Tuesday - February 17, 2009 - Gold Breaks Above $950 Over Night, Tonight on PBS: Inside the Meltdown, Have Muslim Women Had Enough With Misogynists?

Texas firm with big imprint in Antigua, Stanford Financial, investigated by SEC for "massive ongoing fraud"

Foreclosures still outnumber home sales

Markets Are Working: CA Home Sales Increase +85% in December As Home Prices Fall By -41.5%


The Big Picture Blog takes us into "Progress On NASA's Constellation"

In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update

Dead End in Detroit for White-Collar Workers

Obama gains support from G.O.P. Governors

How much further do equities have to fall?

How people in various countries view the theory of evolution

The Economist asks if America's banking crisis is worse than Japan's which lasted more than 15 years?

Just say "Yo!" Bristol Palin says abstinence is "not realistic at all" on Fox interview

Gang of British Islamists on trial for transatlantic airline bomb plots

Sirius XM Reaches Loan Deal With Liberty

Good-bye, Dubai! (video included)

More on the investigation of disappeared Billions of US Dollars in Iraq and which is being called "A Fraud Bigger Than Madoff"
And I thought Madoff was a thief...

Companies weigh suppliers and buyers with wary eyes, cutting the riskier ones loose

Former manager for Peanut Corp of America's Texas plant says he made repeated complaints to the owner about contamination

Trump Entertainment, Affiliates File for Bankruptcy

Japan finance minister resigns in blow to PM Aso

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Tuesday for a coordinated response to revive the global economy

Obama says he's an optimist, but no sap

America's emptiest cities

Caltrans orders removal of homeless from encampments under overpasses, bridges and elsewhere

Retailers to landlords: "Lower the rent or else"

60 Minutes "World of Trouble"

Another Payment Card Processor Hacked

The founder of an Islamic television station in upstate New York aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes has confessed to beheading his wife

5 Things: The Mirage of Wealth

Salesman Loses $300K in Starbucks Jewel Heist

How blue collar workers doing home repairs and renovations saw the crash coming

Zagat, Noted Rater of Restaurants, Brings Its Touch to Medicine

Nouriel Roubini thinks the "N" word is the right way for Geithner . . . whom he supports . . . to go

Karl Denninger posted a red alert last night about Foreign Exchange "dislocation" with the dollar up, gold up, and someone in Asia buying dollars . . . .

Gold Rises Above $950 to Seven-Month High on Recession Concerns

Peter Schiff pans government's direction on economy

Ex-Death Row Records Mogul and Producer, Marion "Suge" Knight, hospitalized in Arizona after hotel fight

Rock Trueblood's Watchworld reminds everyone to watch "Inside the Meltdown" tonight on PBS!

Investigators hope found parts will tell why plane crashed near Buffalo

3,000 new American troops in Afghanistan engage in combat

Hypocritical GOP Congress Persons who voted "NO" on the Stimulus package are now triumphing the benefits to their constituents

Australian Arson Suspect is held at undisclosed location to protect him from enraged Citizens

Just released from jail a few months ago: bombs end the life of commandingTaliban braggart who led ambush on Afghan Army convoy

Muslim women's meeting finally states the obvious: misogynist men using Islam as a "cover" to sublimate women

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$524 Billion in losses forecast at big banks

CEO of MidSouth Bank says break up the big banks