Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks fall on health care turmoil, gold and silver rise slightly. Bitcoin and oil stable after recent drops. New home sales rise. Trump’s popularity slumps. Obamacare replacement stalls in Congress.
Best Of The Web
Required minimum distributions spell disaster (& even greater intervention) – Econimica
The Deep State’s dominant narratives and authority are crumbling – Charles Hugh Smith
Dead men walking? – SilverSeek
The smokestacks come tumbling down – Nearly Now
The broken bond market – Global Macro Monitor
Status quo under increasing attack by ‘populist people power’ – MATA SII
Who the hell would vote for Marine Le Pen? – Daily Beast
A funny thing happens when the US accuses the UK of spying – Wired
Time to get painfully serious: Banks are evil – Peak Prosperity
Another missed opportunity – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Steve Eisman: Smart, lucky, abrasive, and now one of them – Burning Platform
Enter the blockchain – Garret Galland
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/25 OECD sounds the alarm on China’s soaring corporate debt – Hill
3/25 Why the retail Apocalypse has only just begun… – Casey Research
3/25 Atlanta GDPNow confirms “hard” data still disappointing – Financial Sense
3/25 Rising inflation, 4 rate hikes, financial repression on menu in 2017 – Wolf Street
3/25 Brazil’s $60 million-a-day meat exports collapse – Japan Times
3/25 The inverse of Keynes – Alhambra Partners
3/25 Opec out of moves as Goldman Sachs expects another oil glut – Oil Price
3/24 Major indexes fall, Nasdaq turns negative as health-care looms – CNBC
3/24 Stock market’s old friend volatility threatening a glorious return – MarketWatch
3/24 Ryan lacks the votes to replace Obamacare – New York Times
3/24 The retail apocalypse has officially descended on America – Business Insider
3/24 Trump ultimatum: Pass health bill now or live with Obamacare – MarketWatch
3/24 New survey paints grim picture of shuttered businesses – Ekathimerini
3/24 Euro zone economy sparkles, lights way for ECB pull-back – Reuters
Precious Metals
3/25 Gold climbs for second week in a row – MarketWatch
3/25 A grinding gold market: key trades – 321Gold
3/25 Columbus discovered a gold mine – Streetwise Reports
3/25 Klondex reports fourth quarter and full year 2016 results – Yahoo!
3/24 Gold ETFs or physical gold? Hidden dangers in GLD – GoldCore
3/24 China to radically reprice gold higher in 2017 – King World News
3/24 Silver Wheaton sees growth in gold mine building – Bay Street
3/24 Columbus Gold: silver lining after disappointing update – Seeking Alpha
3/24 Gold price target unchanged at $10,000/oz – GoldSeek
3/24 10 compelling reasons to add physical silver to your portfolio – MunKnee
3/24 Rick Rule interview – King World News
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/25 BOJ won’t raise bond yield target: Kuroda – Japan Times
3/25 Dollar drops to fresh low on uncertainty about health-care vote – Bloomberg
3/25 Eurozone banks jump on last chance for cheap ECB loans – Daily Sabah
3/25 Dear Fed: this is where the inflation you are looking for is “hiding” – Zero Hedge
3/25 Bitcoin step aside, dash hits $100, up 2,500% in 2017 – 24hGold
3/24 Eurozone whistles past its biggest threat – Wolf Street
3/24 All the evidence you need bitcoin is turning into a real currency – Futurism
Real Estate Bubble
3/24 Wild swings in new home sales – Mish
3/24 US new-home sales climbed to a seven-month high in February – Bloomberg
3/24 San Francisco median home price now over $1.3 million – Dr. Housing Bubble
3/24 Existing home sales in February wipe out January gains – Mish
3/22 Hot U.S. real estate a potential red flag: Fed’s Rosengren – Reuters
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
3/25 Trump drops Obamacare repeal as health-care effort fails – Vanity Fair
3/25 Islamic terrorists don’t respect appeasement from the West – Real Clear Politics
3/24 Why the French election will decide Europe’s future – Zero Hedge
3/24 France shudders after London attack, Le Pen demands border controls – Reuters
3/24 How nationalist Marine Le Pen wins France – Forbes
3/24 Trump transition team was under ‘incidental’ surveillance – Fox News
3/24 About fake news – 24hGold
3/24 The growing red-state backlash to Donald Trump – Vanity Fair
3/24 Wall St Journal editorial board just went off on Trump – WaPo
3/24 Trump’s former campaign chair once worked for Putin – Time
3/23 Doug Casey has “never seen anything like this” – Zero Hedge
3/23 Trump the destroyer – Rolling Stone
Offshore Investing
3/24 Where’s citizenship for sale? Huddled masses need not apply – 24hGold
3/22 Why banks no longer want your money – Nestmann
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
Clean Tech
3/24 Photovoltaic system market to grow with a CAGR of 18.7% by 2022 – Solar Server
3/24 Blockchain ‘potentially significant enabler’ for solar in UK – Solar Power Central
3/24 Northern Lights: Large-scale solar power is spreading across the US – Yale
3/24 Imagining a world after fossil fuels – Financial Sense
3/22 Why shares of Canadian Solar Inc. plunged 11% today – Motley Fool
3/22 The great electrification of BMW should terrify Tesla – The Street
Art of the Collapse
3/24 Artist’s impression of judge Gorsuch’s nomination hearings – Zero Hedge
3/21 Beauty and the Beast adjusted for Belle’s entitlement – Belladonna
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/25 Canada passes ‘blasphemy’ bill to silence critics of Islam – Zero Hedge
3/25 Real-time face recognition from cops’ body cameras – Intercept
3/24 US airstrike kills 33 civilians sheltering at Syrian school – We Are Change
3/23 London attack – latest updates – BBC
3/23 Erdogan warns Europeans ‘will not walk safely’ if attitude persists – Reuters
3/23 London terrorist attack leaves 5 dead, including attacker, police officer – CNBC
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/22 Access to nature reduces depression and obesity, finds European study – Guardian
3/20 Sugar is at the heart of America’s health problems – Financial Sense
3/19 How rich is your knowledge capital? – Peak Prosperity
3/19 These people eat monkeys and piranhas – WaPo
3/18 Whole-body vibration may be as effective as regular exercise – Kurzweil
3/17 Trump and the GOP Want to Make It Even Easier for Police to Get Military Gear – NYT
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/24 Canada, NATO attempt to define boundaries of response to cyberattacks – CBC
3/24 The Royal Navy is holding huge cyber war games in Scotland – Irish News
3/23 Wikileaks: proof CIA bugs “factory fresh” iPhones – Zero Hedge
3/23 ISIS is winning the cyber war. Here’s how to stop it – Hill
3/23 CIA at cyberwar – Valdai Club
3/23 Small businesses beware: half of all cyber-attacks target you – Medium
3/22 How China is preparing for cyberwar – CS Monitor
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/25 Silicon Valley’d rather cure death than make life worth living – Wired
3/24 Why the white middle class is dying faster, explained in 6 charts – Vox
3/22 Man who planted tree and grew whole family of forests – Guardian
3/22 Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as human beings – Guardian
3/22 World’s first anti-ageing drug could see humans live to 120 – Telegraph
3/22 5 reasons you’re living in the strangest time in human history – SHTF Plan
3/22 Lab-grown chicken strips could change the meat industry forever – Entrepreneur
3/21 Record-breaking climate change pushes world into ‘uncharted territory’ – Guardian
3/21 Stunning video of Mars took 3 months to stitch together—by hand – Wired
