Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks at all-time highs on Trump tax-reform promise, gold and silver near multi-week highs. Trump immigration plan challenged in court, loses. Debate over Putin intensifies. French election uncertainty rocks euro bonds
Best Of The Web
Bubbles, money and the VIX – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Are you prepared for “unencumbered” interest rate policy? – Daily Reckoning
The misleading comfort of calm – SafeHaven
Which assets are most likely to survive the inevitable “system re-set”? – OfTwoMinds.com
A murderous complacency – Peak Prosperity
It’s finally happening – Macro The Tourist
Equity valuations, an everything bubble and “policy Trumpacho” – Mish
Extreme vetting, but not for banks – RollingStone
Weekly commentary: the wraths – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Great expectations – Real Investment Advice
The persuasion filter and immigration – Dilbert
Liberals, not Trump, to blame for backlash – Mish
A nation-and world-divided – Miles Franklin
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/12 Bank for International Settlements warns of looming debt bubble – Forbes
2/12 Income share for the bottom 50% of Americans is ‘collapsing’ – MarketWatch
2/12 EU in disintegration mode – Armstrong Economics
2/12 Outrageous malevolence – Automatic Earth
2/12 “We’re about to have the worst economic problems of a lifetime” – Zero Hedge
2/12 Watch what indexing does for public pension funds – Chicago Business
2/12 China’s debt could cause economic disaster ‘worse than 2008’ – Express
2/12 China economy forecast 2017 signals potential collapse – Lombardi Letter
2/12 When $5.3m new debt/hour isn’t enough for Australia… – Daily Reckoning
2/11 Bloomberg’s “state of the economy” survey reaches highest level since 2007! – Sprott
2/11 The West will become the new ‘third world’ – Sprott
2/11 Impediments to growth – Mish
2/11 3 reasons why the new Dow record is no reason to celebrate – Birch Gold
2/11 Canada’s AAA rating is on thin ice – Bloomberg
Precious Metals
2/12 Great precious metals market disconnect: ticking time bomb – SRSrocco Report
2/12 Russia notes that German gold in U.S. was just a mirage – GATA
2/12 Even if the path isn’t straight, gold’s bullish trajectory is set – Birch Gold
2/12 Here’s why these gold stocks popped in January – Nasdaq
2/12 Better buy: Franco-Nevada corporation vs. Royal Gold – Motley Fool
2/12 Gold & gold stocks hit upside targets. Now what? – Daily Gold
2/11 Gold: bear stew – Seeking Alpha
2/11 Light pullback for gold: key tactics – 321Gold
2/11 Is Utah about to DUMP THE FED? – Silver Doctors
2/11 What happens to gold & silver when Trump attacks the dollar? – Silver Doctors
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/12 GBP winning currency war benefits London’s economy – Daily FX
2/12 Trading volumes crash at China’s 3 biggest bitcoin exchanges – Business Insider
2/11 Quiet victory for elites accelerates cashless agenda – Birch Gold
2/11 Winklevoss bitcoin ETF offering expands to $100 million – CoinDesk
2/11 Iran stops using US dollar–major bitcoin market? – Coin Telegraph
2/11 Insight went dark tonight, disrupted bitcoin wallets – Coin Telegraph
2/10 Le Pen may get a shock if she tries to pay French debt in francs – Bloomberg
2/10 China bitcoin exchanges halt withdrawals after PBOC talks – Bloomberg
Real Estate Bubble
2/12 There are 66,719 empty mansions in Vancouver – Zero Hedge
2/10 Serial house sitters shed the shackles of a mortgage – CNBC
2/08 $1 trln of Australian mortgages and some now worry of what’s next – AFR
2/08 Houses are the least affordable they’ve been in seven years – CNBC
2/06 Hyde Park homes hit hardest as Brexit fuels discounts in London – Bloomberg
DollarCollapse Podcasts
2/06 Things that WON’T change
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
Politics
2/12 Russians come in from cold as Trump, commodity markets align – Bloomberg
2/12 What’s behind Trump’s bungling of immigration-ban order? – MarketWatch
2/12 Sidney Blumenthal returns to eviscerate Donald Trump – Vanity Fair
