Gold Hits Record High as Dollar Falls to Year’s Low

Dollar pummeled after Singapore widens FX band (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

News flash: Fed declares it MUST create inflation! (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Regence Blue Shield customers notified of skyrocketing rates (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Medicare actuary: Reform will cost some seniors Medicare (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Ethanol Decision Could Do More Harm Than Good

Obama Wants $1.25 B to Compensate up to 66,000 African American Farmers for USDA Discrimination in 1981-96; Census Says African American Farmers Peaked at 33,000 in Those Years (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obamacare Sticker Shock: Taxing Over 15,000 Medicines (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Ethanol Decision Will Raise Meat, Poultry Prices, Tyson Says (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Birth of the National Security State (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The Coming Collapse of the Real Estate Market (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Jim Grant: The World Is Abandoning the US Dollar

TheDC OP-ED: One nation, under fraud (Hat Tip: Kim Priestap)

BEACH: The political danger of a rising dependent population

Tea partiers won’t go when fun ends

Estate-Tax Rises Again as Issue on Trail

Campaign Taps Fears About Job Outsourcing

Gold Surges To Fresh Record Spot Of $1,367.65 On Report China To Put More Reserves Into Gold (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Have Americans Already Been Hit With Obama Tax Hikes?

A landmark decision to make the right to water and sanitation legally binding (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Meet The 25 Land Barons Who Collectively Own 1% Of America

Stephen Roach: QE1 Didn’t Work, QE2 Won’t Work, And QE 12 Won’t Work Either

A Wave Of Foreclosures Will Smash The New York City Home Price Fantasy

24 Statistics About The United States Economy That Are Almost Too Embarrassing To Admit

America’s Wealthy Are Caught In A Positive Feedback Loop That Will Collapse The System

There Are Signs Of Schizophrenia In Treasuries And Gold

Hong Kong Property Shares Plummet After Government Says Rich Expat Playboys Are No Longer Guaranteed Residency

Niall Ferguson: A Second Stimulus Could Trigger A Debt Spiral Of Rising Rates And Crumbling Credibility

Warren Buffett’s Chinese Car Company Has 7 Factories Confiscated

Maxine Waters Has A New Mortgage Idea, And It Sounds Like Someone Is Laughing At Her Off Camera

Another Setback for Administration’s Legal Defense Of ObamaCare (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

GLOBAL MARKETS-US dollar drops on Singapore action, gold climbs (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Foreclosure anger is now hitting election campaign (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

After Showing Improvement, Home Equity Delinquencies Are Now Clearly Getting Worse

Japan’s Central Bank Threatens To Buy Up Even More Stocks, Bonds, And Real Estate

RUMOR: China And US Working On Deal To Make QE Smaller, Yuan Appreciation Bigger (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Jobless Claims, Inflation, Trade Deficit Each Surge Higher (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Foreclosure auctions hit record as document crisis unfolds (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Waters: People Who Signed Mortgage Loans Were “Tricked” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Stance on Fannie and Freddie dogs Frank (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The enormous mortgage-bond scandal (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Gonzalo Lira On The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Dollar To Come Under Attack; American Economy Will Go Offline (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Gold futures hit new high near $1,378 (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Morning Bell: The Tea Party Is Here to Stay

With Moratorium Lifted, Time to Start Issuing Permits

Side Effects: How Government Micromanagement Could Discourage Access to Some Preventive Services

Free Money! It’s a Nifty Gift from the Federal Government!

New, Useful Tool to Keep Up with the Health Care Lawsuits

Judge Gives Green Light for Constitutional Challenge of Obamacare

Glenn Beck Calls for ‘Largest Day of Fundraising’ for Chamber of Commerce

Caught on Tape– Sloshed Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee Pushes For Margarita Machine in Her Car (Video)

Economic Genius Jerry Brown: “We Need More Welfare & Fewer Jobs”

Chris Matthews Enters Crazy Town – Blames Chamber of Commerce For Unemployment Rate(?)

Michelle Obama Begs Voters to Give Her Husband More Time to Forge the Change

U.S. Home Seizures Reach Record Amid Foreclosure Review

U.S. Producer Prices Rose in September on Food, Fuel

U.S. Trade Gap Grows, Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise

Wall Street Lobbyists Besiege CFTC to Shape Derivatives Rules

Mortgage Rate on 30-Year Loan Falls to Record 4.19%

Does the U.S. Deserve Its Triple-A?

Applications for jobless benefits rise to 462,000

‘Higher-than-expected’

September home foreclosures top 100,000 for first time

Inflation, Trade Deficit Surge Higher

Dollar tanks, stocks drop as Bernanke speech looms

PAPER: Pelosi & Family flights cost taxpayers $2.1 million (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Dollar hits fresh 15-year-low against yen

French students up protests over retirement reform

Obama admin to Let Insurers Raise Premiums for Sick Children

Washington’s largest insurer warns customers premiums may triple

Fla. Judge Rules 20 States Can Sue to Block ObamaCare

Queen cancels Christmas; Cost-cutting drive

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China Currency Reserves May Hit $2.5 Trillion, Stoking Tensions

Three Weeks That Will Rock Wall Street

Gold, Get It While You Can

US Consumer Debt Deleveraging = Commercial Real Estate Market Collapse

No Way Out of the Greater Inflationary Economic Depression

Dr. Gary North: Bernanke to Light The Fuse on Monetary Inflation Bomb

What Does The Global Currency War Mean?

Dr. Gary North: Why the Gold Price is Rising

Jobless America Threatens To Bring Us All Down With It

US Cities Face Massive Pension Deficits