Links to Macro-Economic News - Tuesday 8 Oct 13

Stock Market Closes At Lowest Level In A Month

Researchers come closer to nuclear fusion ‘ignition’

New Solana Solar Power Plant In Arizona To Provide Power To 70,000 Homes 24/7 . . . Here's How They Will Do It

Are American railroads on the cusp of switching over from diesel to LNG locomotives?

Alcatel-Lucent to cut 10,000 jobs

Gallup Poll: Consumer Spending Doing "The Tighten Up"

A1A News back up and running

Let Your Life Be A Friction To Stop The Machine

A short documentary on Predatory Capitalism with hundreds of historical political cartoons, photos and paintings overlaid with a spoken manifesto the 99% need to see and hear:

US Credit Rating: What Could Happen

Jim Rodgers on Singapore CNBC: "We may well have had a big, big rally in the U.S. stock market, but it's not based on reality. I would encourage investors to know you're in a fool's paradise, be careful, and when people start singing praises, say, 'I've been to this party before, and I know know it's time to leave.'"

Twitter IPO Filing Arrives And It Is Going To Be Big: Up To $1 Billion In Stock

The Government Shutdown Probably Kills A Taper In October

Oil falls below $104 a barrel as inventories rise

Canada/Norway To Drill For Oil In North Atlantic 500 Miles Northeaast of St. Johns, Newfoundland

PIMCO's Bill Gross now sees low interest rates for decades to come

S&P 500 companies with the safest-highest yields

Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) shares fall 6.24% Wednesday on battery fire in one of their cars

A Wall Street Trader Compares The "Old Days" To Today

Housing: Of Bidding Wars And Foolish Bets (Dr. Housing Bubble Blog) 

Shutdown, Sequestration: Military Towns Suffering

Tossing Safety Aside: It's Business As Usual In Bangladesh For U.S. Based Multi-Nationals

US 3rd quarter earnings warning second worst since 2001

Student Loan Defaults Rise to 14.7%

Shutdown will cost the USA $300 Million per day

What Recovery? FHA Asks For $1.7 Billion Bailout

Robert Shiller says a new housing bubble is nigh

87.2% of the S&P 500 has bullish trend

Watch Frontline's Feb. 12, 2013 investigative piece "Cliffhanger" which beautifully explains how America is brought to the fiscal cliff again