Interesting Reads for Thursday, 29 Dec 16: Vera Rubin, Nativism, Greed & More

"Devise your own paths": The enduring wisdom of Vera Rubin, groundbreaking Astronomer and working mother     (Quartz) 

Remembering Vera Rubin: The Trailblazing Astrophysicist Who Confirmed the Existence of Dark Matter and Paved the Way for Modern Women in Science     (Brain Pickings) 


As Populists Won 2016 Ballots, World's Richest Made $237 Billion     (Bloomberg)


Greed Springs Eternal    (Paul Krugman NYT)


The Wealthy Would Never Steal - A Credo For Trump's Party     (Jonathan Chait New York Magazine)


Trump's Transistion Team Is Stacked With Privatization Enthusiasts     (The Nation)


America's Market Sentiment Jumps Most Since Dot-com Boom: Chart      (Bloomberg) 

A short history of American Nativism    (Dollars and Sense)

5 Banks Account For $250 Trillion (96%) Of US Derivatives Exposure

Moody's Downgrades British Banks

James Kunstler: "Going Apeshit"

Charles Hugh Smith: "Debt-Serfdom Is Now The American Norm"

Paul Krugman: "Panic Of The Plutocrats"

Mish: A "Must See" Heart Wrenching Video of Moral Deterioration in China

European Bank Blowups Hidden With Shell Games: Jonathan Weil

Eurozone debt crisis 'in dangerous new phase' warns IMF chief

On waiting to give up on searching for a job

Gerald Celente: “Things Are Going to Get Much Worse…Society Is Breaking Down”

China losing its edge for low cost labor

Paul Krugman: "Free To Die"

California shacking – three trends crushing the California housing market. Young workers moving back home, household incomes back to 1990s levels, and lack of an entry level market.

Middle Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28% of Americans Who Were Part of the Middle Class Have Fallen Out of It

A Record 50 Million Americans Are Now Medically Uninsured

Matt Taibbi: Rogue Trader My Ass

A Motley Fool Poster Explains The "Shadow Banking System" And Why It Is Crisis Prone

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for September 3, 2010

Roubini: Get Used To It, The Miserable US Consumer Will Drag The World Down

Zacks #1 Rank Additions for Friday

Zacks #5 Rank Additions for Friday

A Cool Options Trade on Supercool Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) to buy Andean Resources for $3.42 billion

Petrobras (NYSE: PZE) May Raise Up to $75 Billion in Sale of Shares

10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell

Inflation, Deflation, Debt

Fewer and fewer illegal immigrants coming to America

Krugman says the scare stories about stimulus were and are very wrong

China's "Nuclear Financial Option" Downgraded to "Financial Firecracker"

Could investors fleeing stocks become a lost generation?

Three Essential Reads on The Housing Market Right Now

Feeling the pressure from a life 'underwater'

Are Existing Home Prices Overrepresented By Up To 40%?

Home Owners Associations Are A Special Rung In Hell

Realtors Turn To Property Management In Housing Slump

Governments, community groups to get first crack at foreclosed homes

Millions of Americans going through foreclosure will become renters by necessity. Many others will rent by choice. Should the government keep subsidizing owners?

Canada: Threat of a Housing Bubble Has Resurfaced

Banks Playing 'Foreclosure Roulette' With Delinquent Homeowners

Purdue University Offers Early Retirement To 1,600 Of Its Staff

924 Layoffs announced at Sacramento area mortgage servicer HomEq

Blue Cross/Blue Shield In Tennessee Seeks To Slice 140 Jobs

Bad News At The Deseret News for 57 Full-Time and 28 Part-Time Workers

California State considering job cuts of 1,100 prison workers

Job cuts coming to City of Chicago workers

Business/Economic News for July 12, 2010

Oil falls to near $75 ahead of US company earnings

Bill Fleckenstein's latest podcast interview worth hearing in which he makes a case for a flat tax

The Chinese Coal Monster

Robert Reich: "We're In A Recession Because The Rich Are Raking In An Absurd Portion Of The Wealth"

Pfizer: The Drug Giant That Makes Bank from Drugs That Can Kill You

Small investors flee stocks, changing market dynamics

Gold ticks lower but holds above $1,200

More Americans' credit scores sink to new lows

Global Housing Bubble - Based on Ratio of Price to Rent, Which Countries are the Bubbliest?

Paul Krugman: "Trending Toward Deflation"

Charles Hugh Smith: The Con of the Decade Part I

The Daily Bail: "On the camapagin trail, TARP support means big trouble for incumbents - - especially John McCain



Chinese company Datang to build 500 MW of wind energy in Pakistan

Tide turning against dirty coal for energy production

Japan, Russia to build LPG plant in Vladivostok

Japan’s Stocks Advance as Commodity Prices Gain, Yen Weakens

Housing Gets Sick on Keynesian Roller Coaster: Kevin Hassett

Hawaiian homeowners in Loan Modification Program are foreclosing more and more

As Census ends, many census workers lose jobs

Iraq oil exports hit 2 million barrels per day

Louisiana Pushes BP for Fisherman Aid

BP reportedly in talks to sell Alaska oil stake

Atlantic City to lay off additional 93 city workers, possibly many more

Avid’s Brain Dye Can Spot Alzheimer’s, Study Says