Lunch Linkage: Government 'Out of Bullets,' Consumers in Trouble

• Government 'Out of Bullets,' Consumers in Trouble: Whitney - cnbc
• Collapse In Tax Withholdings Refutes Improvements In Either Unemployment Or Corporate Profitability - zerohedge
• Sad People Spend More Money - tipd

• Mexican Stock Exchange Shuts Down For "Administrative Recess", Or Merely Redefining The Siesta Break - zerohedge
• Meredith Whitney Continues The CNBC Doomsayer Tour - zerohedge
• CEOs Are Bullish on Sales, But Not on Hiring - foxbusiness

• Millions More At-Risk of Default Than Most Think - ritholtz
• Push to Finish Tallest Tower - online.wsj
• Morgan Stanley: Fed to Raise Rates in 2nd Half of 2010 - calculatedriskblog

• More Bad News For Dubai As Istithmar Loses Foreclosure Auction For Union Square W Hotel - zerohedge
• U.S. stocks drop sharply as global worries weigh - marketwatch
• Coming Collapse of Municipal Bonds; States, Cities Dig Deeper Holes - globaleconomicanalysis