Money & Markets – Week of 2.21.10

Thai Court Reading Verdict on Thaksin’s $2.3 Billion
Bloomberg.com (26 Feb 10)

Germany Debt Chief Hints at Greek Rescue
Telegraph.co.uk (25 Feb 10)

An Interview with Hernando de Soto
McAlvany (24 Feb 10)

Argentine Currency Crisis 2001 – Review & Reflection
Gold Silver Blog (23 Feb 10)

Bernanke Probing Goldman’s Dealings With Greece
Market Watch (25 Feb 10)

Something Very Strange Is Happening With Treasuries
seeking Alpha (24 Feb 10)

Concerns Grow Over China’s Sale of US Bonds
GATA (24 Feb 10)

Fritz Henderson is Back at GM, For $3,000 an Hour
CNN Money (23 Feb 10)

FDIC Hits Record “Default” Level As Deposit Insurance Fund Plunges by $12.7 Billion to NEGATIVE 20.9 Billion
ZeroHedge (23 Feb 10)

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Banks May Use Payday-Style Loans to Replace Lost Overdraft Fees
Bloomberg.com (23 Feb 10)

Harvard’s Rogoff Sees Sovereign Defaults, ‘Painful’ Austerity
Bloomberg.com (24 Feb 10)

Financier Soros Warns About Future of the Euro and Euro-Zone
MercoPress (23 Feb 10)

“If The US Can Do It, So Can We”: Japan To Keep Pumping Cash And Monetizing Debt Until Deflation Goes Away
ZeroHedge (22 Feb 10)

Republicans Pushing to Count GSE Debt Toward Statutory Debt Limit May Be Surprised to Find Real Debt-to-GDP Ratio is 130% and That Greece is Amateur Hour
ZeroHedge (22 Feb 10)

South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency
CBS News (17 Feb 10)

For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries
USA Today (11 Dec 09)

Time to Leave Citibank Folks
The Market Ticker (19 Feb 10)

Europe’s Monetary Union Has Become an Instrument of Deflation Torture
London Telegraph (21 Feb 10)

Looting Social Security
CounterPunch (19 Feb 10)

Struggling Towns Begin Printing Their Own Cash
AmericanFreePress.net (Feb 10)

All Roads Lead to Goldman Sachs
Financial Sense (16 Feb 10)

Fair Dues: Employees Sniff Out Unfairness When Money is Involved
The Economist (11 Feb 10)

Bloomberg Shifts $5 Billion Out of Friend’s Firm
New York Times (19 Feb 10)

Adrian Douglas: CFTC Admits Hiding Info Exposing Market Manipulation
GATA (20 Feb 10)

The Future of Manufacturing
Inc. (1 Oct 09)

New Underground Economy
PrisonPlanet (18 Feb 10)