Stocks jump, Treasury yields plunge as Fed says no more rate cuts this year … Chinese companies defaulting at an ‘unprecedented’ level … CNBC: FedEx just warned the whole globe is slowing … Gold and silver up on dovish Fed …
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Markets are more complex than our brains – AIER
Green new physics – Automatic Earth
Technically speaking: a different way to look at market cycles – RIA
David Frum: How much immigration is too much? – Atlantic
Ground rules of existence – Hussman Funds
EU monetary and economic failures – GoldMoney
No one knows how monetary policy works – Credit Bubble Bulletin
Hair-Trigger markets – Peak Prosperity
BREAKING: Everyone who opposes war is a Russian antisemite – Caitlin Johnstone
Doug Casey on Modern Monetary Theory – Casey Research
Tariffs didn’t reduce the trade deficit (deals won’t either) – Mish
Hallmarks for a spectacular boom – Capitalist Exploits
Breaking News
The Economy
3/20 10-year Treasury yield dives to the lowest in a year – CNBC
3/20 S&P 500 turns positive after Fed forecasts no rate hikes this year – CNBC
3/20 Japan factory mood hits weakest since 2016 as trade rifts bite – Reuters
3/20 Chinese companies defaulting at an ‘unprecedented’ level – CNBC
3/20 The financial collapse of the Democratic Mayors – American Thinker
3/20 Voice recorder from Lion Air 737 reveals frantic struggle to stop nosedive – ZH
3/20 Who is right – stocks or bonds? – Zero Hedge
3/20 BMW tumbles as earnings expected “well below” last year – Zero Hedge
3/20 UBS warns Q1 “one of the worst” in recent history as iBanking revenue implodes – ZH
3/20 The student debt conundrum – FFF
3/20 How America becomes the next socialist hellhole – Casey Research
3/20 A recipe for massive government spending – Daily Reckoning
3/20 FedEx just warned the whole globe is slowing – CNBC
3/20 FedEx misses on earnings and slashes full-year guidance – CNBC
3/20 Dow Jones head and shoulders pattern to be aware of – Technical Traders
3/20 Yield curve is persistently signaling that danger lies ahead – Seeking Alpha
3/20 Is the bull market too big to fail? – Zero Hedge
3/20 More signs a global recession is headed our way – Nestmann
3/20 French finance minister cuts 2019 growth forecast to 1.4 percent – Reuters
3/19 US factory orders barely rise; shipments fall further – CNBC
3/19 China’s banks have a hidden wave of bad debt – Bloomberg
3/19 Merging Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank won’t solve their problems – Forbes
3/19 The bloodbath in U.S. shale stocks continues: worst is yet to come – SRSrocco Report
3/19 European banks’ inescapable “doom-loop” – Zero Hedge
3/19 Shares gain as Fed looms, pound rides new Brexit twists – Reuters
3/19 Record flooding pummels midwest when farmers can least afford it – NY Times
3/19 David Stockman: Count your blessings – this meltdown will be unreal! – MS
3/19 Decline Of globalization – Mish
3/19 How is JPMorgan Chase expanding while it’s still on probation for a felony? – PSW
Precious Metals
3/20 Gold at session highs as Fed strikes dovish tone – Kitco
3/20 Franco Nevada falls on weak Q4 report – Yahoo
3/20 5 ways to prosper in the coming crisis – GoldCore
3/20 Gold price retreats ahead of the Fed as UK asks EU to delay Brexit – BullionVault
3/20 Gold: central bank sentiment is rock solid – 321Gold
3/20 Is the world running out of gold? – DW
3/20 1 top gold miner to buy now – Fool
3/20 Gold glimmers as the pool of negative-yielding debt surges – Kitco
3/20 Precious metals: 3 important charts – Vesrock
3/20 Here’s how to play gold using ETFs – CNBC
3/19 Gold gains but Fed rate hike ‘under-priced’ – BullionVault
3/19 Craig Hemke at Sprott Money: ahead of the Fed – GATA
3/19 Governments ‘ferociously’ shorting gold futures around fed meeting – GATA
3/19 Gold stocks outperform GOLD but not stocks – Daily Gold
3/19 Palladium panic-bid to record highs as Putin corners market – Zero Hedge
3/19 LIVE investor summit – going for gold: royalties vs. other gold investments – FSN
