Oil Prices – What Does “Lower For Longer” Actually Mean? [1]
o o o
Over at the SHTFPlan blog, Mac Slavo reports: Soros, Icahn and Major New Players Rushing Into the Gold Sector: “Things Are In The Works As We Speak” [2]
o o o
B.B. sent this: Food Stamps In Crosshairs of Shutdown [3]. [JWR’s Comment: State-level disruptions of EBT card payments in the past two years have caused chaos. We can only imagine if this were to happen nationwide.]
Items from The Economics Team:
The Extinction of Retirement [4]
At Zero Hedge: Confessions of an Economics Professor [5]
Track Your Banks’ Texas Ratio [6]. Hint: Many banks sit on the edge of failure even in “the recovery”