Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks open flat ahead of major Trump speech. Gold and silver at multi-week highs. Bitcoin near all-time high. Trump budget to increase defense, cut EPA, State. Debate over Putin and fake news continues.
Best Of The Web
Contemplations for a Sunday (unless you can’t get around to it til Monday) – Economica
Risk on/risk off face-off – Credit Bubble Bulletin
It’s bubble time! – Peak Prosperity
Dazed & confused… Treasury buying vs. asset valuations? – Econimica
Michael Belkin interview – King World News
Global trade disaster nearly certain – Mish
The four horsemen of the retirement Apocalypse – Financial Sense
Fed went from lender of last resort to destroyer of American wealth – Danielle DiMartino Booth
Mother of all financial bubbles – Peak Prosperity
China credit and global inflationary dynamics – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Not nearly enough growth to keep growing – Automatic Earth
11 stunning visualizations of gold show its value and rarity – Visual Capitalist
Bucket economics in global macro – Capitalist Exploits
This is how the status quo unravels – Charles Hugh Smith
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Breaking News
The Economy
2/27 Orders for durable goods in US rebounded 1.8% in January – Bloomberg
2/27 Another smelly durable goods report – Mish
2/27 Dallas Fed soars for 6th straight month to 11-year highs – Zero Hedge
2/27 The bond market is calling Yellen’s March rate hike bluff – Bloomberg
2/27 Germany announces final pillage of Greece – Russia Insider
2/27 No debt relief for Greece, Germany’s deputy finance minister says – Reuters
2/27 Trump budget plan boosts Pentagon, trims State Dept, EPA – Reuters
2/27 Just five charts: from “hope” to “nope” – Jay Taylor Media
2/27 “Trump does not yet understand the magnitude of the problem” – Silver Doctors
2/27 US stocks, dollar retreat before Trump speech – Bloomberg
2/27 Cashin tells KWN he’s worried about central bank interference in the markets – GATA
2/27 Stockman: “After March 15 everything will grind to a halt” – Zero Hedge
2/27 No cuts to U.S. entitlement programs in Trump budget – Reuters
2/27 When selling starts in markets, it’ll trigger an ‘avalanche’ – CNBC
2/26 The fiscal horror show playing soon in Washington – Daily Reckoning
2/26 Global sovereign debt to hit new all-time high – Reuters
Precious Metals
2/27 Will Russia attack the dollar by buying gold? – Silver Doctors
2/27 This is the Cartel’s biggest fear – Silver Doctors
2/27 Is 50% of Western Central Bank gold gone? – Gold Broker
2/27 Gold futures buying hasn’t even started yet – Seeking Alpha
2/26 Central banks may have been evil with gold but not stupid – GATA
2/26 The world’s top 10 silver mining companies – Lombardi Letter
2/26 Sandstorm Gold: All you need to know about Q4 2016 results – SA
2/26 GLD vs GDX – Update on which to buy – Seeking Alpha
2/25 Underperformance in gold stocks argues for interim peak – Daily Gold
2/25 Gold’s rally: key tactics for profits – 321Gold
2/25 Silver Standard Resources 2016 Q4 – Seeking Alpha
2/25 The discoveries keep on coming for Balmoral Resources – Streetwise Report
2/25 Seabridge Gold ups the ante with Nevada acquisition deal – Streetwise Reports
2/25 Einhorn: gold will benefit from political uncertainty, inflation – Jay Taylor Media
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
2/27 Two percent inflation. A call to action? – Reuters
2/27 May ‘fears fresh Scottish independence referendum’ – Evening Express
2/26 Buckle up: inflation at 58-month high – Streetwise Reports
2/26 Canadian inflation jumps sharply – Tradebeat
2/26 Bitcoin devaluing China’s currency but China won’t do much about it – Salon
2/26 Singapore inflation accelerates to 2-yr high, easing bets recede – PressReader
2/25 As bitcoin surges to record, China prepares digital currency – Mish
2/25 Why bitcoin could soon be worth more than gold – Time
Real Estate Bubble
2/27 Pending home sales drop unexpectedly to lowest in a year – CNBC
2/26 Toronto housing market may need Vancouver-style cooling – Bloomberg
2/25 New home sales rise half of economists’ expectations, supply surges – Mish
2/25 Mall REITs rocked by news of J.C. Penney store closures – MarketWatch