3/19 Jerry Robinson – gold, cannabis, cryptos and China – FSN
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
3/20 What you need to know about Wednesday’s Fed meeting – NY Times
3/20 Abe describes BoJ’s inflation goal as means to spur growth – Reuters
3/20 Draghi makes u-turn in monetary policy; euro drops – Gold Republic
3/20 Bitcoin volume collapsed during Venezuelan blackout – Zero Hedge
3/20 Canada sees 20 percent jump in bond issuance as deficit climbs – Reuters
3/20 CBOE to stop listing bitcoin futures as interest in crypto trading cools – CNBC
3/20 Monetary Metals on Keynes, inflation and evil itself – Gary Tanashian
3/19 Dollar near two-week low before Fed meeting, yen strengthens – Nasdaq
3/19 Sterling slides as French president rejects Brexit delay – Zero Hedge
3/19 Japan’s debt passes 250% of GDP – Asia Times
3/18 “Euro’s failure magnified the difference between eurofication and japanificiation” – ZH
3/18 Argentina’s peso, nothing but trouble – Forbes
Real Estate Bubble
3/20 U.S. mortgage requests hit two-month peak as loan rates fall – Reuters
3/20 Homebuyers can ‘take their time’ as home price growth continues to stall – Forbes
3/18 Apartment values in one area of Sydney tipped to fall by up to 50% – manual
3/18 Homebuilder sentiment holds steady despite lower mortgage rates – CNBC
3/18 Now may be the time to buy home-builder stocks – MarketWatch
3/18 China’s home price growth slips to 10-month low in February – Gulf Today
3/18 Vancouver mansions are renting at bargain prices amid correction – manual
3/17 Home foreclosure activity jumps in Austin, Miami, San Diego, and Seattle – ZH
3/16 Home prices decline in two more metro Denver counties – Denver Post
3/16 Metro Orlando home prices down nearly $10,000 from summer peak – OS
Politics
3/20 Tory MPs vow to quit party if Boris Johnson becomes leader – Guardian
3/20 Brexit: Theresa May vows not to delay departure beyond June – BBC
3/20 Shifting hopes as Republicans and Democrats await Mueller – AP
3/20 Most people want higher taxes on rich to support poor – OECD – Guardian
3/20 Rightside norms, accuracy norms, and internet garbage-fights – JS
3/20 The end of trust – NorthmanTrader
3/20 “Today’s EU is the embodiment of bureaucratic hubris” – Claudio Grass
3/20 Trump gets a U.S. Supreme Court victory on immigration detention – Yahoo
3/19 The 737 Max saga is a total disgrace for Boeing and the FAA – Liberty Blitzkrieg
3/19 A tide in the affairs of men – Automatic Earth
3/19 “Total loser!”: Trump slams Kellyanne Conway’s “jealous” husband – ZH
3/19 We are already ruled by “private governments,” and they suck – Outline
3/19 France’s Yellow Vests are rebels without a cause – Atlantic
3/19 Twitter bans Lisa Page tweet by Federalist co-founder “to keep people safe” – ZH
3/19 Trump’s approval higher than Obama’s at same point – Rasmussen
3/19 Beto crushes the skeptics beneath a giant pile of cash – Vanity Fair
3/19 Facebook execs who have left since the Cambridge Analytica scandal – BI
Offshore Investing
3/19 Consistency: the success of the Cayman Islands – SWP
3/14 Why I got stuck on the “Island of Magic” – Casey Research
2/11 Runaway slaves – SWP
1/16 World’s strongest asset protection laws (and second passports) – Nestmann
1/09 Where have all the safe havens gone? – Project Syndicate
12/19 Citizenship by investment: more choices than ever – Nestmann
11/14 “Living nowhere” is harder than ever – Nestmann
10/07 End of an era: Swiss banks mow exposing tax cheats – Zero Hedge
Clean Tech
3/20 Miami bans the use of Glyphosate in a step to improve water quality – Nation of Change
3/20 Monsanto: Roundup substantial factor in man’s cancer, jury finds – Guardian
3/20 Inside California’s community solar experiment – Greentech Media
3/20 How the Tesla Big Battery kept the lights on in South Australia – Renew
3/20 3 things investors need to know about Plug Power’s Q4 earnings – Motley Fool
3/20 FuelCell Energy’s short-term challenges and long-term prospects – Seeking Alpha
