From Z.T.:Finance officials at odds over IMF funding plan [1]
Spotted over at Gold-Eagle: At the Heart of America’s Economic Problems, by Paul Mladjenovic [2]
Items from The Economatrix:
Bank Industry Await Results of Stress Tests [3]
GM and Chrysler: Goodnight
G-8’s First Bankruptcy [4] “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 [5] (The Mogambo Guru)
The Fed’s Cash Machine [6]
Fed Says Government Ready to Save Stress-Tested Banks
Microsoft Has First Quarterly Fall in Revenue in 23 Years [7]
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 [8]
Feds Close Four More Banks: First Bank of Idaho, Ketchum, Idaho [9] — First Bank of Beverly Hills, Calabasas, California [10] — Michigan Heritage Bank, Farmington Hills, Michigan [11] — American Southern Bank, Kennesaw, Georgia [12]