Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks, interest rates, dollar at recent and/or record highs. Worries about valuation are spreading. US housing starts plunge as higher mortgage rates begin to bite. US auto sales turn down, numerous factories scaling back. Italian banks restructuring and raising capital as government begins bail-out. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany.
Best Of The Web
Something wicked this way comes – Burning Platform
Dow 20,000 12-9-16 – Real Investment Advice
Are you a deplorable? Take this quiz to find out – Charles Hugh Smith
Money under fire – Peak Prosperity
Collateral damage – Capitalist Exploits
Cycles – a fuse, an explosive and the igniting catalyst – MATA SII
“When gold goes above 1430 we whack it” – COMEX we have a problem
Are you “living in a death spiral”? – SHTF Plan
Dutch death spiral – from paradise to Bolshevik thought police – Zero Hedge
The march of the billionaires: on Trump’s bait and switch – Common Dreams
Breaking free from the captured media – Peak Prosperity
The soon to erupt euro experiment – MATA SII
Our “gaslight” financial system – Charles Hugh Smith
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/22 Durable goods orders dive 4.6% despite huge jump in defense orders – Mish
12/22 Junk diverging like 2000 & 2007, does it matter? – Yahoo!
12/22 Americans now in more debt than before the financial crisis – MarketWatch
12/22 Donald Trump names fierce China critic to his new trade council – Fortune
12/22 Disposable income per capita grows at weakest rate since 2014 – Zero Hedge
12/22 Jobless claims rise more than expected – CNBC
12/22 US capital goods orders rise, GDP revised upward – Yahoo!
12/22 Why a full-blown banking crisis is inevitable – Casey Research
12/22 Japan’s students forced to live under a burden of debt – Bloomberg
12/22 The other side of the Chinese economic miracle – Wire
12/22 China battles to avoid a meltdown – Seeking Alpha
12/22 CalPERS board votes to maintain Ponzi scheme – Zero Hedge
12/21 Italy lawmakers approve 20 billion euro plan to prop up banks – Reuters
12/21 Italy aims €20 billion “bazooka” at €360 billion problem – Mish
Precious Metals
12/22 Happier days ahead for gold bugs? – GoldAndOilGuy
12/22 Goldmoney joins blockchain gold rush with Royal Canadian Mint – GATA
12/22 Don’t chase yields; do buy gold – Seeking Alpha
12/22 India said to consider lowering gold import tax to 6% from 10% – GATA
12/22 Will blockchain serve gold investors or just government gold vaults? – GATA
12/22 Here’s how dramatically investors have been fleeing gold – MarketWatch
12/22 2 undervalued gold juniors – Seeking Alpha
12/22 Trump will make gold great again – King World News
12/22 The “most hated asset on the planet” – 24hGold
12/21 Why invest in monetary metals and miners if they won’t defend themselves? – GATA
12/21 Peter Schiff: 4 economic myths surrounding the U.S. economy – Seeking Alpha
12/21 Gold: the wait for inauguration day – 321Gold
12/21 Axis of gold – Daily Reckoning
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/22 Outlook for 2017 – GoldMoney
12/22 Birthplace of negative rates nears end of the road for stimulus – Bloomberg
12/22 Why has bitcoin’s price doubled in 2016? – NewsWeek
12/22 Bitcoin passes the $800 mark – CNBC
12/22 How one guy lost millions of dollars of bitcoin to a hacker – BoingBoing
12/21 Why the dollar will remain strong in 2017 – The Street
12/21 Strong dollar squeezes Trump economic plans – Detroit News
12/21 Someone has to tell John Williams inflation is not accelerating – CEPR
12/21 India’s small businesses facing ‘apocalypse’ – Guardian
Real Estate Bubble
12/22 25-year-olds’ home ownership in England, Wales halved in 20 years – Guardian
12/22 US mortgage rates jump to more than 2-year high – Bloomberg
12/21 Existing-home sales edge up to a 9-year high in November – MarketWatch
12/21 Mark Hanson: Why “a 1% mortgage rate surge changes everything” – Zero Hedge
12/20 China talks the talk on property curbs, but can it walk the walk? – Bloomberg
DollarCollapse Podcasts
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
6/25 The deeper meaning of Brexit
6/08 Gold Will Soar, Marijuana Will Be Legal
Politics
12/22 Trump is already ditching his movement – National Review
