Just A "Few" Of My Recent Reads

• U.S. data fluke exaggerated growth
• Actual GDP: ~0%
• Paulson plays with the plunge protectors
• This week's economic calendar
• Halloween is an economist's biggest nightmare
• Halloween special: the business of death
• Richard Lehman's trend channel magic
• Chart watchers are getting nervous
• "Investors seem to be coming off the sidelines and being more bullish across the board." - Brad Durham
• U.S. mutual fund assets passed the $10 trillion mark for the first time in the third quarter
• The Fear Factor ($)
• The stock market is now entering what has historically been the strongest half of the year
• Is it November, yet?
• Speculative net longs
• Laggards have become leaders in recent days
• How a market moves is just as important as how much it moves
• What are the market elephants doing?
• Predicting winter's heating costs as uncertain as forecasting the weather
• Weak home building drags down economic growth
• Rising rates worry homeowners
• Deep discounts for homebuyers
• Is a real estate-led recession far behind?
• As homeowners face strains, market bets on loan defaults ($)
• Time to buy a new home or wait for prices to fall some more?
• Republicans say the stock market is at a record high. Eh, not really.
• The middle class isn't buying into the strong economy perception
• Some Republican strategists have noted that having the Democrats running the Congress during the next two years would in fact enhance the Republican chances of retaining the Presidency in the 2008 election cycle
• Barney Frank, the Democrat who will become chairman of the House financial services committee if his party takes control in next week’s mid-term elections, is ready to go with his top priorities
• The U.S. government continues to show impressive accountability. Not!
• Can the Iraq situation get even worse?
• GAO chief warns about looming economic disaster
• One page Barron's summary
• "Predicting a recession is a very complex thing that you can't capture in a straight-line equation, however tempting it might be to do so." - Lakshman Achuthan
• Roubini's call for a recession sounds more real now
• That stubborn yield curve by John Mauldin
• Market tops usually take time to form
• The gurus with historical stock market forecasting accuracies greater than 50% are net bullish
• Eddy defends the bull
• Q&A with Roger Ehrenberg
• Legg Mason Value Trust's letter to shareholders
• Analysts continue to have a tough time making selective buy recommenations
• TradingtheCharts.com's November market newsletter
• HighGrowthStock's weekly video analysis
• Stock Tiger's update
• More bearish chitchat by Bill Fleckenstein
• Gold bugs see ray of hope
• More "peak-oil" chatter
• Jonathan Hoenig likes the iPath Dow-Jones AIG Commodity Total Return ETN (DJP) for its diversification and exposure to the white-hot grain markets
• Why futures markets are important
• America: up close and personal ($)
• What America buys and why
• Why America must stop bragging that it is #1
• What do women want? Just ask!
• Are problems brewing in Asia?
• China stuck in overdrive
• China is pushing its biggest banks to sell shares to the public so that tougher international accounting rules, tighter stock market regulation and scrutiny of overseas investors will help improve corporate governance and management
• Since the entry of the U.S.A. into World War II the U.S. has been the most powerful nation on earth. But how long will this continue?
• London is the undisputed financial capital of the world
• Wall Street's holiday retail picks
• Jim Jubak's income portfolio
• Jon Markman's longevity plays
• Motley Fool CAPS focuses on 6 more stocks
• Michael Kaye's billion-dollar babies
• Top 50 stocks under $20 per share
• The 25 best performers in the S&P 500 for the past 52 weeks are: ATI, NVDA, Q, NUE, X, BIG, BLS, OMX, SBL, MRK, ADM, FSL, CSX, CMI, HPC, ABI, WEN, AW, ODP, KSS, IGT, CC, AIV, PD, AYE
• Reuter's hot lists: $2 - $10 and $10+, sectors, and industries
• Five O'Shaughnessy growth buys
• Head and Shoulders charts can be found in these stocks
• Dave Fry's podcast with yours truly
• I appreciated the opportunity to talk about stocks and the market yesterday on the CTX Home & Wealth Show. Thank you Alex, Sue, and Al!
• "Circumstances are neutral. It is our thinking, our perspective, that make circumstances either positive or negative." - Bill Zimmer
• Learning-to-invest.com
• Worden's stock market indicators
• Advanced trade management
• Is it prudent to trade around analyst recommendation changes?
• Alan and I both agree - the early bird gets the worm ($)
• A quantitative approach to tactical asset allocation
• Negative emotions can fuel some destructive habits
• Inside the trader's brain: decision-making and emotional arousal
• Why your lizard brain makes you a bad investor ($)
• Let's talk moving averages
• Introduction to volatility
• Reach your retirement goals by following 10 basic axioms
• Time-tested tidbits from the Little Book of Value Investing
• CBOE's virtual trade tool
• Performance pressure? Through September, only 28.5% of actively managed large-capitalization funds were beating the S&P 500
• Allen Wastler thinks we should stop worrying about hedge funds
• Hedge managers now make over $1.5 million a year
• A New York brokerage firm is asserting that an industry compliance system to track stock trades is illegal and should be abolished
• WSJ's options scorecard
• Dodging taxes is latest stock options scheme
• CEO pay seen outpacing investor returns
• Bank-based brokers draw scrutiny ($)
• Businesses hope to reduce exposure to lawsuits
• Mutual fund investors would be wise to look for funds with large percentages of insider ownership
• A growing wave of high-tech fraud is starting to add up to real losses in the online brokerage business
• Hackers disrupt on-line brokers
• Penny stocks pinch Rudy
• Now in your inbox: a new twist on old scam
• A new study shows that saving for retirement loses ground to debt and living expenses
• Don't buy stuff you cannot afford
• If you hate getting credit card offers in the mail, there is a good and simple way to opt out
• Lists of best-selling books
• Yahoo bookmarks
• "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei