Evening links from around the web:
- GOP Kicks Off Convention by Showing They've Failed to Reduce the Debt
- UPDATE: SEC probing ResCap (GMAC) for massive mortgage fraud
- Chicago Fed Prez Chuck Evans calls for immediate QE: 'Starting Today...'
- NEW ALLEGATIONS - HSBC Bank probed for money laundering, again
- OOPS - Facebook's Low Price Means Saverin Overpaid Taxes By $180M
- Embarrassed GM shuns political role, bans candidate visits until after elections
- American Tax Dollars Go To Support Austrailian Mining Company: Paul Farrell
- Saudi Deals Boosted US Arms Sales to Record $66.3 Billion in 2011
- 17 Afghans beheaded in insurgent attack on dance party
- World's Oldest Person, Besse Cooper, Turns 116