China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft
Cities View Homesteads as a Source of Income (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Goldman reveals where bailout cash went
The Impossibility of Modern Capitalism
Why China Is The Mother Of All Grey Swans
11 New Tax Hikes Coming In 2011
Here’s What We’ve Learned From The European Stress Tests
The Wild, Wild East: 12 Snapshots Into China’s Roller Coaster IPO Market
The Deficit Won’t Kill Us, But The Dysfunction That Causes Them Will
“Leased But Empty” Shadow Office Space Haunts Commercial Real Estate
Look How Conveniently The Stress Test’s Calculated Bank Income Offsets Calculated Debt Losses
Goldman: Deadbeat States’ Spending Cuts Are Going To Hammer U.S. GDP This Year
Chinese Central Bank Outlines Plan To Ditch The Dollar As The Yuan’s Peg
Morning Bell: An Admission of Failure
New Bill Not Necessary: Public Option Already in Obamacare
Self-Reliance: Better Than Government Dependence
Ferguson: Overwhelming US Crisis Looms
Economic historian Niall Ferguson says Keynesian economists are stuck in the 1930s, completely unaware that a US debt crisis could come quite suddenly.
“All it takes is one piece of bad news — a credit rating downgrade, for example — to trigger a sell-off,” Ferguson writes in the Financial Times.
The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Geithner Dismisses Concerns on Letting Tax Cuts Expire
Heavy liability could sink small oil drillers
Senate’s top Democrat to introduce scaled-down energy bill
U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well
Geithner: U.S. Should Retain a Mortgage Backstop (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Radical Far Left Dem Jan Schakowsky Says Public Option Will Reduce Deficit
Majority of Small Business Sector Facing Tax Rate Hike Under Obama Plan
Strapped towns and cities giving away land — to cut lawn mowing bills!
Town fires 11 of 13 police officers
WIRE: Europe’s prospects brighten as USA fades
Chavez threatens U.S. oil cut in Colombia dispute
Changes for 2011, The Taxman Cometh
Nielson Probability of US Hyperinflation or Debt Implosion
The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it