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May 30
US Banks Likely to Fail as Bad Loans Soar
Wal-Mart Puts the Squeeze on Food Costs
House Prices Through the Floor
Economic Tremors of Chinese Disaster
US and European Debt Markets Flash New Warning Signals
May 29
Gold: Get Some Sun, Stop Worrying
Gold Benefits Versus Mining Costs
Storms on the Horizon
May 28
Chili’s Restaurants Closing Across the Region
Are We Facing Another Great Depression?
Developing Countries Have a Serious Inflation Problem and Their Behavior Is Exacerbating the Problem
Inflationary Insanity
George Soros: 'We Face the Most Serious Recession of our Lifetime'
US Consumer Mood at 16-Year Low
The Government's Statistical Whopper of the Year
May 27
Oil: A Global Crisis
Fuel Suppliers Demand Airlines Pay Cash in Advance
Soaring Fuel Prices Take a Withering Toll on Truckers
FINTRAC Sees Potential Abuse of Electronic Transactions Tied to Gold and Silver
Merrill Sees U.S. Giving Nod for Gulf FX Change
UBS Says More Losses on U.S., Global Mortgage Markets Possible
Indiana Jones and the Last Capitalist
Economist Challenges Government Data
Applauding the Ridiculous
May 23
Derivatives Market Grows to $596 Trillion on Hedging
Credit Crunch Will Cause Ethnic Violence
Price of Petrol to Stay High for 8 Years
Losing a Mint: Curb on Coin Sales Angers Collectors
8 Accused of Kickbacks, Fraud at Wall Street Brokerage Firm
Iran, Venezuela Unite in Bank Venture
Gold Rises in London Trading as Oil Advances; Platinum Gains
Oil Price Spike Has Wide Economic Impact
Rhodium Price Hits a Record $9,800/oz
May 22
Federal Gas Coupon
Expert: Higher Gold Price Needed
Dear Subprime and Option ARM Borrower: You Disgust Me with Your Loan Modification Form Letter
Used Truck Price Drop Hurts New Pickups
May 21
Government's 'Numbers Racket' Is About to Blow Up in our Faces
Shortage Fears Push Oil Futures Near $140
Oil Tops $129 for First Time, Heads for $130
An Oracle of Oil Predicts $200-a-Barrel Crude
Gloom & Doom Economist: Credit Crunch Will Spread
Golden Experience to Relish
A Red Herring
May 20
Hyperinflation Special Report
US-Led Capitalist System Headed for Collapse
July Fireworks: Inflation Rate Will Reflect Gas Costs
Banks Keep $35 Billion Markdown Off Income Statements
Chousing
Gold Rush Fever Returns to the California Hills
Economic Tide Is Rising for Repo Man
May 19
Correction in Gold Near End
Silver Stock Report: A Further Warning to the CFTC!
New Breed of American Emerges in Need of Food
The Monster and the Sausages
The Earthling Economics Experiment
Foundations and a Close Look at Ford, Part 3
Capital Flows Data Shows Large Net Outflow of Foreign Capital
U.S. Industrial Output Plunged in April
Using Countrywide as an Example of Housing Excellence. Nothing Down and Banana Republic Loans Make a Comeback back by Government Sponsored Entities!
As Prices Rise, Crime Tipsters Work Overtime
Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism
May 16
Oil Rises to Record Above $127 on Goldman Outlook, China Demand
Fund Managers Fear Bond Rout and Stagflation More Than Recession
The Economic Sky Has Fallen
No Foreigners, No Cameras for Myanmar
May 15
Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens' Property to Balance Their Budgets
$6 Per Gallon Gas Prices Are Possible, Soon
Mexican Tortilla Prices 'Up 18%'
It Couldn't Happen Here - flashback
Bank of England Warns 'the Good Times Are Over' as Britons Face Real Cut in the Standard of Living
Toll Hikes Used to Boost Foreign Company Profits
May 14
Banks Turned Markets into Monster: German President
A New Inflationary Epoch
The Global Slump of 2008-09 Has Begun As Poison Spreads
Housing Prices Tumble in Two-Thirds of U.S. Cities
'Unemployed' Now a Valid Job Description
Chicken Feed on Increased Food Prices
May 13
Japan Says China Quake to Cause Economic Damage
Growing Deficits Threaten Pensions
Citi Is Beyond Repair
CPI Two-Step
Surging Food Prices Bite Across Asia
May 12
Gold Suppression Job One at the Fed
What Can Cash Buy? Not an iPhone
Stranger Than Fictional Balance Sheets
May 9
The Bernanke Monetary Policy Conundrum Heading for a Crash
Tax Rebates Mean Blood in the Shark-Infested Water
Global Free Market for Food and Energy Faces Biggest Threat
AIG Posts $7.8 Billion Loss, Seeks Capital As Damage Mounts
Platinum Jumps as Weak Dollar, Record Oil Boosts Hedge Demand
UBS to Launch Platinum Exchange-Traded Notes
State Street Subprime Damages May Surpass Reserve
May 8
Opportunity on a Silver Platter
UBS Axes 5,500 Jobs and Sells Off Assets Cut-Price
Countrywide Takes Away Home-Equity Credit Lines in Las Vegas
Series: BORROW, Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve
Fear of Falling Fed Credit
In Food Price Crunch, More Americans Seek Help
The Great Depression of the 2010s
May 7
