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Dow Falls 200 Points (Wall Street Journal)

Gold ends 1% higher on safe-haven flows (MarketWatch)

Where Has All the Trading Gone? Volume Hits 4-Year Low (CNBC)

US flexes muscles as it sends aircraft carriers to Persian Gulf (The Telegraph)

JPMorgan Derivative Trades: Big Enough to Move Markets? (Businessweek)

John Stossel: Let's give the Fed some competition (FreedomPolitics)

Physical gold demand to pick up as Indian festival approaches, jewelers strike ends (Kitco)

Chart of "US Recovery": third time is the charm, or head and shoulders time? (ZeroHedge)

Inflation Fears Dent Small Business Optimism: Survey (CNBC)

VIDEO: U.S. Taxpayers pay millions to mow lawns of foreclosed homes (Yahoo!)

French Business Confidence Stalls, Factory Output Drops (Bloomberg)

Bernanke Calls on Regulators to Curb Shadow Banking Risks (Bloomberg)

China posts surprise trade surplus on export rebound (Sydney Morning Herald)

Bernanke says banks need more capital (Sydney Morning Herald)

US gives Iran 'last chance' warning over shutting down nuclear facility (Independent)

Silver is primed for a comeback (Nasdaq)

Swiss village votes to turns its back on $1.2 billion goldmine (The Telegraph)

Stock Market Regulators Can't Find a Whale in a Pipeline (The Street)

Federal Funds to Train the Jobless Are Drying Up (CNBC)

Markets at the Start of a More Significant Downturn: Marc Faber (CNBC)

Chinese prices keep climbing (CNN)

Italy Fights Spain for Investors as ECB Boost Fades (Bloomberg)

Traders Navigate a Murky New World (Wall Street Journal)

Financials Lead U.S. Stock Losses (Wall Street Journal)

Union Pension Underfunding Time-Bomb Soars By 75%, Nears $400B (ZeroHedge)

At the open: Dow in triple-digit decline (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, silver rise on Indian wedding season demand (Economic Times)

CRU's Top Ten Gold mining countries of 2011- China tops with 380 tonnes (CommodityOnline)

Barclays: Macro picture bullish for Gold; fundamentals bearish (CommodityOnline)

Inflation in China defies expectations as higher food costs bite (Shanghai Daily)

Porsche sales race ahead 21.2% in March on surging Chinese demand (China Post)

Gold Surges As Indian Jeweler Strike Ends, Equity Futures Slide (ZeroHedge)

Gold crash on Fed tightening and euro salvation looks premature (The Telegraph)

JPMorgan pushes CDOs for trade finance (Financial Times)

Despite recovery, U.S. public employees face more layoffs (Reuters)

Former Commodities trader jailed for SEC death threats (Sydney Morning Herald)

Forget Travel if You Owe the IRS (Forbes)

China Buys Inroads in the Caribbean, Worrying US (CNBC)

150 Years Of US Fiat (ZeroHedge)

Penny Wise, or 2.4 Cents Foolish? (New York Times)

UBS sees significant risk of gold slipping below $1,600/oz (CommodityOnline)

JPMorgan Hedges Silver for Clients, Masters Says on CNBC (Bloomberg)

Economist warns of China growth woes (Shanghai Daily)

European stocks post third week of losses as Spanish bonds fall (Sydney Morning Herald)

What is the value of an Olympic gold medal? (The Economist)

VIDEO: 'No truth on extent of US indebtedness' (YouTube)

What Do Iran Sanctions Cost You? About 25 Cents a Gallon, Experts Say (CNBC)

Gold Futures Tipped To Rally When Market Reopens (Wall Street Journal)

Indian Jewelers Call Off Strike (Wall Street Journal)

51 Months After The Start Of The Recession, Here Is The Report Card (ZeroHedge)

Federal deficit for first half of 2012: $777 billion (Los Angeles Times)

Elite Meme: Anything Is Better Than Gold (The Daily Bell)

The Who, How & Why of Silver Price Manipulation (Resource Investor)

Chinese Export Machine Upgraded as Cranes Replace Toys (Bloomberg)

Dollar Falls as Payrolls Trail Forecast, Adding Fed Bets (Bloomberg)

Job Growth Loses Steam (Wall Street Journal)

Jim Rogers: Buy more gold at $1500/oz (CommodityOnline)

Forget gasoline, diesel topped $4 a month ago (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Big Banks Pose "Clear and Present Danger" to U.S. Taxpayers (Yahoo!)

'London Whale' Rattles Debt Market (Wall Street Journal)

Greece: Even Corruption Is In A Deep Recession (ZeroHedge)

Greece Plays Chicken With Bondholders...Again (CNBC)

Bad loans at Chinese banks may worsen (Shanghai Daily)

US scores own goal on Gold (Market Oracle)

Europe and the Law of Sticky Wages (The Telegraph)

Gold Traders Bearish for First Time in 2012 (Bloomberg)

IMF approves 5.17B euro loan to Portugal (Sydney Morning Herald)

China overtakes US as largest grocery market (Shanghai Daily)

Australia and New Zealand could adopt single currency (The Telegraph)

Americans brace for next foreclosure wave (Reuters)

Pain at Pump Is Hitting Independent Gas Station Owners (Wall Street Journal)

Yahoo to cut 2,000 more jobs (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Fed's Lacker Says Volcker Rule May Be 'Impossible' to Implement (Bloomberg)

Gold Falls Hard: Era of Cheap Money Over? (CNBC)

Jim Rogers 'Not So Optimistic' About Gold, Silver; Still Plans on Buying More (Bloomberg)

Advisors Still Can't – and Won't – Recommend Gold and Silver (The Daily Bell)

Stock futures fall as hopes of further stimulus fade (Reuters)

Gold Falls for Second Day on Fed Stimulus Stance (Bloomberg)

Spanish debt yields jump as deficit problems mount (The Globe and Mail)

VIDEO: S&P 1600 = Time to Get Out (YouTube)

Gold No Hysteria and No Bubble According to US Mint Coin sales (Market Oracle)

Austerity Is a Disaster: The Lesson of Europe's Record Unemployment (The Atlantic)

VIDEO: Marc Faber on Stocks, Gold, Fed Policy, Strategy (Bloomberg)

China eyes more overseas investment (Sydney Morning Herald)

Moody's cuts GE debt rating on finance risks (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold's Critical Metric (ZeroHedge)

IMF chief calls on US for more cash (Sydney Morning Herald)

World Bank president backs up BRICS plan for development bank (China Post)

China's Wen Says Bank Monopoly Must Be Broken Up (CNBC)

No QE3: Gold, silver, bonds get creamed (MarketWatch)

Silver's Storm Before the Calm (Wall Street Journal)

Comex gold bullish bets increase, silver bulls cut positions (CommodityOnline)

11-year-old wins €100 for 'pizza and pancake' Greek euro exit plan (The Telegraph)

Euro Zone Needs a Divorce: Roubini (CNBC)

Bullish China shops in industrial Germany (Reuters)

Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt (AP/Yahoo!)

US sues Royal Bank of Canada for massive fraud (Sydney Morning Herald)

American Eagle gold, silver bullion sales bounce in March but down from 2011 (CoinNews)

Russian gold miners: party over? (Financial Times)

Morgan Stanley: 'Gold and Silver still extremely bullish for 2012, 2013' (CommodityOnline)

Bitcoin, the City traders' anarchic new toy (Reuters)

Silver Forming Head and Shoulders Bottom Pattern (Market Oracle)

The real hunger games: How banks gamble on food prices- and the poor lose out (Independent)

Uruguay wants to barter rice for oil with Iran (Reuters)

'Massive Wealth Destruction' Is About to Hit Investors: Faber (CNBC)

Gold myths everyone needs to understand to survive the global economic crisis (ZeroHedge)

China's consumers need stimulus checks (CNN)

Eurozone jobless rate hits record high as North-South divide grows (The Telegraph)

Starbucks plans for 1,500 stores in China expansion (Taipei Times)

Gold bugs think Q2 will bring new rebound (MarketWatch)

As Foreclosure Problems Persist, Fed Seeks More Fines (New York Times)

'Greed is the Beginning of Everything' (Spiegel)

Rising price of eggs enough to break the bank in Europe (China Post)

The Decline of the U.S. Dollar (Market Oracle)

Resistance to Austerity Stirs in Southern Europe (CNBC)

Europe: "€1 Trillion May Not Be Enough" (ZeroHedge)

Don't Trust The Wise Men Of Finance (Forbes)

Two thirds of Icelanders oppose EU membership. Can you blame them? (The Telegraph)

Gold rush: what happened to bling? (Guardian)

The twisted tale of MF funds (The Independent)

Stocks rise on U.S. data, euro gains on Spain (Reuters)

Europe Agrees to Bailout Fund for Euro of Over $1 Trillion (New York Times)

Obama clears sanctions to squeeze Iran (Los Angeles Times)

Gold Snaps Losing Streak; Rises 6.3% In 1Q (Wall Street Journal)

Students Sell Their Faces to Pay Off Debt (CNBC)

Europe Caps Fresh Crisis Aid at 500 Billion Euros (Bloomberg)

Gold Rises And Silver Surges In Q1 - Fiat Currency Devaluation Continues (ZeroHedge)

Emerging market central banks net sellers of Gold in Feb: HSBC (CommodityOnline)

Roubini: Euro Must Come Down to Dollar's Level (CNBC)

OECD sees fragile recovery in G7 countries (Sydney Morning Herald)

Portugal central bank forecasts deeper 2012 recession (Sydney Morning Herald)

Tepco seeks US$12b to avert collapse (Shanghai Daily)

Good-Buy Gold, Silver & Good-Bye Dollar (Resource Investor)

Chinese firm surpasses Exxon in oil production (Yahoo!)

Goldman Commodities Crown Slips as Traders Exit (CNBC)

Wall Street falls for 3rd day, Nasdaq off 1 percent (Reuters)

VIDEO: Brave New Bank? BRICS moot dropping dollar, IMF (YouTube)

Is gold overpriced relative to other commodities? (MarketWatch)

Iran Oil Slows, Price Concerns Rise (Wall Street Journal)

Palladium Seen Beating Gold With Record Car Sales (Bloomberg)

At MF Hearing, Sounds of Silence (Wall Street Journal)

ECB's massive loans fail to fuel fragile recovery (Shanghai Daily)

US Debt Ceiling D-Day: September 14, 2012 (ZeroHedge)

Gold Traders Struggle to Recognize the Fed's Tune (Wall Street Journal)

South Carolina House panel OKs gold, silver as legal tender (Aiken Standard)

Fed President Calls for End of 'Too Big to Fail' (New York Times)

The next leg of gold's bull run (MarketWatch)

Spanish Sex Workers Strike Against Bankers (MailOnline)

Now is the time to fret over inflation (Sydney Morning Herald)

Spain slides into recession as strike, new cuts loom (Sydney Morning Herald)

Euro-zone needs 1 trillion euro firewall: OECD (MarketWatch)

Back and forth, but gold’s the week's only advancer (MarketWatch)

US new home sales fall again (Sydney Morning Herald)

European shares suffer worst week of 2012 (Reuters)

Procter & Gamble starts construction of huge plant in China (Business Courier)

Why Are Bullion Bankers Lying To The Media And Public? (Coinweek)

How Do You Preserve Your Money? (Forbes)

Bank of America Getting Into the Landlord Business (CNBC)

How "Interest Rate Swaps" Are Bankrupting Local Governments (Market Oracle)

Investors lose interest in gold, turn to silver: LBMA data (Commodity Online)

US grip on World Bank challenged (The Telegraph)

Where Did All The Money Go? Here! (ZeroHedge)

Goldman Sachs on muppet alert (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold hits lowest since mid-January, investors back off (Reuters)

Dollar boosted by weak China, Europe data (MarketWatch)

Turkey Goes for the Gold in a Bid to Curb Deficit (Wall Street Journal)

Keiser Report: Unbanked & Unworthy (YouTube)

Why Needy Central Banks Won't Sell Gold (YouTube)

U.K. Retail Sales Decline More Than Forecast (Bloomberg)

Chinese factories slump, euro zone business wilts (The Globe and Mail)

Ireland slumps back into recession (The Telegraph)

Catching The "Silver Crusher" Algorithm In The Act (ZeroHedge)

Housing Is Still 'Shadowed' by Excess Supply (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: US Private prisons want you (YouTube)

MF Global Executive Hit With Congressional Subpoena (CNBC)

FOMC loses control of interest rates (MarketWatch)

Chinese capitalism is just another knockoff (Reuters)

Gold edges up; demand still slack (Reuters)

Gold Sentiment Is Still Too Bullish (Forbes)

VIDEO: Gold Bugs Watching Bernanke, Not China (YouTube)

Antal Fekete Responds To Ben Bernanke On The Gold Standard (ZeroHedge)

Crude oil to jump 30% on Iran supply shortage: IMF (CommodityOnline)

Long-Term Bond Bubble Getting Ready to Burst (CNBC)

Gold Remains Vulnerable while Silver Support Threatened by Downtrend (Market Oracle)

Why Chinese Trusts are Getting Global Interest (Wall Street Journal)

Stubborn inflation hits hopes of more QE (The Independent)

Inequality Undermines Democracy (New York Times)

Slow-cooking inflation as a global problem (MarketWatch)

Greek swaps sellers to pay billions to settle contracts (Sydney Morning Herald)

China to support Europe in crisis (China Daily)

Threat of global trade war over airline emission charges (The Telegraph)

Europe's fiscal pact in disarray as even Dutch break the rules (The Telegraph)

Massive Silver Price Spike Imminent (Market Oracle)

Dollar firmer as commodity currencies come under fire (Reuters)

China Quietly Relaxes Controls on Foreign Capital (New York Times)

IRS Forms 'SWAT Team' for Corporate Tax Crackdown (CNBC)

More Easing 'More Likely Than Not': Goldman Economist (CNBC)

Bernanke trashes gold standard in lecture (MarketWatch)

Central Banking Was Responsible for 2008 Meltdown – Nothing Else (The Daily Bell)

Hong Kong Beats Netherlands and U.S. as Best Place for Business (Bloomberg)

China growth worries weigh on stocks, boost Treasuries (Reuters)

Gold Falls as Demand Worries Grip Traders (Wall Street Journal)

Sales Of Silver Jewelry Shine In 2011 (Wall Street Journal)

US Taxpayers Commence Bailing Out ECB, With Greece As Intermediary (ZeroHedge)

Chinese demand for iron ore falling, say miners (The Telegraph)

U.K. Inflation Stays Above BOE Limit on Alcohol, Food (Bloomberg)

The Rising Price Of the Falling Dollar (Forbes)

Greece on the breadline: 'potato movement' links shoppers and farmers (Guardian)

ECB halts bond purchases again (Sydney Morning Herald)

Audit shows fraud on high-speed rail project (China Daily)

Gold price crash triggers massive central bank buying (CommodityOnline)

Inflation beating deflation (MarketWatch)

Don't be fooled by the money illusion (MarketWatch)

Dow vs. Gold vs. Silver since 2008 (Market Oracle)

Rothschild suggests investing county money in gold, silver (Carroll County Times)

To Bail Or Not To Bail: Why Taxpayers Will Be On The Hook Until The End (ZeroHedge)

SWIFT reaction: Iran 'will retaliate', closing Hormuz Strait (RT)

Euro-crisis dilemma: austerity vs. stimulus (MarketWatch)

Dollar falls versus euro a third day (MarketWatch)

Has the Great Recession Made Us Forever Poorer? (The Atlantic)

Spot The Difference Between These Two Gold Holdings Charts (ZeroHedge)

What crisis? Sovereign sales surge (The Globe and Mail)

The basics, some extras, savings: You need $150,000 a year (USA Today)

Here's A Look At Iran's Brand New Drone (Business Insider)

Wall Street, Goldman Sachs And China (Forbes)

Greek CDS Auction Sees Bond Price at 21.75 Cents (CNBC)

CO2: a taxing problem for air transport (China Daily)

U.S. Mint gold, silver bullion coin sales rebound from February doldrums (Mineweb)

Americans Asleep At the Wheel Driving Into Debt Slavery (Market Oracle)

Gold In Tight Range Amid Cautious Trading In Asia (Wall Street Journal)

U.S. Treasury to Announce $25B Profit on Mortgage Bonds (Wall Street Journal)

Spring Fever for Global and US Economy? (CNBC)

In Sweden, cash is king no more (AP/Yahoo!)

Signs of trouble in China's soaring skyline? (YouTube)

Gold and Silver Futures Advance, Rebounding From Weekly Decline (Bloomberg)

Greek Deal Highlights Flaws in Default Swaps (Wall Street Journal)

Chinese home prices continue slide, says government (Sydney Morning Herald)

Experts warn of inflationary pressure (China Post)

India calls trade mission to Iran 'very successful' (China Post)

PIMCO chief expects 'second Greece’ in Portugal (The Telegraph)

Iran Central Bank Says Rial Can Be Traded at Market Rates (Bloomberg)

China yuan could be reserve currency with reform: IMF (Reuters)

Greece may need more funds: IMF (Sydney Morning Herald)

Central banks pounce on falling gold (Financial Times)

Money, money, every where (Breaking Views)

What Greece Can Learn From Argentina's Default (Businessweek)

Dollar falls after U.S. data (MarketWatch)

Gas prices fire CPI (Shanghai Daily)

Goldman Sachs to Review Conflict-of-Interest Rules (CNBC)

Has Goldman Sachs Become The Dumbest Firm In The World? (Forbes)

Goldman Sachs Loses $2.15 Billion of Its Market Value in 24 hours (IBTimes)

CFTC Pulls "JPM Whistleblower" Letter (ZeroHedge)

Gold price falls back to long-term support (Gold Made Simple News)

Iran cut off from global financial system (AP/Yahoo!)

Major oil discovery made off the coast of Ireland, just in time for St. Patty's Day (MailOnline)

Secret "Occult Economy" Coming Out of the Shadows? (Activist Post)

Paving Path to Fraud on Wall St. (New York Times)

The Deflation Delusion (Gold Made Simple News)

Oil climbs on Iran tensions, dollar slip (Reuters)

Why Fed's Easy Money Policy Is 'Straining Credulity' (CNBC)

Keep faith with gold (The Telegraph)

India Doubles Customs Duty on Gold Bullion, Central Banks buy on Dip (ZeroHedge)

Global miners shrug off new Indonesian rules (Sydney Morning Herald)

J.P. Morgan Chase's Ugly Family Secrets Revealed (Rolling Stone)

Why Some Countries Go Bust (New York Times)

Gold rebounds 1% to settle at $1,659.50 an ounce (MarketWatch)

U.S. stock rise pushes S&P 500 past 1,400 (MarketWatch)

U.S., Britain to agree emergency oil stocks release (Reuters)

Oil futures fall below $105 a barrel (MarketWatch)

With The Enterprise Just 4 Days Away From Arrival, A SWIFT Cut Off Of Iran (ZeroHedge)

SWIFT financial service cuts ties with Iran (AP/Yahoo!)

Apple Continues to Defy Gravity, Stock Hits $600 (New York Times)

$100 to Fly Through the Airport (Wall Street Journal)

Karzai Calls for U.S. Troop Pullback (Wall Street Journal)

Gold gets lift from consumers after price fall (Reuters)

VIDEO: US threatens India over Iran oil (YouTube)

Banking Crisis Not Over (The Street)

JPMorgan CEO warns staff on schadenfreude after Goldman firestorm (The Globe and Mail)

Gold may stabilize as further QE hopes 'wrung out' of market: HSBC (CommodityOnline)

VIDEO: Mafia comes out on top in Italy's gambling parlors (YouTube)

Dollar powers ahead on U.S. economic optimism, higher yields (Reuters)

Yes, Mr Smith, Goldies is all about making money (Sydney Morning Herald)

Fitch warns UK may lose triple-A rating (Sydney Morning Herald)

Goldman Sachs: Greed Is Good (Market Oracle)

Britain's inflationary route to default (The Telegraph)

What If Ron Paul Really Killed the Fed? (The Street)

5 Principles for Money and Banking in a New World System (Activist Post)

CME Group's rising CEO mixes wit, swear words, diplomacy (Reuters)

A little extra inflation would backfire: Volcker (Reuters)

Bank Stress Test Results, Firm Dollar Cause Another Gold and Silver Correction (Forbes)

Eurozone approves nearly 40 bn euros in Greek bailout cash (AFP/Yahoo!)

VIDEO: Has Gold Lost its Glitter? (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Don't Count Gold Out Yet (YouTube)

Am I a Goldman Sachs client or a muppet? (MarketWatch)

Most Americans Would Back US Strike Over Iran: Poll (CNBC)

What Closing The Straits Of Hormuz Will Mean In 3 Simple Charts (ZeroHedge)

Saudi Arabia does not want to replace Iran oil: Official (CommodityOnline)

Fed Fights Subpoena on Bernanke (Wall Street Journal)

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail (Rolling Stone)

Gold sinks in aftermath of Fed policy decision (MarketWatch)

Bernanke Says U.S. Growth Impedes Lending (Bloomberg)

Current-Account Deficit in U.S. Widens to $124.1 Billion (Bloomberg)

IRS to Mom and Pop: Drop Dead (The Atlantic)

U.K. May Revive Long Gilt First Used in South Sea Bubble (Bloomberg)

Dollar, Fed push gold to lowest since late January (Reuters)

Top Goldman executive quits over culture of 'toxic' greed (The Telegraph)

Rare exposure of dodgy dealing reveals the real charade in the City (The Independent)

China's Wen warns on home prices, yuan volatility (Sydney Morning Herald)

Shanghai stock market plunges 2.63% (Shanghai Daily)

Tokyo says approval won for purchase of Chinese bonds (China Post)

Japan's Shocking Keynesian Slip: "We Are Worse Than Greece" (ZeroHedge)

Tuesday March 13, 2012

What happens when the central banks exit? (Sydney Morning Herald)

Oh, the irony – rare-earth minerals aren't that rare (The Globe and Mail)

Fed Stress Test Released: Citi, MetLife Have Insufficient Capital (ZeroHedge)

Platinum Catches Up to Gold; Can the Sprint Last? (Wall Street Journal)

Stocks record biggest gains of year; Dow up 218 (AP/Yahoo!)

