Thanks to reader GWC for this: U.K. Faced ‘Bank Runs, Riots’ as RBS and HBOS Neared Collapse [1]
GG spotted this key data point: Hours worked plummets to all time low [2]
Thanks to Damon for this news item: Venezuela inflation estimated at 26%, annually [3]. (Prices were up 2.5% in September. But don’t worry. Comrade Hugo has a plan.)
Mark G. found an interesting New York Times blog article: What Happened to Argentina? [4]
Items from The Economatrix:
UN Calls For New Reserve Currency [5]
Australia Rate Hike Good Sign for World Economy [6]
National Retails Groups Forecasts Weak Holiday Season
Weak Dollar, Strong Stock Market Push Oil Higher [7]
How the Dollar is Being Systemically Devalued Since the 1980s [8]
Stiglitz: GDP Blinded Us to the Crisis [9]
Report Questions Claims on Banks’ Health [10]
IG Report Finds Paulson, Bernanke Misled Public on Bank Rescues [11]
Weak Dollar Drives Gold to Record High $1,043.20
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Global Aging Population Financial Crisis Brewing [13]
Weiss: Three Government Reports Point to Fiscal Doomsday [14]
Soros Says “Basically Bankrupt Banks” Restrain US [15]
US Rivals Plot to End Oil Trading in Dollars [16]
Banks 1, America 0 [17]
The End of the Dollar Spells the Rise of a New Order [18]