From Naish Piazza’s blog: I Love This Little Girl… and So Will You [1]. OBTW, speaking of Front Sight, don’t miss out on their “Get a Gun” training and gear package offer [2]. This offer will probably end soon, so don’t hesitate any longer!
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Our hard working Economic Editor Cheryl N. sent us an enormous batch of news and commentary. Note, BTW, how many of these highlight the derivatives [3] market: Meltdown Shakes Up Wall Street Workers [4]—Wall Street Crisis Could Put Fed Rate Cut Into Play [5]—Stocks Tumble Amid New Wall Street Landscape [6]—Obama, McCain Blame Economic Woes on Greed, Policy [7]—Greenspan: US In “Once-In-A-Century” Financial Crisis [8]—Tectonic Shift As Lehmans Fails and Merrill Sold [9]—AIG Allowed To Borrow Money From Subsidiaries (Portfolio Plummets) [10]—Black Monday: FTSE Plunges 212 Points As Global Markets Tumble After Lehman Collapse/BofE Injects 5 billion pounds into money markets [11]—Frantic Day On Wall Street As Banks Fall [12]—Wilbur Ross: Possibly 1,000 Banks Will Fail In Coming Months [13]—Dangerous “Lehmers” [14]—The Rise and Fall of Lehman Bros [15]—Doomed Lehmans Now Bros. Grimm [16]—Derivatives Market Traded On Sunday To Cut Lehman Risks [17]—Silences Say It All [18]—Implications of a 10-Day Refinery Outage [19]—Stocks Plunge 500 Points; $700 billion in Wealth Erased [6]—AIG Workers On Edge At Once-Safe Company [20]—Is This The Death Knell Of Derivatives? [21]—UK Bank Customers Urged Not To Panic [22]—The Death of Wall Street, Part 1 [23]—Stocks Get Pummeled [24]—Bush: Markets Are Resilient and Flexible (bwahahahahaha!) [25]—Pimco, Vanguard Are Biggest Lehman Bond Fund Losers [26]—AIG’s Reported Sales Likely To Draw Many Bidders [27]—Fed Injects $70 billion in Banking System [28]—Americans Should Worry About Bank Deposits [29]—Lehmans Is Dead: Where’s The Crime Scene Tape? [30]—The Other Gulf Surge Tide [31]—Deleveraging Not Deflation Resulting in Commodities Temporary Violent Correction [32]—Lehman’s Bankruptcy: The Ultimate Wall Street Derivatives Defaults Nightmare [33] (this one is a must read!)—AIG, Lehman Shock Hits World Markets [34]—AIG Seeks HUGE Loans As Stocks Dive 61% [35]–and, last but not least (and as partial confirmation of what I predicted): Merrill Bailout Disguised As Buyout [36].
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Justin B in Phoenix recommended reading a post over at the Tom Bowers Subguns Forum: My Houston Hurricane Story or “How BCR’s Roll” [37] (This post actually dates back to Hurricane Rita, but it is a useful illustration of the value of well-orchestrated family preparedness.)