Is this propaganda? I just received this e-mail from the FDIC’s consumer news with the title above. Personally, I never doubted that unbrokered deposits under $250,000 are safe at U.S. depositary institutions. But, the natural sceptic in me doesn’t like to see someone reaffirm what I thought I already knew.

As bank failures are in the [...]

The US Department of Agriculture highlights how the United States in the last decade, despite increased aggregate wealth, slid back significantly in terms of food insecurity as measure of poverty. With everyone now focused on the unemployment situation, it bears noting that even before the downturn in the economy there had been a large surge [...]

Economist’s View: "China and the American Jobs Machine" (And don’t fall into the Blame Asia Meme http://bit.ly/pseaY)
买黄金! | egghat’s blog (This German post says that owning gold was illegal in China six years ago. Now the message to get into gold is everywhere there.)
Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimes – [...]

Below is a CNBC video with Meredith Whitney in which she joins Nouriel Roubini on the doom and gloom parade.  Over the summer, both Whitney and Roubini were fairly optimistic. In June I said:
Think of the consensus forecast as an anchor which restricts the outlook of any individual forecaster afraid of failing unconventionally.
In Roubini’s case [...]

Marc Faber is in a bullish mindset, particularly on gold. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC TV-18 in India, Faber talked about where he sees markets headed and why he thinks gold will never drop below $1,000 an ounce.
Private sector contracting while public sector expanding
This is the frame that Marc Faber puts on recent events [...]

This is a crucial question because Devon Energy, the Oklahoma-based independent oil and natural gas producer has just decided to put billion of dollars in Deep sea Gulf of Mexico assets on the market.
Canada’s National Post reported:
Devon Energy Corp. hopes to raise up to US$7.5-billion from the sale of its Gulf of Mexico and international [...]

There are a lot of threads to tie together in today’s reporting of news in the auto sector.
General Motors has reported a third-quarter loss of $1.15 billion. But all indications are that car sales continue to outpace expectations in the United States.  Meanwhile, there are conflicting stories that GM both plans to pay back [...]

Max Keiser certainly has a way with words. In one of his latest TV appearances, using the colorful analogy of “Warren Buffett’s toilet paper,” he calls the U.S. dollar worthless.
He goes on to say that China is addicted to this worthless paper because they are using it to stimulate their domestic economy. In another [...]

Bailed-out Anglo needs €5.7bn cash but EC eyes wind-down – Independent.ie
Colts 35, Patriots 34 – Colts Pull Off Improbable Win as Patriots’ Gamble Backfires – NYTimes.com
Paul Krugman – World Out of Balance – NYTimes.com
Pay limits hamper BofA chief search: report
Inflationary armageddon? Not yet, but come 2011 it’s another story – Roger Bootle
FT.com – Gold output [...]

Nouriel Roubini, writing in the New York Daily News , said on Sunday that “unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job losses” given the likelihood of a job less recovery. This was as gloomy a piece as I have seen from Roubini in the past few months. He has clearly become more downbeat about [...]