Overnight News, Views, Charts & Graphs for Week of March 24 - 31, 2014

Harrah's to close one of its three casinos in Northern Mississippi; 1600 workers to lose jobs

Levi Strauss to pare 800 workers

Toys 'R Us suffers $1 Billion loss, to cut 500 jobs

Rumored Dish and DiectTV merger pumps both of their stocks on a down day for the market

International Monetary Fund will lend Ukraine $18 Billion

Zero Hedge - China's Credit Pipeline Slams Shut: Companies Scramble For The Last Drops Of Liquidity

Obama and Europeans talk about an Atlantic Trade pack which will increase trade - especially for American gas exports

Bank of America to pay $9.3 Billion settlement for selling shit loans to Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae. Meanwhile, in another suit by NY state, former CEO Lewis gets wrist slapped along with Bank of America and pays $25 Million fines between the two

US/Europe win one against China in trade dispute verdict at the World Trade Organization

Chinese developers and firms face a cold hard dawn: The days of fast and furious EZ Credit in China are now done

The priciest baseball park in the Atlantic Ocean

UGO Bardi - "Peak Gold: How The Romans Lost Their Empire" 

Company insiders are selling 6 shares of their companies for every 1 they buy 

Fed's Monetary Base Is Still Exploding Despite The 3 Card Tapering Game Mesmerizing Investors

Must Read: Ice Cap Asset Management - "Connecting the Dots"

SandP Downgrades Brazilian Debt to BBB- from BBB

10AM EST, Tuesday, 25 March 14 = Consumer Confidence Poll and New Home Sales numbers to be released

Republicans play politics with IMF money earmarked for Ukraine

Peak Oil Review for Week of March, 24, 2014 

Eisenhower's words from his farewell address to the nation as he left office are truer than ever

Review: Snake Oil: how fracking's false promise of plenty imperils our future

Jesse: The Hunger Games

Ritholtz: Everything That Is Wrong With This Monday

Why Advance Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Can Win If Price Wars Break Out Between Sony and Microsoft Gaming Divisions

Oversupply of Natural Gas Sends Prices To 10 Year Low

Briggs and Stratton Closing Factories and Laying Off 767 Employees

Almost 1 in 4 Spaniard Workers Are Now Un-employed

Why Home Prices Have Much Further to Fall

U.S. New Home Sales Were The Worst Ever In 2011: Data Goes Back More Than 50 Years

Samsung reports record breaking $4.7 Billion quarter; plans to spend $22 Billion this year on CapEx . . . esecially in chips and flat screens

Supreme Irony: Online Recruitment Firm, Monster.com, lays off 400 workers

Department of Energy Dramatically Slashes Natural Gas Estimate In The Marcellus Shale Reseve

The 8 Industries Which the USA Has Ceded To China Already

Amazon Getting Ready To Take On Netflix? 

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

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for August 27, 2010

Bernanke's helicopter could move to new altitude

Asian Stocks Decline on U.S. Growth Concern, Advancing Yen

Another Toyota Recall Affecting 1 Million Corolla and Matrix Brand Cars

1,000-Megawatt Plant in Calif. Marks New Milestone in Solar Expansion

India to add 100 Mw solar power capacity

UPDATE 2-Toshiba plans solar power push in Europe, U.S.

Solar, wind expected to become world's main sources of energy: scientist
US Wind Turbine Projects Run Into Resistance From The US Military . . . Here's Why

Breakthrough! Scientists create a synthetic surface for growing stem cells

China's Biggest Wireless Telecom Might Begin Selling Apple iPads In September

Silver and Gold ETFs: Protecting Yourself From a Sell-Off

The Great Delveraging Lie

Mass Delusion American Style

Dow closes below 10,000

S&P 500 down over 13% since April's high; surpisingly, short interest has stayed relatively flat

Dallas-Fort Worth commercial foreclosure filings are up 51% in 2010

11 Million U.S. Properties with Negative Equity in Q2

Chart of the Day: Housing Prices Since WWII

Current trends suggest that the housing market is collapsing. Again. Will it take the economy further down with it?

Mish: Burning Down the House; New Home Sales Consensus 330K, Actual 276K, a Record Low; Nationwide, Zero New Homes Sold Above 750K

The Renting Alternative Will Undermine The Housing Market For Years

Mish: Weekly Unemployment Claims Drop to 473,000, Last Week Revised Up to 504,000; 4-Week Average Rises to 486,750

Scarcity of jobs puts more at risk of foreclosure

Newark submits plan to eliminate nearly 1,000 city jobs

Children's Hospitals plans to cut up to 250 jobs

USA Today to give pink slips to 130 employees

Raytheon cuts 82 NASA workers

Business/Economid/Housing/Layoff News for August 26, 2010

Oil rebounds over $73 on dollar, equities

Credit card debt drops to lowest level in 8 years

U.S. Anticipates Major Drops in Costs of Solar Power, Electric Vehicles by 2015

US retail gasoline demand down 1.2 pct-Mastercard

Peabody, Coal Producers Lead Market's Decline on Weak Economic Data

Five plays which will make you 500% if the market crashes

Coming soon: government defaults . . . says Morgan Stanley

SEC brings charges against ex-CEO of Countrywide, Anthony Mozillo, for his "special friends" program which benefited members of Congress

For America's Middle Class, the Hits Just Keep on Coming

How the Stimulus Is Changing America

Time Magazine: The Case Against Homeownership

Inventory Explodes Past the Worst of the Housing Crash

Why Nobody Wants To Buy A House

Mortgage apps rise 4.9% as more homeowners rush to refinance

New Home Sales decline to Record Low in July

Denninger: The Newest Ripoff In Housing

Capital Expenditures By US Corporations Slows Down And Endangers Hiring

Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline

Janitors vs. JP Morgan: union custodians go on 3 day hunger strike against Too Big To Fail Bank

120 union employees in the Desert Sands United School District in Palm Springs, CA agree to pay cut for second year in a row to save jobs

Oil spill: About 100 Pensacola cleanup workers protest BP layoffs

Northrop Grumman announces 642 layoffs; 292 people to be notified today

Akron, OH to layoff 49 Police Officers

Meriter Health in Madison, WI cuts 57 jobs

HealthMarkets has 70 layoffs, expects 180 more

It's possible 400 Wayne County, MI employees will get pinks slips