G.G. flagged this: Silver outshines gold for investors [1]. “Sales of silver American Eagle coins have reached just over four million ounces so far in 2009, almost double the rate of last year, when sales reached 19.6 million ounces for the full year.”
Pat M. forwarded this Reuters news video: Hard Times Push Brits to Bartering [2]
Frequent contributor Bill N. recommended this commentary by Paul Craig Roberts: How the US Economy Was Lost [3].
Items from The Economatrix:
Watch Now as Pension Funds Get Vaporized [4]
Ron Paul: This is an End of an Era…We Can’t Reinflate the Bubble [5]
Weak Health Care Stocks Drag Market Lower [7]
Economy Shrinks 6.2%, Worst in Quarter Century [8]
Citigroup Reaches Aid Deal with Government [9]
Moody’s Predicts Defaults Will Exceed Great Depression Peaks
GM Crisis Talks After $31B Loss [10]
60,000 Jobs Face Axe at RBS and Lloyds [11]
Future is “Bleak” Warns German Ex-Vice Chancellor [12] “Modern capitalism is based on a global Ponzi scheme.”
Confidence Falls in Eurozone as Economy Fears Grow [13]
Banks Vacate Towers Pushing NYC Empty Commercial Space [14]
Treasuries Fall for Third Day on Spending Concerns [15]
$1 Trillion in Taxes is H*ll To Pay [16]
Arsonists Torch Porsches, BMWs on Economic Woes [17]
Recession, Bailout, Stimulus: US Security Threats? [18]
FDIC: Number of Troubled Banks Up 47% [19]
Elderly Emerge as New Class of Workers…and Jobless [20]
California’s Newly Poor Push Social Services to the Brink [21]