Courtesy of John Rubino.
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
Exit, hope and change – James Howard Kunstler
IceCap on investing through the eyes of an ostrich – Zero Hedge
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/27 ECB tells Monte dei Paschi to raise 8.8 billion euros – CNBC
12/27 Recession, market correction next year, expect rate cuts – CNBC
12/27 What’s in store for Europe in 2017? Possible scenarios – Guardian
12/27 EU facing two major problems – and has answers to neither of them – Independent
12/27 Brazil’s government deficit widens to 9.28% of GDP in November – Nasdaq
12/27 America’s biggest threat is still its banks – Wall St. On Parade
12/27 The Italian bank run – Zero Hedge
12/27 The near extinct pension – My Budget 360
12/27 Bank of Japan was the top buyer of Japanese stocks in 2016 – Talk Markets
12/27 China’s debt fears grow – Khmer Times
12/27 When will China’s debt problem detonate? – Seeking Alpha
12/27 Credit Suisse settles with DOJ for $5.3 billion – Talk Markets
12/27 Cancer in the China banking system will metastasize globally – Seeking Alpha
12/27 Chinese steel futures down sharply – Straits Times
Precious Metals
12/27 Which miners offer valuation upside in the silver space? – Market Realist
12/27 Important lessons from the Trump-inspired breakdown for gold – Seeking Alpha
12/27 This one factor could cause super spike in gold – Lombardi Letter
12/27 Gold, silver sentiment not bearish enough to establish a bottom – Seeking Alpha
12/27 Down only way for gold prices to go in the foreseeable future? – Seeking Alpha
12/26 Koos Jansen: China’s gold market means to internationalize its currency – GATA
12/26 What do the terms “karat” & “troy ounce” actually mean? – MunKnee
12/26 Gold: where do we go from here – Seeking Alpha
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
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/27 Yuan turnover soars in sign of December outflow pressures – Bloomberg
12/27 Bitcoin surges 20% in a week, Chinese volumes record high – Zero Hedge
12/27 Brexit talks to rock pound – Telegraph
12/26 Chinese themselves prefer U.S. dollar over yuan – GATA
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
Real Estate Bubble
12/27 Home affordability drops to 8-year lows as mortgage rates surge – Talk Markets
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
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
12/27 Outrage over the economy doesn’t explain surging global populism – Bloomberg
12/27 Why Nigel Farage thinks Marine Le Pen is left wing – LBC
12/27 Liberalism has failed to keep the West safe – Miami Herald
12/27 Fear of Trump triggers deep union spending cuts – Bloomberg
12/27 Trump offered another Goldman Sachs veteran an administrative spot – MIN
12/27 Latino leaders who dumped Trump now hopeful he’s their guy – Huffington Post
12/27 Donald Trump and the triumph of climate-change denial – Atlantic
12/27 Rise of anti-establishment parties reshapes Western politics – Indrastra
12/26 Finally Rand Paul unloads – Daily Bell
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
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
12/27 2016 the year solar panels became cheaper than fossil fuels; 2017? – Quartz
12/27 Solar power became the world’s cheapest energy – Interesting Engineering
12/27 Cheap solar power & wind power crushes coal, nuclear, gas – Clean Technica
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
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
12/27 German lawmakers urge tougher security measures after market attack – Reuters
12/27 Obama signs ‘countering disinformation and propaganda act’ – Ron Paul Institute
12/27 Taiwan warns of increasing threat as Chinese warships conduct drill – Reuters
12/27 Post-christmas chaos strikes America’s malls – Zero Hedge
12/27 Barack backhands Bibi – Zero Hedge
12/27 US government can legally access your Facebook data – Zero Hedge
12/27 Europol admits ISIS actively targeting refugees for terrorist attacks – Zero Hedge
12/27 Chinese carrier enters South China Sea amid renewed tension – 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
12/27 Britney Spears isn’t dead: Twitter account compromised – Bloomberg
12/27 Suddenly hot smart home devices are ripe for hacking – CNBC
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/27 Cheetahs heading towards extinction as population crashes – BBC
12/26 AI, self-driving cars and cyberwar – tech trends in 2017 – Guardian
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
