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June 30
The Continued Crony Banking and Housing Industry Bailout: Foreclosure Scams, Japan Subprime Loans Coming Back, and Generally Bad Advice for American Consumers.
Obama-Backed Plan Volunteers Americans to Pay Global Taxes
Nathan Lewis: Where's the Gold?
Up, Down, Out and Doomed
China Argues to Replace US Dollar
What China's Push for An Alternative World Reserve Currency Means
Bring Rogue Bankers to Justice! video
June 29
The Goebbelsnet
U.S.'s Debtor Status Worsens Dramatically
Dire Economy Hinders Growth of Organic Sector
Cashless Society by 2012, Says Visa Chief flashback
Gerald Celente Speaks on Cap and Trade and Other Handicaps to the US Economy video
Criminal Goldman Sachs
California, Here We Come!
June 26
Gold Still a ‘Safe Haven’: Analyst
The Coming Economic Cold War Will Be President Obama’s Challenge
World Bank Predicts Long Recession for Russia
A Stake in the Heart of 25,000 Small California Businesses
Did Bernanke and Paulson Commit Bank Fraud?
Warren Buffett's Live Lunch Interview on CNBC
Lights Out
New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly to 627K
Breaking the Bank
June 25
China Should Buy Gold to Hedge Dollar Fall
U.N. to Emerge as Global IRS
Bricks Without Straw
$100,000 a Year Will Make you Go Broke with the California Tax System: Why California is a Fiscal Disaster. Broken Tax Structure built on Bubbles.
Lawmakers Reject Budget Fix; State Could Begin Issuing IOUs Next Week
Even Cops Losing Their Jobs in Recession
Bernanke Remains in the Box, America Continues to Crash
The Panopticon Economy
Obama's Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control
The Mysterious Omen That is 'Divisor Change'
June 24
Bankster “Holiday” Planned for September?
The Surreal Life of the U.S. Dollar
Ron Paul: Obama’s ‘Goal’ Is Economic Collapse
As China Hoards, Concern Grows about Recovery
Longshoremen Running Idle at NN Port
Nightmarish Financial Numbers
Pensioners Kidnap Financial Adviser Who Lost Them £2M and Batter Him with Zimmer Frames
June 23
In 1969, Rockefeller Official Said US Would Be De-industrialized
The Perils of Multipolarity
When Giants Fall: 'China Is Destined to Be the Leader of the World'
Asian Stocks Decline on Growth Concerns; BHP, Honda Motor Fall
States Turning to Last Resorts in Budget Crisis
Solar-Powered Downturn
Can the U.S. Government Afford to Let California Fail?
To Fight Deflation, Abolish Cash. Could Japan Make Reality of ‘Science Fiction’?
June 22
The Coming Depression: Bank Holiday Coming?
The Recession Tracks the Great Depression
The Armstrong/Alf Countdown
A Credit Squeeze for Small-Business Owners
Is American Indebtedness Worse than Reported?
Pavlov's Dog and Jim Cramer's Call of the Bottom in Housing
The Danger of Unemployment
June 19
US Banks Operating Without Reserve Requirements
China’s Got a New Currency… and It Sure AIN’T the Dollar
Stupidity Without Borders
Holding It Together
What if the Fed had a Sale and No One Came?
China Commodities Undercut US Dollar
Bull Markets Bullsh*t & Bubbles
South Florida's Housing Crisis Leaves Behind Ghost Towers
Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship
June 18
Fiat Money in Death Throes
The 4 Horsemen of the Bond Market Apocalypse
For Boomers, Recession is Redefining Retirement
Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
For Better or Worse
The Cumulative Impact of Three "Rogue Waves"
June 17
California's Hard Times Driving People Back to the 'Dust Bowl'
U.S. Mortgage Applications Plunge to Near Seven-Month Low
IRS Moves to Ban Tax Returns Filed By All But ‘Experts’
The Hammer Drops
That Worrying Wall of Debt
Judgment Day: Broke California Faces Shutdown at Arnie Schwarzenegger’s Hands
The Only True Insurance
Medvedev Calls for New Reserve Currencies
June 16
Cash to Become Extinct as Chips Take Off
Proud to be an American? You Should be Ashamed
China Sets Example to Us All
AIG Lawyer: Ex-Top Exec Plundered Retirement Plan
U.S. Credit Card Defaults Rise to Record in May
Hedge Funds in Cayman Islands Withdraw from UK Banks
The Final Hour: The Coming Battle Is Here!
Bond Volatility & Interest Rate Swaps
The Coming Economic Collapse
Bank Rescue Costs EU States $5.3 Trillion, More Than German GDP
Your Gold is Safe with Us, Mint Tells Clients
GM's Deal Erased Many Average Americans' Savings
June 15
Emerging BRIC Powers and the New World Order
Property Rights Take a Hit
US Government Securities Seized from Japanese Nationals, Not Clear Whether Real or Fake
June 12
Foreclosure Reality Check: 1.6 Million Foreclosure Filings with 5 Months of Data. California Notice of Defaults and Foreclosures Skyrocketing.
McGurn: The Media Fall for Phony 'Jobs' Claims
Chart of the Day: Household Equity
Fed Would Be Shut Down If It Were Audited, Expert Says
Counterfeit or Just Fake?
June 11
The Economic Recovery Decoy: Bank Refuge and Auto and Home Sales Plummet. Two Largest Purchases for Americans still Treading Water. Number of Renters Increases by 748,000 in one Quarter.
Boomers to This Year's Grads: We Are Really, Really Sorry
The Economy Is Still at the Brink
Car Loans are Tough to Get, Even with Good Credit
Sarajevo, OH
Some See China’s Buying Spree on Commodities as Short-Lived
Oil Price Leaps to Year's High
Economic Hell
June 10
Man Faces Life in Prison for Paying Employees in Gold Coins
Russia May Swap Some U.S. Treasuries for IMF Debt
Let's Get It Straight, Hank Paulsen is a Prick Who Took Down the Economy
Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold
You Just Have to Laugh
Financing the Flipping Dream: Alt-A Mortgages and California Mortgage Equity Giants: Number one Alt-A Owner Occupied State is California. Say What? Alt-A and Pay Option ARMs Fueled out of State Buying.
Now Boarding at Gate C14
Peter Schiff on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 6/9/09: "The Economy" video
GOP Rep. Kirk Warns: China's Investing Away From Dollar... Buying Gold & Oil
June 9
Why the Present Depression Will Be Deeper than the Great Crash of 1929
Russia, China Should Dump Dollar in Trade
Russian Ruble to Go Palladium
There’s a Crash Occurring, is Anyone Listening?
