Top Picks ~ Week of August 13, 2007

In Withdrawal Line, Countrywide Customer Muses About Buying Gold
By Alexandria Sage – Reuters (17 Aug 2007)

Fed Lectures Financial Houses: Borrow Quick at Our Discount Window
By James Politi & Eoin Callan – Financial Times, London (18 Aug 2007)

The Words That Make You Free
By George Cordell – The Hawaii Observer (18 Aug 2007)

Policy Lock-Down: Prison Interests Court Political Players
By The Institution on Money in State Politics (Apr 2006)

Tribunal Will Give (Katrina) Victims a Forum
At All Things Cynthia McKinney (3 Aug 2007)

Discrepancies in America’s Accounts Hide a Black Hole
By Daniel Gros – Financial Times (15 Jun 2006)

Fed Takes Junk Collateral, Slashes 1-Month Loan Rate to 4%
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (17 Aug 2007)

Ron Paul Iowa Exit Poll Shows Win?
From whatREALLYhappened.com (16 Aug 2007)

Learn From Rome’s Fall or Else, US Comptroller General Warns
By Jeremy Grant – Financial Times, London (14 Aug 2007)

Reality Settin In?
By Chris Puplava – Financial Sense (15 Aug 2007)

Confidence Back But Debt Markets Still Anxious
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (15 Aug 2007)

Interview with Mark Klein – Spying on the Home Front
A Frontline Interview (15 May 2007)

Oilman’s Lawyers Seek to Squelch Notes on US Attack
By David Ivanovich – Houston Chronicle (15 Aug 2007)

Tycoon Wyatt Wants Saddam Link Omitted from Trial
By Christine Kearney – Reuters (14 Aug 2007)

The Poor Stay Poor due to the Price of Sending Money Home
By Yania Marcelino & Shannah Kurland – New America Media (26 Jul 2007)

US To Expand Domestic Use of Spy Satellites
By Robert Block – Wall Street Journal (15 Aug 2007)

Fast, Cheap and in Control – MIT Summit Floats Low-Tech Solutions to World’s Ills
By Felicia Mello – Boston Globe (9 Aug 2007)

Beyond Padilla Terror Case, Huge Legal Issues
By Warren Richey – Christian Science Monitor (15 Aug 2007)

Maybe the Central Banks Can Start Leasing Eggs
By Kevin G. Hall – McClatchey Newspapers (14 Aug 2007)

See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
By John Borland – Wired (14 Aug 2007)

Galaxies Clash in Four-Way Merger
BBC News (6 Aug 2007)

Patterns That Reveal Gold Price Capping
By James Turk – Financial Sense (13 Aug 2007)

Harassment of Raw Milk Farmers in Pennsylvania & New York
Weston Price Action Alert

Goldman Pounded by Hedge Fund Loses
By Joseph A Giannone – Washington Post (9 Aug 2007)

Top 25 Subprime Lender List
From The Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

Currency Swap Expected from Fed and ECB
From the Financial Times, London (12 Aug 2007)

Plastic Bags Are Killing Us
By Katharine Mieszkowski – Salon.com (Aug 2007)

Will Paulson Ever Consent to Answer the Right Questions?
By John Crudele – New York Post (9 Aug 2007)