Money & Markets – Week of 10.5.08

Britain to Sue Iceland Over Frozen Funds
GATA / The Telegraph (9 Oct 2008)

Tight Money Markets Show More Action Needed
MarketWatch (9 Oct 2008)

Hedge Fund Finds Itself on Defense
NY Times (7 Oct 2008)

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Iceland Takes Over Kaupthing as Biggest Banks Fail
Reuters (9 Oct 2008)

NY Fed Calls Friday Meeting for CDS Players
Reuters (8 Oct 2008)

U.S. Considers Taking Ownership Stake in Banks
GATA / Associated Press (8 Oct 2008)

ECB Offers Banks Unlimited Cash
GATA / Bloomberg (8 Oct 2008)

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Who Will Bail Out the Euro?
GATA / The Telegraph (8 Oct 2008)

U.S. Debt Overpowers National Debt Clock
CNN (9 Oct 2008)

The $40 Trillion Company and the Financial Coup d’état
Wiseup Journal (8 Oct 2008)

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Central Banks Around the World Cut Interest Rates
Reuters (8 Oct 2008)

Indonesia Halts Stock Trading After 10 Percent Plunge
Bloomberg (8 Oct 2008)

Fed Trolls Canada to Rescue U.S. Banks
Financial Post (7 Oct 2008)

Bank of America, RBC Agree to Buy Back Auction-Rate Securities
Associated Press (8 Oct 2008)

Global Debt Writeoffs to Total $1.4 Trillion US: IMF
CBC News (7 Oct 2008)

CNBC Confirms Lehman CEO Punched at Gym
Business & Media Institute (6 Oct 2008)

A Look At Wall Street’s Shadow Market
CBS News / 60 Minutes (5 Oct 2008)

The Real Great Depression
Silicon Investor (7 Oct 2008)

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The 75-Minute Market Rescue
New York Post (7 Oct 2008)

Russia and Brazil Crumble as Comodity Prices Crash
The Telegraph (7 Oct 2008)

Russia, Iceland Act in Bank Crisis; Oz Cuts Rates
Reuters (7 Oct 2008)

Credit Crisis Update: Rising LIBOR Hints at Bigger Problems to Come
MoneyMorning (7 Oct 2008)

Treasury Already Has Power to Buy into Failing Companies
Wall Street Journal (7 Oct 2008)

Fed Lays Out Details for Bank Loans
Associated Press (7 Oct 2008)

Fed Considers Plan to Fund Short-Term Business Loans
Associated Press (7 Oct 2008)

Another Henhouse, Another Fox
Associated Press (6 Oct 2008)

Temporary Litigation Halt as Citigroup and Wells Fargo Continue to Vie for Wachovia
MoneyMorning (7 Oct 2008)

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Settlement Day Approaches for Derivatives
Financial Times (1 Oct 2008)

Germany Takes Hot Seat as Europe Falls Into the Abyss
The Telegraph (6 Oct 2008)

Next: The Mother Of All Bank Runs?
Forbes (2 Oct 2008)

Fed May See Companies, States as Next Crisis Fronts
Bloomberg (6 Oct 2008)

Credit Market to Price $500-Billion in Bad Deals
Financial Times (5 Oct 2008)

JP Morgan ‘Brought Down’ Lehman Brothers
Times Online (5 Oct 2008)

After Change In Tax Law, Wells Fargo Swoops In
Washington Post (4 Oct 2008)

Cash Crunch: Small Businesses Get Creative
CNNMoney.com (3 Oct 2008)

Schwarzenegger to U.S.: State May Need $7-Billion Loan
LA Times (3 Oct 2008)