MarketWatch: ‘Big bear market’ for stocks lasting several months has begun. New York Times: “Era of low inflation and interest rates may be near an end.” Two-year U.S. yields at 2008 highs “are scarier than a 3% 10-year.” Trump’s lawyer takes Fifth in Stormy Daniels case, while his VA nominee withdraws. Gold and silver down as dollar rally continues.
Best Of The Web
Yield shock on Wall Street, conservative default in Washington – David Stockman
Delusions of MAGA and the return of honest bond yields, part 4 – David Stockman
This is not a market – Automatic Earth
Economics 101: Who sets prices? – GoldMoney
War between public pensioners and tax donkeys heating up – Charles Hugh Smith
The risk to markets – global growth – Real Investment Advice
Triffin warned us – Real Investment Advice
The Deep State and the Big Lie—Douma deposed – David Stockman
Every kingdom divided against itself – Automatic Earth
Winter is coming (part two) – Burning Platform
Breaking News
The Economy
4/27 Global pension gap to hit $400 trillion; US leads the way – Mish
4/27 Blain: “Millennials aren’t buying cars or homes because they are debt slaves” – ZH
4/27 BofA: 10-year Treasury “is no longer a safe asset” – Zero Hedge
4/27 Ford retreats from American car business in penny-pinching push – Bloomberg
4/27 Deutsche Bank plans ‘significant’ job cuts after sharp drop in profits – CNBC
4/27 Amazon stock hits all-time high on strong earnings – US News
4/27 ‘Big bear market’ for stocks lasting several months has begun – MarketWatch
4/27 Debt-enabled asset bubbles on crash course with demographics – Juggling Dynamite
4/26 Death of the earnings beat: Investors just don’t care – CNBC
4/26 U.S. business spending on equipment slowing; job market strong – Reuters
4/26 ‘Grotesque’ leverage and rising rates are already causing damage – Bloomberg
4/26 US stocks rise, Facebook and AMD jump after crushing earnings – CNBC
4/26 Where have all the dip buys gone? – Daily Reckoning
4/26 A $3 trillion credit market has corporate bond investors on edge – Bloomberg
4/26 What I learned from Nassim Taleb – Gold Republic
Precious Metals
4/27 US exports nearly all gold mine supply to Hong Kong – SRSRocco Report
4/26 The coming boom in gold prices – Sovereign Man
4/26 Gold price increasingly influenced by declining dollar – GoldCore
4/26 The silver upsurge is coming – SWP Cayman
4/26 Sprott’s Craig Hemke: The soaring dollar crushes the commodity rally – GATA
4/25 Gold mining stocks: upside as premium valuations will return – Seeking Alpha
4/25 These 4 billionaires invest in gold – here’s why (should you too?) – MunKnee
4/25 Gold sinks to 4-week low as dollar rally continues – Kitco
4/25 Silver gives us another chance to accumulate and buy – Technical Trader
4/25 Which are the hottest commodities for 2018 – PR Newswire
Inflation, Deflation, Currency War, Cryptocurrencies
4/26 Era of low inflation and interest rates may be near an end – NY Times
4/26 US dollar soaring with eagles, what does it mean? – Technical Traders
4/26 Ethereum: stick a fork in it – Mish
4/26 Not everyone is happy restaurants are going cashless – NY Post
4/25 $150K stolen from MyEtheWwallet users in DNS server hijacking – Yahoo!
