News & Views For Week Of April 7 - 13, 2013

Note: I will be adding the freshest news and opinion pieces to the top of this list, refreshing it daily, sometimes at night, somtimes (shudder) during daylight hours. - Rock

• PC Company Stocks Hammered On Thursday
• Front Running The Fed With TBTF Insider Trades
• Australia: Hits 3 Year High In Unemployment
• Takata Air Bag Recall Affects 3.4 Million Late Model Honda, Nissan & Toyota Cars
• Charles Hugh-Smith explains, with charts, which European small depositors will be shaken down next
• Goldman Sachs Takes The Opposite Trade Of What It Is Selling It's Clients (Muppets)  . . . Again: Buys Gold, Sells Bonds, Tells Clients To Do The Opposite
• First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) Blows Away Analyst's Expectations, Sees Very Bright 2013 through 2015, causing stock to jump 31.28% yesterday
• 4.2 Million Borrowers To Receiving Payments This Friday of $300 to $125,000 From 13 Firms Who Botched Foreclosures
• Student Loan Rates Boost Government Profit As Debt Damps Economy 
• Kyle Bass takes way out of the money bets against Japanese Government Bonds: "The investors ran the other way from the central bank, they didn’t run with it. I find that to be fascinating.”
• Natural Gas Reserve Estimates Upped Again For The USA
• The Big Picture: Ugly Chart Contest
• Matt Taibbi: The Growing Sentiment on the Hill For Ending 'Too Big To Fail'
• Auto sales for March highest since 2007