Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – And 14 Signs That It Is Starting To Happen In America Too

by Michael

The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.  If you want to get an idea of what America is going to look like in the not too distant future, just check out what is happening in Greece.  At this point, Greece is experiencing a full-blown economic depression.  As I have written about previously, the unemployment rate [...]

CEO’s drop expectations on ‘gloomy’ future

Citing uncertainty over the impending “fiscal cliff” and lower demand overseas, an association of CEOs from top companies on Wednesday dropped its growth expectations for the third quarter to the lowest level since the middle of the Great Recession.

The Business Roundtable lowered projections for sales, capital spending and hiring in its latest CEO Economic Outlook Survey to the lowest level since 2009.

The fiscal cliff — an end-of-the-year deadline for a [...]

Barclays On The Rally: “Fade It”, Because The Summit Is “Not A Game-Changer For The EUR”

With everyone scrambling to buy into the bathsalts rally, and shorts rushing to cover with a panic bordering on a QE-announcement, it is somewhat ironic that today’s voice of muted reason comes from none other than Liebor expert extraordinaire: Barclays, whose suggestion is simple: lock your profits: “We remain bearish on EURUSD, expecting it to grind slowly down to 1.15 over the next 12 months. We therefore suggest investors look to fade [...]

‘UFO’ at the bottom of the Baltic Sea ‘cuts off electrical equipment when divers get within 200m’

Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom
Hole is surrounded by an strange rock formation that expedition team can not explain
Stones are covered in something ‘resembling soot’ which has baffled experts
Divers say phones and some cameras switch off when close to the object

The divers exploring a ‘UFO-shaped’ object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say their equipment stops working when [...]

The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: The bailout party is getting started, Spain is officially out of bailout money: “where is the €23.5 billion for the Bankia rescue going to come from?

Spain Runs Out Of Money To Feed The Zombies

by Tyler Durden

 

One of the problems with the Hispanic Pandora’s box unleashed by a now insolvent Bankia, which as we noted some time ago, is merely the Canary in the Coalmine, is that once the case study “example” of rewarding terminal failure is in the open, everyone else who happens to be insolvent also wants to give it a try. And in the case of Spain [...]

Black Marines finally honored for their WWII service. On Weds night, the Senate approved legislation to award the Congressional Medal to the nearly 20,000 Blacks who trained at Montford Point, a Blacks-only area at Camp Lejeune

H. Scott Hoffmann (News & Record)

Photo Caption:“It made me feel like I’m somebody,” says former Marine Roland Eubanks, 86, about being awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.

GREENSBORO — Roland Eubanks, Joseph Walker and the thousands of other African American Marines who trained at Montford Point in eastern North Carolina did double duty during World War II.

“We fought two wars,” Walker, who settled in Winston-Salem after the fighting, said in a 2004 oral [...]

Goldman Sees An “Unusually Uncertain” Future And Another Debt Ceiling Hike Just In Time For The Presidential Election

by ZH

Even if the European Lack of Union does, miraculously, come up with some short-term resolution of a mathematically unsolvable crisis (at its core, the problem is that there is simply far more debt than there are assets, let alone cash flow, period, end of story) suddenly the market’s will refocus its attention on the question of our own intractable math: i.e., how will America, suddenly once again the “neo-decoupled” source of [...]

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition

The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.

The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice [...]

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition

The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.

The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice [...]

Who would have figured that in the midst of the worst recession in recent history, the best performing sector YTD is Travel and Tourism?

by RobotTrader

Best Performing Stocks

Symbol
Company Name
Percent Change
Chart

YTBLA
YTB International Inc
100.00%

TZOO
Travelzoo Inc
97.30%

PCLN
Priceline.com Inc
79.32%

OWW
Orbitz Worldwide Inc
57.77%

EXPE
Expedia Inc
51.53%

LONG
Elong Inc
39.24%

TA
TravelCenters of America L…
25.20%

DTG
Dollar Thrifty Auto Group…
16.69%

HTZ
Hertz Global Holdings Inc
11.82%

CTRP
CTrip.com International Lt…
6.47%

Must-Know News – June 21, 2010

1) Harrisburg, Pa., other cities overwhelmed by economic downturn and debt

“HARRISBURG, PA. — This city has a $68 million bill coming due before year’s end, an impossible sum that is larger than its annual budget. It’s a predicament caused by extravagant borrowing and spending, and now there are only unpleasant fixes: steep tax increases, severe layoffs and crippling service cuts, even bankruptcy.

It’s a story that [...]