[happygrl]

Uncle Bill, thanks for providing these links and the education therein.

For those who think it can't happen here, Ninevah and Babylon were once great centers of civilization.

There are thousands of unexcavated "tells" in the Middle East which were once thriving cities.

The moving hand writes, and then moves on.

Tene, tene, tekel uupharsin...

[Uncle Bill]

"A global financial implosion is occurring, and it is forcing all major stock markets on earth into full retreat."

Revisions Show Recession Was Deeper

Dow Falls 302 points But Plunge Protection Team Lends A Hand

Economic Worries Slams Stocks

Stocks Slammed For Second Day

Dubya's Double Dip

STOCKS TUMBLE - "It's the fear of a double-dip recession," - Fox News

‘Double-dip’ recession fears return

Double dip talk

Hong Kong Shares End Lower, Cautious On US Double-Dip Recession

A Market Going Nowhere Fast

Handwriting is on the Street’s wall

Few Stock Funds Escape July Market Slide

Market ends week in a skid

Stocks find little relief after hours

Chip Stocks Pounded Lower

US Corp Bonds-Weaker with stocks, economic worries

Gold stocks soared Friday

U.S. shares pummeled by weak jobs data

Goldman Becomes First Wall Street Firm to Predict Fed Rate Cut This Year

Weak U.S. data spurs talk of Fed rate cut

A federal judge warned the Bush administration Friday he would reject any White House effort to block the release of records on Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force

AOL Time Warner shares drop on reports of PurchasePro inquiry

National Semiconductor Lowers Q1 Revenue Forecast

Worries About Economy Fuel Another Selloff on Wall Street

Weak Job Growth Spells Recession

Weak Economy Churns Out Few Jobs in July

Factory Orders See Big Drop

Economic Reports Are Disappointing, and Shares Plunge

Treasury Yields Fall on Talk of Rate Cut

BUDGET BLOWOUT - Bush Signs $28.9 Billion in Emergency Spending

Disney - Operating income drops 26%

Media networks division down 40%

Sales slump spurs layoffs at Sony Music

Cigna Income Falls 15 Percent

Cisco Investors Anticipate Weak Sales

Viacom shares tumble in broad market sell-off

Deputy AG Profited Before Stock Fell: Thompson Exercised Providian Options During Transition

U.S. Business Loans Fall

Airline stocks in down spiral again

GenVec Quarterly Loss Grows 84%

Conseco stock tumbles after a debt rating dowgrade

Asia Markets Tumble

Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill signaled that the United States was now willing to back bailout plans for two of the hardest-hit South American economies, Brazil and Uruguay

Venezuela Calls Out National Guard After Chavez Supporters Attack Police

Problems in Argentina, Brazil mean trouble for region

DESTROYING EVIDENCE - Wall St. Banks May Be Fined for Discarding E-Mail Traffic

N.Y.S.E. Abandons Plan to Build New Headquarters Across the Street

Stock Woes Send Web Surfers to Financial Sites

Consumer Credit: Is a Crunch Coming?