Breaking News And Best Of The Web

US stocks drop, gold and silver stable at multi-week high. Brexit process begins. Protesters and police gearing up for Trump inauguration. Earnings season starting well for banks and miners. Global debt continues to soar, especially in China. Fake news debate rages. Trump and Merkel trade insults.  

Best Of The Web

US financial markets – alarm bells are ringing – Acting Man

Fire with fire – Automatic Earth

2017—Shades of 1937 – Financial Sense

Why the stock market has blasted into outerspace – Econimica

Surmount impending markets shocker to profit and protect – 24hGold

Off to an interesting start – Credit Bubble Bulletin

Mad as Hell – Peak Prosperity

How much did it cost to build the Titanic – GoldSeek

RealVision’s 15 “killer charts” for Q1 2017 – Zero Hedge

3 things: consumer debt, NFIB optimism & policy uncertainty – Real Investment Advice

Secular stagnation theory: challenge to Delong, Summers, Bernanke, more – Mish

The calm before the storm for China inflation – Asia Times

Black magic fraud to be exposed in 2017 – gold up 300x – Egon von Greyerz

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Breaking News

The Economy

1/18    Target slumps after disappointing holiday season – USA Today


1/18    Chinese province faked fiscal data for several years – Bloomberg


1/18    Citigroup says Q4 trading profits continued into 2017 – Yahoo!


1/18    Rising U.S. shale-oil output threatens OPEC’s production pact – MarketWatch


1/18    Libor scandal: bankers who fixed world’s most important number – Guardian


1/18    Goldman earnings climb as bond trading beats expectations – Bloomberg


1/18    Runaway credit card debt makes 2017 look like 2007 – Financial Sense


1/18    Where do interest rates go from here? – Wall St. Pit


1/18    Gold falls with yen as haven-asset flight eases – Bloomberg


1/18    A “massive selloff” could be around the corner – Casey Research


1/18    What the Dallas pension fund mess looks like – Dallas Observer


1/18    The Dallas pension fiasco is just the beginning – Zero Hedge


1/17    Markets shudder under threat of hard Brexit – Daily Reckoning


1/17    Trump threatens German carmakers with 35% US import tariff – CNBC

Precious Metals

1/18    Returning gold bulls – SafeHaven


1/18    Gold up 5.5% ytd – hard Brexit cometh, weaker dollar under Trump – GoldCore


1/18    Will gold pull back from recent gains? – GoldAndOilGuy


1/18    Gold becomes overbought; what to do now? – Seeking Alpha


1/18    How to choose entries in gold – Seeking Alpha


1/18    Rally in gold & gold stocks has more upside – Daily Coin


1/18    Trump takes the final currency war thermonuclear – SilverSeek


1/18    Big movement ahead in the silver market – SRSrocco Report


1/18    Gold stocks: a fabulous rally accelerates – 321Gold


1/18    Momentum traders shift to gold and silver – Daily Coin


1/18    3 types of gold stocks you’re best off avoiding – Fox

Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies

1/18    Treasuries slump, US stocks mixed amid earnings – Bloomberg


1/18    Highest rent inflation since 2007 sends core CPI above Fed’s target – Zero Hedge


1/18    Trump is waving adios to the longstanding ‘strong dollar policy’ – MarketWatch


1/18    Why Theresa May is right to take a huge gamble on hard Brexit – MarketWatch


1/18    Donald & the dollar – Antonius Aquinas


1/18    China’s central bank pumps out $60 billion before holidays – Bloomberg


1/18    Inflation gets real (not just nominal) in Argentina – Wolf Street


1/18    Venezuela debuts new banknotes amid soaring inflation – ABC News


1/18    UK inflation soars to its highest level in 2 ½ years – Fox


1/18    Euro crisis deepens – BATR

Real Estate Bubble

1/18    Home-builder sentiment slips in January as postelection elation eases – MarketWatch


1/18    China new home prices rise 12.4% y/y in December – CNBC


1/18    New housing bubble a perfect cure for soft retail sales – Zero Hedge


1/17    Luxury condo supply sale nears 3yrs’ inventory in S. Florida – Condo Vultures Realty


