Life After the Oil Crash

Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You

















Breaking News: Thursday February 18th, 2010

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Financial Collapse:

UK Telegraph: U.S. Bank Lending Falls at Fastest Rate Since the 1930s

Economic Collapse Blog: FDIC Opens Up Huge New Office Near Chicago

Wall Street Journal: More American Cities Weigh Filing for Bankruptcy

Wall Street Journal: The "General Motors Economy" (a "Lost Decade")

ABC: Budget Cuts, Tax Increases that are "Unimaginable" on the Way

NY Times: At Least Eight States Have Shortchanged Worker Pensions

European Financial Collapse:

Wall Street Journal: Shadow of Financial Collapse Hangs Over Greece

Zero Hedge: IMF Prepared to Offer "Technical Assistance" to Greece

UK Telegraph: Britain at Risk of a Debt Crisis Even Worse Than Greece

Real Estate Collapse:

Wall Street Journal: Taxpayers to Absorb "Unlimited Losses" at Fannie

Yahoo: Ski Resort Where Winter Olympics Taking Place in Foreclosure

CNN: Recession Takes Huge Toll in Merced, Ca. and Lincoln, Nebraska

MyBudget360: How $75 Oil Means an End to Suburban Home Building

Gold, Silver, Precious Metals:

Bloomberg: Gold May Advance to $1,400/oz in 12 Months Says Analyst

Market Oracle: Silver Prices Show Strong Signs of Nearing a Bottom

Crimes, Conspiracies, and Corporate Criminality:

Alternet: The Financial Elite Have Engineered an "Extraordinary Coup"

Huff Post: Shocking Health Insurance Premiums Increases on the Way

Washington Post: 75,000 Computer Systems Hacked in Huge Attack

Wall Street Journal: Want to Fly? You're Going to Get Strip Searched

Washington's Blog: Is the Internet Making Americans More Passive?

Most Important Articles from Yesterday:

Business Insider: Credit Market Warnings at Highest Pitch Since 2008

Al Jazeera: China Sold Off Record Number of U.S. Treasuries in Dec '09

Chicago Tribune: Illinois Government Holding Secret Meeting Today

Best of the LATOC Archives:

Kitco: "We're at the begginning of a startling increase in gold prices"

Seeking Alpha: Goldman Sachs Says Gold Could Go to $1,400 an Ounce

UK Telegraph: China Has Put What Amount to the "Beijing Put" on Gold

Preparation and Relocalization:

Survival Blog: How to Prosper in an Economy Based on Salvage

Survival Blog: The Limited Practicality of Primitive Weapons

Washington Times: New Underground Econnomy Rapidly Rising in U.S.

Are you prepared for civil unrest, martial law, and the day the trucks stop rolling to the grocery store?

















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