Repeal Obamacare CHAT TODAY: 6-24 4:30 PM ET. (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Detroit Selected as Host Site for 2010 US Social Forum (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Our Founding Fathers Understood Frugality – Why Can’t We?

Soros: German Austerity Could Destroy The Euro

What’s Next For The Fed? Nothing, It Has Officially Become Useless

Germany Happily Surprised By A Tidal Wave Of Tax Revenue

10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

50 Dead-Simple Ways For The US To Cut Its Budget

Maywood, CA Lays Off All City Employees, Dismantles Police Department

New Home Sales Suffer Enormous Collapse

Is It A Good Time To Re-Short The Euro?

The U.K. Just Saved Itself From Imminent Destruction

Is Asia Next On The Austerity Agenda?

12 Charts That Show The Total Carnage In The Housing Industry

Somehow 1,295 Prisoners Claimed The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit

How HFT Quote Stuffing Caused The Market Crash Of May 6, (can destroy the whole market instantly) (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Creating A Crisis (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Even Europe Sees What U.S. Doesn’t (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Middle-Class Tax Boost is Broached (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Soros Demands Inflation

Architecture for a New World Financial System

Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook

Dangerous Death Tax Plan Offered in the Senate

Outside the Beltway: Despite Loads of Debt, Pork Projects Abound in Illinois

Telling Congress to Reduce the Deficit by Cutting Spending

Shocker. Employers Say Dem’s Policies Are Hostile to Job Growth

LOANS STARTING AT 5% INTEREST A WEEK

GOVT JOB CREATION AND HOW YOUR KID GOT SO STUPID

French unions strike — retirement age raised to 62

UK fast-tracks hike to 66

JOBS! Bank of America Hires 2,000 Staff to Handle Troubled Real Estate Loans

Venezuela to seize U.S. firm’s oil rigs

DEUTSCHE BANK says US financial conditions are worse

G20 LOCKDOWN: Police state in Toronto, Security shock

California Welfare Cards Can Be Used In Casino ATMs

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Cuomo Accepts Millions From Interests He Assails

Jobless Claims Dip by 19,000, to 457,000

Durable Goods Orders Drop to 6-Month Low

Medvedev’s Visit Shifts U.S.-Russia Agenda to Trade From Bombs

U.S. Stocks Fall as Greece Swaps Surge to Record

Swiss Banks Winning Investors With Weakening Euro Buoying Franc

Catastrophe Bonds Slump as Hurricane Forecasts Spook Buyers

SurvivalBlog:

Niall Ferguson: Two year time horizon for US fiscal crisis

Andrew H. spotted this piece over at Jesse’s Café Américain: Silver leaving the COMEX. Andrew asks: “[I]s there a reason why some of these well-heeled investors suddenly want their silver, and are either going in person to get it or arranging for armored car delivery? It makes one wonder what might be coming our way in the coming weeks.”

The Associated Press: Canada’s economy is suddenly the envy of the world

NIA Releases 2010 U.S. Inflation Report

Stocks Fall After New Housing Sales Drop 33%

Oil Prices Slide As Stockpiles Build

Bob Chapman: Fiat Money and Schemes Collapsing

Cost of Seizing Fannie and Freddie (financed properties) Surging

Financial Overhaul 101: Protecting US Consumers

Battered Eurozone Vulnerable to Crisis

Rise of the New Gold Rush

Gold’s Good Times

The US Dollar Falls By Fall