Money Watch

Bloomberg | Death and taxes aren’t only certain, they also seem to share a same deadline in the U.S., according to a study that points to the role of stress in fatal accidents.

Zero Hedge | Those hoping for a quick and painless resolution to the Iranian question may have just seen their hopes dashed.

Zero Hedge | Sorry folks. We only wish this was a joke.

Saman Mohammadi | Many artists and poets have said that our planet is an insane asylum where the craziest people are the authorities in charge of enforcing the rules, not the patients.

The Economic Collapse | The mainstream media is not telling you the truth about unemployment in the United States.

Anthony Wile | Did you read that on March 27th Congress passed the JOBS act, which stands for “Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups.”

Business Insider | In an interview with CNBC this past weekend, Faber said that last Friday’s disappointing jobs report only affirms his opinion that the U.S. economy remains anemic.

Zero Hedge | As reported earlier, the Indian gold buying strike is now over, and just as we predicted, gold futures are off to the races.

The Hill | A Republican lawmaker is intensifying his push for legislation that would change how the government measures the unemployment rate.

New American | Analysts and critics of the central bank, however, were not entirely convinced.

Daily Bell | The United States Congress is steadily headed to a place where those who owe money to the US government shall be treated criminally.

Daily Bell | ‘Buy oil, not gold’ … Oil is a better bet for investors than gold, a leading fund manager has said.

Mac Slavo | Despite throwing trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of pages of government regulations at the problem, nothing has been resolved.

The Daily Bell | The power elite that wants to run the world obviously wishes to discourage the ownership of precious metals.

Zero Hedge | So what has to happen for these 10 million to get promptly put back into jobs?

CNSNews.com | Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said Thursday that paying taxes is a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.

Zero Hedge | In February S&P said it could downgrade the US again in as soon as 6 months if there was no budget plan.

The Daily Bell | Gold prices plunge overnight – is the rush over? … Has the gold boom come to an end?

Bob Chapman | How do you create your own monsters?

RT | The recent suicide of a cash-strapped Greek pensioner is a sign of the dire situation Greece finds itself in.

RT | Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the “financial repression”.

New American | The sovereign debt crisis of the European Union is not going away anytime soon.

The Daily Bell | We can see from all of the above that gold and silver STILL don’t warrant a mention in articles such as this.

Zero Hedge | In our busy days, it is all too easy to fall into the trap of hearing (and believing) the latest headline and its associated spin.

RT | Over the years the US dollar has become weaker and weaker, and it seems the Chinese Yuan is getting stronger and stronger.

Saman Mohammadi | Bernie Madoff, Ben Bernanke, and Barack Obama are names that belong in the same sentence.

Zero Hedge | When one cuts out all the noise, the only true purpose of aggressive (or not) central bank asset expansion, is to be a “buyer” of last resort of sovereign debt funding.

Zero Hedge | While we do not know if foodstamp usage is seasonally adjusted, we do know that in January it was virtually unchanged at 46.5 million recipients.

Saman Mohammadi | Gerald Celente’s warning of an economic 9/11 should serve as an early wake-up call to America and the world.

The American Dream | The middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence in the United States today.

CNBC.com | Runaway government debts have triggered uncontrolled money printing that in turn will lead to inflation that will decimate portfolios, according to the latest forecast from Faber.

Business Insider | Richard Russell, writer of the Dow Theory Letters, is just looking for the right time to buy stocks.

Sharecast | Unemployment across the countries that use the euro hit a 15-year high of 10.8 per cent in February.

The Economic Collapse | If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren would you do it?

Bob Chapman | The housing recovery seems to have been a temporary affair. Preliminary data frames March as weak as last October.

Zero Hedge | “Even a 1-Trillion Euro Firewall wouldn’t be enough.”

Prisonplanet.com | Alex gets into economic issues today with broadcaster and film-maker Max Keiser. Prior to being a broadcaster, Keiser was a stock broker on Wall Street.

Agence France-Presse | A nearly seven-decade carve-up has seen Americans lead the World Bank and Europeans head its sister organisation the International Monetary Fund.

Zero Hedge | Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion.

The Daily Bell | If the honchos of the Dallas Fed want to break up banks, they should start with their own.

RT | The BRICS summit has wrapped up in India. Creating an alternative global lender and stepping away from the dollar as a reserve currency were among their main objectives.

Bob Chapman | Seven months after the official announcement on 9/21/11 of “Operation Twist” not much progress has been made at the long end of the market to reduce yields.

Mac Slavo | What was a fairly minor fuel shortage sparked when gas tanker drivers in the UK threatened to go on strike has developed into what UK officials are now calling all out chaos.

New American | Last year the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of the total net Treasury issuance, up from negligible amounts prior to the 2008 financial crisis.

The Daily Bell.com | There are arguments that certain kinds of government monopoly money have proven more effective than other kinds.

Zero Hedge | Outgoing Treasury Secretary and tax challenged part-time pathological liar (see here) Tim Geithner said that any worries of the US debt ceiling are misplaced.

RT | Max Keiser summarizes Jon Corzine’s argument for his innocence.

New American | Remember $1.83 per gallon gasoline? Seems like a very distant memory?

Zero Hedge | Short-term interest rates will be ineffective since ECB lending to MFIs is now minimal.

Bob Chapman | Seven months after the official announcement on 9/21/11 of “Operation Twist” not much progress has been made at the long end of the market to reduce yields.