12/22 Glenn Greenwald weighs in on election hacks – MSNBC
12/22 Donald Trump wants only pretty people in his cabinet – GQ
12/22 Trump on tape saying ‘every racist thing ever’ – Telegraph
12/22 France’s National Front faces funding shortfall before the 2017 election – WaPo
12/21 If 2016 was a good year for the right, wait until 2017 – Independent
12/21 Berlin backlash reveals ‘mainstream’ refugee wakeup – Lifezette
12/21 Rise of far-right “idiots” may hit aid and refugees – Trust.org
12/21 Macron: the most popular politician in France – New Europe
12/21 EU to tighten holiday security, Eurosceptics speak out – ANSA Med
12/20 Populist onslaught in Europe likely to fail – Straits Times
12/20 2016 In review: The revenge of the forgotten – KPAX
Offshore Investing
12/21 Do you have an offshore backup plan? – Sovereign Investor
12/17 If Europe goes down, we go with it – Nestmann
12/16 The real winner of the US elections – Mountain Vision
12/13 Singapore is a safe haven for gold investors – GATA
Clean Tech
12/21 Former farm grows solar power now — and it’s dirt cheap – Clean Technica
12/21 Solar is 31% of new generation – Electrek
12/20 The Tesla advantage: 1.3 billion miles of data – Bloomberg
12/20 Japan pulls plug on troubled fast breeder reactor – Daily Mail
12/20 Most read solar power world stories from 2016 – Solar
12/20 Batteries need to get big—like, enormous—for solar power to shine – IEEE
12/20 America invented it… China owns it… opportunity springs from it – Wall St. Daily
Art of the Collapse
12/12 A dozen dead oceans – Automatic Earth
12/11 Chicago working around clock to clear 18″ of bullet casings from streets – Onion
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
12/22 More details emerge about Berlin truck terrorist – Zero Hedge
12/22 Russia arms Serbia amid tensions with NATO – AP
12/22 EU to boost border checks on cash, gold to tackle ‘terrorism financing’ – Reuters
12/22 EU court says mass data retention illegal – Reuters
12/22 Le Pen warns Islamism poses ‘global threat’ – Express
12/22 European manhunt for Anis Amri, Tunisian involved in Berlin Massacre – Mish
12/22 The routine nature of SWAT raids – Guns.com
12/22 Police worldwide eye Baltimore’s vast surveillance complex – CS Monitor
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/20 Alternative uses for honey – Survival Sullivan
12/17 Is your olive oil fake? – Mercola
12/17 “You may sleep better at night by taking vitamin B12 during the day…” – Mercola
12/12 Happiness depends on health and friends, not money, says new study – Guardian
12/11 10 corporations have a monopoly on almost all supermarket goods – Natural News
12/11 Fish traps to catch your limit – Survival Sullivan
12/09 Foolish to trust the CDC on vaccines – Dr. Sircus
12/08 How to get out of handcuffs and other restraints – Survival Sullivan
12/08 Grow food all year in your home with heat storing greenhouse – David Wolfe
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
12/22 Link between DNC hacks and aggression against Ukrain – Wall St Journal
12/20 5 problems with CIA claims of Russian hacking – Zero Hedge
12/19 Is the best cyber defense a terrifying cyber offense? – Investors
12/19 Putin is waging cyberwar against Britain with campaign of hack attacks – The Sun
12/19 What does Obama’s retaliation look like in the Russia cyberwar? – Globe And Mail
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/22 Bitcoin-fed plant robot hires artists to make its babies – Singularity Hub
12/21 Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as ‘airpocalypse’ blights half a billion – Guardian
12/21 American lifespan declines as obesity and opioid epidemic takes its toll – Mercola
12/20 This is the polar bear capital of the world, but the snow has gone – Guardian
12/20 The thousands of U.S. locales where lead poisoning is worse than in Flint – Reuters
12/19 Trump appointees cause climate change panic – Dr. Sircus
12/17 New tumor target strategy halts human cancer in 90% of mice – Ars Technica
12/17 The best weird and wonderful photos of 2016 – Totally Cool Pix
12/17 Hopeful images from 2016 – Atlantic
12/17 Stephen Jenkinson: living with meaning – Peak Prosperity
12/17 Heal the planet for profit – Automatic Earth