The Charm Offensive
June 8
The Geography of Jobs
Betting the Fed
Gold at $2,000
Bankruptcy Filings Rise to 6,000 a Day as Job Losses Take Toll
Bankruptcy's Hidden Toll: The Little Victims
Exclusive Interview with Future Prediction Expert Gerald Celente
13 Cities Post Unemployment Higher Than 15% in April - Jun.
Real Unemployment Situation: Approximately 26,000,000 Unemployed or Underemployed. Job Growth in $10 per Hour Jobs while $20 per Hour Jobs Disappear.
Feds Arrest the Liberty Dollar Competition
June 5
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!
Bear Market Rally?
Dollar's Wounds Reopen
Benefit Spending Soars to New High
Bernanke Warns Deficits Threaten Financial Stability
Dollar's Fate Written in History
The-Largest-US-Bankruptcies
June 4
Obama Selling Military Secrets to China for Debt Forgivenes?
Mint Can't Account for Missing Gold
U.S. Dollar 'Seriously Overvalued' -- Study
U.S. Private Sector Axes 532,000 Jobs in May
German Debts Set to Blow 'Like a Grenade'
Holes in the China Recovery Story
King Tut Market
Betting the Farm
Bernanke's Monkey See Monkey Don't Policy
June 3
Quarterly $1 Trillion Monetization
GM Shuts Part of U.S. 'Arsenal of Democracy'
Stock Market Dissonance: Why the Stock Market no Longer Reflects Main Street Economics. The Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Detroit’s Woes Wound an Army of Suppliers
Dollar Declines as Nations Mull Reserve Currency Alternatives
The Simple Solution
Northwestern Mutual Buys Gold!
Germany Blasts 'Powers of the Fed'
China Forced to Support Dollar to Make Yuan Become Convertible Currency
June 2
Depression Level Unemployment: 40% Unemployment in the U.S.? Top 12 MSA Unemployment Regions Located in California. The Only 2 MSA Regions with 20% Unemployment Exist in California.
Fail
Signs of a New Financial Storm for September Coming from Dubai and Saudi Arabia
Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment
Taxed for Nothing
California’s Day of Reckoning is a Warning for Europe
June 1
GM Bankruptcy Spells Disaster for Small Suppliers
GM Reorganization and the Federal Government
The Coming Communist-American Auto Industry
Painting the Tape While Markets Collapse
Silver Posts Biggest Monthly Gain in 22 Years
The Triple California Housing Threat: Low, Mid, and Upper Range Housing Distress Ladder. How the Housing Implosion will Spread to Higher Priced Neighborhoods.
May 29
Mortgage Market Locks Up
Silver -- Long Term
FSA Reveals Doomsday Scenario to Stress-Test Banks
FDIC Fund Running Dry
It’s a Relative News Day
Investors Digest
Gold Sense in High Places
China, Western Central Banks Out of Sync on Gold
Advanta Bank to Close All Credit Accounts
First Ever Global Housing Led Recession: One out of Eight American Mortgage Holders Either Late or in Foreclosure on their Mortgage: 66% of Mortgages Prime but What Does That Mean if Prime is Now Defaulting at High Rates?
The Second Crash - On the Way and Unstoppable
May 28
U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says
Hitmen Contracts to Bust COMEX
Flopping Around the Mud Flats
California Cities Face Bankruptcy Curbs
April Truck Tonnage Plunges 13.2%
The Message is Catching
It Is Failing: ALL OF IT
U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve Holding Over $2 Trillion in the Darkest Balance Sheet in Financial History.
Rail Traffic Hits Year's Low
Shell Restructuring Puts 24,000 Jobs at Risk
May 27
Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy
Billionaire Club in Bid to Curb Overpopulation
GM Bankruptcy Nears as Bondholders Shun Tender Offer
Signs of More Trouble Ahead for Housing Market
Exploding Debt Threatens America
Suckers, Suckers, Everywhere
The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold
Insanity Gone Rampant
Obama Set to Create a Cybersecurity Czar with Broad Mandate
May 26
Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure
Poor Would be Hard Hit by Proposed California Budget Cuts
The Crisis Isn't California's Alone
Why a GM Bankruptcy Would Be a Disaster
US Bonds Sale Faces Market Resistance
U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve Holding Over $2 Trillion in the Darkest Balance Sheet in Financial History.
Last Hope for Survival
What Obama Does Not Know
Alt-A and Pay Options ARMs: Four States Make Up 46% of Alt-A loans. Examining California, Florida, Nevada, and Arizona. From Bubble Housing Glory to Housing Bust Toxic Mortgage Pain.
May 22
Loud Paradigm Shift Rumblings
Fannie, Freddie in Critical Condition
Cattle Rustling on the Rise as US Recession Bites
Dollar Stops Being Russia's Basic Reserve Currency
Ruble Reserve Currency May Not Be So Crazy
The Economics of Decline
Here Comes the Option ARM Explosion
Web of Debt - Time to Get out the Wheelbarrows? Another Look at the Weimar Hyperinflation
Real Unemployment, GDP Numbers Etc.
Conjuring Monster
May 21
Day of Reckoning Looms for the U.S. Dollar
Distressed Property Sales Hit Upscale Condos
Former Head of Pension Agency Takes the Fifth
At Estates of the Fabulously Rich, Gilded Era Is Going, Going, Gone
Very Bad - and Getting Worse
Gold: Demand Soars Amid Inflation Fears
Rogers Echoes Warning of “Sucker’s Rally”
Emergency Preparedness Exercises Held at Banks
China Grows More Picky About Debt
Local Banks Face Big Losses
May 20
Gold to Go
Asia Will Author Its Own Destruction If It Triggers a Crisis Over US Bonds
Goldfingers Wonder When to Switch Assets
Japan's Economy in Record Plunge
It’s Officially Now Government Motors (GM)
AP Impact: Poll Shows Sink or Swim for Grads
May 19
When the World Steps Out of a Sixty-Year Old Referential Framework
GM Bankruptcy Seen as All But Inevitable
Notes from Another Credit Card Crisis
As Detroit Crumbles, China Emerges as Auto Epicenter
Economy Limiting Services of Local Police
Justttttttttt a Bit Outside
Jobless Horrors
The Wreck of Modern Finance
May 18
Long and Short of Bond Insanity
What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?
