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August 31
Barclays Taps BoE Emergency Facility
Economic System Goes Down the Big Crapper
What Would Happen If I Get a Crack at Hank
Leading Lender Likens US Credit Crisis to Great Depression
Bush to Announce Sub-Prime Plan
Normally Safe Commercial Paper Market Can't Escape Credit Crunch
A Tribute: Dr. Kurt Richebacher
August 30
Indigestion on Wall Street
Congressman Says Stock Market Will Collapse
August 29
Subprime Woes Put 401(k) Plans at Risk
4 Fingers of Financial Markets Instability
Dissecting a County of 10,000,000 People: The Housing Demographics of Los Angeles
Cheyne May Liquidate Commercial Paper Plan, S&P Says
Final Warning!
DOW Fell Over 250 Pts Which Is Panic Limit
Strange, Stranger, Strangest
Hutchinson Store Scare Linked to Bank Scam
Expensive Food, Cheap Stock
August 28
Lehman, Bear Stearns, Citigroup Rating Cut by Merrill
Credit-Card Defaults on Rise in US
Mortgage Meltdown Claims New Set of Victims
Financial Extinctions: The Subprime Meteorite Has Hit
The Hidden Reality
US Home Sales Decline Yet Further
Who's Who in Market Turmoil
Dollar Collapse, Stock Market Sell-Off Looms
DBS Says Risk From CDOs Higher Than Previously Stated
USD R.I.P.
Mortgage Defaults Feared More Than Terror
Higher Corn Prices Tempting Producers to Change Practices
August 27
Beijing's Nuclear Option
Mystery Trader Bets Market Will Crash By a Third
Rising Reliance on Credit Cards Could Reflect Subprime Fall
Ailing Lender Jacks Up CD Yield in Bid to Raise Money
GM and Ford Threaten to Move Out of Detroit
US Could Be Heading for Recession
When Shoes Start Dropping
Currency Change Aimed at Adding Security
Projecting Some Possible Outcomes for The Panic of 2007
August 24
Dollar May Fall to Record Within Six Months, Goldman Sachs
Bank of China Reports Heavy Exposure to Subprime Crisis
Pimco Chief Calls on George Bush to Bail Out Borrowers
Desperate Measures for USFed
Mortgage Crisis 'Will Drag the US into Recession'
The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter
Stock Market Gyrations and the 'Yen Carry' Trade
Wheat Prices Reach Record Level
Lehman Brothers Shuts Down Subprime Unit, Fires 1,200
Russian Government Takes Over Gold Mining Sector
August 23
Auto Sales Poised to be Next Victim of Mortgage, Home Woes
American Home Foreclosures Leap 93% in a Year
Over 8.5m Will Be Denied Credit as Level of Debt Soars
The Answer to What Can Be Done to Solve the Credit Problem: Nothing
Markets Seek Answers on Mystery Debt
Did the White House Rig the Stock Market?
Someone Else's Liability: Miners Caught Short in Treasury Games
HSBC Denies Blame for Forcing Barclays into the Red Over Loan
August 22
Fed Fails So Far in Bid to Reassure Anxious Investors
Financial Job Cuts Soar on Housing Woes
Sandy Springs-Based Amtrust Mortgage Closes
Implode-O-Meter
Fed Ready to Act Further, Dodd Says After Bernanke Meeting
Bernanke's Strategy of Increasing Liquidity Survives
Liquidity Can't Solve Insolvency
Top Swiss Banker Attacks US Lending Standards as 'Unbelievable'
Up and Down Wall Street
August 21
Capital One to Shut Unit, Cut 1,900 Jobs
August 20
Sub-prime Crisis is the Edge of a Financial Hurricane
Bernanke's `Rookie Mistake' Forces Fed to Shift Focus
A Financial Market Crash is a Process, Not an Event
Central Banks Are Stealing From Average Citizen
Bank Runs and Broke Customers
Countrywide Bank Works to Reassure Clients
The Mercenary Revolution: Flush with Profits from the Iraq War, Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities
When the Herd Panics
Only Panic is Left
August 17
Lessons from History: The Simple Path to Resource Riches
Panic on Wall Street
Panic Attack: Asian Markets Take a Tumble
A Rush to Pull Out Cash
Bloody and Bloodier
Prices for Key Foods are Rising Sharply
August 16
Remember the US Dollar Price Commands the Gold Price
Existing Home Sales Fall in 41 States
Amero Coin Con
Laughing in the Face of Fiscal Annihilation
Asian Market Sell-Down Continues
Heavy Losses Sweep World Markets
The Nightmare Crash No One Talks About
U.S. Stocks Drop, Erasing S&P 500's Gain for 2007; Banks Fall
Countrywide Cut by Merrill; Bankruptcy Seen Possible
The History of Bartering and Money
August 15
Bank Runs
Stock Market Brushfire; Will There Be a Run on the Banks?