3/20 Toyota ramps up hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, as Japan boosts investment – NPR
3/20 New project would more than double Wisconsin’s solar energy output – WPR
3/19 Recycling movement fails: China doesn’t want US garbage, not profitable here – Mish
3/19 78% of Tesla operating cash flow has come from customer deposits – ZH
Art of the Collapse
3/18 “Hi guys! I did a song about Modern Monetary Theory – Christian Reilly
3/16 SNL brutally mocks out-of-touch Trump official Wilbur Ross in opener – Raw Story
3/16 The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics – Politico
2/24 An exclusive interview with Bernie Sanders – Glen Beck
2/17 Saturday Night Live Trump press conference cold open – CNBC
1/25 Weekend update: Tina Fey on protesting after Charlottesville – SNL
1/21 Majority would accept May Brexit plan ‘if they got to punch Farage – NB
1/09 Eccles Prison Blues – the big squeeze – Deviant Investor
1/06 Sci-Fi writers are grappling with a post-Trump reality – Wired
12/03 SNL lampoons Netflix’s spending on original content – Verge
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
3/20 Tomgram: William Astore, the death of peace – Tom’s Dispatch
3/20 U.S. air strikes kill civilians in Somalia, Amnesty report says – FFF
3/20 John Mccain’s disastrous militaristic legacy – FFF
3/20 U.S.-Russia talks on Venezuela stall over role of Maduro – Reuters
3/20 Ron Paul: Is Trump really about to attack Venezuela? – Eurasia
3/20 Brazil to go full NATO? Trump floats possibility after Bolsonaro visit – ZH
3/19 Chelsea Manning and the new Inquisition – Common Dreams
3/19 French PM removes police chief and vows to shut down rioters – Guardian
3/19 Pakistan tells China of ‘deteriorating situation’ in Indian Kashmir – Reuters
3/19 Government tests facial recognition software on the vulnerable – Slate
3/19 U.S. shields its torturers and war criminals, then honors them – Intercept
3/19 China says it has arrested 13,000 ‘terrorists’ in Xinjiang – Guardian
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Health, Survival
3/19 Matt Taibbi: How following the news can be hazardous to your health – WPR
3/17 Brexit survival courses: families line up to learn survivalist skills – Times
3/15 In the future, everything will be made of chickpeas – Atlantic
3/14 Grow stem cells with fasting – Healing Miracle
3/12 What do 90-somethings regret most? – Medium
3/12 The oxidative effects of wireless radiation – Dr. Sircus
3/12 Build an emergency fund: avoid financial disaster – HiCharlie
3/11 Pictures: bugs you can eat – Web MD
3/08 The truth about fish oil – Medium
3/08 What happened when I ate 25 grams of fiber every day – Medium
3/07 Route planning for bugging out – Survival Sullivan
3/03 The best nootropics for productivity, according to two nootropics experts – BH
3/03 How to find a volunteer gig that makes a difference – Medium
3/02 How you’ll die when the SHTF – Organic Prepper
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
3/16 Review says inattention to cyber risks an ‘existential threat’ to military – Fed News
3/16 When should cyber attacks be considered acts of war? – We Are The Mighty
3/16 How hackers pulled off a $20 million Mexican bank heist – Wired
3/15 Cyberattacks, solar storms and EMP weapons: extended blackout inevitable – EOTAD
3/15 Report: Navy is under ‘cyber siege,’ national secrets leaking from the hull – NT
Off-Topic
3/20 Fertility doctor Donald Cline’s secret children – Atlantic
3/19 What, exactly, are Southern California’s coyotes eating? – Atlas Obscura
3/19 Bumblebee added to the ever-growing list of endangered species – Science
3/15 Congress has voted to expand public lands and create national monuments – Buzzfeed
3/15 Ice ages triggered by massive collisions at earth’s equator – Independent
3/15 The hottest chat app for teens is … Google Docs – Atlantic
3/15 A new discovery upends what we know about viruses – Atlantic
3/15 The case of the missing dark matter – Wired