Top Picks ~ Week of October 29, 2007

Compelled Iraq Duty Angers US Envoys
From Associated Press (1 Nov 2007)

My Nobel Moment
By John R. Christy – Wall Street Journal (1 Nov 2007)

CitiGroup Calls Emergency Board Meeting
By Damian Reece – London Telegraph (3 Nov 2007)

CitiGroup CEO May Quit at Urgent Meeting; Rubin Asked to Take Over
By Damian Paletta, Robin Sidel, David Enrich – Wall Street Journal (2 Nov 2007)

“If I found myself so rich/ that I could scratch most any itch/
And the poor were just a computer glitch/
Lord, would it be enough?”
~ A song.

AngloGold Ashanti May Reduce Gold Hedges
By Jon A. Nones – Resource Investor (1 Nov 2007)

Pirates of Private Equity
By Adam Doster – In These Times (29 Oct 2007)

I Should Pay More Tax, Says US Billionaire Warren Buffett
By Andrew Clark – Guardian Unlimited, UK (31 Oct 2007)

House Easily Passes Mining Royalty And Cleanup Bill
By Erica Werner – Associated Press (1 Nov 2007)

Privacy Groups Propose Do-Not-Track List
By Abbey Klaassen & Ira Teinowitz – Advertising Age (30 Oct 2007)

Oil Market is Out of Control, Says OPEC
By Russell Hotten – London Telegraph (1 Nov 2007)

Export Land Model (ELM) Goes Mainstream
By the Energy Bulletin Staff ( 2 Oct 2007)

Hong Kong Central Bank Gushes Cash to Prop up US Dollar
By Cassie Biggs – Associated Press (31 Oct 2007)

SEC Eyes Goldman Sach’s Good Fortune
By John Crudele – New York Post (31 Oct 2007)

Ron Paul Defends Liberty in Nine Minutes on ‘Tonight Show’
By Chris Powell – GATA (31 Oct 2007)

Wait, Don’t Eat That: Candy Scandal Stuns Japan
By Norimitsu Onishi – Herald Tribune (26 Oct 2007)

YouTube U.
By Andy Kessler – The Weekly Standard (29 Oct 2007)

Rice Admits Oversight Trouble on Iraq Contracts
By Matt Kelley – USA Today (2 Nov 2007)

The Art of Uri Dowbenko – Now Showing

New Improved Art ~ At newimprovedart.com

DealBreaker – A Wall Street Tabloid

The Ron Paul Revolution Makes Time Magazine
By Joel Stein – Time Magazine (1 Nov 2007)

Fed’s Money Dump is Biggest Since 9/11
By Jeannine Aversa – Associated Press (1 Nov 2007)

Census Reveals Fear Over US Neighborhoods
By Sam Roberts – New York Times (1 Nov 2007)

Dangerous Neighborhoods

Credit Suisse: Central Bank Sales ‘Masked’ Gold Market Deficit
By David Litterick – London Telegraph (1 Nov 2007)

A Year Before Voting, A Nation of Discontent?
By Susan Page – USA Today (2 Nov 2007)

The Bear’s Liar: Level 3 Decimation?
By Martin Hutchinson – PrudentBear.com (29 Oct 2007)

S&P-Seven CDOs Issued “Event of Default” Notices
By Walden Siew – Reuters (1 Nov 2007)

Fall in ABX Sparks Fresh Credit Fears
By Stacy-Marie Ishmael & Gilllian Tett – Financial Times (31 Oct 2007)

Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney
The Nation Blog (7 Mar 2007)

Elderly Man Killed by Neighbor for Watering Lawn in Australia
By Kenny Luna – Treehugger.com (1 Nov 2007)

Tennessee Town Has Run Out Of Water
By Greg Bluestein – Charlotte Observer (2 Nov 2007)

Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR Was Better Prepared for Collapse Than The US
By Dmitry Orlov – Energy Bulletin (4 Dec 2006)

What We Can Do – NAIS
A Homesteading Neophyte (29 Oct 2007)

Investors Ask Supreme Court to Sanction Claims
By Michael Doyle – McClatchy (8 Oct 2007)

Break the Bottled Water Habit
At Carbon Conscious Consumer website

Federal Government Strips “God” From the Washington Monument
From American Family Association – Posted 29 Oct 2007

Latin America: Ecuador President Jerks Washington’s Chain Over Manta Air Base
From Drug War Chronicle, Issue #507 (26 Oct 2007)

Gulf Arabs Could Drop Dollar Peg Together
By Daliah Merzaban – Reuters (30 Oct 2007)

Iraqi Bloggers at Home and Abroad
BBC News (10 Aug 2007)

Bonds’ Pricing is Questioned in Email Trail [Subscribe to View Full Article]
By Susan Pulliam – Wall Street Journal (26 Oct 2007)

Dollar’s Fall Amid Interest Rate Cuts Distresses Arab Countries
By Souhail Karam – Reuters (27 Oct 2007)

The Mystery of the Missing $2.9 Trillion
By David R. Francis – Christian Science Monitor (29 Oct 2007)

Larry Lindsey Lays it On The Line
By Ed Steer for Casey Research (26 Oct 2007)

China Encourages its Banks to Look for Overseas Targets
From Reuters (28 Oct 2007)

Businesses in Poland Impatient for Reform
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (26 Oct 2007)

New Credit Crunch Looms
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (24 Oct 2007)

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