Nasdaq ends above 3,000 for first time since 2000 (MarketWatch)

Dollar rises on Fed economy view; data help stocks (Reuters)

FOMC: Fed Sees Higher Inflation On Rising Oil Prices, No QE3 For Now (Forbes)

JPMorgan paying $45 million to settle mortgage suit (Reuters)

10 reasons Wall Street will hit bottom, crash (MarketWatch)

Speculators Slash Gold, Silver Futures, Options Positions -- CFTC (Forbes)

Dollar, Treasury yields rise after retail sales (MarketWatch)

Platinum tops gold briefly ahead of Fed (Reuters)

Forget China. 'Hard Landing' in US, Europe: Strategist (CNBC)

Fed Wields Expanded Supervisory Powers With Bank Stress Tests (Bloomberg)

Falling Off the Commodity Supercycle (Wall Street Journal)

Expect A Quiet Fed Meeting, But $500B QE3 Is Around The Corner (Forbes)

Silver Slumps As Risk Broadly Recovers (ZeroHedge)

Battered Gold Drops Below $1700 (Market Oracle)

Bank Officials Cited in Churn of Foreclosures (New York Times)

Is MF Global Getting a Free Pass? (New York Times)

Monday March 12, 2012

Gasoline and diesel prices continue rising (Los Angeles Times)

Sea change for China's shipbuilding business (MarketWatch)

Gold rebounds on euro, focus on Fed meeting (Reuters)

Plenty room to ease curbs on lending, says China bank chief (Shanghai Daily)

US to challenge China on rare earths (Sydney Morning Herald)

Signs of Europe recovery offset by China weakness: OECD (Sydney Morning Herald)

Boeing got billions in illegal subsidies, says WTO (Sydney Morning Herald)

Poll: Silver Best-Performing Commodity in 2012? (CNBC)

Silver Chart Analysis Indicates Why Silver Price Is Likely To Pass $150 (Market Oracle)

Import surge sends China trade to decade-deep deficit (Reuters)

Oil slips under $125 on growth concerns (Reuters)

Big banks: Too big to behave? (CNN)

Gold futures slip after three-session climb (MarketWatch)

Underwater and locked in (MarketWatch)

Airbus, Airlines Urge EU CO2 Deal to Avoid Retaliation (Bloomberg)

Easiest Credit Worldwide Shows No Signs Of Abating As Fear Index Plummets (Bloomberg)

MF Global Bonuses Draw Fire (Wall Street Journal)

BIS Report Shows Depth of the Distress in Europe (New York Times)

Euro insolvency to drive safe haven gold demand: Commerzbank (CommodityOnline)

Gold's Inflation Problem (Market Oracle)

Iceland's recovery offers case for reviving drachma (The Globe and Mail)

Jon Corzine's Riskiest Business (Vanity Fair)

Sunday March 11, 2012

Gold extends gains on equities, eyes on Fed meeting (Reuters)

Yuan mid-point sees 2nd biggest single-day fall on record (Reuters)

Sarkozy defies Europe with protectionist push (Sydney Morning Herald)

China suffers biggest trade deficit in 20 years (Sydney Morning Herald)

VIDEO: Inside HSBC's Secret Gold Vault (CNBC)

Global liquidity peak spells trouble for late 2012 (The Telegraph)

Venezuelan car shoppers line up to buy China's locally assembled Chery (China Post)

Aircraft Carrier Enterprise Sets Off On Final Journey - Direction Iran (ZeroHedge)

Iceland Will Adopt Euro or Other Currency, Prime Minister Says (Bloomberg)

IMF Scales Back Aid to Greece in Nation's 2nd Rescue Package (Bloomberg)

Outgunned in Legislature, Michigan unions fight back (CNBC)

Greek debt deal triggers credit event (Sydney Morning Herald)

Greece Has Defaulted: Here Is Where We Stand (ZeroHedge)

BofA to slash (some) mortgage balances by $100k or more (CNN)

Dim sum bonds sprout in Dubai (CNN)

Friday March 9, 2012

U.S. trade gap widens sharply in January (MarketWatch)

Gold turns higher on jobs data, oil gains (Reuters)

S&P 500 nears 4-year high after jobs data (Reuters)

Greece to Force Rest of Bondholders Into Swap (CNBC)

How to play hot silver market and not get burned (MarketWatch)

Why JPMorgan Sees A "Lot More Printing" By The ECB (ZeroHedge)

VIDEO: Big Bond Deal Helps Greece Dodge Bankruptcy... For Now (YouTube)

VIDEO: US economy slump fuels public anger (YouTube)

Home Insurance Goes Through the Roof (SmartMoney)

Legal skull-duggery in Greece may doom Portugal (The Telegraph)

MF Global Still Set to Pay Bonuses (Wall Street Journal)

America's Debt-Service Economy (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: US postal service set for downsizing (YouTube)

Thursday March 8, 2012

Greece closes critical debt deal with creditors (Sydney Morning Herald)

U.S. Budget Deficit Hits All Time High In February (ZeroHedge)

Hedge funds find loophole to trigger Greek default (Reuters)

Silver Proving Its Mettle in 2012 (MarketWatch)

Gold, Silver and the Crisis of the Fractional Banking System (Market Oracle)

China dominates list of female billionaires (The Globe and Mail)

China initiates currency-war phase (MarketWatch)

Will Iceland decide to go loonie? (MarketWatch)

Participation in Greek debt deal over 75%: AP (MarketWatch)

Gold Futures Advance as ETF Holdings Hit Record (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Actually, High Oil Prices Will Clobber The Economy (Yahoo!)

Plunge protection team hedging on Greece (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Global McSlump (CNN)

Gold correction may be nearing, although market still hostage to Greece: HSBC (CommodityOnline)

The Stock Market, Sunspots and Geomagnetism (Market Oracle)

Here's a Look at All Those Euros Piling Up at ECB (Wall Street Journal)

Dollar falls on ECB optimism (MarketWatch)

ECB Holds Rates, Cuts 2012 Euro Zone Growth Outlook (CNBC)

Gold gains as euro draws strength from Greece (Reuters)

Obama promises Bunker Busters if Netanyahu delays Iran invasion until after US Elections (ZeroHedge)

The Economic Fallout From Bombing Iran (Businessweek)

3 doomsaying experts who foresee economic devastation ahead (USA Today)

Wednesday March 7, 2012

Greece could default within hours (Sydney Morning Herald)

'US trade bill breaks WTO rules' (China Daily)

Triple trouble in Europe, US and China brings out the bears (The Telegraph)

For European Officials, Low-Fare Flights Won't Do (New York Times)

After the Storm, the Little Nest Eggs That Couldn't (New York Times)

VIDEO: How to Invest Like a Billionaire (Wall Street Journal)

Oil trades higher after bullish supply report (MarketWatch)

Financial Crisis 2012, Why Central Bank Liquidity is No Longer Enough (Market Oracle)

Deutsche Bank Physical Gold ETF Holdings Increase 5,528 Ounces (Bloomberg)

Germany to Review Bundesbank Gold Reserves (ZeroHedge)

Silver wound dressings market to gain 25% to $5 bn by 2015 (CommodityOnline)

Gold recovers as dollar retreats, buyers step in (Reuters)

After 3 years, we’re all hooked on free money (MarketWatch)

Bernanke Seen Accepting Faster Inflation as Fed Seeks Jobs Boost (Bloomberg)

And the losers from Greek CDS contracts are… German (The Telegraph)

COMEX gold, silver long positions rise 7% and 13% : CFTC (CommodityOnline)

Tuesday March 6, 2012

Lehman Brothers emerges from bankruptcy (Sydney Morning Herald)

Netherlands looking for Euro Exit as Supercomputer prepares for Financial Judgement Day (YouTube)

U.S. Congress votes to reaffirm China tariffs (Shanghai Daily)

Oil at two-week low on global growth worries (MarketWatch)

European markets plunge as Greece threatens to default (The Telegraph)

Washington's $5 trillion interest bill (Yahoo!)

Biggest drop of year for Dow as US market slumps (AP/Yahoo!)

Gold, Silver Down Sharply on Greek Bond Swap Worries (InvestorPlace)

World powers to resume talks with Iran (MarketWatch)

Biggest Problem For Gold And Silver: Doomsday Never Comes (Forbes)

Russian stocks sink 4% after protest, arrests (MarketWatch)

Dow Sheds 160 Points on European Recession Fears (The Street)

The euro zone's €1-trillion nightmare (The Globe and Mail)

Body Behind Greek Bond Swap Raises Red Flag on Failure (Wall Street Journal)

Spanish Debt Under Pressure (Wall Street Journal)

Gold slides below key support as dollar strengthens (Reuters)

Financial and Commodity Markets Support and Trendlines Being Broken (Market Oracle)

Silver Catching Gold's Cold? (ZeroHedge)

'Dr. Doom' Sees Iran-Israel Clash, Says Buy Precious Metals (CNBC)

ECB creates 'super-immune' elite bonds- throws credit market into disarray (The Daily Bell)

Monday March 5, 2012

Scramble to sell US debt as yields hit record lows (Financial Times)

Dallas Fed President Fisher Says Markets Hooked on Monetary Morphine (CNBC)

Sen. McCain calls for airstrikes on Syria (CNN)

Investors roll the dice as Apple's value booms (Reuters/Yahoo!)

As gas prices soar, 70 lawmakers push for curbs on speculation (Los Angeles Times)

What's next for silver? (MarketWatch)

Gold Nears $1,700, Silver Under $34 but US Silver Eagles Top 8M (Silver Coins Today)

Spain's sovereign thunderclap and the end of Merkel's Europe (The Telegraph)

Gold ends 0.3% lower, at $1,703.90 an ounce (MarketWatch)

Oil up on Iran fears; growth worry limits gain (Reuters)

Wall Street's bonuses fell 25 percent in 2011: NYC monitor (Reuters)

Yahoo 'Likely' To Fire Thousands In Biggest Layoffs Ever (Business Insider)

UK banks hiking mortgage rates to 4% - while grabbing dirt-cheap taxpayer loans for 1% (MailOnline)

Freak car crash shuts down major U.S. oil pipeline (MarketWatch)

Bad News for Boomers (Wall Street Journal)

Coin-grading firm helped bring order to a free-for-all industry (Los Angeles Times)

Dollar falls versus euro for first day in three (MarketWatch)

Top Lenders Back Greek Bond Swap Plan (CNBC)

Key investors sign up for Greek debt relief (The Globe and Mail)

Greek 1 Year Bond = 1006% (ZeroHedge)

Stock Losses Deepen on China Outlook (The Street)

Gold Declines for Second Day As China Cuts Growth Target; Silver Drops (Bloomberg)

AAA Shortage Drives Foreign Treasury Holdings to $5T (Bloomberg)

Intervention Call by Asia Executives as Currencies in Best Start Since '06 (Bloomberg)

Buffett's Gold Dis Baffles State Street's Goolgasian (Businessweek)

Sunday March 4, 2012

Gold marks time, pressured by dollar strength (Reuters)

China Targets 7.5% Growth in 2012 as Euro Crisis Slows Exports (Bloomberg)

Canceled credit card debts come back to haunt taxpayers (USA Today)

Plateau Oil meets 125m Chinese cars (The Telegraph)

Currency Wars Are Good! (The Atlantic)

The euro zone crisis: When is a default not a default? (The Economist)

Greece may need more help - Austrian chancellor (Reuters)

EU 'open' to talks on airlines tax, but won't change law (AFP/Yahoo!)

Do Unemployed Americans Suffer From The "Stockholm Syndrome?" (Forbes)

David Rosenberg: "The Best Currency May Be Physical Gold" (ZeroHedge)

Peter Schiff: How to Put Yourself on the Gold Standard (Market Oracle)

Gold eases due to strong dollar; ETF demand hits record high (CommodityOnline)

China sovereign wealth fund gets $30 billion boost (MarketWatch)

Obama Warns Against 'Loose Talk Of War' With Iran (CNBC)

20% of businesses remain closed after Japan disaster (China Post)

No smooth road ahead as carmakers see falling sales (Shanghai Daily)

Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Sales Slow, Yet Score 4th Best February (Silver Coins Today)

Greek default looms as voluntary debt deal looks set to fail (The Telegraph)

Capital Gains, Ordinary Income and Shades of Gray (New York Times)

IMF concerned over high Irish jobless rate (Sydney Morning Herald)

China reduces holdings of US government bonds (China Daily)

China's Big Four Banks to Boost Lending (CNBC)

Euroland will pay for this monetary madness (The Telegraph)

Chinese Open First Car Plant in Europe (Spiegel)

Debt Limit - A Guide to American Federal Debt Made Easy (YouTube)

Saturday March 3, 2012

BP to settle spill claims; cost estimated at $7.8B (MarketWatch)

Barclays: Physical buying picks up following Wednesday sell off in gold (CommodityOnline)

Housing Still Drowning in Underwater Mortgages (Wall Street Journal)

Iceland Wants To Adopt The Dollar... No, Not That One, The Other One (ZeroHedge)

Bank of America In Trouble? (Rolling Stone)

VIDEO: Will They Confiscate Greece's Gold? (YouTube)

VIDEO: ECB choking on its own liquidity as Spain's economy grinds to a halt? (YouTube)

Spain busts EU budget treaty deal on day one (Sydney Morning Herald)

Moody's downgrades Greece to lowest rating on its bond scale (Detroit Free Press)

Bernanke Speech Crushes Silver Rally (Business Insider)

All the signs point to a falling oil price – except supply (The Globe and Mail)

Tim Geithner blasts Wall Street for 'amnesia' over financial crisis (The Telegraph)

Home Prices Declined to New Lows in 2011 (New York Times)

Friday March 2, 2012

Managers raise their bets oil will go higher: CFTC (MarketWatch)

Gold, silver currency bill fails in Colorado (Denver Post)

The Greek Bailout, the CDS Market, and the End of the World (Market Oracle)

GM Puts The Brakes On Chevrolet Volt Production (Forbes)

Euro drops for 3rd day as Spain defies EU fiscal pact (Reuters)

More than 1 in 7 now use Food Stamps in US, up 5.5% in 2011 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street, Fed face off over commodity trading (CNBC)

More misery for America's most miserable city (MarketWatch)

PHOTOS: The world's most expensive coin (Yahoo!)

U.S. resumes paying fees to J.P. Morgan, Bank of America (MarketWatch)

Gold, silver suffer daily, weekly losses (MarketWatch)

U.S. risks persist, China in good stead so far: IMF (Reuters)

Copper Has Longest Bull Streak Since October (Bloomberg)

Oil Declines as Saudis Deny Sabotage (Bloomberg)

JPMorgan trumped competitors in commodities last year (Reuters)

Global stock rally loses steam; oil falls (Reuters)

European states sign new fiscal treaty (The Globe and Mail)

Buying Loonies Isn't Crazy (Forbes)

How Much Gold Do You Need to Pay Yale's Tuition? The Same as in 1900 (The Atlantic)

Why buy and hold doesn't work anymore (CNN)

Banks Park $1 Trillion of Cheap LTRO Money Back at ECB (CNBC)

VIDEO: Gold Can Rise Through 2012 (CNBC)

Greek Crisis May Test the Value of Swaps (New York Times)

Thursday March 1, 2012

For Shippers, 2012 Is a Year of Crisis: Dry Bulk Operator (CNBC)

Japan remains stuck in deflation (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold's sparkle likely to shine on Chinese demand (Shanghai Daily)

Why the stock market rally won't last (CNN)

UK's top gold fund manager: 'I would buy gold at almost any price' (The Telegraph)

Retail Sales Rise, Gas Tests $4 A Gallon: Something's Gotta Give (Forbes)

Negative Equity Traps One Third of American Borrowers (CNBC)

Gold gains; silver rallies nearly 3% (MarketWatch)

U.S. Mint's Silver, Gold Coin Sales Tumble in February (Wall Street Journal)

Next Leg Of The Ponzi Revealed - Central Banks To Begin Buying US Stocks Outright (ZeroHedge)

Bernanke warns lawmakers country headed for 'massive fiscal cliff' (The Hill)

Central Banks Now Operating as One Global Monopoly? (The Daily Bell)

Brazil slams rich countries over "currency war" (Reuters)

IMF Says Global Economy Still Facing Major Risk From European Debt Crisis (Bloomberg)

Weak Manufacturing Data Raise Questions About Recovery (CNBC)

VIDEO: Pawnbrokers prosper amid Greece crisis (YouTube)

VIDEO: Bernanke Speaks, Gold Swoons, Peter Schiff Scoffs (Yahoo!)

Ron Paul Hits Fed Chief Ben Bernanke with Silver (Reason)

China Slashes Share of U.S. Dollar Assets (Wall Street Journal)

At MF Global, $165 Million Transfer Approved in a Flash (Wall Street Journal)

Oil and gasoline prices continue to march higher (AP/Yahoo!)

VIDEO: Gold Futures Rebound After Bernanke Rout (Bloomberg)

No insurance pay-out on Greek debt (Financial Times)

Eurozone unemployment hits record high (Financial Times)

ECB's Mario Draghi raises the stakes with trillion euro gamble (The Telegraph)

Tensions Raise Specter of Gas at $5 a Gallon (New York Times)

Gold bounces back, bullish tone intact (Reuters)

VIDEO: Ron Paul and Fed Chairman Agree to Discuss Competing Currencies (YouTube)

What GE paid in taxes in 2011: It's a mystery (CNN)

Why China's Urbanization Isn't Creating a Middle Class (The Atlantic)

Wednesday February 29, 2012

Bank of China, CME to seek wider use of yuan (China Daily)

China Manufacturing Increases for Third Month as Global Prospects Improve (Bloomberg)

MF Global White Knight blows the lid off of the JP Morgan Shadow Banking Mafia (YouTube)

Greece Parliament Approves Pension, Health Cuts in Race for Second Bailout (Bloomberg)

Iran Seen Suffering 'Crippling Effect' of Sanctions (Bloomberg)

Bernanke tips cold water on US recovery hopes (Sydney Morning Herald)

Silver Prices Advance 4.2% in February (Silver Coins Today)

EU disparity sparks calls for decentralization (YouTube)

Gold down 5 percent, biggest one-day drop in 3 years (Reuters)

After Reaching Highs, Wall Street Falters (New York Times)

Want to Save on Groceries? Cook like a Peasant (Forbes)

Buffett rebuffs gold, but inflation says 'buy' (MarketWatch)

Five Largest Banks 'Should Be Broken Up': Fed’s Fisher (CNBC)

ECB hands out $712-billion in loans to banks (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, silver slides called 'overdone' (MarketWatch)

Gold, Silver Take It On The Chin; Bernanke Warns Of Inflation (Wall Street Journal)

Paul to Bernanke: "People lose trust in Government because you lie to them about inflation" (ZeroHedge)

U.S. Cuts Iran Cash Pipeline (Wall Street Journal)

Iran to Take Gold Payments From Trade Partners, Agency Says (Bloomberg)

Tuesday February 28, 2012

Gold edges up ahead of ECB loan offer (Reuters)

Downgraded Greece mulls more budget cuts (Sydney Morning Herald)

Irish EU treaty vote threatens chaos (The Telegraph)

MF Global Crime, Comedy and the Cover-Up (Market Oracle)

HSBC could face US criminal charges over 'money-laundering' (The Telegraph)

Economy Squeezed as Debt Accelerates (Financial Sense)

European Leaders Postpone Debt Crisis Meeting (New York Times)

Dow Closes Above 13,000; First Time Since 2008 (New York Times)

VIDEO: America at Risk of 'Becoming China's Bitch', Author Warns (Yahoo!)

Gold-to-silver ratio hits a 5-month low (MarketWatch)

Huge U.S. federal debt isn't necessarily a problem – yet (The Globe and Mail)

Despite Stock Rally, Most Investors Still Flock to Bonds (CNBC)

Monday February 27, 2012

Gold races toward $1,800, silver rallies 4% to 5-month high (Economic Times)

California gas prices to top high of 2008 'within weeks' (MarketWatch)

Chatham House: Return to gold standard would be "impractical and… damaging" (Reuters)

ECB Suspends Eligibility of Greek Bonds as Collateral (Wall Street Journal)

Euro up vs dollar ahead of ECB cash boost; yen choppy (Reuters)

Durable Goods Demand Falls Most in 3 Years; Down 4% (CNBC)

Silver Passes 30% YTD As Catch 22 Economic "Updates" Becomes Blurry (ZeroHedge)

Comex Gold, Silver Futures Advance (Wall Street Journal)

Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling (Forbes)

Dollar falls against euro after German vote (MarketWatch)

Japan Is Pressured to Legalize Gambling (Wall Street Journal)

World Bank: China facing 'middle-income trap' (Sydney Morning Herald)

Beijing-Benz: Five-fold surge in production (China Daily)

China urges G20 to cooperate closely (Shanghai Daily)

Oil price rise raises specter of global recession (Reuters)

Europe's Lending Stays Slow Despite Easy Cash (NY Times)

Pressure Grows on Fannie and Freddie to Reduce Principal on Some Loans (NY Times)

Don Coxe on why Buffett has gold all wrong (The Globe and Mail)

Buy Gold...schlager: Booze Inflation Highest In 20 Years (ZeroHedge)

Krugman: Greece Running Out of Alternatives to Euro Exit (Bloomberg)

U.S. job quality is in trouble (MarketWatch)

S&P Downgrades Greece to Selective Default (CNBC)

Dollar gains following G-20 meeting (MarketWatch)

Oil prices fall after 7-day surge (AP/Yahoo!)

Dow Flirts Again With 13000 (Wall Street Journal)

German parliament approves Greece bailout (The Globe and Mail)

China May Have To Inflate Way Out Of Debt Troubles (Forbes)

VIDEO: ETF's Demanding More Gold (YouTube)

Gold steadies as lower prices tempt buyers (Reuters)

Even wealthy Americans are resorting to pawn shops (CNBC)

Merkel: "No Guarantee Second Greek Bailout Will Work" (ZeroHedge)

Silver And Gold: Trading The Ratio (Seeking Alpha)

China Congress of Billionaires Makes Capitol Hill Peers Look Like Paupers (Bloomberg)

Bernanke Pessimism Drives Credit Amid Cuts (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Death Spiral: 'Greece stranded, won't survive' (YouTube)

Sunday, February 26, 2012

China Gets a Pass from G-20 on Yuan (Wall Street Journal)

Emerging economies to challenge U.S. hold on World Bank (Reuters)

Investigators Scrutinize MF Global Wire Transfers (New York Times)

G20 to Europe: show us the money (Reuters)

Ford chief warns of car 'global gridlock' (Financial Times)

China to double rare-earth exports (Sydney Morning Herald)

China rich lawmakers eclipse US counterparts (Sydney Morning Herald)

World Bank to China: Free up your economy or bust (CNN)

Spanish revolt brews as national economic rearmament begins in Europe (The Telegraph)

Soaring oil prices will dwarf the Greek drama (The Telegraph)

Why the Greek Bond Swap is Just Great for London (Forbes)

Friday February 24, 2012

G-20 fails to rally to Europe's side as Germany is snubbed on IMF funding (Bloomberg)

Spain's 'Lost Generation' threatens social fabric (AP/Yahoo!)

17 tons of gold and silver recovered from sunken galleon touch down in Spain (MailOnline)

Peru Says Spain Stole their Gold (Fox News)

Banks to grab share of ECB's €500bn loans (The Independent)

United States set to ramp up aircraft trade war (The Independent)

Lift your game, G20 tells Europe (Sydney Morning Herald)

Sometimes even Warren Buffett gets it wrong (AP/Yahoo!)

Buffett releases annual letter- will avoid derivatives, continues bashing gold (ZeroHedge)

Rents Keep Rising, Even as Housing Prices Fall (CNBC)

German cabinet minister calls for Greek euro exit (The Telegraph)

World Bank chief: Greece's €130bn bailout merely buys it time (The Telegraph)

The new Canadian gold rush (The Globe and Mail)

Celente: Financial Meltdown is Precursor to WWIII (You Tube)

U.S., Saudi Arabia maneuver to contain Iran oil market threat (Reuters)

Brent oil over $125; S&P 500 ends at 4-year high (Reuters)

Gold, silver end lower but score weekly gain (MarketWatch)

Housing Declines May Have Cost a Generation of Buyers, Fed's Bullard Says (Bloomberg)

Planes leave for Spain, hauling shipwrecked silver (AP/Yahoo!)

