Weekend Reading

• Bear mart sale!
• Hedge fund woes could hit Main Street
• What caused Bear Stearn's hedge fund problems?
• IMF predicts US Economy to pick up pace
• The San Francisco Fed with the outlook for the U.S. economy
• That's a lot of bull! The Investor's Intelligence sentiment survey this week found that only 19% of newsletters currently expect the market the fall which is the smallest amount in nearly three years
• Value Line raises some cash
• Yet, NYSE short interest keeps climbing
• So far in June, U.S. equity funds have received $650 million, while global equity funds have received a hefty $6.5 billion
• The solitary bear
• Michael Kahn finds the soft underside of the bull
• Markets are having second thoughts about global growth
• A Shanghai update
• Dasvedania?
• Eric Miller comments upon the retreat of complacency
• Stock splits have really picked up
• An interesting look at natural gas & crude oil
• Carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market
• Sugar, sugar!
• High prices mock frustrated wheat farmers
• Canada's latest hot commodity: Saskatchewan farmland
• Wind blows away competition among renewable energy investors
• Wind power puts famed ranches at odds
• The bullish take on alternative energy
• Steven Sears offers up some summertime options strategies
• What's troubling financial stocks?
• Subprime storm winds will keep blowing
• University endowments were among the most eager buyers of risky mortgage-backed securities being offloaded by Wall Street this week
• The worst is yet to come for the housing market?
• Seeking Alpha's housing bubble and real-estate tracker
• REITs resistance
• Luxury optimists still exist in the housing market
• The FDIC’s misguided new consumer loan guidelines
• Is this really a good idea? SEC to ease filing rules for foreign companies
• Free-Trade fraud!
• Insider trading around the world
• Simply outrageous! Blue-chip managers only pay a 15% capital gains rate!
• Is the SEC too buddy-buddy with hedge funds?
• SEC cracks down on abusive short selling
• Druckenmiller & Loeb have the hot hand
• Blackstone's World of Cash
• Big blue gets smarter
• GSK's nonprescription diet drug Alli has some issues
• IBD profiles Nve Corp (NVEC)
• Guess execs line their pockets
• Google goes green
• Climate-change scorecard aims to influence consumers
• All-star fund manager picks
• High open interest!
• 11 cash-flow champs
• StockScouter picks
• Traders profit best by ignoring most financial news
• Good technical traders rely on a variety of tools to identify trading opportunities
• Mind games!
• Don’t confuse brains with a bull market
• Tips on how to be your own boss
• What's wrong with speculation?
• How to sharpen your trading skills
• Online options trading made simpler
• The makings of an ETF bubble
• What's wrong with the Oil ETF?
• Lazy portfolios with actively managed funds?
• Nearly a third of American adults describe themselves as either apprehensive, panicked or clueless about their retirement preparedness
• When retirement experts talk, nobody listens
• A safety net safer than Social Security
• Luxury-home floor plans that are popular with buyers
• What Happened in Vegas...
• The pitfalls of shared calendars
• Do you have a BlackBerry boss?
• Get well soon Brett!
• Two more stock blogs bite the dust: Yaser Anwar & Trader-X. Is blogging really that hard?
• What are the best Web 2.0 sites and services? Check out the Webware 100
• How to find the perfect family vacation
• Forget 'fore'; Nevada golfer yells fire
• RIP Uncle Bob
• Congratulations to the million-dollar waitress!
• 39 ways to live, and not merely exist
• "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare