Everybody Should Buy Gold, Even If Glenn Beck Gets Paid to Tell You So (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

EU nations back tougher sanctions to combat debt

You Better Read This, Gold & Greece: Not What You Think (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Santelli Blames Financial Regulation Vote for Dow Drop: ‘What Are They Doing in Washington?’ (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Markets take fright at political moves

Senate Passes Finance Bill

Roubini Predicts 20 Percent Stock Market Fall

Governor Christie Vetoes New Jersey Tax Hike in 2 Minutes (Video)

Japan News: US-Japan Partnership Crumbling

The shady ShoreBank bailout

Wall St. Reform Bill Passes Senate; Scott Brown Votes ‘Yes’ After Dems Promise Him Another Spread in Cosmo

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Strains Accumulate

Fed official: Europe’s crisis poses risks to USA

Confusion over regulation moves trigger sell-offs

‘Perfect storm’

WORLD ORDER: US, Britain and Germany to discuss debt crisis

German lawmakers approve euro rescue package

PAPER: The Euro as we know it is dead

775 BANKS ON ‘PROBLEM’ LIST

ANOTHER GOLD RUSH; JOHN SUTTER UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT

British Airways reports $765 million loss

Mass layoffs spike led by manufacturing

Colorado borrowing millions from feds to pay unemployment benefits

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Dow Crashes About Three Percent as Euro Drops, Jobless Claims Rise

Stocks Dive, Dow Off 376 on World Economic Worries

One financial doomsday scenario.

What’s Next – Minor Correction or Major Decline?

A surprise jump in UK inflation to 5.3 per cent means that not a single savings account on the market offers an interest rate higher than the cost of living.

Merkel: Bailout has Bought Only Time, Not A Solution

Soros Sees No Bottom to World Financial Collapse

US Consumer Prices Fall in April

The EU is as Doomed as Its Currency

Greece May Have to Quit Eurozone Warns Former Head of Germany’s Central Bank