Iran Steps Up Sensitive Nuclear Work: Report (CNBC)

Silver Price Could Challenge $50 (Market Oracle)

Gold eases but stays on track for second monthly gain (Reuters)

Rising oil prices present new headache for debt-ridden Europe (The Globe and Mail)

Lloyds Makes $5.5 Billion Loss, Gives Gloomy Outlook (CNBC)

USPS: Expect big cuts starting in mid-May (Los Angeles Times)

In a Gamble for Cash, Sears Plans to Sell Stores (New York Times)

Treating China as an enemy (The Telegraph)

China tells EU to scrap carbon tax (Shanghai Daily)

Dollar index extends weakness (MarketWatch)

Crude oil price hits record highs in euros and sterling (The Telegraph)

Further monetary stimulus back on the menu (The Independent)

VIDEO: Iran Warns It's Developed Radar That Detects Stealth Planes (CNBC)

Bank of America Breaks With Fannie Mae (New York Times)

IRS holding $1 billion in unclaimed tax refunds from 2008 (MarketWatch)

U.S. blocks yakuza godfather from its markets (Reuters)

Gold, Silver Hit 2012 Highs As Dollar Slips (Wall Street Journal)

P&G to cut 5,700 jobs (CNBC)

Why Manufacturing Matters (Rolling Stone)

The IRS Invents A Chinese Billionaire (Forbes)

Gold steadies near $1,800 as euro gains (Economic Times)

VIDEO: Central Bank Selling Won't Slow Gold (YouTube)

For Market, There's No Such Thing as Bad News Now (CNBC)

EU Confirms Spain Will Relapse Into Recession, Warns on Further Austerity (Bloomberg)

Investigators Probe a Rush at MF Global to Move Cash (Wall Street Journal)

Jim Rogers: Attack on Iran "Madness" - Likes Gold & Silver as Hedge (ETF Daily News)

IMF must decide how much money to pour into Greece (China Post)

50% tax rate in UK 'failing to boost revenues' (The Telegraph)

Banks sink on European economic worry (Reuters)

Gold settles at three-month high, above $1,770/oz (MarketWatch)

Loot confiscated by TSA turns into revenue for states (USA Today)

False Recovery 2.0: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like 2011 (The Atlantic)

Fitch Cuts Greece, Near-Term Default 'Highly Likely' (CNBC)

Legal Fees Mount at Fannie and Freddie (New York Times)

U.S. unveils new strategic plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Los Angeles Times)

VIDEO: ‪G‬old‪ 1980 ‬v‪s. ‬Today (YouTube)

Greece rushes to pass bailout laws amid protests (Reuters)

Greece downgraded deeper into junk status (The Globe and Mail)

Europe Struggles to Rebound With China's Output Poised to Shrink (Bloomberg)

Dow Touches 13000 but Can't Hold On (Wall Street Journal)

'Fantastic Opportunity' in Silver: Gold Mining CEO (CNBC)

Battle over EU financial firewall threatens to derail Greek bailout (The Telegraph)

Ben Bernanke: Supreme Socialist (Forbes)

Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness in Best Recovery Story (Bloomberg)

Iran, Economy Threaten Higher Oil Prices (CNBC)

MF Global Failure Creating Tax Nightmare for Farmers (CNBC)

Gold ends at highest level in more than two weeks (MarketWatch)

S&P 500, Dow trim gains, Nasdaq adds losses (Reuters)

Oil rises to fresh nine-month high (Sydney Morning Herald)

Dow industrials rise above 13,000 (Reuters)

Gold Prices Spike on Greek Rescue Plan (The Street)

Silver Stocks on the Upswing Despite Demand Uncertainty (MarketWatch)

CME Group ups stake in Dubai commodities bourse (Reuters)

Gold Bulls In A China Shop (Motley Fool)

VIDEO: This is no permanent rescue for eurozone (YouTube)

VIDEO: Greek anger despite loan deal (The Globe and Mail)

Gold rises after Greek deal gives euro brief boost (Reuters)

Greek Rescue Leaves Risk of Default Alive in Europe as Austerity Deepens (Bloomberg)

Help for the uninsured: Doctors accept local currencies (CNN)

Blame Iran And China For Rising Gas Prices (Forbes)

The drift towards war with Iran (Financial Times)

Consequences To Expect If The U.S. Invades Iran (Alt-Market)

How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street (Web of Debt)

Can a return to the drachma save Greece as unemployment soars? (The Telegraph)

Fed Writes Sweeping Rules From Behind Closed Doors (Wall Street Journal)

UAE bank offers gold buffs a glittering opportunity (Emirates 24/7)

Iran threatens to cut oil to more EU nations (Sydney Morning Herald)

Euro Ministers Reach Agreement on Greek Bailout (Bloomberg)

Spain to send military planes to Florida for $500M worth of treasure (NY Daily News)

Iceland shows eurozone how to fight crisis (RT)

Portugal Plays By The Rules, But Economy Slumps (NPR)

Can Europe Afford Its Monarchs? (The Street)

Nicolas Sarkozy: I saved France from economic catastrophe (Guardian)

VIDEO: Iran showcases its military power (The Telegraph)

Greece sells its independence to escape the burden of debt (The Independent)

Decision day for second Greek bailout despite financing gaps (Reuters)

Japan Agrees With China to Aid Europe Through IMF After Further Euro Steps (Bloomberg)

Traders Struggle With Euro Crisis Headline Fatigue (Wall Street Journal)

BRICs No Safe Haven From Western Doom (CNBC)

Oil Surges 2% as Iran Halts Some Oil Shipments (CNBC)

Gold to average $1700 in Q1, $1875 in 2012: Barclays (CommodityOnline)

The Intractable Tragedy of Long-Term Unemployment (The Atlantic)

In Alabama, a County That Fell Off the Financial Cliff (New York Times)

China banker urges yuan settlement for oil (Reuters)

Gold advances on Greece optimism, China easing (Reuters)

Apple Vs Gold, Silver and Past Market Bubbles (Market Oracle)

Greek premier carries bailout hopes to Brussels (The Globe and Mail)

Sudan delays China debt, exports US$400 million in gold (China Post)

Iran stops oil exports to Britain, France in pre-emptive blow (The Globe and Mail)

China acts to crank up lending as economy slows (Sydney Morning Herald)

Is Germany too strong for the euro zone? (Sydney Morning Herald)

Police shield Greece's parliament (Shanghai Daily)

China's central bank cuts reserve ratio (Shanghai Daily)

U.S. economy is getting stronger, but . . . (MarketWatch)

Silver Price Could Double by Year End (Market Oracle)

Champagne pops as gold coins pour down on workers (Irish Examiner)

Ferrari boasts record sales in 2011 (Sydney Morning Herald)

Market Outlook: Everyone Is Waiting for a Stock Pullback (CNBC)

The Stimulus Absolutely, Positively Worked, No Doubt About It, Probably (The Atlantic)

Greedy Euro MPs Demand Pay Raise as the EU Falls Apart (Express)

Iceland's Viking Victory (The Telegraph)

Michigan's Hostile Takeover (Mother Jones)

88 million Americans out of work… and not looking for a job (San Francisco Chronicle)

A dozen ways financial advisers can stretch the truth (The Globe and Mail)

Global clearinghouse ready to evict Iranian banks (AP/Yahoo!)

Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake U.S. bonds (Reuters)

London Metal Exchange gets "good number" of first round bids (Reuters)

Cracks beginning to show (MarketWatch)

Silver Eagles Soar (Market Oracle)

Colorado looking at gold, silver currency (Colorado Springs Gazette)

Greek Bailout Deal Nearer After Germany Signals Backing at Feb. 20 Meeting (Bloomberg)

Working All Day for the I.R.S. (New York Times)

VIDEO: US Moving to Undercut Iran Oil Markets (YouTube)

VIDEO: Stick With Silver Despite Turbulence (YouTube)

PDF: Record investment boosts global gold demand to all time high in 2011 (WGC)

World stocks, euro climb as Greece nears bailout (Reuters)

ECB Is Said to Swap Greek Bonds for New Debt to Avoid Any Enforced Losses (Bloomberg)

Greece, EU 'almost there' on bailout (The Globe and Mail)

Jim Rogers: Don't Pay Governments Much Attention (CNBC)

U.S. stocks and gold to drive higher (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: No Euro, No Cry: Swedish krona vs cash chaos (YouTube)

The 'second Great Depression' saviour myth (Guardian)

China central bank in gold-buying push (Financial Times)

Gold, Silver Heading Up (Market Oracle)

The Gold Standard, and the Myth About Money Growth (Forbes)

Gold flat as Greek deal optimism erases losses (Reuters)

Brent tops $120 on Iran, North Sea, Greece (Reuters)

Italy's PM takes on Catholic Church over taxes (The Globe and Mail)

Dollar Gets No Respect Despite Economic Gains (CNBC)

How the Stinking Rich Ate the Economy (The Atlantic)

Gold retreats as worries over Greece hurt euro (Reuters)

Gold Demand Hits New Records as Europeans Stockpile (CNBC)

China set to become world's biggest gold market (The Telegraph)

VIDEO: UK may loose its AAA financial status (YouTube)

Europe plans for debt doomsday scenario (Sydney Morning Herald)

Italian economy slides back into recession (Sydney Morning Herald)

No More Valentines for Xi as Chinese Leader Faces a Bad-Cop U.S. Congress (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Ordinary Greeks battle the debt crisis (YouTube)

Obama wants cheaper pennies and nickels (CNN)

The Simple Reason Why Cash Won't Ever Be Obsolete (Business Insider)

Why we're seeing the ugly new face of capitalism (The Globe and Mail)

How Much is America's Spare Change Worth? (The Atlantic)

Iran presses ahead with dollar attack (The Telegraph)

Oil hits six-month high on supply worries, Iran (Reuters)

VIDEO: Defiant Iran Loads Own Fuel Rods Into Reactor (YouTube)

Many euro leaders want Greece to leave (The Globe and Mail)

Gold Prices Push Higher With Euro (The Street)

Warning: Banking May Be Bad for Your Health (Wall Street Journal)

Euro chiefs consider bailout delay until after Greek polls (The Telegraph)

China pledges to keep buying eurozone debt (The Telegraph)

Greece's economy shrank almost 7% in 2011 (Sydney Morning Herald)

China's tax receipts soar 25% (Shanghai Daily)

Gold guarded as EU awaits Greek commitment (Reuters)

Apple: We've Got More Money Than We Need (The Street)

Pentagon wants $3 billion for the War in Iraq that we thought was over (RT)

Greece won't see a cent of the great bail-out (The Telegraph)

VIDEO: Iranian Boats Shadow US Aircraft Carrier in Gulf (YouTube)

Euro zone meeting on Greece cancelled (The Globe and Mail)

Greece Struggles to Win Bailout as Europe Doubts Mount (Bloomberg)

Wall Street dips as traders cash in year's winners (Reuters)

Experts talk down $5 gasoline this summer (MarketWatch)

Money Talks, Traders Walk in Commodity Talent Wars (CNBC)

Most commodity prices look set to fall, except gold (MarketWatch)

Greece rushes to meet lender demands, eyes defense cut (Reuters)

Creditors spell out Greece austerity measures (AP/Yahoo!)

Arguments against Greek euro exit running thin (MarketWatch)

Dollar jumps vs. yen; euro slips (MarketWatch)

China's Next Leader Visits U.S. (Wall Street Journal)

'Chump change' settles SEC case (Sydney Morning Herald)

Japan eases monetary policy in deflation fight (Sydney Morning Herald)

Obama Seeks New Taxes on Rich (Wall Street Journal)

Obama's budget: Government still getting bigger (AP/Yahoo!)

Europe debt crisis reaches 'critical' stage: Beijing (China Post)

Moody's Cuts Spain, Italy, Portugal; Threatens French, British AAA ratings (Forbes)

State of Utah committee endorses gold, silver commerce (Salt Lake City Tribune)

After 'lemming' exodus, manufacturers look to U.S. (Reuters)

Indians have '$500 bn stashed in tax havens' (AFP/Yahoo!)

Greece faces death by a thousand cuts unless it leaves the euro (The Telegraph)

China urges closer cooperation from Iran in nuclear standoff (Reuters)

Obstacles remain for Greek bailout deal (AP/Yahoo!)

Economists Warn of Long-Term Perils in Rescue of Europe's Banks (CNBC)

Gold: Price Hesitation Sets In (The Street)

Gold Has Humbled Smart Men Before (Wall Street Journal)

Germany's Carthaginian terms for Greece (The Telegraph)

U.S. on thin ice with deficit, debt, economist says (The Globe and Mail)

Conflict between Iran, West could raise gold prices: HSBC (CommodityOnline)

China tells banks to roll over $1.7T in loans (Financial Times)

Precious metal: India's love affair with gold (CBS)

Greek lawmakers approve austerity bill as Athens burns (Reuters)

Greek Parliament Approves New Austerity Bill (CNBC)

Airlines in call to prevent trade war (Shanghai Daily)

Soros warns crippled euro zone faces a 'lost decade' (Sydney Morning Herald)

PRINTED MONEY ONLY BUYS US TIME (Express)

The State Taxman Cometh (The Street)

Mortgage settlement is great — for politicians and banks (Los Angeles Times)

Yuan climbs to an 18-year high (Shanghai Daily)

VIDEO: The Debt Fix- More Taxes or Fewer Benefits? (New York Times)

Climax nears in Greek drama (Reuters)

China fades as Europe's saviour (Sydney Morning Herald)

IEA Cuts 2012 Oil-Demand Forecast... Again (Wall Street Journal)

De Beers Warns on Diamond Demand (Wall Street Journal)

Portugal watches Greek debt drama with foreboding (Reuters)

Why Is Gasoline Consumption Tanking? (Zerohedge)

Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials (Reuters)

Greece crisis reaches boiling point as Athens asks if it can stay in the euro (Guardian)

US trade gap widens on rising imports (Shanghai Daily)

Anger in Greece as parliament to vote on bailout (Reuters)

MF Global Trustee Sees $1.6 Billion Customer Shortfall (New York Times)

Germany's hard line pushes euro zone to the edge (The Globe and Mail)

Warren Buffett: gold has no value (The Telegraph)

U.S. stocks post worst day of the year (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Greece Debt Woes Hammer Gold Prices (The Street)

Private Homebuilders: Dead Men Walking (CNBC)

What Happened at MF Global? (The Atlantic)

S&P Downgrades 34 Italian Banks (Businessweek)

Bernanke Says Housing Slump Is Holding Back Fed's Efforts to Boost Economy (Bloomberg)

Papademos to Ministers: Back Bailout or Quit (Bloomberg)

Greece Plunged Into Political Turmoil Over Austerity Measures (New York Times)

Greece caught between protests, austerity demands (The Globe and Mail)

Mounting turmoil in Greece hits stock, currency markets (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, Silver Sag; Citi Sees Gray Metal As Underpriced, Due To Lead (Barron's)

Turbo-traders take Bank of America for a ride (AP/Yahooo!)

Global crisis has silver lining for China (Financial Times)

Athens clashes over Greece eurozone austerity deal (BBC)

U.S. Consumer Confidence Falls More Than Forecast Amid Rising Pump Prices (Bloomberg)

Gold Sinks 1.5% on Greece Concerns (Wall Street Journal)

Stocks Tumble on Renewed Greek Fears (The Street)

US Trade Deficit Swells to $48.8 Billion on China Gap (CNBC)

Greece pushes back against German demands for deeper cuts to receive aid (Bloomberg)

EU Agrees Rules for $700 Trillion Derivatives Market (CNBC)

Wall Street's Latest Scam (YouTube)

Chinese Vice President's visit to US won't change Yuan policy (YouTube)

The Bernanke gold trading strategy (MarketWatch)

House OKs weakened insider trading ban for lawmakers (Los Angeles Times)

The insiders are selling heavily (MarketWatch)

Fed's 'Operation Twist' Tangles Treasury Trade (Wall Street Journal)

Greece Rebuffed on Aid Over Austerity Vote (Bloomberg)

Greek deal to cut spending does not end debt drama (AP/Yahoo!)

CME lowers margin requirements for oil, metals (MarketWatch)

The Postal Service Just Lost $3.3 Billion: Blame Congress (The Atlantic)

Greeks strike bailout deal in time for EU meeting (Reuters)

Feds, states, banks agree to $26 billion mortgage settlement (USA Today)

'Mortgage Deal from Hell' Hurts Responsible Borrowers (CNBC)

Gold, Silver Rise As Greece Deal Eyed; Will Austerity Work? (Barron's)

Iran paying for grain with gold, oil (Reuters)

Bank of England Adds £50B to Stimulus (Bloomberg)

Austerity is turning Germany into a basket case too (Guardian)

You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You (Forbes)

Greek debt deal stalls on pension cuts (Sydney Morning Herald)

No coffee mourning over expensive drinks in Starbucks (China Daily)

China's inflation increases 4.5% in January (Shanghai Daily)

EU 'READY FOR GREEK EURO EXIT' (Express)

Where does the bailout money go? Not to the Greeks (The Telegraph)

Gold, Silver Futures Fall as Dollar Rebounds on Greek Debt Woes (Businessweek)

Gold, Silver Soften as Greek Talks Drag On (InvestorPlace)

U.S. stocks fall on Greek uncertainty (MarketWatch)

Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining (Rolling Stone)

Greece's broken promises anger EU partners (The Globe and Mail)

Gold standard believers are anti-government: FBI (CommodityOnline)

Stocks inch higher as Greek talks drag on (AP/Yahoo!)

Government Bailout Actually Hurt Housing Recovery: Zell (CNBC)

Arabs Seek Safety in Dollars After Uprising's Euphoria Fades (Bloomberg)

Gold consolidates gain as Greece lifts euro (Reuters)

Greece: 'There's no more left to cut' (The Independent)

Bulk carriers sink into the red as cargoes take a dive (Sydney Morning Herald)

Greek crisis deepens as austerity talks falter (The Telegraph)

Competitive Currency Devaluations Support Higher Gold Prices (Forbes)

Global shipping industry woes continue as BDI collapses (Reuters)

Why economic inequality leads to collapse (Guardian)

Greek Workers Strike Against New Round of Austerity (New York Times)

Wall Street edges lower as Greece deal advances (Reuters)

VIDEO: Inflation Is Much Stickier Than Central Banks Admit (CNBC)

China Central Bank to Aid Home Buyers to Balance Crackdown on Speculators (Bloomberg)

U.S. Toughens Sanctions on Iran's Central Bank (Wall Street Journal)

Greek leaders meet tonight as general strike hits Athens (Guardian)

What is the point of local currency? (The Telegraph)

Europe downturn could cut China growth: IMF (China Post)

Greece already 'past deadline' for debt deal (Sydney Morning Hearld)

Greece edging closer to default (The Globe and Mail)

Greeks delay bailout talks as Merkel demands action (Reuters)

China's Lowest Lunar Sales Growth Since 2009 Seen Dimming Outlook (Bloomberg)

A Short History of American Money, From Fur to Fiat (The Atlantic)

Gold Prices Continue to Slide on Stronger Dollar (The Street)

Central Bank Demand Driving Gold Higher: CEO (CNBC)

IMF cuts China 2012 growth forecast to 8.25% (MarketWatch)

Stocks hmmm — gold maybe? (MarketWatch)

Most Germans want Greece to quit euro -poll (Reuters)

Gold prices may correct this week, but trend remains up (CommodityOnline)

Gold rebounds after heavy loss; Asia rushes to buy (Reuters)

China bans airlines from paying EU carbon tax (Shanghai Daily)

Community cash: In each other we trust (CNN)

Judge rules against explorers in dispute with Spain over sunken treasure (Washington Post)

CBO reports highway trust fund headed for bankruptcy in 2014 (The Hill)

Greece falters in debt talks with creditors (The Telegraph)

Dubai abandons $10bn debt restructuring (The Telegraph)

Japan Electronics Makers Warn of $17 Billion Loss as Samsung Tightens Grip (Bloomberg)

Retail Sales in Euro Region Unexpectedly Declined in December (Bloomberg)

Deadline for Greek austerity talks stretched to Monday (The Globe and Mail)

No Middle-Class Jobs (New York Post)

A Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded (New York Times)

Corporate taxes cut to 12.1 percent of profits (MarketWatch)

Greece: Bailout talks must end by late Sunday (The Globe and Mail)

Swiss watches clocking up record sales in China (Shanghai Daily)

Dow at 4-year high, Nasdaq hits 11-year high (CNN)

States seek currencies made of silver and gold (CNN)

Struggling Bank of America Considers Liquidating Real Estate (The Atlantic)

Gold Prices Sink After Spike in January Jobs (The Street)

Goldman Sachs to face mortgage debt class-action lawsuit (Reuters)

Central bank liquidity tap to stay open (Reuters)

Silver bullet for cancer: Metal can kill tumors better than chemotherapy with fewer side effects (MailOnline)

Gold:Silver Ratio Screams BUY SILVER (ETF Daily News)

Dollar gains versus euro and yen on strong U.S. jobs data (Reuters)

SEC Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks (CNBC)

VIDEO: Bernanke's Advice Like "An Arsonist’s Lecture on Fire Prevention" (Yahoo!)

Eurozone bail-out funds not enough, warns OECD (The Telegraph)

Euro zone chief warns Greek bank deal 'ultra difficult' (Sydney Morning Herald)

Global outlook still dreary (Taipei Times)

Chinese leave home for luxury bargains (Shanghai Daily)

Getting back to the gold standard (MarketWatch)

The experts' view on the euro's future: it doesn't have one (The Independent)

VIDEO: Chinese 'gold rush': Country diversifying assets (RT)

The Federal Reserve's Crony Capitalism (Forbes)

Bernanke Defends Fed Inflation Stance (Wall Street Journal)

Gold rallies on Bernanke comments (Proactive Investors)

Jon Nadler: 2 Reasons Gold's Rally Could Falter (YouTube)

'No chance Merkel talks China out of buying Iranian oil' (YouTube)

Gold May Drop as Stronger Dollar Prompts Investors to Sell (Bloomberg)

Deutsche Bank Profit Wiped Out by Debt Crisis (CNBC)

Planned layoffs surge in January (Reuters)

China's Wen: May consider bigger role in EU rescue (Reuters)

Bundesbank sinks deeper into debt saving Europe (The Telegraph)

American Airlines to slash pensions, reduce workforce 15% (Wall Street Journal)

ECB May Hold Out on Greek Swap Until Investor Deal Reached on Debt Burden (Bloomberg)

Salvage Team to Recover $3 Billion in Platinum From WWII Shipwreck (Maritime Executive)

Seasonal Effect Prompts Large Spurt In January U.S. Mint Gold-, Silver-Coin Sales (Forbes)

Bill Gross: Fed's Low Rates Killing Credit, Slowing Recovery (CNBC)

Gold Prices Build on January's 11% Rally (The Street)

Silver coin sales hit record pace, outshine gold (Economic Times)

Dollar falls on global manufacturing data (MarketWatch)

Eurozone crisis triggers credit squeeze (Financial Times)

China's Manufacturing Industry Holds Up Against Global Slowdown (Bloomberg)

As jobless rate soars, Europe rethinks austerity moves (The Globe and Mail)

Greece must pledge tough reforms for debt swap deal (Reuters)

Goldman Sachs Fears Massive European Bank Run (The Street)

Silver Powering 20 Million Homes as Glut Subsides (Bloomberg)

The U.S. Dollar Is Under Attack (Seeking Alpha)

Gold and Silver Are Headed for Record Highs (Wealth Daily)

America Will Be at War with Iran Within One Year (Yahoo!)