The Week in Review: Green Shoots, Meet Paraquat
Demand Downscaling for Wood Products
Gold: It's a Bargain at $930 an Ounce
Lookout - Capitalism's Dead - US Going Bankrupt and War Coming
May 15
California Deficit Resurfaces as Voters Weigh Options
Why the Economy's Recovery Is Not a Certainty
Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
Thuggery and Mob Action, Government Style
Top Irish Banker Pelted with Eggs
Doubt No More
Strong Appetite for Silver Boosts Coin Production
DMCC Vault May Store Region's Gold Reserves
The New American Austerity: Getting By with Less Debt and Less Money. In What Sectors are Americans Spending Less Money?
China's Yuan 'Set to Usurp US Dollar' As World's Reserve Currency
May 14
Toledo's White-Collar Workers Recalibrating Their Lives After Layoffs
Economist: Mich. Jobless Rate May Rise to 20%
New Jersey's Public Pension Bomb
401(k) Investors Can't Get Money
Dealership Hit List Released Thursday
Japan 'Would Avoid Dollar Bonds'
It's Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Worse!
Middle-Class Debt Epidemic: Wealthy Plunged into Crisis by Recession
Inflation Unavoidable
Blame Wisconsin
Trillions in Financial Bailouts: After 2 years, the Major Beneficiaries are Banks and Wall Street. What Other Proof Do You Need That We are Focusing on Bailing out the Banking Oligarchy? Foreclosure Filings at All-Time Record High.
Sour Commercial Real Estate Loans Threaten to Hurt Regional Banks
Forensic Examination of the Gold Carry Trade
Gerald Celente Trends Alert - The "Bailout Bubble" - The Bubble to End All Bubbles
May 13
Medicare, Social Security Funds Worsen in Recession
This is Not the 1930's
Naked Fraud
Dollar Rally Will End, Rogers Says; May Short Stocks
Federal Reserve Cannot Account for $9 Trillion video
General Aviation Sounds Mayday as Fat Cats Ditch Their Jets
May 12
Banks Brace for Credit Card Write-offs
Is America About to Go Broke?
Following the Failed Japanese Economic Playbook: 10 Charts Comparing the Japanese Lost Decade to the United States.
Despite Signs to the Contrary, Real Estate Will Get Worse
Heading Over the Moon
The New York Fed is the Most Powerful Financial Institution You've Never Heard Of. Look Who's Running It.
Million Unemployed Over Last Year. Real Unemployment Rate Now at 15.8%
May 11
Looking Back on the Greatest Depression
On the Subject of Bottoms
How Will Chinese Central Bank Gold Buying Affect the Gold Price
Silver Leads Gold as Dollar Teeters
Welcome to the Frozen Economy
May 8
Green Shoots or Greatest Desperation?
China Fears Bond Crisis As It Slams Quantitative Easing
Baby Boomers' Retirement Bummer
Obamarket Update #74 for Thursday May 7, 2009: You want Stress? I’ll show you Stress!
Small Business: Economic Recovery? What Recovery?
'Goldman Conspiracy:' Explosive 13-Episode TV Show
State Budget Gaps Widen As Tax Revenue Falls
Bond Market: Why You Should Be Worried
Global Crisis ‘Vastly Worse’ Than 1930s, Taleb Says
Goldman Sachs is Insolvent! ** Selloff
US Sets Rules to Leave Bailout Program
May 7
Looking Back on the Greatest Depression
New Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Plunge to 601K Steve Note: Not to us; they were expected
Rich Default on Luxury Homes Like Subprime Victims
SilverToo Little or Too Much?
Ruin - Then More Ruin
Bigger Than Watergate?
Economic Casualties Pile into Tent Cities
Trying to Find a Job is Not a Job
May 6
666: Goldmans Latest Bonus Bears the Mark of the Beast
More Than 1 in 5 Homeowners Underwater: Zillow
Worst Case Scenario (Someone Has to Say It)
Economy on the Ropes
Rural Town Feels Downturn's Ripple Effect as Jobs Vanish in Northern Virginia
States Resort to Furloughs Even as Need for Services Grows
Insiders Selling at a Furious Pace
Bankrupt Banks
Goodbye Bland Affluence
Venezuela Orders Gold Producers to Sell More Locally
May 5
401(k)s Hit by Withdrawal Freezes
The World Melts, China Grows
The Burden of Elitism
Heart-Stopping Circulation
S&P 500 up 34% in Less Than 2 Months: S&P 500 Went Down 38% for All of 2008. So Why are We Still Down 42% from the 2007 Peak?
Gold Isn't Going to $2,000 an Ounce
May 4
The Six Bad Months
China has 'Canceled US Credit Card': Lawmaker
Does Mises' Equation Give a Basis for Gold Price?
It Aint Over ‘Til the Fat Lady Sings
Gold Consolidation Nears End
Stanasolovich: Short Oil, Long Gold
Price Hikes in Mexico in Flu Outbreak
May 1
Why Congress Won't Investigate Wall Street
Obamarket Update #69 for the End of April 2009: I’m Back…
Sorcery of the Doomed
Big Money Moving into Gold and Silver Call Options
Martin Weiss: A Depression is Unavoidable
Swine Flu Fear Catching Fast in Weak World Economy
April 30
How Does $9000 Gold Sound?
Japan Facing Worst Economic Outlook on Record
Trucking Bankruptcies Continue
April 29
There's No Place Like (Someone Else's) Home
April 28
China Admits to Building Up Stockpile of Gold
Economic Impact of Avian Flu
Pecora Commission Where Art Thou? Lessons from the Great Depression Part XXVI: Time to put the Bankers and Wall Street on Trial. “Legal Chicanery and Pitch Darkness were the Banker’S Stoutest Allies.”
Unhealthy Inflation
April 27
The Great Shift in Global Power Just Hit High Gear, Sparked by a Financial Crash
Chinese Diversification Strategy
Unintended Consequences
Guilty of Being Poor
April 24
Playing Platinum & Palladium Ahead of the ETF Launch
GM and Chrysler: Goodnight
US Marches Toward A Financial Disaster Worse Than Anyone Thinks
The Fed's Cash Machine
Volcker Punctures the Nonsense
G-8's First Bankruptcy
April 23
GM to shut most US Plants Up to 9 Weeks
10 Charts Showing a Prolonged Global Recession: Credit Markets, Housing, and Equity Markets Point to Lengthy Economic Contraction.
How Low Could Stock Markets Go?
