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Odds ‘n Sods:

A not-so-subtle indicator of future events?: Baltic Dry Index Collapsing [1]. The article begins with this quote: “Nothing is moving because the trader doesn’t want to take the risk of putting cargo on the boat and finding that nobody can pay.”

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Here is some news and commentary from our Economic editor: Stocks Turn Higher As Credit Markets Show Signs Of Easing [2]Citi Group’s $13 Billion Writedown Raises Fears of a Crisis Beyond Wall Street [3]US Worsening Economic Outlook [4]Hedge Fund 42% Drop, Brink Of Collapse [5]Dow Gold Ratio Sinks To 14-Year Low [6]European Markets Tumble As Confidence Collapse [7]Gold Price Crash On Hedge Funds Forced Selling [8]Banks Borrow Record $435.7 Billion Per Day From Fed [9]Recession Looms Despite Global Interventions [10]JP Morgan And Goldman Sachs Responsible For Destruction of US Economy [11]Will Bailouts Risk Hyperinflation? [12]Moscow Supermarket Shelves Increasingly Empty [13]

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I found a link over at Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest [14] (one of my almost daily reads) to an insightful piece over at Sharon Astyk’s blog: Thinking Ahead: Predicting the Depression [15]

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Reader “Roo” suggested this site: FromTheWilderness.com [16]

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Camping Survival recently added hand-made fire pistons from Jeff Wagner [17] to their product line. These are the ones that wilderness survival guru Les Stroud uses and recommends.