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Courtesy of John Rubino.

US stocks at record high. Inflation is spiking on stronger growth. Fed likely to raise interest rates next month. Gold and silver down from multi-week highs. Trump national security adviser scandal evolving. Debate over Putin and fake news intensifies.  

Best Of The Web

Dazed & confused… Treasury buying vs. asset valuations? – Econimica

Michael Belkin interview – King World News

Global trade disaster nearly certain – Mish

The four horsemen of the retirement Apocalypse – Financial Sense

Fed went from lender of last resort to destroyer of American wealth – Danielle DiMartino Booth

Mother of all financial bubbles – Peak Prosperity

China credit and global inflationary dynamics – Credit Bubble Bulletin

Not nearly enough growth to keep growing – Automatic Earth

11 stunning visualizations of gold show its value and rarity – Visual Capitalist

Bucket economics in global macro – Capitalist Exploits

This is how the status quo unravels – Charles Hugh Smith

Global growth in energy consumption (& economic growth) all about China – Econimica

‘Fed Up’ exposes the elite rot inside the Federal Reserve – MarketWatch

Vice-chairman of EuroThinkTank: “euro may already be lost” – Mish

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Breaking News

The Economy

2/22    China’s $9 trillion moral hazard is now too big to ignore – Bloomberg

2/22    Bank for international settlements warns of looming debt bubble – MunKnee

2/22    The IMF lent to Greece knowing it could never pay back debt – CounterPunch

2/22    Sovereign bond yield spreads signal nervousness – MarketWatch

2/22    The next financial crisis might be in your driveway – Bloomberg

2/22    Why we could be on the verge of a major selloff – Casey Research

2/22    Goldman Sachs warns US stocks are now reaching peak optimism – Bloomberg

2/22    Hedge funds continue to chase the herd – Bloomberg

2/22    Dallas police and fire pension backs cutbacks to avoid collapse – Bloomberg

2/22    American car buyers are borrowing like never before – Quartz

2/22    Current stock market valuations not sustainable – Economic Collapse

2/21    Greek gov’t in damage control mode after Brussels – Ekathimerini

2/21    Delinquency rates rise on credit cards and auto loans – WF My News

2/21    The economic consequences of depression economics – Prime Economics

2/21    European bonds decline as PMI data point to faster inflation – Bloomberg

2/21    Fumbling towards collapse – Kunstler

Precious Metals

2/22    Rickards: Gold as the new currency standard – Daily Reckoning

2/22    Inflation rising and real Chinese gold demand higher than “official” – GoldCore

2/22    If gold’s a “barbarous relic,” why do governments want it so much? – Miles Franklin

2/22    2017 – a sterling year for silver? – SafeHaven

2/22    5 gold mining stocks with low debt & low price-to-book ratios – MunKnee

2/22    Rick Rule explains what it takes to be a serial success – Sprott Money

2/22    AngloGold sinks on earnings, despite dividend hike – Barron’s

2/22    James Turk warns massive short squeeze may send silver to $20 – King World News

2/22    The world now faces a devastating endgame – King World News

2/22    These 3 gold stocks are up at least 30% in 2017 – Motley Fool

2/21    Russia gold buying is back – buys one million ounces in January – GoldCore

2/21    Gold & the inflationary firestorm – 321Gold

2/21    Gold falls amid pressure from stronger dollar – Business Live

2/21    Chinese firm said to have used tungsten to manufacture fake gold bars – GATA

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

2/22    France exiting euro would be largest sovereign default in history – CNBC

2/22    After $12.2 trillion of QE, now what? – Gold Republic

2/22    Will the US dollar collapse in 2017? – Lombardi Letter

2/22    Russia considers introducing tax on cash transactions – RT

2/22    Bitcoin prices touch fresh 3-year high – MarketWatch

2/22    Has Trump made Mexico the next hotspot for bitcoin? – Nasdaq

2/22    What you need to know about the bitcoin scaling debate – Decentralize Today

2/21    Beijing’s strategy to avoid a currency war – The News

Real Estate Bubble

2/22    ‘Trapped wealth’ drives Toronto’s speculative real estate dilemma – Bloomberg

2/22    Existing US home sales rise more than forecast as supply drops – Bloomberg

2/22    Housing affordability shows most Americans too broke to buy a home – My Budget 360

