Liberty Links 01/14/17

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Must Reads

Democrats Can’t Win Until They Recognize How Bad Obama’s Financial Policies Were (Fantastic piece by Matt Stoller, The Washington Post)

Policing the Digital Cartels (Crazy stuff, FT)

Tucker Carlson Interview with NYU Russia Professor Stephen Cohen (Fox News)

Russia, Trump & Flawed Intelligence (Must read review of the intelligence report, The New York Review of Books)

Russian Tech Expert Named in Trump Report Says US Intelligence Never Contacted Him (McClatchy DC)

What is Henry Kissinger Up To? (PaulCraigRoberts.org)

How Chinese is Bitcoin? — Part 1: Trade Volume (Medium)

Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself (The New York Times)

U.S. Politics

Trump Adviser: TPP ‘Dead,’ Will Move Quickly on Bilateral Trade Deals (It better be dead, Reuters)

Donald Trump Wasn’t Told About Unverified Russia Memo (NBC News)

Trump Scorns Probe into FBI Pre-Election Handling of Clinton Emails (Reuters)

Trump and His Nominees are Singing Different Tunes (Reuters)

Sanders: We Must Have ‘Serious Talk on Serious Issues’ (The Hill)

U.S. Public Sees Russian Role in Campaign Hacking, but is Divided Over New Sanctions (Pew Research Center)

New Jersey Democrats Endorse Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker for Governor (The squid always wins, NorthJersey.com)

Marijuana Reforms Flood State Legislatures (The Hill)

Here’s How Goldman Sachs Became the Overlord of the Trump Administration (Wall Street on Parade)

Musical Protest of Obama (YouTube)

Geopolitics/WW3

U.S. Troops’ Move to Poland Unnerves Kremlin (Reuters)

‘No Access’: Rex Tillerson Sets Collision Course with Beijing in South China Sea (The Guardian)

‘Pakistan Fires ‘First Submarine-Launched Nuclear-Capable Missile’ (Reuters)

U.S. Navy Ship Fired Warning Shots at Iranian Vessels (Reuters)

Philippines Says Finalizing Deal to Observe Russian Military Drills (Reuters)

Taiwan’s President Meets With Ted Cruz in the U.S., and China Objects (The New York Times)

More Britons Want Greater Control of Immigration Than EU Free Trade: Poll (Reuters)

Brazilian Neo-Nazis Recruited to Fight pro-Russian Rebels in Ukraine (Haaretz)

All Aboard to Fix the Globalization ‘Bullet Train’, China’s Xinhua Says (Reuters)

Hong Kong’s Legal Elite Voice Autonomy Fears After China Intervention (Reuters)

Economy/Finance

Suddenly, Home Sale Agreements Are Falling Apart Across the U.S. (Bloomberg) 

SNB Expects Bumper 2016 Profit After Record Loss a Year Earlier (The global economy is a total farce, Bloomberg)

Magic Eludes Bubble-Caller Jeremy Grantham, as Assets at GMO Drop by More Than $40 Billion (This should give bulls pause, The Wall Street Journal)

Mark Zuckerberg is Pissing Off A Lot of People (The New York Post)

Miscellaneous

U.S. Cities Experienced Another Big Rise In Murder In 2016 (FiveThirtyEight)

Liberty Blitzkrieg Partners

The U.S. Constitution: A Smart Parent’s Guide to America’s Most Important Document (Ammo.com)

Pacific Precious Metals

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