Reuters | U.S. stocks rose on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 rebounding after three weeks of losses.

Zero Hedge | “Are you a liability for your channel?”

Bizpac Review | “There are Americans working really hard in this country to pay taxes and this is what the president and first lady do to the American taxpayer?”

Michael Krieger | International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain.”

Zero Hedge | Greece will run out of cash absent another check from the Troika.

Business Insider | Even without the heat of official negotiations, relations between Athens and Berlin are getting more sour by the day.

Simon Black | If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one…) then he’s probably doing so right now.

Jefferey Jaxen | It appears that 2015 is not going to be kind for McDonald’s.

Wall Street Journal | Bank of America must resubmit proposal to address certain weaknesses.

Zero Hedge | “Central banks are not all singing and all dancing,”

Zero Hedge | For more than a decade, John Ramsay kept his mouth shut about how rigged the US equity market was.

Brandon Smith | Government debt creation does not beget successful domestic production.

Zero Hedge | Putin’s regime may be locked out of all international monetary transactions.

Mac Slavo | Top alternative asset manager Eric Sprott, whose company has $10 billion in assets under management, sounds the alarm.