Interesting Headlines in the News Dec 10

How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation
Food Stamp Enrollment Up As Unemployment Rates Declines
Research Shows ALL Paper Money Systems Failed
The Fiscal Cliff Is Set To Clobber The Middle Class

IMF study in 1999 found 80 central banks

Central Bank Gold Purchases To Top 500 Tons This Year In A New Record Supporting Prices
Will Regulators Damn Keystone XL?
The World Starts to Come Apart at the Seams

Muslims, Episcopalians, and Diversity Dreams
Unemployment Is Not Going Down:

White House could protect middle class


Democrats Hint at Entitlement Program Cuts in U.S. Budget
Greece Is Close to Reaching Debt Buyback Target,

Google to start charging small businesses for Google Apps
Foxconn eyes expanding its manufacturing in the U.S.
U.S. mobile providers commit to emergency texting service
Can Gold Keep Its Luster In 2013?
What Is the VIX Saying About the Fiscal Cliff?
The Fiscal Cliff And The FOMC
Move Over, Michigan, China Is The World's Next Rustbelt
The Liberal Left's Dirty Little Secret:

Walmart Bails On Obamacare-Sticks Taxpayers

Many Jobless In US Don't Collect Unemployment
Greek opposition leader calls for European debt conference
IMF chief Christine Lagarde warns US

Russia and US in Geneva talks over future of Syria
Newt Gingrich: Republicans cannot win

Assad's strategy shift keeps rebels at gates of Damascus
We Are All Eating Nanotechnology
G.I.s mass on border with Syria
Obama's dangerous fiscal game
Drought expands, concerns mount about wheat and rivers
U.S. warships moving to monitor

Fed's monetary stimulus meets 'fiscal cliff'
North Korea a looming problem for whoever wins South vote
As "fiscal cliff" nears, market complacency sets in
North Korean rocket launch window opens
The Arab Spring Is Turning into a Hard Winter
Europe clings to scorched-earth ideology

Euro's effects on our woes haven't died, they're just resting
World risks fresh credit bubble, Switzerland's BIS warns
Gold Bullion Vault - Periodic Table of Videos
NATO Says Military Intervention in Syria is "Imminent"
Keiser Report: Hollywood Accounting
Eichengreen on the Gold Standard,

Italy's Technocratic Government Coming To An End:

The Historic Inversion In Shadow Banking Is Now Complete
Inside The Bank Of England's Gold Vault