Retirement Dreams Disappear With 401(k)s
The Treasury's Moral Black Hole
Student Loans: Default Rates are Soaring
Black-Magic Dollars
Harvard Economic Historian Niall Ferguson Predicts Prolonged Financial Hardship, Even Civil War, Before the ‘Great Recession' Ends
April 22
Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air
5 Reasons House Prices May Never Recover
Acting Freddie Mac CFO Commits Suicide
Yuan Trade Move Far Reaching
Pay Up or Get Out
A Generation of Failure
TARP Cop: 20 Criminal Probes
Leading Economist Decries Power of Wall Street "Oligarchs"
Canned Ham, Going Once, Twice: A Rise in Grocery Auctions
April 21
Gold Price Could Hit $1,500
US Gold Rises on Safe-Haven Flow, Credit Fears
What's This?
The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
Birds Best Kept in Hand
The Latest Treasury brainstorm will Retard Bank Recovery
Big Bank Profits are Bogus! Massive Public Deception!
April 20
Russia's Nuclear Attack on U.S. May Start With Major Banks
Will Public Pensions Be Next Bailout?
Rendering unto Caesar
Obama’s Cockeyed Optimism: We are Starting to See Glimmers of Hope Across the Economy
Why a 50% Drop in Housing Is Not the Bottom
Rapacious Corporate Players Are the Real Pirates of the High Seas
The New Financial Overlords: The Debt Class and Those That Provide the Debt in Serfdom. Understanding the New Structure of the American Financial Landscape
April 17
Conspiracy? Is Goldman Sachs Running the Plunge Protection Team?
The International Monetary System’S Breakdown is Underway
You Want Me to Eat What?
Ten principles for a Black Swan-Proof World
Martin Armstrong's "Tell All"
Help from the East
Inflation Laid Bare
April 16
Cramer Destroys Client Wealth in 4 Days
Rising Risks in Municipal Bonds Worry Investors
Consumers' Lawsuits Fight Back Against Debt Collectors
US Foreclosure Filings Jump as Moratoriums End
The Wrong and the Right
Why Our Credit Crunch Mirrors the Weimar Hyperinflation from 1919-1923
April 15
The New York Times on the Precipice
The Suicide of the West
Knock Knock. Don't Open Your Gold Door
Bank of America: $931 Billion in Loans and Leases. Net Income Fell by $11 Billion in 2008. Gear up for Financial Earnings Season.
April 14
Lots of Tea Parties - and Then?
Moodys Downgrades the Entire U.S.
Recession Pain in Palm Beach
Wall Street Stars Begin to Scatter
Beneath the Scum
Older Borrowers, Out in the Cold
Lindsey Williams on The Infowarrior with Jason Bermas 1/6:Super HyperInflation Coming Soon video
The Big Business/Big Government Axis of Evil
April 13
China Slows Purchases of U.S. and Other Bonds
Bailout Bonds?
Recession Closes In on Chicken Farmers
Longer Periods of Unemployment for Workers 45 and Older
Give and Take
The Yellow Brick Road of Gold, Peace and Prosperity
Economic Crisis No End in Sight
April 10
Michigan Facing "Economic Katrina" If GM Files for Bankrupt
Obamarket Update #57 for Wednesday, April 8, 2009: BMBS=PMB
Geithner's Stress Test "A Complete Sham," Former Federal Bank Regulator Says
Gold-Plated Economy in Nevada Town Becomes Rare Beacon for the Jobless
An Asset Bubble for the History Books
Why I Prefer the Silver Lining
Wasting a Good Crisis: Result - $200 Oil
Vacancies at U.S. Retail Centers Hit 10-Year High, Reis Say
Cities Collapsing Throughout the USA
April 9
From Bubble to Depression?
GM Pensions May Be ‘Garbage’ With $16 Billion at Risk
Japan's Current Account Halves, Trade Surplus Down 80%
The Recession's Gotten So Bad, Even the Repo Man's Singing the Blues
Homeward Rebound: Weathering the Storm With Kin
Treasury to Extend Bailout Funds to Life Insurers
The Penny Drops
April 8
Lenders Slash Credit for Responsible Borrowers
Stress Takes Its Toll on Banks
Consumers Fall Behind on Loans at Record Rate
Americans Feel 15.6% Unemployment as Underemployment Surges
Credit Card Companies Shut Down 8M Credit Card Accounts in February While Accepting More Bailout Credit Cards from the U.S. Treasury.
The IMF Rules the World
Global Financial Collapse - Part 1 video
Gold: Is Silver the New Gold?
Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan
April 7
Dollar Devaluation is Inevitable... Just Like in 1934
US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent': Soros
Local Currencies: Communities Printing Own Money To Keep Cash Flowing
45% of World's Wealth Destroyed: Blackstone CEO
The Growing Demand for Gold
So Much Nonsense
Consumer Credit Delinquencies at Record High
US Mint Reports Highest Monthly Silver Bullion Sales Since 1986
Going for Gold: How the World's Mints are Coining It
April 6
The Soft Panic of 2009 Has Just Begun
Tea Prices are Surging. Is Your Mug Next?
Empty Tables Threaten Some Restaurant Chains
Too Many Cars, and They're Not on the Road
April 3
Obamarket Update#53 for April 2, 2009: The Triple U
How Long Will We Have to Wait?
G20: US$ Funeral, US Failed Debtor
Hidden Deficit Horrors
Will the Dark Cloud of Commercial Real Estate Blot Out the U.S. Recovery?
World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire
Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
April 2
G20: US$ Funeral, US Failed Debtor
Soros: If G20 Fails, Global Depression Ahead
Credit Card Write-Downs Hit Record High
Russia, China Cooperate on New Currency Proposals: Kremlin
U.S. Private Sector Axes 742,000 Jobs in March
Layoffs Nearly Triple Last Year's Mark
Ban Ki-Moon: I Fear Global Collapse
Got Gold? You're Right on the Money
April 1
Obama's Faustian Bargain
'Perfect Storm' Puts All Types in Financial Peril
Obamarket Update #51 for Tuesday, March 31, 2009: The Quarter Ends and our Leaders are Playing Quarters
We Still Owe the Rich
The New Deal Dollar and the Obama Dollar
March 31
Bankrupting the World
Pension Insurer Shifted to Stocks
AIG Crisis Could be the Tip of an Insurance Iceberg
The Dollar’s Days are Numbered
Bond Folly
A New Global Currency
Deutsche Bank Risk Chief Says Crisis 'Far From Over'
Growing Economic Crisis Threatens the Idea of One Europe
March 30
Russia Backs Return to Gold Standard to Solve Financial Crisis
A World Currency Moves Nearer After Tim Geithner's Slip
The Fault Lines
'Thesis Trading' Ignores the Data
The Bubble That Must Burst
Insanity Finance
March 27
The 4 Things You Need
Credit Union Collapse Signals Depth of Financial Crisis
ABC News 6 Gerald Celente Predicts Economic Armageddon by 2012
Brazil’s Leader Blames White People for Crisis
On Wall Street, Talk of Trust and Civil War
The Coming 1-World Currency
It Will All End in Disaster
Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York
In New York, a Second, Silent 9/11
'BIG' Money
Accidents Can Happen
The End Game Approaches
Bankruptcy is Economic Stimulus
March 26
One Small Problem With Geithner's Plan: It Will Bankrupt the Banks
The New California Gold Rush
When Bernanke Says All Is Well, it's Time to Duck & Cover
Total Fraud
March 25
Reform the International Monetary System
U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms
Brown Plays Down Rift with Bank of England as He Tries to Sell Economic Recovery Plan in the U.S.