Greece needs to dump euro "shackles": Commerzbank (Reuters)

Gold Jumps To 8-Week High; Small-Cap Miners, Silver Soar (Barron's)

Home Prices Decline Again (New York Times)

The rising toll in Europe: Young, jobless and hopeless (The Globe and Mail)

VIDEO: Betting on $2,000 gold (CNN)

IMF plays down risk of China "hard landing" (Reuters)

What Portugal's Surging Bond Yields Means For Europe's Crisis (Wall Street Journal)

Eurozone leaders sign up to budget pact, with Greek deal "days" away (The Telegraph)

Greece may need more bailout funds: PM (Sydney Morning Herald)

Banks Set to Double Crisis Loans From ECB (CNBC)

Hedge Funds Lift Commodities Bets to Two-Month High as Rally Accelerates (Bloomberg)

Beef prices, already near record highs, going up again this year (Chicago Sun-Times)

Gold, Silver Demand Seen Picking Up; Barclays Eyes 7% Silver Run (Barron's)

A Gold Standard Is Good? (The Daily Bell)

Why Are the Chinese Buying Record Quantities of Gold? (Forbes)

Gold Is The Hottest Currency In The World (Forbes)

VIDEO: Freddie Mac Betting Against Homeowners (Yahoo!)

EU Stumbles as Merkel Signals Greece Debt Deal Delay (Bloomberg)

Wall Street led lower as banks extend losses (Reuters)

While eyes fixed on Greece, Portugal crisis grows uglier (The Globe and Mail)

EU drafts law 'to respond to Chinese protectionism' (AFP/Yahoo!)

Forget Stocks—Chinese Turn Bullish on Booze and Caterpillar Fungus (Wall Street Journal)

New US unit to apply trade rules (Shanghai Daily)

We're on the brink, warns Greece ahead of EU summit (The Telegraph)

Greece rebuffs budget commissioner reports (MarketWatch)

Ford sputters as Europe loss quadruples (Sydney Morning Herald)

Dollar slips; Greek hopes buoy euro (MarketWatch)

Gold Prices Rise Again, Topping 10% for the Week (International Business Times)

Fitch Cuts Italian, Spanish Ratings by Two Notches (Bloomberg)

Robo-Reality: Final Foreclosures Fall as Pipeline Swells (CNBC)

The Zero Decade (Wall Street Journal)

Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming (Wall Street Journal)

Gold/Silver Ratio - Looking good for bullion (FastMarkets)

India's gold-tariff hike may fail to boost rupee (MarketWatch)

Stock Futures Drop on GDP Report (The Street)

Economy in U.S. Grows Less Than Forecast as Consumers Hold Back (Bloomberg)

Incredible Shrinking Bankers at Davos See Humbler Future as Austerity Hits (Bloomberg)

Gold set for biggest weekly rise since early December (Economic Times)

Commodities inflows at a nine-year low (Financial Times)

Spain unemployment tops 22% and set to get worse (Guardian)

UK Retailers suffer from a Christmas Hangover (The Independent)

China's very mysterious data (The Telegraph)

New-home sales hit record low in 2011 (AP/Yahoo!)

The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State (The Atlantic)

Gold seen rising in 2012, 12th year of rally; Silver expected to decline: Poll (Reuters)

Gold Breaks Above a Major Trendline (The Street)

The Fed acts without acting (The Economist)

Boomers 'Punch Drunk' on household debt (The Globe and Mail)

Forget Greece; it's Portugal that'll destroy euro (MarketWatch)

Gold hits seven-week high after Fed pledge (Economic Times)

Greek Debt Talks to Resume Amid Squabbles (Bloomberg)

Gold: The Real FOMC Winner (Wall Street Journal)

Fed announcement boosts markets (Financial Times)

Austerity 'Does Not Deliver': HSBC Chief Economist (CNBC)

Taxpayers still owed $132.9B from bailout (AP/Yahoo!)

Bernanke Makes Case for More Bond Buying (Bloomberg)

Angela Merkel defiant as IMF leads attack on Germany (The Telegraph)

The IMF's latest forecast: Perverse austerity (The Economist)

Beer Drinkers Hit Hardest in Weak Economy (CNBC)

Gold surges 2% to above $1,700 on Fed news (The Globe and Mail)

IMF: halt in Iran oil could push crude up 30 percent (Reuters)

Fed says key rate likely to stay near zero through late 2014 (Los Angeles Times)

Stocks Cheap? Not If You Look at Earnings (CNBC)

Gold Prices Fall Ahead of Fed Announcement (The Street)

Gold Proves Safest as Goldman Forecasts Record: Riskless Return (Bloomberg)

Hedge Funds Scramble to Unload Greek Debt (New York Times)

Unemployment to soar as UK heads back into recession (The Telegraph)

Italian police raid Fitch offices in ratings agencies probe (Sydney Morning Herald)

Global elite seek new path for capitalism in Davos (Shanghai Daily)

Soros Warns of 'Riots', 'Brutal' Clampdowns & Total Economic Collapse (The Blaze)

Auditing the FED's Gold (LewRockwell.com)

Two-Faced Gold: Trying To Move From Risk Asset To Safe Haven (Forbes)

World stocks ease as Greece talks stumble (Reuters)

IMF cuts global outlook (MarketWatch)

Gold, Silver Pause Off Fresh Highs; Asian Demand Seen Returning (Barron's)

US Post Office Needs to Cut 260,000 Jobs: Rep. Issa (CNBC)

India to pay gold for Iran oil, China may follow (IINS)

'India to buy Iran oil in gold not dollars' (Press TV)

Oil-for-gold: Iran to dodge US ban with metal shield? (YouTube)

Greece clings to hope of debt deal (The Globe and Mail)

WTO chief sees weaker global trade in 2012 (Sydney Morning Herald)

Super-Rich playing snow polo as Davos igloo agitators vie with Duran Duran (Bloomberg)

Worry Spots in Gold's Rally (YouTube)

Silver Stocks on the Upswing as Industrial Demand Grows (Marketwire)

Germany Proposes Combining Rescue Funds as Greece Haggles With Bondholders (Bloomberg)

What's Europe's Biggest Loser? Germany (The Street)

Currency Wars - EU Bans Iran from Trading Gold and Silver (Business Insider)

Iran's rial drops 10 pct as EU bans oil imports (Emirates 24/7)

China Is 175.6% Dependent on the U.S. (Forbes)

Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions (New York Times)

Greek debt talks stumble (Sydney Morning Herald)

America overcomes the debt crisis as Britain sinks deeper into the swamp (The Telegraph)

Occupy Wall Street Goes Global (The Street)

Boom time in Beijing (Guardian)

Luxury looks to cash in on Dragon (China Daily)

Speculators Raise Metals Wagers by Most Since July (Businessweek)

Gold Posts 2.0% Weekly Gain, Silver Surges 7.3% (International Business Times)

Stocks, euro rally fizzle on Greece (Reuters)

We're living on borrowed money and borrowed time (The Globe and Mail)

QE3, $2,200 Gold, and the Trillion Dollar Bazooka (Money Morning)

Wall St slips on GE, Google results (Reuters)

Banks Again Turn to Overdraft Fees for Lost Revenue (The Street)

Greece, Creditors Near Debt Swap Deal With 70% Loss (CNBC)

Bonds Show Crisis Return When ECB Loans Expire (Bloomberg)

Taiwanese tech industry expects slow economy (China Post)

Beijing posts 12% drop in property sales (Shanghai Daily)

Hammer Falls on Home Auctions in Australia as Market Stalls (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Wall Street Is An Illegal Cartel (Yahoo!)

IMF slashes global forecast on eurozone crisis (The Telegraph)

The debtors' merry-go-round (The Economist)

Finland Derides Crisis as Excuse for Eroding Sovereignty (Bloomberg)

Goldman pays out bonuses of £8bn (The Independent)

Confidence in eurozone improves despite downgrades (AP/Yahoo!)

Is the U.S. economy having a Tebow moment? (The Globe and Mail)

Bailed-Out GM Now First in Global Sales (The Street)

Gold futures edge lower after two-session climb (MarketWatch)

Sales skid as China keeps brakes on homes (Sydney Morning Herald)

IMF 'needs $US500b' to fight raging euro crisis (Sydney Morning Herald)

Kodak files for bankruptcy (Guardian)

Hedge Funds May Sue Greece if It Tries to Force Loss (New York Times)

Dollar falls more on IMF, Greek debt talks (MarketWatch)

Greek Debt Talks Resume With All Terms on the Table (CNBC)

Gold firms as IMF talk, Fitch stance lift euro (Reuters)

France signals slow death of sovereign debt market (MarketWatch)

World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast as Euro Region Contracts (Bloomberg)

World Bank's crisis warning (Sydney Morning Herald)

The euro is pushing Italy into depression (The Telegraph)

China's economic growth slows to 9.2% in 2011 (China Post)

Stocks tumble on bleak GDP forecast (Shanghai Daily)

How Did Coins Do in 2011? (Numismaster)

Greek Premier Says Creditors May Be Forced to Take Losses (New York Times)

Greek Bond Swap Talks to Resume Wednesday (CNBC)

Gold hits 5-week high as euro, commodities rise (Reuters)

The Real Scandal in Private Equity? It's the Taxes (The Atlantic)

Housing: The one bailout America could really use (CNN)

Chinese growth gives markets a boost (The Globe and Mail)

Israel rattled as hackers hit bourse (Sydney Morning Herald)

French Borrowing Costs Drop as Investors Shrug Off S&P Downgrade (Businessweek)

Clearing houses: the next casualty of the crisis? (Reuters)

Majority of Italians No Longer Trust the Euro (CNBC)

U.K. Home Sellers Cut Prices as Recovery Slips Into 'Paralysis' (Bloomberg)

The eurozone's three deadly sins (Financial Times)

Eurozone banks' ECB borrowing set to soar (The Telegraph)

In love with luxury amid global gloom (China Daily)

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale (Rolling Stone)

The world according to Goldman Sachs (The Telegraph)

Don't Believe In Gold? That's Ok, Just Leave It To The Chinese (Forbes)

Why the Rich are Getting Richer (Foreign Affairs)

S&P cuts credit ratings for France, Italy, Spain (Businessweek)

Greek debt talks break down (CNN)

Miners see gold price hitting $2,000 this year (The Telegraph)

France Downgraded by S&P, Others Set to Follow (CNBC)

Euro, global stocks fall on reports of euro zone downgrade (Reuters)

China Gold Hoarding Turns Traders Most Bullish in Two Months (Bloomberg)

U.S. Trade Deficit Widens Beyond Forecast (Bloomberg)

Fed to Weigh Further Easing Amid Doubts About Recovery (CNBC)

Flying Blind: Inside the Federal Reserve's Damning 2006 Transcript (The Atlantic)

The China bull returns (MarketWatch)

China's top gold producer says profits up 57% in '11 (China Daily)

Bloodied by Brussels, Hungary turns to IMF (Sydney Morning Herald)

Fitch warns of 'cataclysmic' euro collapse (Sydney Morning Herald)

Forbes: Stop the Bleeding in the U.S. Dollar (YouTube)

Gold rises as ECB comments lift euro (Reuters)

Wall Street Stocks Slip on Economic Data (New York Times)

China Snubs Geithner on Iran Oil (Bloomberg)

China Trade Spurs $115 Billion Australia Building Boom (Bloomberg)

China Gets Cheaper Iran Oil as U.S. Picks Up Tab for Hormuz Strait Patrols (Bloomberg)

Financial Times: Should we turn art into an asset class? (YouTube)

Gold-Silver Price Ratio Getting Silly Again (The Street)

Former Swiss bank chief Philipp Hildebrand gets £600,000 payoff (The Telegraph)

2011 Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Annual Sales Record Ends at 39.8M+ (Silver Coins Today)

Euro nears 16-month low on debt fears, global stocks fall (Reuters)

Dollar gains as ECB weighs on euro (MarketWatch)

Gold Is Investors' Favorite Asset in 2012: Poll (CNBC)

Twinkies maker Hostess seeks bankruptcy protection (AP/Yahoo!)

China, India skyscraper boom may herald downturn (The Globe and Mail)

As Germany stumbles, fears of euro's 'cataclysmic' death (The Globe and Mail)

Europe's $39T Pension Threat Grows (Bloomberg)

Crisis turns Mafia into Italy's 'No.1 bank' (Sydney Morning Herald)

Hedge funds lock horns with IMF on Greek debt (Reuters)

Commodities outlook leads Wall Street higher (Reuters)

Gold futures rise to best in four weeks (MarketWatch)

Custody banks net short-selling gains from EU crisis (Reuters)

Geithner to Press China on Yuan While Seeking Support on Iran Sanctions (Bloomberg)

Chinese Exports Grow, but Imports Show Signs of Weakening (New York Times)

Oil prices slip as eurozone offsets Iran fears (AFP/Yahoo!)

As EU drowns in debt, Denmark to serve tap water (AFP/Yahoo!)

A Fine for Not Using a Biofuel That Doesn't Exist (New York Times)

GM, Ford report strong China sales in December (AP/Yahoo!)

VIDEO: The euro, the debt crisis and the future of the EU (The Telegraph)

Gold, Silver Looking Up; Goldman Sachs Sees 'Significant Value Opportunity' (Barron's)

Swiss National Bank chief quits amid trades uproar (AP/Yahoo!)

Poor, but feeding the rich (CNN)

Germany Gets Negative Yield for First Time in Auction (CNBC)

For Euro Zone, the Heat Is on Again (CNBC)

China loan growth quickens as policy eases (Sydney Morning Herald)

Smaller economies may outpace larger ones in '12 (China Post)

Art market beats equities for second year (Financial Times)

Gold Prices Hold Steady Despite Strong Dollar (The Street)

CME faces regulatory probe on MF Global (Reuters)

Confidence in Euro Region at Two-Year Low as German Orders Slide (Bloomberg)

Barclays sees gold peaking at $2,200/oz in 2012 (MarketWatch)

Gold Vs. Platinum: How to Play Heavy Metals (SmartMoney)

Why Iran could start the next global recession (Guardian)

Fresh credit crunch fears as banks park record €453bn cash with ECB (Guardian)

China rejects US-led sanctions on Iran (PressTV)

Americans make up half of the world's richest 1% (CNN)

Foreign Warships Will Need Iran's Permission to Pass through Strait of Hormoz (FNA)

U.S. stocks tumble; Europe's issues weigh (MarketWatch)

Your 401K Match Just Got Axed; Now What? (The Street)

Fed Will Be Forced to Ease Again Soon: Morgan Stanley (CNBC)

Wall St gurus find predictions game getting harder (Reuters)

Capital markets face heavy slogging against EU headwinds (The Globe and Mail)

Euro zone crisis, MF Global chill trading at CME, ICE (Reuters)

China No Country for Old Men as Government Battles 'Demographic Tsunami' (Bloomberg)

Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs (New York Times)

Gold jumps after preliminary EU deal on Iran oil ban (Reuters)

Bill Gross predicts 'paranormal' markets in 2012 (The Globe and Mail)

Greeks, Italians moving cash out of banks (The Globe and Mail)

MF Global Sold Assets to Goldman Sachs Before Collapse (CNBC)

2012 Economic Scorecard: The Case for Hope, Despair, and Utter Confusion (The Atlantic)

Bankers ready to sue if bonuses too small (The Telegraph)

Gold tops $1,600 to begin 2012 on positive note (MarketWatch)

Dow Surges 250 Points on U.S. Economic Data (The Street)

Iran Tells Departed US Carrier Not to Return (CNBC)

World's Biggest Economies Face $7.6T Debt (Bloomberg)

Year-end bets against euro hit record (Financial Times)

What is gold telling us? (MarketWatch)

Gold rallies on increased risk appetite (Reuters)

Recession looms in Singapore (Sydney Morning Herald)

Survey shows manufacturing in eurozone stuck in reverse (China Post)

Iran currency plunges 10% as US strengthens sanctions (Guardian)

Governments expected to put crown jewels in play (The Globe and Mail)

Asia's double-edged currency sword (Reuters)

The Chinese want to buy Yahoo! (RT)

VIDEO: Gold, Commodities Poised to Rise (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Don't Risk Your Retirement in the Stock Market (MarketWatch)

Iran defiant as US unleashes new sanctions (Sydney Morning Herald)

2011 was a bad – but typical – year for economic forecasters (The Globe and Mail)

U.S. consumer in the slow lane (Reuters)

Austerity Reigns Over Euro Zone as Crisis Deepens (New York Times)

40,000 new U.S. laws set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2012 (MailOnline)

The Year U.S. Debt Beat Gold (The Atlantic)

Central Banks Cut US Treasury Holdings by Record (CNBC)

Stress in the Strait: 'Any false move can lead to catastrophe' (RT)

Gold Rebounds as It Heads for 11th Year of Gains (Wall Street Journal)

Ten years after the euro's launch: How could it have gone so wrong? (The Globe and Mail)

Flash crash threatens to return with a vengeance (The Globe and Mail)

New Satellites to Extend China's Military Reach (CNBC)

Spain's economy worsening, says central bank (The Telegraph)

Angela Merkel's economic adviser refuses to rule out eurozone break-up (The Telegraph)

China urges stability in Strait of Hormuz (Reuters)

Iran: U.S. in 'No Position' to Give Orders on Strait of Hormuz (Fox News)

Brazil's success heralds the new world order (The Independent)

Trends 2012: The End of the Euro, The End of the Investor (Blogspot)

Euro hits 11-month low against the dollar as banks hoard ECB cash (Guardian)

Greek economic crisis turns tragic for children abandoned by their families (Guardian)

China's currency deal points to new monetary order (Sydney Morning Herald)

U.S. Warns Tehran on Strait (Wall Street Journal)

'Perfect storm' puts India’s economy on the rocks (The Globe and Mail)

China Eclipses US as Top IPO Venue (CNBC)

Look for 2012 to be the year of the dollar (MarketWatch)

China's Central Bank Clamps Down On Gold, The Only Safe-Haven Left (Forbes)

VIDEO: China Unveils 310mph Train (Wall Street Journal)

How Banks Cheat Taxpayers (Rolling Stone)

Britain's poorest hit by £2.5bn 'stealth tax' (The Independent)

Gold Prices Poised for 11th Year of Gains in 2012 (The Street)

Gold Posts Longest Slump Since 2009 (Bloomberg)

Futures for Silver Near Extreme Bullish Levels (Resource Investor)

Minimum Wage in U.S. Fails to Beat Inflation: Chart of the Day (Bloomberg)

Wall Street - a raw deal for the 100 percent (SFGate)

Oil Prices Predicted to Stay Above $100 a Barrel Through Next Year (New York Times)

US Navy: disrupting traffic through Strait of Hormuz 'will not be tolerated' (Washington Post)

Endgame: Return to the Gold Standard? (Henry Makow)

S&P 500 erases gains for year (Reuters)

Euro falls under $1.30 as U.S. stocks decline (MarketWatch)

China to ban unauthorized gold exchanges (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: The World Won’t end in 2012, but Might Feel Like It's About To (Yahoo!)

US to hit debt limit in early January (Sydney Morning Herald)

Iran Threatens to Block Oil Shipments, as U.S. Prepares Sanctions (New York Times)

Sears, Kmart to close up to 120 stores after holiday sales slump (Los Angeles Times)

Brazil overtakes UK as sixth-largest economy (YouTube)

Countrywide's Racist Lending Practices Were Fueled by Greed (The Atlantic)

The Danger of Paper Gold (International Man)

Banks Are the 'Grenade,' Not the Canary in a Coalmine (CNBC)

A Run On The Global Banking System—How Close Are We? (Gonzalo Lira)

Currency Agreement for Japan and China (New York Times)

Americans Shoplifted $1.8 Billion Worth of Stuff This Christmas (The Atlantic)

Call for QE to Stave Off Euro Deflation (CNBC)

London Trader - There are Tremendous Silver Shortages (King World News)

HSBC: The World's Dirtiest Bank (The Intel Hub)

The Ron Paul Portfolio (Wall Street Journal)

Congress Ruined Everything in 2011 (YouTube)

EU airline carbon move could spark trade war: China (Reuters)

London Brokers Shrink as Debt Crisis Bites (Bloomberg)

North Korea helps keep gold up in South despite global dips (BullionStreet)

Signs Point to Economy's Rise, but Experts See a False Dawn (New York Times)

Corporate bonds now outshine sovereign debt (The Globe and Mail)

US military 'ready to engage in a conflict with Iran' (The Telegraph)

E-Mail clues in tracking MF Global client funds- $200M sent to JPMorgan (New York Times)

Bank of England introduces temporary loan facility as 'precaution' in case of eurozone break-up (MailOnline)

Existing-home sales revised down 14% (MarketWatch)

U.S. commodity markets shrink after MF Global failure (Reuters)

Gold surrenders gains as euro slips lower (Reuters)

ECB Lends Banks $645B, Exceeding Forecast (Bloomberg)

Banks gorge on ECB loans, market cheer short-lived (The Globe and Mail)

Banks Not Lending? Corporate Borrowing Soars in 2011 (CNBC)

Here comes good old Santa Claus (MarketWatch)

China gold turnover surge 77% after price crash, huge demand push up premiums (CommodityOnline)

IMF urges European firewall around Ireland (Sydney Morning Herald)

Battered Gold Prices Lure Buyers (The Street)

Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style (Rolling Stone)

Britain, the IMF, and the world's richest beggar (The Telegraph)

Gold below $1600 spurs record buying: National Bank of Dubai (CommodityOnline)

Banking: the gift that keeps on giving – just not to you (Guardian)

Plane crashes on New Jersey highway, bankers killed (Reuters)

Investors Lose Faith in Stocks As Billions Pour Out of Funds (CNBC)

Greek debt talks hit trouble as hedge fund walks out (Reuters)

Silver's Tug-of-War (YouTube)

Holiday Air Travel Down 1%, but Airlines Aren't Complaining (YouTube)

The United States of Leverage (YouTube)

Dow 12,000 toppled on bullish news abroad and at home (MarketWatch)

Food, gas costs fuel inflation (The Globe and Mail)

Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk 'Imbecile' Attack on Top 1% (Businessweek)

Gold Back Above $1,600/Ounce; Hold Your Horses! Here Comes Silver? (Barron's)

Beware of the Big Bad Home Sales Revisions (CNBC)

The Inflation-Deflation Debate—What Lies Ahead? (Kitco)

VIDEO: The Wheels Are Coming Off China’s Economy: Gordon Chang (Yahoo!)

Gold, Silver Appear Set to Shine in '12 (Wall Street Journal)

China governments in hole as land sales plummet (MarketWatch)

Euro zone IMF loan target in danger as UK declines help (Yahoo!)

Stocks Slide and Banks Get Crushed: Here's What You Need To Know (Business Insider)

Europe Channels $195 Billion to IMF (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Best commodities for a Chinese hard landing (The Globe and Mail)

The East Is Gold? (MarketWatch)

Why the euro turkey is well and truly stuffed (The Telegraph)

50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You (Yahoo!)

