Highlights & Insights

• Gut check time!

• Fed pumps billions into banking system

• ECRI's weekly leading index is the worst since November 2001

• The geography of a recession

• Jobless claims numbers don't count all the unemployed

• What do we do when we're in trouble? We try to talk ourselves out of it

• Most Americans now believe we are in a recession

• Which investments do best in a recession?

• Traders at Intrade are pretty much convinced that Obama will be the Dems nominee and that the economy will go into recession

• Treasuries show the economy rebounding before the election

• Wall Street throws a tantrum

• The magazine cover indicator

• Where do you think we are in the sentiment cycle?

• The stock bloggers are bullish!

• Reflation soon?

• Dr. Steenbarger provides a timely indicator update along with a quick review of the weekly new highs minus lows on the NYSE

• "We are treating the late-January “lows” as THE near-term “lows” until proven wrong." - Jeffrey Saut

• Earnings - not so gloomy after all

• Should we be watching for audit delays and qualified opinions?

• Perhaps February 19th will offer a turning point for the tape

• But, there will be magic on Wall Street on May 2nd

• Easy come! Easy go!

• Who's afraid of the big, bad bear?

• "I am getting nervous about being too short." - Doug Kass

• Dow 18,500? Believe it!

• S&P 500 valuation ratios

• What's the smart money up to now? (but here's another view)

• Watch out for the Quants

• Trading in CDOs slows to a trickle

• The largest hedge fund managers

• An inglorious anniversary

• The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter

• Goldman's traders beat Wall Street yet again

• Goldman changes its buy list

• Is this a good chart?

• Take a gander at Bespoke's correlation matrix

• One of the many reasons why the commodities have been doing so well

• Beer cheaper than water drives surge in supermarket drink sales

• Panic has struck the wheat market

• U.S. natural gas is the cheapest it's been relative to oil since the 1991 Gulf War

• The world's next megabubble

• Rate cuts bring no relief for credit card users

• Toll relative walks away from new condo

• Over 30% of recent home buyers are upside down

• Tech stocks are cheap!

• In 2008, market leadership has shifted to the laggards

• This week's earnings preview

• Q&A with Jim Rogers

• Europe's economy has caught the U.S.'s cold and may be sick longer

• For China, inflation trumps Olympics

• Decoupling myth debunked

• Investment banks redeploy their staff to the Middle East

• Japan is the next subprime flashpoint

• The BRICs are expected to grow GDP in 2008 from 4.5% to 10.1%

• Say 'Ole to Mexico!

• A sale on Crocs

• Translating corporate speak over at Yahoo

• Coinstar is counting more than coins

• The best performing stocks on earnings this season

• Commodity stocks rank high in StockScouter this week

• TheStreet.com's power stock rankings

• The curse of being added to the Dow

• Eddy Elfenbein's buy list

• If McCain wins, defense and biotech will surge

• Bargains in a wild market

• Kiplinger's quality at a reasonable price

• Love Canadian stocks? Here's the top 100 income trusts and stocks

• The complete guide to free stock screen tools

• "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." - Warren Buffett

• Do investors love their losers more than their winners?

• More great posts from Brett Steenbarger

• In 20 years of driving, I've only had one speeding ticket

• Why economists don't make good traders

• Dow Theory 101

• Do stock prices have a memory?

• Interesting - an open source trading platform

• Replay the trading day using automatic screenshots

• A few interesting observations on indexing

• Investors in ETFs that focus on dividends have received a nasty surprise in recent months

• The downside of market-proof annuities

• TD Ameritrade's client base tops 6 million

• How risky are uninsured bank deposits?

• Fleeing to the safety of money-market funds is not risk-free

• Lessons learned from Boca Raton

• Calculate your household's personal consumer price index

• 9 secrets health insurers don't want you to know

• Here's one good way to spend that rebate

• "The policies of our democratic government have generally favored a handful of rich people over the masses of poor people. But that's only because rich people are better at voting. We vote for candidates who actually will make us richer, while poor people vote for candidates who pretend that they are going to make them less poor while, in fact, doing nothing at all to help them. That's why we're rich and they're not." - Michael Lewis

• Mark Cuban's presidential endorsement

• I don't know about you, but my wife wouldn't be too happy receiving this as her Valentine's Day gift

• But, you can still be frugal

• New tax perks

• 10 tax laws you just gotta know

• "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato