Breakfast Briefing Econ Edition: Message of Massachusetts, Illinois "state of insolvency", Youth rally against Obamacare...

• The Message of Massachusetts - online.wsj
• Banks pull another $1 billion from small business lending - Jan. 18, 2010 - money.cnn
• Health Bill's Prospects Would Be Hit by Democratic Loss in Massachusetts - online.wsj
• Illinois: "state of insolvency" - calculatedriskblog
• Massachusetts Senate Race Update: Youth Rail Against Obamacare - globaleconomicanalysis

• 2010 Investment Strategies: Six Areas To Buy, 11 Areas To Sell - ritholtz
• Jim the Realtor: Monument to Excess - calculatedriskblog
• Illinois Careens Towards Bankruptcy; Governmental Collapse Coming - globaleconomicanalysis
• Tuesday, January 19th, A Seminal Moment - market-ticker.denninger.net
• 5 Financial Tasks For Baby Boomers - consumerist

• Guest Post: Weightless Waiting For The Deflation Descent - zerohedge
• Oil Prices and Domestic Petroleum Exploration and Wells Investment - calculatedriskblog
• India Veers from Usual Compensation to Oil Firms - online.wsj
• The Dollar Carry Trade Reversed In December - businessinsider
• House Will Vote Directly On Senate Healthcare Bill - businessinsider

• CRE: Sign of the Times - calculatedriskblog
• Changes are coming to U.S. retirement system - marketwatch
• Extend And Pretend; Or Why The Inflation/Deflation Debate Is Largely Irrelevant - zerohedge
• Why The Administration's HAMP Anti-Foreclosure Program Will Be A Failure - zerohedge