Money Bag

• Crisis control at the Fed

• Bernanke plays his ace - now what?

• Give traders what they ask for and they still want more

• "When you combine ignorance and borrowed money, the consequences can get interesting." - Warren Buffett

• Wall Street is losing its own confidence game

• Capital is tight on Wall Street

• If lower interest rates will solve all of our problems, why don't we just cut them to zero?

• Aren't we trying to solve the problem the exact same way that we created it?

• Ponzi schemes are illegal – unless they're being run by Wall Street bankers

• Meanwhile, little guy investors are still hoping for the best

• There's something to be said for this - if you’re going to panic, panic early

• Stupid quote of the day award: "Right now, almost across the board, there are more sellers than buyers." - Bob Bacarella

• Any bounce should be taken as an opportunity to trim holdings?

• The best market timers remain more bullish than the worst timers

• Bear market rules

• Crash comparisons

• Hulbert points out the parallels between today's market and those preceding the 1987 crash

• The major difference between 1987 and now

• We will see a market PE of 8, eventually

• Todd Harrison's 5 reasons for optimism

• Earnings season is off to its weakest start since the end of the last recession

• Recession across the world is the main concern at Davos

• The catalysts for recovery seem to be falling into place

• Where are the buyback announcements?

• Big moves for retail and homebuilders this week

• "Since the S&P became an index of 500 stocks we've only had two months that finished worse than -12.5% (Oct 87 and Aug 98). And in the same period we've only had 8 months with -10% or worse monthly performances. Buying the close of these months produced excellent gains in the two worst periods and solid gains in all but one of the 8." - Jason Roney

• Selling stampedes typically last 17 to 25 trading sessions

• How about the T2107?

• This is the Year of the Rat

• The great rebate debate

• The Dems and Bush have a poor track record of working together

• Government spending on education and health may help

• What does Goldman Sachs know that we don't?

• Lawyers must be loving this

• Oil-field depletion rates are a key barometer of the health of the world's oil market

• Traders are still taking advantage of the Enron loophole

• Did the Asian and Middle Eastern government investment funds buy in too soon?

• The Gulf derivatives market could touch $300 billion

• Low-income sole traders dominate China's stock market

• China students use tuition fees to buy stocks

• Hong Kong stock addicts are expected to surge

• Where will contrarian investors find outsized returns in 2008? John Neff offers some ideas

• A long-term bull throws in the towel

• Soros thinks the situation is much more serious than any other other financial crisis since WWII

• How Buffett is playing this market

• Why it's fair weather for Fairfax investors

• Why did some banks and brokerage firms get so badly scorched by the subprime debacle and others come through relatively untouched?

• What stocks will benefit the most when the market bounces?

• Market loves the gap fade trade

• ThinkEquity draws some conclusions when looking over the top 25 performing companies over the last 10 years

• A logical method of stop placement

• Whitney Tilson makes the case for less portfolio diversification

• Jonathan Clements offers some advice for small investors in today's market

• Do not let an investment turn into a trade

• The five words you can't say in personal finance

• Only 33 ETFs existed at the end of 1999

• Pop quiz! What is the best performing ETF year-to-date?

• WisdomTree files for 12 new money market ETFs

• Financial planners aren't sold on active ETFs

• The downside of market-proof annuities

• How has your broker been holding up this week? (Ameritrade was out to lunch yesterday)

• ManagingMoney offers a smorgasbord of financial services offerings

• Important lessons to teach your children about money

• Sheldon Adelson may well be the richest American that most people have never heard of

• Ex-Trader sees opportunity in death care

• Have you achieved a good work-life balance

• "Everyone takes a beating sometimes." - Henry Hill from Goodfellas