Earnings Whispers

• Our confusing economy, explained

• The Roach Motel of investing

• Complex debt deal volumes hit 10-year low

• Banks are so overwhelmed that they've started to look the other way when homeowners stop paying their mortgages

• Inside a bank panic: the day $2 billion walked out the door

• Herd behavior!

• Goldman keeps leverage

• Investors stalk the wounded of Wall Street

• The Swedish Solution: a bank-crisis plan that worked

• It's no wonder investors don't trust analysts with their earnings estimates

• Are earnings estimates still too high?

• "The companies that post strong sales and earnings in this recessionary environment will resume leading the overall stock market in the weeks ahead." - Louis Navellier

• Jeffrey Saut shares a letter from one of his firm's financial advisors

• Ken Fisher loves his hate mail

• Steve Reitmeister offers some help on predicting earnings surprises

• Q&A with Vitaliy Katsenelson

• Tom Claugus is warily buying cheap U.S. stocks

• The Motorcycle Indicator

• Some regions are feeling the subprime mortgage pain more acutely than others

• The mortgage bust goes global

• $29 billion tax cut won't help housing

• The Mortgage Bankers Association has trouble paying its mortgage

• The condo hotel may go down as the Pets.com of the real-estate bubble

• Greenspan offers a response to his critics

• Not all ethanol is created equal

• The Age of Scarcity?

• Commodities have been volatile, but a top letter says think long-term

• Grains gone wild!

• Auto parts are attracting criminals

• The New Gold

• Global p/e ratios

• A study in pain - the Chinese stock market

• China to allow investment in U.S. stocks and funds

• Riches bloom in the Dubai desert

• Panama riots

• Beating the drum for Iran strikes

• The new economics of outsourcing

• The silent epidemic: American kids are falling way behind the world

• Nonprofit hospitals have transformed themselves into profit machines

• Amazon accelerates its move to digital

• Lemon alert in Basin Water

• Kevin Kennedy's pick of the week

• Bulkowski's shares some chart patterns

• The BW 50

• High-yielding electric utilities

• Bespoke's short-interest screens

• The most volatile stocks on earnings report days

• StockScouter picks for April

• 10 overseas stocks that look cheap right now

• Toxic stocks

• It’s not when you enter, but when you exit that really counts

• Q&A with Brett Steenbarger

• What makes trading difficult is a fundamental misunderstanding of trading

• Sex and financial risk are linked in the brain

• How stereotyping yourself contributes to your success or failure

• Have you been struggling with the number of one-sided days? Brett offers some coping methods

• Living with the Vix

• The risks of ignoring extended-hours trading

• Quantitative hedge funds are pressing into new realms of science

• First-quarter redemptions hit hedge fund industry

• The day trader's new best friend

• Trading E-Minis

• Jonathan Clements provides some good long-term advice

• Yale money whiz David Swensen shares tips on growing your nest egg

• Smart strategies for ETFs

• The top 50 ETFs sorted by revenue per fund

• Dividend ETFs have a range of applications

• New India ETFs bridge subcontinental divide

• Mutual funds' quarterly returns offer helpful lessons for investors

• Barron's recommends 10 funds that can help you keep your money safe

• Bond investing in bad times

• An investor's guide to brokerage firm liquidations

• How can you avoid an IRS audit?

• The battle of the human accountant versus TurboTax

• Looking for a capital gains tracking software? Here's another option: MyGain$

• Tax havens!

• Trader Monthly's top 10 traders

• Election talk is cheap - McCain slams executive pay

• An oil trader demonstrates some hand signals

• Create your own RSS widget

• Time's top 25 blogs

• Financial blogs: the best of the bunch

• That's a lot of bullish bloggers

• Blogging for dollars is hazardous to your health!

• 16 things I wish they had taught me in school

• "If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few." - Ancient Proverb