2/24 “The Manhattan high-end condo market is a catastrophe” – 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
Politics
2/27 Emmanuel Macron on course to beat Marine Le Pen in French election – Independent
2/27 The priced-in risk of Marine Le Pen’s victory – Bloomberg
2/27 EU lawmakers call for ‘Federal Union’ of European states – RT
2/27 EU lawmakers, in unusual move, pull the plug on racist talk – AP
2/27 Why Dutch voters are about to set the stage for Europe’s elections – Guardian
2/27 Furious Trump fans can’t stop visiting a website that pretends Clinton won – WaPo
2/27 Fillon wins investigation reprieve – Mish
2/27 There was one group noticeably absent from CPAC – Business Insider
2/27 Trump rejects intelligence report that doesn’t say what he wants it to – Independent
2/27 Underground network readies homes to hide undocumented immigrants – CNN
2/27 Be clear about what happened to Keith Ellison – Medium
Offshore Investing
2/22 Record Americans say goodbye to Uncle Sam (and the taxman) – Nestmann
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
Clean Tech
2/26 Inside the high-stakes race to build a better energy storage device – Salon
2/25 Net-zero solar powered house could ease city’s affordable housing crisis – TreeHugger
2/25 Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems – Economist
2/25 SunPower to construct 5GW capacity in China – Energy Trend
2/24 Synthetic clothing and tires could be polluting the oceans in a big way – CNBC
2/23 Inside the race to build the battery of tomorrow – Wired
2/23 Tesla posts wider-than-expected loss of 69 cents a share – CNBC
2/23 Bill Nye-backed startup makes solar panels 60% cheaper – Computer World
Art of the Collapse
2/27 Truth… hurts – Zero Hedge
2/22 10 reasons why Muslims are the worst – Medium
2/22 Mainstream media strategery – Zero Hedge
2/16 The talking dead – Medium
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
2/27 Deep state war? Russian officials keep dying unexpectedly – Zero Hedge
2/27 Iran test-fires cruise missile after Ahmadinejad slams Trump – Zero Hedge
2/27 Stanford University speech exposes “the threat from within” – Zero Hedge
2/26 The futility and corruption of the drug war – Ron Paul Institute
2/26 Documents indicate Germany spied on foreign journalists – Spiegel
2/25 Trump vows military build-up, hammers nationalist themes – Reuters
2/25 Source protection in 2017: a starter guide – Medium
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
2/27 Why you should eat 10 portions of fruit or vegetables a day – Kurzweil
2/26 Fight inflammation and chronic disease by walking barefoot on the Earth – Mercola
2/26 Some doctors prescribe food instead of pills to treat certain patients – CBS
2/26 The fountain of youth may be closer than you ever thought – Natural News
2/22 Why you should be planning for 2018, not 2017 – Medium
2/21 Privacy is power – Standard Notes
2/20 Medical cannabis — a vastly underutilized therapeutic option? – Mercola
2/19 13 things you should give up if you want to be successful – Medium
2/19 The price of farming humanely – Medium
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
2/27 Saudi-Iran: proxy wars escalate to direct cyber attacks – HackRead
2/26 What will the cyberwars of the future look like? – The Week
2/25 Massive bug may have leaked user data from millions of sites – Wired
2/24 The greatest privacy threat of all: our connected devices – Vivek Wadhwa
2/23 Malware lets drone steal data by watching computer’s blinking LED – Wired
2/19 NSA split from cyberwar command inevitable – Intercept
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
2/27 Oscars night was predictable until the very end – Five Thirty Eight
2/27 Biologists say half of all species could be extinct by end of century – Guardian
2/26 Fasting diet ‘regenerates diabetic pancreas’ – BBC
2/26 Town to seed 1,000 acres to aid bee, butterfly populations – True Activist
2/26 The building blocks of life are much more common than we thought – Extreme Tech
2/26 Uber’s leather boys – Back Channel
2/25 Did Chinese scientists find autism’s missing puzzle piece? – Healthcare in America
2/25 VR is a killer app for blockchains – Medium
2/25 New anti-prostitution law in Ireland is not really about trafficking – Daily Bell
2/24 Plan to save Great Barrier Reef set back decades: experts – France24
