Courtesy of John Rubino
US stocks resume their ascent, gold and silver rise. Bitcoin and oil stable after recent drops. Subprime auto loans emerging as possible threat. Tax reform up next.
Best Of The Web
Our economies run on housing bubbles – Automatic Earth
How the Left learned to love states’ rights – Mises Institute
The curse of the thinking class – James Howard Kustler
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
3/31 Last two times gov reported data like this, stocks crashed – Wolf Street
3/31 Margin debt hits record high with extreme consumer confidence – SafeHaven
3/31 Personal income up but real consumer spending declines – Mish
3/31 Markets overlooking a clear & present danger? – Real Investment Advice
3/31 Kingston contemporary issues lecture 7 the euro crisis – Steve Keen
3/31 Here’s why Italy’s banking crisis has gone off the radar – Wolf Street
3/31 German unemployment slides to record low as economy booms – Bloomberg
3/31 Bob Hoye – get ready for the real default tsunami – FSN
3/31 Martin Armstrong – Dow 42,000 – Financial Survival Network
3/31 The best way to learn about stocks… – Medium
3/31 The great interest rate illusion – Daily Reckoning
3/30 Margin debt hits record high with extreme consumer confidence – Mish
Precious Metals
3/31 Gold and precious metals – all quiet before a volatile storm? – Seeking Alpha
3/31 10 reasons to buy Royal Gold Inc. stock and never sell – Motley Fool
3/31 Gold seen soaring to $1500 as inflation poised for comeback – Mining Weekly
3/31 Better buy: Goldcorp Inc. vs. Yamana Gold – Motley Fool
3/31 Six gold juniors developing high-impact projects – Northern Miner
3/31 Free “how to invest in gold” course – Harvard Gold
3/31 China’s gold demand may be understated by 40%- report – Markets Talent
3/31 BFS for Columbus Gold’s Montagne D’Or fuels M&A speculation – Streetwise Reports
3/31 Precious metals are in alignment for a major ascent – Streetwise Reports
3/31 US Mint records weakest March sales in 3 years – Kitco
3/30 Gold edges down on stronger dollar – CNBC
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/31 Japan inflation’s first back-to-back rise since 2015 – Bloomberg
3/31 Danielle DiMartino Booth: The Fed is bedeviled by Keynes’ paradox – GATA
3/31 German inflation weaker than expected in March – Nasdaq
3/31 Can Bitcoin become a global currency? – Inquirer
3/30 China’s underground bank crackdown risks headaches in Hong Kong – Bloomberg
3/30 Bitcoin: ‘blood diamonds’ of the digital era – Forbes
3/30 SEC denies a second application to list bitcoin product – WIFC
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
Real Estate Bubble
3/31 APRA: Australia’s interest-only home loans – AFR
3/30 House price growth in Sydney accelerates to 19pc in March: CoreLogic – AFR
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
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
3/31 Trump threatens hard-liners as part of escalating Republican civil war – WaPo
3/31 Michael Flynn in 2016: Immunity ‘means you probably committed a crime’ – WaPo
3/31 2 White House officials helped give Nunes intelligence reports – NY Times
3/31 For EU, French vote is existential – Politico
3/31 Approach Marine Le Pen with caution – JNS
3/31 Trump redrew the map to win office. He’s now lost – Economist
3/31 Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali gets up so many people’s noses – SMH
3/31 An angry freedom caucus responds to Trump’s 2018 threat – Zero Hedge
3/30 There’s a Russian storm over Trump’s struggling presidency – CNN
3/30 Le Pen victory could be more dangerous than Greece’s meltdown – CNBC
3/30 Where Donald Trump is winning – Slate
3/30 Why the comparisons between Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson? – WGBH
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
3/31 Donald Trump and the myth of the coal revival – New Yorker
3/31 Climate change policies working: CO2 emissions flat for 2 years in a row – Oil Price
3/30 Solar power-related jobs in U.S. grew 25% in 2016 – Tech World
3/30 9 ways Trump is scaring the daylights out of environmentalists – NJ
3/30 Ikea continues its renewables push – Midwest Energy News
3/29 CAISO serves 56.7% of demand with renewable energy in one day – Utility Drive
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
3/31 Syrian refugees: more than 5m in neighbouring countries now – Guardian
3/31 Is war between US and China brewing in the South China Sea? – Zero Hedge
3/30 Drugs war is ‘in fact a war on the poor’ – Business World
3/30 Dwight Eisenhower’s shocking—and prescient—military warning – FFF
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
3/31 Bicarb magical mineral supplement – Dr. Sircus
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/31 The US has an ‘active cyber war underway’ – NPR
3/31 Cyberwar on elections is just starting: Steven Strauss – USA Today
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
3/31 Global reshuffle of wildlife will have huge impacts on humanity – Guardian
3/31 Fit cities vs fat cities – Healthcare in America
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
