Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Decline on Seasonal Adjustment Difficulties

Zero Hedge: The "Muddle Through" Has Failed: BCG Says "There May Be Only Painful Ways Out Of The Crisis"

Marc Faber Says The Next Financial Crisis Will Be "Huge"

Mainstream Media Begins To Pick Up On "Occupy Wall Street"

Kudos to Lawrence O'Donnell and MSNBC for being the first Mainstream Media outlet to give a good airing to Occupy Wall Street:

Mish: China Loan Shark Market Crashes; Scores of Chinese Business Owners Unable to Pay Black Market Loans Commit Suicide or Disappear

Jesse's Cafe: Die Mackie Messers Der Wall Street - The Mack the Knives of Wall Street

Michael Lewis' Latest In Vanity Fair: "California And Bust"

Germany Approves A Bailout That's Way Too Small To Solve Europe's Problems

Naked Capitalism: Why Liberals Are Lame: McCarthyite Identity Politics as Cover for Bankrupt Policies

The Watchworld's newest link: We Are The 99 Percent Blog

Occupy Wall Street Protest Picking Up Steam

Gary Shilling: The Economy Is Slowing, Yields Will Plunge, Deflation Is Coming And Stocks Are Headed Lower

Debt deal: anger and deceit has led the US into a billionaires' coup

Saving The Rich, Losing The Economy

10 Lessons Gleaned From Michael Lewis's New Book "Boomerang"

Eurozone Market Is Toast

In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the "Market is Toast." Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do.

Saving the Rich, Losing the Economy

Tom The Dancing Bug: The Fight For Corporate Rights - America's Shame

Hundreds Sell Their Burial Plots for Cash

James Kunstler: "Punked World"

On Pace for Record Low New Home Sales in 2011

Depressed Middle Class Greeks Tell Their Stories

Dream Works drops deal with HBO to begin working with Netflix web streaming only

Occupation Wall Street - Day 8: Getting Ugly

How Fiat Money Widens The Gap Between The Rich And Poor