VIDEO: Be Skeptical of Gold's Volatilty (The Street)

Wall Street erases gains (Reuters)

Saab heads for scrapyard as long rescue quest fails (Reuters)

Gold wavers, struggles to stay atop $1,600 (MarketWatch)

North Dakota Thrives, Nevada Suffers in Uneven Economy (Bloomberg)

Gold to Slip Below $1,500 in Next 3 Months: Poll (CNBC)

As Economy Slows, Beijing Is Paralyzed By Power Shift (Forbes)

Instability a New Fear for Investors in Russia (New York Times)

Drivers Pay Highest Ever Christmas Gas Prices (YouTube)

Euro crisis now in 'chronic rather than acute phase' (The Globe and Mail)

Liquid gold: Why whisky investments can hit the spot (USA Today)

China's trade tactics worrying: US (Sydney Morning Herald)

China may prevent a global recession but it won't pick up the eurozone's bills (Telegraph)

U.S. Bank Regulators Set Up Greek Tragedy (The Street)

Reversal of dollar trend as yuan hits record high (Shanghai Daily)

Dennis Gartman: Still A Bull Market For Gold (YouTube)

France's AAA Outlook Cut; Fitch Reviews Others (Bloomberg)

Swiss Central Bank Chief in 'Permanent Crisis,' Worried About Real Estate (Bloomberg)

U.S. stock indexes end two-week win streak (MarketWatch)

How speculators fed U.S. housing bubble, fueled bust (The Globe and Mail)

Comprehensive euro-zone deal 'beyond reach:' Fitch (The Globe and Mail)

For the Last Time, Fannie and Freddie Didn't Cause the Housing Crisis (The Atlantic)

The Dark Side of America's Growing Social Safety Net (The Atlantic)

How Harvard Beats The Market, and How You Can Too (ABC)

Out of Chaos, Order: IMF Seeks Collective, World Bail-Out of Europe (The Daily Bell)

VIDEO: Gold's Rally Will Be Short Lived (The Street)

WTO approves Russia's membership after marathon (Reuters)

Investors Seek Inquiry Into JPMorgan Mortgage Bonds (Forbes)

SEC charges ex-Fannie, Freddie CEOs with fraud (AP/Yahoo!)

Swiss Join Suffering as Europe Crisis Ripples (Bloomberg)

Bank Failures Cost U.S. $88 Billion (Bloomberg)

Credit unions trounce big banks in consumer survey (MarketWatch)

Sky high household debts put banks in a corner (The Globe and Mail)

Shutdown likely averted as tax talks go on (AP/Yahoo!)

Silver's a bargain under $30, but watch volatility (MarketWatch)

Lagarde warns over 1930s-style threats (Citywire)

Global Demand for U.S. Financial Assets Cools (Bloomberg)

So When Should You Default on Your Mortgage? (The Atlantic)

Too Big to Stop: Why Big Banks Keep Getting Away With Breaking the Law (The Atlantic)

China's yuan jumps on signs of central bank intervention (Reuters)

IMF chief warns no nation spared from 'escalating' crisis (Sydney Morning Herald)

China buys less US debt in October (Shanghai Daily)

Fitch downgrades world's top banks (CNN)

Jon Corzine Sued by CME Board Members (The Street)

'Dismal' prospects: 1 in 2 Americans are now poor or low income (MSNBC)

Regulators know where MF Global funds went (Reuters)

Gold: Panic Sellers May Be Sorry (CNBC)

Gold reverses gains as fund selling resumes (Reuters)

$7bn of platinum need for car production in 2012 (Mining Weekly)

Coffee Market Braces for Espresso-Bean Jolt (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Gold bullion could 'easily' hit $2,000 (The Telegraph)

S.E.C to Appeal Rejection of Citigroup Settlement (New York Times)

Platinum: The most obvious trade in precious metals since March? (Sovereign Man)

Morgan Stanley slashing 1,600 jobs (CNN)

Indonesia Regains Investment Grade as Fitch Raises Its Rating (Bloomberg)

Gold Sheds 'Can't Lose' Status: Now, No One Wants It (CNBC)

VIDEO: "Your Money Is Not Safe": Gerald Celente on the Moral of MF Global’s Collapse (Yahoo!)

New Foreclosure Wave is Coming (CNBC)

Dollar dollar bills, y'all — an end to dollar coins (Washington Post)

SEC Cops Want to Fight U.S. Judge (Wall Street Journal)

Germany creates bailout fund as Commerzbank struggles (Sydney Morning Herald)

Europe 'could take years' to solve debt crisis: Merkel (Sydney Morning Herald)

Offshore yuan to be allowed as investment (Shanghai Daily)

Austrian Banks Facing Payback as Hungary Debt Slaves Revolt (Businessweek)

VIDEO: Investors flip farmland for cash, not crops (CNN)

Fed keeps QE3 gun locked - for now (Citywire)

Hands off our greedy bankers (The Independent)

Gold Falls Off A Cliff As Margin Calls Cream Speculators (Forbes)

Fed won't bail Europe out, Bernanke tells lawmakers (Reuters)

Deflation Can Be Good for Gold (The Street)

OPEC green lights first production increase in three years (The Globe abd Mail)

Top U.S. CEOs remain wary about the economy (Los Angeles Times)

Dire UK jobless forecast as the private sector stalls (The Telegraph)

U.S. Stocks Drop on Euro, Oil (Wall Street Journal)

Meanwhile, Commodities Having Faces Ripped Off (Wall Street Journal)

Gold, Silver Prices Plunging in Massive Selloff (International Business Times)

Italian bond prices stoke fears (MarketWatch)

China to hit U.S. auto imports with duties (Reuters)

Italy Bond Yields Hit New High; Germany's Near Zero (CNBC)

Central Bank Appetite And The Monetary Case For $10,000 Gold (Forbes)

China makes growth guarantee against grim global economy (Reuters)

Army of Britons work unpaid overtime as unemployment rises (The Telegraph)

This slump won't end until 2031 (MarketWatch)

China accused of massive economic espionage (Sydney Morning Herald)

Greeks can't take any more taxes: IMF (The Globe and Mail)

Gold ETF holdings hit record high (Financial Times)

MF's Corzine may have known of customer loan: CME (MarketWatch)

Oil Prices Settle Above $100 as Hot Money Eyes Iran (The Street)

Realtors: We Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years (CNBC)

The End of Cheap China Is Growing Near (Forbes)

Our decade from hell will get worse in 2012 (MarketWatch)

Fed holds rates steady, sees moderate growth (MarketWatch)

Wall Street turns lower after Fed's statement (Reuters)

Steve Cohen calls insider trading rules "vague" (Yahoo!)

It's (Still) the Housing Crisis, Stupid (The Atlantic)

Senators demand answers on missing MF Global money (Los Angeles Times)

'IT'S CALLED STEALING' (CNN)

VIDEO: Bernanke will go down in history as the Fed chairman who destroyed the country (Yahoo!)

Goldman Sachs Top Target of Occupy Protests at West Coast Ports (Bloomberg)

Beware of ETFs on Steroids (Businessweek)

Europe's bank meltdown will hit home in U.S. (MarketWatch)

City not shielded by Cameron's veto, EU insists (The Telegraph)

Stocks fall as rating agencies knock euro deal (Shanghai Daily)

Gold, Silver Face Frosty Year-End; Temperatures Seen Rising Next Year (Barron's)

Intel cuts revenue forecast by $1bn (Financial Times)

Top Earners Not So Lofty in the Days of Recession (New York Times)

Inflation, deflation and precious metals: what a future might look like for bullion and mining shares (stockopedia)

Jim Willie: JP Morgan Crashed MF Global to Avert COMEX Failure (Blogspot)

Sarkozy sees 'two Europes' (Sydney Morning Herald)

Euro tensions rise again as Moody's turns the screw (Sydney Morning Herald)

Wen May Cut China Taxes to Spur Growth in 2012 (Bloomberg)

Schiff: "All the Speculators, all the Bankers...all the Financiers want Inflation" (YouTube)

MF Global execs say don't know where the money is (Yahoo!)

A Romance With Risk That Brought On a Panic (CNBC)

VIDEO: Janitor in German library discovers ancient coin collection (Huffington Post)

New video punctures myths about Great Depression, exposes damaging impact of Statist policies by Hoover and FDR (Forbes)

‪The New Deal was a failure: Hoover and FDR prolonged Great Depression with Big Government (YouTube)

Occupy Wall Street: Goldman Sachs is a Great Vampire Squid (YouTube)

Dow Sheds 200 Points Amid Eurozone Credit Warnings (The Street)

Markets sink as Europe pact seen as just 'sound and fury' (The Globe and Mail)

BIS Calls for Hyperinflationary Depression? (The Daily Bell)

India industrial production falls 5.1% (China Post)

CME squares up to tougher scrutiny on MF Global Collapse (Financial Times)

U.S. stocks fall sharply on Moody's warning (MarketWatch)

Gold falls as Europe worries rattle market (MarketWatch)

Gold, Silver Keep Falling In 'Range-Bound' Market; Early 2012 Bounce? (Baroon's)

Gold set for largest fall in three months (Reuters)

Fed busy behind scenes on third year of zero rates (MarketWatch)

OECD warns on global funding struggle (The Globe and Mail)

Rare 1787 gold coin fetches $7.4M (SFGate)

Global Economy Worked Better With Bretton Woods Currency System, BOE Says (Bloomberg)

No One Telling Who Took $586B in Fed Swaps (Bloomberg)

Creditors resume crunch talks with Greece on second bailout (Sydney Morning Herald)

After Euro deal, investors brace for big moves (AP/Yahoo!)

Asia shines as 2011 ends under eurozone cloud (China Post)

The $200 Trillion World: Who Owns All the Wealth? (The Atlantic)

In farm auction frenzy, investors start to bow out (Reuters)

Hu: China to Focus on Expanding Imports (The Street)

Greece braces for troika scrutiny and creditor talks (Reuters)

Long-term jobless eye bleak future as benefits end (Chicago Tribune)

China November Commodity Imports Surge on Shortages (CNBC)

Are you a bull, a bear, or a chicken? (MarketWatch)

New Nevada law spurs big drop in homes entering foreclosure (Los Angeles Times)

EU's vicious-circle economics dooms it to failure (The Globe and Mail)

Gold bar sales outstripping jewelry in India (MineWeb)

Greek economy trapped in deep recession (Sydney Morning Herald)

US household wealth takes biggest hit since 2008 (China Post)

As the dust settles, a cold new Europe with Germany in charge will emerge (Guardian)

No "grand bargain" means more euro stress (Reuters)

Britain 'to maintain EU influence' (The Independent)

When Sovereign Debt Is No Longer Risk-Free (Businessweek)

Judge OKs $2.2 Billion Transfer to MF Global Clients (CNBC)

Be Glad You're Not in Italy (International Man)

Bailout Total: $29.616 Trillion Dollars (ritholtz.com/blog)

Euro Countries Reach Deal on Crisis; Britain Refuses to Join (New York Times)

Corzine's Loss May Be Soros's Gain (Wall Street Journal)

Iran state television displays 'downed U.S. surveillance drone' (Haaretz)

VIDEO: CIA Drone 'A Public Relations Coup' for Iran (AP/YouTube)

VIDEO: Taken to Task: Ben Bernanke and His Bankster Buddies (Yahoo!)

HSBC Sues MF Global Brokerage Over Stored Gold, Silver Bars (SFGate)

Diamonds are forever: Buried alive by fiancé, woman uses engagement ring to escape (BBC)

Gold edges higher, loses 2% on the week (MarketWatch)

Stocks Hold Strong Gains as European Debt Fears Ease (The Street)

Summit fails to address what's at the heart of Europe's debt crisis (The Globe and Mail)

EU Leaders Drop Demands for Investor Write-Offs (Bloomberg)

Top Income Tax Rate: How's 83% Sound? (Businessweek)

Eurosceptics welcome UK veto (The Independent)

In Euro Zone, Germany Prospers While Unemployment Strangles Others (New York Times)

Obama Channels Hugo Chavez, Shows Why He Can't Lead On The Economy (Forbes)

VIDEO: Detroit on brink of bankruptcy- Mayor's office on mandatory furlough (YouTube)

Gold Prices Rise as Europe Delivers a Plan (The Street)

China to create $300 billion FX investment vehicle (Reuters)

Europe moves ahead with fiscal union, U.K. isolated (The Globe and Mail)

Croatia, EU member No. 28, to get 'warm' welcome (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: China's Central Bank Will Buy More Gold (YouTube)

EU Loans to IMF May Open Door to Funds From Brazil, China (Bloomberg)

Buy Silver…Now! (Vietnam Business News)

HSBC: Gold Weighed Down By Lending From Institutions Looking To Raise Dollars (Kitco)

The 12 Days of Christmas? That'll Cost You a Record $101,119.84 (The Atlantic)

Bank of Canada warns condo boom could be ending (The Globe and Mail)

CME Group accepts Chinese yuan as collateral for trading futures (Chicago Tribune)

Gold Traders Most Bullish in Month on Debt Crisis: Commodities (Bloomberg)

Stocks, commodities, euro sink on EU summit (Reuters)

Eurogeddon – fear not, it's under control (The Telegraph)

Why China needs to shore up the yuan (Sydney Morning Herald)

Fix was in: markets are rigged (New York Post)

Banks step up gold lending for dollars (Financial Times)

German Politician: Euro Downgrade Is an American Plot (Weekly Standard)

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Money Machine (Web of Debt)

Working Americans Get Smaller Slice of Pie (CNBC)

Dow Drops 199 as Germany Rejects New Rescue Plan (The Street)

Irish 'bad bank’ NAMA: £1.5 Trillion black hole (The Telegraph)

Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply (Reuters)

U.S. Household Net Worth Falls $2.45 Trillion (Bloomberg)

Americans Pull The Most Money From Stock Market Farce Since US Downgrade (ZeroHedge)

Stocks Decline (Wall Street Journal)

EU banks told to fill €115B capital hole (Reuters)

Corzine blames predecessors for MF Global's fall (AP/Yahoo!)

Corzine: 'I Simply Do Not Know Where The Money Is' (Wall Street Journal)

How's The Euro Crisis Affecting Hedge Funds? It's Shutting Them Down (Forbes)

The Incredible Shrinking Work Force (The Atlantic)

Economy in midst of 'seven lean years,' three still ahead (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, Silver Slip After ECB's Draghi Pulls Support For More Stimulus (Barron's)

Handicapping a 2012 Eurozone Meltdown (The Street)

Turf war brews for prosecutors probing MF Global (Reuters)

S&P delivers next blow to Europe (Sydney Morning Herald)

EU meet seeks 'powerful' deal (Shanghai Daily)

Poll: Investors Predict China Bank Crisis (Bloomberg)

Jon Corzine's Relationship With CFTC Chair Gary Gensler Probed (Rolling Stone)

HSBC poll shows fund managers opt for bonds and cash (Taipei Times)

Germany dampens hopes as France warns of euro 'explosion' (AFP/Yahoo!)

If one EU bail-out fund flops, create two (The Telegraph)

What you need to know about China and gold (CommodityOnline)

VIDEO: Europe's austerity bites before Christmas (YouTube)

An Entrepreneur's Rival in China: The State (New York Times)

As Europe's Bond Market Dries Up, Traders Fear for Jobs (CNBC)

JPMorgan to Fight Mortgage Investors for 'Years': CEO (The Street)

VIDEO: I predict market predictions will be wrong (The Globe and Mail)

Europe will be a 'catastrophe' without a solution (CNN)

Market bears defend the 200-day average (MarketWatch)

Saudi Arabia commissions gold-leaf train (Guardian)

Class of Homebuyers Claims BofA Found a New Dirty Trick (Courthouse News)

Is Christmas Bad for the Economy? (The Atlantic)

Stocks stumble as euro rescue hopes fade (CNN)

VIDEO: Gold Outlook Headed into EU Summit (YouTube)

Big Banks' Only Path to Profit: Layoffs (The Street)

The Robin Hood Tax Won't Work (CNBC)

VIDEO: Deal or No Deal? Stocks Fall as Skepticism Rises Over Europe (Yahoo!)

Bernanke: There Was No 'Secret' Bank Bailout, And It Was Only $1.5 Trillion (Forbes)

California and Nevada join forces in mortgage probe (Los Angeles Times)

Investigation finds elaborate cover-up at 'rotten' Olympus (China Post)

Radical eurozone shakeup could see Brussels get austerity powers (Guardian)

Global Financial Collapse: What makes it tick? (RT)

Cramer: A Colossal Market Hiccup Is Coming (The Street)

Good Gold, 'Bad' Gold (Numismaster)

Australia economy surges on mining boom (MarketWatch)

Occupy protests move to foreclosed homes (AP/Yahoo!)

Rothschild: further bank nationalisation risk can't be ignored (Citywire)

Anxious Greeks Emptying Their Bank Accounts (Spiegel)

Bank of France debts jump tenfold on capital flight (The Telegraph)

S&P has no choice: Euroland risks bankruptcy on current policies (The Telegraph)

UK threatens to block new EU treaty if demands not met (Sydney Morning Herald)

Citi cuts 4,500 jobs, will take $400 million charge (Reuters)

Gold rises on S&P credit downgrade warning (Reuters)

BRIC's fading fortunes a bad sign for global economy (The Globe and Mail)

First, Let's Kill All the Creditors (The Atlantic)

SEC Targets Brokers in Latest Crackdown (Daily Bell)

VIDEO: Wartime Recipe Revival in Era of Greek Austerity (YouTube)

Financial Crisis Gives Investors More Reasons to Love Gold (CNBC)

Rare Greek coin could sell for $2.5 million at auction (Reuters)

S&P threat makes waves (Khaleej Times)

New Funds Created To Let Traders Play Inflation & Deflation Threats (Barron's)

VIDEO: Fed Is the Worst Central Bank: Jim Rogers w/ Alix Steel Part 2 (YouTube)

VIDEO: China's #1 Problem: Jim Rogers w/ Alix Steel Part 1 (YouTube)

Chinese Appetite for Gold Spurs GTSO's African Mining Plans (MarketWatch)

Worst drought in 200 years paralyses Danube river shipping (The Telegraph)

Bernanke Defends 'Secret' Bank Bailout (The Street)

Lehman wins court approval to exit bankruptcy (Los Angeles Times)

The Euro Is Doomed: Why Europe Must Unwind Its Failed Experiment (The Atlantic)

Triple-A euro zone: EFSF looks doomed (The Globe and Mail)

Super Rich vs. 99%: Class war will explode (MarketWatch)

Asia Surviving Europe 'Stress Test' Boosts Case for Debt-Rating Upgrades (Bloomberg)

Brazil's rapid growth shudders to a halt (Financial Times)

The Downside of Dividends (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: Outrage Over Insider Trading Puts STOCK Act on Fast Track (Yahoo!)

Rooting for Santa, but expecting the Grinch (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Peru declares emergency over disputed mine (YouTube)

Japan Promises Gold Coins to Buyers of Its Reconstruction Debt (Businessweek)

Silver producers being held hostage - Sprott (MineWeb)

Australian Central Bank Braces for Global Slowdown (Wall Street Journal)

U.S.'s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline (Wall Street Journal)

Better regulation needed for ETF trade (Economic Times)

HSBC hit with record fine over investment mis-selling (The Telegraph)

Asia Faces 'Much Greater' Risks on Global Slowdown (Businessweek)

Italy aims to avoid Greek-style collapse (China Post)

China going for growth as inflation eases (Shanghai Daily)

Merkozy grand plan lacks new ideas (Sydney Morning Herald)

EU seeks to save the euro, but S&P isn't convinced (AP/Yahoo!)

S&P piles pressure on EU budget plan (Reuters)

AAA Nations Held Hostage as Debt Crisis Amplifies Volatility (Bloomberg)

A Risk Management Approach to Monetary Policy (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Is The Chinese Economic Model The Way Of The Future? (Forbes)

Europe, Systemic Risk And The Governing Elite (Forbes)

Germany, France ready the strait jackets (The Globe and Mail)

China Wants to Invest in US Roads, Rails (ABC)

Who Killed the Postal Service? (The Atlantic)

S&P Puts 15 EU Nations on Negative Credit Watch (CNBC)

Gold falls on technical selling, euro debt fears (Reuters)

OECD calls time on trickle down theory (Financial Times)

Money's too tight to mention if you have lots of it (Financial Times)

Carmakers’ $7 Billion Platinum Purchases Shrink Supply Glut (Bloomberg)

Deflation Good for Gold Prices in 2012 (YouTube)

S&P rises to third test of 200-day average (MarketWatch)

Gold steady, market cautious before euro zone summit (Reuters)

CFTC 'Going to Go After' MF Global: Commissioner (CNBC)

Bizarre Claim for $1 Trillion (Courthouse News Service)

Builders Shrink 'Great Australian Dream' as Housing Falters (Bloomberg)

Pennsylvania to Weigh Sales of State Assets to Investors (Bloomberg)

Federal Reserve Prepares to Make Itself Perfectly Clear (Wall Street Journal)

The Dollar Is Dead, Says the World's Worst Central Banker (The Atlantic)

Yuan in reverse (MarketWatch)

Economic crisis tests Italy's luxury market (Los Angeles Times)

Welcome to the living dead economy (Guardian)

Fiskalunion is worst of all worlds for Europe (The Telegraph)

Quantum Leap in Battery Performance with Silicon and Silver Dust (The Independent)

Secrets of the Bailout, Now Told (New York Times)

European Union leaders have five days to solve debt crisis (Guardian)

Bank of Korea Increases Gold Reserves by $1 Billion or 39% in November (FX Street)

Euro program at IMF could spread rescue risk worldwide (Washington Post)

Gold Revving Engine To Jump Start Rally All The Way To $2,025 (Forbes)

Peru declares state of emergency (AP/Yahoo!)

