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US stocks, interest rates, dollar at recent and/or record highs. Worries about valuation are spreading. US housing starts jump in November, auto sales turn down, numerous factories scaling back. Italian banks restructuring and raising capital as government begins bail-out. Deutsche Bank agrees to big fine for mortgage fraud. Terrorist attacks in Turkey and Germany.
Best Of The Web
Gold and silver prospects in an uncertain global currency market – GoldCore
A broken bond bounce beckons! – MATA SII
2016 year in review – David Collum
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/25 Is buyback trickery giving us false hope in the market? – Birch Gold
12/25 Ayn Rand and corporate tax cuts won’t mend the economy – New Yorker
12/25 A violent end to the bull market – Market Oracle
12/24 Japan plans record spending as debt piles up – Global Times
12/24 Japanese gov’t lacks sense of crisis on debt reliance – Mainichi
12/24 Sell all your bonds – Daily Reckoning
12/24 Limited room for China to tighten policy as debt fear grows – Reuters
12/23 James Rickards says Trump can’t stop the next financial crisis – MarketWatch
12/23 They’re making this same dumb mistake again… – Nestmann
12/23 95% of all new jobs during Obama era were part-time, or contract – Investing
12/23 World trade falls to 2014 level, just in time for a “trade war” – Wolf Street
12/23 Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse agree billion-dollar fines with US authorities – CNBC
12/23 Protests expected to plunge Italy into chaos – Express
12/23 Red flag on recession in NY Fed’s Coincident Economic Index – Wolf Street
Precious Metals
12/25 Gold speculators cutting long positions. Is a bottom forming? – SA
12/25 The worst silver stock in 2016 – NASDAQ
12/25 Is Goldcorp a better buy than Barrick Gold? – Fox
12/25 Gold: investment with the biggest turnaround potential in 2017 – Birch Gold
12/25 The end of a golden era – Barron’s
12/25 Bundesbank says it’s bringing Germany’s gold home faster than planned – GATA
12/24 Gold as a percentage of global financial assets – Gold Eagle
12/24 Dollar euphoria and gold – Seeking Alpha
12/24 GLD drops 158 tonnes since Independence Day – Seeking Alpha
12/24 Barrick gold: 2017 not looking good – Seeking Alpha
12/24 Great Panther Silver pins future on ability to relive past – Fox
12/24 Deleveraging tightens metals supply and supports prices: part 2 – Seeking Alpha
12/23 Will India support gold prices in the coming days? – Seeking Alpha
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/25 Bitcoin surges to outperform gold, stocks – Bloomberg
12/25 Has inflation’s rebirth been over-forecast? – MarketWatch
12/25 Dollar holds near-14-year high against rivals in preholiday trade – MarketWatch
12/25 “Positive ripple” asininity courtesy of Financial Times – Mish
12/25 At new highs, bitcoin is a global safe haven asset – ValueWalk
12/25 CNBC analysts explain bitcoin price surge on mainstream TV – Coin Telegraph
12/24 ECB sees inflation surge, firming global recovery – RTE
12/24 Pound flattens inflation curve as consumers face squeeze – Bloomberg
12/24 ‘Lombard Street’ for a new age – Seeking Alpha
Real Estate Bubble
12/23 Chinese money moving to US commercial property – CNBC
12/23 U.S. new home sales jump to four-month high – Yahoo!
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
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
12/25 Opponents, family feud take shine off Le Pen’s hopes – Reuters
12/25 The chaos theory of Donald Trump: Sowing confusion through tweets – WaPo
12/25 European far right calls for end to open borders – Guardian
12/25 Is populism a phenomenon of 2016? – IB Times
12/25 Marine Le Pen: ‘Frexit is part of my policy’ – AMNA.gr
12/24 Marine Le Pen short of funds for 2017 presidential run – France24
12/24 Donald’s trump card – Ahead Of The Herd
12/24 Yes, 2016 was bad. But next year risks being far worse – Bangkok Post
12/23 ‘If you haven’t read Ayn Rand lately, I suggest that you do’ – Business Insider
12/23 Israel ‘asked Donald Trump to intervene to avert U.N. vote on settlements’ – Telegraph
12/23 “Russia did it” – the last stand of neoconservatism – Gefira
12/23 Ron Paul: “US interferes in foreign elections all the time” – Zero Hedge
Offshore Investing
12/23 The best countries for your escape plan – International Man
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
Clean Tech
12/25 Solar power: are the promises coming true? – Blue And Green Tomorrow
12/25 Solar power cheapest form of energy in almost 60 countries – Science Alert
12/24 The top 5 solar policy trends of 2016 – Utility Drive
12/24 Oil company’s new bet on wind power – Business Insider
12/23 Solar power’s declining cost – Vox
12/21 Former farm grows solar power now — and it’s dirt cheap – Clean Technica
12/21 Solar is 31% of new generation – Electrek
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
12/25 The United States and the race for global hegemony – Strategic Culture
12/25 How americans respond when liberal states restrict their gun rights – SHTF Plan
12/23 Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri killed in Milan shootout – CNN
12/23 Trump appears to double down on nuclear expansion – Guardian
12/23 ISIS releases holiday attack list of U.S. churches – Zero Hedge
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
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/24 How physical inactivity increases risk for chronic diseases – Mercola
12/23 Healing tonic that helped climbing expedition conquer Everest – Alternative Daily
12/23 10 good reasons to change jobs every 3 to 5 years – Forbes
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
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
12/25 It may not feel like anything to be an alien – Kurzweil
12/25 New ebola vaccine gives 100 percent protection – NY Times
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