Do You Have a Plan? (Personal)
Mexican Crude Oil Supplies to U.S. to Be Cut Back By 184,000 Bpd
Oil Price 'May Hit $200 a Barrel'
Americans See $5 Gas on the Horizon
Massage for Number Crunchers
Rice Prices Hit Records Amid Burmese Disaster
Rising Food Prices Hit Organics
May 6
Gold Price Suppression Scheme
BofA May Renegotiate Countrywide Deal Price
The Twilight of Irredeemable Debt
Poor Could Gain As Commodities Soar
May 5
World Economic System Holding Its Breath
The Economy: The Function of Poverty
Stop Saving Now and Spend Those Rebates! The Home Refinancing Well Has Run Dry
May 2
Be Careful What You Wish For
Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says
As Gas Costs Soar, Buyers Flock to Small Cars
Crisis Over, the Old Crisis Returns
Don’t Mistake a Silent Mortgage Volcano for Being Inactive: The New Face of Alt-A and Subprime Mortgages
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Double in First Quarter, Led by Nevada
May 1
Bank of England Sounds Alarm on £5bn Commercial Property Defaults
Desperation Driving Online Auction, Flea Market Boom
Fed Tone May Send Food and Gasoline Prices Higher
Gold, Oil, Potash and Food: Top Investments This Decade
April 30
Investors See Recession, Wall Street Depression
You Can Kiss $2.84 Trillion in Housing Equity Goodbye: The Continued Decline In Real Estate
The Meaning of Stage II
Big, Bad, and the Bill is Rising
April 29
Gas May Soon Cost a Sawbuck
Platinum Defies Forecasts to Slip Lower With Gold
The Ballad of Hammerin’ Joe
Britain's Biggest Banks Use Astrology to Play the Markets
Fried in the Financial Sun
JGBs Sell Off
April 28
UK Blanket of Secrecy on Bank Bailouts
Not Enough Silver
Gold Drivers: Cheap Money, Rapid Inflation
Dollar Slide Drives Budget as Japan Shuns Treasuries
Prosecute the Mortgage Sharks
Numbers Racket: Why the Economy is Worse Than We Know
The End of Cheap Clothes is Near
April 25
Euro Dives As Wheels Fly Off Eurozone Economy
This Week in 'The Room'
April 24
Credit Suisse Bank Loses Billions
US Subprime Lawsuits Pick Up Steam in 2008--Study
JS Online: State Bankruptcies Jump
Riots May Kill Inflations
Concerns Rising That Fannie and Freddie Could Need Bailout
Disproportionate Derivatives
Two factors Mean the End of Air Travel As We Know It
April 23
Hyperinflationary Depression 2010 - audio
Price Volatility Adds to Worry on U.S. Farms
U.S. Consumers Destined for a Future with Fewer Choices, Much-Higher Costs
April 22
Oil Rises to Record in New York, London on Supply Fears, Chinese Demand
The Market's Worst Is Yet to Come
Crisis Intermission - Now for Stage Two
Chinese Increasingly Buy Gold As Wages Rise
April 21
Citigroup's CFO Says Consumer Credit Now Biggest Risk
Inflation of the Third Kind
Sheep Back to the Slaughter: Lessons from the Great Depression Part VIII: All the Change and Bear Market Rallies
Calm Urged Over Refinery Shutdown
Beware of the Killer B’s
Attacks in Middle East, Nigeria Send Oil to Record $117.40
Rice, Death and the Dollar
April 18
From Princes to Paupers: The German Hyperinflation
The German Hyperinflation of 1923
Mr Mortgage's Guide to the Truth
Germany is in Shock as Subprime Gets Worse
Argentine Economic Crisis (1999-2002)
Liars, Wall Street & Your Gold
America's Total Debt Report - Page 1
Rice Rises to Record in Chicago, Leading Wheat, Soybean Gains
Letter from FerFAL in Argentina Re: Greenspan, Gold, and the Safe Store of Value
Retreat Owner Profile: Mr & Mrs. "FerFAL" in Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 17
Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies
West Wing: The Madness of Ben Bernanke
Deconsumption: Timeline for Unfolding Crisis of Mankind
Banks Must Come Clean, Says EU Commissioner
FBI Home Mortgage Probe Now Targets 19 Firms
Why the Next Mortgage Crisis May Be Worse
Low Liquidity Plagues More Firms
1 in 33 Homeowners Projected to Be in Foreclosure Within the Next Two Years
April 16
Rush for Silver If You Want to Make Moolah!
How Safe is My FDIC-Insured Bank Account?
Gold Advances in London as Dollar Declines, Oil Reaches Record
Oil Hits New Record As Investors Flee Falling Dollar
Jerichonomics
Reduction in Wheat Quota to Jack Up Prices
Melting a Grammy for Gold
Central Banking - Why Fix What Doesn't Work?
April 15
Cursing the Loss of Purchasing Power
Oil Price Increases to New Record
Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Warn 'Delusional' Investors on Stocks
Foreclosures Jump 57 Percent in Last 12 Months
Swaps Tied to Losses Became `Frankenstein's Monster'
Cursing the Loss of Purchasing Power
Investors Await Bank Earnings This Week
The New Underground Currency
IMF Head Warns That Rising Food Prices Could Destabilise Governments
April 14
World Shares Down on Market Fears
The New Global Menace: Food Inflation
Want to Save the Economy?
