Life After the Oil Crash

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Breaking News: Friday January 22nd, 2010

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Situation in Haiti:

Newsweek: Has the Exploitation of Haiti's Resources Already Begun?

London Times: Royal Navy Withdrawn Just Weeks Before Haiti Disaster

MemoryHole: U.S. Secretary of Defense Reveals "Earthquake Weapon"

Cascading Sovereign Debt Crisis:

Yahoo Finance: Why Americans Should Care About the Crisis in Greece

Forbes: City Governments in the U.S. Piling on Debt at Alarming Rates

Bloomberg: Japan Facing an"Uncontrollable" Rise in Public Debt Load

Financial Collapse:

NeitherCorp Press: Identifying Sure Signs of the Final Economic Plunge

Zero Hedge: Observations on Inside Information Leaked from the Fed

Zero Hedge: Public Pensions, Managers Falsifying Investment Returns

CNN Money: Banks Pull Another $1 Billion from Small Business Lending

Joe Bageant:  "Some truths are just too big for people to face . . ."

Real Estate Collapse:

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

Charles Hugh Smith: China and the U.S. Dysfunctional Housing Twins

CS Monitor: U.S. Housing Starts in 2009 the Worst Since World War II

Bloomberg: U.S. Life Insurers Likely to Face More Real Estate Losses

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

Most important articles from yesterday's update:

Russia Today: Hugo Chavez Says U.S. Used "Tectonic Weapon" on Haiti

Jeremy Scahill: U.S. Company Offers to Perform "Terminations" in Haiti

Global Research: Is This a Humanitarian Operation or a U.S. Invasion?

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

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

















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