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.

AFP | “I don’t want to demonize the banking and financial sector,” said the Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth II’s second son and the special representative for international trade and investment.

Politico | The biggest decision of the economic recovery will be made in the next six months, and Barack Obama will have almost nothing to do with it.

Mike Larson | Federal Reserve policymakers probably couldn’t be happier! They want prices to surge.

Wall Street Journal | Labor-market stress continued to be widespread in September as all but seven states reported job losses last month.

My Budget 360 | Credit card companies cannibalize their good customers for their horrid lending practices during the debt bubble.

Clusterstock | Hank Paulson held a secret meeting with the board of Goldman Sachs in Moscow.

Reuters | The United States must live within its means once its economy recovers if it is to preserve global confidence in the U.S. dollar’s status, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said last week.

Yahoo Finance | Ferguson dismisses the dollar loyalists, citing the British pound — the last international reserve currency — as his example.

CNSNews | A total of 15 million people are unemployed and 2.6 million lost their jobs since the recovery bill was enacted.

Infowars | “There is no recovery. It’s a cover-up. You only have to look at the facts.”

Scott Thill | We’re neck-deep in another Great Depression, which is unfurling into a devaluation nightmare.

SurvivalBlog | The Federal government’s debt, just by itself is cause for concern.

CNN | A leading fiscal mind on Capitol Hill and a one-time Obama Cabinet pick sounded the alarm Sunday over the projected long-term financial challenges the country faces.

New York Times | Growing numbers of Americans who have lost houses to foreclosure are landing in homeless shelters

Darren Weeks | Every time the media reports the unemployment numbers, it reminds me of George Orwell’s book, 1984.

Los Angeles Times | The Securities and Exchange Commission hired a 29-year-old former employee in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s business intelligence unit as the first chief operating officer in the agency’s enforcement division.

Reuters | A global body with legal powers may be needed over time to enforce the world’s new financial rules, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said

The Independent | A jury of 12 mainly working-class New Yorkers will decide the fate of the two Bear Stearns managers whose hedge funds imploded in 2007.

Yahoo Finance | Rogers didn’t offer a timetable, and it’s likely gold would exceed $2000 per ounce if the dollar were to lose its reserve status.

Telegraph | Analysts reckon that Goldman, historically the most profitable bank on Wall Street, is on track to deliver total pay and bonuses in excess of $22bn.

CNNMoney | Oil prices surged above $75 a barrel Wednesday for the first time this year as the U.S. dollar remained weak and investors bet that global energy demand is poised to recover.