Today's Headlines:
Summer of Recovery Comes to an End: August Sheds 10,000 Private Sector Jobs
-- Summer of Economic Discontent
-- "RECOVERY UNDER THREAT"
-- Survey: Half of American Workers Concerned About Their Job Security
-- Second Quarter U.S. Productivity Revised Down to Lowest Level in Nearly 4 Years
-- Wages Growing at Less Than Half Pre-Recession Rate
-- Down With Big Government, Big Business, and Big Labor
-- Tea Party is About More than Government
-- Welcome to the (Tea) Party
-- FDIC: Banks at Risk of Failure Climbs to 829... Nearly Double from 1 Year Ago...
-- New Bond Alert Issued: High Risk, High Yield Debt Sales Halt
-- Fed Mulls Further Debt Purchases... "...did not rule out buying further mortgage debts"
-- More Investors Seeking "Toxic" Mortgage Debt
-- Depression
-- Auto Sales Heading for 28-Year Low
-- Homelessness in NYC up 50% in the Past Year
-- Gallup: Underemployment at 18.3%
-- Unemployed Seeing a Rise in Health Care Costs
-- Health Insurance Agents, RIP: The First Casualties of ObamaCare
-- Americans Continue to Sour on Health Reform
-- TEXAS FIGHTS!!!
-- 2nd Quarter Growth Revised Down to 1.6%, "...companies barely managed to post profit gains..." "...companies cutting costs by trimming payrolls."
-- Outlook "about to get a lot bleaker"
-- "Lost Decade" Around the Corner?
-- Weekly Jobless Claims Drop; Four-Week Jobless Claim Average Highest Since November 2009
-- One in Ten Mortgage Holders Faces Foreclosure
-- Social Security "Milk Cow..."
GOLD!!!
-- Fed Readies the Presses; Fresh Dollars Soon to Flood the Market
-- Depression!!!
-- Government Defaults Inevitable
-- Unity Rally Report by WTP Board Member Greg Jones
-- Life is Not Fair
-- This is Why Tea Parties Exist... (worth the long read)