Germany manoeuvres to win control of the euro

US bank lending falls at fastest rate in history

Feb 17, 2010 (Telegraph) -- Bank lending in the US has contracted so far this year at the fastest rate in recorded history, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve may have jumped the gun by withdrawing emergency stimulus. FULL STORY

Is a Tidal Wave Of Midwest Bank Closings Coming?

Feb 16, 2010 (The Economic Collapse) -- Is the Midwest about to see a massive wave of bank closings? That is apparently what the FDIC is expecting FULL STORY

Declining U.S. Navy facing Chinese challenge

Feb 14, 2010 (WND) -- Fleet's status creates door of vulnerability to other powers, terrorists FULL STORY

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

February 14, 2010 (UK Mail) -- Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing... There has been no global warming since 1995... Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes FULL STORY

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Is The U.S. On The Verge Of An Economic War With Russia And China?

Feb 10, 2010 (The Economic Collapse) -- Has our exploding national debt become an economic weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the Russians and the Chinese? FULL STORY

Food Costs Push Up Asia Inflation

Feb 10, 2010, HONG KONG (WSJ) -- The rising cost of food is driving Asian inflation rates higher, increasing the stakes for a successful harvest this year in a region still bruised by the 2008 food crisis. FULL STORY

Social Security could be next to need a bailout

February 2, 2010 (Washington Post) -- Don't look now. But even as the bank bailout is winding down, another huge bailout is starting, this time for the Social Security system. FULL STORY

Dollar, Euro - or Euromark?

February 9, 2010 (TheTrumpet.com) -- "Whoever controls the currency controls the government." Thus said economics guru Maynard Keynes. To Keynes, that was not just a law of economics. It was a law that underwrote power politics. FULL STORY

U.S. National Debt Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off

February 4, 2010, (The Economic Collapse) -- A lot of people are very upset about the rapidly increasing U.S. national debt these days and they are demanding a solution. What they don't realize is that there simply is not a solution under the current U.S. financial system. FULL STORY

Fears of 'Lehman-style' tsunami as crisis hits Spain and Portugal

February 4, 2010, (Telegraph) -- The Greek debt crisis has spread to Spain and Portugal in a dangerous escalation as global markets test whether Europe is willing to shore up monetary union with muscle rather than mere words. FULL STORY