A Healthy Dose Of Skepticism

• The big money is bullish!

• "My general feeling is that the recession will be longer and deeper than most people think." - Warren Buffett

• Greenspan, Bernanke, and Volcker: a study in contrasts

• Federal Reserve officials are wondering how long consumer-price inflation can stay in the neighborhood of 4% without undermining their credibility as inflation fighters

• One man's opinion on why the crisis is still far from finished

• The credit crunch will give way to an inflationary crunch?

• "For the past few months we have fallaciously suggested that interest rates were going to rise, the U.S. dollar was going to firm, crude oil was subsequently going to decline (along with most other commodities), and that the major U.S. indices, led by the financials, were going to rally; emboldened by the steepening yield curve, which implies the economy is going to recover. While we are often early, over the years we have tended to be generally correct." - Jeffrey Saut

• Bill Miller is feeling optimistic

• Some thoughts from a man with experience

• Wall Street, Run Amok!

• Estimates are key at financial firms

• The Ratings Game

• Has the financial industry's heyday come and gone?

• Doubling down in financials

• What implied volatility has to say about the financials

• Boomtime for derivatives as investors bet on volatility

• An earnings preview for this week

• Dirk Van Dijk updates his first-quarter earnings scorecard

• Earnings beat rates by international exposure

• The insiders keep on buying

• "We can’t recall the last time we didn’t feel as if the markets were at a major decision point but, even so, that is exactly how things appear at present." - Kevin Klombies

• Weak labor market = cheap stocks

• A look back at the 40-week cycle theory

• There's no such thing as a recession proof industry?

• Every growing economy needs a leading sector

• At least some people are buying cell phones

• Money flows and more from the Doctor

• Sector relative strength

• Low expectations for high end retailers

• Pain of foreclosures spreads to the affluent

• As real estate slumps, Americans now consider stocks again

• Unpaid utility bills soar

• The upside of high gas prices - less traffic

• With crude approaching $120, experts look for hints of decline

• An oil bulls' biggest nightmare

• The dollar looks ready to rally

• Oil's slippery slope

• New York cabs are going to turn green

• Commodity prices fall? Surely not

• Is there too much speculative fund money going into the commodity markets?

• The new economics of hunger

• Who benefits the most from soaring commodity prices?

• More Americans go on the recession diet

• Time to buy the cow?

• Global water shortage plays

• What Jim Rogers is pounding the table on lately

• Value investor Mizrahi finds few raging bargains

• Deep-value investing in the "G Ice" Age

• Once-in-a-blue-moon bargains?

• An interesting screen - deteriorating operating margins & increasing capital intensity

• 9 solar stocks that will shine

• Colby's bullish & bearish stocks on price & volume

• Ken Heebner's highest-yielding stock picks

• A bull flag screen

• A BIG dividend stock list

• As of last Friday, StockScouter's top 50 picks for April were up +11%. Here's the top 50 as of today

• The weekly insider transaction report

• A little research on insider trading

• Cash flow expectations are important

• How to build your own trading model in eight steps

• 35 trading tips from a market speculator

• Herg Greenberg's 5 simple lessons

• "To overcome risk in the market, you have to know more than everybody else." - David Sackler

• What's your premarket routine? Here are 15 steps to get ready for the market day

• A fast track technical analysis tutorial

• More than any other variable, investors think too much about price

• MSN's ETF performance tracker is a great tool

• Morningstar looks for bargains in the ETF landscape

• An overview of broad-based commodity choices for your portfolio

• Survey says investors have lost faith in mutual funds

• Do expense ratios matter?

• 10 ways to save real money

• Five ways to recession proof your kids

• Synonyms for Recession

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• The 50 best blogs for free investment advice

• There's info-arbitrage in cyberchatter

• "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Cecil Beaton