Welcome to Fuffland
Peter Schiff Stimulus Bill Will Lead to "Unmitigated Disaster" video
Unconventional Stupidity
March 24
The Brokest Generation
The Big Takeover contains offensive language
The Generosity of Murray
China Calls for New Reserve Currency
Job-saving Nonsense
Falling Dollar Prompts BRIC Nations to Rethink Dollar
PJB: Systemic Failure
March 23
The Collapse of Manufacturing
The Collapse of ’09
Fed Planning 15-Fold Increase In US Monetary Base
Half of Us Have One Month of Cash Cushion If Laid Off
China Backs Talks on Dollar as Reserve -Russian Source
Safe? But of Course!!!
Whodunit? Choose from 27 Villains Fomenting 'Doomsday 2011'
March 20
Putin Warns Against Printing Money to Cover Deficit
Gold, Gossip & Russia's Tu-160 Bombers
Gold & Treasury Feeder System
Big Slide in 401(k)s Spurs Calls for Change
Belief That the Wealthy Are Worthy is Waning
Turning the Screw
Not Just Homeowners, But Renters Are Really Getting Screwed
Banks Warned on Commercial Property ‘Black Hole’
Central Banks are Buying Gold for Their Reserves Now!
Sarkozy Warned of ‘Class War’
U.S. Move Will Push Russia and China Toward Economic Matrimony
March 19
U.S. Could Use Crisis to Wage 'Financial Warfare'
Consumer Prices Rise 0.4% in February
Caution On Quantitative Easing (QE)
GM CEO Says Bankruptcy Would Cause Liquidation
The End of a Crooked Road
Obamarket Update#42 for Wednesday March 18, 2009: The Damned Idiot Actually Did It!
Excessive Excesses
March 18
State Considers Return to Gold, Silver Dollars
The Fed Did Indeed Cause the Housing Bubble
U.S. Bailouts Add to Risk of Depression, Rogers Says
Britain Showing Signs of Heading Towards 1930S-Style Depression, Says Bank
Gold Buying Opportunity of a Lifetime
Comex Gold Trading is a Paper Game
Value Cross-Over
Obama's War on Recovery
Had Enough FRAUD America?
China Inoculates Itself Against Dollar Collapse
March 17
US$6,948 Gold Would Support Greenback
US Mint Suspends Production of More Gold and Silver Coins
The FDIC: as Rock Solid as Social Security
Rome Is Burning, Nero Is Fiddling
Treasurys Are 'Disaster Waiting to Happen'
Worry Grows Over Insurers As Ratings Slip
The Not-So-Safe Haven
Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer: The Extended Daily Show Interview
Credit Card Cancer
California Financial Dreaming: 5 Exhibits Showing Why California will be in a recession until 2011: Revenue Projections, Housing Inventory, Unemployment, Toxic Mortgages, and Consumer Psychology.
March 16
America Faces New Depression Misery As Financial Crisis Worsens
Extraordinary Stress in the Silver Market
Before the Stampede
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis
Bar-Mat Horrors
March 13
World Mints Report Soaring Demand for Gold Coins
Swiss Action Sparks Talk of Currency War
US Mint Discontinues Fractional Gold Coins
China ‘Worried’ Over Safety of U.S. Debt, Wen Says
Bailing out the Insurers
Banks Net Buyers of Gold
Martin Armstrong: Is It Time to Turn Out the Lights?
Nobel Prize Winner Backs World Currency
March 12
Bailout Totals Follow the Trail
Long and the Short of It
This Is Not a Test. This Is Not a Test.
45% of World's Wealth Destroyed: Blackstone CEO
Debt and Taxes Are Killing Landlords
The International Financial Institutions Are Overwhelmed
The Looting of America's Coffers
Libor's Creep Shows Credit Markets at Risk of Seizure
March 11
Washington Prepares for Big Bank Failure
Into the Financial Abyss
Do I Have Enough Gold?
Number One Reason to Own Gold
Gold is Ready to Go Very High Very Fast
Outstanding Derivatives: 1.28 Quadrillion-95% on Margin!
US Wholesalers Cut Inventories Further in January
Gold Coin Shortage Is Likely to Become Chronic
March 10
Obama’s Toxic Brew
Meredith Whitney Says Credit Cards Are the Next Credit Crunch
Join the Saved Minority
The Next Hit: Quick Defaults
Job Losses Could Drown Stimulus
What Does One TRILLION Dollars Look Like?
March 9
Evans-Pritchard: Dow 4,000 by Summer
Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust
Trillions Have Dissappeared into the Ether
Forget the 1930's; We Are Facing 1917
The End of the World . . . As We Knew It
The Panic Phase
$50 Trillion Wiped Off World Financial Assets
Can You Survive Economic Crisis?
Shining Through the Darkness
Cash in a Mattress? No, Gold in the Closet.