April 11
Lessons from Japan
Price Shock in Global Food
Rice Races to Record High
Rice Queue Nightmare
Demand for Rice Threatens Global Food Supplies
Soaring Food Costs Threaten World's Political Stability: UN
Termites Feast on Trader's Money
U.S. Economy to Stall as Consumer Spending Cools, Survey Shows
Wild Salmon at $40 a Pound
Kuwait Sovereign Fund Attacks Plans for More Scrutiny
April 10
The Economy's Summer Holiday Has Already Begun
This Week in 'The Room'
The Global Financial Crisis: Deceit, Deception Distortion
Bankrupt Approach to Judgement Day
The Government Genie Flips a Coin
Russia’s Gold and FOREX Reserves Up $4.6Bn
Real Homes of Genius: Today We Salute You Glendale. When Prime is No Longer Prime and WaMu Dilution.
April 9
Boom to Bust
Overconfidence Always Costs
Fed Auctions Another $50 Billion
Fed Loosens Capital Rules for JPM
Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Hit New Low
Citigroup, Wells Fargo May Loan Less After Downgrades
April 8
'Trillion Dollar Meltdown' Paints Scary Economic Picture
Euro Trades Near One-Week High Against Dollar on Rate Advantage
The Abyss is Deep: The Housing Abyss is Deep: 4 Major Reasons Why Housing in Southern California is Nowhere Near a Bottom.
Food Prices Soar as Farmers Bail on Corn
Rice Run Prompts Curbs to Rival Credit Market Seizure
Rice Jumps to Record on Philippine Imports, Curbs on Exports
Hard Times Hit U.S. Lumber Industry
Liquidation Is Only Solution to Crisis
King of the Financial Thieves
A Crude Source of Welfare
Grains Gone Wild
April 7
Goodbye to the Dollar
US Jobless Data Worse Than Feared
Narco-Dollars for Beginners: How the Money Works in the Illicit Drug Trade
Iran to OPEC: Stop Oil Sales in Dollars
Railcars Idle as Economy Falters
April 5
The Genesis of the Credit Bubble: Advertising, Deception, and $163 Billion in Subprime California Loans Resetting in 1 Year
NYT Poll: Public's Mood Darkens
China's Great Leap into Gold
U.S. Economy Sheds 80,000 Jobs in March
Another Bar of Golden Idiots
Confidential Doc. In Congress Warns of Conflict in America (scroll down page for snippets of this subscription only article)
April 4
Future World Wheat Crops Threatened by Ug99 Stem Rust Farm
Late Payments on Consumer Loans Highest Since 1992, ABA Says
Rice Jumps to Record, Corn Near High as Demand Outpaces Supply
April 3
Bernanke Nods at Possibility of a Recession
ABBAnomics
April 2
Food Price Inflation Changes How We Shop
Truckers Clog New Jersey Turnpike in Price Protest
Automakers Post Worst Q1 Sales in Years
Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg Sees More Credit Turmoil-CNBC
A Panic-Stricken Federal Reserve
Gold the Best Asset Over Last One, Three and 10 Years
Research Firm Says Banking Industry to Lose 200,000 Jobs
A Risk-Free Revolution
The Voyage of the Economic Enterprise
April 1
Back to the 1930s – "Papiere, Bitte"
USA 2008: The Great Depression
Brace for $1 Trillion Writedown of 'Yertle the Turtle' Debt
UBS Doubles Sub-Prime Writedowns
Lords of Housing: Believing in the $22.5 Trillion Housing Market.
March 31
Chaos on Wall Street
Bear Market Rallies Only Delay Day of Reckoning
Birth of a Nation
Kids Go to Gold Camp
Weak Economy Slows Cargo, Idles Railcars
Glenn Beck: The $53 Trillion Asteroid
Is Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse
UBS Lowers Price of Security Seen as 'Cash'
Lofty Egg Prices Showing No Sign of Cracking Soon
Most Sweeping Changes Since Great Depression
March 28
Bottomless Financial Sector Bottom
Treasury Department Making Special Agreements With Islam Over Vital U.S. Investments
Dollar Heads for Biggest Weekly Drop Against Euro in Two Years
The Reality of the Situation Sets In
China Stocks Tumble 5.4 Percent as IPO Prices Break
Gold is Going to the Moon
Chinese Exporters Shun Flagging Dollar
March 27
Perth Mint and Kitco Scheme Exposed
Housing Crash Unaffected By Fed Actions
Oil above $107 on Pipeline Attack
Real Homes of Genius: Forget Buy 1 get 1 Free Deals. How About 3 for the Price of 1. Today we Salute you Riverside.
Inflation in Heart-Attack Territory
Is the Fed Really in Control as the $ Plummets and Gold Vaults?
Inflationary Economy Causes Massive Coronary
March 26
Gold has Potential to Double
Commodity Cycle Still in Infancy
The Die is Cast, The Cast Will Die
Why Subprime Problem Is Just Starting
This Week in 'The Room'
Wheat, Soybeans Advance on Supply Risk; Gold Rallies on Dollar
March 25
Looks Like There's a Silver Shortage
The Insanity of Bear Stearns / JPM Continues
Wall Street Firms Cut 34,000 Jobs, Most Since 2001 Dot-Com Bust
Parallel Universe: Housing Still Hurting on Main Street while Wall Street Celebrates
Higher Cost for Diesel Fuel Likely to Impact Consumer Goods
Truckers ‘Going Broke’ and Threatening to Strike
Risk Management Addiction
Questions Linger Over Lehman's Balance Sheet
Fed's Bear Rescue Halted a Derivatives Chernobyl
Egg Prices Leave Consumers Clucking
Burundi: Food Security Threat As Banana Blight Looms
Golden Codpiece Protection Strategy
Gold and Dollar Market Summary
March 24
Death of the Dollar
Slump Moves From Wall St. to Main St.
