Social Security? Not Exactly

Bond bubble remerges… details behind the gov’s latest debt struggle… The slow demise of snail mail… USPS forecasts record losses… Customized drugs: Patrick Cox on a breakthrough set to revolutionize health care… Bill Jenkins with another sign the euro is overvalued… his price targets below…

China turns it up another notch… now “concerned about the security” of U.S. investments… Chris Mayer tells the “story of today’s economy”… Mainstream celebrates latest home price index… our perceptive on the housing “recovery”… Three market sectors currently detached from reality… The truth emerges… why Ben Bernanke really bailed out Wall Street…

Resource legend tips his hat to three soon-to-bubble sectors… The housing market has “bottomed out” says PNC… our gentle retort… Alan Knuckman with an economic indicator far superior to unemployment: chicken sales… Our panel of “whiskey shooters” on the worst-case scnerio… how to get out of Dodge if the dollar collapses… Britian now REALLY in crisis… recession, taxes cause wave of pub shutdowns…

Government inspector general pegs maximum bailout bill… almost double annual U.S. GDP… Marc Faber on the future of the U.S. economy and an outlook for the S&P… A 30-second roundup of the Investment Symposium’s first day… buys, sells and trends you can’t miss… Pension funds in peril… America’s two largest announce $100 billion loss, more to come… Frank Holmes on the three most important value drivers of a gold mining stock…

CIT dodges bullet, others report super-sized earnings… are banks really on the mend? Greg Guenther with a safe way to play the volatile biotech sector… California finally plugs its budget gap… with taxes, debt and accounting fraud… Chris Mayer on a rising dilemma for miners of the world… Plus, even the dead can’t dodge the recession… backyard burials booming…

China bulls beware… Chinese regulator warns of American-style housing bubble… Market rejoices over housing start rebound… should you be celebrating too? Dan Amoss on shorting the stock market’s recent strength… Sign of the times… Mexicans, Czechs no longer welcome in Canada… Plus, Byron King reveals an arresting historic gold chart…

The tragic story the media missed… the biggest deficit in the history of money… Dollar weakens, yet euro stands still… Bill Jenkins on the true valuation of these monies.. . Bill Bonner on Congress’ latest “eat the rich” legislation… Our tech adviser shows a powerful example of a coming computing breakthrough

Idiocracy in action: Congress blocks bill to audit the Fed… No surprise: American loan defaults hit record… Surprise: Could Canadians be next? China takes another “World’s No. 1” from U.S. … Dan Denning, Byron King on recent triumph and tragedy in the oil patch…

Deja vu all over again… are stocks just following the 2008 playbook?… Bill Jenkins shares his favorite global currency… Gold bugs beware: Gold chart forecasts a sell-off… Yet league of famous funds (and Chris Mayer) are buying up gold stocks… Plus, are we reading this right? A bank bails out the government?