Updates on Economy

Financial collapse, economic meltdown:

Wall Street Journal: Number of Long Term Unemployed Workers Soar

Associated Press: Government Says Mass Layoffs Soared in January

New York Times: "Black Swan" Author Sees Trouble Exceeding 1930s

New York Times: As AIG's Losses Grow, it's Survival Options Sink

Wall Street Journal: "Bankers face worst nightmare wave of defaults"

Alternet: "Global economy has entered spectacularly sudden crash"

UK Telegraph: Bank of England Warns "things worse than we thought"

UK Independent: Collapse in Spending Sends Economy Into Tail Spin

Civil unrest, riots, breakdown in social order:

Michael Klare: Economic Meltdown Has Pushed the World to the Brink

Reuters: Widespread Riots Shut Down Greece's Government Offices

Time: Mexico's Drug War, Social Unrest Reacing a New Tipping Point

UK Independent: "Afghanistan a grim picture of spiralling violence"

Globe & Mail: Harvard Professor Says "Civil War" Now a Possibility

Daily Mail: "Britons flee as island plunges into full scale urban warfare"

James Howard Kunstler: [American] Public's Anger at the Boiling Point

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