Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Wednesday October 28th, 2009

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Global Financial Collapse:

UK Telegraph: The Recession Has Morphed into a Second Depression

MyBudget360: U.S. Government Tax Receipts Down 20% Since 2008

U.S. News: Nine Warning Signs that America Has Gone Into Decline

CNN Money: Unemployed Americans Cashing Out 401ks to Survive

CNN Money: Struggling GMAC Says It Needs a Third Taxpayer Bailout

CNN Money: "Cash for Clunkers" Cost U.S. Taxpayers $24,000 Per Car

Real Estate Collapse:

MyBudget360: CRE Imploding, $3 Trillion in Debt, Collapse in Rentals

Charles Hugh Smith: CRE Market a House of Cards Ready to Collapse

London Times: Commercial Property Kingpin Capmark Now Bankrupt

NY Times: Fears Growing that Real Estate Market Will Plunge Further

L.A. Times: Housing Slump Hitting the Timber Industry like Buzzsaw

CNN: Foreclosures Slowing in Some Cities but Spreading in New Ones

Gold, Silver, Asset Protection:

Bloomberg: U.S. Stocks Will Drop Painfully From Current Levels in 2010

Market Watch: Stock Market Only Climbing Because Dollar is Falling

Bloomberg: Gold to Rise to $2,000/Oz Amid Inflation, Superfund Say

Most Important Articles from Tuesday's Update:

Joe Bageant: "Our economy was a scam and now we're dead broke . ."

Paul Craig Roberts: "U.S. has every characteristic of a failed state . . ."

Yahoo Finance: "Our massive level of debt is going to end up killing us"

Articles from the last few months worth a second look:

Jim Kunstler: "Conditions in the U.S. are ripening for a bloodbath . . ."

Mark Ames: "U.S. bankers gambling the middle class into extinction"

The Exiled: "Banks spinning wealth out of nothing but human misery"

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