Money & Markets – Week of 8.1.10

The New Push for a Global Currency
Mises Daily (6 Aug 10)

CIC’s Bitter Payoff for Morgan Stanley Stake
english.caing.com (6 Aug 10)

Telling Swiss Secrets: A Banker’s Betrayal
Global Post (5 Aug 10)

Agflation Fears Grow as Russia Halts Grain Exports
GATA (5 Aug 10)

New IMF Strategy Document Charts Launch Of “Bancor” Global Currency
PrisonPlanet (4 Aug 10)

Russia Bans Grain Exports as the End Game Trade Begins
Zero Hedge 95 Aug 10)

Wheat Soars to Limit on Russia Export Halt
Reuters (5 Aug 10)

Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index Hits New Low in July
Gallup (2 Aug 10)

Magna Benchmark
National Post (31 July 10)

Paulson & Co Takes a Bearish Turn
Financial Times (5 Aug 10)

National Association of Credit Management – Report for July 2010
National Association of Credit Management  (2 Aug 10)

Wheat Races to New Highs as Russia Halts Exports
Reuters (5 Aug 10)

Basel Capital Rules May Prompt Banks to Shrink Trading, OCC’s Dugan Says
Bloomberg (5 Aug 10)

Why It’s Hard to Get a Loan
CFO.com (4 Aug 10)

NY Fed Joins Investors on Loan Repurchase Bid
CNBC (4 Aug 10)

AT&T, Verizon to Target Visa, MasterCard With Phones
Bloomberg Businessweek (2 Aug 10)

Wall Street Super-Computers Are Stealing Your Money
The Growth Stock Wire (30 July 10)

China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Continues Massive Sale Of Morgan Stanley
Business Insider (4 Aug 10)

And Scene: ICI Reports 13th Consecutive Week of Massive Domestic Equity Outflows As Banks Start To Panic
Zero Hedge (4 Aug 10)

Goldman Sachs May Spin Off Proprietary Trading This Month
Yahoo Finance (4 Aug 10)

U.S. Treasuries Not Safe For China, Ex-central Bank Adviser Says
GATA (4 Aug 10)

Lower Bad Debts Help Lloyds Post First-half Profit
Reuters (4 Aug 10)


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Bloomberg Tries To Make Sense Of The Market In Hundreds Of Pretty Charts, Fails
Zero Hedge (3 Aug 10)

Banks `Throw in Towel’ to Add Most Mortgage Bonds in 18 Months
Bloomberg (3 Aug 10)

Bond Yields Fall Into Abyss as World Turns Upside Down [Full news story; requires subscription]
Financial Times (3 Aug 10)

Small Businesses See a Weak 2011 – But They’ll Survive
Finance & Commerce (3 Aug 10)

Geithner: Unemployment Could Rise
Yahoo Finance (3 Aug 10)

Rise in Wheat Prices Fastest Since 1973 [Full news story; requires subscription]
Financial Times ( 2 Aug 10)

Three Hundred Trillion Dollars and Counting (PDF)
The Police State Road Map (March 2005)

The New Credit-Card Tricks
The Wall Street Journal (31 July 10)

Fed Will Go To War On Deflation Next Week, Leading Economist Predicts
GATA (2 Aug 10)

BP Executive Turned Alyeska Pipeline Into “Deeply Distressed” Company
Truthout (2 Aug 10)

Defining Prosperity Down
The New York Times (1 Aug 10)

America’s Worst Job Market: What 27.6% Unemployment Looks Like
Yahoo News (30 July 10)

Illinois Is Broke | Vendors – Over 2,000 Vendors Owed $100,000 or More
Iillinoisis Broke.com (22 July 10)

Economic Recovery For The Few
Truthout (1 Aug 10)

History Repeats
StockTwits.com (29 July 10)

“It’s Not A Market, It’s An HFT ‘Crop Circle’ Crime Scene” – Further Evidence Of Quote Stuffing Manipulation By HFT
Zero Hedge (31 July 10)

Shadow Economies on the Rise Around the World
Yahoo Finance (30 July 10)

GDP Slowdown Won’t Linger
Kiplinger (30 July 10)