Money & Markets
Top hedge Fund blow-up news and commentaryBritain’s Rate Cut Opens Gulf With European Central Bank
By Chris Giles & Ralph Atkins – Financial Times, London (6 Dec 2007)Top CDO Classes May Lose 80 Percent, Barclays Says
By Jody Shenn – Bloomberg News (6 Dec 2007)Centralization Continues – 60% of Mortgages go Through Two Washington GSEs
Press Release – Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (6 Dec 2007)Home Relief
By Donald Jay Korn – Financial Planning.com (2 Oct 2007)E-Trade Will Send Trades to Investor
Bloomberg News (5 Dec 2007)E-Trade Deal Implies Valuation for Subprime Mortgage Market of 11-27% of
Original Value
By Tim McLaughlin – Reuters (30 Nov 2007)Forget the Green Technology — The Hot Money is in Guns
By Naomi Klein – The Guardian (30 Nov 2007)Five-Year Mortgage Rate Freeze Looms
From Yahoo Finance (5 Dec 2007)Florida Just First to Face National Run on the Bank
By Joe Mysak – Bloomberg News (4 Dec 2007)FSA Issues Stark Warning on Mortgage Defaults
By Richard Blackden – London Telegraph (5 Dec 2007)Fitch Warns of More Subprime-related Defaults
By Marine Cole – FinancialWeek.com (3 Dec 2007)
See Mike Panzner’s book “Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future From Four ImpendingCatastrophes”
Thanks to “The Big Picture” for producing the graph (3 Dec 2007)Bond Market Illiquidity Hits Eurozone
By Joanna Chung, et al – Financial Times, London (3 Dec 2007)A Little More on the ARM Teaser Rate Freeze
Comon Sense Forecaster (4 Dec 2007)Christmas Presents for New Orleans, From HUD
By Bill Quigley – Counterpunch (3 Dec 2007)Interbank Loan Collapse Worse in Britain Than US
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (3 Dec 2007)Fed Looks for New Ways to Pump More Money Into Banks
By Krishna Guha – Financial Times, London (2 Dec 2007)Goldman Pushed and Shorted Mortgage Junk Simultaneously
By Ben Stein – New York Times (2 Dec 2007)US Credit Crisis Adds to Gloom in Norway
By Mark Landler – New York Times (2 Dec 2007)
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Precious Metals
Are You Positioned to Profit from the Next Gold Upleg?
By Jason Hamlin – Seeking Alpha Blog (5 Dec 2007)Gold Derivatives – Options Galore!
The GoldenSextant.com
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Food & Health
Proposed Regulation on Leafy Greens
A post from Boggy Creek Farm in Austin, TexasFeeding at the Trough – Industrial Livestock Firms Saved $35 billion From Low Feed Prices
By Elanor Starmer & Timothy A. Wise – Tufts University (3 Dec 2007)Food Banks, In a Squeeze, Tighten Belts
By Katie Zezima – New York Times (26 Nov 2007)Junk-Free Tops Mintels 2008 Food Trends
By Jess Halliday – Food Navigator.com (30 Nov 2007)The Biology of . . . Addiction / The End of Craving
By Michael Abrams – Discovery Magazine (May 2003)Helping the Shanks: Wal-Mart’s Health Care Leaves One Family Desperate
By David Nassar – The Huffington Post (27 Nov 2007)US Department of Agriculture Plans to Irradiate ALL Raw Greens
RawFoodsNewsMagazine.com (3 Dec 2007)Pig Out
By Nicolette Hahn Niman – New York Times (14 Mar 2007)
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Life
All Fired Up ~ A Stress-Free Zone
Zeitgeist, The Movie
Official Release – Google VideoLive on Less and Love It!
By Craig Idlebrook – Mother Earth News (Oct/Nov 2007)New Gibson Guitar Uses Robotics Technology to Tune Itself
By Yuri Kageyama – Associated Press (4 Dec 2007)Young Chimp Beats College Students
By Malcolm Ritter – AP-New York (3 Dec 2007)Asia Faces “Unprecedented” Water Crisis
By Daryl Loo – Reuters (29 Nov 2007)_________________________________________________________
Geopolitical
US to Destroy New Orleans Housing While Poor Sleep in Tents
By James S. Russell – Bloomberg News (6 Dec 2007)Nestle Wants to Own Your Water: Time for Californians to Act
By Brian Stranko – California Progress Report (29 Nov 2007)Making Cities Black & Poor: The Hidden Story
By Sam Smith – The Progressive Review (Jan 2000)Seven Senior Republican Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 – “Not Possible”, “a Whitewash”, “False”
By Alan Miller – OpEdNews.com (4 Dec 2007)The Radiation Poisioning of America
By Amy Worthington – Global Research (9 Oct 2007)Eastside Rail: We Just Don’t Get It
By Alfred Runte – Seattle Times (4 Dec 2007)China to Evict 1.5M for Olympics
By Bradley S. Klapper – Associated Press (5 Dec 2007)Many Americans Still Believe in Conspiracies
By Kevin Crowe & Guido H. Stempel III – ScrippsNews (23 Nov 2007)Domestic Spying, Inc.
By Tim Shorrock – CorpWatch (27 Nov 2007)Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy
By Greg Palast – Greg Palast.com (3 Dec 2007)Paulites Raid Virginia Republican Retreat, Capture Straw Poll
From the Associated Press (1 Dec 2007)
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