Investors Borrow 28.8 Bln USD From Fed's New Primary Dealer Credit Facility
A New Great Depression
Interest Rate Roundup
Backstopping Bear, Morgan Saved the Shadowy Derivatives World
Questions Abound on Bear Stearns Buyout
Gold and FOREX Reserves Top $500bn
March 21
Silver Shortage Gets Worse, Price Drops Again!
Why the Fed's Little Nod to Inflation is a 'Big Deal'
Wary Banks Revert to Strict Lending Standards
BOJ Official Warns Japan Economy Slowing
British Authorities Try to Quell Damaging Financial Rumors
HBOS: Malicious Traders in the City try to Topple the Halifax
Chrysler Sees "Big" Drop in March U.S. Sales
March 20
Silver Shortage: 19 Dealers Reported "Sold Out"
US Economist Calls Financial Crisis Worst Since 1930s
Cliff Notes on Financial Maelstrom
The Wile E. Coyote Moment
The Great Unwind Has Started, Avoid Leverage, Citigroup Says
Dollars Tough to Sell
WaMu: Skip Customers; Save the Execs
MF Global Warning Adds to Market Worries
The Collapse of American Power
Billionaire Lewis Moves to Block JP Morgan
Jim Cramer: "Bear Stearns is Fine!" - video
March 19
The Mess That Greenspan Made: Jim Rogers on the Bear Stearns Bailout
Morgan Eats Bear, Now Has $77 Trillion In Derivatives
Secret Thoughts
Can’t Grasp Credit Crisis? Join the Club
Dollar Wobbles After Fed Cuts
Real Homes of Genius: Half-Off Sale in Lynwood California and the Distance Theory of Investing
Rogers: Abolish Fed, End ‘Socialism for the Rich’
U.S. Treasury Fears Islamic Strings on Investments
March 18
Watching the Dollar Die
Canadian Investors Run Scared
Stocks Tumble, Gold At Record After Fed Cut
UK Facing Worst Financial Crisis 'in Decades'
Egypt Army to Tackle Bread Crisis
Falling Dominoes Rising Gold
Wall Street Watches Lehman Walk on Thin Ice
The Big Bailout
Throwing the Dollar Out the Window - video
March 17
Foreign Investors Veto Fed Rescue
Welcome to the Future
Swiss Money Markets Seize Up Ahead of SNB Auction
The Buck Stops Where
The Stearnest Bear Market: Bloody Sunday
Gulf Central Banks Urged to Sever Links With Tumbling US Dollar
Oil, Gold Rise to Records as Dollar Fuels Commodities
The Crumbling U.S. Empire
Fed Acts Sunday to Prevent Global Bank Run Monday
Fed Takes Boldest Action Since the Depression to Rescue US Mortgage Industry
A 1% Fed Rate Cut Now Seems Certain
Markets Slump on Banking Worries
Asian Stocks Tumble on Bear Stearns News
Argentina, Brazil to Drop U.S. Dollar in Bilateral Commercial Transactions
Massive Debt Default
Russia’s Gold and FOREX Reserves Up $3.8Bn
The Coming Economic Depression
Bad News for Tax Revenues
Wall Street Fears for Next Great Depression
Don’t Catch a Falling Guillotine: Housing Free Falling in Southern California. A Deep Look at the Numbers.
Bank Agony, Money Squeeze Batter Stocks, Dollar
Gas Not Alone -- Food Prices Way Up, Too, Experts Tell What's Behind the Rise and How to Keep Impact Down
Dollar Drops on Trouble at Bear Stearns
March 14
Gold Hits Record $1,000, Oil at $111
Economic Forces Converge Like Never Before
Hundreds Seeking Housing Money Overwhelm Boca Authority
The Risk of Systemic Collapse
Monsters in Washington DC
Bush's Market-Liberal Scam
Dollar Falls to 12-Year Low of 100 Yen on Carlyle Fund Failure
Wachovia: Housing Woes are Far From Over
Gold Nears Record High on Weak Dollar, Oil Jump
Global Markets Tumble
March 13
Meltdown Looms Larger as Credit Markets Freeze
Despite the Federal Reserve's Efforts Wall Street Fears a Big US Bank is in Trouble - Times Online
Dollar Declines on Speculation Fed Rescue Package Won't Succeed
Carlyle Capital Nears Collapse as Rescue Talks Fail
Platinum Advances as Sinking Dollar Fuels Demand for Haven
Hundreds of Migrants Join the Bread Line As Boom Goes Bust
Latest Trouble Spot for Banks: Souring Home-Equity Loans
Jim Rogers: 'Abolish the Fed'
Many More Going Bankrupt
March 12
Oil Prices Passes Record High 110 Dollars
Market Panic After Bear Stearns Reports
Irish Banks May Need Life-Support as Property Prices Crash
This Week in 'The Room'
Foreclosures Becoming 'Nightmare' for Cities
Fed to Lend Up to $200 Billion, Taking Private Mortgage Debt as Collateral
Bernanke Gets It Backwards
Definitive Proof The Bear Is Alive And Well
US Can Fast Exit From Bad Times
Derivatives the New 'Ticking Bomb'
What Is Left That is Sellable?
