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The top of today’s reading list is an article about massive buying of silver bullion by the ETF (NYSE:SLV) ……… and the last story is about the clueless condition of the Fed governors about the disastrous state of the economy as it moved toward The Great Recession in 2007.
- Silver ETF Holdings See Massive Spike, U.S. Mint Runs Out Of Coins (Hard Assets Investor, Seeking Alpha)
- Did we just surrender in the War on Terror? (Fabius Maximus)
- Getting to Yes With Iran (Robert Jervis, Foreign Affairs)
- Will Weak Gasoline Demand Weigh On Ethanol Prices In 2013? (OptionsXpress, Daily Markets)
- The Tech Play That’s Better Than the “Next Google” (Michael A. Robinson, Era of Radical Change)
- Q&A: Deutsche Bank Advises What To Do When Your Algo Fails a Risk Check (Melanie Rodier, Wall Street & Technology)
- Earl Smith is the man behind a military patch that President Obama prizes (Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post) There’s a lot of history in this story.
- French Enter Mali But How Will It End? (John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations) See also article by Hilary Barnes, GEI News.
- The Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-changer? (Ellen Brown, Web of Debt) Ellen Brown is a frequent contributor to Global Economic Intersection.
- The real surprise in the Fed’s 2007 transcripts: How much they knew, how little they understood (Neil Irwin, The Washington Post) Hat tip to Roger Erickson. See Larry Doyle’s very specific summary of the most clueless statements made.
