• Hillary: State Dept. ‘Instrumental in Sealing Deal’ For Lady Gaga’s Gay Pride Gig in Rome

• Here Are The Most Actively Traded Names In Goldman’s Dark Pool (Or Why Is The Big Money Fascinated With Italy?)

• Italy government tensions rise over austerity plans

• NYC Plans ‘I Do’ Campaign to Woo Gay Weddings

• Spain approves more spending cuts

• Hedge Funds Eye Japan Pensions Post-Quake

• ICE Futures U.S. will increase its ability to adjust trade prices in softs futures, the latest in a series of changes it has made to deal with volatility in its coffee, cocoa, cotton and sugar

I suppose it gets tiresome manipulating prices using algo black boxes and HFT so why not just change the law to allow for insiders to simply move prices based on them ‘eyeballing’ the situation.

Stacy Summary: Nothing to see here, keep moving. Just a flood caused by a few SuperDupermen and their super weapons, and now a super fire caused by those same dastardly SuperDupermen and their dastardly super weapons. Oh, how horrible to live in a world with these super beings so so much stronger than we mere mortals.

• Wildfire forces mandatory evacuation town of Los Alamos; and shut down and evacuation of Los Alamos National Laboratory

• JAMES MURDOCH: Google And Apple Are Crushing Us — If We Don’t Grow, We’re Toast

• Sinclair, Hathaway – Hell Could Break Loose, Confidence Cracks

• Hoenig Says Big Financial Firms (i.e., JPMorgan, Goldman, Citi) Put “Capitalism At Risk”

10/20/87 was the day Greenspan, Rubin and Reagan created the ‘working group on finance’ and started buying S&P futures contracts the day after the October 19th crash. This was going to be a ‘temporary solution’ which of course became a permanent feature of the government’s take down of free market capitalism and the rise of rigged market capitalism. Since ’87 the working group on finance or ‘plunge protection team’ as it’s called, has grown to a multi-trillion dollar Fed slush/hedge fund with market manipulating activities in all markets both domestic and foreign.

• Average household food bill nears $200/per week as food inflation tipped to surge as high as 5pc

• Berm Bursts At Nebraska Nuclear Facility