Many Immigrants Struggling As Construction Jobs Vanish
March 11
Mortgage Lenders See More Borrowers Give Up
Gold is the Ultimate Safe-Haven
Dollar-Gold: A Perfect Storm
NRIs Urged to Invest in Gold or UK Sterling
Surging Costs of Groceries Hit Home
Foreclosure-Proof Homeowners
An Apple a Day Will Kill You
DGCX Volumes Surge to All-Time High
Norilsk-Led Palladium Alliance to Push Jewellery Usage
March 10
Soaring Price of Diesel Is Idling More Big Rigs
Banks Face Systemic Margin Call, $325 Billion Hit
New 'Super-Spike' Might Mean $200 a Barrel Oil
As Good as Cash, Until It’s Not
The Yellow Brick Road to Armageddon
It Makes Your Money Worthless - Guaranteed!
GM Loses Almost a Third of Daily Output as Plant Closings Widen
US Fed Releases $200Bn as Credit Crisis Hits New Depths
Drunk With Absolute Purchasing Power
March 7
Carlyle Group Default Sparks Panic Selling
Citigroup to Cut More than 30,000 Jobs
Employers Slash Jobs by Most in 5 Years
The Economics of Pandemic
Dollar in New Slump Against Euro
Dollar Falls to New Low Against Euro
European and Asian Shares Slump
March 6
Oil Advances to Record $105.97 as Dollar Drops to All-Time Low
Banks' Losses Could Put $900 Billion Squeeze on Consumers
Gold Near $1,000 Target, Silver Hits 27-Year High
Bankers Plan Pay Code to Head off Backlash
Which Banks Could Fail?
Credit Crunch Hits Carlyle
Will the Housing Market Drop out of the Race? Quick Media, Tell me how to Think! 3 Important Tips Buying in a Crashing Housing Market.
March 5
California Stops Insuring State's Municipal Bonds
U.S. Files New Lawsuit Against Countrywide
International Experts Foresee Collapse of U.S. Economy
Crisis Preparedness: Reconnecting the Financial Lifeline
The Federal Reserve Has Become Irrelevant
Dead Dollar Sketch
A World Without Demand
Diesel Shatters All-Time Record; Experts Predict $4 Mark
March 4
Iraq War 'Caused Slowdown in the US'
Activists Bare Teeth Over Foreclosures
Diesel Jumps 10.6¢ to Record $3.658
GM, Ford to Cut Production After Rough Feb.
This Week in 'The Room'
Buying by Russia and Qatar Spurs Gold Price Rise Towards $1,000
Bank Failures Expected to Rise, But That's Not Worst Problem
Twenty-Year High in Rice Prices Sparks Fears
March 3
Golds Breaking 1,000.00 Imminent
PGM Bull Markets
Gold Beats Financial Assets as Investors Seek Haven
Gold Powers to Record on Oil and Eyes $1,000
Recharged Gold
Global Shortage of Metals Looming
States and Cities Start Rebelling on Bond Ratings
Real Homes of Genius: Lifetime Achievement Award. Nearly 80 Percent Loss in Oakland California.
Quantum's Jim Rogers Says US 'Out of Control'
Pizza and Beer Now Cost an Arm and a Leg
The Ultimate Sell Signal: Part II: Why Does the FDIC Need More Bank Examiners?
Credit Crisis Seen As Economic Threat
The Federal Reserve's Rescue Has Failed
February 29
Small and Midsize U.S. Banks Beginning to Struggle in Credit Crisis
Are Simultaneous Inflation and Deflation Possible?
Heads I Win, Tails I Break Even
The Euro Only Commits Misdemeanors
Economy Slows to a Nearl Crawl
Every Clause Has a Gold Lining
Robusta Coffee Jumps to Highest Since 1995 on Investor Buying
Highway Diesel at Highest Price in History
Oil Hits a High; Some in U.S. See $4 Gas By Spring
Oil Hits All-Time High Above $102 a Barrel
February 28
The Emerging Third World U.S.
Euro Soars to Record High $1.5057
Gold and Dollar Market Summary
Dollar Falls to Record Against Euro on Fed Rate-Cut Speculation
Debit Cards: Bank of America Won't Let You Access Your Money
Worries Grow for Worse 'Stagflation'
Moneychangers Destroying America, and Christians Don't See It
Gold Scales Fresh Highs As Dollar Plunges to New Depths
Is the Gold Bull Market Unstoppable
The Bank Implode-O-Meter
February 27
Oil Rises Above $102 as Weak Dollar Boosts Commodities Price
Russia Quietly Starts to Shift Its Oil Trade into Rubles
This Week in 'The Room'
Bank Reserves Not Keeping Pace With Delinquencies
Global Economic Collapse--Letter from Listener
February 26
US Home Foreclosures Soar in January
Are Insurers Credit Crunch's Next Victim
Here Come More Financiers' Writedowns
FDIC Readies for a Rise in Bank Failures
Booby-Trapping the Economy
Wheat Surges
Depression + Inflation + Famine = Chaos!
Greenspan: Gulf States Drop Dollar
February 25
A Crisis in Democracy: Are We Going Bankrupt?
An Extinction Level Economic Event
Ohio Job Losses Worst Since Great Depression
Business Devours its Young: Lessons from the Great Depression: Part V: Destroying the Working Class
The Next Slum?