4/25 Why bitcoin works – Medium
4/24 Here come the petrodollars, back to save global asset prices – GATA
4/24 Yields approaching 3% are good news for dollar bulls – Bloomberg
4/24 Tame inflation pressures Bank of Japan to maintain stimulus – Reuters
4/23 Japan needs ‘strong accommodative’ monetary policy ‘for some time’ – CNBC
Real Estate Bubble
4/25 Why high-flying U.S. home prices are about to get another jolt – Bloomberg
4/25 First-time buyers get squeezed by rampant home price inflation – Wolf Street
4/25 Calculated Risk vs Mish: demographics good for housing? – Mish
4/24 Sales of new homes in U.S. advance to a four-month high – Bloomberg
4/24 Home prices surge – even as mortgage rates rise – CNBC
4/24 Existing home sales rise 1.1% but activity below year ago – Mish
Politics
4/26 Trump VA pick Ronny Jackson withdraws nomination – Zero Hedge
4/26 Trump’s lawyer takes Fifth in Stormy Daniels case – Slate
4/26 The great exodus out of America’s blue cities – Hill
4/26 Giuliani meets with Mueller to discuss Trump interview – Zero Hedge
4/26 Ex-Clinton ‘ethics’ aide resigns after taped tirade at cops – Zero Hedge
4/25 White House’s VA nominee may never get a hearing – Vanity Fair
4/25 Inside the beginning of the end of the Clinton campaign – Vanity Fair
4/25 This is why you can’t trust “experts” and lab results at trial – Daily Bell
4/25 McCabe ordered to shut down Hillary investigation by…Obama? – American Thinker
4/25 Why secession is a big problem — for politicians – Mises
4/24 Trump’s VA nominee: charges of overprescription, hostile work environment – NYT
4/24 Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt faces public grilling – CNBC
Offshore Investing
3/07 Doug Casey on internationalizing your cash – International Man
2/19 4 ways living abroad can give you more freedom – Daily Bell
2/14 Panama: still an easy second residency to acquire – Nestmann Group
2/02 The ebb and flow of the tides of nations – SWP Cayman
1/15 EU to target UK tax haven territories as trade negotiations begin – Independent
Clean Tech
4/27 Meat substitutes take on meat industry – Feedstuffs
4/27 Residential solar power grows 11% in Q1 2018 – PV Magazine
4/26 Florida residents get new zero-down option for rooftop solar – Solar Reviews
4/24 Storage nabs biggest portion of $472m in Q1 venture funding – Utility Dive
4/24 Global solar PV installations to surpass 104GW in 2018 – Greentech Media
4/24 Wells Fargo to provide US$100 billion to clean energy by 2030 – PV Tech
4/24 How brands use renewable energy – 16Best
Art of the Collapse
4/16 ‘SNL’: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller do ‘Meet The Parents’ – Yahoo!
War, Civil Unrest, Privacy, Creeping Fascism, Police State
4/27 Russia says its witnesses discredit alleged chemical attack in Syria – BBC
4/27 Official: Israel will strike Tehran if Iran attacks Tel Aviv – Herald
4/26 S Korea sparing no effort to make summit with Kim a success – WaPo
4/26 Who will win the new great game? – NY Times
4/26 N Korea nuclear test site collapsed and may be out of action – Guardian
4/26 You’re not crazy for doubting establishment war narratives – Medium
4/26 First drone warship joins navy; nearly every element classified – CNBC
Self-sufficiency, Food Security, Survival
4/25 Farmed salmon contaminated with synthetic tire chemical – Mercola
4/24 How bacteria are changing your mood – BBC
4/24 How to avoid a retirement disaster – Bloomberg
4/23 Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s advice on borrowing money – Esquire
4/20 Is homesteading the best way to prepare? – Survival Sullivan
4/19 How to save your privacy from the Internet’s clutches – TechCrunch
CyberWar, CyberTerrorism, CyberCrime
4/26 Cracking the crypto war – Wired
4/25 Atlanta spent $2.6m to recover from a $52,000 ransomware scare – Newsletters
4/24 Trump sends cyber war strategy to Congress – Cyber Scoop
4/20 SunTrust warns ex-employee may have shared info on 1.5 million clients – CNBC
4/18 An elaborate hack shows how much damage IoT bugs can do – Wired
4/18 The teens who hacked a video game empire – Wired
4/16 Germany says it has to assume Russia behind recent cyber attack – Reuters
Off-Topic
4/27 Cosby guilty, gets 30 years – Fox
4/26 Is the world’s most drastic plastic bag ban working? – Guardian
4/26 UK businesses make world-first pact to ban single-use plastics – Independent
4/25 Arctic Sea ice contains huge quantity of microplastics – Independent
4/25 World wine output falls to 60-year low – Reuters
4/23 1/8 bird species threatened with extinction, global study finds – Guardian
4/22 Bunkbeds in the cargo hold trumpet a new golden age of flying – Wired
4/22 Ready to cut the cord on car ownership? You will be soon – Mish