Fed: Jobless Rate to Drop ‘Slowly’

N.Y. Grocer to Close Dozens of Stores, Slash 4K Jobs

Obama Gets it Backwards Again: ‘”I Will Not Rest” Until Businesses Are Investing and Hiring’

Some liberals admit the $1.8 trillion health care takeover will not provide universal insurance

Bets rise on rich country bond defaults

Another cancer drug too dear for Britain: Bowel cancer victims denied life-prolonging care that’s free in Europe

Worried About Appearing “Unresponsive,” Dems Plot More “Stimulus” Spending

Uphill Climb: Democrats Face Skeptical Public on “Stimulus” Spending

Millions May Have to Repay Obama Tax Credit

A Phony “Fix” for Health Care

Lieberman Digs In on Public Option

Nuclear power regains support

The ‘Real’ Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed

Tax Terrorists, Not Americans

Morning Bell: The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms

Dems Try to Justify $300 Million Bribe to Senator Landrieu… Fail (Video)

National Celebrity James O’Keefe Headlines Saturday’s St. Louis Holiday Tea Party

IMF Warns That New Bailouts Would Imperil Democracy

Unreal. Katie Couric Recites Holiday Health Care Poem on Nightly News (Video)

Climategate: ‘Greatest scandal in modern science’

Call for Congressional investigation

Paper: Junk science exposed among climate-change believers

Obama: ‘Step closer’ to climate deal

China State Construction nets $100m subway deal in New York

The ‘Real’ Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed

34.5% of young African American men unemployed

Dems push $150B stock tax on Wall Street

Economy’s rebound not as strong as first thought

Number of Troubled Banks Rises to 552; FDIC Fund Sinks Into the Red

Koenigsegg Backs Out of Deal to Buy SAAB From GM

SurvivalBlog:

The Debt Bomb: Uncle Sam on teaser rate

Payback Time – Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government

Stocks Climb on Report Showing Jump in Home Sales

Late Payments on Credit Cards Drop in 3Q

IMF Chief: Global Economy Still Fragile

AP Survey: Debt Stress Turns Shoppers into Scrooges

Gas Prices Fall to Begin Busy Travel Week

Bets Rise on Rich Country Derivative Defaults

Gold Hits New High Among Rising Political Tension

Couples Turn to “Shift-Parenting” to Stay Afloat

End of the Checkbook: Bankers Drawing Plans, Could End by 2018

Dollar Slump Persisting as Analysts See No End

From that oft-quoted French Think Tank: Red Alert: The Second Wave of the Financial Tsunami. It could hit between the 1st and 2nd quarters of 2010

The Great Stimulus Debate of 2009