Monday
Sep262011
IMF Warns It Will Go BROKE If Crisis Worsens, Fed’s Raskin Says More QE Needed, Berlusconi Insults Germany's Merkel, Latest EURO Rescue Plan Threatened (14 LINKS)
- IMF warns it will go BROKE if crisis worsens - BBC
- European Differences Threatens Latest Rescue Plan - WSJ
- Citi’s Pandit: High capital can INCREASE systemic risk
- Fed’s Raskin says more QE may be needed
- New U.S. home sales fall 2.3% in August
- Portugal downgrades 2012 economic outlook
- Bank Of France Says French banks can withstand any Greek scenario
- Global Warming: The Guilty Men
- Berlusconi ‘called Germany's Merkel an unfu**able lard-ass’
- Greek default would destroy faith in Europe: Merkel
- How the Federal Reserve Helped Pay for World War I - Mises
- Spanish Wind Company Received $867M In U.S. Energy Stimulus Funds
- Scientists discover virus that kills all grades of breast cancer ‘within seven days’
- Colombia Spent U.S. Anti-Drug Aid Hiding Political Ties to Drug Trade
Additional stories are in comments below.
Reader Comments (12)
The petition, on the White House's "We the People" site, asks: "Isn't it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol? If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?"
The White House has promised to issue an official response for any petition that gets at least 5,000 signatures within 30 days. As of Thursday night, the marijuana petition already had more than 10,000 signatures.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/22/marijuana-question-sky-rockets-to-top-of-new-white-house-petition-site/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gMxR74tPEptX4c1b5iNPRl6ymIKQ?docId=CNG.b5a833891190fbeb1f7be1f9f5aefd41.21
Yep, the United Nations’ General Assembly met as always at this time of year, plotting to grab more power over the world, and the NYPD milked that for all the overtime it could get.
http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers165.html
http://www.thedailybell.com/2995/Are-the-Tribes-of-Europe-Ready-to-Explode
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/nearly-1-in-4-young-children-in-the-u-s-living-below-the-poverty-line-but-aid-to-israel-is-untouchable.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/25/crisis-bigness-leopold-kohr
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/nypd-ordered-to-stop-marijuana.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/26/job-creation-governments-ilo-crisis
Munster also argued that “previous calls based on sell-in or supply chain data have, for the most part, proven to have very little correlation with Apple’s results versus consensus dating back to early iPod shipments.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-shares-stung-by-reported-ipad-cuts-2011-09-26
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shutdown-threat-looms-as-senate-meets-2011-09-26?link=MW_home_latest_news
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-would-you-buy-a-new-home-2011-09-26?link=MW_home_latest_news