• Hedge-Fund Titans Got Inside Political Tips

The ability to trade on inside Wall St. and Washington information will increase exponentially when NADEX starts trading ‘Prediction Market’ political contracts in January. The entire political process will enter a new era of farce as vote-rigging gets ‘securitized’ and ‘financialized.’ Of course this will be seen as a triumph for ‘free markets’ and not for what it really is: hyper-kleptocracy.

• Privatising Margaret Thatcher’s funeral would be a fitting tribute to her legacy

• Special Report: The watchdogs that didn’t bark

• ‘Classic bubble’ signs in Canadian housing market

“Gold buyers have big balls”

• The Fed vs The ECB – Presenting “The Correlation Of 2012″ And What It Means For Gold

• Handicap Scooter Bumper Car Competition At Walmart Ends In 2:30 AM Arrest Of Drunken Louisiana Guy

• ‘I was too broke to buy the chemicals’: Woman caught making meth inside Walmart

• Bullish & Bearish Arguments For Precious Metals in 2012

• Greeks take a stand against unpopular property tax

• New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans