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Stocks, gold, dollar fall in last trading day of 2016. US home sales decline, London real estate boom fading. Italian bank bail-out not going well. China money markets in turmoil. US retaliates against alleged Russian hacking. Fake news debate rages.
Best Of The Web
2017 – the year of monetary revolution – 24hGold
Forecast 2017: the wheels finally come off – Kunstler
World’s most dangerous systemic risks for the week ending December 30 – Medium.com
The fate of debt after an economic collapse – Survival Sullivan
As we enter 2017, keep the big picture in mind – Peak Prosperity
Is the “Trump trade” already unwinding? – Wolf Street
Longest losing streak in gold since 2004 ended last week – Seeking Alpha
A biased 2017 forecast (part one) – Burning Platform
Weekly commentary: 2016 year in review – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Drifting into fascism – GoldMoney
Inequality and skin in the game – Medium.com
The world’s most dangerous systemic risks – Medium.com
The United States might be the next Argentina – WaPo
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/02 German factory growth reaches close to three-year high in December – Reuters
1/02 ‘Patients who should live are dying’: Greece’s public health meltdown – Guardian
1/02 Debt rattle – Automatic Earth
1/02 Accounting gimmicks won’t stop the U.S.A. Titanic from sinking – SRSrocco Report
1/02 A giant wave of store closures is about to hit the US – Business Insider
1/02 For Silicon Valley, is it different this time? – Mark St. Cyr
1/02 U.S. healthcare is a global outlier (and not in a good way) – Zero Hedge
1/02 Money, markets, & mayhem – what to expect in the year ahead – Zero Hedge
1/02 “It’s corruption on steroids” – Zero Hedge
1/02 Deutsche Bank flew and fell. Some paid a high price – NY Times
1/02 Narendra Modi just dug himself a great big hole – The Wire
1/02 Currency and bond market fireworks prelude for wild 2017 – News Doctors
1/01 Global recession and other visions for 2017 – Acting Man
1/01 Criminal witch hunt in Dallas pension fiasco – Mish
Precious Metals
1/02 Note ban seen shaving a third of India’s gold demand in 2017 – GATA
1/02 3 top gold stocks that can be bought cheap – Fox Business
1/02 Gold lures investors worried about trade wars and Trump tweets – Bloomberg
1/02 Germany’s gold reserves in U.S. were only paper claims – GoldSeek
1/02 Gold and silver – the golden lye – Edge Trader Plus
1/01 Another interview with silver guru Ted Butler – SilverSeek
1/01 After ‘a year of two halves’, where is gold headed in 2017? – Info-Europa
12/31 Gold to turn positive because of this overlooked factor – Birch Gold
12/31 Fund manager: technicals in a gold market set up for big move higher – Silver Doctors
12/31 4 things that could make 2017 a landmark year for gold – Birch Gold
12/31 Gold: happy new year starts now – 321Gold
12/31 ‘Gold has peaked for the year’, revisited – Seeking Alpha
12/31 3 gold stocks that could suffer a meltdown in 2017 – Fox Business
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/02 German Ifo think tank chief says Italy risks quitting euro zone – Reuters
1/02 Ready for 2017 massive rally in precious metals and junior gold miners – 321Gold
1/02 Silver price forecast for 2017 – Lombardi Letter
1/02 Bitcoin price tops $1,000 in first day of 2017 trading – Coin Desk
1/02 John Maynard Keynes reborn – Live Mint
1/02 Will dollar strength trigger intervention in 2017? – New Times
1/02 China steps up scrutiny on individual forex purchases in the new year – Reuters
1/01 What’s truly remarkable about bitcoin: it exists – FEE
1/01 Why bitcoin boomed in 2016, what will happen in 2017 – Coin Telegraph
Real Estate Bubble
1/02 House prices defy predictions in 2016 by rising more than 15pc – AFR
1/02 Real estate developers’ ‘arms race’ to fill Brooklyn luxury apartments – CNBC
1/01 “A warning for property investors in Australia” – Wolf Street
12/29 London house-price growth lags behind U.K. – Bloomberg
12/29 NYC luxury co-op contracts collapse 25% – Zero Hedge
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
6/25 The deeper meaning of Brexit
Politics
1/02 ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ headed for screen, says Farage associate – Reuters
1/02 How George Soros destroyed the democratic party – Frontpage Mag
1/02 How united Iran, Russia and China are bettering the world – Strategic Culture
1/02 WaPo editorial moans “Trump refuses to face reality about Russia” – Mish
1/02 How Donald Trump cast aside decades of Republican orthodoxy – PBS
1/02 Le Pen to finance French race with father’s fund as banks balk – Bloomberg
1/02 Trump’s new year greeting is pure Trump awfulness – Red State
1/02 Le Pen to borrow $6.3mln to finance presidential campaign – Sputnik News
1/02 Le Pen hits back at Hollande’s anti-populist NYE speech – BreitBart
1/01 More bullsh*t fake news from Washington Post – Mish
1/01 CNN lied about Russian retaliation against American children – Sputnik News
12/30 The European elections to watch in 2017 – NewsWeek
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
1/02 Solar technology gears up for a bright 2017 – Electronics 360
1/02 ‘Peak solar’ hits California – Breitbart
1/02 Thick toxic smoke engulfs Beijing – Mish
1/01 Perovskite layer could boost solar cell efficiency by 20% – Clean Technica
12/31 Dark times for solar panel makers as falling costs hit profits – Investors.com
12/31 Solar panels so cheap manufacturers probably selling at loss – Bloomberg
12/30 Cost of unsubsidized solar power trends down – All About Circuits
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
1/02 U.S. special operations numbers surge in Africa’s shadow wars – Intercept
1/02 Istanbul attack: ISIS claims nightclub shooting – CNN
1/02 Gunman kills 39 in Istanbul nightclub attack, manhunt under way – CNBC
1/02 Another 50 years of mideast strife – Ron Paul Institute
1/01 Istanbul nightclub attack: Gunman ‘dressed as Santa’ kills 39 – Telegraph
12/31 China considering strong measures to contain Taiwan – Reuters
12/31 China’s Xi vows to defend maritime interests, sovereignty in ’17 – Bloomberg
12/31 Like Iraq WMD fiasco, Russia story doesn’t add up – Mish
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
12/31 How to set up a prepping budget – Survival Sullivan
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/02 Was claim about Russian hacking fake news? – TruthDig
12/31 How Russia recruited elite hackers for its cyberwar – CNBC
12/31 We’re living through the first world cyberwar – but just haven’t called it that – Guardian
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/02 Life after cars 2016 – 24hGold
1/02 Massive volcano rumbling right under one of Italy’s biggest cities – CNBC
1/02 iPhone manufacturer Foxconn: humans no longer needed – Gateway Pundit
1/02 Rewriting the code of life – New Yorker
1/02 On the exponential view – Hacker Noon
1/02 Humanity may self-destruct, but the universe can cope without us – Guardian
1/02 John Kerry visited Antarctica to see Nazi UFO bases? – Inquisitr
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
