http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/2229-indias-central-bank-buys-200-tons-of-gold

… yet gold prices soar. Go figure.

http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.4841

Here’s what we’re up against in fighting Islamic fanatic financing… not Islamic fanatic financiers… but our own, home-grown (home-schooled no doubt) right wing nuts.

http://www.newdeal20.org/?p=6046

I think he’s right. I’m ready to vote Republican, as they couldn’t be doing a worse job than this administration.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29057.html

“…These high-stakes primaries, pitting the activist wing of the party against the establishment wing…”

“…To Wilkinson, he’d rather burn the house down if it means saving it…”

“…It’s kind of like investors in a company saying they’re not going to tolerate it anymore. And that’s what we’re seeing here,” said Eric Odom, executive director of the American Liberty Alliance, a libertarian-oriented group. “We’re already gearing up. This is just the beginning…”

…of course the irony is that Obama is supporting the recently passed “Say on pay” which allows shareholders to vote to set upper management compensation, and the GOP is against that… Somebody needs to tell the “teabaggers.”

are we paying a price for not nationalizing the banks?
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/11/stiglitz-us-is-paying-for-not-nationalizing-banks.html

are funds really good thing for the investor? is compensation and fees for the funds so high to make it worth the time to have them? and will the USSC do any thing to enforce the law anyway?
http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/fund-watch/why-mutual-fund-investors-should-prevail-in-jones-v-harris-associates/318/?tag=main;main-edit

some good news…or not?
http://moneywatch.bnet.com/investing/blog/fund-watch/why-mutual-fund-investors-should-prevail-in-jones-v-harris-associates/318/?tag=main;main-edit
http://econompicdata.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-goes-down-must-come-up-factory.html

“Stocks rescued by the SPARC’s as even Uncle Warren could not help them much this morning.” However, perhaps CNBC repeating the Buffet story and how wonderful it was every 5 minutes may have had an effect on the great unwashed.