On The Edge

• Ghosts of Black Monday come a calling

• Holy Toledo - watch those outflows!

• There is no magic formula for forecasting equity crashes

• Mark Hulbert doesn't see much evidence of the exuberance and enthusiasm that is typically seen at major tops but throws out the idea of a buying climax underway

• Bearish bets on Nasdaq hit a high

• What are the market elephants up to now?

• Bearish hedgies throwing in the towel?

• Option talk by Pete Stolcers

• All good things gotta come to an end?

• Volatility is going to be with us for some time

• Easy comes, easy goes

• Time magazine sees the end of easy money

• Chrysler news rattles equity markets

• Wall Street's money-machine known as collateralized debt obligations is grinding to a halt

• Brazilian investors love CDOs

• Private-equity firms scramble to sell junk bonds

• The 5 pillars of liquidity

• SAC Capital is considering selling up to 20% of itself to private minority investors

• Books like this don't come out at market bottoms

• A look at the Beige Book

• Tough times for home sales

• An $823 million loss is not easy to explain

• Birth control inflation!

• In a few years Chinese Internet users will outnumber American Internet users

• China plans to limit exports of inexpensive, labor-intensive items

• Mattel may be the best role model for how to operate prudently in China

• Some of the nation’s largest public pension funds are leaning on European and Asian oil companies to reconsider their investments in Iran

• A green hard drive?

• Toyota moves to corner the plug-in car market

• A new generation of coal-fired power plants are falling by the wayside

• Power outage shuts down websites

• 7 reasons for an Amazon/eBay merger

• Minneapolis Grain Exchange seats are a hot commodity

• Barron's takes a swing at Callaway Golf

• JP Morgan Asset Management has become the largest hedge fund manager in the world

• Do you have a disaster plan?

• Confidence comes from mastery

• Humans win tense poker match against computer

• Do we really need six more crude-oil ETFs?

• Test your knowledge of online scams

• Looking for news links to stocks being talked about the most on any given day? A new website promises to deliver

• "A bull market tends to bail you out of all your mistakes. Conversely, bear markets make you pay for your mistakes." - Richard Russell