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• Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge
• Reports show Russia mounted sweeping effort to sow divisions, support Trump
• China’s Bizarre Program to Keep Activists in Check
• Homelessness Rises Slightly Despite Strong Economy, Federal Report Finds
• The Curbside Chat: Charles Marohn of Strong Towns on Building Better Places
• The World's Most Controversial Coal Mine Is Set to Break Ground
• Opinion: Would Human Extinction Be A Tragedy?

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Precious metals analyst Ted Butler returns to the podcast this week to discuss the long-suffering silver price.

Will the beatings continue? Or is there finally reason to believe that, after seven painful years of languishing, silver may finally see a brighter future?

Butler predicts a turning point is nigh. And ironically, he thinks silver's savior will be the same cultprit responsible for keeping the price suppressed for all these years:

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Executive Summary

• Why economic growth is not going to ride to the rescue
• The alarming warning signs the auto, fine art, retail & housing industries are flashing now
• The actions you should be taking now to protect yourself from (and position for) the coming crash

If you have not yet read Part 1: Why This Market Needs To Crash  available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to run out of new things to say about the state of the world, especially economics.  The more obvious our predicaments become to me, the less appetite there seems to be ‘out there’ to discuss them.

What more can be said about a system that is so obviously corrupt and destined to fail, and piles up more and more evidence that this is the case, and yet refuses to engage in the most minimal of introspection? 

Well, lots as it turns out. 

You see, we're finally getting to beginning of the end.  Our long national — and global — experiment with using flawed economic models is now running smack dab into reality.

The edifice of central planning omnipotence is crumbling and when it finally breaks down in earnest, the financial markets will implode, the central banks will be overrun and discredited, and investors will discover that overly-long parties come with massive hangovers.

There will be hell to pay.

For reasons we have discussed previously, and extensively,  GDP growth has not been a feature of the world stage for over a decade, and is unlikely to return both because of debt levels that are far too high to support rapid growth and because any return of rapid growth will run smack into higher oil prices.

So…how’s that story working out?  Not so hot.  It’s been sub-par on a global scale for more than a decade. And the same is true for the US.

And here’s where we are today…

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In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

• The Traumatized National Psyche
  • Will 2017 see a healing?
• Bursting Bubbles Multiplying
  • China, home sales, auto loans…
• QE For The People
  • It's coming, and we'll all regret it
• The Pension Time Bomb
  • Insolvency is a "when", not an "if"

John Rubino joins Chris this week to discuss the biggest trends most likely to define the course of 2017. He sees populist spending programs, deflating asset bubbles, and the slowdown of China at top of the list.

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