The Answer To A Housing Recovery: Lower Prices

Hugh Hendry: Bad Things Are Going To Happen, And Other UK Hedge Funds Are An Embarrassment For Missing Potash

CHINA: Rumors Spread That Central Bank Head Has Defected

Companies Aren’t Using Their Cash To Hire, They’re Using Their Cash To Fire

Ireland’s High-Wire Bank Rescue Running Into Snags

Japan Makes Fresh Attempt To Kill The Yen

If The US Is Japan, Stocks Are Poised For Another Sharp Leg Down

Control Of Food Supply To Be Handed Over To Department Of Homeland Security

H.R.5297: Small Business Jobs Act (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Iraq: The War That Broke Us — Not (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Gold Rallying to $1,500 as Soros’s Bubble Inflates (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama: Hey Small Businesses!! Don’t Need Credit? I’ll Give You More!! (Hat Tip: Larwyn)

Once Again… Obama Bashes Bush Over Flailing Economy (Video) (Hat Tip: Larwyn)

The Incompetence of the Federal Reserve (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Minnick Support Of Failed Stimulus Bills

Unreal. Obama Administration Funding Pro-Palestinian Billboard Campaign in Israel (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Dallas Fed: Manufacturing Is A Mess

China Has Picked The Wrong Time To End Its Love Affair With Capitalism

Why Cheaper Money Doesn’t Mean More Jobs

Welcome To ‘The Great Lessening’

Boetkke Promotion Redux

Businessmen Don’t Need a Lecture

Stimulating Competitive Disadvantages in Broadband

Discovering China’s State-Led Economy, Years Late

Krauthammer: Small Business Bill About “Targeting Tax Cuts” (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama, GOP debate small-business tax

U.S. Wants Report Card for Cars

Kaiser workers to vote on replacing SEIU union (Hat Tip: Bookworm Room)

Pay attention folks, it’s coming: Government wants your 401(k) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

US homeowners flock to Florida event in desperate bid to save properties (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Sebelius: Administration Has a Lot of ‘Reeducation’ To Do on Obamacare (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Homelessness Up 50% In New York City (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Banks post $21.6 billion profit in 2nd quarter

The Ballooning Welfare State

Quincy, Illinois Takes $6 Million for Train Station While Schools are $6 Million Unfunded

Fed Saw Risk August Decision Would Send Wrong Signal

Citigroup to Increase China Workforce to 12,000 in Three Years

India’s economy races 8.8%

Russian economy grows 4.0%

German unemployment rate 7.6%

US Auto Sales May Hit 28-Year Low as Discounts Flop

Kerry tops wealthiest lawmakers at $188.6 million

Pay law branded ‘logistical nightmare’; Companies balk at new disclosure rules

Dodd-Frank presents a PR minefield

Gold ‘Rallying to $1,500

Toxic, Vacant — You’re Funding It

Top Ten Wealthiest Members of Congress

SurvivalBlog:

Policy Options Dwindle as Economic Fears Grow

Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth

S&P Says US Should Act to Protect AAA-Rating

Hyperinflation, Part II: What It Will Look Like

Avoiding the Looming Disaster of Social Security

Economy slows to 1.6 percent as trade gap widens

Why US Treasury Notes Will Eventually Yield Nothing

Stocks Rise After 2Q GDP News, Bonds Slip

Consumer Spending Rises 0.4% In July

Stocks Drop as Investors Enter Week Cautiously

Gasoline Prices Fall Ahead of Labor Day Weekend

Bernanke Calls For Help to Revive The Stuttering US Economy

Joel Skousen: Inflation: What it Takes to Get There

Stock Markets Face “A Blood Bath,” Warns SocGen Strategist Albert Edwards

Jim Quinn: The Age of Mammon

Bancor: The Name of the Global Currency that a Shocking IMF Report is Proposing

Investors Embark on Treacherous Month

UK: Graduates Warned of Record 70 Applicants for Every Job

Inflation Watch

Deflation Delusion Continues as Economies Trend Towards High Inflation

A 20% rate hike for Health Insurance in California?