2/22    Manhattan’s luxury homes are sitting on the market for longer – Mansion Global

2/21    Why Toronto inflates housing bubbles to the bitter end – Wolf Street

DollarCollapse Podcasts

2/06    Things that WON’T change

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

2/22    Revised Trump travel ban will face legal hurdles, too – Bloomberg

2/22    Did Marine Le Pen just become France’s president? – Red State

2/22    Farage echoes Trump, claims Sweden ‘rape capital’ of Europe – Independent

2/22    Why populist American leaders love Russia – Time

2/22    Donald Trump’s Jewish problem – Slate

2/22    French elections: another “unthinkable” result coming up? – Mish

2/22    Everything you need to know about the man hovering over Trump’s shoulder – Rantt

2/22    How do you solve a problem like Sharia? – Aha Foundation

2/22    The intellectual who might get through to Trump – Slate

2/22    How Trump might save the EU – NY Times

2/22    Trump’s demands on NATO defense spending driving wedge into Europe – Time

2/22    Welcome to Sweden, Eldorado for migrants! – Zero Hedge

Offshore Investing

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

1/24    Switzerland: still a safe country for storage… but only for physical gold – GoldBroker

12/23  The best countries for your escape plan – International Man

Clean Tech

2/22    Trump kills solar – here’s how you profit – Daily Reckoning

2/22    Renewable energy: Another nail in fossil fuel’s coffin – Trends Research

2/21    The age of the giant battery is almost upon us – Bloomberg

2/21    Saudis kick off $50 billion renewable energy plan to cut oil use – Bloomberg

2/21    2017 forecast: Bright, sun-shiny days for utility solar – Utility Dive

2/21    Lancaster, CA requires new houses to be solar powered – Greentech Media

2/21    FPL accelerates plans to add solar power – Miami Herald

2/21    Solar-powered Africa “never more possible and less expensive” – Reuters

Art of the Collapse

2/22    10 reasons why Muslims are the worst – Medium

2/22    Mainstream media strategery – Zero Hedge

2/16    The talking dead – Medium

2/13    Weekend update on appeals court ruling – SNL

War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State

2/22    China prepares deployment of SAM batteries on S China Sea islands – Zero Hedge

2/22    The illusion of freedom: the police state is alive and well – Rutherford

2/21    Trump’s ISIS plan: another US invasion? – SafeHaven

2/20    Bill Gates: terrorists could use viruses to kill millions – MarketWatch

2/20    Kim Jong Nam assassination caught on tape – Zero Hedge

2/20    War is the climate risk that Europe’s leaders are talking about – Bloomberg

2/20    Tensions escalate in Aegean after Turkish boat fires shots – Ekathimerini

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

2/22    Why you should be planning for 2018, not 2017 – Medium

2/21    Privacy is power – Standard Notes

2/20    Medical cannabis — a vastly underutilized therapeutic option? – Mercola

2/19    13 things you should give up if you want to be successful – Medium

2/19    The price of farming humanely – Medium

2/19    What’s your dog really eating? – Medium

2/17    The 4 principles of financial success you can’t ignore – Medium

2/15    Organic food’s demand “gold rush” for producers – Natural News

2/14    Monsanto’s roundup must carry cancer warning label, judge decrees – Mercola

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

2/19    NSA split from cyberwar command inevitable – Intercept

2/19    76 popular apps confirmed vulnerable to silent interception – Medium

2/16    Encryption apps help White House staffers leak—and maybe break the law – Wired

2/15    How democracies lose in cyberwar – Atlantic

2/14    Russian hackers pose increasing threat to UK’s national security – Independent

2/08    Trump’s impending crackdown on cybersecurity – Daily Reckoning

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

2/22    This is what real human genetic engineering looks like – PSMag

2/21    “I don’t give a **** if we agree about climate change” – Dr. Sircus

2/20    First they got sick, then they moved into a virtual utopia – BackChannel

2/20    A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking – Medium

2/20    During internment, Japanese teens created this heartbreaking scrapbook – Timeline

2/20    Defend the sacred: documentary – Vimeo

2/20    Fukushima aborts latest robot mission inside reactor – Zero Hedge

2/19    Behind the scenes of Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto – Back Channel

2/19    Oklahoma hits 100° in the dead of winter – Think Progress

2/19    Can secretive VR company magic leap repair its reputation? – The Ringer

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