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ECB's Pledge to Save Euro Hitting Resistance in Germany Reuters
Geithner Urges U.S. Congress, Europe to Spur Growth BL
US Consumer Confidence Rises Unexpectedly in July Reuters
The Real Crash is dead ahead as 2008 is forgotten Farrell
Gold at ECB: Accident or Strategy Merk
Wall Street Already Betting On Who Wins in November CNBC
Joan Sees Red Outside The Box
"Babe Ruth?" Saut
Central Bank Unorthodoxy Is Cutting Lending BL
Housing: Good Vibrations Sonders
Living in a Catch-22 economy MW
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Choosing between Ayn Rand and Warren Buffett Alter
Buffett mentor had personal foibles World Herald
Time's Up: U.S. Postal Service Has Finally Run Out Of Money DTicker
Gold stays put as investors eye Fed meeting Reuters
Corn prices hit record as crops shrivel CNN
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EU Investigates ECB's Draghi Following Complaint Reuters
Draghi's Pledge - ECB Divided over Efforts to Save Euro Spiegel
Five options for the ECB Elliott
Bankers found to have rigged Libor rate could face up to 10 years in jail Telegraph
Spain's Economic Arsonists - Political Bankruptcy in Madrid Adds to Woes Spiegel
U.K. Consumer Confidence Stalls as Recession Deepens: GfK BL
Chinese stock exchanges pave the way for delisting Finance Asia
Hong Kong faces used exotic-car glut USAT
Japan’s $1.45 Trillion Whale May Crush Yen Bulls Pesek
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How Recession Will Change University Financing Shilling
An Olympian hurdle Price
Deflation Dismissed by Bond Measure Amid QE3 Anticipation BL
For all the handwringing over the slowdown in the U.S. economy, the bond market shows there’s less risk of deflation now than before the Federal Reserve’s first two rounds of large-scale debt purchases.
QE3 could be voyage to nowhere WSJ
No free lunch for Bernanke Keenan
Asia readies for QE3 roller coaster MW
China's Gift to U.S. Homeowners BW
Mad Money Iindianapolis Epstein - Smith - Hudson
Exceptionally Fortunate Barron’s
Disability Benefit Program Is Going Broke Fiscal Times
Kass Tells Barrons His 'Favorite Short For The Next Decade' via Barron’s
Wall Street’s Kangaroo Court Gets a Black Eye BL
They can’t build homes fast enough here Hoak Vital Signs Chart: Housing Vacancies Falling
Big Banks Are Getting Tough With Hedge-Fund Clients CNBC
Last week they spoke comforting words... Fabius Maximus
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Three of these short spikes were followed by subsequent gains of 25%, 23% and 36%. The exception was the Crash year of 2008...
Is Easy Money Eroding Your Wealth? Park 30% in Gold CNBC
Drought of Ideas in Congress Is Worse Than in Farm Belt BL
Insight: Oil pipeline crunch shifts U.S. shale race from drillbits to valves Reuters
US Oil May Retest $100 as 'Stimulus Drums' Beat Louder CNBC
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ECB could take haircut on Greek bonds Telegraph
“If Greece does not fulfil its obligations there can be no more money. Then Greece would be insolvent.”
Regional debt, national problem: Is Spain heading for a full bailout? Open Europe
Estimate: Taking Spain off the markets for three years in a Greece-style bailout would cost between €450bn and €650bn - which is both economically and politically impossible...
Japan’s Economy Loses Momentum As Deflation Persists IBT
German Financial Regulator Elke König 'It's Time to Search for Alternatives' Spiegel
RBS facing huge fine over Libor scandal, warns Stephen Hester Telegraph
As markets turn bearish on yuan, Beijing becomes the bull Reuters
Syria Regime Change Seen With Economy Collapsing BL
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Reuters: The Fed's monetary policy statement will come one day before an ECB meeting packed with intrigue...FOMC Preview: Christening QE III NTrust
Look for the Fed to embark on a new round of quantitative easing next week...
U.S. Inflation Readings Give The Green Light For QE3 Scotia
Can ECB and Fed Provide a Sustained Rescue This Time? Harding
Sour Apple hints at broader weakness Fleck
Geithner to Meet Schaeuble, Draghi in Germany Next Week BL
Gambling in the House? Mauldin
Monetary Madness Noland
Negative Real Interest Rates Argue for New Highs in Gold Puplava
The Drop Like a Rock Scenario for U.S. Markets EW
Global Views Scotia Global Equity
More Rally on Perishable News Swenlin
Coming to America: Covered Bonds? FRBNY
Gold Futures COT 4 ZEAL
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At Least Three Banks Seen Central to Libor Rigging Reuters
The Justice Department’s MF Global Scandal Dates to 1932 Weil
Bankers Gone Wild Surowiecki
Georgia Bank Fails; 2012 Tally at 39 TheStreet http://www.fdic.gov/
China flexes muscle with Cnooc deal for Nexen MW
$15.1 billion deal one of many to affect global oil, natural gas
SEC freezing assets of Nexen insider traders MW
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Loan Survey Illustrates a Banking Divide in Europe Norris
London Olympics Open With $42.5 Million Party of Music, History BL
Going for Gold: How Much Is an Olympic Medal Worth? CNBC
Barclays investigated over fees paid to Middle Eastern investors Telegraph
S&P cuts outlook on 7 Canadian banks G&M
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Hackers Linked to China Army Swipe Financial Secrets From EU to D.C. BL
The researchers identified 20 victims in all -- many of them organizations with secrets that could give China an edge as it strives to become the world’s largest economy.