Economic Miseries Measured by the Second
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA's Highest Ranks
Price of Bread Rising on Wheat Shortage
February 22
Kucinich to Investigate 9/11 Insider Trading
Wheat Prices Could Defy a Recession
Florida Schools, California Convert Auction-Rate Debt
Gold & Whirlwind of Crisis
Municide
February 21
Nigeria: States Back Stoppage of Dollar Payment
Downward Economic Spiral Gains Momentum Faster Than Expected
In the Red
Gold, Platinum Hit Record on Oil, Supply Fears
Platinum Price Goes Ballistic; Gold to Follow
Worst Financial Crisis since 1931? German State-Owned Banks on Verge of Collapse
Wheat Shreds Goldman, USDA Forecasts Belied by Gains
Change He Can Believe In
Bomb Ticking for Off-Balance Banks
What Do Wedding Invitations, Arson, and Moonwalking Have to Do With Housing?
The Other Oil Shock: Vegetable Oil Prices Soar
Food, Housing Pushing Up Inflation
February 20
GMAC to Shut U.S., Canada Field Offices After $2.3 Billion Loss
America's Economy Risks the Mother of all Meltdowns
"Everybody Hurts" - Inflations Theme Song
Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S.
Signs Point to Banking Crisis Getting Much Worse
Credit Suisse Shocks With $2.8Bn Mark-Down
Our Favored Investment Themes
Economic Indicators
This Week in 'The Room'
Orchestrated Denials...
Northern Rock Takeover Marks Risky Bet for U.K.
Global Systemic Crisis / September 2008 - Phase of Collapse of US Real Economy
Preaching the Miracle of Money
February 19
U.S. Oblivious to Day of Reckoning
Russian Ruble Could Be Used in Oil Trade Deals in Iran - Envoy (Steve comment: Just as I have been stating on the radio for the last 14 years-rouble will become world currency)
Wall St. Banks Confront a String of Write-Downs
Economic Woes Reveal a Long-Felt Unease
Interview with Mish from Global Economic Trend Analysis: Deflation, Housing, the Credit Bubble, and Bond Insurers
February 18
A Common Agenda Behind all the Military Conflict
UBS Shocks Investors With Risky Debt Exposures
San Jose Gas Prices
Let's Legalize Competing Currencies
Mr Paulson, Tear Down That Wall (Street)
Saddled By Electronic Pixie Dust
The Looming Treasury Bond Massacre
February 15
Subprime Losses Already Outweigh the Great Depression
Central Banks Other Option, Crossing the Rubicon
Jaws
Gone in 60 Seconds: Treasure in your Car
Debt Slavery in Full Effect in the United States
Merrill Lynch Substantially Raises Gold Prices Forecast, Ups Silver Too
Throwing Rope on Floating Bodies
Prehistoric Problems With Fiat Currency
Worried Bankers Seek to Shift Risk to Uncle Sam
Will Gold Crash in a Recession
The Room
February 14
Gold Rising in All Currencies
Uncle Sam Crying "UNCLE!"
Southern California Housing Numbers Exposed: The Bottom Falls out of the Housing Market, Again
Bond Insurer Woes Could Become Market Tsunami: Spitzer
February 13
Depression Risk Might Force U.S. to Buy Assets
Muni Market Rates Shoot to 20%
US Credit Crisis Escalates As Defaults Spread
Mortgage Crisis Spreads Beyond Subprime Loans
January Retail Worst in Almost 40 Years
New Hitches In Markets May Widen Credit Woes
Chavez Threatens US Oil Cutoff
February 12
Citi and Goldman Most Exposed to Loan Writedowns: Report
Stagflation Dragon Stirs as Factory Prices Soar
GM Sets Record Loss for U.S. Automaker
California a Red State: Analyzing the Myth of Homeownership for All
Gold's Path to $1,000 an Ounce Now Clear
World Markets Lose $5.2Trillion
British Families Spend £1300 More on Bills as Fuel Prices
Butter Under Lock and Key as Prices Soar
Minerals: Crumbling Bedrock of U.S. Security
February 11
Japan is the Next Sub-Prime Flashpoint
The Great Depression 2008 - It Can't Happen to Us....Can It?
February 8
Monolines Rescue Efforts Might Be in Vain
The Bush Financial and Economic Bust of 2008 - The Destruction of Capital
A Credit Card You Want to Toss
A 'Big Budget' Tragi-Comedy
Lenders Freeze Equity Lines in Response to Tumbling Property Values
Evidence Wachovia Knew of and Profited from Theft
Russia’s Growing Economic Power Troubles US Intelligence
February 7
Dollar Needs Mint Freshener
Signals of Distress
The System Is Broken
U.S. Sees Russia, China, OPEC Financial Threat
February 6
Wheat Surges to Record on Supply Concerns; Corn, Soybeans Gain
Gulf States to Drop Dollar Peg on Fed Reserve Action
Caught in the Middle: Miami's Middle Class Exodus
Cities Fight Glut of Vacant Houses
The Three Little Pigs (Adjusted for Inflation)
Asian Stocks Drop as U.S. Service Industries Shrink; BHP Falls
A Trillion-Dollar Smile
February 5
Dozens of U.S. Banks Will Fail By 2010: Analyst
Economist: Expect Fed to Lower Dow to 8,000
U.S. Loses Its Status As Economic World Power
Doomsday for the Greenback: Iran's Oil Bourse could Topple the Dollar
How Risky Are Uninsured Bank Deposits
China's March on Resources Continues With Four New Foreign Deals
Barometers of Economy, Pawn Shops' Volume Up
Reflation Contemplation
ICBC Deposes Citigroup as Chinese Banks Rule in NWO
Bank Reserves Go Negative
February 4
Is Iceland Headed for Meltdown?
