Davos's Blog

• John Williams of Shadow Statistics: Liquidity Crisis (Again!) Not a Recovery, Dire Shape
• World Bank Head Sees Dollar’s Role Diminishing
• FDIC Bankrupt? Uh huh.
• Mark To Myth Losers: Americans
• The Case for Inflation
• Hyperinflation is Coming! Weimar Republic of Germany
• Simon Johnson: Prospects for Your Future (Video on page)

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• Jim Quinn: Founding Fathers Of Our New Country
• Hotel RevPAR off 18.3 Percent
• U.S. Ratings Fraud Continues
• Commentary: We Shouldn't Have Homeless Children in America
• Saddled with Debt
• En Down Ments (Chart)
• Ludwig von Mises Institute (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• The Economic Crisis and How to Deal with It (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• Ferguson On US Deficit - Bloomberg (H/T iDoctor)

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• Ticker Guy: Post-HR1207 Hearing (Video)
• David Rosenberg's Special Report (at ZeroHedge)
• Max Keiser talks to Stacy Herbert about the IMF sales of 403 tons of gold (Video)
• Is The Fed Hiding Gold Swap Arrangements With Foreign Central Banks?
• Staycation (Chart on page)
• Ron Paul on Fed Transparency, We Shouldn't be Afraid of the Truth (Video on page)
• Niall Ferguson Discusses the G20 (Video, H/T Ernie)
• Bailout Costs.....to Date
• G-20 gridlock leaves global financial system at risk (H/T Dogs)
• $1,900.00 or do Time (Congress excluded)

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• The Dollar: Worth .08 cents (Video on Page)
• FSN News Hour
• Sunday Funnies

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Hello all,

After 10 months of doing this daily, without a break or a day off, I'm experiencing economic burn out; my symptoms are exhaustion, terseness, and grumpiness.  I need to prioritize my world a bit.  Mostly I want to begin the Zero-Carbon Car conversion of our 10-year old Subaru (she has 150k miles on her and one very tired engine). Marsh has some painting for us to do in the house we built together.

It has truly been a pleasure to contribute to this fine community that Chris has created. I often wish there were a Martenson Island as opposed to a Martenson Cyberblog.

I landed on Chris's site over a year ago from a link to the environmental chapters of the "Crash Course," which I received in an email from Buffett's original investor.  It was followed by an email from an ex-governor who also spoke highly of CM's work on the environment.

The Crash Course was, for me, like a key to the stereogram: putting the picture of the economy hidden below the picture painted by the media into crisp focus. Most of all it explained and then underscored the 3 E's.

Wednesday, September 30th will be my last day manning the Daily Digest.  I offer today's DD as a "Best Of" from my spreadsheet of almost 5,000 posts.  At the bottom are my sources for all the blogs I follow.  The mainstream sites on my RSS reader are so I can see what the herd is being fed.

Take care,
Davos

• Grayson: Has the Fed Ever Tried to Manipulate the Stock Market? (AMAZING Video, H/T JAG)
• Gold and Economic Freedom
• 60 Minutes (CBS) Wave 2 AltA's and Option Arms (Video)
• 19 Million Vacant Homes
• Real Estate 1890-2009 (Chart)
• The Shallowest Generation
• Naked Short Selling (Video)
• Soros: Period of wealth destruction
• 7 Stages of a Bubble
• Minsky Ponzi Credit
• Central Bank of Zimbabwe, Quantitative Easing of Zimbabwe, the United Sates and the UK
• US Debt Clock
• iGoogle RSS Reader of sites I visit daily

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• New Push for Global Currency
• Gloom Boom & Doom (Video)
• Peter Schiff, Dollar G20 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• A Coming Flood of Bank Owned Homes
• Chart: Damaged REO, Mone-In Ready REO, Shorts & Non-Distressed
• FOMC Between the Lines
• Not Exactly Doom-and-Gloomers
• Why the U.S. economy CAN'T “recover”
• ICN (Video, H/T iDoctor)

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• Trust Yourself & Believe (An Amazing TED Video)
• Corruption: Reverse-Insurance?! (FDIC)
• Officials May Soon Ask Banks To Bail Out The Government
• Derivatives Could Cause Another Meltdown: Mobius (Video on page)
• Income for the Masses Not Keeping Up... For 40 Years (Chart on page)
• Mark Faber Part 1 Video (H/T iDoctor)
• Mark Faber Part 2 Video
• Mark Faber Part 3 Video
• Shocker: Most Traffic Growth To UK News Sites Is Coming From U.S.

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• HSBC Bids Farewell To Dollar Supremacy (H/T SaxPlayer00o1)
• Fed to Geithner: Pi$$ Off
• The Origin Of The U.S. Dollar As Legal Tender And Its Link to Depression
• Debt Clock (Global)
• Two Beers With Steve Episode 21 - The Web of Debt
• If The Dow Is To Follow The 1930s Model...
• Dr. Rand Paul Part 1 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• Dr. Rand Paul Part 2 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• Dr. Rand Paul Part 3 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
• Major Crisis Still Ahead, Past One Was Minor (Video H/T iDoctor)
• Max Keiser Puts and Calls (Video)

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• Federal Reserve Accounts For 50% Of Q2 Treasury Purchases
• Report: Strategic Defaults a "Growing Problem"
• The U.S. Balance Sheet: Households See Net Worth Down by $12 Trillion Since Peak and Total Debt Floating in the Market of $33 Trillion
• Foreign Investors Flee from U.S. Debt (Possible Re-Post)
• Obsolescence: Obama Open To Newspaper Bailout Bill
• Silver Wheaton: the SAFE alternative to SLV
• Fidelity Investments Thinks You Are A Dumb A$$ (Title from Michael Covel)
• IMF to sell 403 Tonnes Of Gold To Boost Lending To Poor (H/T SaxPlayer00o1)

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• Tax the Dogs: State plots dog surcharge
• Irene Aldridge Gets Death Threats Over Her Views On HFT, Pitches Book Again
• OUTRAGE: TYING IT ALL TOGETHER
• 95% Of Your Savings, IRA, Checking Account and Retirement will be Gone (Video from http://thecomingdepression.blogspot.com)
• Elderly Bank Bandit: I Robbed to Pay Off My Mortgage
• Faux capitalists look for the free lunch
• ‘We still have the same disease' (H/T xRayMike79)
• "Bailout" Money & Bankers: Corruption: Banks Lending UNSECURED To Terrorists?

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