The Dirty Float

• Consumer confidence plummets

• New evidence of inflation vexes central banks

• The Fed will express increased concern about infolation but do so in a manner than avoids any suggestion that interest rate rises are imminent

• Economic challenges draw out divisions at Fed

• Fed vacancies post challenge for Bernanke

• Bank economists see slow economic growth through 2008

• Second quarter earnings are expected to be awful

• Credit crunch puts the heat on the Street

• Learning lessons from the 1930s

• "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth." - George Carlin

• How 10 investing themes for 2008 are performing

• Mail delivery as an economic indicator

• A shoplifting indicator?

• Candyland!

• The most bullish indicator out there - new hedge fund launches are the fewest since 2000

• And, don't forget the IPO indicator

• He has cried wolf many times, but this time George Soros says the beast is really upon us

• Investors have lost their innocence

• "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin

• The life of a short-seller is a hard one?

• The trend is not your friend?

• You know it's a bear market on Wall Street when...

• 10 things Alan Farley loves about this market

• SPY Put Volume study

• 10 year VIX versus SPX

• A breadth indicator that's suggesting a bounce

• Are you having fun riding Wall Street's rollercoaster?

• Goldman Sachs' quant funds rebound in 2008

• Four years of home gains have been wiped out

• Housing slump rivals deepest slowdowns in 60-plus years

• No money down? Poor credit? No problem!

• "Effective risk management starts with the recognition that any forecast can be wrong, then weighs the consequences of being wrong. Only then can we decide whether to make a bet, whether to hedge that bet and how to execute the hedge if needed." - Peter L. Bernstein

• How fair is fair-value accounting?

• Banks find new ways to ease pain of bad loans

• Did Bank of America write the Dodd bailout bill?

• Credit-card companies are adding new techniques to assess consumer risk

• Analysts flip flop on financials

• Americans are rethinking the country life as energy costs rise

• Once you become accustomed to gas at $4 a gallon, brace yourself for the next shocking retail threshold

• Eric Bolling tells us how to solve the oil crisis

• Speculators now account for about 70% of all benchmark crude-oil trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange

• Commodities rally driven by fundamentals, not speculators

• Efforts to curb speculation are foolish?

• Time to sell energy and buy consumer stocks?

• Best stock pickers get energized

• Bespoke's international snapshot

• The U.S. is losing its market share of global millionaires

• SEC to propose easing curbes on using foreign brokerages

• Rio & BHP Billiton warn Chinese companies of record iron-ore price rises

• Signs of a top in agriculture

• Teresa Lo offers a look at HMOs

• Behold! The myth of safe havens

• "How you've been faring this year so far in the stock market is very much a function of the sectors you've been invested in." - Dr. Brett Steenbarger

• Buffett watch

• Bill Gates unfiltered

• Lampert's top stocks

• Tom Wolfe shares a few thoughts

• GaveKal’s four ways to make money

• Like whiplash? Trade the most volatile stocks

• How about the most volatile stocks on earnings

• The latest stockscouter picks

• Kelley Wright's timely 10

• 6 shipping stocks for commodity boom

• James Altucher's shares two dead stocks

• 5 dividend plays expected to top 5-year EPS rates

• How do you think two portfolios - one with the 10 best corporate reputations and the other with the worst will perform over a 5 year time frame?

• Top 50 growth stocks ranked by EPS, RS & Chart

• Everybody knows how to win. But, do you know how to lose?

• The psychology of risk and return

• Good Analysis = Technique + Common Sense

• Business model basics

• With half of 2008 in the history books, how are you doing on your trading & investing resolutions?

• What matters is not experience per se but effortful study which entails continually tackling challenges that lie just beyond one's competence

• Quantitative analysis to determine the return distribution of funds could have helped investors actually earn a return during the subprime crisis

• Harry Domash shares some frequently asked questions

• Chase the Gap or Wait for the VWAP?

• Is your stock on the hit list?

• By the way, what's a dirty float?

• How to build a diverse, buy-and-hold investment portfolio using ETFs

• To win the big game in investing, your portfolio must have a winning team

• Are we going to see a Tiger Woods' ETF?

• Time for Inverse Index Positions?

• As returns sag, fund investors focus on fees

• Money markets and the credit crunch

• There's nothing wrong with having a mad money portfolio

• IRS has been flooded with calls about stimulus checks

• "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit." - George Carlin

• 8 reasons you should not expect an inheritance

• The 3,000 mile oil change myth

• Wannabe traders are to battle it out in a new TV series

• Jim Cramer is again under fire for the millionth time

• The World's Best Places to Live 2008

• How smart are you?

• Reducing work-life conflict: What works? What Doesn't?

• Still, one of the best commencement speeches ever

• Just in time for vacation! Some of the best out of office automatic email replies

• "The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept." - George Carlin