Money & Markets – Week of 12.21.08

Using Your Credit Cards and Other Depression Survival Tactics
lewrockwell.com (17 Dec 2008)

Ecuador Defaults, Says to Fight “Monster” Creditors
Reuters (12 Dec 2008)

America’s Total Debt Report: $53 Trillion
Grandfather Economic Report Series (May 2008)

Money Market Funds Reel as Yields Near Zero
Financial Times (21 Dec 2008)

Time for an IRA Distribution?
kiplinger.com (19 Dec 2008)

Don’t Bail Out the Commercial-Property Owners
Wall Street Journal (25 Dec 2008)

Investors Act Against Golden Couple Tarnished By Madoff fund Scandal
The Times (24 Dec 2008)

Let’s Not Conceal The Criminal Dimension Of The Financial Crisis
Truthout (24 Dec 2008)

Exporters Meet To Create ‘Gas Opec’
Financial Times (23 Dec 2008)

Bailout Nation: Insurance Industry in 2009?
Yahoo Finance (23 Dec 2008)

Toyota Sees First Loss in 70 Years
Wall Street Journal (23 Dec 2008)

Watch Santa for Clues to Dow in 2009
Wall Street Journal (22 Dec 2008)

Harvard Fund Managers Clear $26.8 Million
The Wall Street Journal (20 Dec 2008)

S&P Downgrades 11 Of World’s Top Banks
Financial Times (19 Dec 2008)

Crisis Deepens in Japan And China As Asian Exports Plunge
Telegraph.co.uk (22 Dec 2008)

Line for Bailouts Grows: Commercial Developers Want Govt. Aid, Too
Yahoo Finance (22 Dec 2008)

AP Study Finds $1.6B Went to Bailed-Out-Bank Execs
Yahoo News (21 Dec 2008)

World Faces “Total” Fnancial Meltdown: Bank of Spain Chief
Breitbart.com (21 Dec 2008)

Protectionist Dominoes Are Beginning To Tumble Across The World
Telegraph (22 Dec 2008)

AIG’s Past Could Return to Haunt
Truthout (22 Dec 2008)