Money & Markets
The Sheltering Storm: Uncertainty on Section 8
By Matt Schwarzfeld - CityLimits.org (24 Mar 2008)
–-~ Catherine’s comment: Are states and cities expected to vote Democratic in November scheduled to lose their HUD money?Iceland Contagion May Spread Far And Wide
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - London Telegraph (27 Mar 2008)People Don’t See Yet It’s a Money Problem, But They Will
By Murray Pollitt - Pollitt & Co. (24 Mar 2008)South Korean Pension Funds Shuns U.S. Debt
By Michael MacKenzie - Financial Times, London (26 Mar 2008)Chinese Exporters Shun Flagging Dollar
By Robin Kwong - Financial Times, London (27 Mar 2008)Waiting for Armageddon
At The Economist.com (27 Mar 2008)RLPC-Morgan Stanley Credit Lines To Be Downsized-Sources
By Faris Khan - Reuters (27 Mar 2008)Bear’s Bondholders, Not Public, Should Pay
By John P. Hussman - HussmanFunds.com (24 Mar 2008)CPM Gold Yearbook 2008 - An Interview on The Financial Sense Newshour
Jim Puplava interviews Jeffrey Christian (22 Mar 2008)Hoarding by Banks Stokes Fears on Credit Crisis
By Chris Giles & James Politi - Financial TImes, London (25 Mar 2008)Main Street Sacrificed to the Gods of Wall Street
By Trader Mark - SeekingAlpha.com (20 Mar 2008)Statement on Financing Arrangement of JPMorgan Chase’s Acquisition of Bear Stearns
From the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
From Wikipedia~ Update on Clear Channel
Clear Channel Deal in Legal War
From BBC News (26 Mar 2008)Clear Signals That The Banks Are Shutting Their Doors
By Slobhan Kennedy - Times Online (28 Mar 2008)Revealed: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Were Left Nursing Multibillion Losses
By Richard Wray - The Guardian.co.uk (22 Mar 2008)Fed’s Rescue Halted a Derivatives Chernobyl
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - London Telegraph (23 Mar 2008)JPMorgan Raises Bear Stearns Offer, Fed Balks
At Daily Intel (24 Mar 2008)Morgan’s Revised Bid for Bear Emphasizes Original Ripoff, Fed Desperation
By Charles Reiter - Reuters (24 Mar 2008)Disclosure Reports on Contributions to Eliot Spitzer’s Campaign for Governor
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Precious Metals
Chinese Banks Allowed to Trade Gold Futures
Editor: Yan Liang - China View (24 Mar 2008)_________________________________________________________
Mortgage Market
Bank of England Preparing To Buy Banks’ Junk Mortgages
By Chris Giles & Krishna Guha - Financial Times, London (26 Mar 2008)L.A. Land ~ California Freefall: Home Prices Down 26% in February
By Peter Viles - Los Angeles Times (26 Mar 2008)
From PrudentBear.comFed Joins Bank of England In Denying Junk Mortgage Purchase Plan
By Sumeet Desai & Timm Ahmann - Reuters (22 Mar 2008)Central Banks Plot Mass Purchase of Junk Mortgages
By Chris Giles & Krishna Guha - Financial Times, London (21 Mar 2008)Rubin Calls for Urgent Government Action to Stem Foreclosures
By Rich Miller - Bloomberg.com (21 Mar 2008)Note from Catherine: For Bob’s role in choosing bubbles rather than real solutions when he helped start the housing bubble, read Dillon, Read & Company & The Aristocracy of Stock Profits.
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Food & Health
Rising Prices Hit the Organic Supply Chain
By Samuel Fromartz - Natural Foods Merchandiser (24 Mar 2008)Food Stamps Double Since ‘01
By Catherine Candisky - Columbus Dispatch (22 Mar 2008)
Click the image to find out…Organic Winter Wheat Topped 100 Bushels Per Acre In Bozeman Last Harvest
By Carol Flaherty - Montana State University (17 Mar 2008)_________________________________________________________
Life
Gone in 2 Minutes: Mac Gets Hacked First in Contest
By Robert McMillan - Yahoo News (27 Mar 2008)_________________________________________________________
Geopolitical
Truckers ‘Going Broke’ And Threatening to Strike
By Barb Ickes - Quad-City Times (19 Mar 2008)“I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Emblems from the Black World” - By Trevor PaglenUS Legal System ‘Worse Than Russia’
By Michael Herman - TimesOnline (18 Mar 2008)Inside a Government Chemtrail Aircraft
From Tim White - CloakAndDagger.deEnergy, Water in “Catch-22″
By John Fleck - Albuquerque Journal (20 Mar 2008)_________________________________________________________
Catherine and Dennis Bernstein continue their conversation about financial markets and current events on Flashpoints Radio tonight:
Canadian canola farmer Percy Schmeiser, who has battled biotech company Monsanto for a decade, last week settled a lawsuit that he said will allow farmers with fields contaminated by Monsanto’s genetically modified seed to get “compensation without giving up their freedom of speech or their future rights to sue.”
For those who want to understand the relationship of sex to mortgage fraud, The Franklin Cover-Up by Nebraska Senator John DeCamp is a must read. This is because it is essential to understand what Elliot Spitzer and Henry Cisneros were not doing to see their situation in context. First, they were not engaged in pedophilia. They were having sex with consenting adults. Second, they paid their call girl or mistress out of their own pocket. They did not access the freebies provided by intelligence agencies and secret societies.
Growing Community - Photos: Tent City in Ontario, California 
Another of Our Heroes
The Chronicle on Boverton Beaver’s Bakery
By Phil Cubeta - Gift Hub (25 Mar 2008)