Money & Markets – Week of 6.02.08

Economist Challenges Government Data
By Sam Zuckerman – SFGate.com (25 May 2008)

A Lawyer’s Open Letter to a CFTC Commissioner
By Chris Powell – GATA (7 Jun 2008)

Crisis Trade Talks in Paris as Protectionism Looms
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (6 Jun 2008)

The eBays of Hospital Debt Collection
Posted by Jacob Goldstein – Wall Street Journal Blog (3 Jun 2008)

The Coming Demographic Deficit: How Aging Populations Will Reduce Global Savings
The McKinsey Global Institute (Jan 2005)

Euro Suffering From ‘Reserve Currency Curse’ as Investors Pull Out
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (30 May 2008)

Argentine Alert as Inflation Spectre Stalks Half the World
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (3 Jun 2008)

Waiting For the Dollar’s Next New Low
By James Turk – GoldMoney.com (2 Jun 2008)

Illinois Pension Crisis is Worst in the Nation – No Solution in Sight for Rising Debt Load
By Ryan Keith – Associated Press (29 May 2008)

Secrets and Lies
By John Sakowicz – bohemian,com (28 May 2008)

Wall Street May Get Permanent Credit Line at Fed
By Scott Lanman & Anthony Massucci – Bloomberg News (30 May 2008)

Montana Governor is Sitting on an Oil Mine
By John Crudele – New York Post (29 May 2008)

Money Supply at 29 May 2008
St. Louis Federal Reserve Report
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UBS Tells Unit Staff to Avoid US Visits
By Haig Simonian – Financial Times (27 May 2008)

Paulson Visits Arabs to Tell Them How to Spend Their Oil Money
By John Brinsley – Bloomberg News (31 May 2008)