Cash-Strapped States Resurrect “Debtors’ Prisons” (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
No Way Out (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
The Incredible Two-Day Jump in US Treasure Debt (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Obama Will Not Sign Foreclosure-Friendly Bill (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Suburbs take hit as US poverty climbs in downturn
White House gave McDonald’s a 1-year ObamaCare waiver
National Real Estate Trends (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Obama forgot to say “Mother, may I?” to the Chinese, but he did aggrandize himself
Health-Care Law Ruled Constitutional by U.S. Judge (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Dollar down vs yen on unexpected drop in payrolls (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Economy loses 95K jobs due to government layoffs (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Paul Krugman Goes To War With Chris Christie Over Planned Tunnel To New York
Senate Shockingly Passes Bill That Could Bail The Banks Out Of Foreclosure-Gate
California Prepares To Issue Marijuana Bonds If Prop 19 Passes
White House Already Granting Exemptions To Obamacare All Over The Place
El-Erian: The Big Story Is That Every Government Policy Measure Fails
Here’s The Most Scandalous Part Of The Senate’s Bill To Bail Out The Banks From Foreclosure-Gate
The EU Is About To Crush Every Banker’s Pay
72,000 stimulus payments went to dead people (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
GOP takeover of Congress would mean ‘hand-to-hand combat,’ Obama warns (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Obama Pocket Veto Illegal and Would Set Dangerous Precedent (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Big Labor Hints at Lame-Duck ‘Card Check’ Vote
Republicans Accuse Dems of Using IRS Audits to Bully Conservative Groups
Obama Admin Gives 30 Firms Health Law Exemption
Film Promises to Take a ‘Controversial New Look at Government Spending’
Plunge in Gold, Silver Just a Healthy Correction
12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
Raoul Pal: Everything I Look At Says There Will Be Negative GDP In Q1 Next Year
Morgan Stanley: There’s No Currency War Yet, But Here’s What Could Trigger One
Shanghai Just Issued A Slew Of New Measures In An Attempt To Cool The Housing Bubble
Jobs Drop by 95,000 in September, Unemployment Rate Unchanged
Two Fed Officials Speak Out Against Stimulative Action
Department Of Health And Human Services errs on Medicare Advantage
Federal judge tramples the Constitution to uphold ObamaCare
‘The change we need’: Another 95,000 jobs lost
Morning Bell: At the Mercy of the Obama Tax Hikes
California Environmental Regulations Based on Myths
Food Stamp Nation (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Greenspan: US Creating ‘Scary’ Deficit as Borrowing Rises
Former Bush Adviser: Fed Should Pump Trillions into Economy
Do You Recognize This Marxist Country?
Foes of Obamacare Lose Key Court Ruling (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)
Woah! Rory Reid Admits Obamacare Won’t Bring Down Costs & May Hurt Nevada (Video)
DISASTER. September Unemployment at 9.6% – 95,000 Jobs Lost
White House Defends Health Care Waivers Issued To 30 Companies and Other Groups
Michigan Judge Upholds Provisions In ObamaCare
Figures. Democrats Reward Another Voting Bloc – Send Stimulus Checks to Dead People
Obama jobs death toll: 95,000 more gone
Harry Reid’s Constitutional Duty: Spending Money
BofA Extends Freeze on Foreclosures to All 50 States
U.S. Payroll Drop Tops Forecast on Teacher Firings
Finance Chiefs Seek to Soothe Not Solve `Currency War’ at IMF
Pre-Election Jobs Report May Stoke Voters’ Anger
Dow Tops 11,000, Treasuries Advance on Fed Bets
Wal-Mart to End Employee Profit-Sharing in February
Gross Says Employment Report Signals More Fed Easing: Tom Keene
Sanofi to Eliminate 25 Percent of U.S. Pharmaceutical Workforce
JOBLESS RATE TOPS 9.5% FOR 14 STRAIGHT MONTHS
FED SPENDING JUMPS 9% FOR YEAR
China to be ‘second richest country by 2015’
BANK OF AMERICA Halts All Foreclosures, Sales… Developing
RASMUSSEN: 63% Angry at Policies of Federal Government; 43% Very Angry…
Dollar Falls Below 82 Yen for First Time Since 1995 on Jobless Report
World seeks to avoid ‘currency war’
Banks’ $4 trillion debts are ‘Achilles’ heel of the economic recovery’, warns IMF.
IMF admits that the West is stuck in near depression
Here’s Why House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%.
Bernanke Tells the Truth: The United States is on the Brink of Financial Disaster
U.S. Yields Will `Surge’ as Fed Increases Debt Purchases, Diam Forecasts. (Thanks to Susan H. for that link.) They used to call this nonsense “debt monetization” or more bluntly “monetary inflation”. But now they give it the saccharine-coated moniker “quantitative easing” to make it sound less frightening.
World Bank Trying to Quell Economic Tensions
The Federal Reserve is Selling Paper Gold and Buying Physical Gold
Gold And Silver – It Could Well Be a Whole New Ballgame!
Wall Street Sees The World Decoupling From U.S.
Don’t Let September’s Rally Trick You
Do Even CD’s Trump Long-Term Treasuries Right Now?
Most Renters Live in Unaffordable Housing, New Census Data Show. Simultaneous increases in rents and decreases in income are a bad combination.