Yellen opens debate on giant spending, saying ‘world has changed’ … Rob Arnott: Stimulus is like heroin, ‘it doesn’t do you a lot of good long-term’ … Jim Rogers: The next bear market will be the worst in 70 years … Is bitcoin the Model-T of money? … Indian gold market shows signs of revival …
Best Of The Web
The destructive force and failure of QE – Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney
Despair, depression, and the inevitable rise of Trump 2.0 – Glenn Greenwald
Anteroom of our own extinction – OffGuardian
Bitcoin: magic internet money – Research Affiliates
Tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its power – Spectator
When will the window of euphoria close? – Hedgeye
The reality of financial dominance – Doug Noland, Credit Bubble Bulletin
Is 2021 an echo of 1641? – Charles Hugh Smith
Chris Hedges: Opposing censorship is not defending fascism (video) – Jimmy Dore
(The FOMO indicator) “We’re near the edge of playing with fire” – Katusa Research
A message to anyone who feels like ‘Winston’ in Orwell’s 1984 – Sovereign Man
Biden’s banana republic – Egon von Greyerz
Breaking News
The Economy
1/20 ‘Act big’ now to save economy, worry about debt later, Yellen says – Reuters
1/20 Yellen opens debate on giant spending saying ‘world has changed’ – Yahoo
1/20 Market likely to push back after Yellen revives idea of 50-year bonds – Reuters
1/20 Stimulus is like heroin, ‘it doesn’t do you a lot of good long-term’ – Yahoo!
1/20 The ECB quietly launches yield curve control… just don’t call it that – ZH
1/20 Netflix soars after huge subscriber beat, positive cash flow projection – ZH
1/19 Almost 90% see market bubbles in Deutsche Bank investor survey – Reuters
1/19 Germany weighs mandatory FFP2 masks in shops and on transport – Guardian
1/19 Californians suffer unprecedented fire blackouts in January – Yahoo
1/19 Back to the Yellen future – Zero Hedge
1/19 Goldman Sachs’ profits more than double, despite pandemic – ABC
1/19 NFIB survey sends a strong warning about small-cap stocks – RIA
1/19 Yellen says U.S. must ‘act big’ on next coronavirus relief package – CNBC
1/19 The wealthy are investing like market bubble is here, or at least near – CNBC
1/19 ‘Painful’ cuts proposed in pensions for teachers, state employees – VT Digger
1/19 How stocks, gold, bitcoin and TIPS can hedge rising inflation – MarketWatch
1/19 Will rising rates change the bond market climate? – ETF Trends
1/19 Economic “rescue” plan like throwing a drowning man an anchor – Schiff Gold
1/19 The next wave of spending will not bring prosperity – Advancing Time
1/19 What could Yellen say to move markets during hearings tomorrow? – ZH
Precious Metals
1/20 Indian gold market shows signs of revival – Schiff Gold
1/19 Gold investing: is diversification required? – 321Gold
1/19 Centamin shares rise after a positive Q4 update – Kitco
1/19 Gold’s cup and handle pattern – Daily Gold
1/19 Peter Schiff: gold is getting ready for a ‘tremendous move’ (pt. 1/2) – Kitco
1/19 How Fury Gold Mines is able to sustain multiple exploration projects – Kitco
1/19 Gold sheared, silver smeared – Yahoo!
1/18 Gold edges up from December low with focus on stimulus, dollar – Yahoo
1/18 This past week in gold; Jack Chan – 321Gold
1/18 The staggering levels of real ‘inflation-adjusted’ gold and silver prices – GATA
1/18 Canaccord portfolio manager acknowledges gold price suppression – GATA
1/18 Silvercorp Metals on track to meet fiscal 2021 output guidance – PI
1/18 Forget bitcoin! This top TSX gold stock is a much better hedge – Fool
Inflation, Deflation, Cryptos, Currency War
1/20 Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries slide for 4th month in November – Reuters
1/20 Janet Yellen’s swiss cheese statements on the US dollar – Mish
1/20 US dollar decline creates new sector opportunities to trade – Technical Traders
1/19 Is bitcoin the Model-T of money? – GoldCore
1/19 Why the cost of shipping things from China is surging – Bloomberg
1/19 BofA clients with $561 billion say bitcoin is most crowded trade – Yahoo
1/19 Ethereum price finally beats its 2018 all-time high, surpassing $1,428 – ETS
1/19 Iran’s rolling blackouts & thick smog blamed on ‘illegal’ bitcoin mining – Zero Hedge
1/19 UBS Wealth warns clients crypto prices can actually go to zero – MSN
1/19 USD net short reaches new high – ScotiaBank
1/19 Rock-bottom rates drive soaring Asian issuance of dollar bonds – FT
1/19 Peter Schiff: bitcoin to ‘collapse’, inflation death spiral coming – Kitco
1/19 Chainlink hits record high, altcoins rally amid bitcoin consolidation – Yahoo!
