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• U.S. Congress could ban speculators from commodities

• The oil surge ate my tax rebate

• "There's always a bullish scenario. This one, though, only has one trigger: oil has to come down a tad, it just has to. Or else we have chaos." - Jim Cramer

• An oracle of oil predicts $200-a-barrel crude

• More bubble comparisons for oil

• Big investors are starting to hedge oil positions

• Brian Hunter is busy at work

• Gas at $12 per gallon?

• Get set for some July Fireworks!

• Concerns from Fed reverberate on Wall Street

• Wholesale threats

• A Run on Central Banks?

• History has shown that the Fed doesn't possess the right tools, the right mentality, or the right personnel to consistently stave off bubbles

• Trouble hid in the hedges

• Wall Street sees what investors don't

• "Just as the credit crunch seemed to be passing, at least in the US, another and much more ominous financial crisis has broken out." - Anatole Kaletsky

• How the Bear Stearns Intervention will haunt the Fed

• Greenspan helped Pimco make billions

• A few discouraging words from David Tice

• Recession is unlikely if US economy gets through next two crucial months

• Bank stocks have lost their position as the biggest industry group in the S&P 500

• Uncle Sam takes on student loans

• "Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." - John Kenneth Galbraith

• Moody’s awarded triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product due to a bug in its computer models

• Restaurants are trying all sorts of things instead of raising prices on the menus

• Thieves swipe used cooking oil to brew biodiesel

• A Wall Street hamburger

• Over the past 60 years, market leaders at the start of lasting recoveries often were stocks tied to consumer spending

• Corporate insiders are betting on a rising market

• Are investors' expectations simply too high?

• The bears are circling the market

• Some sectors are simply more sensitive to the movements of the overall markets than others

• A double top in the transports?

• A new trend - companies pay employees to quit

• 1.3 million people earn their living from selling crap on eBay

• Middle-class Americans are in a funk

• "I believe the #1 rule for making money in the next decade is to get long whatever the Chinese are buying." - Tony Sagami

• I should be looking for more mobile wireless plays following this survey

• Ford pares outlook

• A reason to be cautious on Visa & Mastercard

• Etrade: what the analysts and news haven't told you

• Digital toys Apple might be making in five years

• Much like Potash, everybody loves Petroleo Brasileiro

• According to Markman, energy stocks are still a great buy

• T. Boone Picken's hedge fund holdings

• Should we care what Pickens thinks about oil?

• S&P 1500 stocks with the largest intraday spreads

• Buffett-style small-caps

• 5 top-rated value stocks

• Screening for stocks based on new analyst coverage

• Morningstar on why cash flow is key

• An interesting chart on first day of the month returns

• Amid all of the gloom and doom, here's how two trading dreams come true

• How momentum themes or mini-bubbles develop year after year

• A trader talks about adopting an automated trading strategy

• Traders overpay for lots of stuff. It's time to trim the fat

• Need some good reading material for traveling this weekend?

• ETF Deathwatch 2008

• WisdomTree launches actively managed income ETF

• Choosing your portfolio risk tolerance

• Tune up your taxable portfolio to limit Uncle Sam's cut of your investment returns

• 5 retirement risks

• SmartMoney's 2008 broker survey gives top ratings to Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, & Etrade

• 9 sites that will save you money

• Building a better pro football team through number crunching data

• Attention all golfers - the proper way to throw your club

• "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." - Irving Berlin