Monday Morning Reads

• Central bankers to keep rates low

• Cliff notes for Bernanke

• Contrarian alert - the most popular post at Seeking Alpha right now

• The most important data you missed last week

• In spite of Uncle Sam's efforts, American consumers are continuing to hunker down

• Are you afraid of the double dip?

• 9 notes on residential real estate

• 8 key charts on property values

• A corporate bond issuance bubble

• The negative trend in insider buying and selling continues

• Another sentiment roundup

• A great new bull market? Unlikely

• A sober look at short-bias hedge funds

• According to Charles Schwab, brokers simply are not responsibile for your sucker bets

• JP Morgan to lend California $1.5 billion

• AIG CEO gives Uncle Sam and us the finger

• What the stress tests didn't predict

• The natural gas quandary

• A closer look at four popular alternative energy stocks

• Value hunting in commodities

• Shipping industry fights for survival

• Work hours around the world

• Dollar will weaken as the U.S. pumps massive amounts of money into the economy

• How about a new global reserve system?

• Emerging markets in the new normal

• Chinese demand is driving Japan growth

• How is China's export driven economy booming?

• German confidence jumps

• Your tax dollars hard at work in Iraq

• John Dorfman's cheapskate filter

• Check out the healthy portfolio

• Hotels shrug off bad news

• Sears' Eddie Lampert is under fire again

• Big hype for Satyam Computer

• Where Yahoo leaves Google in the dust

• The latest arbitrage spreads

• Companies in the S&P 100 that have increased their dividend in the last six months

• This week's earnings preview

• Two economic calendars recommended by members: Briefing.com & DailyFX

• Do you use the Iron Prediction Triangle?

• Sticking to fewer stocks and spending more time on the selection process will increase your discipline and focus

• Trading the stochastic indicator

• Some of the best trading opportunities occur when we are asleep

• Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings?

• Jeff Miller's weekly ETF rankings

• One scary statistic - only 25% of 2009 high school graduates taking the ACT admissions test have the skills to succeed in college

• America's new love affair with Treasury bonds

• The retirement dilemma - mortgage or not

• SEC warns investors on leveraged ETF holdings

• Unbiased hotel reviews from real travelers

• "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson