Memorial Day links

TOP STORIES
• US bonds sale faces market resistance - Telegraph
• North Korea launches missiles, tests nuclear device - MarketWatch
• The Power Pendulum Swings Toward Washington - Wash. Post
• China still buying record amounts of U.S. bonds - Reuters
• Inflationism’s Seductive Battle Cry - Noland, Prudent Bear
• Lawmakers consider $1.50-per-pack cigarette tax - LA Times
• A tribute to the real Memorial Day - MarketWatch
• 'We're out of money' - Drudge Report

MARKETS/INVESTING
• Gold on verge of historic breakout? - MarketWatch
• Oil falls ahead of OPEC meeting - CNN/Money
• Investors await housing, consumer confidence news - AP
• Market Internals Suggest Heightened Concern - Hussman Funds
• Why We Should Listen to Peter Schiff's Bad News - Time
• Assessing the risk of a cataclysm - Reuters

ECONOMY
• Sorry Greg, This Crisis Was Completely Predictable - Beat the Press
• Commercial Real Estate Loans are Coming Due - NY Post
• When one job draws 273 applicants - Bend Bulletin
• Rubin blames recession on oil - Nova Scotian
• State of Paralysis - Krugman, NY Times

INTERNATIONAL
• South Korean Stocks, Won Drop After North Tests Nuclear Weapon - Bloomberg
• Europe stocks fall amid gloomy German survey, weak autos - MarketWatch
• PetroChina buys 45.5% stake in Singapore Petroleum - MarketWatch
• Bank of Japan says exports, production bottoming - MarketWatch
• Thailand’s GDP Contracts as Exports, Spending Slump - Bloomberg
• G8 energy leaders urge stable oil prices - CNN/Money
• The (almost) $2.5 trillionaire … - Setser, CFR
• China stuck in ‘dollar trap’ - Financial Times

HOUSING
• Reality Check On Housing Market - Wash. Post
• Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure - NY Times
• Loan Modification Companies To Be Avoided - Mandelman Matters
• Realtors are abandoning a listing ship - LA Times

FED/TREASURY/BANKING
• Fed's Fisher says inflation no risk - Reuters
• China warns Federal Reserve over 'printing money' - Telegraph
• We cannot inflate our way out of this crisis - Munchau, FT
• Geithner Dismisses GOP Socialism Charge as 'Ridiculous' - Wash. Post

INTERESTING
• Tasmanian devils now endangered - BBC
• Recession is giving inventors time to fine-tune ideas - LA Times
• The Dollar Redisign Project - Ministry of Type
• Yosemite's giant trees disappear - BBC

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