Courtesy of John Rubino.
Stocks, gold, dollar flat in last trading day of 2016. US home sales fall, London real estate boom fading. Italian bank bail-out not going well. China money markets in turmoil. US retaliates against alleged Russian hacking.
Best Of The Web
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The world’s most dangerous systemic risks – Medium.com
The United States might be the next Argentina – WaPo
Breakout of yieldrange will blow-up interest rate derivatives – 321Gold
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
12/30 Monte dei Paschi to issue €15 billion of debt next year – reports – RTE
12/30 Chicago PMI drops, new orders slide as prices spike – Zero Hedge
12/30 Stocks, bonds and metals will shock markets in 2017 – 24hGold
12/30 Biggest financial bubble about to pop – Silver Doctors
12/30 Golden era of hedge funds draws to a close – Bloomberg
12/30 Is China’s growing debt burden a crisis in the making? – Reuters
12/30 Euro zone corporate lending hits highest rate since 2009 – Reuters
12/29 China’s money market pain is about to get worse – Bloomberg
12/29 China hits a fork in the road – Automatic Earth
12/29 Jim Rickards: The empire strikes back – Daily Reckoning
12/29 Trump’s stimulus plan not happening – Schiff Gold
12/29 Chicago teachers’ pension liability may be larger than expected – Chicago City Wire
12/29 The bond bear that’s staying in the cold – Bloomberg
12/28 US stocks drop most since October – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
12/30 Why silver price manipulation will end – Silver Doctors
12/30 Gold notches fourth winning day in a row as dollar pulls back – MarketWatch
12/30 Gold and silver stocks surge higher, but can this relief rally last? – Motley Fool
12/30 Trump’s pick for budget chief liked gold, had dim view of dollar – GATA
12/30 Traders debate what a gold rally means for the market – CNBC
12/30 Factors playing on gold and other precious metals – Market Realist
12/30 Which gold miners are mining at competitive costs? – Market Realist
12/30 3 top silver stocks to buy in 2017 – Motley Fool
12/30 6 top performing stocks of the best ETF of 2016 – Yahoo!
12/30 Gold: all systems go, ready for lift off – Seeking Alpha
12/30 Moen slams trade skeptics, lauds gold – Sprott Money
12/29 Gold prices rise by most in a month as US dollar declines – Times of India
12/29 Top Ten Reasons why fiat currency is superior to gold (or silver) money – GoldMoney
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
12/30 Trump to collapse the dollar in 2017? – Silver Doctors
12/30 Central bankers are losing faith in their own alchemy – Mises
12/30 Paul Brodsky: Fed gooses dollar to gain control over worldwide monetary reset – GATA
12/30 Forget about Dow 20K: Bitcoin’s about to hit $1,000 – CNBC
12/30 BOJ: so long deflation, hello inflation – Seeking Alpha
12/29 Offshore yuan near 7 a dollar on quota reset concern, Trump bets – Bloomberg
12/29 Trade deficit widens by 5.5% as exports decline, imports rise – Mish
12/29 Capital controls and withdrawal limits to continue – Mish
12/28 Britons hoard cash as economic uncertainties prompt caution – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
12/29 London house-price growth lags behind U.K. – Bloomberg
12/29 NYC luxury co-op contracts collapse 25% – Zero Hedge
12/28 Pending home sales drop to 10-month low in November – Yahoo!
12/28 Manhattan luxury co-ops fall out of favor – Bloomberg
12/28 When assets (such as real estate) become liabilities – Charles Hugh Smith
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
12/30 The European elections to watch in 2017 – NewsWeek
12/29 White House retaliates against Russia: Sanctions, ejecting diplomats – CNN
12/29 Obama’s pressure to release evidence Russians hacked the election – Zero Hedge
12/29 Six elections to watch in 2017 – Left Foot Forward
12/29 GOP readies swift Obamacare repeal with no replacement ready – Bloomberg
12/29 Good news in battle against public union greed and corruption – Mish
12/29 Trump stocking his administration with mega donors at ‘unparalleled’ rate – Daily Kos
12/29 French rightwing mayor creates ‘rue de Brexit’ – Guardian
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
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
12/30 Cost of unsubsidized solar power trends down – All About Circuits
12/30 How Tesla can succeed in solar in 2017 – Motley Fool
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
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
12/30 Warrant granted for Amazon echo home data, setting precedent – Anti Media
12/30 Oliver Stone slams establishment’s “Russians are coming” narrative – Zero Hedge
12/30 Russia’s cease-fire in Syria boxes out the U.S. – US News
12/29 Putin says Syrian government, opposition sign ceasefire deal – Reuters
12/29 Mass graves full of tortured civilians discovered in Aleppo – Zero Hedge
12/29 Japan’s record-high defense budget military ambition it cannot afford – The Asian
12/28 Turkey and Russia agree on proposal toward Syrian ceasefire – Reuters
12/28 ‘US not serious about fighting ISIS’ – RT
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
12/30 “grizzly steppe” – FBI, DHS release “report” on Russian hacking – Zero Hedge
12/29 U.S. set to announce response to Russian election hacking – Reuters
12/28 Russian hacking warrants sanctions, cybersecurity CEO says – CNBC
12/28 New Hampshire health department hack exposes addresses, SSNs – CNBC
12/27 Britney Spears isn’t dead: Twitter account compromised – Bloomberg
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
12/29 Why people get happier as they get older – Medium.com
12/29 Debbie Reynolds, ‘singin’ in the rain’ actress, dies at 84 – Bloomberg
12/29 Is 100% of “US warming” due to NOAA data tampering? – Zero Hedge
12/29 The death of the dinner date – MarketWatch
12/28 Antibiotic resistance: The story that won’t go away – CNBC
12/28 State of the Arctic: longer melting seasons, thinning sea ice – Earth Institute
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