1/19 Bitcoin bull market sparks boom in crypto media outlets – Fortune
1/19 Is inflation coming back? – Financial Express
1/19 The dollar generally strengthens when Democrats control Congress – Interest
1/19 IFTTL lets you long bitcoin whenever Peter Schiff tweets – Crypto Mode
Real Estate Bubble
1/20 Bay Area home prices near record $1 million amid covid crisis – Mercury
1/20 San Diego home prices expected to rise 8.3% in 2021 – CBS8
1/20 Biden looks to give a big boost to homebuyers and builders – CNBC
1/20 Three reasons there won’t be a 2021 housing market crash – Housing Wire
1/19 The 4 Minnesota cities where home prices average $1 million – KROC News
1/17 Fleeing New Yorkers squeeze surrounding housing markets – AP
1/17 Why it’s getting harder for homebuilders to find workers – Bloomberg
Politics
1/20 DOJ now says there was no plot to kill elected officials – Consortium News
1/20 McConnell accuses Trump of feeding a mob lies – Mish
1/20 Trump orders declassification of some Crossfire Hurricane documents – ET
1/20 The empirical case for a mask mandate lacks scientific grounding – AIER
1/20 My Pillow CEO says Bed Bath and Beyond, Kohl’s to stop selling his products – ET
1/20 You can’t ‘just build your own Twitter’ – American Conservative
1/20 Everything’s fine, there’s absolutely nothing to see here – Sovereign Man
1/20 Italian PM wins crucial vote in Senate with very thin margin – AP
1/19 McConnell, Schumer close in on Senate power-sharing agreement – CNN
1/19 The zeitgeist wants what the zeitgeist wants – James Howard Kunstler
1/19 Clinton wonders if Trump spoke to Putin on day of capitol riot – Breitbart
1/19 Kremlin joins EU officials in denouncing big tech censorship – JTN
1/19 Lobby group sues Apple to remove Telegram from app store for ‘hate speech’ – Summit
1/19 Facebook censors Mexican Cardinal for denouncing ‘new world order’ – Breitbart
1/19 Pretend this covid chart doesn’t exist, or get canceled – Tom Woods
1/19 What ‘democracy’ is under attack? – Caitlin Johnstone
1/19 Trump retains support from Republicans after Capitol attack – CNBC
1/19 How much did “the culture of narcissism” get right? – Matt Taibbi
1/19 Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver exits after sexting young men – NY Post
1/19 13,000 NY nursing home residents and nearly half of staff decline vaccine – ZH
Clean Tech
1/20 Clean energy will be a top theme in ETFs this year: market analysts – CNBC
1/20 Cell-based seafood producer BlueNalu raises $60 million – CNBC
1/19 GM stock at record high after Microsoft invests in its self-driving division – ZH
1/19 Why ‘too much’ wind and solar is a feature, not a bug – Greentech Media
1/19 Hawaii will power its clean grid with 6,000 home batteries – Green Tech Media
1/19 Total buys stake in Adani Green Energy, world’s biggest solar developer – GTM
1/19 Almost all new US power plants built in 2021 will be carbon-free – GTM
1/19 Hydrogen fuel cell stocks are cashing in — should you worry? – Motley Fool
1/19 3 bubble stocks Robinhood investors keep chasing – Motley Fool
1/19 Hyundai’s diesel engines are dead – Car Buzz
1/19 Utility-scale solar surges to yet another record year – Wiki Solar
1/19 Vegan drumsticks that pull apart like chicken to launch globally – LK
1/19 2021’s must-use ingredient and other food trends – Times Live
Art of the Collapse
1/17 How people treat free speech these days (video) – AwakenWithJP
1/14 Fun with science on Vimeo – Tom Nicolson
1/13 Big Tech cleans house! – everything we want you to think – AwakenWithJP
1/12 ‘Let’s all remain peaceful,’ says Trump in clear incitement to violence – BB
1/12 When she goes through your phone, but and all she finds is … – Sally Mayweather
1/10 What leftists think about freedom of speech – AwakenWithJP
1/09 Trump sneaks back on Twitter by disguising self as Chi-Com PR rep – BB
