Money & Markets – Week of 1.10.10

Who Is the ‘One Big Bidder’ For US Treasuries?
Jesses’s Cafe American (14 Jan 10)

Bernanke Fights to Keep Bank Powers in Senate Letter
Bloomberg.com (14 Jan 10)

A Contrarian View Of China: Tying It All Together
Zero Hedge (14 Jan 10)

An Uncontrite Geithner Says It Was “Right Thing” To Pay Off AIG Counterparties At Par, Says His Job Is In Obama’s Hands
Zero Hedge (14 Jan 10)

The US Finds Its Superpower Structure And Capital Are Insufficient To Cope With A Transformed World
Zero Hedge (14 Jan 10)

Thinking Through The Implications Of A Chinese Bubble Economy; Why Gold Is The Only Answer
Zero Hedge (14 Jan 10)

SEC Vote Shows Scope of High-Frequency Trading Rules
Bloomberg.com (13 Jan 10)

Iceland, or Size Matters
The Automatic Earth (06 Jan 10)

Dollar Rises Versus Yen After Plosser Signals Rate Increase
Bloomberg.com (13 Jan 10)

Upcoming Government Funding Crises: Japan Edition
Zero Hedge (12 Jan 10)

Is China the Next Enron?
The New York Times (12 Jan 10)

China Heightens Bubble Fears As It Tightens Monetary Policy
Telegraph.co.uk (12 Jan 10)

Need For Stricter Policies
ShanghaiDaily.com (12 Jan 10)

Goldman Acknowledges Conflicts With Clients
The New York Times (12 Jan 10)

The Geithner AIG Story
The Wall Street Journal (12 Jan 10)

Obama Backs Himself Into No-New-Taxes Corner
msnbc (12 Jan 10)

No Seat for Wall Street at Tea Party
The Wall Street Journal (12 Jan 10)

Some Bold And Not So Bold Macro Predictions For 2010
Zero Hedge (12 Jan 10)

The Ultimate Shell Game: The Federal Reserve Funds 91% Of 2009 U.S. Deficit
Zero Hedge (11 Jan 10)

The Importance of Iraqi Oil Production .. pdf
Oil Watch Monthly – December 2009

Wealth Transfer Explained
Dave Miller

Timothy Geithner Meets Vladimir Lenin
Hussman Funds (04 Jan 10)

California Budget Not Likely to Get Much Federal Aid
Bloomberg.com (12 Jan 10)

California May Delay March Bill Payments on Cash Dip
Bloomberg.com (12 Jan 10)

A Global Fiasco is Brewing in Japan
Telegraph.co.uk (12 Jan 10)

Arizona Treasurer Says Checks Will Bounce Amid Budget Crisis
abc15.com (11 Jan 10)

Guest Post: The Case Against Geithner
Zero Hedge (11 Jan 10)

Bankergate: Emails Expose Criminal Financial Dictatorship At Work
PrisonPlanet (11 Jan 10)

Court Reinstates Fired Central-Bank Chief
The Wall Street Journal (09 Jan 10)

Constitutional Crisis in Argentina, President Threatens to Take Over Central Bank; Potential Latin America “Cascade Effect”
MISH’S (11 Jan 10)

Lessons from Bernstein, Rosenberg and Farrell
Investment Post Card (11 Jan 10)

‘Rich World’ Economies: Can Masters of The Universe Continue to Ignore Reality?
Seeking Alpha (11 Jan 10)

Liquidating Firms Claim Billions in U.S. Stimulus
Reuters (11 Jan 10)

If Consumer Spending Is Improving, Where Is It?
Market Ticker (11 Jan 10)

Japan Air Said to Consider Dissolving Pension Fund for Retirees
Bloomberg.com (11 Jan 10)

Dubai Index Declines on Below Market Offer for Arabtec Stake
Bloomberg.com (11 Jan 10)

PIMCO Calls For A Hyperinflationary Collapse In Japan
Market Ticker (10 Jan 10)

China Becomes Biggest Exporter, Edging Out German
MyWay (10 Jan 10)

America Slides Deeper Into Depression As Wall Street Revels
Telegraph.co.uk (10 Jan 10)

The Other Plot to Wreck America
The New York Times (09 Jan 10)

Winter Breaks Budgets And Rules The Road
The New York Times (08 Jan 10)

Bubble Warning
The Economist (07 Jan 10)

Sarkozy: Dollar Must Be Stripped of Global Power
Money News.com (06 Jan 10)

Venezuela’s Chavez Announces Currency Devaluation
INO.comNews (09 Jan 10)

Venezuela’s Chavez Aims To Fight Currency Black Market
The Wall Street Journal (09 Jan 10) [Must subscribe to read full article.]

Schwarzenegger: Hasta La Vista to Exploding Prison Budgets
RI Future.org (08 Jan 10)

Chairman Bernanke’s Monetary Apologia
The Wall Street Journal (08 Jan 10)

Some Notes For All The Super-bears Out There In Internet Land
Fallstreet (08 Jan 10)

Argentina Central Bank Mutiny Costs Local Bernanke Equivalent His Job, Criminal Charges
Zero Hedge (07 Jan 10)

Insurance Rates to Surge Despite Reform
Moneynews.com (11 Dec 09)