2/12 How Silicon Valley can take down Trump – Vanity Fair
2/12 “Panic” among Hispanics after hundreds of immigrants arrested – Zero Hedge
2/12 China gets an early win off Trump, but many battles remain – Reuters
2/11 How a breakdown in liberal ideology created Trump – part 1 – Liberty Blitzkrieg
2/11 Is Goldman Sachs running the country instead of Trump? – Zero Hedge
2/11 Le Pen victory would lead to “massive sovereign default” – Zero Hedge
2/10 Trump’s agreement to honor ‘One China’ police – CNBC
2/10 Court of Appeals unanimously rejects Trump’s travel ban – Zero Hedge
2/10 Astalavista Comrade de Blasio – FSN
2/10 Steve Bannon—the man, the myth, the asshole – Medium
Offshore Investing
2/01 FATCA needs to go, but the FATCA “refugees” are never coming back – Zero Hedge
1/24 Switzerland: still a safe country for storage… but only for physical gold – GoldBroker
12/23 The best countries for your escape plan – International Man
12/21 Do you have an offshore backup plan? – Sovereign Investor
Clean Tech
2/11 The great solar power scam – The Age
2/11 Mosaic met its goal of $1 bln in solar loans – Solar Server
2/10 This rampant polluter just broke a record – Attn
2/10 Solar power now provides twice as many jobs as coal in US – Inhabitat
2/10 Canadian investments in solar power tanked for 2nd year – Huffington Post
2/08 Will wind, solar power cost go up as we use more of it? – Forbes
2/08 Solar PV module market set to decline despite capacity addition by 2020 – Solar Server
Art of the Collapse
2/10 President fires White House butler, holdover from Eisenhower era – Extra Newsfeed
1/29 This Dutch video on Trump has gone viral because, well, just watch it – Mashable
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
2/12 Snowden: report Russia may ‘gift’ him to Trump proves he is not a spy – Guardian
2/12 US special forces deployed to 70% of the world in 2016 – Zero Hedge
2/11 Civil asset forfeiture ruining lives, failing to stop crime – FM Shooter
2/11 Russian government considers offering Snowden as “gift” to Trump – Zero Hedge
2/11 Military-grade spy gear flooding into local police depts – Defense One
2/11 What about Trump’s terror policies after an attack? – Guardian
2/11 What are US forces doing in Yemen in the first place? – Atlantic
2/10 China ‘beefing up military’ on disputed islands in the South China Sea – CNBC
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/12 How to add value to your life – Medium
2/12 5 small financial mistakes that can lead to a major cash crisis – Medium
2/11 How to improve your fitness with variable-intensity interval training – Mercola
2/10 New risks of GMOs, glyphosate – Non-GMO Report
2/07 Trump could approve a giant merger that’s scaring American farmers – MSN
2/07 FDA milk prohibition is dirty dairy’s scheme – Mercola
2/05 A complete guide to keeping your digital identity short and sweet – Medium
1/31 Worried about the Apocalypse? Here’s a shopping guide – Bloomberg
1/31 Importance of enzymes for health, longevity, disease prevention – Mercola
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/08 Trump’s impending crackdown on cybersecurity – Daily Reckoning
2/02 Privacy and security stuff you should read: 1/31/2017 – Forbes
2/01 Credit-card thieves move online as chips thwart in-store fraud – Bloomberg
2/01 Protect your digital privacy in the era of surveillance, public shaming – Pacific Standard
2/01 Get ready for the cyber war in 2017: know your enemy – Information Age
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/12 Tech and the fake market tactic – Medium
2/12 Middle class jobs to be taken by ROBOTS – Daily Mail
2/12 When your hotel has robot delivery, you order more room service – Bill Fold
2/10 Hell hole on Earth discovered at Fukushima – Dr. Sircus
2/10 Facebook is terrifying – Medium
2/10 The impending crisis of the internet of things – Pacific Standard
2/10 Why I want to list our home on Airbnb – Medium
2/10 VR-controlled Robots could save America – Medium
2/09 Bank of America tests peopleless banks – Mish
2/07 Brain-computer interface enables patients to communicate for the first time – Kurzweil
