Courtesy of John Rubino.
Fed raises rate, signals only gradual increases from here. Stocks pop, gold and silver recover recent losses. There’s no proof that Obama wiretapped Trump. Dutch voters stick with the mainstream. Turkey threatens holy war on Europe.
Best Of The Web
Precious metal investing — the old versus the new – Miles Franklin
Austerity kills and then some – Automatic Earth
Inflation is back, the EU is failing, gold will exceed $10,000 – Goldbroker
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/17 Central bank hikers push world stocks near peak – Reuters
3/17 An incredible stat about the Dow shows just how strangely stocks are trading – CNBC
3/17 Collapsing pensions will fuel America’s next financial crisis – MW
3/17 Get ready for a credit implosion – Casey Research
3/17 Goldman warns Yellen has lost control of the market – Talk Markets
3/17 Philly Fed strong again. Why doesn’t factory data match? – Talk Markets
3/17 This won’t end well. Never has – Talk Markets
3/17 Wells Fargo leaders reaped lavish pay as account scandal unfolded – NYT
3/17 Are collapsing pensions about to bring hell to America? – SHTF Plan
3/17 Fed rate hikes + low growth = recession, says market strategist – MW
3/17 Death, debt, devaluation and taxes – Deviant Investor
3/16 Yellen explains why she hiked in a 0.9% GDP quarter – Zero Hedge
3/16 Spike in Greeks renouncing inheritance to avoid taxes – Ekathimerini
3/16 Canadian households owed $2 trillion at the end of 2016 – CBC
Precious Metals
3/16 The world will hyperinflate into a gold standard – 24hGold
3/16 Gold, inflation and the complacency index – 24hGold
3/16 Gold hits one-week high as Fed signals only gradual rate hikes – CNBC
3/16 Gold and silver manipulation is biggest financial crime in history – GATA
3/16 The only way to stop Indians buying gold? Take away their cash – Bloomberg
3/16 Fed raises rates. Gold and silver SURGE – Silver Doctors
3/16 Gold rallies on “buy the fact” after Fed rate hike – Kitco
3/16 ID and AZ to remove capital gains on gold and silver – SRSrocco Report
3/15 Moriarty: We’ve confused paper shuffling with wealth creation – Energy and Gold
3/15 Why gold investors shouldn’t fear the Fed – Birch Gold
3/15 Marshall Swing’s gold and silver predictions – Motley Fool
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/17 How Fork will limit bitcoin price, $3,000 less likely – Cointelegraph
3/17 Here’s what the Fed does next – Daily Reckoning
3/17 Swiss National Bank sticks to negative interest rates – Yahoo!
3/17 The petrodollar is irrelevant – 24hGold
3/17 Will the Fed repeat its inflation mistake? – The Week
3/16 How the world’s central banks have set interest rates – in one chart – Telegraph
3/16 Inflation goes global – Banyan Hill
3/15 Everything you need to know about currency war – Daily Reckoning
Real Estate Bubble
3/17 21st century cities without slums – CNBC
3/17 Mortgage rates jump as economy revs up – MarketWatch
3/16 US housing starts total 1.29M in Feb vs. 1.26M starts expected – CNBC
3/16 NYC apartment rents need to drop 15% – Bloomberg
3/16 Home builder confidence soars to highest level in 12 years – CNBC
DollarCollapse Podcasts
3/14 Inflation + populism = soaring gold
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
Politics
3/17 Winners are losers and left is right – Automatic Earth
3/17 Merkel says Netherlands election sends clear message – Mish
3/17 Stellar performance by Marine Le Pen on 60 Minutes – Mish
3/17 Thomas Frank on Trump’s cabinet and more – Pgh City Paper
3/16 Trump says he based charge of Obama wiretapping on media reports – Bloomberg
3/16 Europe gets reprieve in Dutch election but center fragments – Bloomberg
3/16 Northern Ireland vote jolts already disunited Kingdom – Reuters
3/16 Trump proposes historic cuts across government to fund defense – Bloomberg
3/16 Judge blocks Trump’s second attempt at travel ban – New York Times
3/16 Dutch prime minister claims victory over anti-Muslim candidate Geert Wilders – WaPo
3/16 Will Donald Trump throw Paul Ryan under the bus? – Vanity Fair
3/16 Theresa May is dragging the UK under. Scotland must cut the rope – Guardian
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
3/16 Cities shop for $10 billion of electric cars to defy Trump – Bloomberg
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
3/17 Clean energy could spark a trade war between the US and China – Wired
Art of the Collapse
3/17 Gilbert and Sullivan explain Trump lies – YouTube
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/17 China lashes out as South Korea puts an American anti-missile system in place – CNBC
3/17 Asylum seekers in greece up 339% in 2016 – Amna
3/17 Tillerson on N. Korea: Military action is “on the table” – CNN
3/17 Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear – NYT
3/17 Turkish foreign minister: Holy wars coming to Europe – Gateway Pundit
3/16 Iraqi troops seize main bridge, advance on mosque in battle for Mosul – Reuters
3/16 Rule by thieves in the American kleptocracy – Rutherford Inst.
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/17 Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear – NYT
3/15 ABC News headed for trial over pink slime report – MarketWatch
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/16 Numerous high-profile Twitter accounts hacked, defaced with Pro-Erdogan Messages
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/17 Secret of the crazy tough water bear finally revealed – Wired
3/17 That McDonald’s tweet? Too surreal even for fast food – Wired
3/16 New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being – Guardian
3/15 Smart vibrator firm tracked users’ activity without knowledge – Telegraph
3/15 Can we know what animals are thinking? – Medium
3/15 The future for rent – Medium
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