China is heading for Stagflation (Forbes)

Ireland braces for fresh austerity budget (Sydney Morning Herald)

Italian minister in tears over spending cuts (Sydney Morning Herald)

Sarkozy, Merkel kick off yet another week of crisis talks in Paris (Reuters)

Italy Approves 30B-Euro Emergency Plan (Bloomberg)

Guess Which Country Has Debt Of Nearly 1000% Of GDP... (Business Insider)

Fannie Mae, banks halt foreclosures for the holidays (CNN)

'Robin Hood' took from investors to pay own bills (Sydney Morning Herald)

Monti cabinet agrees Italy austerity plans (Financial Times)

ECB to cut rates for 2nd time in 2 months as crisis deepens (China Post)

Iran says oil would go over $250 if exports banned (Reuters)

VIDEO: China the Savior: BRICS cementing Euro-deals (YouTube)

Eurozone debt crisis: it's fiscal union or bust, says Pimco (The Telegraph)

Halting Deflation's Spiral (New York Times)

Why Bank Stocks Are Stuck In a 'Crushing Bear Market' (CNBC)

Why Gold Is the Best Money (The Street)

MF Global mixed funds, transferred abroad (Reuters)

Banks Ponder Scenarios if Countries Drop Euro (Wall Street Journal)

China worried about unrest as economy flags (The Independent)

Weathering the student debt (The Globe and Mail)

For Jobless, Little Hope of Restoring Better Days (New York Times)

Hedge Fund Insider Explains Why Retail Investors Should Flee The Stock Market (ZeroHedge)

Zimbabwe Bashes Bernanke—On Inflation! (CNBC)

Speculators cut gold length again, trim copper shorts (Reuters)

MF Customer: $50M Commodity Account Gone (Bloomberg)

China can't rescue Europe, vice foreign minister says (Sydney Morning Herald)

Angela Merkel vows to create a 'fiscal union' (The Telegraph)

Silver To Rise On Currency-Commodity-Industrial Triple Whammy (Forbes)

Hank Paulson's Crony Capitalism (Rolling Stone)

Jobs growth nice. But show us the money! (CNN)

IMF acting behind the scenes in euro zone crisis (Reuters)

How the Euro Crisis Could Destroy the U.S. Economy (The Atlantic)

S&P 500: As Market Predictor, a Trusty Guide Falters (New York Times)

VIDEO: Gold Prices Brace for an Explosive Move (YouTube)

Pssst ... Wanna Buy a Law? (Businessweek)

Soros: World Financial System on Brink of Collapse (Wall Street Journal)

U.S. stocks rise after jobless rate falls (MarketWatch)

Fed hawks say central banks can't solve fiscal woes (Reuters)

Gold, Silver Pare Gains; Miners Sink But Still Eye Plump Weekly Gains (Barron's)

American Gold and Silver Eagle Bullion Sales Plunge in November (Coin Update)

Silver's big picture outlook (MarketWatch)

Don't be fooled: Get short now (MarketWatch)

Fed Officials See No New Move (Wall Street Journal)

Ten days of secret planning to save markets (Sydney Morning Herald)

Insider trading probe expands to hedge funds (Financial Times)

The stubborn wage gap between two economic worlds (The Globe and Mail)

Fund managers on course for their worst year in a decade (Citywire)

Mervyn King warns banks to build up reserves as eurozone crisis intensifies (Guardian)

ECB hints at action if euro zone adopts fiscal pact (Reuters)

VIDEO: Shorts Sparked Rally - No Follow Thru (YouTube)

VIDEO: Don't Hate the Game and Don't Call It a “Sucker's Rally” (Yahoo!)

Parking Lots Offer Safe Haven for Real-Estate Investors (CNBC)

Economists in Majority Don't Let Improving Data Undermine Deflation Gloom (Bloomberg)

Gold Investing "No Bubble" as ETF Holdings Hit Record (BullionVault)

Why central bank intervention should make us more worried (The Globe and Mail)

Ten Years Later, Enron Pales in Comparison (Wall Street Journal)

S&P ratings boost for Bank of China, China Construction Bank (China Daily)

Reserve ratio for banks decreased (China Daily)

Fed saves Europe's banks as ECB stands pat (The Telegraph)

Fed fuels commodity price spike (CNN)

When Any News Is Good News (The Atlantic)

Banks Act, Stocks Surge and Skeptics See a Pattern (New York Times)

Gold hits 2-week high on gains in equities, euro (Reuters)

CME defends handling of MF Global collapse (Yahoo!)

Central Banks Cut Cost of Borrowing Dollars (Bloomberg)

Portugal adopts austerity budget (Sydney Morning Herald)

Plan to shore up euro on hold (Shanghai Daily)

Nearly 50% of the Young People In Greece and Spain Are Unemployed (The Atlantic)

Mining Gold, Silver, And Copper For Retirement Income (Forbes)

China eases monetary policy with reserve ratio cut (The Globe and Mail)

Sprott Hatches an OPEC for Silver Industry (Beacon Equity)

Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement (Rolling Stone)

Stocks Surge As Bernanke, ECB Throw More Dollars At Europe's Crisis (Forbes)

Gold Rallies in Wake of Joint Central Bank Action (CNBC)

Don't Trust Today's Bogus Stock Market Rally (The Street)

Silver Prices Ready to Rocket - Miners Hope to Follow (MarketWatch)

Central banks move to ease pressure (The Globe and Mail)

Greece gets $10.7 billion but rescue plan stalls (Yahoo!)

Morgan Stanley says prefers gold, silver in 2012 (Reuters)

Gold vs the dollar as the Eurozone wilts (Mineweb)

$4.8 billion Peru gold mine project suspended (AP/Google)

Euro Region’s Boost to Bailout Fund Falls Short of 1 Trillion-Euro Target (Bloomberg)

S&P downgrades dozens of banks; BOA slides to new low (CNN)

Rich Nations That Went Broke By Spending Too Much (Forbes)

Caught up in the jade craze (China Daily)

Italy's borrowing costs hit fresh record (Sydney Morning Herald)

Shipbuilders confront stormy weather (Shanghai Daily)

Falling Prices Push Speculators To Cut Bullish Metals Positions -CFTC (Kitco)

Dow, S&P up for 2nd day but financials a drag (Reuters)

VIDEO: Gold Prices Cling to Gains on Weaker Dollar (Ths Street)

Fed's Lockhart Is 'Skeptical' More Bond-Buying Will Help Stimulate Economy (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg Exposes Secretary Paulson Really, Seriously Not Doing His Job (The Atlantic)

Jim Rogers Says Gold Due for Correction; Owns Dollar (CNBC)

Greece gets €8-billion bailout payment (The Globe and Mail)

Are Greek pink slips too little, too late? (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, Silver Climb as Euro Zone Finance Ministers Meet (InvestorPlace)

ECB Must Act or It Is 'Game Over': Economist (CNBC)

Tax breaks for the 99% and the 1% (MarketWatch)

The Real Reason Bloomberg Sued to Open Up Fed Records? (The Daily Bell)

Managed Perception and the Nature of Central Banks (Blogspot)

China's Fake-Christmas-Tree Hegemony (Businessweek)

It's payback time for longest boom in history (The Telegraph)

Home prices decline in September: S&P (Yahoo!)

Gold steady as euro, stocks recover (Reuters)

American Airlines files for bankruptcy (CBS)

Favoring producers over consumers is a road to ruin (The Globe and Mail)

10 reasons the crisis isn't over (MarketWatch)

Europe's shrinking money supply flashes slump warning (The Telegraph)

Ron Paul's Plan for Monetary Freedom (YouTube)

US debt ratings outlook cut by Fitch (Sydney Morning Herald)

Euro crisis coins new problems (Sydney Morning Herald)

Morgan Stanley further cuts Asia growth forecast on increasing risk (China Post)

Beijing 'keen' to invest in the West (China Post)

Slice of missing MF Global customer cash may be with JPMorgan Chase (Yahoo!)

New Home Prices Facing Growing Pressure (CNBC)

Locking up profits (Al Jazeera)

Food banks worry about rising price of peanut butter (Washington Post)

Iceland wins in the end (The Telegraph)

Where's the Money? Gold Investor Asks (Courthouse News)

Taiwan's Checkbook Diplomacy Fizzles Out in Los Angeles Suburb (Courthouse News)

Louisiana Outlaws Cash "for junk or used or secondhand property" (Media Roots)

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion (Bloomberg)

Judge blocks Citigroup-SEC settlement (Yahoo!)

OECD cuts global growth forecast (YouTube)

Middle class jobs gone forever (CNN)

Fed Secrecy May Speed the Next Crisis (Businessweek)

Is This Really the End for the Euro? (The Atlantic)

Oakland freezes pawnshops to combat gold thefts (San Francisco Chronicle)

The People vs. Private Equity (Businessweek)

Dow Vaults 310 Points as Europe, U.S. Offer Glimmers of Hope (The Street)

You can't drink gold (The Globe and Mail)

Gold rises 2 percent on euro hopes, biggest gain in 3 weeks (Reuters)

Bye, Bye November: Gold, Silver Shine; Is Dollar Ready To Tumble? (Barron's)

'Fallacy of gold and primacy of silver' (CommodityOnline)

Can China Rescue Its Economy? (Forbes)

Seldom Heard on China: 'Sell' (Wall Street Journal)

Bond Dealers See Fed Buying $545 Billion of Home-Loan Debt in Third Easing (Bloomberg)

Raw Materials Topping Equities With Economic Expansion Intact (Bloomberg)

Quantitative easing a necessary evil (The Globe and Mail)

Struggling to stay above water (Reuters)

Today's currency war may be tomorrow's global crisis (Reuters)

Banks Raise Derivative Bets Record $107 Trillion In 6 Months (ZeroHedge)

Intense marketing, weak economy fueling Black Friday violence (Washington Post)

Venezuela brings home gold reserves (Al Jazeera)

The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People" (AlterNet)

IMF readying 600-billion bailout for Italy (Sydney Morning Herald)

Ireland receives praise as 'superb example' of bailout success (China Post)

VIDEO: Irish continue to suffer amid economic crisis (YouTube)

Markets pricing in endgame for the euro, warns UBS (The Telegraph)

If you raise the price, they'll still come (Yahoo!)

Stocks: More 'fear, carnage and uncertainty' (CNN)

S&P downgrades Belgian debt (The Globe and Mail)

Euro zone struggles to stay alive (The Globe and Mail)

Higher loan limits transform FHA into key source of financing (Los Angeles Times)

The debt, the future and other parting thoughts (Los Angeles Times)

VIDEO: Europe Is Full of Mines 'Waiting to Explode' (Bloomberg)

Dearth of the über-rich? Daimler Is Scrapping Maybach (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: Stock Rally Is a Fake-Out (YouTube)

"Awful" Italy debt sale heightens euro zone stress (Reuters)

Hungary Credit Rating Cut to Junk at Moody's (Bloomberg)

J.P. Morgan Gets Yuan Fund Approval (Wall Street Journal)

We've Become a Nation of Bubbleheads (Forbes)

"Return to sovereign currencies wouldn't be as traumatic as assumed" (The Telegraph)

Japan slips back into deflation (Sydney Morning Herald)

Economic growth set to slow (Shanghai Daily)

Death of a currency as eurogeddon approaches (The Telegraph)

VIDEO: The Complexities of Doing Business in China (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: Supporters of a Gold Standard Are 'Lunatics and Hacks': Roubini (Yahoo!)

Ratios Suggest Metals Deflation (Numismaster)

2011 Silver Eagle Proof Coin Sells Out (Silver Coins Today)

Asian shares, euro fall on Europe deadlock (Reuters)

Record Gold Hoard Spurs Bullish Bets (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Private Investors Needs to Get Involved in Euro Crisis Now (The Street)

In today's debt crisis, Germany is the US of 1931 (Guardian)

Reverse mortgages are set to rise, unfortunately (The Globe and Mail)

IMF Says Germany Sold Gold in October (Wall Street Journal)

Portuguese General Strike Grounds Flights, Closes Metro (Businessweek)

Euro 'Garlic Belt' Condemned to Deflation (CNBC)

America's Modern-Day Debtor's Prison (The Atlantic)

Fearful European bankers see little to be thankful for (Reuters)

Strike against austerity brings Portugal to standstill (China Post)

France, Germany, Italy vow to stabilize euro zone (The Globe and Mail)

Fitch cuts Portugal rating to junk status (MSNBC)

US bonds at record low on contagion fears (Sydney Morning Herald)

China is biggest smartphone market (Shanghai Daily)

Stocks end brutal day down 2% (CNN)

Good News For Investors: Apple Black Friday Deals Suck (Forbes)

Dow on Track for Worst Thanksgiving Week Since 1973 (Wall Street Journal)

Euro Crisis Prompts Italian Village to Declare Independence, Print Own Currency (VOA)

Stacey Herbert: Taxpayers pepper-sprayed with... debt! (YouTube)

Hedge funds and private-equity firms have big plans for Europe (The Economist)

Stocks Sink as Euro Plunges (The Street)

VIDEO: Europe's Contagion "Has Now Gone Viral…and Global" (Yahoo!)

Bank of Ireland bondholders face 100% write-off (Citywire)

Decline in Commodities Is 'Artificial': Jim Rogers (CNBC)

Can gold save the eurozone? (CNN)

Fed Seeks to Boost Banks With Stress Tests (Bloomberg)

Dollar's up, euro's down on debt worries, data (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: China and Europe Smack Stocks (The Street)

German 10-year bond auction a 'disaster' (Reuters)

Gold falls as dollar profits from euro worries (Reuters)

Global economic fears knock markets down (The Globe and Mail)

Bank of England signals no more QE likely until February (The Telegraph)

South Africa's Incredibly Shrinking Gold Production (Resource Investor)

VIDEO: Stephenson Sees Gold at $2,500 in 'Couple of Months' (Washington Post)

Financial Finger-Pointing Turns to Regulators (New York Times)

Organic Solar Cells: Silver nanotubes offer ITO alternative (Solar Novus)

Coin investment funds could place greater demand on top rarities (CoinWeek)

VIDEO: Grief, Rage in South Korea Over Trade Deal With U.S. (YouTube)

China manufacturing hits 32-month low: HSBC (Google/AFP)

Investors get their fingers burned as Chinese economy flounders (MailOnline)

Spanish yields soar to highest in 14 years (Shanghai Daily)

MF Global customers get hope; Corzine asked to testify (Reuters)

Business leaders urge US, EU consider trade pact (Reuters)

Selling bonds backed by gold might backfire (Financial Times)

Fed seeks stimulus in move to clarify policy strategy (The Globe and Mail)

Silver - Futures Market Irrelevant? (Inside Futures)

Big Selloff Hits Europe Bond Markets (Wall Street Journal)

Gold Rebounds From 4-Week Low (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street falls fifth straight day on debt worries (Yahoo!)

Funds battle banks over $300 Trillion derivatives market (Reuters)

ECB funding demand surges as bank strains build (Reuters)

A Fiscal Union Won't Fix Europe (CNBC)

U.S. Economic Growth in Q3 Revised Lower (Bloomberg)

Germany refuses to bend, warns no 'bazooka' for crisis (The Globe and Mail)

Rupee Plunges to Record as India RBI Weighs Options (Bloomberg)

High executive pay 'corrosive' to the UK economy, report warns (Guardian)

Britain's biggest gold fund could pay dividends for first time in a decade (The Telegraph)

'Last Days' of the Euro Are Upon Us: Credit Suisse (The Street)

China property dip sparks bank fears (Financial Times)

Indian jitters over freefalling rupee (Khaleej Times)

Germany tightens the screw on 'isolated' Britain as tensions soar (The Independent)

'No downgrade': ratings agencies reaffirm US outlook (Sydney Morning Herald)

Madoff's ponzi scheme began in 1970s: trader (Sydney Morning Herald)

Eurobonds seen as cure-all (Shanghai Daily)

Year-end bounce shaping up like a bust (Los Angeles Times)

No check in mail for U.S. Postal Service debt woes (Los Angeles Times)

Venezuela businesses brace for more price controls (Yahoo!)

Investors pile into U.S. bond market, fuel rise in greenback (The Globe and Mail)

Increasing squeeze on consumer finances sees households fearing for future prosperity (MailOnline)

Germans May End Up Running the Eternal City (CNBC)

VIDEO: China's banks use gold as legal currency (Press TV)

Debt Panel Fails to Reach Deal (Wall Street Journal)

Super Committee: 'Agreement Not Possible' (The Street)

The Euro: As Good (and Bad) as Gold (Businessweek)

World financial markets tumble on debt supercommittee's stalemate (Washington Post)

Gold drops 2 percent on equity sell-off, debt fears (Reuters)

How to beat money-market returns as a silver investor (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Superfail: Why D.C.’s Fiscal Clown Show May Still Yield Results (Yahoo!)

Equity investors: Don't panic! (The Telegraph)

Global economic outlook grim, China tells U.S. trade (Yahoo!)

Dow Jones Industrials Back in Red for 2011 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street sinks on global debt worry (Reuters)

Gold Falls to Three-Week Low as Stronger Dollar Cuts Demand (Businessweek)

Moody's warns on French rating outlook (Reuters)

Gold, Silver Catching Amateurs Off Guard (The Street)

Debt crisis strikes at heart of Europe (The Globe and Mail)

Buffett Doubts Euro Survival; Says System Is Flawed (CNBC)

US money market funds at risk from Euro debt crisis (Sydney Morning Herald)

Airport cargo descends (Shanghai Daily)

Talk of economic crisis in China defies the facts (Shanghai Daily)

Girding for 'a lost decade' of joblessness (The Globe and Mail)

A Gold Standard Would Be Great, But It's Not a Deficit Cure (Forbes)

Is GLD Really As Good As Gold? (Forbes)

Greek bailout deal hits new obstacle (MarketWatch)

Barclays: Gold slips below $1750/oz despite positive investment interest (CommodityOnline)

What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs conquers Europe (The Independent)

Delaying retirement: 80 is the new 65 (CNN)

Japan's October exports slump as global slowdown bites (Reuters)

Debt panel poised to admit failure (Yahoo!)

Keeping the faith in China (Sydney Morning Herald)

Rolls-Royce tastes lead to fiat money – time we wean ourselves off high debt (Guardian)

Reluctant speculators and the myth of financial literacy (The Globe and Mail)

A new euro crisis strategy: deny the debt (The Globe and Mail)

Now Spain: Debt Crisis Claims Another Government (CNBC)

‪Spain - the fifth victim to fall in Europe's arc of depression (The Telegraph)

Risks of global recession mount (Reuters)

‪China, US grapple with disputes at back-to-back trade summits (China Post)

The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains (Forbes)

Europe Fears a Credit Squeeze as Investors Sell Bond Holdings (New York Times)

Gold Trims Worst Weekly Decline in Two Months on Haven Demand (Businessweek)

Mario Draghi Cuts Through Bull to Save PIGS (The Street)

U.S. Stocks Edge Up (Wall Street Journal)

Occupy Wall Street finally gets a face–and it's bloody (Yahoo!)

Bears rattle cage on major support (MarketWatch)

MBA costs soar. Salaries? Not so much. (CNN)

Pakistan rejects Barrick-led group's bid for gold mine (The Globe and Mail)

‪Austin coin marketer agrees to pay $5 million (Boston Globe)

Wall Street falls, led by Nasdaq (Reuters)

‪Deep spending cuts pose a new threat to US economy (Yahoo!)

The Worst Housing Markets Have the Strongest Buyer Interest (The Atlantic)

Gold demand lifted by jewelry buyers (China Daily)

Crisis Ensnares Central Bank in Desperate Bid to Save Euro (Wall Street Journal)

European debt crisis drives gold rush (CNN)

"The Entire System Has Been Utterly Destroyed By The MF Global Collapse" (Barnhardt)

‪GE Filed 57,000-Page Tax Return, Paid No Taxes on $14 Billion in Profits (Weekly Standard)

Meet Canada's new high-tech plastic currency (Yahoo!)

‪Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts (Rolling Stone)

VIDEO: The Business of Finding Shipwrecks (MarketWatch)

Billions Lost by Olympus May Be Tied to Criminals (New York Times)

U.S. Stocks Bobble (Wall Street Journal)

‪UBS to cut personnel by 2,000 by end of 2016 (MarketWatch)

‪Why the world's central banks are gobbling up gold (The Globe and Mail)

VIDEO: James Rickards' "Four Horsemen of the Dollar Apocalypse" (Yahoo!)

Gold Prices Crumble as Investors Flee to Cash (The Street)

Bullard Warns Additional Stimulus Risks Emergence of 1970s-Style Inflation (Bloomberg)

Central banks make biggest gold buy in decades (The Globe and Mail)

‪Gold Demand Up 6% in Third Quarter as Central Banks Buy (CNBC)

‪Silver price should rise: Coeur CEO (Reuters)

‪The Supercommittee Spectacle: A Short History of the Deficit Wars (The Atlantic)

Spain bond yields surge after expensive auction (MarketWatch)

‪Where you stand on China depends on where you sit (MarketWatch)

‪California attorney general's office subpoenas Fannie, Freddie (Los Angeles Times)

‪Gingrich on Defensive Over Freddie Mac Fees (New York Times)

Eurozone bond markets in turmoil as France and Germany dig in over ECB (Guardian)

Prices Surge for 25th Anniversary American Silver Eagle Sets (Silver Coins Today)

IMF replaces Europe chief as crisis grows (Sydney Morning Herald)

‪Too soon to loosen grip on economy (China Daily)

‪Spain faces test in US$5b auction (Shanghai Daily)

‪WGC: India Still Largest Gold Consumer But China Gaining Ground (Kitco)

VIDEO: ‪US millionaires ask Congress to 'Raise our taxes' (YouTube)

China central bank signals end to tightening (Yahoo!)

How Fannie and Freddie Learned to Stop Worrying About Home Ownership and Love Taxpayers (The Atlantic)

A divided euro zone unable to put a lid on debt crisis (The Globe and Mail)

Ron Paul: Federal Reserve is Like Drug Addiction (US News)

VIDEO: Man Wins $500k Worth of Gold, Silver for $1,100 in Storage Unit Auction (ABC)

Dow Drops 190.57 Points (Wall Street Journal)

‪This is the report that caused banks to tank in the final hour of the day (Business Insider)

‪OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: Insider Trading In Congress (Yahoo!)

‪Gold drops on dollar rise, euro zone debt worries (Reuters)

‪Gingrich Said to Be Paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac (Bloomberg)

This Will Be The Decade Of Silver - Interview With Eric Sprott (Silver Bear Cafe)

Fannie, Freddie execs score $100 million payday (CNN)

VIDEO: How Goldman Sachs Controls Europe (YouTube)

Positive discrimination – a good way for the elite to keep out the poor (The Telegraph)

Socializing losses: Trilateral takeover of Europe? (RT)

‪Citigroup to cut over 3,000 jobs (Reuters)

‪OWS regroups, plans to stay in Zuccotti Park in shifts (New York Post)

‪Contagion grips euro zone debt markets (The Globe and Mail)

‪Prices of Rare Earth Metals Declining Sharply (New York Times)

VIDEO: The Next Global Crisis: Currency Wars Have Already Begun, Rickards Says (Yahoo!)

VIDEO: ‪Will Silver Prices Play Catch Up to Gold?‬ (YouTube)

MF Global trustee moves to return $520 million in client cash (Yahoo!)

US farm prices hit record highs (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold is the only winner from the euro crisis (MarketWatch)

Smart Investor: is buy and hold dead? (Citywire)

Eurozone crisis: countries may be 'pushed out' of single currency (Guardian)

VIDEO: Gerald Celente Enraged As His MF Global Gold Account Vanishes (YouTube)

Payday loans now cover a whole year – at 278% interest (The Independent)

No winners in a trade war (China Daily)

FHA could need taxpayer bailout next year, report says (Los Angeles Times)

Bank of Japan Cuts Economic View on Global Slowdown (Bloomberg)

Geithner prods Europe to move faster on crisis (MarketWatch)

Nationalism Replaces Crisis as Biggest Threat to Metal Supply (Bloomberg)

Four weeks countdown to rescue euro zone (Sydney Morning Herald)

Italy's biggest bank slashes 5200 jobs (Sydney Morning Herald)

A scary prediction for the collapse of paper money (The Globe and Mail)

Is the dollar the only safe haven currency out there? (Citywire)

Ron Paul: European Debt Crisis Threatens the Dollar (The Daily Bell)

Battle lines drawn at the 200-day average (MarketWatch)

Court order allows Occupy Wall St. protesters back (Yahoo!)

Wall Street falls as Europe's debt woes deepen (Reuters)

EU plans crackdown on rating agencies (The Globe and Mail)

Israel vs Iran: threat to oil prices and the world economy (Citywire)

VIDEO: 41% of People Say American Dream Is Lost; 63% Say Economy Getting Worse (Yahoo!)

