Gimme A Job (Kitco.com)

Private economists, not the government kind that are told what to report, signal a slow down in the jobless rate. We forecast just the opposite. Unemployment unfortunately has just begun to accelerate., more 
and Foreclosure Filings in U.S. Reach Record 1.5 Million (Update2) (Bloomberg)  More than 1.5 million properties received a default or auction notice or were seized by banks in the six months through June, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a statement. That’s a 15 percent increase from the year earlier., more