Jim Willie | Accusation that the Clinton administration replaced perhaps the entire contents of Fort Knox gold with tungsten bars plated with gold.

New York Times | About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly.

Ryan Grim | A broad cross-section of the “prominent economists” lobbying on behalf of the Watt bill are in fact deeply involved with the Federal Reserve.

John Galt | Despite popular belief and promises from those who wish to rob you of your savings and investments, the collapse of the dollar might just be an event measured in hours, not days as their control is not what it seems.

Bloomberg | Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s bankrupt estate and a trustee for its brokerage both sued Barclays Plc, seeking the return of a $5 billion “windfall.”

Bloomberg | Commodities rose as the recovering world economy spurred demand for raw materials, sending gold to a record and mining stocks higher.

Reuters | With the U.S. unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, Obama says his administration faces a balance of trying to boost the economy and spur job creation while putting the economy on a path toward long-term deficit reduction.

Nouriel Roubini | Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening.

Washington’s Blog | New derivatives legislation is so bad that it probably increases — rather than decreases — the risk to the financial system.

Mineweb | South Africa’s Witwatersrand goldfields are around 95% exhausted and production rates should fall permanently below 100 tons a year within the coming decade.

AFP | As the dollar dropped against the euro and yen, gold struck an all-time peak of 1,133.20 dollars an ounce.

Bloomberg | Leo Hindery is managing director of InterMedia Partners LP.

Dprogram | US economy is no longer capitalism, it’s oligarchies and fascism.

Telegraph | Total mine supply has dropped by 10pc as ore quality erodes, implying that the roaring bull market of the last eight years may have further to run.

Phil’s Stock World | Maybe when they are charging you $80 a gallon for water and ten cents a breath you’ll want to do something about it.

Reuters | The decision could make government prosecutors less likely to bring criminal charges against Wall Street executives for their role in the financial crisis.

Bloomberg | Gold rose for an eighth straight session in New York, the longest rally since early 2006.

Bloomberg | Gold jumped to a record.

Financial Times | US blue-chip stocks hit a new high for the year.

Zero Hedge | Not much optimism from one of CNBC’s favorite bulls.

AFP | Gold prices hit a record above 1,100 dollars on Monday with the dollar weakening after a pledge by G20 countries to keep economic recovery pumped up with easy money.

In all, more than one out of every six workers — 17.5 percent — were unemployed or underemployed in October.

Infowars | The dollar will get “utterly destroyed” and become “virtually worthless”, said Damon Vickers.

Michael Pento | A closer look indicates that neither the administration nor the Federal Reserve believes its own recovery rhetoric.

The Heritage Foundation | If this recovery is going to include job growth along with GDP growth, then job killing initiatives like Obamacare and cap and trade will have to be abandoned.

Mac Slavo | Given what we’ve been told so far, is it prudent to put our trust into the very officials who have gotten us to where we are today?

Wall Street Journal | U.S. stock futures fell broadly Friday morning after a report showed U.S. unemployment hit its highest level in more than 26 years in October.

Carbon trading involves “financial speculators and complex financial products” and “carries a risk that carbon trading will develop into a speculative commodity bubble”.

Russia Today | “The president runs the US, but the President is unwilling to toss overboard the fundamental philosophy that the bankers live under.”

Reuters | At the current rate, an estimated one in eight Americans receive benefits.

Telegraph | Every family in the country is now facing a tax liability of £4,350 to prop up Britain’s banking system after Alistair Darling announced the biggest bail-out in history.

CNNMoney | Gold rose to an all-time high Wednesday amid a weaker dollar and speculation that foreign central banks would increase their purchases of the precious metal.

Bloomberg | London bankers have gone into churches in recent weeks and invoked Christianity to defend a banking system.

Vocus/PRWEB | The key issue to be discussed this week at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting is how to bring down the present world financial system through dumping the US dollar.

Zero Hedge | Another multi-trillion Treasury sinkhole is on the way.

McClatchy Newspapers | Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, now the big banker that takes homes away.

Roger Wiegand | We are not yelling fire in this theatre of the absurd but rather giving an untenable situation the cold, blank, fishy-eyed stare of an auditor.

Bloomberg | Treasuries led declines in government bonds, with the yield on the 10-year note rising 3 basis points to 3.41 percent.

McClatchy Newspapers | Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages.

Washington Post | There were few signs in the new data that the private sector will be able to sustain that growth once the government pulls back, or that the rise will soon translate into an improving job market.

Newsmax | The global markets are at risk of crashing when the dollar rebounds, says economist Nouriel Roubini.

PRNewswire | Prices are rising all around us, yet agricultural commodities have for the most part been left behind and remain at historically depressed levels.

Exposing Faux Capitalism | The function they serve that isn’t already served by Federal Reserve notes is that not a single penny of interest was ever due on them, nor will ever be due, by the American people to the bankers or the government.

Bloomberg | Actual hiring seems to be lagging behind the model’s land of make-believe.

Bob Chapman | We have entered a phase where the Fed and the US Treasury recognize that they can no longer hold up the dollar.

Fox News | Persistently dismal jobless numbers still dampen any talk of a full recovery in the near future.

Jonathan Turley | We are now piling on debt faster than gross domestic product.

Telegraph | Farm commodities have largely missed out on Bernanke’s reflation rally in metals, oil, and everything else.

Bloomberg | Household spending will be restrained by rising unemployment.

Money and Markets | It took the Fed 5,012 days — 13 years and 8 months — to double the cash currency and reserves in the coffers of U.S. banks.