US Treasurys: Bond Prices Plunge for 2nd Day on Deficit Fears (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Capital Markets – US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off since Lehman (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Commodities – Crude oil tipped to bubble over $100 a barrel (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
10 reasons to shun stocks till banks crash Paul B. Farrell (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Market Skeptics: BP Gulf Oil Spill Disaster (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
CYBERWAR: Now Hackers Have Taken Down Mastercard.com As Revenge For Julian Assange
REVENGE: Hackers Announce They Will Try To Take Down Visa.com In One Hour
Austrian Man Fined By U.N. For Selling Lavish “Birthday Presents” To Kim Jong-il
85% Of Americans Can’t Answer These 5 Basic Financial Literacy Questions
Stocks Creep Higher While The Bond Rout Continues: Here’s What You Need To Know
Tom Friedman Hysterically Describes The State Of The US Economy
James Turk: You Should Also Take Your Silver Out Of The Banks
Check Out The Greatest Hits Of Operation Payback, The Hackers That Took Down Mastercard
The Next Black Swan: Congress Unthinkably Moves To Cancel Build America Bonds
Munis Crushed Again, While Bond Collapse Pushes PIMCO’s Big Fund To Levels From Early August
Boycott Wal-Mart If You Want to Help Save America From Big Brother (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Wikileaks: Stop Us? You’ll Have to Shut Down the Web (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Rush: Obama committing over 1% of GDP to UN for climate change (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
American Retirement Funds at Serious Risk of Being Seized (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
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Urgent: Democrats attempting to pass Food Safety Act by hiding it inside appropriations bill HR 3082 (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
One Chart To Rule Us All (Hat Tip: Larwyn)
President Obama Lambastes Democrats in Congress for Holding the “American People Hostage” to Tax Cuts for the Rich (Hat Tip: Larwyn)
Gold and Silver Ebb, but Not the Larger Trend
Kansas Growers Worry About Wheat Crop, But It’s Early (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Summers Says Economy Worse Off Without Tax Compromise
Ron Paul, Author of `End the Fed,’ to Lead Fed Oversight Panel
Morgan Stanley Said to Expect Bonuses to Drop as Much as 30%
Home Values to Drop by $1.7 Trillion This Year, Zillow Says
State Street Sells $11 Billion in Mortgage Securities
Mortgage Rates for U.S. Loans Jump to Five-Month High
Dean Foods Loses 59% as S&P’s Worst After Milk Deals Sour
Federal Reserve Said to Consider Debit-Card Fee Cap
Spokane, WA – AMR billing fraud, Officer Involved Shootings et al
There’s an Economic Collapse Coming to This Country – Plan Now (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Bank of America Settles In Bid-Rigging Case (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
NYT’s Krugman Slips and Tells the Truth about ‘Death Panels’ (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
House Democrats push through massive budget bill (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)
House, Senate on Collision Course After Dems Reject Tax Cut Bill
Jobless Claims Fall Second Time in 3 Weeks
Anarchy in the U.K. as Tuition Hike Passes
Napolitano Announces Expansion of “If You See Something, Say Something” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
2011 MEDICARE COST SHARING (SENIORS TO GET LESS in SS CHECK) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Bank run attempt fails, 4 now. What to do 1st 24 hours of crisis, if it occurs? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Here’s The Real Reason Mexico Just Opened Itself Up To Private Oil Production
Bernanke Told America 2 Massive Lies On 60 Minutes
This Is The Worrying Reason Consumer Credit Is Rising Even Though Revolving Credit Is Tanking
Italian Budget Worries Are Causing Bank CDS To Spike
Why Crude Oil Is Poised To Surge To Over $100/Barrel
Student protests in London turn violent
Thousands try to break through police barricades at Houses of Parliament
Attack car containing Prince Charles, Camilla
UNEMPLOYMENT WEEK: DOWN TO 421,000; REVISED UP LAST WEEK 438,000
POLL: Most Americans Say They’re Worse Off Under Obama
US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off since LEHMAN
Prices Plunge for 2nd Day on Deficit Fears
Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise
House Dem push through massive budget bill
Despite court order, city refuses to return seized cash
Carbon Marts Launch Around the World
S.510 “Hitched” A Ride On Massive Budget Bill, 1984 Is Here (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Cuckoo In Cancun (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
The Abdication of the West (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Morning Bell: Rally for Liu Xiaobo
Life Is Not Pretty in Argentina’s Pink House
Guest Blogger Roger Helmer MEP: Climate Conference Set to Crash and Burn?
PRINCE CHARLES’ CAR ATTACKED By Violent London Youths… Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square Torched
16 Year-Old Wikileaks Supporter Arrested For DDoS Attacks on PayPal and Mastercard
Dems Reject Obama & His Bi-Partisan Tax Extension Deal
Scandal!… Powerful Democrats Helped Chinese Firm Get Stimulus Cash For Wind Farm
Obamacare Passed ‘For the Children’; Children Hardest Hit
Who Says There Aren’t Any Good Jobs Out There?
Has The Fed Lost Control Of The Bond Markets? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Violent U.K. Protesters Attack Car Carrying Prince Charles
AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’
Lawrence O’Donnell Loses it With Alan Grayson Over Tax Compromise
Democratic Caucus Votes to Reject Obama Tax Compromise
Bark but No Bite? AP Says House Dems Will Accept Tax Compromise
Report: Dems Helping Chinese Get $450 Million in Stimulus Money
Bond Prices Plunge for Second Day on Deficit Fears
IMF sells 200 metric tons of gold worth $6.7 billion to India’s central bank
U.S. Facing Federal Debt Cataclysm, The Establishment Is in Despair
The Fed Has a $110 Billion Problem with New Benjamins
The Federal Reserve covered staggering losses at American banks
Consumer Credit Jumps by Most in More than Two Years
Huge Movements in Silver Comex
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