Links for Tuesday, November 23, 2010
- America Blog: US Banks Reportedly Short $100-$150 Billion Reserves – “Despite the outrageously high pay that suggest otherwise, the US banking industry is still in deep financial trouble. Anyone really interested in helping them out this time?“
- Open Secrets Blog: Congressional Members’ Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy – “Despite a stubbornly sour national economy congressional members’ personal wealth collectively increased by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics of federal financial disclosures released earlier this year.“
- Laughing Squid: Glitch, A Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Game – “Glitch is a web-based massively-mutliplayer game which takes place inside the minds of eleven peculiarly imaginative Giants. You choose how to grow and shape the world: building and developing, learning new skills, collaborating or competing with everyone else in one enormous, ever-changing, persistent world.“
- The Economic Collapse Blog: 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commission Is An Exercise In Futility – The U.S. Government Will Never Have A Balanced Budget Ever Again – “*The truth is that virtually none of our politicians are willing to make the hard choices that would be necessary to get the national debt under control. Today, the U.S. national debt is rapidly approaching 14 trillion dollars and it is growing at an exponential rate. It is the single largest debt in the history of the world, and it has increased in size for 53 years in a row. It would be very difficult to understate the true horror of the debt that the U.S. federal government has accumulated. *“