Bear Fun

• Why Bernanke will be tossing & turning tonight

• The only question for tomorrow is how much the government will cook the jobs data

• Are we talking ourselves into a recession?

• 10 tips for a tough tape

• "Factors such as bottoms typically being difficult and drawn out affairs meant to harass, gnaw and ultimately rid themselves of early birds, umm, bulls, is one such consideration that seems to ring true and define the current environment. Further and statistically speaking, the intermediate evidence still weighs in favor of higher prices." - Chris Tyler

• Investment advisers are increasingly pessimistic about U.S. stocks

• The average short-term market timing newsletter recently has become significantly more bearish

• You can always count on Jeff Thredgold to provide some happy talk

• Forget the recession - P/E ratios are more than 18% lower than their 5-year average and more than 41% off of their 5-year high

• A major argument for the bullish case is that forward P/E estimates for the S&P 500 are very attractive

• But what if we see more cockroches?

• Van Tharp's 1-2-3 model is still in red light mode

• More frank talk from Ron Paul

• The books on the fourth-quarter earnings season are just about closed. Here's a useful recap

• Do you feel poorer than last year? You're not alone

• Foreclosures hit all-time high

• Housing in deepest decline since the Great Depression

• But, at the right price, home buyers can still be found

• Bernanke to lenders: save yourselves!

• A majority of private and institutional investors do not expect the U.S. credit squeeze to peak before the third quarter

• "They can cut interest rates, reducing the price of credit and making the environment more favourable for banks. But they cannot make banks lend if banks do not want to." - John Authers

• Just blame it on leverage

• Don't worry - bank industry is strong according to the regulators

• Stephen Roach sees double bubble trouble

• Where will the S&P and Nasdaq find major support?

• The yield curve unravels

• Are we going to see another M&A boom before November?

• Sign of the times - the really rich keep getting richer

• Bankers now face bonus risk

• "Long gone are the days when the financial crisis was considered a U.S. problem." - Lena Komileva

• Has much of the good news in Brazilian stocks has already been priced in?

• Leadership by the four international growth engines - Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) - might be a better indicator of things to come

• Economic prospects around the globe

• Global market returns ytd

• Interesting - a risk tracker for all countries

• Reasons why, and why not, to invest in gold

• Higher grain prices are putting a squeeze on world food aid

• Could we really run out of food?

• Oil tops inflation-adjusted record

• An ear to the ground for inflation

• According to OPEC, financial speculators and American economic problems, which have helped lower the value of the dollar, are to blame for high oil prices

• Did you know that more than 1 out of every 100 Americans is sitting in prison?

• Pop quiz! Who is the largest U.S. hedge fund manager?

• Bill Miller fights back

• WaMu focuses on what really matters - protecting their bonuses

• Does everyone love Plains Exploration & Production?

• Toby Smith pounds the table on Zoltek

• Gold bugs love Yamana Gold

• Get your wine online through Amazon

• Chris Perruna looks for some shorts

• According to a survey by BetterInvesting, here are the top 100 stocks owned by investment clubs in America

• New investment rules for the "New Age"

• Alan Farley provides 15 steps to get ready for the trading day

• Would you buy this chart?

• Important to know - how we can lose our objectivity once we take ownership of an asset

• CXO evaluates the BMW method

• Princeton's basic sources of economic statistics

• Did you know that many mutual funds are investing substantial assets in ETFs?

• ETFs that are based on fundamental indexes have ballooned in number, but are having a hard time attracting assets

• Be sure to watch those 401(k) fees

• According to a new study, a couple needs $225,000 to cover retirement health care

• Want to make your kids more money savvy? Try these four tricks

• People are searching for trusted sources of news. Just don't trust those bloggers!

• New office slang

• A whole new level of keeping up with the Joneses

• Buffett displaces Gates as richest individual

• Five ways to give like an entrepreneur

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• "Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." - Voltaire