Weekend Homework

• Hopes for rate cuts diminish following jobs data


• "There are three and only three ways a government can obtain money. It can tax the population, steal it, or print it." - Andy Sutton


• Tuesday's mid-term elections are big, but Wall Street doesn't think so


• How the election could move the markets


• Delays loom in counting ballots


• Mid-term elections and performance of the Dow


• Bushenfreude!


• The economy will be very relevant next Tuesday


• Market implications from the mid-term elections


• A fascinating new report reveals the different ways Democratic and Republican politicians invest


• Investors might want lean toward companies that contribute to lots of political candidates (especially Democratic candidates for the House of Representatives)


• Is it time to buy a strangle before the election? ($)


• Like many market situations, the election is one where you can be right on the facts and still wrong on the market effect


• Lots of chatter this week that stem cells stocks will rally if the Dems win


• Election predictions according to Tradesports


• A look at next week's economic and earnings schedules


• The Monthly Scorecard


• So how pathetic is the VIX?


• Do you remember what a -1% decline feels like?


• Do we believe the bull?


• Stock market sentiment among investment newsletters is now higher than it has been in nearly five years


• Merrill Lynch's 10 investing themes for 2007


• Jim Rogers pounds the table on travel and water firms in Asia


• Newsletter guru Jim Grant fights back


• Yaser Anwar interviews analyst and author Andy Kessler


• Doug Kass shares some market rumors


• The best quotes of October 2006


• Minyanville's 5 things you need to know


• Tough times are ahead for fisherman


• Morgan Stanley is raising billions for largest-ever high-yield real estate fund


• More chatter from the $100 a barrel for oil group


• Farmers resist Ethanol boom


• Are the gold bugs getting ahead of themselves again?


• Bernanke has inflation "whipped into control?"


• Fed model shows recession odds are growing


• Meanwhile, Donald Luskin thinks he's all alone with the non-recession view


• Slowing economy, rising stocks


• A lot of bulls are pinning their hopes on the S&P 500's p/e ratio


• Housing prices have just dropped below their accelerated upward trend


• Let the bottom-calling on housing begin!


• A little over a year ago, buyers couldn't wait to sign contracts to purchase homes. Now, many can't wait to get out of them ($)


• Extreme house-selling strategies


• Mortgage fraud has reached epidemic proportions


• Telecom continues to come out on top on the high-low breadth ETF rankings


• Jim Cramer's sector rotation chart


• One of the biggest trends of the last decade is the change in the flow of money worldwide


• Big growth is expected for China's fund-management industry


• Tell your children to learn Mandarin


• Cuba has never been more prosperous


• Top 25 censored stories of 2007


• Microsoft Linux!


• It must be a good time to buy a Chrysler


• Red Robin (RRGB) serves it up


• Global-Tech Appliances (GAI) gets the nod by Hilary Kramer


• Morningstar (MORN) profit jumps 80%


• HBO's bold broadband plans


• The most impressive mover on my screens today? Goodrich Pete (GDP)


• Warren Buffett's holdings


• Jim Jubak's 8 future tech-stock rockets


• Michael Kaye's screens for tech stocks with market-beating yields


• Ivy League watch: Yale and Harvard


• StockScouter's picks for November


• The Templeton value screen


• Top 10 companies for revenue growth by industry


• Bullish and bearish 50/200-day crossovers


• S&P winners and losers for October


• "Finding Your Performance Niche" by Brett Steenbarger is my homework for the weekend


• "I think I can safely say that I’ve never lost money – and typically do very well – in buying companies at 5x EBITDA." - Stephen Roseman


• Ken Fisher's three questions


• What is a Point and Figure Chart?


• Attention all newbies! Spend some time at Investopedia's University


• Pros love to fade the gap


• Practicing mindfulness in your trading


• Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth


• For those of you who are still looking for the link: Dave Fry's podcast with me


• Perhaps a good class for those of you who've been shorting this market (just kidding)


• Position sizing calculator


• MarketWatch's upgrades/downgrades is useful if you want to access a quick comment concerning the change of rating


• It's dog-eat-dog in the options education business


• After yesterday's post on INVESTools, my email has been flooded by subscribers and people who work there. Just so you know, I have been offered a free trial so I can evaluate it on my own. That said, I will NEVER endorse or recommend any product that has that kind of marketing approach


• If something looks too good to be true, it usually is


• SEC's budget crunch


• Investing in a hedge fund as akin to dancing in a roomful of fireworks with a lighted blowtorch in each hand?


• Chelsea Clinton's new hedge fund


• Oh crap - this can't be good!


• Blow-ups defined


• US companies are warned about pay advisers


• The pros and cons of ETFs


• ETFs might be popular new products for investors, but they are apparently not as popular with the managers who run them


• Building an all-seasons tech ETF portfolio


• A slew of research suggests index funds that track benchmarks could be the way to go in coming months ($)


• The $20 billion tax time bomb


• It's tax time for mutual fund investors


• The manager of a fund may be less important than you think


• However, many of the best performing funds over 10-year periods had, within those 10 years, three-year periods where they were among the worst funds in their category


• Mark Hulbert offers analysis on using momentum strategies as a fund investor ($)


• Common 401(k) investing mistakes


• 10 money moves that can turn sour


• 25 rules to grow rich by


• A 7-step plan to stop an overspending spouse


• Are you a married, educated man, financially literate, with a high income? Well, congratulations. You've fit the profile of the person most likely to be talked into a fraudulent investment


• Yes, I'll be adding even more favorites to the blogs I read in the coming weeks


• Comparison shop with your phone


• Another online file storage firm


• 200+ extremely useful firefox extensions


• Exercise for your eyes


• Some tips for leading a healthy work-life balance


• "I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it." - Denzel Washington