1/07 We are all soy-cialists now! – Nicholas De Santo
1/03 The 4 other human beings we saw this year – Onion
1/03 Facts about the fact checkers – AwakenWithJP
1/03 Trap-and-removal program sedates tenants during eviction – Onion
1/03 Amazon worker emerges from shift to find 3,000 years have passed – Onion
War, Police State, Creeping Fascism, Civil Unrest, Privacy
1/20 Civil forfeiture is the beast that won’t die – Nestmann
1/20 The new domestic war on terror is coming – Glenn Greenwald
1/19 MSNBC analyst: Capitol Hill rioters more dangerous than 9/11 terrorists – WZ
1/19 Major airstrikes rock Iran-backed Iraqi militias near Baghdad – Zero Hedge
1/19 The ‘Boogaloo Boys’ make armed protest at Ohio statehouse – The Street
1/18 US Capitol placed on lockdown over suspected tent fire under bridge – ZH
1/18 Trump ban sparks calls for action against other populists – Guardian
1/18 FBI vetting guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack – AP
1/18 Amateur radio operators warned “not to commit criminals acts” – ZH
1/18 When it is so bad – you just have to laugh! – Armstrong Economics
1/18 Heavily fortified statehouses around US see small protests – AP
1/18 7 in 10 say US democracy is threatened: survey – The Hill
1/18 “Are you detaining me?” Navalny flies home, and straight into trouble – Reuters
Self Reliance, Health, Survival
1/19 Could most covid-19 deaths have been prevented? – Mercola
1/17 Ivermectin is now a front-line covid treatment – Covid-19 Critical Care
1/15 Cancel yourself – Liberty Blitzkrieg
1/12 What to do immediately when you feel a cold, flu, or covid coming on – Dr. Sircus
1/11 6 bodily tissues that can be regenerated through nutrition – GreenMedInfo
1/11 The type of fat you eat affects your covid risk – Mercola
1/11 Does vitamin D combat covid? – Guardian
1/11 New study shows how much asymptomatic people spread covid-19 – HuffPost
1/11 Address sleep posture to optimize cervical spine and health – Mercola
1/10 An unlikely nation is kicking this pandemic. Guess which. then why – TrialSiteNews
1/10 How to turn ordeals into adventures during the pandemic – Independent
1/09 UK authorities shut down vitamin D recommendation for covid – Mercola
Cyber-war, Cyber-terrorism, Cyber-crime
1/17 Political crisis a ‘golden opportunity’ for grid, Internet cyber attack – WE
1/13 An absurdly basic bug let anyone grab all of Parler’s data – Wired
1/09 Nissan source code leaked online after server misconfiguration – ZD Net
1/03 Microsoft says Russian hackers viewed some of its source code – NY Times
Off-Topic
1/15 Big freeze complicates snow-clearing efforts in Spain – IB Times
1/15 CRISPR gene editing used to store data in DNA inside living cells – NS
1/15 JEFF Bezos’ Blue Origin aims to fly tourists into space by April – CNBC
1/14 NZ city closes busy road to protect sea lion mother and pup – Guardian
1/13 Scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of extinction’, climate disruption – Guardian
1/13 CIA releases UFO Black Vault documents: see them online – NY Post
1/12 50 countries commit to protection of 30% of earth’s land and oceans – Guardian
1/11 Watch a robot dog learn how to deftly fend off a human – Wired
1/10 2020 was the joint hottest year on record – IFL Science
1/10 Dinosaurs lived on the other side of the galaxy, NASA demonstrates – IFLS
1/10 Researchers discovered a new state of matter: liquid glass – IFL Science
1/10 What really happens in the brain when you take psychedelics? – IFL Science
1/10 Crows are self-aware and ‘know what they know,’ just like humans – Prevention
1/09 Alien debris was discovered in 2017, Harvard astronomy professor claims – ZH
1/09 Indonesian Boeing 737 with more than 50 passengers crashes into ocean – MSN
1/09 Coldest in recorded history in Spain, China, Canada – Dr. Sircus
1/09 “Sudden stratospheric warming” may trigger wild weather for Northeast – ZH