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US stocks at record high. Inflation is spiking on stronger growth. Fed likely to raise interest rates next month. Gold and silver at multi-week highs. Bitcoin near all-time high. 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
2/23 Melissa and millions like her are just one unpaid bill away from the abyss – Guardian
2/23 Why Greece’s crisis has broken all previous records – Ekathimerini
2/23 Fed’s National Activity Index drops in January – Zero Hedge
2/23 Spain is ruined for 50 years – Express
2/23 When was America’s peak wealth? – Automatic Earth
2/23 What investors need to know about US money market funds – GoldAndOilGuy
2/23 EC warns Italy over debt, Five Star movement will benefit – Mish
2/23 SEC nominee represented 8 of 10 largest Wall St. banks – Wall St. On Parade
2/23 Can Americans really depend on Social Security? – Miller On The Money
2/23 Vague Fed minutes on “fairly soon” rate hikes; market yawns – Mish
2/23 World out of whack: this is what lies in store for France – Capitalist Exploits
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
Precious Metals
2/23 “Hold gold”: why this country wants its people to buy gold – 24hGold
2/23 The problem with gold-backed currencies – OfTwoMinds.com
2/23 Are rate hikes bad for gold? – Mish
2/23 Why this “pig” is buying gold again – Casey Research
2/23 $250 silver – Rosen Market Timing Report
2/23 First Majestic Silver reports profitable quarter, record production – First Majestic
2/23 Is 50% of Western central bank gold gone? – Gold Broker
2/23 Gold investors smell a rat in stock markets – Birch Gold
2/23 A crucial week for silver – Silver Doctors
2/23 “The heightened risk of a gold price reset” – Silver Doctors
2/23 Gold, liberty, and the war on cash – ValueWalk
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/23 Treasury secretary says a strong dollar is a ‘good thing’ – Business Insider
2/23 Bitcoin rockets to multi-year high of $1,132 – SEC
2/23 Hard times: Sweden complains it collects too much tax – Mish
2/23 Inflation news that some Americans may be able to use for their gain – Birch Gold
2/23 Bitcoin is closing in on its all-time high – Business Insider
2/23 Former Fed chairman calls for return to gold standard – Coin Telegraph
2/23 The threat of global currency wars – Birch Gold
2/23 Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, and the petrodollar – International Man
Real Estate Bubble
2/23 Landlords are taking over the US housing market – Bloomberg
2/23 Norway insane property boom or capital flight from Eurozone? – Armstrong Economics
2/23 San Francisco tech driven real estate insanity – Dr. Housing 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
DollarCollapse Podcasts
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
2/23 French bonds rally after Macron boosts presidential campaign – Bloomberg
2/23 Marine Le Pen’s chief of staff under investigation – CNN
2/23 Le Pen is winning over women voters who feel left behind in France – Chicago Tribune
2/23 California, Nestle and decentralization – Antonius Aquinas
2/23 Donald Trump is CPAC’s conquering hero, but tensions remain – NBC News
2/23 Ron Paul and the “libertarian statists” – Nolan Chart
2/23 Republicans confront protesters at explosive town halls nationwide – Vanity Fair
2/23 On the Milo bus with the lost boys of America’s new right – PSMag
2/23 If Trump is impeached, it might be the end of America – Medium
2/23 What is Breitbart? – Dose
2/23 The internet gave us Milo. The internet can take him away – Wired
2/23 Trump admin revokes transgender bathroom guidance for schools – Fox News
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
2/23 Inside the race to build the battery of tomorrow – Wired
2/23 Tesla posts wider-than-expected loss of 69 cents a share – CNBC
2/23 Bill Nye-backed startup makes solar panels 60% cheaper – Computer World
2/23 Taking Elon Musk seriously, not literally – Bloomberg
2/23 First Folar making progress on turnaround plan – Motley Fool
2/23 The biggest loser: First Solar drops 8.4% – Barron’s
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
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
2/23 French police clash with youths at protest rally, arrest eight – Reuters
2/23 Trump revokes Obama guidelines on transgender bathrooms – Reuters
2/23 Appeals Court says filming the police is protected by the First Amendment – Tech Dirt
2/23 Turkish provocations test Greek resolve – Ekathimerini
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
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
2/23 Malware lets drone steal data by watching computer’s blinking LED – Wired
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/23 Social media are driving Americans insane – Bloomberg
2/23 7 Earth-like worlds orbit a star we didn’t know existed – Wired
2/23 The invisible touch – Medium
2/23 The future of economics: from complexity to commons – Medium
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
