Interesting Headlines in the News Aug 21

Fisking Ferguson I
Junk Bonds: Wall Street's Newest Bubble?
U.S. Government's Foreign Debt Hits Record $5.29 Trillion
Rand Paul's Tea Party Manifesto
Welcome To The Third World, Part 7:  Bye, Bye Public Services
Obama should have fired Bernanke a long time ago
Data Points To Lackluster Economic Growth
Wal-Mart International Growth Slows, Shares Fall
Still no escape for taxpayers if banks go bust
Hyperinflation Is Not Inevitable (Default Is)
Banks Can Legally Steal Customer Funds

Government Funded Bullet Trains

Synthetic Police Are Coming:

New Retrofit Kit can Turn Any Car into a Plug-In Hybrid

An Obama Visit to Israel Could Stall Iran Attack
Banks Use $1.77 Trillion To Double Treasury Purchases
Spanish Bond Yields Fall To 7-Week Low

How Volcker Launched His Attack on Inflation
Fed Studies Show Damage To Labor Market Is Reversible
Meredith Whitney's Muni Prediction Gets No Boost From Fed
Private-Market Tooth Fairy Can't Cut Medicare Cost
Are biometric ID tools evil?
HARP: TBTF banks laughing all the way home
On the origin of specie - Fate of the Dollar
Italy's tax hunters target super-rich and their yachts off the Sardinian
Jackson Hole Preview: Draghi's Plan

AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITY

A Flock of Black Swans
Euro woes tilt financial power in Asia's favor
Germany backs Draghi bond plan against Bundesbank
Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker

A Full Fact-Check of Niall Ferguson's

What's the Single Best Explanation for Middle-Class Decline?
Ferguson's Newsweek Cover Rebuttal:

Obama warns Assad of US military action in Syria
Obama's Gotta Go
An Obama Visit to Israel Could Stall Iran Attack
Israel a 'cancerous tumor' and

Netanyahu 'determined to attack Iran'

Let's Get Ready to Crumble
False Piety and the Medicare Debate
The War in the Shadows
German central bank warns

Rense & Celente - Society is Now a Rotten Fish
Glenn Beck talks some seriousem> economic gloom and doom 15 August 2012, Lindsey Williams, Other radio show hosts don't allow me to speak about The Energy Non Crisis
Re: Senator Daniel Inouye on the shadow government
States Can Shut Down ObamaCare's

Max Keiser: Collapse is Imminent!!
ObamaCare Exchanges and the IRS

Barry Ritholtz on the Ghosts

Endless QE, Ryan budget all hope no change,

Major General: Why Are Domestic Government Agencies Purchashing Enough Lethal Ammunition to Put 5 Rounds In Every American?
Shhhh… It's Even Worse Than The Great Depression
Silver Jumps To Two Month Highs As Oil Reverts
Treasury Spasms