Courtesy of John Rubino
US stocks resume their decline, gold and silver flat. Bitcoin and oil stable after recent drops. Subprime auto loans looking unstable. China credit crisis is coming. Trump’s popularity slumps. Tax reform up next.
Best Of The Web
How the Left learned to love states’ rights – Mises Institute
The curse of the thinking class – James Howard Kunstler
The natural order of money and why abstract currencies fail – Medium
Tigers, ghosts, and Kryptonite – Stock Research
They’re baaack! And why you should be worried – very worried – Mark St. Cyr
Discussions on the Fed put – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Pension crisis too big for markets to ignore – Bloomberg
Why this market needs to crash – Peak Prosperity
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/29 Sell the rumor and buy the fact – 24hGold
3/29 How many jobs do robots destroy? Answers emerge – 24hGold
3/29 Death Valley snowballs and fiat currencies – Deviant Investor
3/29 Jim Rogers says Fed has no clue, will ‘ruin us all’ – Bloomberg
3/29 Americans optimistic about stocks – Bloomberg
3/29 ‘Deep subprime’ auto loans are surging – Bloomberg
3/29 It’s time to start believing in the impossible – Financial Survival Network
3/29 Trump faces even bigger debacle than health care – Daily Reckoning
3/29 China a mess, will ‘blow up’ at some point – Bloomberg
3/29 Goldberg: Budget ritual masks looming crisis – FFF
3/29 Time to get defensive – Nestmann
3/29 Catalyst for chaos – 24hGold
Precious Metals
3/29 China’s largest-ever gold mine found in Shandong – China Daily
3/29 Fed rate hikes and higher gold prices- surprising? Anything but! – Gold Republic
3/29 Retirement market in big trouble, protect with precious metals – SRSrocco Report
3/29 The Morgan Report’s weekly perspective for March 24th, 2017 – FSN
3/29 Osisko Mining closes exploration earn-in agreement with Barrick Gold – JMN
3/29 Gold price rally acceleration in play – 321Gold
3/28 Gold’s latest rally is backed by recent history – Birch Gold
3/28 Most dramatic bull market ever in silver market – Silver Doctors
3/28 Gold market charts – March 2017 – BullionStar
3/28 Gold is not an inflation hedge, but it is going up – Seeking Alpha
3/28 Free gold investing course – Harvard Gold
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/29 Scottish parliament votes for second independence referendum – Guardian
3/29 House committee approves bill to increase scrutiny of Fed – GATA
3/29 Contingency plan: bitcoin hard fork – Trezor
3/29 Three reasons why bitcoin could reach $10,000 (or more) – Casey Research
3/28 The Dow’s drop can’t compete with this ominous chart – Daily Reckoning
3/28 Don’t be surprised to see the Fed give inflation some leeway – The Hill
3/28 Bitcoin wobbles as traders turn to other cryptocurrencies – CNBC
3/27 Pound breaks $1.26 for first time since February as dollar drops – Bloomberg
3/27 Rupee hits near 1-1/2 year high against US dollar – Times of India
3/27 Greek capital controls tightening a possibility – Ekathimerini
Real Estate Bubble
3/29 Pending home sales see warm spring surge, up 5.5% – CNBC
3/29 Renters now dominate over half of largest US cities – Dr. Housing Bubble
3/28 Home prices in 20 US cities rise at fastest pace since 2014 – Bloomberg
3/28 A nation of landowners?—?but for how long? – Medium
3/27 Condo flippers in Miami-Dade left twisting in the wind – Wolf Street
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
3/29 Why Brexit is best for Britain: the left-wing case – NY Times
3/29 Fear and loathing of Donald Trump – American Interest
3/29 Embattled DNC asks all staffers for resignation letters – CNBC
3/29 The Trump transformation? – Financial Survival Network
3/29 White liberals attack brown Islamic dissidents – Gatestone Institute
3/29 Steve Bannon vs. the Tea Party Libertarians – Financial Survival Network
3/29 Ron Paul: yes, the Feds are spying on Donald Trump! – Fits News
3/29 Who cleared Devin Nunes into the White House? – CNN
3/29 The GOP can’t stop blaming each other over their health care failure – Time
3/29 When you think the White House infighting can’t get worse – Daily Kos
3/29 French candidate Marine Le Pen leads presidential poll – IB Times
3/29 Why America needs a monarchy – Federalist
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
3/29 CAISO serves 56.7% of demand with renewable energy in one day – Utility Drive
3/29 Losses mount at ReneSola – reNEWS.biz
3/29 New evidence of one of the most troubling ideas about climate change – WaPo
3/29 Trump moves decisively to wipe out Obama’s climate-change record – WaPo
3/28 The solar singularity: 2017 update – Greentech Media
3/28 California is shattering solar records – Desert Sun
Art of the Collapse
3/29 Samantha Bee’s full-frontal assault on the Trump regime – Wired
3/29 Anger-fueled, social- media-driven world of humor in the Trump age – Wired
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
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/29 House just voted to wipe away FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections – WaPo
3/29 When border patrol demands your phone: Our view – USA Today
3/29 Amash backs bill to end police militarization once and for all – Libertarian Republic
3/29 North Korea could be in final stages of nuclear test preparations – CNBC
3/29 Knock-and-talk police tactics rip a hole in the Constitution – FSN
3/28 Italian officials for investigation of NGO migrant fleet – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/29 Top 5 best military surplus rifles for those on a budget – Survival Sullivan
3/29 How to do the Heimlich maneuver – Web MD
3/27 Mayo Clinic discovers high-intensity aerobic training can reverse aging – Kurzweil
3/26 The microbes in your body that you couldn’t live without – BBC
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/29 America’s plan for stopping cyberattacks is dangerously weak – Vox
3/29 Russia’s cyberwar against America isn’t over – Salon
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/29 Fake Florida doctor who ‘enhanced’ buttocks with cement gets 10 years – WaPo
3/29 Scientists convert spinach leaves into human heart tissue — that beats – WaPo
3/29 Facebook camera means snapping is officially the future – Wired
3/28 Meet SAM, brick laying robot that does the work of 6 humans – Zero Hedge
3/28 How the Internet gave mail-order brides the power – Back Channel
3/28 Scientists reverse aging in mice by repairing damaged DNA – Kurzweil
3/28 Musk launches company to pursue ‘neural lace’ brain-interface technology – Kurzweil
3/28 Game over, Uwe Boll – Vanity Fair
3/27 A “tidal wave” of overdoses is filling up this morgue – Mother Jones
3/27 Self-driving cars may just be the start – Oil Price
3/27 Evolution is slower than it looks and faster than you think – Wired