Barofsky: TARP Was Even Worse Than You Think DTicker
Why TrimTabs' CEO is 100% Bearish CNBC
Economy in U.S. Grows at 1.5% Rate as Consumer Spending Cools BL
Are Fiat Currencies Headed for a Collapse? CNBC
Avoiding Another Shutdown WSJ
Democrats are setting up Republicans for an autumn ambush
Recession ahoy Morici
America's fiscal cliff suddenly got steeper Telegraph
Lagarde: U.S. Fiscal Cliff is a `Major Concern' BL Video
Bullish Sentiment Increases From Multi-Year Lows BeSpoke
Money for Nothing Krugman Panzner - Smiith - Mish - Lawson
Bankrupt cities? Don't blame unions LAT
Stockton and San Bernardino were brought down by the most severe housing busts in the nation...
The staggering costs of Bernankeism Bear’s Lair
What would Milton Friedman do now? Economist
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Taking the L-I-E Out of Libor BL
Scandals May Cost the Banks Their Clout Norris
Facebook shares still way overvalued Hulbert
Warren Buffett’s winning ways, 50 years on MW
Famed investor’s ‘Ground Rules’ from early 1960s hold true
Whoever Started This Crisis Isn't in the Room WSJ
Chinese Firms Warn EU against Solar Trade War Spiegel
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$366 Billion Bailout?
Draghi Boxes Himself Into a Corner With Bond Signal BL
ECB May Take Losses in Second Greek Debt Restructuring Reuters
Spanish Jobless Rate at Highest Rate Since 1976 Reuters
The World from Berlin - 'Uncomfortable and Bitter Truth' for German Economy Spiegel
China mulls shutting near-bankrupt automakers China Daily
Mall operator takes bearish view Standard
Radiation doses 4 times larger for 'outside workers' at nuclear plants Asahi
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The parable of the ox FT (via Google jump)
Low Interest Rates Are Not Enough El-Erian
Weimar solution beckons as manufacturing crashes in US Fifth District? Pritchard
7 reasons Wall Street bankers’ brains act bizarre Farrell
Central Banks Search Toolbox for Ideas as Growth Slows BLFed Weighs Benefits, Risks of New Stimulus Measures NYT
“They repeatedly say that they have additional tools to use, but they haven’t done it. That leads one to believe that they’re not particularly confident in the tools that they have”
Bernanke and Draghi's market bondage BSpectator
Show Some Real Audacity at the Fed CFR
House Passes Ron Paul’s “Audit the Fed” Bill WSJ
An Excess of Reserve NTrust
Shouldn't We Be Doing the Same? Panzner Reich - EB - Smith
The Eye of the Currency Storm: Currency war gives way to currency confusion Triple Crisis
New Crop of Foreclosures Coming as Activity Rises CNBC
Analysis: Tax haven clampdown yields cash but secrecy still thrives Reuters
Seeking Value in a World of Financial Repression Hindesight
Once high-flying stocks losing their allure USAT
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Gold price rally sparks selling; buyers shy away Reuters
Gold shines on new stimulus hopes MSN
CFTC’s Chilton Sees Silver Probe Concluding This Year BL
“It has already taken way too long.”
