Reader Fred Z. sent this: No Accounting for Benefits: Our taxes barely cover our social-welfare programs; everything else is on credit. [1]
KAF suggested this piece over at Zero Hedge: CME Margin Hike Is 4th AND 5th – Charting The Parabolic Rise In CME Silver Margin Hikes [2]
How the Fed triggered the Arab Spring uprisings in two easy graphs [3]. (SurvivalBlog’s Poet Laureate G.G. sent the link.)
Troy H. recommended a recent newsletter [4], wherein Jeremy Grantham gets downright Malthusian.
Items from The Economatrix:
China Said May Buy $1 Trillion in Gold [5]
US Service Sector Expanded at Much Slower Pace [6]