City watchdogs were monitoring cash withdrawals from Royal Bank of Scotland every hour during the height of the banking crisis, the Guardian can reveal.

The US government will spend over $6 trillion this year, running a deficit of over $1.5 billion. Government expenditures are expected to be over 40% of GDP by next year, the budget deficit will be over 10% of GDP and our total debt will exceed our GDP for the first time since World War II. The argument for a massive spending increase as economic stimulus makes the assumption that spending is the source of our prosperity

I think you’ll all agree these ads are creepy, but some of you may argue they’re not all UNINTENTIONALLY sexual. Let’s just say we’re giving these folks the benefit of the doubt. Because if these ads were meant to be as lewd as they turned out to be then some of their auteurs belong behind bars.

About 30% of foreclosures in June involved homes in the top third of local housing values, up from 16% when the foreclosure crisis began three years ago, according to new data from real-estate Web site Zillow.com.