Tuesday Morning Links

MUST READS
Bernanke’s goal: Keep out of the corner - MarketWatch
Social Security is slipping closer to insolvency - LA Times
Medicare funding runs short by 2024, trustees say - CNN/Money
New California Taxes Pay for Pensions, Not Schools - Bloomberg
More Mexicans leave U.S. than enter - Washington Post
Food Stamps: Desperate Need or Double Dealing? - Fiscal Times
The Hidden Role of Gold at the IMF - Rickards, US News
Should we return to the gold standard? - USA Today
The unwitting move towards a global gold standard - FT Alphaville
Feds Coordinating Brutal Crackdown on Occupy Protests - Washington’s Blog
Think The US Student Loan Bubble Is Bad? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet - Zero Hedge
Duration Risk: How the Fed is Creating the Next Financial Crisis - IRA
Jailed for $280: The return of debtors’ prisons - CBS News
Epic Fail - Part 1 - The Burning Tree

MARKETS/INVESTING
Oil hovers near $103 amid EU economy worries - AP
Gold holds near $1,640 ahead of Fed meeting - Reuters
Wall Street Is Full of ‘Stock-Picking Robots’ - SmartMoney
Trade Keynesian, Speak Austrian - Business Insider
Crisis of confidence coming soon? - Fleckenstein, MS Money
Peak Oil Is Nowhere To Be Found On The WTI Futures Curve - ForexPros
Emerging Forces in Oil Consumption: The Middle East and Africa - Gregor
Haywood stands firm on 2012 silver forecast despite volatility warnings - Mineweb
Barclays: Gold physical demand lacklustre, support above $1630/oz - Commodity Online
Gold May Decline on Concern Over Slack Physical Demand - Bloomberg
Weighing the Evidence of Oil & Gold Stocks - Resource Investor
Nixon, the Gold Standard & Oil - Resource Investor

ECONOMY/WORLD/HOUSING/BANKING
CPI Conspiracy Theories Persist - Bloomberg
Wall St. Outlook Slipping Closer to Fed’s Pessimism - CNBC
Eurozone Austerity by the Numbers - The Street Light
IMF encourages Europe’s economic suicide - Telegraph
French Voters Show Their Anger with Sarkozy - Spiegel
U.K. Government hits annual borrowing target - BBC
What next for the euro if France rejects austerity? - Telegraph
Dutch government falls in austerity skirmish - Washington Post
The Spanish Dilemma: Euro’s Fate Hinges on Austerity in Madrid - Spiegel
The Housing Market Doldrums - CounterPunch
Short Sales Higher, Prices Lower - CNBC
‘How our home was saved from foreclosure’ - CNN/Money
Kohn: ‘Huge Risk’ US Won’t Take Steps On Debt, Deficit By Year End - Nasdaq
What Is QE? - Grasping Reality with the Invisible Hand