Economic Hopscotch

• Wanted: investors, no strings attached!

• Blockbuster investments by government funds lead to backlash

• A U.S. recession poses a bigger threat to the global economy than a slowdown in China

• The Economist's informal R-word index is also sounding alarms

• Early earnings returns are mixed

• Consensus earnings estimates are still too high?

• Can the global commodities boom survive a U.S. recession?

• Black Swan author Nassim Taleb issues a warning to traders

• Will the good times last?

• The Fed-Cutting Folly

• Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North Atlantic banking system, so far with meager or fleeting effects

• All roads point toward more inflation

• The average American now owes China $4,000 bucks?

• Passing the devalued Buck

• Have we really run out of bubbles?

• Top 10 technology surprises for 2008

• Bank frontrunning?

• Chinese stock manipulation/overvaluation

• Jubak jumps on the solar bandwagon

• Meet the Nano!

• The most overvalued stocks according to Morningstar

• Oil & gas stocks continue to rank high in StockScouter

• "It’s easy to get angry at the markets. And the consequences of doing so can be just as painful." - James Altucher

• Why people believe weird things about money

• Chris Perruna offers an exercise to teach proper position sizing

• Are IBD's follow through days predictive?

• Brett on trading false breakouts

• How to go about investing in commodities

• One of America's fastest-growing investment scams: currency trading

• John Paulson made billions on subprime (here's his portfolio)

• From 10 hours a week, $10 million a year

• $90 wine tastes better than the same wine at $10

• "The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book." - John McCain