Jim Rogers: “All Of You Who Have MBAs Have Made Mistakes” And You Should Be Farmers Instead
Obama Compares GOP To Hostage Takers And Bomb Throwers While Begging Democrats To Support Tax Deal
LIVE: Full Coverage Of Ireland’s Austerity Budget Debate
The Bulls Blow It, While Bonds Get Routed: Here’s What You Need To Know
Jim Rogers: “Bernanke Has Been Wrong Every Time He’s Opened His Mouth”
Federal Employees Say Insider Trading Probe Escalates — Twelve Firms Have Now Been Subpoenaed
It’s Sad To Read This Story About Iceland In An Irish Newspaper
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Didn’t Realize Investors Have A Voracious Hunger For Risk
A Deep Walkthrough Of An America That’s One Accident Away From A Deflationary Nightmare
Rally Fades During Speech, As Obama’s Fury Makes Plain The Potential For Tax Deal To Fall Part
Deutsche Bank Explains Why The Payroll Tax Holiday Is A Game Changer, And Could Push GDP To 4.1%
Bank Of Ireland And ATM Systems Fail, Customers Unable To Access Cash
Offshoring Tsunami And QE3: A Perfect Storm For Stagflation
Jim Rickards: At Least One Swiss Bank Has Started Refusing To Hand Over Physical Gold To Clients
Silver rises above $30.00/Huge movements in silver comex/Bernanke on CBS 60 minutes (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Tax deal and spending plan face a hectic finish for Congress
Overhaul of Oil Industry Urged
Overhaul of Oil Industry Urged
RBS Issues Warning that China Credit is About to Burst (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
U.S. Fiscal Health Worse Than Europe’s: China Central Bank (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Illegals Are Breaking the Bank (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Jim Rogers: Fed understates inflation (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Wanna see who’s exempt from Obamacare? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
LOCKERBIE BOMBER SET FREE OVER OIL DEAL? MORE FROM WIKILEAKS
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…
Jim Rogers: ‘Britain is totally insolvent’ (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Falling T-Bond Threatens Illusion of Fed Control
E pluribus buffoonum? Congress slams Obama (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Obama fights Dems to defend tax-cut deal (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Aussie taxpayers foot $4 million bill for O show visit
Plunging Home Prices Fuel Property Tax Appeals Swamping Cities, Towns
Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise
SHOCK POLL: Americans Believe China Has Surpassed USA in Economic Strength
‘U.S. fiscal health worse than Europe’s’
Reid tries to add online poker to tax bill
Barone: While his base rages, Obama faces tax-cut reality
Liberals Try to Prevent Pelosi From Bringing Tax Bill to House Floor
Lowest pay raise for military in nearly 50 years
WAL-MART To Install Wine Vending Machines; Customers Must Take Breathalyzer Test To Buy
Obamacare waivers double in just 3 weeks
Morning Bell: You Have To Pass This Amnesty To Find Out What Is In It
Here Are The Real Numbers Behind That Tax Deal That’s Way Smaller Than Advertised
EU Finance Leaders Just Called Trichet’s Bluff
California Deficit May Reach $28 Billion, Brown Says
MasterCard’s Website Besieged After Network Cuts Off WikiLeaks
Wall Street Asks Agencies to Slow Down on New Derivatives Rules
Banks in Europe Fail Stress Tests With No Authority
Wal-Mart Plans to End Extra Pay in U.S. for Sunday Shifts
Report: Tough Times Far From Over for States
Keith Olbermann Compares Obama’s Tax Deal to Nazi Appeasement (Video)
Holder & Vilsack Insist They Will Fight Pigford Reparations Fraud
Sen. Mary Landrieu: Allowing Wealthy Americans to Keep Their Money Is “Almost Morally Corrupt”
Hope & Change… 14% of Americans Now on Food Stamps
Small-Biz Killers: Who Pays for Jobless Benefits?
Berzerkley vs. America, Part 99,999
Senate DREAM Act cloture vote today, 4pm Eastern; Update: New House bill introduced
Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About The Bush Tax Cuts
Report: Soros Calls Beck a Throwback to Wild and Crazy Radical Elements
Dems Suddenly Worried About Foreign-Owned U.S. Debt
Reader G.W. wrote to mention that the Coin Debasement Modernization Act passed on November 30th. It is now waiting President BHO’s signature. I’ve been warning folks about a likely change in the composition of the U.S. Nickel (Five Cent coin) for more than three years. This may be your last chance to get real nickels at no premium over their face value and without the effort of any sorting. (Once a coin composition change takes places, it will become labor intensive, just as it did with pennies.)
Was There A Big Recession Warning Buried Inside This Week’s ISM? Jason’s comment: “Looks like manufacturing being purchased for inventories ratio is a good indicator of what’s to come.”
MERS: The Mortgage Database That’s Clouding Millions of Titles
U.S. Government Debt Monetization
Why Governments Will Buy Silver
Bernanke Doesn’t Rule Out QE Exceeding $600 Billion. (Of course he doesn’t! Note that Bernanke stonewalled congress for more than a year about announcing the size of the bank bailouts, and the roster of recipients. It was only last week that we found out that it was actually $9 trillion in taxpayer-guaranteed loans, lent to just a handful of big banks at ridiculously low interested rates.
