• Dollar Slump Persisting as Top Analysts See No Bottom (Bloomberg)

• Wall Street’s Spin Game (NYT)

• How to shrink the banks (Prospect)

• Unsustainable Path (Market Talk)

• Riding the Waves (Time) A look at Prechter’s theory of social cycles.

• U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record High (NYT)

• Investors are finally seeing the nonsense in the efficient market theory (Telegraph)

The World According to Americans

via Prieur de Plessis

Financial Services Committee Backs HR1207 - Ron Paul's Audit the Fed Bill

WSJ Editorial: Americans Deserve a Transparent Fed

1 in 6 Americans Is Going Hungry

USA Today: Another Wave of Foreclosures Looms

Is Your Bank Safe? Over 130 banks will have failed by the end of 2009.

Pontiac Silverdome sold for $583,000

Stocks Fall. Was that the top?

The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society

Roubini: A Tale of Two Americas: "While the United States may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near-depression."

John Rubino: Review of Charles Goyette's Dollar Meltdown
U.S. residents fight for their rights! To use outdoor clothes lines

Going Rogue Reviewed: Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.

Roubini: The Worst Is Yet to Come

iSweat: Silicon Sweatshops

Mish: The Odds of Another Great Depression

Costco Stops Carrying Coke Products