Truth or Consequences

• Bernanke moves closer to cutting interest rates

• Remarkably, Wall Street's consensus on earnings is "Fine in 2009"

• Hedge funds move $100 billion into safe havens

• Credit derivatives market shrinks 12%

• Credit default swaps explained

• A simple explanation of what went wrong

• A big slowdown in stock buybacks

• No IPO flow (which has historically been a bullish signal)

• The bailout will make all of us rich?

• Working folks are outraged about the government's proposed Wall Street rescue

• Bernanke's $700 billion dollar bazooka

• Few lawmakers or administration officials are talking openly about where the government plans on finding a spare $700 billion

• Paulson cannot be allowed a blank check

• A bailout above the law

• Are we just a nation of morons, led by idiots?

• No, really, how much is $700 billion?

• According to David Weidner, how the bailout will benefit us!

• Facts on the government bailout

• Stopping a financial crisis, the Swedish Way

• Lesson from savings and loans rescue

• Bill Gross to the rescue

• What the death of the investment bank means for Wall Street

• "To suggest that September was difficult, volatile, perplexing and frustrating is a little like saying teenagers make sense or that economists speak English." - Laszlo Birinyi

• Millions of americans spend half of their income on housing

• Mortgage rates jump in wake of bailout plan

• Home builders keep guessing

• New home sales fall to weakest level in 17 years

• FBI investigates four firms at heart of the mess

• SEC presses hedge funds

• Exploiting FDIC loopholes enriches former U.S. bank regulators

• The New Communism

• The largest U.S. bankruptcies

• More healthcare inflation

• Buffett and The Magazine Cover Indicator

• Time to take a look at some sector performance

• Pickens funds are down about $1 billion

• Short-sale ban is hitting mutual funds

• The short-selling ban is taking the hedge out of hedge funds

• Did you know that nearly 20% of the S&P 500 now covered by no short list?

• Traders wonder what is going to happen when the short-sale ban ends

• Auto-maker loans advance

• Emerging markets hit hard by Wall Street crisis

• Huge losses for equity funds in China this year

• Customers spark run on Asian bank

• Paulson’s hedge fund targets UK banks

• Some traders think this might be a good day to spend on the sidelines. Not Scott Black

• Trader Mike shares his stock filters

• Even legendary stock screen strategies are struggling in this market

• Cash is king!

• 8 stocks that look ripe for a turnaround

• A pitch for three cheap stocks

• Time to look at railroad stocks again?

• Potash is among top stocks with insider buying, buybacks

• L-3 Communications shows earnings consistency

• "The principals of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past." - Edwin Lefevre

• Alan Farley's 20 tips for market survival

• Indeed, the tough get going when the going gets tough

• Success in trading is probably far more related to talents, skills, and effort than personality features

• What to do with large bid/ask spreads

• A nice ETF roundup by Morpheus

• Trading activity has soared, reflecting high anxiety as many investors rushed to move money in their portfolios

• TD Ameritrade to support clients stuck in Reserve

• Glitches on several electronic exchanges led to thousands of canceled trades and stuck some investors with unexplained losses

• It's time to reconsider retirement investing rules-of-thumb

• Does shopping at Sam Club's and Costco really save you money?

• With the credit crisis rupturing the American economy, right now is the perfect time to teach young people the value of spending without borrowing

• Rososo is a clean, minimalist RSS feed checker

• Although it won't matter, here's how to write to Congress

• The World's 10 Greatest Beaches (I think you missed a few)

• Tiger's desert paradise

• Keeping faith in tough times

• "When you lose, don't lose the lesson." - Dalai Lama