North American Integration Back on the Front Burner (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Sanitation Department’s slow snow cleanup was a budget protest
The Italian ‘I’ In PIIGS Is Starting To Show Signs Of A Real Debt Crisis
Winifred Jiau AKA “Wini” Arrested On Insider Trading Charges
MAP OF THE DAY: The Target Range Of China’s “Aircraft Carrier Killer” Missile
ROBERT SHILLER: If House Prices Keep Falling This Fast, The Economy Is Screwed
The Unsettling Mystery Of Japan’s Perpetual Debt Machine
Illinois’s Plan To ‘Balance’ The Budget: Borrow $15 Billion And Ignore $185 Billion Hole
GARY SHILLING: And Now House Prices Will Now Drop Another 20%
China Now Has A Missile U.S. Aircraft Carriers Can’t Defend Against
Internet groups fear UN could threaten web
Obama bypasses Senate, appoints envoy to Syria
WASH POST STAFFER: Constitution Impossible to Understand Because It’s Over 100 Years Old
CLAIM: Obama’s Million Dollar Hawaiian Vacation: Costs to Taxpayers Detailed
ELDER: $5 Gas Predicted Under Obama — What, No Pitchforks?
Swiss franc hits record high vs dollar, euro, pound
UK union leaders predict surge in strike action next year
Cuba slashes state-subsidised soap
Berwick Sets Up Death Panels By Fiat
Ex Shell CEO: “I warned Obama in person about his policies in 2007” (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Liberal Give ‘Til It Hurts (You)
Reid Hails Health Insurance Reform Initiatives That Become Effective January 1(BARF ALERT!) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Rationing Revealed at the Heart of Obamacare (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Pimco: US Will Keep Reserve-Currency Status
Union Protest Killed New Born Child
Central Bankers Warn of Asset Bubbles
Rattner Will Pay $10 Million in Restitution, Cuomo Says
Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Rose 3.5% in November
Copper, Emerging Stocks Rise on China; Dollar Falls a Sixth Day
Jobless Claims in U.S. Fall to Lowest Level Since July 2008 – And the lies just keep on coming…
Venezuela Devalues Currency to 4.3 Bolivars Per Dollar
GE Leads $3 Trillion in Company Bond Sales as Yields Fall
Faber Says Long-Term U.S. Treasuries Are `Suicidal’ Investment
Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts
Audit Finds CDC Misplaced $8M in Equipment
So the Democrats Finally Want Fiscal Responsibility? Great. Let’s End Their Disastrous “War on Poverty” (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)
Which Is It, Mr. Murdoch: Recession, or Recovery?
Oil Industry’s Spending to Rise in Hunt for Energy (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Black & Veatch: Power Generation to Rely More Heavily on Natural Gas (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
U.S. changes how it measures long-term unemployment (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
‘Super death panels’ on a ‘massive scale’ (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
Disgusting. Assailants File Complaint Against US Marine After Iraq War Vet & His Wife Were Brutally Beaten By Gang Members Outside Theater (Not financial – but horrific – 300 teens involved… )
NY City Workers Planned Their Slow Response to Record Snowfall As a Protest to Budget Cuts
Ahmadinejad: Iran Is Now a Nuclear State
Tom Friedman & NY Times Editors Ambush & Attack Israeli Diplomat
Christine O’Donnell Responds to Rehashed Rumors of Misuse of Funds By Liberal Media
It Begins… Angry Delayed Passengers Gangrush Counter at Cleveland Airport – Cops Called In (Video)
GREEN SCOTLAND Relies on French Nuclear Power During Deep Freeze
Adding Fuel to the Financial Fire. Deepening Crisis. Bogus Economic Statistics Used as a Coverup (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Hiding A Depression: How The US Government Does It (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
‘NK Continues to Collect Rice for Army Due to Shortage’ (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
All Evidence Points To A Dramatic Increase In Food Prices Worldwide, Possible Shortages (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
In London, wheat prices rose to match prices in France and United States (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
What Caused this Gangbusters Commodity Boom? (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Italian union calls for strike over Fiat/Chrysler deal (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Canada Slashes Business Levies (to 16.5%) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
Can the Government Stop Massive Insurance Rate Hikes? (Yes! Get rid of Obamacare and Obama himself) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
ObamaCare knockout (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)
NY Gov Calls for Probe After Workers Say Union Sabotaged Snow Removal
‘Shadow Fiscal Policy’: Profs Encourage America’s Wealthiest to Redistribute Tax Savings
Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S. (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
The Charts That Mattered Most In 2010
Another Blow For Autos: China Confirms Tax Hike On Car Purchases
DISASTER: Blizzard Captures $1 Billion In Precious Holiday Sales
Chaos In Cocoa As Uncertainty Reigns In Key Supply Country
Indian Textile Industry Begs Government To Ban Exports To Ease High Prices
Food inflation zips on high onion, fruits, eggs, meat prices (Hat Tip: Brian B.)
‘Doubling Up’ in Recession-Strained Quarters.
Bailed Out Banks on Brink of Bankruptcy — Again
Borrow Like There’s No Tomorrow
Rosenberg: Housing Double-Dip Straight Ahead
After Holiday Spree, Doubts About Economy Linger
Two Charts Which Tell The Whole Story
Open Interest In Silver Continues To Rise / Troubles In Major US Cities