NYPD Disbands Occupy Wall Street Camp Ahead of Massive City-Wide Demonstration (wallstcheatsheet.com)

Managed Funds Stock Up On Gold, Silver (Wall Street Journal)

Gold, Silver Higher Amid Positive October Retail, PPI Reports (InvestorPlace)

MF Global activity looks "suspicious": CFTC official (Yahoo!)

Stocks, euro fall on European debt fears (Reuters)

Taxpayers Get Billed for Kids of Millionaires at Charter School (Businessweek)

Occupy Wall Street's Manhattan site cleared (MarketWatch)

Euro crisis deepens as bond yields spike (The Globe and Mail)

China Wary of Choking on US Dollar Driving Hong Kong Dim Sum Debt Sales (Bloomberg)

Paulson Dumps Gold, but Still a Believer (The Street)

BofA Coughs It Up for Illegal Foreclosures (Courthouse News Service)

Banks Quietly Ramping Up Costs to Consumers (New York Times)

Police Begin Clearing Zuccotti Park of Protesters (New York Times)

Odds of US recession seen greater than 50% (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold tracks risk assets down on Europe fear (Reuters)

IMF warns China's banks face growing risks (Yahoo!)

Utopian Germans risk full-blown EMU depression (The Telegraph)

60 Minutes: Congress Trading Stocks on Inside Information (YouTube)

Chart of the Day: we all need to study Chinese and IT (Citywire)

The bulls need to punch through resistance (MarketWatch)

'The future belongs to Asia,' says Hillary Clinton (The Independent)

Santa Cruz County severs ties with JP Morgan, Bank of America (MecuryNews)

Falling U.S. Savings Rate Portends Disaster (The Street)

Gold demand doubles amid economic gloom and frozen interest rates (The Telegraph)

Europe: New leaders, same debt crisis (CNN)

Obama's Asia Free Trade Agreement Gains Momentum as Japan, Canada Sign On (Bloomberg)

Germany's 'secret plans' to avoid economic disaster if the Greeks have to exit the eurozone (MailOnline)

Are Italy and the Euro Doomed, Together? (The Atlantic)

Financial stocks lead broader market down (MarketWatch)

Crisis makes banking survivors jacks-of-all-trades (Reuters)

Economists lower 2012 growth outlook: survey (Reuters)

Gold, Silver Slide; Goldman Ups Forecasts, But Less Enthusiastic Towards Miners (Barron's)

Nobody will escape economic slowdown: OECD (The Globe and Mail)

As European Nations Teeter, Only Lenders Get Central Bank's Help (New York Times)

Renewed slowdown may spur protectionist shift (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold edges up after Italy, Greece form governments (Reuters)

One nation's woes can be another's gain (Shanghai Daily)

Central banks soften focus on inflation (The Globe and Mail)

Why big-spending governments are on the brink (The Globe and Mail)

The drum beat for austerity gets louder (Yahoo!)

Obama to China: behave like 'grown up' economy (Reuters)

Banks write off record level of corporate debts (The Telegraph)

Detour on road to recovery (MarketWatch)

For U.S. investors, it's all Greek (Reuters)

Obama tells Hu of Americans' growing impatience (China Post)

Ignore doomsayers, our glass is three-quarters full (Sydney Morning Herald)

Borneo mines lure Rothschild into the wild (Yahoo!)

Leaders eye final Trans-Pacific deal in 2012 (Reuters)

Obama announces outline of deal on trade zone (Washington Times)

In foreclosure-plagued Vegas, empty homes go to pot (Los Angeles Times)

Berlusconi's resignation met with cheers in Italy (The Globe and Mail)

Why 23% of the world's employees are depressed (The Globe and Mail)

Another Bounce for Yo-Yo Market (SmartMoney)

Congress Members Took Part in Insider Trading: Abramoff (CNBC)

EU steps up attack on major credit ratings agencies (Guardian)

Moody's: Sandusky Charges Prompt Downgrade Review For Penn State (Forbes)

MF Global fires entire workforce (Los Angeles Times)

China Signals Credit Easing With Jump in Loans as Wen 'Fine-Tunes' Policy (Bloomberg)

Spanish Economy Stalled in Third Quarter as Borrowing Costs Rose to Record (Bloomberg)

Investors Fleeing Bonds, Savings Spur Record Flows Into Gold: India Credit (Bloomberg)

'France will be the next to crumble', warns Gordon Brown (The Telegraph)

BUNGLING EU LOSES £4BILLION IN A YEAR (Express)

UK debt crisis: 'axe the 50% tax rate now to save the economy' (The Telegraph)

Gold ends 1.6% higher after two-session drop (MarketWatch)

Wall Street Execs Depressed: Survey (The Street)

Fed to begin new bank stress tests in weeks: Yellen (Reuters)

France lashes out at S&P's 'shocking' error (Yahoo!)

VIDEO: Europe Is A Train-Wreck And Leaders Are Still In Denial (Yahoo!)

US Mint Sales: Proof Silver Eagle Coins Lead, Bullion Tops 37M (Silver Coins Today)

Herd mentality: Price gains for cows, pigs outpace gold (The Globe and Mail)

New Greek cabinet to be sworn in (Yahoo!)

Italy's senate passes key austerity measure (The Globe and Mail)

Chart of the Day: Spain's debt binge makes Japan look tame (Citywire)

New gold bugs are young and restless (MarketWatch)

Jefferson County, Alabama - Screwed by Wall Street - Files for Bankruptcy (Rolling Stone)

Gold Traders Most Bullish Since '04 on Debt Crisis (Businessweek)

Eurozone collapse 'will send continent into depression' (The Telegraph)

New Greek prime minister vows to stick with euro (China Post)

IMF urges Italy to act quickly (Shanghai Daily)

As banks stop hiring, industry safety net rips apart (Reuters)

Gold ETF Calls Surging Most Since U.S. Stripped of AAA: Options (Washington Post)

MF Global's dive shows few changes on Wall Street (Yahoo!)

Programmed for manipulation (Sydney Morning Herald)

ICE calls for MF client cash; CFTC confirms probe (Reuters)

Gold drops as safe-haven bids fade, Wall St advances (Reuters)

Employers 'Scared' of Taking on Permanent Staff (CNBC)

Ominous reversal, or one-day wonder? (MarketWatch)

U.S. consumer confidence remains low despite economic gains (Washington Post)

Thomson Reuters GFMS: 2011 Silver-Investment Demand Remains Historically High (Kitco)

Italy passes crucial test, finds buyers for new debt (The Globe and Mail)

Sorry, there is no euro break-up plan – yet (The Telegraph)

S&P Roils Global Markets With Erroneous French Rating Downgrade (Businessweek)

Treasuries Extend Losses After U.S. 30-Year Bond Sale Bids Trail Average (Bloomberg)

4 Reasons Why Italy's Economy Is Such a Disaster (The Atlantic)

VIDEO: Bye-Bye Bernanke? The Case for the Gold Standard (Yahoo!)

CNN Defends the Fed – Calls Ron Paul Economically Illiterate (The Daily Bell)

'Please don’t laugh,' but Romania wants into euro (The Globe and Mail)

Gold Prices Crater as Italy Panic Wanes (The Street)

GM's restructuring pledge raises alarm in Europe (Reuters)

Federal Judge Roasts SEC for Supine Citigroup Settlement (Courthouse News Service)

VIDEO: China: Trade War or Opportunity? (The Street)

VIDEO: Europe must print more money or face 'Armageddon' (Citywire)

10 threats facing China's economy (Citywire)

Gold Futures Decline From Seven-Week High as Dollar Rebounds (Businessweek)

Gold futures extend declines in Asian trading (MarketWatch)

Italy panic sparks $30b sell-off (Sydney Morning Herald)

Global leaders warn world plunging into 'uncertainty' (China Daily)

ICBC Has Biggest Fall in 3 Years After Goldman Cuts Stake (CNBC)

China October exports growth weakest in 8 months (Reuters)

Jefferson County, Alabama files biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy (Reuters)

Italy Bond Attack Breaches Euro Defenses (Bloomberg)

Euro has one of worst drops this year (MarketWatch)

China's red tape a black hole for Canadian miners (The Globe and Mail)

ROUBINI: There's Only One Option Left For Italy (Business Insider)

Germany To Grow Under 1% In 2012 (Shanghai Daily)

US Mint sales show buyers want silver (BullionStreet)

Dow sinks 3% as Europe uncertainty deepens (Yahoo!)

Gold slips as Wall Street sinks, dollar surges (Economic Times)

As Italy's Cost of Borrowing Surges, Europe Shudders (New York Times)

Global Stocks Slide (Wall Street Journal)

GM profit falls, shares tumble on weak outlook (Yahoo!)

The Bright Side of the Global Economy: The Middle Class Is Growing (The Atlantic)

Crooks eye restaurant grease for biofuel: The 'new copper' (The Globe and Mail)

German "wise men" warn ECB is risking credibility (Reuters)

Gold Prices Struggle Against a Stronger Dollar (The Street)

Banks' use of ECB emergency-lending facility soars (MarketWatch)

Italian stocks plunge 3% (Sydney Morning Herald)

Max Keiser: China to beat IMF to Italy's gold (YouTube)

Fannie Mae loss widens, asks taxpayers for $7.8B (Yahoo!)

China's inflation falls on lower food cost rise (Yahoo!)

Italy's Political Crisis Ambushes Ireland After Greek Escape: Euro Credit (Bloomberg)

Silvercorp profit rises, despite cost of fighting short-sellers (The Globe and Mail)

Holiday travelers should expect higher airfares and packed planes (Los Angeles Times)

No Country For Young Men (or Young Women) (The Atlantic)

BOJ Should Seek 10-Fold Easing, Yen at 100, Ex-Board Member Says (Businessweek)

Berlusconi agrees to resign as PM (The Globe and Mail)

Dow Claws Back to 101-Point Gain (Wall Street Journal)

Euro bank troubles risk new emerging market jolt (Reuters)

VIDEO: Housing Price Bottom Not Here Yet, but May Be in 2012 (Yahoo)

Mortgage payments show surprising rise in delinquencies (USA Today)

US Mint Gold Coin Data and Research Casts Doubt on 'Gold Bubble' (Goldseek)

Gold Futures Advance in New York as Europe Crisis Spurs Investor Demand (Bloomberg)

If Banks Don't Pay Their Debts, Send Over the Thugs (The Street)

Will Silver Wheaton's Earnings Still Sparkle? (Forbes)

Berlusconi Loses Majority After Ally Asks Him to Resign (New York Times)

Gold Prices Claw Toward $1,800 (The Street)

Wall Street workers' pay to fall 20-30 percent: report (Reuters)

The great $26 billion real estate swindle (MarketWatch)

China's gold imports jump sixfold (Financial Times)

Real estate meltdown fears (China Daily)

GM rejects Saab rescue plan under Chinese owners (Sydney Morning Herald)

Goldline Accused (again) of 'Bait and Switch' (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: US Community Uses Local Currency to Weather Financial Storms (YouTube)

VIDEO: Ron Paul on the World Debt Crisis (YouTube)

Forecaster Says Hong Kong Now In Recession (Bloomberg)

Gold steady on mounting Italy debt worry (Reuters)

Judge OKs $410M settlement for Bank of America customers (USA Today)

Europe's lost generation: no jobs nor hope for the young (The Globe and Mail)

Italy bond yields soar; euro zone troubles deepen (Reuters)

Key Lesson From Iceland Crisis: "Let Banks Fail" (Washington's Blog)

New formula would reduce Social Security increases (Yahoo!)

Nasdaq, Dow hesitate at 200-day average (MarketWatch)

Zombie Economics Is Winning—Here's How to Kill It (Again) (The Atlantic)

Morgan Stanley's four reasons for Europe equity downgrade (Citywire)

Jim Rogers: Gold will eventually end with a bubble (CommodityOnline)

China Credit Squeeze Prompts Suicides (Bloomberg)

Gold Rallies as Stocks, Italian Bonds Retreat (Bloomberg)

Oil price rising on chances for Greek bailout (Yahoo!)

France unveils $25.6-billion austerity budget (The Globe and Mail)

The German Economy Is Falling Off The Cliff (Business Insider)

Insider selling on the rise. Bear signal? (CNN)

Asia's policy dilemma: Pause or pre-emptive strike? (Reuters)

VIDEO: Here's Why Bad News Is the Best News for Investors (The Street)

VIDEO: France announces massive austerity measures (YouTube)

Greece goes from being the eurozone villain to victim (China Post)

Cannes showed how power has shifted to Beijing (Guardian)

Gold, silver start week on firm note, rise on global cues (Economic Times)

Berlusconi Plays Last Cards, Denies He Will Resign (CNBC)

Germany Says Gold Reserves Are Off Limits for Euro Rescue Plans (Businessweek)

Who Rules the Global Economy? (New York Times)

Fitch Raises South Korea's Rating Outlook to 'Positive,' Affirms A+ Grade (Bloomberg)

The Euro 'Event' Will Cause Depression: HSBC (CNBC)

World stocks fall as debt concerns spread (The Globe and Mail)

Old Debts Dog Europe's Banks (Wall Street Journal)

CME freezes transfer for some MF Global clients (MarketWatch)

BUNDESBANK: GERMAN GOLD WILL NOT FUND EFSF (AGI)

Why Wall Street Can't Handle the Truth (Wall Street Journal)

Gold rises after Greek coalition, Italy eyed (Reuters)

Hong Kong's chief becomes a bear (MarketWatch)

European nations prepare to take their medicine (The Globe and Mail)

Greek prime minister George Papendreou to step down after deal agreed with opposition leader (The Telegraph)

Europe's rescue fiasco leaves Italy defenceless (The Telegraph)

China to inject over $158 billion into money market: report (Reuters)

Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits (Yahoo!)

Euro zone's political bumbling risks global gloom (Reuters)

China's vanishing factory bosses (The Globe and Mail)

Holiday hiring plans on hold for many small businesses (USA Today)

Weapons of Mass Destruction Bomb Buffett's Book (The Street)

Dippin' Dots, Futuristic Ice Cream-Maker, Files for Bankruptcy (The Atlantic)

The Family That Sells Gold to the Government (Businessweek)

Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote (Sydney Morning Herald)

Berlusconi brushes off debt crisis (Financial Times)

Bank dumping days begin (CNN)

Here Are the World's 29 'Too Big to Fail' Banks (The Atlantic)

Welcome To The Hothouse Economy (Business Insider)

Gold Eases to Settle at $1,756 as Dollar Lifts (CNBC)

Disillusioned Greeks despair at political drama (The Globe and Mail)

Commerzbank restricts flow of loans (The Globe and Mail)

HSBC customers without cash or cards as systems crash (HSBC)

Gold, silver create a new trading range (Business Standard)

What's the Secret to Economic Growth? We Just Don't Know (Businessweek)

Global Stocks Drop (Wall Street Journal)

Greek PM faces survival vote, bailout in balance (Reuters)

G-20 leaders fail to agree on IMF help for Europe (Yahoo!)

Chart of the Day: gold vaults filling up fast (Citywire)

Central bank gold buying will make 1980 gold run look ridiculous (CommodityOnline)

Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Sales Dip in October 2011 (Silver Coins Today)

It was the Greeks who blinked (Sydney Morning Herald)

Banks keep pulling from bag of tricks (Los Angeles Times)

MF Global Clients Face Day of Reckoning as Margins Call (CNBC)

Global shipping crisis to last 'long time' (Shanghai Daily)

China poised to relent on currency: U.S. trade official (The Globe and Mail)

Bank exodus from euro zone sovereign debt quickens (Reuters)

Top Gold Forecasters See Rally to Record by March (Businessweek)

US Mint Raises Platinum and Gold Collector Coin Prices (Coin News)

Gold futures climb to six-week high (MarketWatch)

Is the Gold Rush Back On? (CNBC)

Wall St rises on Greece hopes, ECB rate cut (Yahoo!)

Greek PM confirms plans scrapped for bailout referendum (The Globe and Mail)

Innovation Could Follow Manufacturing Overseas (The Atlantic)

Occupy Oakland protesters remove barricade at port entrance (San Jose Mercury News)

Greece backs away from bailout referendum (MarketWatch)

Gold futures climb past $1,750 an ounce (MarketWatch)

Gold: The hedge against political stupidity (CNN)

VIDEO: Why The U.S. Is Set to Join The Zombie Club of Nations (Yahoo!)

G20 nations balk at investing in Europe's bailout fund (The Globe and Mail)

European Central Bank, Under New Chief, Cuts Key Rate (New York Times)

Chinese rich are keen to emigrate (China Daily)

China holds off on support for Europe fund (MarketWatch)

Greece to Determine Euro Membership in Vote as EU Cuts Aid (Bloomberg)

Recession Drives More People Into Poverty-Wracked Neighborhoods of U.S. (Bloomberg)

Gold rebounds on Fed policy view (Citywire)

Shanghai sees luxury home sales decline (Shanghai Daily)

Welcome to America's Lost Decade (The Atlantic)

Europe's factories drag region towards recession (Sydney Morning Herald)

Accept bailout or go bankrupt, France and Germany warn Greece (The Globe and Mail)

401(k) matches restored by 75 percent of companies (Yahoo!)

World faces years of social unrest as economies falter (The Independent)

Gold Is Nothing But a Metaphor for Fear (The Daily Bell)

Dow Flirts With 200-Point Gain (Wall Street Journal)

Fed holds rates, Twist, pledge by 9-to-1 vote (MarketWatch)

What's in Pandora's box? The Greek euro referendum (The Globe and Mail)

France, Germany demand Greek decision on euro (Reuters)

Gold, Silver Regain Form As Technicals, Dollar Suggest More Upside (Barron's)

Eurozone's future may rest on Greek military coup (Citywire)

Don't be fooled: Banks are going to make you pay (MarketWatch)

Euro drops 3rd day as Greek referendum fans fear (Reuters)

Colombia Gets a U.S. Trade Treaty It May No Longer Need (Businessweek)

VIDEO: Greece Decision Roils Markets Across Globe (YouTube)

Ugly Truth for the Fed: Inflation Pressures Here to Stay (CNBC)

Manufacturing in U.S. Comes Close to Stagnating as Global Demand Weakens (Bloomberg)

Global Stocks Slide (Wall Street Journal)

Stock Markets Value Coercion Over Greek Choice (The Daily Bell)

Another Rough Patch? Gold, Silver Slide; Managers See Better Times (Barron's)

Stocks enter November facing slew of global bad news (The Globe and Mail)

South Korea Plans $50 Billion Fund to Pay for Unification With the North (Bloomberg)

Bank of Japan Losses Exceed $281 Million From Buying ETFs as Stocks Slump (Bloomberg)

Blackrock bullish on palladium amid possible supply crunch (Citywire)

Credit Suisse axes another 1500 jobs (Sydney Morning Herald)

European Debt Crisis Sinks MF Global (Courthouse News Service)

VIDEO: China Wields Power as G20 Leaders Prepare for France (YouTube)

The two halves of the eurozone are locked in a broken marriage (The Telegraph)

Greeks threatened with power cuts if they fail to pay property tax (Guardian)

Canadian Mint forges a new path to cash in on gold fever (The Globe and Mail)

VIDEO: China pledges 'active support' for debt-stricken Europe (Yahoo!)

Buddy can you spare a dime? One in three Americans has no spare cash (MailOnline)

Ugly end to historic October on Wall Street (The Washintgon Times)

Gold & Silver Hit by the Yen (Wall St Cheat Sheet)

Gold drops $22, but scores over 6% monthly gain (MarketWatch)

U.S. Stocks Slide (Wall Street Journal)

China's Entrepreneurs Head for Exits (The Daily Bell)

Priceless Coin Collection Looted from Benghazi Bank Vault (Tripoli Post)

Italian bonds smashed as rescue euphoria dies (Citywire)

U.S. Consumers 'Scared to Death' But Still Spending (Bloomberg)

Reality Check After the Rally: No Solutions for Europe or Cash-Strapped Consumers (Yahoo!)

Home prices heading for triple-dip (CNN)

Yen intervention likely to pale vs. Swiss efforts (MarketWatch)

U.S. Stocks Decline Amid Europe Concerns (Bloomberg)

Strong Dollar Beats Up Gold (The Street)

Mixed Signals for European Central Bank as Data Point to Slowdown (New York Times)

Japan intervenes in forex market; yen dives (MarketWatch)

Gold slides 2 pct on Japan FX intervention (Reuters)

Home prices continue to slide (Sydney Morning Herald)

China's Hu kicks off Europe visit amid crisis (Sydney Morning Herald)

Stocks Going By the Book (Wall Street Journal)

Civil disobedience gathers steam in Athens (The Independent)

How the Eurocrisis laid bare world's new economic order (Guardian)

VIDEO: Rally Signals S&P Double-Dip (CNBC)

QE's stealth effect is a weaker currency (The Globe and Mail)

Chart of the Day: Americans' Stagnant (and Falling) Disposable Incomes (The Atlantic)

Wen Pledges to 'Firmly' Maintain Curbs on the Chinese Real Estate Market (Bloomberg)

US sets anti-dumping fees on trade partners including China, UAE (China Post)

EU to China: Let's make a deal (The Globe and Mail)

Number of the Week: Cutting Back on Driving (Wall Street Journal)

U.S. 30-Year Bonds Drop on Debt Plan in Longest Losing Streak Since 2009 (Bloomberg)

Why some incomes are just gross (Sydney Morning Herald)

Job losses loom as banks to wield axe (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold eases but posts biggest weekly rise since 2009 (Reuters)

This Could Be the Fatal Flaw in Europe's Rescue Plan (The Atlantic)

What Does 'Recapitalizing Banks' Actually Mean? (New York Times)

Alaska's Billion Dollar Mountain (Businessweek)

Inside Deutsche Bank Debate Rages Over America Sliding Into Japan Malaise (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: Debt Got Us Into This Mess and Debt Will Get Us Out (Yahoo!)

