Click to enlarge: MarketWatch.com – 6 reasons Spain will leave the euro first Commentary: Spain is too big to rescue, and doesn’t want it anyway The euro debt crisis, like any really spectacular geoeconomic event, is spawning its own special vocabulary. We’ve already had Merkozy, now relegated to the footnotes, and are slowly getting used [...]

Google. Yahoo. Apple. Motorola. Microsoft. As long as they are all suing each other, maybe the little guy has a chance!   click for ginormous graphic By Visual.ly, via Fast Co Design

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For tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds, Thom Hartmann is joined by Nobel Prize winning economist Dr. Paul Krugman. Krugman received a Ph.D. from MIT – and has taught at several schools including Yale, MIT, and Stanford. He’s written 20 books – including several best-sellers – and over 200 papers on international trade, finance, currencies, and [...]

My afternoon train reading: • Did One Of Jamie Dimon’s Traders Betray Him & Cost The Firm Billions In Losses? (Zero Hedge) • The Asymmetric Recovery (Economix) • What to do about debt (Reuters) see also Europe’s debtors must pawn their gold for Eurobond Redemption (Telegraph) • Sorkin’s Glass-Steagall “straw man” (Columbia Journalism Review) • [...]

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Source: Bianco Research   Presented without comment: Dr. Housing Bubble – The politics of the underwater homeowner – the impact of negative equity on the balance sheet of Americans. Top 5 markets to purchase foreclosures: A recent report shows that 1 out of 3 Americans with a mortgage is still underwater owing $1.2 trillion more [...]

Pending Home Sales in April fell 5.5%, well below expectations of flat m/o/m and comes after a cumulative gain of 16.3% in the warm fall/winter months of Oct thru Mar. Contract signings fell the sharpest in the still over inventoried areas of the South and West. Sales rose slightly in the Northeast and fell a [...]

Australian retail sales declined unexpectedly by -0.2% in April MoM, the 1st fall in 10 months. The weaker data suggests further cuts of interest rates by the RBA. The A$ declined on the news and, in addition, reports that China would not introduce a major stimulus programme; The BoJ suggests that it has done enough [...]