Massachusetts Charges Merrill With Fraud
WaMu Lowers Limits on HELOCs
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Barreling into Recession
Russia's Billionaires Join Next Big Gold Rush
The Double Whammy of Geopolitical Global Gold Games
The Menace of Mortgage Debts: Lessons from the Great Depression Series: Part IV: Where do we go After the Housing Crash?
February 1
U.S. First-Time Jobless Claims Rocket Higher in Latest Week
Economic Stimulus Package: Macabre Waltz into the Abyss
Defaults on Insured Mortgages Rise 37%
Jim Rogers: 'It's Going to be Much Worse'
Russia’s Gold and FOREX Reserves at All-Time High
US Recession Will Dwarf Dotcom Crash
America’s Middle Classes Are No Longer Coping
The Bright Side of the Panic of ‘08
Gold Has Biggest Monthly Gain Since April 2006 as Dollar Drops
January 31
S&P Lowers or May Cut $534 Billion of Subprime Debt
Large US Companies That May Disappear in 2008
Gold Going to a New Place Altogether
The Great Credit Unwind of 2008
Analyst Sees Big Bank Write-Downs On Exposure to Major Bond Insurers
Nevada, Georgetown Univ Say Muni Auctions Failed
Qatar Considers Dropping Dollar Peg
New Law Would Allow Secret Bank Rescues Law
January 30
The Great Fiscal Stimulus Package ... of 1929
U.S. Foreclosure Activity Increases 75 Percent in 2007 According to RealtyTrac U.S
FBI Warns of Mortgage Fraud 'Epidemic
Wal-Mart Reduces Prices & Offers 0% Interest
Countrywide Financial Corporation and the Failure of Mortgage Socialism
Indicators Signal Turn for the Worse
The Minsky Moment
Fed Helpless in its Own Crisis
An Indication the Economy is Lagging
Goldman and Morgan Stanley Called to Court Over Sub-Prime
F.B.I. Opens Subprime Inquiry
U.S. 10-City Home Price Drop a Record in Nov: S&P
January 29
Rate Cut Below Inflation
The Greatest Bait and Switch of All Time: A “Horror Show” of Epic Proportions
Half of Gold in Central Banks Gone?
Europes Bubbles Burst
Guillotine Economy
Commercial Lending Standstill
Nevada Had Top Foreclosure Rate in 2007
Hershey Raises Prices on a Third of U.S. Candy
Soros Sees 'End of An Era'
Fed Must Save Banks to Save Economy
Bernanke Running Out of Options As Talk of More Losses Fuels Recession Fears
More Than 20 Years in the Making
Subprime Stakes and Globaloney
January 28
Asian Markets Drop, Tracking Wall Street
Capital One Goes Countrywide: Cataclysmic Drop on the Horizon
Can India and China Save the World's Economy
Chavez: Pull Reserves From US
Chinas Appetite
Davos, Debt & Systemic Failure
Going Bankrupt: The US's Greatest Threat
Rogue Trader in £3.6bn Fraud Threatens to 'Name Names' as Bank Admits He May Have Had a Gang
January 24
Feds Accused of Gold-Price Manipulation
Stimulation-Nation! Why the Stimulus Package Hurts Housing and Sneaking in a Raise for Loan Caps.
Gold & Math on a Napkin
When the Stock Market Crashes
A Bad Market? You Ain't Seen Nothin'
Traders Believe Debt Markets Will Get Worse
Gold Hits All-Time High
W.U.I.N. (Whip UP Inflation Now)
US Slides into Dangerous 1930S 'liquidity Trap'
E-Trade Posts $1.7 Billion Loss for 4Q
SA Gold Mines Shut By Power Cuts
January 24
Citigroup, Merrill Hide Counterparties and Pain
The Fed Did Not Panic
Kudrin Says Gold Can Save the World
What the US Rate Cuts Mean for the Gold Price
“Gristle”
After the Equity Blood-Bath, Gold Gets A Second Look
Funny Money: the Perils of Printing T-bills
Could Soybean Market Break $15
January 23
The Coming Financial Collapse of America (and Why Today's Market Bloodbath is Only a Small Taste of Things to Come...)
Avoiding Responsibility
Who Cut the Rates? California Dreaming and Double-Speak Housing
Assessor Warns of Largest Property Tax Increase in State History
Warning About US Economic Slump
Leaders Head for Davos as Chilly Winds Whip World Economy
Investors Exiting Stock Funds are Urged to Wait
Fractional-Reserve Banking - Wikipedia
Latest Market Commentary: May We Suggest a Few Options?
An Economic Heart Attack Brought on by Sugar and Fat
January 22
Soros Predicts Worst Recession for 50 Years
Brokers Refuse to Pick Up the Phone as the Stocks All Over the World Crash
The Fed Fiddles While Stocks Burn and Crash
Trading in Bank of China Shanghai Shares Suspended
Global Economic Crisis 'Serious': IMF Chief
Feeling Misled on Home Price, Buyers Sue Agent
Boom
The New Kings of Wall Street
If Everyone's Finger-Pointing, Who's to Blame?
Fed Cuts Interest Rate 75 Basis Points
Stock Futures Gyrate After Fed Move
Bank of America, Wachovia Profits Plunge
January 21
Bond Insurers: All Fall Down
The Worst Lies Ahead for Wall Street
Today's Forecast Is ... Hey, It's Lunchtime!
