KAF sent us this article: World at Risk of Folding in on Itself: Deputy Doom [1]
Damon recommended this primer: What is the U.S. Dollar Index? [3]
From frequent content contributor RBS: Canada ponders pulling the plug on the penny [4]. Oh, and speaking of which… Man tries to pay tax with 200,000 pennies [5]
Signs of the times: $20 Million Spent On Stimulus Signs? [6]
Items from The Economatrix:
Higher Education Funds Buys Gold Over Economic Worries [7]
1.65 Million Properties Received Foreclosure Notices First Half of 2010 [9]
More is Spent on Jobless in US, But Benefits Near End [10]
Fed Grows Increasingly Worried About Recovery [11]
Fears Grow as Millions Lose Jobless Benefits [11]
22 Statistics that Prove that Middle Class America is Being Systematically Wiped Out of Existence [12]