Money & Markets – Week of 2.1.09

U.S. Treasury in Plans For Record Debt Sale
Financial Times (04 Feb 2009)

How to Rescue the Bank Bailout
truthout.org (26 Jan 2009)

Fiscal Stimulus Bang For the Buck
Moody’s Economy.com ( Feb 2009)

State Chases Sales Taxes in N.H.
boston.com (03 Feb 2009)

Support for Stimulus Package Falls to 37%
Rasmussen Reports (04 Feb 2009)

To Stabilize Global Banks, First Tame Credit Default Swaps
The Institutional Risk Analytics (21 Jan 2009)

Russia Retreats From Costly Bail-outs
Telegraph.co.uk (05 Feb 2009)

Buffett Invests in Swiss Re as Insurers Hurt
Reuters (05 Feb 2009)

Who Owns America?
YouTube

Drilling Down Into Baltimore’s Billion-Dollar “Informal Economy”
City Paper (28 Jan 2009)

AP Probe: Banks Sought Foreign Workers as Economy Collapsed
Fox News (2 Feb 2009)

Russia Steps Up High-Risk Battle on Rouble
The Telegraph (2 Feb 2009)

Fiscal Therapy
Mother Jones (Feb 2009)

Secret Spending: Fed Lends Two Trillion Without Oversight
Alternet (31 Jan 2009)

Downturn Causes 20M Job Losses in China
Financial Times (2 Feb 2009)

Macy’s: Decentralize or Die
Forbes (2 Feb 2009)

Economy Sinks Under Weight Of Inventory
Washington Post (31 Jan 2009)

JPMorgan’s Staley Calls Money Funds ‘Systemic Risk’
Bloomberg (30 Jan 2009)

Let Banks Fail, Says Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz
The Telegraph (2 Feb 2009)

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Stiglitz Criticizes Bad Bank Plan as Swapping ‘Cash for Trash’
Bloomberg (1 Feb 2009)

Hyperinflation is a Possibility, Say Morgan Stanley
Financial Times (30 Jan 2009)

US-China Currency War Eclipses Davos, and Threatens the World
The Telegraph (28 Jan 2009)

Cyber-Scams On the Uptick in Downturn
Yahoo Finance (29 Jan 2009)

Are We Ready to Change the System?
Jesse’s Cafe Americain

JP Morgan Exited Madoff-Linked Funds Last Fall
NY Times (28 Jan 2009)

Banks Agree to Send $535 Million to Madoff Trustee
Bloomberg (29 Jan 2009)

Catherine Austin Fitts Interviewed on ‘To the Best of Our Knowledge’
publicbroadcasting.net