From Z.T.:Finance officials at odds over IMF funding plan
Spotted over at Gold-Eagle: At the Heart of America’s Economic Problems, by Paul Mladjenovic
Items from The Economatrix:
Bank Industry Await Results of Stress Tests
GM and Chrysler: Goodnight
G-8’s First Bankruptcy “To paraphrase Churchill, the UK economy is now a disaster, wrapped in a catastrophe inside a calamity. And someone just flushed the key down the proverbial…”
Volcker Punctures the Nonsense (The Mogambo Guru)
The Fed’s Cash Machine
Fed Says Government Ready to Save Stress-Tested Banks
Microsoft Has First Quarterly Fall in Revenue in 23 Years
Germany’s Slump Risks “Explosive” Mood as Second Banking Crisis Looms
Spain Jobless Total Over 4 Million
UK Budget 2009: “Now We Are All Up To Our Ears In It”
The Hartford Seeking Bids for its Insurance Operations
Feds Close Four More Banks: First Bank of Idaho, Ketchum, Idaho — First Bank of Beverly Hills, Calabasas, California — Michigan Heritage Bank, Farmington Hills, Michigan — American Southern Bank, Kennesaw, Georgia