Money & Markets – Week of 11.16.08

Naomi Klein: Bailout is ‘Multi-Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene’
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Dick Morris: Bush signed US into the EU yesterday!
dickmorris.com (18 Nov 2008)

Switzerland’s Shock Rate Cut Unnerves Market
GATA / The Telegraph (20 Nov 2008)

Goldman Targeted by Investor Complaints of Naked Short-Selling
Bloomberg (17 Nov 2008)

Credit Cards Will Be the Next Big Financial Blowup
NY Post (20 Nov 2008)

Bank Fees Headed for the Stars
Kiplinger (20 Nov 2008)

The Case for Fraud – All-American Business Enterprise
It’s My Take (21 Nov 2008)

Fed’s Cash Injections Risk Eclipsing Main Interest Rate
GATA / Bloomberg (19 Nov 2008)

John Kemp: Quantitative Easing Has Begun
GATA / Reuters (14 Nov 2008)

The Dollar Trap Part II: Mutually Assured Financial Destruction
Jesse’s Café Américain (18 Nov 2008)

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Financial Expert Max Keiser on the Bailout
Max Keiser (16 Nov 2008)

Volcker Issues Dire Warning on Slump
The Telegraph (17 Nov 2008)

Citigroup To Cut 50,000 Jobs
Mayfield Press (19 Nov 2008)

73% Fear U.S. Will Run Out of Money If More Are Bailed Out
Rasmussen Reports (13 Nov 2008)

World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency

America as the Last Man Standing
CI Centre (25 Sept 2008)

No Bonuses This Year for Goldman Sachs Top Execs
USA TODAY (Nov 2008)

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Inhofe: Cancel the ‘Blank Check’
“I learned a long time ago, when they come up [to Congress] and say this has to be done and has to be done immediately, there is no other way of doing it, you have to sit back and take a deep breath and nine times out of 10 they are not telling the truth. And this is one of those nine times.”
Tulsa World (16 Nov 2008)

Federal Debt is Up
Shadow Government Statistics

Four Insurers to Buy Thrifts As Part of Bailout
Yahoo Finance (14 Nov 2008)

Obama Calls for Aid to U.S. Auto Industry … With Conditions
Bloomberg (16 Nov 2008)

Cash-Strapped Big Cities Seek TARP Funds to Stimulate Local Economies
Wall Street Journal (15 Nov 2008)

Chicago Transit Authority Says Leaseback Dispute Jeopardizes Green Line Service
Chicago Business

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Delivery Failures Plague Treasury Market
Investment News (19 Oct 2008)

Iran Says Its Reserves Have Been Put Into Gold
GATA / Reuters (15 Nov 2008)

Crash of US Carmakers Risks Three Million Jobs
The Guardian (16 Nov 2008)

How Should Acquirers Select Advisors?
Social Science Reserach Network (11 May 2008)

The End
Michael Lewis (11 Nov 2008)