Courtesy of John Rubino.
US stocks rise on strong jobs report, gold and silver fall. Bitcoin and oil recover from recent lows. Subprime auto loans emerging as possible threat. Trump to meet with Chinese premier this week, with supreme court vote and tax reform up next.
Best Of The Web
Stupid is as stupid does – Burning Platform
Stalling engines – Hussman Funds
The auto industry is about to drive off a cliff — again! – MATA SII
Our economies run on housing bubbles – Automatic Earth
How the Left learned to love states’ rights – Mises Institute
The curse of the thinking class – James Howard Kustler
The natural order of money and why abstract currencies fail – Medium
Tigers, ghosts, and Kryptonite – Stock Research
They’re baaack! And why you should be worried – very worried – Mark St. Cyr
Discussions on the Fed put – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Pension crisis too big for markets to ignore – Bloomberg
Why this market needs to crash – Peak Prosperity
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Breaking News
The Economy
4/05 What could possibly go wrong? – Merk Investments
4/05 Zombie nation: in Japan, zero public companies went bust in 2016 – Bloomberg
4/05 Australia’s household debt crisis is worse than ever – ABC
4/05 Euro saves Germany, slaughters the pigs, & feeds the BLICS – Econimica
4/05 U.S. stocks open higher after strong ADP jobs report – MarketWatch
4/05 Blowout ADP jobs growth is new evidence of economic traction, Fed Gov says – CNBC
4/05 Three precursors to the ’08 crisis are repeating now – Daily Reckoning
4/05 Illinois revenue freefall: fiscal year-to-date -8.1% and worsening – Mish
4/05 Why are white Americans dying off? Check these charts – PSMag
4/05 Pop goes the retail bubble – Schiff Gold
4/04 The danger of a sell-off in US stocks grows – Bloomberg
4/04 Trump’s reflation trade is deflating – 24hGold
Precious Metals
4/05 What sets the gold price? Critical thoughts on paper and physical gold – Gold Republic
4/05 Another 5-year record for private gold investing – 24hGold
4/05 Econ 101 – silver market manipulation – Silver Doctors
4/05 Bank of America says you should buy…gold?! – Silver Doctors
4/05 The US owes the world 3x the gold ever produced – GoldBroker
4/05 Gold slips after failure to break technical resistance – CNBC
4/05 Record US silver imports as consumption declines… – SRSrocco Report
4/05 Debt endgame & gold bull era – 321Gold
4/05 Gold prices get boost from soft dollar, St. Petersburg blast – Birch Gold
4/05 Endeavour Silver a step closer to developing fifth mine – MiningWeekly
4/05 Jim Rickards: debt, the death of money and gold – Daily Reckoning
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
4/05 Ultralow rate driving Japan’s public pension fund out of JGBs – Nikkei
4/05 What will it take for a bitcoin ETF to get approved? – Forbes
4/05 Bitcoin mired in civil war. Can this proposal save it? – Forbes
4/05 OECD inflation rate rises to highest level in five years – Bloomberg
4/04 Obsession with 2% inflation belongs in ‘halls of academia’ – CNBC
4/04 Japan’s balance of stashed cash surging – Nikkei
4/04 How to stop Venezuela’s fatal inflation – Forbes
4/04 Behind Turkey’s crisis-era inflation levels – Bloomberg
4/03 Measuring redenomination risk in Italy – Mish
4/03 Japan’s bitcoin law goes into effect tomorrow – Coin Desk
Real Estate Bubble
4/05 Housing boom is anything but as ownership loses appeal – Bloomberg
4/04 Manhattan home resales rebound after sellers agree to cut prices – Bloomberg
4/03 Sydney property prices rise almost 20% in past 12 months – Guardian
4/03 Housing bubble in Sydney soars to new high – Wolf Street
4/03 Australia sticks with blunt instruments to battle housing bubble – CNBC
DollarCollapse Podcasts
3/14 Inflation + populism = soaring gold
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
Politics
4/05 Senate plunges toward historic rules change in Supreme Court standoff – WaPo
4/05 Le Pen ambushed in French debate as macron attacks on euro – Bloomberg
4/05 Democrats secure votes to block Gorsuch, set stage for ‘nuclear’ option – WaPo