Now UBS Hit By Global Markets Turmoil
The Big Picture
Blood in the Water in Florida Property Market
Prices for Many Food Staples are Climbing By Double-Digit Percentages
What to Do When Panic Strikes? Don't Panic
If Americans Stop Shopping, Then Panic
Hedge Funds Prepare for Mass Redemptions
August 14
Risky Mortgages Turning into Toxic Mess
Superbanks to the Rescue
What Does "Fed Pumps $68 Billion into Banking System" Actually Mean?
Credit Concerns Cause $860Bn Hit
Financial System in Jeopardy
A Brief Commentary on Financial Crises
Hey Brother, Can You Spare $38 Billion?
August 13
Credit Problems are Too Big for the Feds to Fix
The Insolvency Crisis: How We Got Here, and What to Expect
Asia and the Vicious Cycle of Bank Bailouts
American Homeowner Woes Felt World Over
Kindling for the Real Estate Inferno
The Perfect Typhoon Is Still Churning Off Shore
Rash of Senior Executives Retiring or Quitting Tied to OTC Derivatives
Price of Ammo to Shoot Up
The Final Stand of the "300"
Biofuels Shift Seen to Put Major Squeeze on Food Prices
August 10
Asian Stocks Plummet on Credit Fears
Japanese Stocks Drop on Concern Subprime Losses Will Spread
The Fed's Meltdown
ECB Steps in as Lending Rates Rocket
ECB Lends 94.8 Billion Euros as Money Rates Surge
ECB Injects €95bn to Help Markets
SEC You Later Mortgage Defaults
Rick Wiles Interview - audio
August 9
Chinese Prosperity Will Set Off Global Food Inflation
U.K.'s Subprime Crisis May Be Worse Than U.S.'s: Matthew Lynn
BNP Paribas Freezes Funds as Loan Losses Roil Markets
August 8
Famed Adviser Richard Russell Has No Plans to Slow Down
China Threatens 'Nuclear Option' of Dollar Sales
Brokerage Manipulation Proof?
Marking Time Until the Meltdown
The Black Pearl is Sinking
August 7
Cerberus, National City Units Halt Home Loans Applications
CDOs: Waiting for the Next Shoes to Drop
U.S. Productivity Rose 1.8% Last Quarter; Labor Costs Up 2.1%
Get Used to High Volatility
Economy: Inflation May Not Be the Biggest Risk
US Housing Crisis Deepens as American Home Mortgage and Other Lenders Face Defaults
Xstrata Bids for Eland Platinum; First-Half Net Soars
Bankers Planned World Wars to Destroy Germany
Manipulation Via End-of-the-Day-Selling Designed to Mark Stock Prices Down
Intel, Cisco, J&J Lure Value Funds as Price Ratios Converge Most in Decade
Nostradamus in the House. Looking at 4 Potential Scenarios for Southern California Housing.
Goldman Sachs Flagship Fund Falls 8%
August 6
A Lifetime of Saving Evaporates With Bank's Collapse
Revenge of Frankenstein Finance
Homes Left Behind
Stock Market Crisis Deepens
Stock Market Meltdown
It's the 1930s All Over Again
August 3
Oil Settles Above $78, Setting Record
World Stocks in Meltdown Over US Economy Fears
Major World Indices
Bear Stearns Halts Redemptions on Third Hedge Fund
Tangle of Loans Feeds Foreclosure Crisis
German Victim as Credit Turmoil Hits Europe
C-Bass Owners May Write Off $1 Billion Stake
100,000% Inflation Alert
Analysis Says War Could Cost $1 Trillion
Negative Inflation: Courtesy of Coke Chocula
Mizuho Leads Japan Bank Stocks Lower on Profit Slump
European, Asian Stocks Decline; RBS, Mizuho, Macquarie Fall
August 2
Oil Settles Above $78, Setting Record
Today's Market WrapUp
Crude Traders Pump Oil Toward $100 Level
August 1
Italy Considering Gold Sales to Pay Off Debt
Murdoch Gets Dow Jones for $5B
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Surge
July 31
AHM Halted, No Word From Company
Bear, Lehman, Merrill, Goldman Traded as Junk, Derivatives Show
July 30
'Debt Threat to Economy' Warning
Corporate Bond Risk Surges by Record as Subprime Losses Spread
Rich Investor, Poor Investor David
July 27
An Ugly Day for Stocks
Stocks Head Toward Lower Open
World Is One Hedge-fund Collapse Away From Crisis
Financial Contagion
Optimistic Negative Correlations
New Home Sales Down Substantially
Shell's Nigeria Operations Shut in 195,000 Barrels Per Day Oil Equivalent
July 26
How Can the Price of Gold Do Anything But Go Up?
