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[MetaFilter] Staring into the abyss | MetaFilter: but people effectively removing their money from institutions of America. The money markets are not simply some playpen for the 1% to get rich on (though they do and also corrupt it), but instead act as the wellspring for industry and growth.

[Booman Tribune] Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community: every day that the R's proven flawed screed is listened to and chewed on by an uninformed MSM, the global economy becomes harder to rescue, more impossible to understand and global govts have fewer and fewer options to pull its demise back from the cliffs.

[Club Troppo] Club Troppo » The abyss: teetering or plunging - you decide: Last year SA Treasurer Kevin Foley was looking forward to a $100 mill deficit for this fin yr, with the State Bank debacle being finally paid off within a year or two (that was around a $3bill bailout loss as I recall) Now in a matter of months he’s looking at a $1.5 bill black hole in the budget after years of SA sacrifice. Bear in mind that much of that State Bank debt was to bailout lenders, mainly large debenture holders, to its bankrupt Finance Co subsidiary.

[Home/Opinion/Insight] SCMP.com|Online South China News|Hong Kong's Premier English Newspaper: Its leadership in disarray and facing an unprecedented threat to its five-decade dominance, Japan is staring into the abyss of its most serious economic crisis since the end of the second world war.

[Pandagon] Pandagon :: Impotent blogging in support of the rebellion in Burma ...: Dance to a couple of tunes then sit one out. Smell a rose or a daffodil or your armpit just cut yourselves some slack.

[The Market Oracle] Stock Markets Staring into the Abyss :: The Market Oracle ...: Staring at the chart reminded me of Friedrich Nietzsche's saying: If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. The more we reflect on a fall below 800, the more likely it is to occur.

[Daily Markets] Markets Braced For U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls | Daily Markets: But the soft underbelly of the Euro remains the inability of the currency’s central bank to grasp the full extent of the abyss into which the Continent is starring. If things are as bad as the picture painted by Trichet yesterday then why didn’t they cut rates NOW instead of worrying about text book “liquidity traps”?

[Sic Semper Tyrannis] Sic Semper Tyrannis : "On the Edge" Paul Krugman: That's a hard concept for folks from the U.S. and Europe to wrap their minds around, but the truth is that Euro-America's economic and cultural elite have no way of describing or rationalizing their countries' actions except with over-refined buzz-words, statistics, and hyper-intellectualized terminology that has little relationship with everyday, human activities. Humanity just isn't buying what they're selling, anymore.

[Paddy Power Trader Spread Betting Blog] Trader Blog | Markets Braced For U.S. Non Farm Payrolls | Spread ...: GBP hit a two month high versus the EUR as the ECB kept rates on hold, with Trichet’s downbeat dovish rhetoric little changed form the January meeting (though he did more or less confirm a ½% cut at their March love in). But the soft underbelly of the Euro remains the inability of the currency’s central bank to grasp the full extent of the abyss into which the Continent is starring.

[The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog] Financial Coup d’Etat at The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog: It doesn’t matter if you are an atheist or theist, since understanding consciousness is like staring into the abyss. There is no way to fathom how far down it goes, whether there is some material connection from which it originally formed, or whether it is actually the material reality which fades away first, or whether they both fade together.

[Northeast Intelligence Network] Northeast Intelligence Network » Barack Hussein Obama -Security ...: This man was cultivated from a young age to be inserted into American Politics to empower groups of people that personally I don’t think we should give any more leverage within our society and we especially don’t want them with any political power within this great nation.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Shovel Ready and Short-Sighted?: According to Krugman, we are on the verge of falling into an "economic abyss." It would certainly be great to take time and plan out long range projects to improve our decrepit infrastructure. ...

[DS Fanboy] DS Daily: Buy? Or sell? - Joystiq [Nintendo]: You will never, ever need to know Japanese for any reason unless you either (a) live in Japan, or (b) run an import-export business and go to Japan a lot for business. The odds of anyone reading DS Fanboy - IN ENGLISH - at any given time being either Japanese or a Japanese importer are fairly small.

[Currency Currents] Blam! Liquidity Trap? Is it over for the buck? | Forex Blog ...: it must be bad out there.  And if it is this bad here, then it's not exactly peachy anywhere else.  This move by the Fed says the US economy is staring into the abyss.  And as we've indicated before, a whole lot of the world's demand rides in the US consumer showing some degree of buying power. [As an aside, a stronger dollar provides the US consumer more buying power, a weaker one does not.]

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