Home-Stretch Buying Lifts Merchants’ Spirits
The New York Times (22 Dec 10)

Growth to Improve. Housing? Jobs? Not so Much
CNN Money (22 Dec 10)

Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning
The New York Times (22 Dec 10)

Canary In The Coalmine: The Alabama Town That Just Stopped Sending Pension Checks
Business Insider (23 Dec 10)

Treasury Department Launches Small-business Lending Fund
The Hill (21 Dec 10)

Interest Rates ‘Will Have to Rise Sixfold in Two Years’
The Telegraph (23 Dec 10)

Pimco Says ‘Untenable’ Policies Will Lead to Eurozone Break-up
The Telegraph (23 Dec 10)

No End In Sight To Equity Outflows As Stock Boycott Persists Despite Largest Bond Outflow Since Lehman Failure
Zero Hedge (22 Dec 10)

Government Liabilities Rose $2 Trillion in FY 2010: Treasury
Reuters (21 Dec 10)

The Secret Behind the Travel Mayhem
The Daily Beast (21 Dec 10)

The Bennie Who Stole Christmas
Zero Hedge (20 Dec 10)

$2tn Debt Crisis Threatens to Bring Down 100 US Cities
Guardian.co.uk (20 Dec 10)

Shale-Gas Output May Double by 2035, Reducing Energy Imports, U.S. Says
Bloomberg (16 Dec 10)

Commodity Market Concentration Starts to Worry Even Wall Street Journal
GATA (22 Dec 10)

Bank of America Cuts Off WikiLeaks Payments
Fidelity (22 Dec 10)

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In Third World America, You Can’t Buy a Ream of Paper on Minimum Wage
The Huffington Post (18 Dec 10)