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Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

Forget for a moment that U.S. stock markets have seen their worst start to a new year since the Great Depression or that some $2.5 trillion in wealth has been evaporated in less than two weeks.

CNN says it’s hardly the time to panic:

Time to panic? Hardly.

 

There are plenty of reasons to relax, especially if you are a U.S investor. Here are the top two:

 

1. America’s economy is still in good shape.

 

JPMorgan shifts to the dark-side...

It would be hard for a year to start any worse than 2016 has. 

Americans are fat. They are so fat very few would even bother to click on a hyperlink in this article explaining how fat they are, so instead we will present an animated chart showing the severity of the US obesity problem over the past 30 years.

Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,

As we’ve been warning for quite a while (too long for my taste): the world’s grand experiment with debt has come to an end. And it’s now unraveling.

Just in the two weeks since the start of 2016, the US equity markets are down almost 10%. Their worst start to the year in history. Many other markets across the world are suffering worse.

United States and her NATO allies are working with Turkey, Saudi Arabia,Qatar, Kurdish forces and militant jihadist terrorists in Syria and Iraq to create a ‘safe zone’ for terrorists which will become a ‘Sunnistan’ canton for the Islamic State, according to geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen. John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, who is a staunch neocon and an Israeli lobby ‘scholar’ for the American Enterprise Institute, once said: To Defeat ISIS, Create a Sunni State.