Money & Markets – Week of 6.30.08

Bankers Seen Holding Off Clear Channel Loan Sale to Next Week
By Cynthia Koons – Dow Jones Newswire (3 Jul 2008)
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Vanity Plate Sold for $14 Million in UAE
International Business Times (16 Feb 208)

Nevada Economy: Gaming Revenues Tumble Again
By Howard Stutz – Casino City Times (12 Jun 2008)

Total Control of U.S. in Sight for Goldman Sachs
By David Brooks – New York Times (1 Jul 2008)

Grasso Victorious in Pay Case; Cuomo Won’t Appeal
By Charles Gasparino – CNBC (1 Jul 2008)

DOJ Bombs Liberty Dollar! – Read the Complaint

North America’s Most Wanted – Stock Felon
At FinancialSense.com

Benedict Benjamin Bernanke
By Rob Kirby – Financial Sense WrapUp (30 Jun 2008)

Money for Nuthin’: Prime Brokers & Shadow Banks
By John Sakowicz – Bohemian.com (25 Jun 2008)

BIS Seeks Higher World Interest Rates
By Chris Giles – Financial Times, London (30 Jun 2008)

8 Steps to a Trillion-Dollar Meltdown
By Charles R. Morris – ForeignPolicy.com (Apr 2008)

NY Fed Extends $28 Billion Loan to JP Morgan for Bear
By John Parry & Al Yoon – Reuters (26 Jun 2008)

IMF Undertakes Audit of U.S. Financial System
By Gabor Steingart – Der Spiegel (26 Jun 2008)

Bank of England Court Chiefs Resign En Masse
By John Waples & David Smith – TimesOnline.uk (29 Jun 2008)

Global Economy Faces Deep Slowdown and Deflation Threat, BIS Warns
By Edmund Conway – London Telegraph (30 Jun 2008)

Asian Nations May Buy Shares to Aid Sagging Markets
By Andrew Wood, et al – Financial Times, London (29 Jun 2008)

Amtrak in Line for Big Funding Boost
By Martha Lynn Craver – The Kiplinger Letter (27 Jun 2008)

The Open Money Projects
“Open money is a means of exchange freely available to all. Any community, any association – indeed, any body – can have their own money. ”
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Florida Banks Tell Feds to Ease Regulation
By Brian Bandell – Jacksonville Business Journal (27 Jun 2008)

Countrywide’s Pressures Mount – Three States File Legal Actions
By Ruth Simon – Wall Street Journal (26 Jun 2008)

Oil’s Rise is Mainly Dollar’s Devaluation, OPEC Chief Says
Reuters (26 Jun 2008)

LSE and Lehman Start European Dark Pool Platform
By Douwe Miedema & Mark Potter – Reuters (26 Jun 2008)

Barclays warns of Disaster as Fed Loses All Credibility
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – The London Telegraph (27 Jun 2008)

The Subprime Trump Card: Standing Up To the Banks
By Ellen Brown – The Web of Debt (26 Jun 2008)