Prime Borrowers Catching Subprime Ills
Housing Industry's Gloom Continues
China Shying From Shaky US Mortgage Market
Wealth Managers Strike Gold in India
July 25
Goldman Sachs Guru Warns of War-Debt Failure
When Will Gold Go Ballistic?
Gold to Test $720?
Countrywide Profit Sinks, Defaults Rise
Dollar Tumbles as Huge Credit Crunch Looms
Gloom or Doom for Global Markets?
Barclays Raises ABN Offer to $93B
July 24
$100 Oil Price May Be Months Away, Say CIBC, Goldman
Markets Hold Breath for Fear of Crunch
Trouble in Hedgistan: “Its Gonna Get a Lot Worse”
The Housing Slump Extends Beyond Houses in Tampa
Who Are the Merchants
July 23
US Mortgage Crisis Could Cost Lenders $100Bn, Says Fed Chief
The Foreclosure Story: What Does the Process Look Like?
FED Chairman: Delusional or Deceptive?
Traders Ask How Low Can the Dollar Go
FOREX-Dollar Hits Record Low vs Euro, Subprime Weighs
July 20
The Market Price of Road Kill
'Dutch Disease' Could Shake the Pound
1st Crack in the Goldielocks Dam of Optimism
July 19
Consumer Credit in America: Winding Up the Big "No Joy" Buzzer
Winter Is Coming
No More Wind in Existing Home Sails
July 18
Attention: Your Retirement was Just Canceled
Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Wiped Out
Ernst & Young Finds Private Equity Houses May Be Targeting Mining
Goldman, JPMorgan Stuck With Debt They Can't Sell to Investors
July 17
Ignoring the Lessons of 1929
Housing Troubles Begin to Snowball
Wolseley Warns US Housing Woes Will Go On
Benchmark ABX Subprime Index Tumbles to Record Low
July 16
Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Syndrome: The 3rd Rail of the Housing Led Boom
Oil Eases After Hitting Fresh 11-Month High
July 13
Dollar Wavers Near All-Time Low
GE Bails Out of US Sub-Prime Market
Today's Market: Blindfold and Cigarettes
Stores Post Lackluster Sales in June
Retail Sales Take Steep Fall
The Robbery of the Century
July 12
The Last Word on Gold...
Pressure Cooker of Inflationary Food Prices
Euro Pulls Closer to $1.38 in Europe
Daily Forex Commentary
Housing Voyeurism: What Kind of Housing Personality are You?
July 11
Popcorn Prices Popping Thanks to Ethanol Boom
Dollar Falls Further to Euro
Daily Forex Commentary
The Coming Crash: Winners and Losers
Bernanke Says Expectations Are `Imperfectly Anchored'
The Chinese Dollar Hoard Thunders Forward
Mortgage Resets: Record Bill Coming Due
July 10
Euro Closes in on Dollar Record High
U.S. Consumers Are Struggling; Signs Are All Around
Will Japan Destroy the Yen to Save the Dollar?