1/17    House party soon over in Sweden as rates stick – Bloomberg

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

1/18    Biden “we have no freakin’ idea what Trump’s gonna do” – Mish


1/18    Top NATO general concedes alliance is “obsolete” – Zero Hedge


1/18    War on the streets of DC during the inauguration? – Economic Collapse


1/18    Clear, concise Brexit idea from Theresa May – Mish


1/18    Ads reportedly offer money to inauguration agitators – Zero Hedge


1/18    Video exposes anti-Trump group plans to shut down DC bridges – Zero Hedge


1/17    Europe’s far-right parties hold first-ever “counter-summit” – Quartz


1/17    Germany retaliates after Donald Trump labels NATO ‘obsolete’ – Telegraph


1/17    China will ‘take off the gloves’ if Trump continues on Taiwan – CNBC


1/17    Fake news police arrive in Germany – Mish


1/17    “Hell Week II: The Revenge”‘s unrestrained election rejection – SafeHaven

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

1/17    Large corporations are driving America’s renewable energy boom – Greentech Media


1/17    John Doerr, TJ Rodgers Invest $10M in microinverters and storage – Greentech Media


1/17    How and why Las Vegas embraced solar energy – Greentech Media


1/17    The danger of solar’s ‘hot-hand fallacy’ – Greentech Media


1/17    World could enjoy utopian future with sustainable development – Independent


1/16    German power battery storage to grow three-fold this year – Reuters


1/16    Charging a Tesla goes from free to dirt cheap – Quartz

Art of the Collapse

1/16    “Mainstream mediasaurus” – Zero Hedge


1/16    Pee-pee party press conference – SNL

War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State

1/18    Julian Assange ready for US extradition, one of his lawyers suggests – Guardian


1/18    As caliphate crumbles, Islamic State lashes out in Iraq – Reuters


1/18    The issue is not Trump, it’s US – TeleSurTV


1/17    Trust in CEOs plummets and hits all-time low: Global survey – CNBC


1/17    China will ‘take off the gloves’ if Trump continues on Taiwan – CNBC


1/17    Trump slams NATO, floats Russia nuke deal – Bloomberg


1/17    Spotted in Davos: anti-drone guns – Zero Hedge


1/16    Lofgren and Moyers – what is the deep state? – 24hGold

Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival

1/16    12 Google tricks that will change how you search – Medium


1/16    A guide to becoming unstoppable with your money – Medium


1/08    US seafood consumption up, but many still making unhealthy purchases – Mercola


1/08    A month without sugar – New York Times


1/06    As Calpers flails, don’t bank on your pension – Investor Place


1/03    How to survive a mass shooting – Survival Sullivan


1/03    Say goodbye to kale: the superfood trends for 2017 – Telegraph


1/03    SRSrocco top 2016 posts & my commentary for 2017 – SRSrocco Report


12/31  How to set up a prepping budget – Survival Sullivan

CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime

1/17    Russian hackers were only getting started in the 2016 election – Fortune


1/16    The year’s biggest hacks, from Yahoo to the DNC – Wired


1/15    Alexa may have won CES, but it still has a fight ahead – Wired


1/15    US Marines seek more than a few good men for cyber-war – Register


1/15    Cyber threats to US growing faster than government defenses – Sputnik News

Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating

1/17    Not taking multivitamins during pregnancy could set child back – Telegraph


1/17    Cyberwarfare, driverless cars, and quantum computing – Financial Sense


1/15    Woman died from superbug resistant to all available antibiotics – CBS News


1/15    The climate “doomsday” is already here – Extra Newsfeed


1/15    Trump meets with professor who thinks global warming is positive – Daily Bell


1/14    Driverless shuttles hit Las Vegas – Mish


1/14    Top 10 tech trends transforming humanity – Medium


1/13    The virus that could get rid of alcoholism – Good Health


1/13    Massive scientific report on marijuana confirms medical benefits – Ars Technica


1/13    A new physics theory of life – Quanta Magazine


1/13    Lady Liberty depicted as a woman of color on US currency – CNBC