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We are seeing the specter of instability in the growing protests of income inequality, economic distress of the middle class, and economic and political power of the very wealthy. There is Occupy Wall Street in the U.S., and similar…

Now watch the Greek protestors turn on each other. Makes you wonder if an EU plan to be announced Wednesday is really going to solve the core issues of the crisis in the eurozone: 1) too much debt that can't be paid back; 2) debt/credit…

A friend sent this to me. It’s a note making the rounds by e-mail. If I get a source, I will link to it:

The special interest most people are concerned about are the banks. In the banking sector, fraud was a major contributor to the crisis. Because the White House has not prosecuted these frauds, bankers in general are now denounced as…

November 5th is the date of the planned action. CNBC video below

Here’s Jim Chanos on the demonstrations on Wall Street which express the anti-bailout sentiments expressed by both the Tea Party and #OccupyWallStreet. Bill Gross, Vikram Pandit, John Paulson and Michael Bloomberg all chimed in too.

Former George W. Bush official Pippa Malmgren does a good analysis for Bloomberg of the issues important to voters and how they will play in this year's presidential election

The future of Euro is going to be determined by the Greek street in the next few weeks and how they react to the new austerity measures. G-Pap has his work cut out convincing the population the pain is worth it. Stay tuned.

Rick Bookstaber argues that the rise of the super-elite is not a product of educational differences, but rather a result of the new capitalism which creates bigger winners, and does so much more quickly than in the capital-intensive…

You can ignore the markets if you want to. But, in time, the markets will not ignore you – Nigel Farage, MEP