March 6
Food Stamp Enrollment Jumps to Record 31.8 Million
FDIC Warns US Bank Deposit Insurance Fund Could Tank
Paralyzed Markets Plunge to New Depths
Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout
Auto Sales: Worst February in 40 Years
The Easy Answer
How CEOs Steal From Your 401(k)
Cramer: My Response to the White House
Sink or Swim
Fed Refuses to Release Bank Data, Insists on Secrecy
Investigator Details Bernie Madoff’s Relationship With Organized Crime
In Crisis, GE Finds Its Deep Bench Not So Magical
Plunging Markets, Then and Now
March 5
FDIC’s Bair Says Insurance Fund Could Be Insolvent This Year
Putin Denies New World Currency Rumor
More U.S. Consumers, Businesses File for Bankruptcy: Report
The Trace Act [HR 814]: Will Make NAIS Federal Law
Organized Crime, Terrorism and the Banking Crisis
Europe's Banks Face a $2 Trillion Dollar Shortage
Financial Coup d'Etat
Bank Woes Drain Deposit Insurance Fund
Citi's Troubles Pile Up
As Projects Grind to a Halt, Home Sites Turn to Wasteland
The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent
We're All Doomed - Again
March 4
Nationalization Isn't the Worst Fear
Industrialized Civilization Must Collapse
Sobering Up
March 3
The Greatest Depression Under Way
Ukraine Risks Unrest as Ills Worsen
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Confidence Crisis
Off the Scales
Our Troubled Economy Is a Response to Barack Obama's Policies
March 2
CNBC Analyst: Global Bank, Global Currency Within 15 Years
Is Ireland Fated to be Another Iceland?
UK House Prices Fall to Lowest Level on Record
The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
Worst Job Losses in 60 Years Expected
AIG Reports Record $61.7Bn Loss
The U.S. Economy: Designed to Fail
February 27
Nation Transformed By Fear
Has Back Door Debt Monetization Already Begun?
RBS Unveils $34 Billion Loss, Record for a UK Firm
Obamarket Update Number 28 for February 26, 2009
1 Trillion in Taxes is Hell to Pay!
Economy Shrinks at Worst Pace in 25 Years
Treasuries Fall for 3rd Day
Arsonists Torch Berlin Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woe
February 26
The Next Big Financial Meltdown?
Laid Off? No New Job? How Bad Can It Get?
American Consumers Cutting up that Final Credit Card: The End of a 30 Year Consumption Era and the Nervous Breakdown of the Spending Psychosis.
Worried Investors Want Gold on Hand
The Spectacular, Sudden Crash of the Global Economy
Bunch of Turkeys!
The Price of Protection
Plus Side of Stupidity
February 25
Government Digs a Deeper Hole
How Far Down the Economic Hole Are We Headed?
There Will Be Blood
U.S. Consumer Confidence Plunges to Record Low in February
Loan Defaults by Franchisees Soar
Bankrupt Delphi Told It Can Cancel Retiree Benefits
February 24
World Economies Tumbling Like Dominoes
Fair It Is Not
The Long and the Short of It
Food for Thought
Fear, Pride, and Greed
World Stocks Mixed Ahead of Bernanke Testimony
AIG in Talks With U.S. Government, Sees $60 Billion Loss: Source
Obama Sells U.S. to China Inc.
February 23
Nationalization Would Crush America
World Financial System in a State of Insolvency
Financial Crisis is Now Global
UK "Could Experience a Crash Similar to Iceland"
Red Alert: Major Meltdown Imminent! Your Escape
Citigroup, Bank of America: Prisoner's Dilemma, Electronic Bank Runs and Nationalization
Miles of Idled Boxcars Leave Towns Singing the Freight-Train Blues
The Wizard of Oz: As Extracted from ’Cracking the Code’
Clinton Wraps Asia Trip By Asking China to Buy US Debt
Saved in Indiana
February 20
Putin: Post-US World Blueprint
Commercial Real Estate's Crisis Point Approaching?
Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks
Inflation Via Another Con
The Great Depression has Arrived- Collapsing American Dreams
Examples: Confidence Destroyed
Obamarket Update Number 23for February 19, 2009: All news, All Bad
Fannie Mae Rescue Hindered as Asians Seek Guarantee
The Hijacking of America
February 19
Insight: Gold Primed to be 'Mania Asset'
Investors Rush into Gold Coins
It's Getting Ugly: Economist Says Hoard Gold & Scotch
The Burning Platform
It Will Happen
Michael Auslin Says Japan's Economic Downturn Is Bad News for the World
China Lends Russia $25 Bln to Get 20 Years of Oil
Savers Besiege Stanford Banks
Amero Could Result from Crisis
February 18
In Time Of Crisis Never Forget the Value of Gold
The New Currency Trade: Gold Vs. All Else
"Worst Is Yet to Come" Americans' Standard of Living Permanently Changed
Allen Stanford, Second Half Financial Recovery, and Decoupling: Delusional Economic Beliefs now Shattered
Sales Tax Time Bomb Explodes
Brzezinski: ‘Hell, There Could Be Even Riots’
February 17
Nationalizing 401k(s)
Auto Maker Bankruptcy Looms
Suburb Cat Thousandaire: How Americans Lost a Decade of Wealth through Debt and Listening to the Banking and Housing Industry
Kansas Suspends Income Tax Refunds, May Miss Payroll
Surcharge on Insanity
Eastern European Currencies Crumble As Fears of Debt Crisis Grow
Euro Drops to 10-Week Low on Concern Europe’s Turmoil to Worsen
Little-Known Agency That Insures Pensions of 44 Million Workers Braces for Recession Fallout
Shortage of Platinum After Japan Buying Spree
February 16
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Diluted to Oblivion, Dead Banks
Ireland Could Default on Debt
Severe Retail Downturn Forecast for 2009
Federal Obligations Exceed World GDP
Economic Stimulus Bill Mandates $954 Million for Vaccinations, $545 Million for "Genomics Programs"
February 13
Deluge of Financial Calamities Looming by Mid-March
Interview with Gerald Celente
European Banks May Need £16.3 Trillion Bail-Out, EC Dcoument Warns
Ireland to Take Control of Banks, While Plans for Fortis are Rebuffed
As US Economy Tanks, No Limits to Make Ends Meet
A Pension Deficit Disorder
Fear and Greed
Capitalism Needs a Sound-Money Foundation
Silence is Golden
Another Year of Shock and Awe
Economic and Financial Systems Deliberately Destabilized
U.S. Farm Income to Drop 20% in 2009
Agri-Foods Thoughts
February 12
Shining as Never Before
China Needs U.S. Guarantees for Treasuries, Yu Say
Militarizing Police Depts. With Your Bailout Money
As Vacant Office Space Grows, So Does Lenders’ Crisis
The (Zimbabwean) Dollar - The Point of No Return
McEwen, Goldcorp Founder, Bets Crisis Will Drive Gold to $5,000
Shock and Blah
Shortage of Critical Commodities Seen Already
February 11
The Rise and (Almost) Fall of America's Banks
Retailers: Holding the Key Vote?
