Interesting Headlines in the News Apr 19

Why Silver Is Still The Best Revenge
U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook for Portugal Bailout
Hutchison Plans $5.8 Billion Ports Offering
S&P's $5 trillion bank doomsday tab
Port of Galveston seeks private partners
China trims holdings of US securities in February
BAHRAIN: Security forces continue wide, deep crackdown on dissent
Government debt fears drive more investors into gold and silver
Awaiting The "Zero Hour" Of Available Credit
U.S. Warned on Debt Load
When Unions Get Desperate
Inflation Hits... Money and Lies
Retail Sales: The Next Chapter of the Financial Crisis
How Inflation Violates Retiree Civil Rights
A Review on Where We Stand
Scientists puzzled by giant whirlpools
FBI shuts down poker sites in major online gambling crackdown
Nobody is Smarter Than The Markets
Libya: Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy vow Gaddafi must go
Hospital group proposes new taxes to save AHCCCS
Wells Fargo Tests Microchip Credit Cards for Globetrotting Clients
U.S. Foreclosure Settlement Muddies Outlook for Mortgage Relief
America’s Banker May Tell Geithner to Go Away:
Greece Says No Restructuring Plan in Place
Galveston port poised to outsource its operations
Gold hits another new high; Silver at 31-year high
Gold hits fresh record, silver repeats 31 yr high
Gold still the first choice of nervous investors
Social Security Isn't Broke, But We Still Ought to Fix It
Kerry Slams Obama Over Settlement Freeze Rhetoric
US Seeks New Business Ties in Arab Countries
Analysis: Libya is A Brave Face on a Farce
HOUSING: Falling rates, prices create local buyers' paradise
Fed Aims at Mortgage Fraud, Shoots Housing Market in the Gut
Power Shift 2011: Is Obama Snuffleupagus?
President Obama Meets with Power Shift Youth Clean Energy Leaders
Egypt, predictably, begins to go the way of radical Islam
And You Thought the Fed Couldn't Get More Controversial?
S&P Revises Its Outlook for US Debt
The Other Handover
The Budget Ax: Why Homeless Veterans but Not NASCAR?
Throw Out the Money Changers
Dispatches From Cairo: Keeping Up With Egypt
From China's mouth to Texans' ears:
When the Aliens Touch Down, Make for This Missile Base
Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay?