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AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Gold prices exploded Wednesday — posting the biggest one-day gain ever in dollar terms — as fears of more credit market turmoil unnerved investors and triggered a flood of safe-haven buying.

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Wall Street Journal

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said the U.K. economic conditions "are arguably the worst they’ve been in 60 years … And I think it’s going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought. We have a credit crunch

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Michael S. Rozeff for LewRockwell.com

The entire enterprise of Government, in the bloated and intrusive form we know it as, is destined to fail. The failure of any and every coercive monopoly Government is assured by its own dynamics.

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Mercopress, South America

Venezuela again acted as lender of last resort for Argentina having acquired a billion US dollars in sovereign bonds, at “close to market rates” according to Argentine financial sources.

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Infinite Unknown

More than 100 local councils, charities, churches, hospitals and nursing homes across Australia are sitting on a $2 billion black hole after buying subprime investments structured by Wall Street banks during the bull market but which are now potentia

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Wall Street Journal

Earlier this year some economists were talking about the world “decoupling” from the U.S., making it through an American downturn relatively unscathed, but the latest data from Europe and Asia appears to be putting holes in that theory and it’s bad n

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NY Times

Few American exports have proved as popular as credit cards. In just a generation, they have gone from a totem of Western affluence to an everyday accessory in Brazil, Mexico, India, China, South Korea and elsewhere. More than two-thirds of the world

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www.telegraph.co.uk/money

The retreat comes days after the Melbourne lender shocked the markets by announcing a 90pc write-down on its £550m holdings of US mortgage debt, an admission that it AAA-rated securities are virtually worthless.

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Rueters (video report)

Jul 24 - A raft of economic indicators and surveys show business and consumer confidence hitting new depths. Euro zone business confidence taking bigger hit than expected

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www.watersnews.com

The new company will provide a single gateway for confirming over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions globally. This will allow buy-side and sell-side OTC derivative market participants to confirm trades and to gain access to additional service

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PropagandaMatrix.com

There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than the world has ever experienced. Instead of using globalism in a positive fashion, it's been used to globalize all of the mistakes of the politicians, bureaucrats and cen

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