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

Real Bills Revisited

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

Geithner: Let Tax Cuts Die

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)

Bell, California Citizens Protest Against Corrupt City Officials Including City Manager Who Makes $787,000 a Year

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

SurvivalBlog:

Changes for 2011, The Taxman Cometh

Nielson Probability of US Hyperinflation or Debt Implosion

The Death of Paper Money

The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it

Treasury Plans to Sell 30% More of Citi Stake