"How Do I Protect Myself From This?"

11-05-2010 • Market-ticker.denninger.org/

There is only one way, and that is to save everyone. That is, to force this crap to stop - by whatever means are necessary - and possible.

People Who "Want A Job Now" Jumps To Second Highest Ever

11-05-2010 • ZeroHedge.com

People Who "Want A Job Now" Jumps To Second Highest Ever As Persons Not In Labor Force Reaches Record

Labor Force Participation Rate Drops To 25 Year Low, At 64.5%

11-05-2010 • ZeroHedge.com

The inverse silver lining to today's jobs report that will be lost in the shuffle of what is perceived as a good NFP (despite consistent initial jobless claims of around 450K, which means that either there is a massive data error, or...

42,389,619 Americans Are Now On Food Stamps

11-04-2010 • Market-ticker.denninger.org/ & blogs.wsj.com/

42,389,619 Americans received food stamps in August, a 17% rise from the same time a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which tracks the data. That number is up 58.5% from August 2007, before the recession began.

Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs

11-04-2010 • bloomberg.com

In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy -- with comedian Jon Stewart.

The Myth of the Modern Stock Market

11-04-2010 • dailybell.com

Happy days are here again.

A Suggested Survival List

11-04-2010 • chuckbaldwinlive.com

This column was initially released last December. Without a doubt, this has been one of my most requested columns. So, in response to the large number of readers who have asked me to re-release this column, I do so today. And in doing so, I have adde

Catherine Austin Fitts: Looting America, and The Tapeworm Economy

11-04-2010 • InfoWars.com/ & Youtube.com

"I started to talk about the Tapeworm Economy, because if you look at the Tapeworm Economy, the media feeds us information about what is good for the tapeworm, and bad for us." Catherine Austin Fitts

Today on LewRockwell.com - Thursday Nov. 4th 2010

11-04-2010 • LewRockwell.com

Is the Fed Engineering a Crack-Up Boom? - We Need Private Courts and Juries Nothing else is compatible with a free society, says Doug Casey - And So Election Day Passes, Nobody got what he wanted, except that grotesque monster, the government. Artic

Jobless Claims Jump to 457,000, Miss Expectations

11-04-2010 • ZeroHedge.com

The prior week's 434K was revised to 437K, continuing the statistically improbable streak by the Ministry of Truth. Otherwise, the current number, which will also be revised higher next week, came at 457K, 15K worse than expectations of 442K.

The tunnel people of Las Vegas: How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth

11-04-2010 • dailymail.co.uk/news/

But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood tunnels are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly.

Freddie Mac Q3 net loss $4.1 billion, taps Treasury

11-03-2010 • Reuters

Freddie Mac, the second-largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Wednesday said a faltering housing market resulted in a $4.1 billion third-quarter net loss and another draw from the Treasury to maintain positive net worth. Freddi

QE 2 has officially began. $600 Billion worth of Treasury paper to be purchased

11-03-2010 • Business Insider

QE Begins!! $600 billion will be printed to purchase Treasuries by Q2 2011. That's a bit more than the latest expectations.

A Superpower in Decline Is the American Dream Over?

11-02-2010 • der Spiegel

America has long been a country of limitless possibility. But the dream has now become a nightmare for many. The US is now realizing just how fragile its success has become -- and how bitter its reality. Should the superpower not find a way out of cr

Fed Easing May Mean 20% Dollar Drop: Bill Gross

11-02-2010 • Reuters

The dollar is in danger of losing 20 percent of its value over the next few years if the Federal Reserve continues unconventional monetary easing, Bill Gross, the manager of the world's largest mutual fund, said on Monday.

Inside Job Trailer 2010

11-02-2010 • YouTube.com

From Sony Pictures Classics comes the new shocking documentary "Inside Job" which investigates and exposes the economic crisis of 2008. The film, in theaters October 8th, was directed by Charles Ferguson and narrated by Matt Damon.

Calif. rail project is high-speed pork

11-02-2010 • Washington Post

Somehow, it's become fashionable to think that high-speed trains connecting major cities will help "save the planet." They won't. They're a perfect example of wasteful spending masquerading as a respectable social cause. They would further burden alr

Time for a New Theory of Money With Ellen Brown

11-02-2010 • arclein

s in the 17th century, however, the scheme has run into trouble when more than one investor group has tried to foreclose at the same time. And the securitization model has now crashed against the hard rock of hundreds of years of state real est