In And Out Of The Market

• A handful of analysts see a '90s-style bull market if the era of rate hikes ends


• Ed Keon slashes equity holdings


• After last week's pullback, investors turn more bullish


• US equities have barely budged for almost 3 months now, leaving some to think that Mr. Market is setting up for its next big move


• The market has always gone up when the Steelers appear in the superbowl


• Logics and targets for 2006


• Corporate America keeps two sets of books - one for the SEC and the other for the IRS and they seldom match


• Earnings to reach double digits again


• I always like to see more oversold than overbought stocks


• "He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius


• Myths of the Greenspan Era


• Greenspan sends mixed signals even in retirement


• The best writings of Ben Bernanke


• Ben Bernanke: An unworldly professor


• Bush sends Congress a $2.77 trillion budget plan


• Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute


• "We are, in every way, living on borrowed time." - Ben Stein


• New health savings plans mostly help the wealthy


• Bush's major economic idea goes bust


• Is Hugo Chavez just all talk and no action?


• $96 crude is predicted for this summer's hurricane season


• Jim Jubak explains why OPEC won't turn off the oil


• Global imbalances are due for a correction?


• The Prisoners’ Dilemma by Jeffrey Saut


• A bullion-dollar bank account?


• The $200 billion broadband scandal


• If home prices fall, rents may fuel inflation


• No inflation? My wife's school will ask their teachers to pay a year-over-year +19% increase in health care benefits


• Travelers work around fast-rising hotel rates


• "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - Charles Mackay


• Interesting economic charts from Ahead of the Curve


• Costa Rica is the new Gold Coast


• Larry Silverstein will run out of money before he can finish rebuilding the World Trade Center


• A pretty reliable contrarian indicator - real estate is top job choice for young adults


• Foreclosure activity in California is up


• A buyer's market in home real-estate


• More developers are trying to entice new-homebuyers with freebies


• The Mortgage Professor


• The bull market in James J. Cramer has no end in sight


• At least for now, Eddie Lampert is the Steve Jobs of the investing world


• The other Mr. Bond


• Barron's takes a brief look at last year's top investment newsletters ($)


• Q&A with Barry James, PM of the James Small Cap Fund (JASCX) ($)


• Hedge fund manager challenges new rules


• I would be surprised if Intel (INTC) doesn't hold its $20 long-term support


• General Electric (GE) attracts a lot of investment newsletter support with one exception


• Independent oil firms may end being swallowed up by the big boys


• Satellite radio stocks have been duds recently causing some to get interested


• It is a wild toad's ride at China Tech (CTDC)


• Have commodities become the new tech stocks?


• "Aluminum will be the metal of 2006." - Jim Cramer


• Did you know that consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water


• The Water Wizard


• Thanks to slick new software, cell phones are getting as powerful as PCs


• Time Warner's new business plan - e-mail taxation


• John Dorfman finds 9 stocks with danger signs


• Feeling bearish? Trends, MACD Crossovers, EMA Breakouts, RSI Crossovers, Fibonacci


• 10 top-rated stocks with low p/e ratios


• Stock buybacks


• Please take time to read Presidential Elections & Stock Market Cycles


• "Well over 90% of the recent bull market occurred on Monday, Tuesdays, and Thursdays." - Brett Steenbarger


• Mapping the trader's brain is an interesting read


• Trust your instincts


• "The more I insulate myself from outside influences and concentrate just on the movement of stocks, the better I trade." - Dr. Eric Wish


• A basic options calculator


• A new status symbol has emerged: the $500 million cash payout


• John Bogle continues to shed light on the greedy practices of the mutual fund industry


• For long-term investing, you need to measure real-world return


• Hidden costs can cut your profits from mutual funds


• Index funds may not be sexy, but they work


• Index Funds: The 12 Step Program for Active Investors


• Having automatic back ups of your hard drive is a must


• Find statistics on just about anything


• Need to find your cost basis? BasisPro can help


• Search the future with PubSub


• 10 time savers for better time management


• Yes, I am a speed reader


• What women really want on Valentine's Day


• Dave Barry gets funny about money


• "It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing." - Marcia Wieder