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As the snow fell, my thoughts wandered to the balmy days of late June 2008. Oil prices were screaming higher and the US Congress took notice. In a series of.

“The financial market may be headed for another major downward leg. If that happens, gold may be dragged down with other financial assets,” said Jeffrey Christian, managing director at commodities research firm CPM Group.

Dingell’s current financial disclosure filed in May lists GM stock worth up to $350000, options worth up to $1 million more, and a GM pension fund. In 2000, among the Dingells’ GM assets were stock options worth up to $5 million.

It was exactly like all the other bubbles: the commodities bubbles, the gold bubble, the housing bubbles, the stock market bubbles. They didn’t run concurrent with each other. Rather, they were like ripples that washed ashore, …

“Dollar demand for gold reached an all-time quarterly record of US $32 billion in the third quarter of 2008 as investors around the world sought refuge from the global financial meltdown , and jewelry buyers returned to the market in …

Another grim milestone was reached yesterday as the broad Standard & Poor’s 500- stock index plunged 6.7 percent and reached its lowest level since 1997. The NYT puts it in context and reminds readers that 1997 was “before the dot-com …

Never fear, however, cyclo-cross, it turns out, makes a fitting metaphor for todayís stock market . The following video will help illustrate:. Cyclo-cross: An Hour in Hell.

The company, founded in 1949 when Samuel Wurtzel opened Richmond’s first retail television store, has lost more than $5 billion in stock market value in two years. The chain, with 721 stores in the US and about 770 in Canada, …

The plunge in the stock market and the “apparent attack” on America’s financial center also prompted the Fed to lower interest rates , which helped the housing market –and Bush encouraged folks to “go shopping.” …

Financial Meltdown Too Large for Free Market to Fix, Bernanke Says. CNS News | A free market economist from the libertarian Ludwig Von Mises Institute, said that while private investors may not have had $700 billion available to …

Paulson regrets mistakes on economy October 16, 2008 12:01 PM ET All Associated Press news Todays Best Free Real Estate Investment book for Boomers WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Thursday expressed regret for the many errors made that led to the biggest financial crisis in seven decades, but he insisted the administration is pursuing the correct course now to end the debacle.