Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for October 15, 2010

OPEC Members Seek $100 Oil to Counter Dollar Weakness

Foreclosure Crisis Slams Into Banks

Bank of America Downgraded by Bond Market on Foreclosures: Credit Markets

How a rickety $75,000 home and a retired lawyer in Maine brought about a national foreclosure freeze

Washington Policy Makers Resist Calls for a Big Fix in Foreclosure Crisis

Must Read: From Carolyn Walker's "Truth To Power" website, the introduction to a new book, "The Montster: How A Gang of Predatory Lenders And Wall Street Fleeced America" by Michael W. Hudson

QE 2 And The Nominal Man

Caroline Baum: Fed Wants to Hoodwink Public, Only Fools Itself

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for October 13, 2010

America's New Super Laser ($3.5 Billion) Passes First Test And Brings Us One Step Closer To Fusion

New Milestone Passed In 2010: 10 Gigawatts of Solar Panels Installed

First Solar Announces 380 Megawatt Increase in Orders for 2011

Dr. Doom, Marc Faber: Buy Stocks As The World Is Heading For Major Inflection Point

China's Foreign Exchange Reserves Rises to $2.65 Trillion by End of September 2010

San Diego Pension Abuse Worse Than Bell, California

Lawyer: Finance industry hired hair stylists, Walmart workers to approve foreclosures

Is Apple Waiting On 4G?

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for October 12, 2010

America needs an intervention

Congressional staffers front run stocks with impunity

Asian Stocks Fall Most This Month; Yen, Won Drop Versus Dollar

Economists Cut U.S. Growth Forecasts Through 2011, Survey Shows

How Hank Paulson's Inaction In 2006 - 2007 Helped Goldman Sachs

S&P: 60% of all countries will be bankrupt in 50 years

Former Bush Economic Advisor Pushes For $6-7 Trillion More In Stimulus +

Extending Bush Tax Cuts

Google Takes Leading Roll In $5 Billion Dollar East Coast Wind Power Development

Jim Kunstler's latest: "Bank Shot"

WSJ: The Great Mortgage Mystery

Home Prices Are Headed For The Rocks

Zero Hedge Blog: 2 Big 2 Foreclose - - Is The Subprime End Game Approaching?

Looking back at the Hellhound of Wall Street