Why Italy’s Government May Be on the Brink of Collapse

Openings Give Obama Chance to Shape Military (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Earmark Myths and Realities

Morning Bell: Providing for Those Who Serve

Social Policy Out, Defense Priorities In at Armed Services Committee

Chinese Economic Data: More Tall Tales

Irish Yields Explode In Just The Last Hour, And Now There Are Rumors Of An IMF Bailout

Irish Yields Surge To Delirious New Highs

Government Workers Making $150,000+ Have Doubled Under President Obama

Here’s The Real Sign That Investors Fear An Imminent Irish Collapse

We’re Getting The First Details From The Commission To Reduce The Deficit

If You Think The US Is Anything Like Ireland, You’re Not Paying Attention

The Death Of The Dollar? Here’s 11 Signs We’re On The Verge Of A Global Currency Crisis

There’s A Huge Anti-Austerity Protest In London Right Now

The FBI Presents: Everything You Wanted To Know About Mortgage Fraud But Were Afraid To Ask

The Fed’s QE2 Misadventure Will Cost U.S. Households $4.6 Trillion

Here’s that Gold-Versus-the-Dow Chart You Wanted (Pricing the Value of the Dow in terms of Gold) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

New Report Warns Of “Unprecedented Decline” In Home Values And No Stabilization In Q3

Is The QE Trade About To Blow Up In The Face Of Commodity Speculators?

The Problem For So Many Countries Is That You Can’t Sit Out A Currency War

The Mortgage Fraud Scandal Is The Biggest In Human History (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

New World Currency To Replace The Dollar Would Slay The Gold Bull Market (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Repeal the 26th Amendment!

Greenspan warns over weaker dollar (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

China’s Reluctance to Take Yuan `Medicine’ Hampers G-20

Home Prices Fall in Half of U.S. Cities, Realtors Say

Chinese Missiles Could Close U.S. Bases in Attack, Report Says

Mortgage Rate for 30-Year U.S. Loans Falls to Record

Axelrod Says Obama Opposed to Permanent Top Tax Rate Extension

White House Signals It Will Accept Tax Cuts Extension

Left, Right Balk at Deficit Panel

READ THE REPORT(pdf)

UPDATE: China lashes Fed pumping as risk to global recovery

Lula: World headed for ‘bankruptcy’

G-20 deals prove elusive

DEAL: China to buy stake in GM

GE Buying 12,000 Chevy Volts From GM

CONFUSION: Axelrod Denies Obama Would Concede on Bush Tax Cuts

TX GOV CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY BANKRUPT ‘PONZI SCHEME’

Texas faces deeper cuts to balance budget

OIL NEAR $90

UK Govt to withhold welfare checks from some unemployed

GOOGLE pours another $3.2M into genetics company

SLASH AND BURN!

Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (USAID/DoS – Soros collaboration) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Chinese Central Bank Announces High Alert For Inflation (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Obama’s Clever Way to Punt the Tough Calls: Driving the Dollar Down (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Nouriel Roubini vs. the Mises Institute?

Britain Rises Up?

Entitlement Foibles

Why Crisis Is the New Profit Center

Insider Selling Hits All Time Record Of $4.5 Billion In Prior Everyone Is Getting Out Of Market (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Grantham: Fed Manipulates Stock Market to Boost Economy

Boehner: I Won’t Cave to Obama on Tax Cuts for Wealthiest

New Congress Must Defund Legal Services Corporation, AARP, and Soros (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Presidential Panel: “Freeze Military Pay” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

China’s SAIC close to GM IPO stake buy-sources (ChiCom Motors) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama under fire at G20 summit (O’s a lightning rod for foreign anger after electoral losses) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The NGO Army of George Soros & Maurice Strong (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

George Soros U.N. Panel Organizes $100 Billion Climate Change Shakedown Aimed Against U.S. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Pelosi Wants to Push DREAM Act Amnesty Bill Possibly Next Week

Confirmed: Obama Administration Lied to US Public to Push Their Drilling Moratorium

Leftist British Students Smash Conservative Party Headquarters (Video)

Coming to the US and soon…

GOP Leader John Boehner: I’ll Fly Commercial

Here It Comes: Municipal Debt Funds (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

General Electric to sink $2billion into China development as production moves from the U.S. (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Gold At $3,800/Oz, Or Nominal GDP At $5 Trillion? Take Your Pick (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Boiling Frog: Effects of QE2 On The Bottom 80% of the U.S. Population (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

GE to buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Really Worrying Part About Chinese Inflation: It’s Being Driven By Food Prices (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Dems Incensed Obama’s Fiscal Commission May Recommend Sweeping ::gulp:: Spending Cuts

Confirmed: Obama job-killlers Salazar, Browner lied about drilling ban rationale

15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commission Is An Exercise In Futility – The U.S. Government Will Never Have A Balanced Budget Ever Again

Dr. Drew Predicts ‘Massive Flight’ of Physicians & Hospital Closures Because of ObamaCare

Jesse Jackson Calls ObamaCare Repeal Efforts ‘Creeping Genocide’

Lou Dobbs Signs With Fox Business Network

SurvivalBlog:

Market pundit Robert Wiedemer recently had the nerve to call gold “the biggest, baddest bubble of them all.” What myopia. He’s looking up at gold’s position only because his vantage point is from the veritable crater formed by the collapsing U.S. Dollar. Gold is simply rising to its natural level, amid a bevy of fiat currencies that are in a frantic race to the bottom. The precious metals are nowhere near the end of the current bull market.

China Says Fed Easing May Flood World With `Hot Money’

Fed Will ‘Self Destruct,’ Policy ‘Deeply Flawed’: Ron Paul

Sullivan: The Coming Fiscal Catastrophe in the United States

US Debt Crisis: What NOT to Do When Your Country is Broke

14 Pieces of Bad Economic News

Germany 1914-1923 Hyperinflation — Coming Here?

Currency Wars For Dummies

Bankruptcy of US is “Mathmatical Certainty”

Credit Scores To Be Revised Amid Soaring Mortgage Defaults

Glenn Beck Video Clip: So What Happens Next? Part 1Part 2Part 3

Currencies: Seven Charts You Should See

Stocks Have Collapsed in 2010, When Priced in Wheat

Americans on Food Stamps Reach New High