Italy at heart of crisis as borrowing costs climb (The Globe and Mail)

Fitch Says Greece Deal to Result in Temporary Default (Bloomberg)

Americans, Once Again, Miss Out on Stock Rally (The Street)

Europe Looks to IMF, China for Rescue-Fund Cash (Bloomberg)

The new masters of the financial world (Citywire)

Dollar Decline in Full Swing in Risk-On Environment (CNBC)

Gold chiefs at odds over lag in shares (Sydney Morning Herald)

Asian stocks rally as EU deal puts risk back in favor (Reuters)

U.S. Workers Overpaid, Entitled: CEOs (The Street)

25th Anniversary American Silver Eagle set sells out in first 5 hours (Silver Coins Today)

VIDEO: The Judge Deciphers the Contemporary Tax Debate (YouTube)

China may cancel curbs on home buying, says offical (China.org.cn)

Never mind the euro bailout, worry about growth, says Shell (The Telegraph)

The Gold Vs. Silver Dilemma (Seeking Alpha)

What Greece crisis wrought: 'Only God can save us' (The Globe and Mail)

Global debt markets giddy with excitement (CNN)

Why 'Voluntary' Haircuts On Greek Bonds Will Haunt Europe (Forbes)

Gold, Silver At 5-Wk High On EU Deal (Wall Street Journal)

Weekly jobless claims dip to 402,000 but still are high (Los Angeles Times)

U.S. Grows at 2.5% Pace in Q3: Is the Recovery Back On Track? (The Atlantic)

Madoff: I'm 'happier in prison' (CNN)

Commerzbank Lowers PGM Forecasts; 'Deteriorating' Economy Hurts Demand (Kitco)

China's Biggest Banks Set to Report Record Full-Year Profits (Businessweek)

Gold steadies after EU deal emboldens risk-takers (Reuters)

The Great Regression of America's Infrastructure (CNBC)

Stocks Jump 2% as Markets Cheer Eurozone Debt Deal (The Street)

Consumers Negative on Economy (Bloomberg)

Debt committee: Why $1.2 trillion isn't enough (CNN)

China likes debt deal, warns it's not EU's Good Samaritan (The Globe and Mail)

Silver Manipulation: The iShares ETF and JPMorgan's Conflict Of Interest? (ETF Daily News)

Eurozone heads proclaim 'comprehensive' debt crisis plan (The Telegraph)

'Bedlam' as Aussie stocks hit by trading glitch (Sydney Morning Herald)

Workers at Saab not paid for 4th time (Shanghai Daily)

U.S. Firm Loses Claim to $17 Billion Shipwreck Dating Back to 1708 (Courthouse News)

The 99 percent (The Economist)

VIDEO: Banksters, Busts and History - The Facts Driving the Financial Crises (YouTube)

Wall Street Isn't Winning - It's Cheating (Rolling Stone)

EU official: Banks to take 50% cut on Greek debt (USA Today)

Europe Agrees on a Bank Plan but Little Else (New York Times)

Euro crisis can only worsen, bullion brighter as safe bets (CommodityOnline)

Gold miners bump up their dividends (The Globe and Mail)

VIDEO: Former Goldman Sachs CEO Denies Insider Trading (YouTube)

Rothschilds bank on personalized weather service (New York Post)

IIF: No deal on 'any element' of Greek writedowns (MarketWatch)

Euro leaders eye November date to pin down terms of rescue fund (The Globe and Mail)

Central Bank Gold Buying Likely To Continue (Kitco)

Investors (and the Fed) are addicted to liquidity (CNN)

As State Funds Dry Up, College Costs Skyrocket (Businessweek)

Criminal Charges For Ex-Goldman Sachs Director (Forbes)

Gold Bulls Pin Hopes on India, China and Central Banks (The Street)

Winterizing Wall Street: Hypothermia and the 99 Percent (New York Magazine)

Bank of Canada Cuts Economic Growth Outlook Amid Weakness in U.S., Europe (Bloomberg)

Top 1% are getting even richer: CBO (CNN)

China Calls Rapid Yuan Rise 'Not Possible' (Wall Street Journal)

Gold hits one-month highs as safe-haven bid returns (Reuters)

VIDEO: The Economic Agony of Today's Twenty-Somethings (Yahoo!)

Unemployment, crime and poverty on the rise as darkness closes in on desperate Greeks (Independent)

Iron ore prices tumble in China as demand wanes (Sydney Morning Herald)

China backs EU's efforts to tackle debt crisis (China Daily)

More risks ahead, so safeguard your portfolio now (MarketWatch)

Surging Gold Sparks U.S. Retail Chain Promoted by Robin Leach (Businessweek)

Why the Massive Wealth of the 1% Could Ruin the Economy (The Atlantic)

An apocalyptic end to world's biggest bubble (MarketWatch)

Waiting for Lehman (Blogspot)

Vatican Calls for 'Central World Bank' to Be Set Up (CNBC)

The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destroy The Entire Global Financial System (Economic Collapse Blog)

3M sees gloomier economic prospects (Sydney Morning Herald)

Paper currency has too much bull, not enough bullion (The Globe and Mail)

Stocks fall, gold surges on new Europe fears (Los Angeles Times)

VIDEO: Gold Stocks Rise to the Top (YouTube)

The Biggest Fraud ... Retirement Doesn't Exist? (The Daily Bell)

Pessimism on Euro Deal as Ministers Cancel Meeting (New York Times)

Italy Pressured by EU to Boost Economy (Bloomberg)

U.S. stocks fall sharply on Europe jitters (MarketWatch)

Bar set too high as EU chiefs appear set for summit failure (The Globe and Mail)

Gold surges as U.S. consumers turn gloomy (Reuters)

VIDEO: Expect more QE from the Bank of England (The Telegraph)

JP Morgan confident in its China growth (China Daily)

Insiders Getting Out in October (The Street)

Banks Clash With Lawmakers on Greek Rescue (Bloomberg)

Vatican sides with anti-capitalist protesters and attacks global financial system (The Telegraph)

Europe in bid to ease fears Italy will follow Greece (Sydney Morning Herald)

Fed Official Backs New Growth Push (Wall Street Journal)

Don't just blame Wall Street: The American Dream has been eroding for years (CNN)

Citi raises gold, silver forecasts for 2012, 2013 (MarketWatch)

Nicolas Sarkozy tells David Cameron to 'shut up' in euro clash (The Independent)

Fed's Fisher says central bank has 'done enough' (The Globe and Mail)

Gold rallies over 1%, extends gain to second day (MarketWatch)

VIDEO: Europe's Crisis May End in a 'Violent Blow-Up' (Yahoo!)

Dollar Falls as Stocks, Commodities Surge; Yen Gains on Exports (Businessweek)

Fed wants to keep rates low to ensure housing is affordable, Dudley says (Bloomberg)

Gold bugs bruised but buoyant (again) (MarketWatch)

Speculators Cut Bullish Exposure To Gold Again -CFTC Data (Kitco)

The 147 Companies That Control Everything (Forbes)

VIDEO: Australia's carbon tax debate (YouTube)

Ron Paul: 'Taxation is Theft' (YouTube)

Gold Imports by India May Decline 30% on Prices, Group Says (Bloomberg)

Debt incinerates pride in Pennsylvania's capital (Washington Times)

Have the middle classes lost their place? (The Telegraph)

Dexia Collapse Points to Global Risks (New York Times)

Big banks to bring home $17.5bn bacon (Sydney Morning Herald)

U.S. to be hit by another debt downgrade in just weeks warns Bank of America (MailOnline)

Yuan trade settlement deal is close (Shanghai Daily)

Scheme to save euro could mean changes to EU treaty (Independent)

Falling copper points to global pain (The Globe and Mail)

Only 23% trust U.S. financial system: poll (MarketWatch)

EU leaders tell Italy: stop the rot and get your house in order (Guardian)

Luxury housing market unscathed while all around it suffers (Guardian)

The next gold rally is coming (China Business News)

VIDEO: Politicians are the Clowns But Wall Street Owns the Circus (YouTube)

VIDEO: The Great Silver Debate - Manipulation: Fact or Fiction? - GATA vs. CPM (YouTube)

California and Bust (Vanity Fair)

Funds wary of big projects (Sydney Morning Herald)

China signals irritation as Europe stares into the financial abyss (The Telegraph)

Goldman Sachs Sends Its Regrets to This Awkward Dinner Invitation (Wall Street Journal)

Cash from the Boss to Replace Payday Loans (Businessweek)

Limited Hangout at the Fed vs. the Internet Reformation (The Daily Bell)

VIDEO: US poverty rate continues to rise (YouTube)

Gold Snaps Losing Streak As Dollar Falls (Wall Street Journal)

Condo nation: Why so few Americans are buying homes (USA Today)

The Wild Ride of the 1% (Wall Street Journal)

Luxembourg seeks yuan investment credentials (Shanghai Daily)

Yuan Gold contracts a step toward reserve currency (CommodityOnline)

Inflation is likely to remain high (China Daily)

Bullish Bets on Euro May Be Bad Sign for Rally (SmartMoney)

New Greek bailout cash comes with dire warning (The Independent)

Carmignac: France losing prized AAA badge 'inevitable' (Citywire)

Italian bond yields reach point of no return (The Telegraph)

'Fear of the unknown' strikes at heart of crippled Greece (The Globe and Mail)

The Limits of Stimulus (The Atlantic)

Buy bank stocks? Now? (MarketWatch)

Obama signs free-trade pacts (Washington Times)

Silver Summit Report: Three Investment Approaches to the Volatile Metal (Business Insider)

First Mexican truck under NAFTA heads to U.S. interior (USA Today)

Recovering Economy? Not If You're Counting Truckloads (Forbes)

Europe begins 'six-day marathon' to resolve sovereign debt crisis (The Telegraph)

Dollar hits record low vs. yen, helps euro (MarketWatch)

It's Time To Free 150 Million Americans From The IRS (Forbes)

Occupy Wall Street: Washington Still Doesn't Get It (Rolling Stone)

Is Conflict-Of-Interest a Problem at the Fed? (The Atlantic)

Top banks accused of colluding on ATM fees (Reuters)

Cramer: Europe Too Big NOT to Fail (The Street)

Six-figure salary and homeless (CNN)

Gold futures up 1.6%, poised to snap losing streak (MarketWatch)

LBMA Issues New Good Delivery Requirements For Gold Refiners (Kitco)

High EU gas prices at odds with big supply surplus (Reuters)

Copper dives 7% as double-dip fears bite (The Globe and Mail)

How Much Do You Owe? Guess Again (New York Times)

Ron Paul: Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis (Wall Street Journal)

Greeks pass austerity bill despite riots (Sydney Morning Herald)

China reduces holdings of US Treasury debt (China Post)

European debt crisis talks plunged into chaos as leaders announce another summit (Telegraph)

Central Banks Continue to Buy Gold (Resource Investing News)

'Misery Index' Hits 28-Year High (Fox Business)

Factories Help to Support U.S. Economy as Labor, Housing Markets Struggle (Bloomberg)

Gold, Silver Drop: Merrill, HSBC & Barclays See Soft(er) Landing (Barron's)

Europe on the breadline: 'I don't know how a default could be worse than this' (Guardian)

China vs. the U.S.: The Case for Second Place (Businessweek)

Brazil's gamble on global financial meltdown (Citywire)

No Deal in Sight: Germany and France Divided over Euro Bailout (Spiegel)

Gold: Here’s Why It Could Get to $2000 Soon (Wall Street Journal)

Comex Gold Extends Slide As EU Gloom Builds (Wall Street Journal)

Stocks slide deeper into the red (CNN)

VIDEO: The Most Outrageous Acts of Corporate America (Yahoo!)

U.S. home resales on track for dismal year (The Globe and Mail)

The Most Important Ben Bernanke Speech That No One Heard (The Street)

September Losers Now Best Junk Bonds as Housing Debt Rallies: China Credit (Bloomberg)

VIDEO: China cuts U.S. bond holdings by $36.5 Billion (YouTube)

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world (NewScientist)

One super-corporation runs the global economy... and it could be terrifyingly unstable (MailOnline)

Shares drop again as Europe clouds outlook (Sydney Morning Herald)

Is the world worrying itself into recession? (Sydney Morning Herald)

China on path to become world's No. 2 in wealth (Shanghai Daily)

Big banks: Everyone hates our debt. Yay, us! (CNN)

Euro zone debt talks stuck: Sarkozy (The Globe and Mail)

Could you stomach a 2,600 point drop in the Dow? (MarketWatch)

HOLY BAILOUT - Fed now backstopping $75 Trillion of BoA derivatives trades (Daily Bail)

BofA said to Split Regulators over moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit (Bloomberg)

The New Reality For U.S. Cities (Economic Collapse Blog)

Gold falls with equities as euro zone talks stuck (Reuters)

Naked short sell CDS ban could worsen debt crisis (Citywire)

We Don't Believe Silver is There: GATA (Kitco)

CFTC Position Limits Rule Divides Agency, Angers Market Participants (Kitco)

Elite Control of OWS Protests Increasingly Obvious? (The Daily Bell)

Gloom Grips Consumers, and It May Be Home Prices (New York Times)

Silver Bear Market Seen Ending on Europe Crisis (Businessweek)

Europe 'back from the brink' of crisis (Citywire)

Bullard Says Fed Policy 'Appropriately Easy', Relapse Unlikely (Bloomberg)

Greece crippled by anti-austerity strike (The Globe and Mail)

A recipe for stock market volatility: next decade is likely to be a disappointing one (MarketWatch)

Mervyn King: time 'running out' to solve world economy crisis (The Telegraph)

Economic slowdown won't mean easing (China Daily)

China's forex drop looks suspicious: analyst (MarketWatch)

World Money Supplies Explode (Numismaster)

Three miners shot dead at world's biggest gold mine (Taipei Times)

The Rich Invest in 'Catastrophe Portfolios' (Wall Street Journal)

The Price of Argentina's Default (The Atlantic)

Moody's to France: We're watching you (CNN)

Bank of America Blows Off the 99% (The Street)

VIDEO: Modern Economics Has Failed Us, Says Economist Graeme Maxton (Yahoo!)

France and Germany ready to agree €2 Trillion euro rescue fund (Guardian)

Great Recession may not yet be even half over, study says (The Globe and Mail)

Budget cuts claim hundreds of thousands of county, city jobs (USA Today)

CFTC Votes 3-2 to Approve New Limits on Commodity Speculation (SFGate)

CFTC Approves Rule Expanding Access to Swaps Clearinghouses (Businessweek)

Goldman Sachs Reports $428 Million Loss (New York Times)

Traders Warn of Market Cracks (Wall Street Journal)

VIDEO: Wage dispute paralyses Indonesia's Freeport mine (YouTube)

BofA's "Brutal" Drop in Trading Revenue Exceeds Citigroup's (Businessweek)

Crumbling Euro Clobbers Gold Prices (The Street)

No Silver Shortages: CPM's Christian (Kitco)

Gold market suffering 'very real damage,' Dennis Gartman warns (The Globe and Mail)

China's Q3 GDP grows at slowest pace in 2 yrs (China Daily)

Gold futures fall to trade below $1,650 an ounce (MarketWatch)

Wider earnings estimates signal trouble for stocks (Reuters)

Undermining Bernanke Energizes Republican Candidates Joining Fed Insiders (Bloomberg)

Wholesale U.S. Prices Rise More Than Forecast (Bloomberg)

Showdown at the CFTC (The Daily Bell)

EU bank failures will crash Wall Street - again (MarketWatch)

Sprott makes a bet on a different kind of bank (The Globe and Mail)

Inflation closes in on 20-year high (The Telegraph)

India's economy slows sharply: Moody's (Sydney Morning Herald)

S&P downgrades Barcelona, Madrid (Sydney Morning Herald)

Gold falls as EU worry weighs (MarketWatch)

Chinese-currency gold trading a step toward the yuan's 'internationalization' (MarketWatch)

China lashes out at Romney over 'irresponsible' criticisms (China Post)

The Shadow of Enron Still Lingers (Wall Street Journal)

Philips to cut 4,500 staff as profits plunge (The Telegraph)

New generations in Europe tipping into homelessness (Reuters)

Dollar Gains on Rivals as Hopes for Europe Dim (Wall Street Journal)

As banks squeeze, alternative lenders gain traction (Reuters)

U.S. stocks fall on reduced Europe optimism (MarketWatch)

Bankers Balk at EU Push for Bigger Greek Losses (Bloomberg)

Gold Prices Held Back by Europe, Strong Dollar (The Street)

Running Chinese finance, a different kind of banker (Yahoo!)

Stocks, commodities up on hopes for Europe plan (Reuters)

China surpasses US as EU's top trade partner (China Daily)

Europe's lost decade as $7 trillion loan crunch looms (The Telegraph)

G-20 Gives EU One Week to Fix Debt Crisis (Bloomberg)

EU to Push Commodity Derivatives Rules (The Street)

Banks must take bigger losses on Greek loans, says German finance minister (Guardian)

Hong Kong becomes first centre for gold trading in yuan (BBC)

European debt crisis to end in 3 years (China.org.cn)

Retailers see little cheer in coming holiday shopping season (The Globe and Mail)

UBS Drops Gold Forecast; Emerging Markets Demand On The Rise (Barron's)

Deutsche Bank boss enters talks on Greek debt write-down: report (China Post)

Rome cleans up devastation, asks why it happened (Reuters)

German foreign minister hits out at US over debt crisis (The Telegraph)

Bullish trend on gold, bearish on copper (China Business News)

Is the dragon running out of puff? (Sydney Morning Herald)

Protest turns violent in Rome (MarketWatch)

Mining giant sparks Europe's new gold rush (The Telegraph)

Europe should embrace failure (CNN)

VIDEO: Greece Looks to the Sun for Economic Salvation (YouTube)

VIDEO: Meltdown Part 4- After the fall (YouTube)

Protesters Occupy World (MarketWatch)

G-20 finance leaders gather in Paris in crisis mode as Europe's economy teeters (Washington Post)

Why Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Is a Disaster for the Middle Class (Rolling Stone)

Busted flush: Las Vegas on a losing streak (The Telegraph)

Did Herman Cain take his famed 9-9-9 tax plan from SimCity video game? (MailOnline)

Mayor Bloomberg defends Wall Street billionaires (RT)

The Public Option in Banking: Another Look at the German Model (Web of Debt)

VIDEO: Protesters in Rome burn cars, break windows (YouTube)

Deutsche Bank Downgrade? Pressure Is Rising in the Search for a Euro Solution (Spiegel)

Bill Gross Sends Out Big Apology To Investors, And Then Declares That The Economy Is Doomed (Business Insider)

The Moral Unraveling of the EU, Bailouts and Central Banking (The Daily Bell)

Dr. Copper Is a Quack (Forbes)

G-20 Said to Press Europe to Deliver Solution to Debt Crisis Within Days (Bloomberg)

Low mortgage rates are a ruse -- nice if you can get 'em (USA Today)

Fifty top banks will fail new round of stress tests, Goldman Sachs warn (MailOnline)

Dimon: London Whale issues "tempest in a teapot" (MarketWatch)

How The ECB Is Turning Spain Into Greece (ZeroHedge)

ECB Seen Favoring Bond Buying Over Bank Loans (Bloomberg)

Gold price is rising but experts advise hedging against a fall (The Australian)

Jobless claims cast cloud on US labor market (Reuters)

Mortgage Rates Hit New Record Lows (ABC News)

Italian borrowing costs rise as debt fears intensify (The Independent)

World Bank trims China's growth forecast to 8.2% (Shanghai Daily)

Why The 9-Year-Old Founder Of Caine's Arcade Will Be A Billionaire In 30 Years (Forbes)

VIDEO: Greece bartering system popular in Volos (BBC)

Europe's future is not up to the Bundesbank (Financial Times)

Fed Chatter Sends Gold Prices $20 Higher, Silver Outperforms Everything (Fox Business)

Gold, Silver Prices Rally as Bullion Silver Eagles Inch Up (CoinNews)

CME Lowers Silver, Copper Margins (ZeroHedge)

VIDEO: Unemployment Claims in U.S. Rises to Two-Month High (Bloomberg)

Fed buys $5.6 billion in mortgage bonds, sells none (Reuters)

George Soros: eurozone crisis has entered a 'more lethal phase' (Guardian)

WTO sees trade growth falling to 3.7 percent in 2012 (Reuters)

China's new lending surges (The Globe and Mail)

China's gold demand boosts prices (Shanghai Daily)

Iran woos oil buyers with easy credit (Financial Times)

They'll actually pay you to store your gold (Sovereign Man)

Europe's banks beached as ECB stimulus runs dry (Telegraph)

Spain's 'lose-lose' struggle reignites euro crisis (Telegraph)

VIDEO: 12-Year-Old Girl Explains The Crimes Of The World Banking System (Activist Post)

Death, Taxes Collide as Fatal Crashes Mount on Filing Day (Bloomberg)

Chinese Gold Imports From Hong Kong Rise Nearly 13 Fold (ZeroHedge)

Gold 'to hit $2,000' on Spain fears (The Telegraph)

Subprime lending, the crisis catalyst, making a comeback (The Globe and Mail)

Lenders Again Dealing Credit to Risky Clients (New York Times)

The Fed's Currency Swap Covert Bailout of the Eurozone (Market Oracle)

IRS tax auditing lags for ultra-wealthy (Reuters)

Iran cuts oil export to Spain (YouTube)

Dow Falls 200 Points (Wall Street Journal)

Gold ends 1% higher on safe-haven flows (MarketWatch)

Where Has All the Trading Gone? Volume Hits 4-Year Low (CNBC)

US flexes muscles as it sends aircraft carriers to Persian Gulf (The Telegraph)

JPMorgan Derivative Trades: Big Enough to Move Markets? (Businessweek)

John Stossel: Let's give the Fed some competition (FreedomPolitics)

Physical gold demand to pick up as Indian festival approaches, jewelers strike ends (Kitco)

Chart of "US Recovery": third time is the charm, or head and shoulders time? (ZeroHedge)

Inflation Fears Dent Small Business Optimism: Survey (CNBC)

VIDEO: U.S. Taxpayers pay millions to mow lawns of foreclosed homes (Yahoo!)

French Business Confidence Stalls, Factory Output Drops (Bloomberg)

Bernanke Calls on Regulators to Curb Shadow Banking Risks (Bloomberg)

China posts surprise trade surplus on export rebound (Sydney Morning Herald)

Bernanke says banks need more capital (Sydney Morning Herald)

US gives Iran 'last chance' warning over shutting down nuclear facility (Independent)

Silver is primed for a comeback (Nasdaq)

Swiss village votes to turns its back on $1.2 billion goldmine (The Telegraph)

Stock Market Regulators Can't Find a Whale in a Pipeline (The Street)

Federal Funds to Train the Jobless Are Drying Up (CNBC)

Markets at the Start of a More Significant Downturn: Marc Faber (CNBC)

Chinese prices keep climbing (CNN)

Italy Fights Spain for Investors as ECB Boost Fades (Bloomberg)

Traders Navigate a Murky New World (Wall Street Journal)

Financials Lead U.S. Stock Losses (Wall Street Journal)

Union Pension Underfunding Time-Bomb Soars By 75%, Nears $400B (ZeroHedge)

At the open: Dow in triple-digit decline (The Globe and Mail)

Gold, silver rise on Indian wedding season demand (Economic Times)

CRU's Top Ten Gold mining countries of 2011- China tops with 380 tonnes (CommodityOnline)

Barclays: Macro picture bullish for Gold; fundamentals bearish (CommodityOnline)

Inflation in China defies expectations as higher food costs bite (Shanghai Daily)

Porsche sales race ahead 21.2% in March on surging Chinese demand (China Post)

Gold Surges As Indian Jeweler Strike Ends, Equity Futures Slide (ZeroHedge)

Gold crash on Fed tightening and euro salvation looks premature (The Telegraph)

JPMorgan pushes CDOs for trade finance (Financial Times)

Despite recovery, U.S. public employees face more layoffs (Reuters)

Former Commodities trader jailed for SEC death threats (Sydney Morning Herald)

Forget Travel if You Owe the IRS (Forbes)

China Buys Inroads in the Caribbean, Worrying US (CNBC)

150 Years Of US Fiat (ZeroHedge)

Penny Wise, or 2.4 Cents Foolish? (New York Times)

UBS sees significant risk of gold slipping below $1,600/oz (CommodityOnline)

JPMorgan Hedges Silver for Clients, Masters Says on CNBC (Bloomberg)

Economist warns of China growth woes (Shanghai Daily)

European stocks post third week of losses as Spanish bonds fall (Sydney Morning Herald)

What is the value of an Olympic gold medal? (The Economist)

VIDEO: 'No truth on extent of US indebtedness' (YouTube)

What Do Iran Sanctions Cost You? About 25 Cents a Gallon, Experts Say (CNBC)