The Crumbles of a Subprime Pie Crust
July 9
Garbage Bonds & Bonfires
American Debt Has Destroyed American Independence
Katrina Fraud Swamps System
Mortgage Vultures Swoop on US Housing Crisis
Fannie Mae: Another New Deal Monstrosity
July 6
The 300 Trillion Time Bomb
Implode-O-Meter
Buyers Avoid Bear Stearns' Cut-Priced Sale
Interest Rates Rise Hits Millions of Mortgages
Nestlé Chief Fears Food Price Inflation
$5 Trillion in Housing Wealth Gone: The Impact of the Housing Bubble Bursting
Chinese Stocks Continue Fall
China to Lead World IPOs League
July 5
Global Exodus from US$ in Motion
UK Interest Rates Raised to 5.75%
Blow-Up Costs Milan Bank €610m
United Capital's Devaney Halts Hedge Fund Withdrawals
July 3
Layoff Fears Part of 'New Normal'
Mutually Assured Mayhem
Finally, a Voice of Economic Reason
Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe  — flashback
Bear Stearns Meets Possums in Georgia as Foreclosures Increase
Myth That Could Undermine Credit Derivatives
Retail Food Prices Jump 5% in 2nd Quarter
Oil Hold Above $71 a Barrel
July 2
The Smell of Contagion in the Air
Hedge Clipping
Does It All Add Up?
Absolute Bond Contagion
He Who Leaps Last Loses His Lolly
Pathological Consumption
June 29
When Hedge Funds Implode
Nationwide Warns Rates May Hit 6Pc
June 28
The Worldwide Crack Up Boom, According to Ludwig Von Mises
Planetary Super Bargain
June 27
Dollar `Vulnerable' to Drop in Investment, BIS Says
SEC Examines Bear Stearns' Troubles
UAE Won't Rule Out Dropping Dollar Peg
Precious Metals Consultant CPM Predicts Record Platinum Prices Will Persist
Check-Processing Jobs to Be Cut
Bleeding While Empty
June 26
Banks 'Set to Call in a Swathe of Loans'
Shanghai Exchange Starts Gold Trading Via Local Banks
Why the Housing Market Has Failed You. 5 Major Failures of the Housing Market
June 25
The Day After We Got a Confirmed Hindenburg Omen
BIS Warns of Great Depression Dangers From Credit Spree
June 22
Peak Oil Crisis: Approaching the Cliff
Gas at $6 Per Gallon? Get Ready.
Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin Nr 16
The Top 25 Banks With the Most Derivatives Contracts
June 21
Subprime Sector Hit By $1Bn Assets Sale
High-Yield Could Be the Next Subprime
Prosperity Today at the Cost of Tomorrow's Growth
Death By Inflation Report
The Perils of Monetizing US Debt
June 20
U.S. Economy: Housing Starts Drop; Slump May Persist
China Sells More US T-Bonds
June 19
A Unique Era
June 18
It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy Has Begun
What, Me Worry?
Getting the Truth About America's Gold Reserve
June 15
Bond Upheaval & Confusion
Your Cash is Trash and So Are Most of Your Investments
GATA Will Demand Truth About U.S. Gold Reserves
June 14
ABC News: losing it all: Foreclosures Hit Record
The Million-Eyed Market
Theft Rising at U.S. Wal-Mart Stores
I'm an Old-Timer
The Ethic of the Peddler Class
The High Price of Low Intelligence
June 13
Housing Foreclosures Jumped 90% in May From Year Ago
How Currency Devaluation Destroys Wealth
Crying Wolf or Crying Uncle
June 11
Financial Armageddon: Goodbye to the Good Old Days
Unprepared for the Rainiest of Days
Putin Calls for New Financial World Order
Expectations Alchemy
June 8
Gold May Touch $1000: JP Morgan
Dollar & Gold & Four Sheets
Spain Risks Crisis Over Vanishing Reserves
Russian Export Oil Futures to Trade Domestically
June 7
Morgan Stanley Issues Triple Sell Warning on Equities
Gold: Where to Now
Financial Toxic Waste Disposal
June 6
Syria to Switch From Dollar
How the Government Creates Jobs
The Damage of the Dollar Glut
Are We Living in Bizarro World?
Lead Lining Around US Data
June 5
Dollar Drops to Two-Week Low Against Euro on Bernanke Comments
The Impending Global Liquidity Crisis
June 4
Bank Says Sorry for Cash Problems
Structural Changes–Destruction of the U.S. Dollar
Kuwait Breaks the Peg
Comparative Analysis of 3 U.S. Cities: Contrary to What Your Parents Told You, Not all Bubbles are Created Equally
China's Stock Index Tumbles 7.7 Percent: World's Biggest Mover
June 1
Weakest US Growth in Four Years
Gold Rises After European Central Bank Caps Sales; Silver Gains
Kuwait Split Raises Questions Over Longevity of the Dollar
A Million Debtors Face Court Action in UK
May 31
Gold Vanishing into Private Hoards
Dollar Slips as Central Banks Shuffle Reserves
Forced to Eat Higher Food Prices
The Trade Deficit and the Fallacy of Composition
Winter Is Coming
Economy Has Worst Growth Since 2002
May 30
Stocks Point Lower on China Market Drop
Chinese Shares Plunge on Tax
Where's the Gold?
