Watch This Interview Clip! Charles Biderman Fox Business July 30, 2010–Collapse Ahead? [1] (Thanks to Mac H. for the link.)
B.B. recommended the American Thinker essay The Death of the Dollar [2] by Vasko Kohlmayer.
This comes as no surprise: States Raising Cigarette, Gas and Sales Taxes to Cover Shortfalls. [3]
Why the US keeps minting coins people hate and won’t use [4]. OBTW, don’t bother stockpiling them, since they are 88.5% copper, and hence it would take Weimar scale inflation to make their metallic content worth more than the coins’ face value.
J.B.G. sent this: Commodity spike queers the pitch for Bernanke’s QE2 [5].
Items from The Economatrix:
Stocks Inch Higher as Investors Look to Fed [6]
Freddie Mac Requests $1.8 Billion in Aid After 2Q Loss [7]
US Job Losses Double Expected Figure [8]
UK: Commodity Prices Soar, Food Inflation Back
AIG Loses Another Half Billion [9]
Who’s Scoffing Now? [10]
The New Push for a Global Currency [12]
The Economy in for a Long Dark Period — Here’s How to Survive [13]
Unholy Trinity Sets Up Bank Failures [14]
The Crisis Of Middle-Class America
Banking Insanity [15] (The Mogambo Guru)