Blood on the Street: Trader
Stocks Plummet in Germany, Hong Kong, India in Global Rout
Euro at Risk From Europe's Economic Storm
Japanese Stock Market Plunge Rattles Fukuda
January 18
The Panic Starts
When Governments Print Money, Buy Gold
Foreclosures - The Untold Story
Bringing Bankruptcy Home
The Deflation Time Bomb
Cramer on Merrill: 'Where's the SE'
Bomb Threat Shuts Down World Bank
January 17
The Current Credit Crunch is More Than the Bursting of a ‘Bubble’
Somber Fed Says Economy Has Lost Punch
Inflation is Becoming a Worldwide Phenomenon
Merrill Takes $14.1 Billion Writedown
Threat of Sovereign Wealth Funds
State Suspends Allstate's Insurance License
State's Jobless Rate Up As Workers Flee
Yeah, It's the Economy
State Suspends Allstate's Insurance License
Kellogg Buys Russia's United Bakers Group
January 16
As Consumers Pull Back, a Vicious Cycle Sets In
Japan Poised to Rescue Wall Street Banks
JPMorgan 4Q Profit Falls 34 Percent
Stealing Metaphors for Excess Money
Asian Stock Markets Plunge
Dollar at Lows on Recession Fears
Stock Prices Fall for 2nd Straight Day After Disappointing Earnings From Intel
Saudi State Bank Urges Govt to Cut Dollar Exposure
The End of Economics
January 15
Tears on Wall Street
Newest Junk Bonds: U.S. Treasuries
Gold Up; Dow Down
Chinese and U.S. Demand Drives Commodities Surge
Passing the Devalued Buck
Subprime Nation
Are Consumers Driving Us into Recession
Fed Signals Tougher Response to Faltering Expansion
Inflation Is Becoming a Worldwide Phenomenon, and It Is Getting Worse As the U.S. and European Economies Slip into Recession
January 14
Citi Could Write Down Up to $24 Billion
False Prophets of Housing: Making Sense of Housing Info Last Week. BofA Buying Countrywide Deal
Breaking Phase Ahead for the Global Financial System in 2008
‘Panic Buying’ in the Grain Markets
UBS Admits That It Still Cannot Quantify Its Exposure to Sub-Prime Crisis
Gold, Platinum Rise to Record on Declining Dollar; Silver Gains
We've Run Out of Bubbles
Anna Schwartz Blames Fed For Sub-Prime Crisis
January 11
Banks Plead They Can’t Follow Rules
Russia’s Gold and FOREX Reserves Up $7.8Bn
Will Subprime Spark an Arson Boom
Fed Boss Says 2008 Outlook Worse
US's Triple-A Credit Rating 'Under Threat'
Japan's Nikkei 225 Falls to Lowest Since 2005 on Subprime Woes
Giant Write-Down Is Seen for Merrill
Trends Guru Says You'll Be Living in a Storage Bin Next Year
Consumer Confidence Sinks to Record Low
China's Trade Surplus Hits Record $262Bn
January 10
Credit Card Debt Soars as House Prices Plunge
As Housing Slumps, Realtors Quit
Shanghai Market for Gold Futures Off to a Flying Start 
$53 Trillion and Growing
January 9
Bush Convenes Plunge Protection Team
Pending Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Fell in November
Christmas on Threadneedle Street
Citicorp Refuses to Process Firearms Transactions
Citigroup to Take $16 Billion Writedown, Merrill Says
Countrywide Loses Most Since 1987 on Funding Concern
World Bank Fears Falling US Dollar
January 8
America's Inflated Asset Prices Must Fall
Gold Climbs to Record on Higher Oil Prices, Weakening Dollar
Gold in 2008 Will See a Gear Shift in Its Evolution to Higher Prices Still
Recession in the US 'has Arrived'
Into the Abyss
Rogers Says U.S. to Have Worst Recession `in a While'
Courting Disaster
Mood and Views at the American Economic Association Meetings: Recession Ahead
January 7
Oil $200 Options Rise 10-Fold in Bet on Higher Crude
Enter 2008: The System Breaks
Flight to Gold As Investors Lose Faith in Money
When the Dollar Crashes, All That Glitters Will Be Gold
International Forecaster January 2008
January 4
Treasury Plans Social Security Debit Card
Deadbeat America: Late Payments Soar
Japan Stocks Fall to 1 1/2 Year Low
Higher Food Prices Start to Pinch Consumers
Bullion Outshines Record From 1980
SWF's - Saviours or Harbingers of Economic Apocalypse
WTO: World Trade Outrage
Statement by Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner on the Full Implementation of the North America Free Trade Agreement
January 3
U.S. Worries Keep Investors Wary, Gold Shines
Gold Run Rolls on; Next Stop $1,000
Gold and a Kondratieff Winter
Mortgages of Mass Destruction
'Contraction' in US Manufacturing
Storm Warning for Asia
Well Worth the 20 Bucks
Seeing the Unseen
A Hedge-Fund Mystery
Fed May Cut Rates 'Substantially'
January 2
After the Subprime Crisis, Which Is the Next Domino to Fall
Higher Prices Show No Sign of Retreating
Saxo Bank’s ‘Outrageous Predictions’ Grim
Russian Economy Outstrips U.S. Mortgage Crisis and Declining Dollar
Deflationerrory Thinking
Borse Dubai to Acquire Stake in Nasdaq
Shopping 'Zombies' Offer US Hope
Decade of Deception
The Santa Cigarettes Caper
Broke Britain: Millions Face Financial Crisis