Ron Paul: Collapse of the Dollar - video
Muscled-Up Pelosi Casts Shadow on World
$3 Trillion! Senate, Fed, Treasury Attack Crisis
The Tax Poem
Gold Lining to Mortgage Cloud
February 10
Bullion Sales Hit Record in Rush to Safety
Precious Metals Regaining Monetary Status
'Buy American' - or Bye-Bye America
Asia: The Coming Fury
Nugget by Nugget
The Coming Great Depression Why Government Is Powerless
U.S. Rail Traffic, Carloadings Tumble
G.E. and Citigroup Faces Losses on Store Cards
Marc Faber: U S Will Default on Debt or Enter Hyperinflation - video
GM Fights to Avoid Bankruptcy Protection
A Proposal to Shore Up Banks With Pension Funds
February 9
Silver/Gold Ratio Reversion
Gold Hysteria Continues, With Prices Possibly Hitting Us$1,500, Says Merrill Lynch
Peace of Mind Comes in Yellow
This is Just the Beginning
US Inflation Could Hit 200%: Dr. Doom
Nicolas Sarkozy Accuses Gordon Brown of Ruining British Economy
Even Elderly are Facing Eviction
Bank Charge-off Rate Highest Since 1992 for Commercial Bank
U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailouts as Senate Votes
Nissan to Cut 20,000 Jobs
February 6
Revolt Brews in Counties
Peter Schiff on 2009-2010 USA Hyperinflation video
Hands Out for the Bailout
February 5
Rising Unemployment Hits 98% of Metro Areas
Parallels With the Great Depression
Japan on the Brink of the Abyss?
Bad News Means Bad News
Riots Around the World Because of Skyrocketing Unemployment video
February 4
Its About Personal Survival
Can Countries Really Go Bankrupt?
Bailouts: A Complete Fraud Against the American Worker
The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon: How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy Wars
Beijing Rocked By 26 Million Lost Jobs
Are the States Really Broke or Hiding Assets?
So You Think 2008 Was Bad? Welcome to 2009
U.S. Dollar Devaluation on its Way
Japan's Panasonic to Cut 15,000 Jobs, Shut Plants
The Bogus Side of Bonus Culture
Keep Your Nuggets to Yourself
February 3
Closing Dealers Stun Buyers With Liens on Trade-In
Wealth Evaporation of $40 Trillion: 3 Areas: Global Stock Market Capitalization, U.S. Residential Real Estate, and Oil.
Obamarket Update Number 10 for February 2, 2009: The Fiction of the Action
California Goes Broke, Halts $3.5 Billion in Payments
Credit You Rode in On
February 2
Deception in Quest of Remedy
The Next Catastrophe Pension Funds
Allstate Catastrophe Bonds Face Imminent Default
World Stocks Fall on Poor Earnings, Banking Woes
46 of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy in 2009-2010
Governments aCross Europe Tremble as Angry People Take to the Streets
Peso Huge Drop in Value
The New Ownership Society: Federal Reserve Bank, U.S. Treasury, and the FDIC - FYI, We Already Own More Than you Think.
World Food Prices Are Rising Fast
We've Only Just Begun?
January 30
Brown Warns of Void Left by Collapse of Financial System
U.S. Economy Probably Shrank Most Since '82 in 4th Quarter as Credit Froze
China, US Play Currency Chicken
Japanese Economy Hit By "Perfect Storm"
U.K. Consumer Confidence Drops Close to Record Low
Gold Rally Fills Vaults With Bullion as Bank Stimulus Increases
$1 Trillion 'Bad Bank' Gains Favor
Bill Allots Millions to Filipino Vets Abroad
January 29
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Calls for End of Dollar Stranglehold
Despair Spreads Amid Mounting Job Losses
British Slump Will Be Worst in Developed World, Says IMF
New Bank Bailout Could Cost $2 Trillion
Sony's Quarterly Net Profit Tumbles 95%
Money Creation, Geithner and the Thin Air Between
Starbucks to Cut 6,700 Jobs, Close 300 Stores
Insured Losses from Klaus Put at Billions of Dollars
The Economy The Titanic & The Life Rafts of Gold & Silver
Boeing Posts Loss, Announces 10,000 Job Cuts
Record Number in U.S. Getting Jobless Benefits
January 28
Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Stimulus
Hedging Your Investment Portfolio by Buying Firearms
Dudley to Succeed Geithner at New York Fed
Bankers' Fear of Unemployment
Poo Flinging Monkeys
Everybody's Business - Deep in Debt, and Now Deep in Worry
Do We Need a North American Currency?
Money and Our Future
Bad News for Food Eaters
Man Kills Wife, Five Kids, Himself After Being Fired
Baboon’s Blood Offers Davos Leaders Shakespearian Market Magic
January 27
The Next Catastrophe: Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a Politicized Financial Disaster? Just Wait Until Pension Funds Implode.
Grand Theft America: "All Your Wealth Are Belong to Us" - flashback
Patching the World With Glue
Financial Services Rust Belts
Black Monday: 70,000 Jobs Vanish
The British Question
The Day the Banks Were Just Three Hours From Collapse
What's Making Hedge-Funders Paranoid
Iceland's Government Topples Amid Financial Mess
Hourly Action in Gold from Trader Dan
January 26
U.S. Mint Discouraging Gold Ownership
Obama Appoints Top Notch CFR, Bilderberg Members
Downturn Accelerates As It Circles the Globe
Liquidation Risk Grows As Finance Dries Up
Hyperinflation Will Begin in China And It Will Destroy the Dollar
Nationalization Gets a New, Serious Look
Calif Farmers Idle Crops, Veggie Prices May Rise
The Temptation of Dollar Seigniorage
January 23
CODE RED: Economy in Collapse - Drastic Actions Will Be Taken
JPMorgan Chief Says Worst of the Crisis Still to Come
Special Forces Rescue Icelandic Prime Minister From Furious Credit Crunch Rioters
Contemplating the Demise of Bank of America, Citi and JPMorgan
Carpocalypse Now: Where Are Automakers Stashing Unsold Cars
Mervyn King Paves Way to Start Bank Print Presses
Jim Rogers Sees Renminbi Replacing US Dollar as World Reserve Currency
Gold Hits Record Highs in Euro, Sterling Terms
The Gathering Storm
Ivory Tower Nonsense
California Investing and Housing 2009 Forecast: The Rise of the Bottom Caller. Bottom Investment Callers out Again, Foreclosures Dominate Market, Home Prices Near 2002 Levels.
