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US stocks up, gold and silver near multi-week high. Protesters and police face off at Trump inauguration. Brexit process begins. 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
Stock market indicators: S&P 500 buybacks & dividends – Yardeni
3 things: returns, nothing but “net”, overly optimistic – Real Investment Advice
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
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Breaking News
The Economy
1/21 One big, fat, ugly bubble – Casey Research
1/21 Despite reforms, city and county pension funds are billions short – Voice of San Diego
1/21 China default storm brewing as record junk debt comes due – Banking Finance
1/21 Real markets are not ‘pop economics’ – Daily Bell
1/21 Investors seek safe havens in Treasuries, gold – Bloomberg
1/20 Secular shift in interest rates? – Financial Sense
1/20 UK retail-sales slump hints at cracks in Brexit boom – Bloomberg
1/20 Amazon is going to kill more American jobs than China did – MarketWatch
1/20 A default storm is brewing over China junk bonds – Bloomberg
1/20 Dow briefly jumps 100 points ahead of Trump inauguration – CNBC
1/20 Why student loan payback is worse than the government thought – MarketWatch
1/20 Soros says markets to slump with Trump, EU faces disintegration – Bloomberg
1/20 IBM “beats” thanks to record low effective tax rate – Zero Hedge
1/19 Philly Fed index jumps to 23.6 in January – MarketWatch
Precious Metals
1/21 Gold market tactics: tighten profit locks – 321Gold
1/21 Gold futures looking bullish – GoldSeek
1/21 Gold: CNBC drawing comparisons to 2011 – Seeking Alpha
1/21 Trump and a new gold-backed dollar – International Man
1/20 Gold’s gains 15% in inauguration years since 1974 – GoldCore
1/20 Why silver’s small rally packed a big punch – 24hGold
1/20 When silver price suppression ends, phenomenal returns – Silver Doctors
1/20 Gold – a primer for 2017 – GoldMoney
1/20 2 gold producers set to shine in 2017 – Seeking Alpha
1/20 Endeavour Silver confident reserves will rebound – Proactive News
1/20 Watch out when reality breaks through fake news, manipulated markets – GATA
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
1/21 Yellen not worried about surge of inflation – MarketWatch
1/21 Inflation is alive and well – Seeking Alpha
1/20 GATA forwarded a fabulous link yesterday – Silver Doctors
1/20 Nobel Prize winner: US should “get rid of currency” – Zero Hedge
1/20 Rates to stay low in Europe for some time – Reuters
1/20 Why Japan benefits from a crashing currency and Mexico does not – Epoch Times
1/20 China, Japan still dumping U.S. debt. But Russia is buying – CNN
1/20 Trump and Janet Yellen look to be on a collision course – NY Times
1/20 Washington lawmakers are trying to keep bitcoin out of pot shops – CoinDesk
1/19 ECB leaves bond-buying program unchanged as inflation gains – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
1/21 Day one action: Trump suspends FHA premium reduction – Mish
1/20 Floor caving in on Europe real estate stocks bashed by rates – Bloomberg
1/20 Apartment starts up, single family down. What’s going on? – Mish
1/20 Will real estate investors take over Airbnb? – Zero Hedge
1/19 US housing starts surge in December; jobless claims near 43-year low – Yahoo!
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
1/21 Saturday protest marches on track to make history – Seattle Times
1/21 Police injured, more than 200 arrested at DC Trump protests – CNN
1/21 Trump’s acceptance speech – YouTube
1/21 The following words had never appeared in an inaugural address – Zero Hedge
1/21 Trump first President in decades to aim at Big Pharma – Natual News
1/21 Pageantry and chaos collide as Trump becomes president – WaPo
1/21 Inauguration protesters and police clash on Washington’s streets – NY Times
1/21 Will populism triumph in the French presidential elections? – Wire
1/21 Ron Paul weighs in on Trump’s inauguration – MSN
1/21 McCain’s $5 trillion military budget – Ron Paul Institute
1/21 Trump trade strategy starts with quitting Asia pact – Reuters
1/21 Summing up 8 years of Barack Obama – Sovereign Man
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
1/21 White House climate change web page disappears – Mish
1/21 Solar crowns new panel leader as Jinko expands at wrong time – Bloomberg
1/21 Blockchain tech: hidden gem of innovation for the solar industry – Solar Plaza
1/20 Tesla cleared in fatal accident investigation; price target raised – Investors.com
1/20 Why big oil is unprepared for the coming energy war – Yahoo!
1/20 PVMA estimates global PV installations at 75 GW in 2016 – Solar Server
1/20 39 groups apply to build solar plants in Chernobyl wasteland – PV Magazine
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
1/21 Jeff Sessions on marijuana and civil asset forfeiture – WaPo
1/21 It’s about to get even easier to hide on the dark web – Wired
1/20 Finland prepares for ‘manifold warfare’ as Russia feeds paranoia – Bloomberg
1/20 Republicans propose bills to criminalize peaceful protest – Intercept
1/20 NYT on Snowden: right in 2014, right today – Mish
1/20 FBI ‘honors’ MLK Jr., 50 years after plotting to ‘neutralize’ him – AlterNet
1/19 LA sheriff’s plans to launch drones sparks backlash – Northridge Patch
1/18 Julian Assange ready for US extradition, one of his lawyers suggests – Guardian
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
1/19 How to protect your online life – International Man
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
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
1/21 The emergence of the ‘cyber cold war’ – NBC
1/19 2016 was a record year for data breaches – Bloomberg
1/19 Inside a multinational cyber weapons deal that went bust – Bloomberg
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
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
1/21 NASA finally admits it’s going to get colder – Armstrong Economics
1/20 Google’s Sergey Brin ‘surprised’ by speed of AI advancements – Bloomberg
1/19 If you were an elephant… – Guardian
1/19 Over half of world’s wild primate species face extinction – Guardian
1/19 Why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2C – Guardian
1/19 Earth breaks heat record in 2016 for third year in a row – Yahoo!
1/19 Alexa is conquering the world. Now Amazon’s real challenge begins – Wired
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