A soaring food price fear Business Spectator
BMO Commodity Index Continues Slide BMO
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Spreading Euro Fire -- Economists Warn on 'Threshold of Catastrophe' SpiegEuro finds niche in carry trade - End of game? Don’t bet on it - Keen
Greece to run out of money by August 20 Telegraqph
Greek Exit in 2013 Now 90 Percent Probability: Citi CNBC
Mobious on Spanish Bond Yields - Saft - Egan-Jones cuts Italy
George Osborne reeling as economy enters the disaster zone Elliott
China's FDI in US on track for record China Daily
Government Plan Pledges Cooperation With BOJ to Combat Deflation BL
China weakness hits German chemical giant BASF AP
TSE probe finds 'questionable stock deals' Yomiuri
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Geithner Warns Congress of Risks to US Economy Reuters
Sales of New U.S. Homes Unexpectedly Fall BL
Ron Paul's audit-the-Fed bill due for House vote MW
Europe 'is sleepwalking towards imminent disaster' Pritchard
Global economy’s cure is worse than the disease Das
Commentary: Take two aspirin and call Bernanke in the morning
Is the 50-year financial storm on the horizon? Harrison
Global Rebalancing: Now or Never Roach
Expensive homes and food stamps Dr. HB
Housing Recovery And Related Assets BCAR
Foreign investment in U.S. land on the rise USAT
The $12 trillion misunderstanding: Whose budget blunder? Samuelson
Nygren Commentary On The Oakmark Select Funds via GuruFocus Greenlight
A contrarian handicaps the election Hulbert
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Bloodied Trader Pines for Risk as Wall Street Retreats BL
Bair: Don't Just Punish The Banks; Punish The Bankers, Too Forbes
Any Seasonality for Oil Prices? CXO
Sharp plans to slash thousands of jobs Yomiuri
Best Fix for Postal Service Is to Take It Private Orszag
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Who will hold the Troika to account for asphyxiating Greece? Pritchard
Draghi has just weeks to save the euro, but will Germany let him? Warner
UniCredit: “The day a Spanish bank can put a big fat sign in its window that says ’regulated by the ECB,’ the risk of deposit flight declines”
Relentless Pressure Pushes Spain Closer to Bailout Reuters
Moody's Cuts Outlook on EU Bailout Fund to 'Negative' Reuters
"The change in the outlook of the EFSF reflects the now negative rating outlooks on all but one of its Aaa guarantors - namely Finland”
'Reckless' And 'Unprofessional' - German Minister Criticized for Greece Comments Spiegel
IMF Says China Downside Risks Significant BL
Ministry: Japan's labor force could drop by 9.5 million by 2030 Asahi
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Greece Will Need More Debt Restructuring: EU Officials Reuters
Quarterly Review and Outlook - 2Q12 Hoisington
Investors in Treasurys 'Will See a Haircut': Gross CNBC
“Never Lost?!” Saut Broke bank mountain Price
Jim Rogers Hits Out at Hendry, Edwards on China CNBC
Bubbles without Markets Shiller
A speculative bubble is a social epidemic whose contagion is mediated by price movements.
Get ready for more days like Monday Hulbert
More Than $1T for 5th Straight Fiscal Year CNS
Water is the new gold, a big commodity bet Farrell
We Have Entered the World of Disaster Economics Tett
Are Home Prices (Finally) at Bottom, or in a New Bubble? CNBC
New Tools? Schwab Bond Insights
Sprott - Salmon - Forbes - EB - Panzner - Macroblog
Economic Indicators Review NB Financial
Consumer debt seen rising - again MW
Club Med and the Sun Belt: Lessons from adjustment within a monetary union VOX
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The Economy Is Slowing, but Perhaps Not for Long Stelzer
A Closer Look at Middle-Class Decline Leonhardt
Tricks, Traps, and Accountability Warren
Madrick on How Wall Street Won and America Lost RStone
‘Too big to fail’ grows NYP
Toshiba to cut memory chip production by 30 percent Reuters
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Social Media Panic in Italy: "Enough of this Agony; Give Us Back the Lira" Mish
HSBC China flash PMI at 5-mth peak on output bounce Reuters
Property sector puts soft landing at risk Shanghai Daily
Greek recession seen deeper than 7 percent this year: PM Reuters
It's the biggest threat to Spain's democracy since Franco's day DMail
Italy, Spain and the war on short-selling Saft
UK borrowing costs at all-time low as investors seek 'safe haven' Independent
China's CNOOC offers a record $15.1 billion for Canada's Nexen Finance Asia
Gold buyers at risk of being underinsured Telegraph
Now Syria raises the spectre of chemical weapons Inde
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Wall Street Drops as Spain Fears Spark Selling Reuters
Cisco Set to Cut About 1,300 Workers Reuters
Wealthy Stash $21 Trillion in “Pirate Banking” System CNBC
Extraordinary Strains Hussman
“Financial Expressionism” Gundlach
More Easing Needed to Tackle Unemployment: Fed Official FT
Dismal bond yields likely to plunge further G&M
“At every step of the way down in yields and up in price, the consensus has been: ‘Okay, it can’t last, yields can’t go any lower”
Can't buy stocks, can't sell 'em Fleck
The U.S. contraction watch list MW
The Long-Term Argument for Dow 20,000 NYT
Record low 15-year mortgages gain appeal Hoak
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Sales rose an average 2.9 percent in the second quarter among 119 members of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index that have reported results so far, the weakest since...
US Earnings Show Recession 'Fast Approaching' CNBC
Goldman Becomes the Scapegoat in Deal Gone Bad Cohan
Hedge Fund Places Faith in Euro Zone NYT
NY Fed asked for more on Libor MW
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Spanish Bonds: Is Now the Time to Go Long? CNBC
Japan Sees More “Widespread” Global Slowdown BL
Wen warns of 'complicated, grim' job situation China Daily
Pressure mounts on government to reduce the corporate tax rate Shanghai Daily
The breadth of the declines raises the urgency for Premier Wen Jiabao to move beyond boosting investment and monetary stimulus...
Blood and Money A Hedge Fund Manager's Crusade against Putin Spiegel
Lloyds in further loan sale turmoil Telegraph