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Economics and Investing:

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]

The Death Of The Dollar [2]

Who’s Scoffing Now? [10]

Wall Street’s Big Win [11]

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)