January 22
Gold Safehaven as U.S. and UK Head for Bond Default and Devaluation
Fed Manipulating Market Prices, Gold, Oil and Bonds
Gold to Gain Through 2012, Morgan Stanley Forecasts
Jobless Claims Increased Sharply Last Week
Art Nadel the New Bernard Madoff?
Food Banks Struggling to Meet Demand
Card Data Breached, Firm Says
Patrick Rocca, 'Poster Boy' of Ireland's Celtic Tiger, Kills Himself
January 21
Banks Sink Deeper into Crisis on Obama's First Day
The Collapse of Capitalism and the Safety Net of Gold
Lloyds Shares Halve in Value in 2 Days Over Nationalisation Fears
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State Address
The Obama Economic Miracle
A World of Financial Freeloaders
Lightning, Earthquakes & Hurricanes
Why I'm So Bearish
Silver and the Minimum Wage
Seriously Alarmed
January 20
Pound Slumps to Record Versus Yen; Rogers Says U.K. ‘Finished’
Where is the Safe Haven?
Economy Worsening Rapidly
Supplying a Loss
Recession Rides the Rails
California Finds Public-Works No Unemployment Cure
Government Gone Insane
The Federal Reserve’s Blueprint for Market Intervention
The Endgame
Biblical Debt Jubilee May Be the Only Answer
Chapter 7 Bankruptcies up. Credit Card and Consumer Credit Crisis: Americans were Using Consumer Credit as a Lifeline and it is now drying Up Pushing Bankruptcies Upward. $2.5 Trillion in Loans at Risk.
January 19
Buffett Says US in 'Economic Pearl Harbor'
Dark Days for Retail
RBS Loses £28Billion in a Year As Darling Warns British Economy Will Collapse If Second Bank Bailout Fails
The End of Banking as We Know It
Monetary Union Has Left Half of Europe Trapped in Depression
The World in Depression: Lessons from the Great Depression: Part XXIV: Economic Crises Around the World in Synchronization.
‘Time to Sell’ Treasuries, Biggest Korean Fund Says
Gold Will Emerge Winner in This Tug of War
January 16
Open the Mint to Gold!
Foreclose the Dream: Record Breaking Foreclosures in 2008. California Foreclosures Rise Like a Phoenix now that Weak Foreclosure Legislation is Catching up.
Bread Misery Index
Bank of America: 'Large Grp' of Workers on NYC Plane
Madoff Might Not Have Made Any Trades
Bank of China VP Warns of Fresh Financial Crisis
Agri-Foods Thoughts
January 15
US Foreclosure Filings Up 81 Percent in 2008
Treasury: Deficit Hits New Record in Just 3 Months
Fiscal Situation of 50 States: Combined Budget Gaps Estimated at $350 Billon for 2010 and 2011.
No Taxation Without Inflation
Capitalism at the Crossroads
The Unavoidable Face of Hyperinflation
January 14
Trilateral Plan to Corner World Gold Market
Gold & The New Era
Shipping Rates Hit Zero as Trade Sinks
Troubled and Trendy Bailout Route
Nouriel Roubini 2009 U.S. GDP Forecasting 40% Home Mortgage Failures?
No Conviction Due to a Lack of Convictions
January 13
Bernanke Urges ‘Strong Measures’ to Stabilize Banks
US Bankruptcy Code Bill Rattles MBS Market
Running on Empty
Every Breath is Needed
Depression Looms
A Triumph of Wishful Thinking
In Fraud We Trust
January 12
The Bond Bubble is an Accident Waiting to Happen
Negative Horror Story
Hard Truths
The End of the US Piano Industry
Treasurer Warns AZ Running Out of Cash
January 9
Bernard L. Madoff: International Financial Terrorist
Sowing the Seeds
Jan 8, 2009 Ended Dollar Dead Bounce
US Braces for the Worst Jobs Report in 34 Years
Panic Could Herald Dollar Rout
A Federal Reserve Thingy
Gordon Brown's Decision to Sell Half of the UK's Gold Reserves 'Cost UK £5billion'
Real Homes of Genius: Santa Monica, meet Housing Crash. Prime Real Estate Isn’t so Prime Anymore.
Peter Schiff Financial Predictions video
Merrill Lynch Says Rich Turning to Gold Bars for Safety
China Is Losing Its Taste for U.S. Debt
January 8
Government Panic Could Herald Dollar Panic
Marc Faber on the Economy, Gold, WWIII
'Austria's Woman on Wall Street,' Sonja Kohn, Disappears Amid Fears of Madoff Retribution
Is Chrysler a Lost Cause?
The Fate of Paper Money
January 7
Private Sector Cut 693,000 Jobs in December
Even Dead Cats Bounce
The Madoff Sideshow
Public Ownership of the Banks is the Only Way to Avert Disaster
The Smell of Corruption
The New Investing Psychology of the Southern California Housing Market: Hunting the SoCal Foreclosure Market. The New Rules of Southern California Real Estate.
Billionaire Merckle Commits Suicide
Real-Estate Executive Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
January 6
Beware, Commodity Index Rebalancing Ahead
Looming Collapse of Russia and China
Empty Offices are on the Rise
Monetary Policy Slamming on Breaks. What Do You Do When Banks Don’T Want to Lend? Become the Consumer. Government Getting Ready to Spend to Stimulate the Economy.
Gold May Advance for Eighth Year as ‘Perfect Insurance’ Sought
Our 2009 Predictions
US Auto Sales Plunge Whopping 36% in Dec.
Get Out Now!
Krugman Fed Can't Save Us from Great Depression
Willem Buiter Warns of Massive Dollar Collapse
January 5
US Asks Arab Nations for $300 Billion to Fund Auto Bailout
Savers Facing Accounts With No Interest
Japanese Asset Bubble: Lessons from the Economic Asset Bubble of Japan, The Heisei Boom. What Parallels Exist Between the Japanese Asset Bubble and Our Current Financial Environment?
Bailout Cost Exceeds All American Wars
Silver Lining to Garbage
Fed has Abandoned Monetary Policy, Critic Says
Idle Ports Signal Two 'Bleak' Years Ahead in World Trade
Report: Microsoft to Lay Off 15,000 Workers
January 2
The Crisis of Common Sense: Is It So Difficult to Understand the Financial Crisis
The Crisis in 10 Points
Rising Desperation as China's Exports Drop
Useless T.A.-T.A.’s?
The Biggest Casualty of 2008
Downgrades and Downfall
US Stocks Suffer Worst Year Since Great Depression
An Unhappy New Year