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The world is in economic chaos and the candidates for president of the United States, and their surrogates, are talking about who's friends with whom, like some schoolyard scorecard. At rallies, some candidate supporters who are ardently pro-life are screaming "kill him" about the opponent, while pacifist supporters of the other side spew venemous obscenities.

None of this looks like the kind of democracy in action that we expect the rest of the world to exemplify. Full Article

Just in time to stop all those Wall Street traders from jumping off (or trying to sell many times over) the Brooklyn Bridge — the Columbus Day holiday interrupts the fevered selling of stocks to promote fevered selling of sheets, towels and trinkets.   Little did Christopher C. know, when he sailed the ocean blue, that Nina, Pinta and Santa Marie were heading for Macy's and Wal-Mart.   But the white sales will probably be blue this weekend as shoppers hold onto their incredibly shrinking credit cards, breathlessly awaiting the resumption of the economic saga "As the Market Churns" next Tuesday.

Market watchers are already forecasting a dismal Christmas shopping season.   But I was wondering if people are really holding back, or just saving up to buy some truly nice mementoes of the Last Days of Capitalist Excess — so to find out where the bargains might really be found, I turned to eBay. Full Article