4/05 Chinese want to make sure Xi dodges ’embarrassments’ with Trump – CNBC
4/05 Trump methodically undoing Obama’s policies. Bit by bit – Time
4/05 Trump’s meeting with el-Sisi unmasks US policy – Intercept
4/05 Trump’s election was part of a startling global trend in 2016 –
4/05 Jim Rickards: get ready for the Scottish exit – Daily Reckoning
4/05 The walls close in on team Obama – Daily Reckoning
4/05 Marine Le Pen set to be crushed by Emmanuel Macron, poll reveals – Independent
4/05 France’s far right is luring young people like a nimble startup – Quartz
4/05 Tina Fey tells woman grads who voted for Trump: ‘you can’t look away’ – WaPo
Offshore Investing
3/24 Where’s citizenship for sale? Huddled masses need not apply – 24hGold
3/22 Why banks no longer want your money – Nestmann
3/06 The richest people in the world want this passport (clue: it’s European) – MarketWatch
3/05 How to find the best offshore banks – Casey Research
Clean Tech
4/05 Trump declares end to ‘war on coal,’ but utilities aren’t listening – Reuters
4/05 Solar represented 13% of California’s power in 2016 – PV-Magazine
4/05 10 countries best at providing affordable, sustainable energy – Medium
4/04 Musktopia here we come! – James Howard Kunstler
4/04 Tesla surpasses Ford as stock rises to record – MarketWatch
Art of the Collapse
4/04 Cyber Crying: a song describing our cyber plight – CSO Online
4/03 Fed reportedly “tired of waiting for inflation” – Charles Hugh Smith
3/29 Samantha Bee’s full-frontal assault on the Trump regime – Wired
3/29 Anger-fueled, social- media-driven world of humor in the Trump age – Wired
3/24 Artist’s impression of judge Gorsuch’s nomination hearings – Zero Hedge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
4/05 Why North Korea is probably going to be Trump’s first war – 24hGold
4/05 N Korea fires ballistic missile into East Sea. US: “clock has run out” – Zero Hedge
4/05 ‘Hospitals were slaughterhouses’: A journey into Syria’s secret torture wards – WaPo
4/04 Erdogan says Turks in Europe should defy ‘grandchildren of Nazism’ – Reuters
4/03 10 dead, 50 injured after briefcase bomb in St. Petersburg – Zero Hedge
4/03 Spain tells UK to keep its cool after Falklands comparison – Bloomberg
4/03 Single N. Korea nuke could black out US electric grid – Zero Hedge
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
4/03 DIY solar powered water heater – Survival Sullivan
4/03 Bulletproof plan to activate untapped brain energy – Mercola
4/02 Having a ‘retreat’ property comes with real challenges – Peak Prosperity
3/31 Bicarb magical mineral supplement – Dr. Sircus
3/29 Top 5 best military surplus rifles for those on a budget – Survival Sullivan
3/29 How to do the Heimlich maneuver – Web MD
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
4/05 How hackers hijacked a bank’s entire online operation – Wired
4/05 Cyber war: Defense firms face battle to guard secrets – WHIO
4/04 Russian hackers used the same backdoor for 2 decades – Wired
4/04 Hackers empty ATMs with a single drilled hole – Wired
4/03 UK puts nuclear power plants, airports on terror alert – Zero Hedge
4/01 To understand future of cyber power, look to past of air power – Huffington Post
3/31 The US has an ‘active cyber war underway’ – NPR
Off-Topic But Brilliant/Challenging/Infuriating
4/05 Young Americans are killing marriage – Bloomberg
4/05 The next agricultural revolution: a ‘bionic leaf’ that could help feed the world – Kurzweil
4/05 These stunning timelapse photos may just convince you about climate change – WaPo
4/04 How TV robs us of the spirit of carpe diem – Herald Scotland
4/04 Detroit stomping Silicon Valley in self-driving car race – Wired
4/04 Climate change is real – Dr. Sircus
4/03 Salmon farming in crisis: ‘a chemical arms race in the seas’ – Guardian
4/02 The dawn of truly commercial spaceflight – Ars Technica
4/02 Weed yoga, naked yoga, yoga with goats: Have we reached peak namaste? – WaPo
4/02 ‘This is not a hoax!’ April the giraffe is about to give birth, despite video outage – WaPo
4/02 Man collects $763,000 he thought was a scam – NY Times
