intercept
3/14 Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties – WaPo
3/14 Japan to send largest warship to South China Sea – Reuters
3/14 Dutch election upended as Turkey dispute boosts Wilders – Bloomberg
3/14 Turkey cancels diplomatic airspace with Netherlands – Mish
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
3/14 Legal marijuana’s social impact on Colorado – Zero Hedge
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