May 29
Short Sales Break Record on NYSE; Market Bulls Get More Bullish
Taxpayers on the Hook for $59 Trillion
No Jobs for US Citizens Without Homeland Security Approval
Metal Stocks Rise Worldwide; Alcan Gains on Report of Norsk Bid
Chinese Share-Dealing Accounts Soar
May 25
Greenspan Fears 'Dramatic Contraction' in Chinese Stocks
Spain's Savings Spent
Dollar Buying Ever Less of World's Goods
May 24
Pricey Gasoline Costs U.S. Consumers Extra $20 Bln
Why a Chinese Monetary Tightening Could Be Followed By a Global Depression
Chinese Sign $32.6 Bln of Business Deals in US Tour
Continental Currency all the Rage
Don't Cry for the USDollar
Oil Industry Says Biofuel Push May Hurt at Pump
Economic Caveat From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
May 23
Council on Foreign Relations Pushes for Three Regional Currencies in the World
Credit-Default Swaps Spur Fastest Derivatives Growth
Metal Matters
China Owns Us
"Crazy" to Ignore Commodities Plays: JP Morgan Fund
May 22
Ignoring the Lessons of 1929
Kuwait Drops Dollar Peg
Palladium to Revive on Buying by Funds, Fortunoff
China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches
May 21
Foreclosures Spur States to Rescue Homes from Default
Latest Count of Major US Mortgage Lenders That Have Croaked Since Late 2006
Why Did the Housing Phenomenon Spread? 3 Key Reasons for a Social Epidemic: Housing Connectors; Mavens; and Salespeople
Blackstone Boosts IPO After Beijing Takes $3Bn Stake
May 18
False Housing: Gold Headwind
Trapped in a Government Spending Spree
May 17
Bernanke: Mortgage Crackdown Coming
Mongolia's Gold Rush: Blessing or Curse?
Home Prices Drop for Third Straight Quarter
May 16
The Battle for $700
China Money Supply Rises 17.1%, Exceeding Target
Moscow Bankers Get $7 Million Payday, Double New York Average
Global M&A Rises 60% to $2 Trillion, Led by Europe Deals, LBOs
How Many Hints Do We Need? Flee While You Can
May 15
Are We Headed for Another Great Depression
Why Silver Will Soar Above $230/Oz.
Tax Cuts, Fair Tax Schemes Keep People Herded in the Wrong Direction
How to Spoil a Good Party
The Housing Tipping Point. 3 Factors That Will Burst the Bubble
May 14
Oil Up; Saudi Export News, Africa Outages Support
The Iranian Gold Card
Council on Foreign Relations on U.S. Dollar: “An Absurdity… Supported Only by Faith”
May 11
Allstate to Stop Insuring Calif. Homes
U.S. March Trade Gap Widens 10.4% to $63.9 Billion
The Bear, Dragon, & Dollar
May 10
The New Economic Morality
Elements of the Dollar's Death Knell
Goodbye U.S. Dollar, Hello Global Currency
May 8
25,000 Ford Workers Are Gone; More Still to Leave
May 7
Gold Breakout Delayed
One Day You’re Gonna Wake Up
Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. Layoffs for IBM?
May 4
Gold Price Manipulation - Gold Forecaster Speaks, Part 1
Chávez Threatens to Nationalise Banks
Asia Draws on $2.7 Trillion of Reserves to Safeguard Currencies
Bond Buyers Fail I.Q. Test
U.S. Layoffs Rise By 44 Pct in April vs March-Survey
May 3
Foreclosures Surge on Mortgage Woes
May 2
Can the "Axis of Oil" Topple the US Dollar?
India's Trillion Dollar Economy
Retailers Whose Slips Show Too Much Attract Lawsuits
May 1
Venezuela Exits IMF and World Bank
The Power Elite's Use of War and Debt
U.S. Economy: Spending Cools, Jeopardizing Expansion
Dead Market Walking