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The money people are lusting over smart peoples saved money and encouraging one and all to gamble at their casino, they threaten with lies about inflation and tempt with phony plastic soon to disappear stock market gains, they claim that Canadians …. The same governmental policies that led to the U.S. subprime meltdown (loose mortage/lending regs, massive deficits) have been implimented here. Their outcome happening here (soaring bankrucy, recession, high unemployment, …

Surprise slide in manufacturing sends stocks lowerNEW YORK — The stock market has ended a strong third quarter with trading that reflected investors’ mixed emotions about the economy. … Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent Thursday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials to their lowest level in six weeks, after the government said the unemployment rate hit a 26-year high and employers cut far more jobs than expected. Wall Street set for modest gain as investors …

To me, I do not consider this to be a “new trend”, but instead, simply a return to the underlying weak dollar trend, that went dormant for 6 months while the world sorted out the financial meltdown . ….. protection,employment worldwide, etfs,expatriate,forex trading, gold market ,international,investing,investment gurus,jobs,living,moving abroad,moving overseas,overseas,overseas education,overseas jobs,real estate,real estate values,retirement, stock market ,tax havens” />

To me, I do not consider this to be a “new trend”, but instead, simply a return to the underlying weak dollar trend, that went dormant for 6 months while the world sorted out the financial meltdown . … Gold remained below $1000 for about 5 days, in which there were ample opportunities to buy the dips below $1000… And… As we close out the month and quarter, the Russian rate cut is all but forgotten about, which is exactly how I told you it would play out… …

The economic costs of school closures and other economics news from around the Web.

A new poll shows that voters think the Obama administration has done much more to help Wall Street than to help the middle class.

The two culprits behind nearly every financial crisis seem to, perversely, feed off each other.

In a new report, two Rutgers professors predict that it will take at least seven years to restore the health of the nation’s labor market to pre-recession levels.

The institution feels that 15% less will be tossed out the windows of financial institutions as a result of the meltdown , bringing the estimated tally to $3.4 trillion. Another case of ‘less worser. … Gold -MiningStocks.com and www. MiningSectorStocks.com, portals within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, feature industry and stock news, exclusive articles and financial columnists, audio interviews and podcasts, investor conferences, blogs, and a directory of stocks …

Finally, the Dallas Fed’s Richard Fisher said something on Tuesday that perhaps at first blush sounded like many of the other recent pronouncements coming from the US central bank. … Gold -MiningStocks.com and www.MiningSectorStocks.com, portals within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, feature industry and stock news, exclusive articles and financial columnists, audio interviews and podcasts, investor conferences, blogs, and a directory of stocks in the sector. …

SELF-AVOWED “old rock hound” Byron King earned his bachelor’s degree in geology at Harvard, and then worked as a geologist in the exploration and production division of a major oil company, says The Gold Report. …. Byron King: I think we are living with a very vulnerable stock market . If large numbers of people were to come to the same opinion that I hold, a lot of them would probably want to take sell out. Would it be a meltdown like last year’s? …

BK: I think we are living with a very vulnerable stock market . If large numbers of people were to come to the same opinion that I hold, a lot of them would probably want to take sell out. Would it be a meltdown like last year’s? … BK: Because we’re in a world that appears to have encountered peak gold as well as peak oil . If you look at historical production, worldwide gold output reached a top right around the year 2000–2001. Overall output has declined and we’re not …

Recent research gives a sense of whether the current trend – heading toward a female-majority work force – will continue, an economist writes.

A photo from a protest outside the Labour Party’s conference in Great Britain.

Joseph Stiglitz on the future of capitalism and other economic news from around the Web.