The U.S. Dollar Falls by Fall (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Financial Reform Is a Disaster For Banks, Consumers: Bove (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Brown Brothers Warns On Deterioration In State And Local Government Deficits, Cautions Of Comparable European Collapse (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

China’s Potemkin Stock Market

Is Gold Really in a Bubble?

Is Obama’s BP Shakedown an Impeachable Offense? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Left Strangely Silent on Petrobras (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The BP Victims Fund and Obama’s Lawless Ways (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

CBO: Fannie and Freddie to cost taxpayers $389 billion

Democrats ‘Within Striking Distance’ on Disclose Act

Fixing Fannie and Freddie

Spending Fight at G-20

Stimulus aid to states seen delaying ‘day of reckoning’

Why Won’t Obama Waive the Jones Act?

Louisiana’s Democrat legislature passes law against ObamaCare

Video: White House announces push to improve wages for illegal immigrants

Why Russia is cutting off gas supplies to Belarus

Road Built By Stimulus Money Named “Barack Obama Parkway” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

IRS May Tax Payments to Gulf Coast Victims (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

White House Releases ‘Patients’ Bill of Rights’ (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Hugo Chavez Spearheads Raids as Food Prices Skyrocket (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Report: China to surpass U.S. in manufacturing

Borrowers exit troubled Obama mortgage program (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Big Oil strikes back, slam Obama’s drilling ban (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

White House budget director Orszag leaving in July (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Side Effects: Bureaucracy in a Bind

It’s Official – Obama Is Worst President in History on Job Creation; Worse Than Hoover on Job Losses

Budget director Orszag: Mission accomplished!

Hoyer: No budget resolution this year, tax hikes on the way

Obama Announces Dad Fund: Because Some Things You Can’t Put a Price Tag On, But Fatherhood Ain’t One of ‘Em

Britain raises VAT sales tax to 20%

BUDGET BURNOUT: ORSZAG BECOMES FIRST OBAMA CABINET MEMBER TO BAIL

Obama to announce new ‘benefits’

Insurance Premiums Jump

CA guv candidate’s tale of frugality omits $1.8 million home

CANCELLED: THERE WILL BE NO CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET THIS YEAR (unbelievable…)

HOYER: Middle-class tax hikes needed to keep up with spending

Home Sales FALL in May

Geithner: Economy still in ‘incredibly difficult period’

U.S. Spent $2M to Promote Condom Use Among Drug Users in Kazakhstan

Using Icebergs to Mask a Cooling Economy

Geithner Says Credit Access Improving, May Aid Growth

BP Falls to Lowest Since 1996 on Hurricane Concerns

Wells Fargo Aims Market-Linked CDs at `Nervous Nellies’

ICP, Once Among AIG’s `Best’ Managers, Opens New SEC Front

Fannie Mae Mortgage Bond Yields Decline to Lowest in a Year

SurvivalBlog:

Nearly Bankrupt Illinois Forced to Pay Through The Nose to Borrow Money

Gold’s Rise is “a Sign of Anxiety,” Not Inflation, ECRI’s Achuthan Says

Economy May Never Recover from Banking Crisis, Warns OBR

14 Reasons Why The US Government Will Never Have a Balanced Budget Again

Russia to Buy Canadian, Aussie Dollars for First Time Ever

Stocks Extend Gains as China Eases Currency Policy

More Borrowers Exit Obama Mortgage Help Plan

Gas Prices Going Back Up

Breaking: Federal Judge Rules Against Obama’s Job-Killing Moratorium

Roach: Global Stimulus Sets Stage for Next Crisis