Richard Koo Brilliantly Compares QE2 To Selling Antiques In Brutal Explanation Of Bernanke’s Failure

The Growth And Collapse Of American Bureaucracy

Nassim Taleb: Bernanke Is Beyond Unwise; His Actions Are Immoral

Here Are The 12 American States Where Investors Are Most Terrified Of Default

Check Out Photos Of The Incredible Bombshelter Fortress Where The Wikileaks Archives Are Stored

John “Nuke” Kinnucan Is Officially A Hero For Calling The FBI’s Bluff

9 Awesome Foreign Airlines That Put America To Shame*

Check Out Photos From Another Shockingly Violent Austerity Riot In Greece Today

Schwarzenegger Offers Plan To Close The New California Deficit — But Democrats Won’t Listen

China Reveals A Secret 500% Increase In Gold Imports

Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Government Investment Spending vs. Government Consumption Spending

Capital Press agriculture news (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

The Chaos of Nation States

Costly Promotions of the Military

Demand for Silver Can Only Grow

Debt Panel Rejects $3.8 Trillion Budget-Cutting Plan

Unemployment Rises to 9.8% as U.S. Adds Just 39,000 Jobs

Stocks, Dollar Retreat After Employment Data; Gold Rallies

Greenspan Says ECB Has `Terrible Problem’ on Deficits

+39,000 JOBS IN NOVEMBER

BOEHNER: Dem Leaders Should Stop Wasting Time on Tax Hike Votes

HALPERIN: Dems ‘In Midst of Nervous Breakdown’

US Deficit-Cutting Plan Falls Short of Needed Votes

UNEMPLOYMENT UP TO 9.8%

PAPER: Wave goodbye to Internet freedom

Govt reports violations of limits on spying aimed at citizens

Feds Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Cards in Real Time

CNN Reporter Put On ‘Watch List’ After Criticizing T&A

Support erodes for deficit panel plan

Nation’s ‘2nd Most Dangerous City’ To Lay Off Nearly Half Of Police Force

Chicagoland: Vandals torch Christmas charity van

PRUDEN: Turn out the lights, the party’s over

Leaves Biden behind to handle ‘disappointing’ jobs report

GEORGIA: HUNDREDS LINE UP IN COLD FOR HEAT HELP

Assistance Funds Quickly Depleted

‘Almost like being in soup line during great depression’

VIDEO…

SANTA CLAUSE: FORD, BMW, TOYOTA Took Secret Government Money

Fed Created Conflicts in Improvising Financial System Rescue

Tax Breaks for Bailout Recipients Spark Debate

Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Left Out In The Cold | RNC: Republican National Committee (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

‘Misleading’ Andy Griffith Ads Cost Taxpayers $3 Million, Gov’t Documents Show (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Just doing their jobs? Psychology of TSA employees mirrors that of Nazi war criminals (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

EPA Shifting Its Emphasis to ‘Sustainability’ (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Figures. Obama Flees to Afghanistan Before Dismal Jobs Report …Update: Talks to Karzai By Phone

UN Delegates Start Off Junk Science Meeting With Prayer to Mayan Goddess

Worst. Jobs. President. Since Great Depression. THANKS BARACK… Unemployment Rate Jumps to 9.8% in November

Feds Are Warrantlessly Tracking Americans’ Credit Card Use in Real Time

Green Commie Hero Van Jones: Burning Oil Is Like Burning Kittens (Video)

Hundreds line up in the cold for help heating homes (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Congress’s Constitutional and Budgetary Train Wreck (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Bachmann: ‘There Needs To Be an Insurrection’ Against GOP Leaders If They Don’t Hold Straight Vote to Repeal Obamacare (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Race Is On to ‘Fingerprint’ Phones, PCs (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Rush on Nancy Pelosi: She’s NUTS! (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Pelosi’s “Chicken Crap” Tax Stunt (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Homeland Security Violating Due Process and Free Speech In Internet Power Grab? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Rep. Paul Ryan: Tax Vote Was About Pelosi Giving Cover To Dems (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Ouch: Bristol Palin Rips Olberdouche, “I Must Apologize For Not Being Absolutely Faultless Like he Undoubtedly Must be”… (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Trillions In Secret Fed Bailouts For Global Corporations And Foreign Banks – Has The Federal Reserve Become A Completely Unaccountable Global Bailout Machine?

Here Are The 12 American States Where Investors Are Most Terrified Of Default (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Senators petition SecState to freeze climate bailout money (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Is Anything Real? Trillions in Secret Fed Payments Revealed (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Fed Opens Books, Revealing European Megabanks Were Biggest Beneficiaries (Details you should see) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

U.S. CONGRESS SECRET LAND GRAB LEGISLATION – Let’s roll folks! (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

S. 1619: Livable Communities Act (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Delaying Tax Vote Could Crash Stock Market – Washington Whispers (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Alan Grayson Brings Out Pictures of Rush, Hannity and Beck on the House Floor While Speaking About Tax Cuts (Video) (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Nassim Taleb: Bernanke ‘Beyond Unwise, He is Immoral’

Greenspan: Treasury ‘Crowding Out’ Private Investors

Morning Bell: The Senate’s Secret Santa Agenda

The Obama Debt Commission: Too Much Taxes, Not Enough Cuts

Government By Executive Order (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Trillions In Secret Fed Bailouts For Global Corporations And Foreign Banks – Has The Federal Reserve Become A Completely Unaccountable Global Bailout Machine? (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Fox News Guest Threatened For Opposing Dream Act Amnesty (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Game over: Five members of Deficit Commission will vote no on final plan (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

State pension funds reaped rewards from Fed loan program (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Unemployment Hits 9.8

So Who Really Supports the Food Safety Bill?

Global Experts Claim Warming Could Double Food Prices

AP: House Extends Only Some of Bush-Era Tax Cuts

State-‘Controlled’ Russian Company Set to Take Over Wyoming Uranium Mines

SurvivalBlog:

The Day the Dollar Died

Holidays about survival as jobless benefits end

Russia’s central bank to invest reserves in Australian dollar.

Jeb Bush: Some States Already ‘Bankrupt’

The Euro Game Is Up

Euro, Stocks, Spanish Bonds Fall On Concern European Debt Crisis To Spread

New Phase Of Debt Crisis Striking Now! Despite Rescues!

Global Sovereign Debt Default Bankruptcy Bailout And Contagion Risk Assessment

Huge Drop In Credit Card Users

“A fiat-money inflation can be carried on only as long as the masses do not become aware of the fact that the government is committed to such a policy.” – Ludwig von Mises