Worth Reading

• Investors hope this September isn't forgettable

• September has historically been a tough month for the Dow

• Rate cuts are coming

• No rate cuts are coming

• The discount rate is a great indicator of the direction of monetary policy

• Has the Fed removed all downside risk?

• Few expect a panacea in a rate cut?

• Recession risk rises as consumers feel pain

• Cheapest stocks in 12 years greet investors after summer swoon

• The fair value of the Dow?

• Technical perspectives that suggest that the July top on the Dow Jones 30 was the top for the year

• Market-timing editors are more bearish

• Investors pull out of U.S. stock mutual funds

• Have foreigners really stepped away from US assets?

• The global flight to the safety of government debt is causing the widest price swings in Treasuries in three years

• Why quant strategy has ripple effects

• More on the so-called Bin Laden trades

• $500 billion deal backlog will make September busy

• David Merkel shares 20 market observations

• Q&A with bond titan Larry Fink

• This housing cycle looks different than any other

• Can the mortgage crisis swallow a town?

• What happens to all of these house-flipping tv shows?

• Why a U.S. subprime mortgage crisis is felt around the world

• Subprime crisis prompts backlash against hedging techniques

• Are Wall Street's big 5 securities firms a bargain?

• Does America need a recession?

• Have we become a nation of consumers and investors, rather than citizens?

• You're about to hear that the budget deficit is falling. Don't believe it!

• The bulls keep running in Asia

• The world of commercial paper

• Investment homes are major part of defaults

• Value investors only care about bear markets

• China's top 100 companies

• Another hot commodity: bilingual bankers

• Very low gas supplies

• Why there's life in biotechnology

• Barclays takes a money-market beating

• Morgan Stanley plans Atlantic City mega-casino

• Insider snaps up shares of Meritage Homes

• The best and worst earnings reports

• Infrastructure stocks

• Obesity stocks

• Barron's 400

• The Inc. 5000

• What is Expectancy?

• What would your trading mentor do?

• Take-home lessons on value investing

• Harry Domash shares some of his favorite economic research websites

• The most popular stories on CFO.com since Memorial Day

• How important is asset allocation?

• Investing like the Harvard and Yale Endowment Funds

• What is a dollar worth?

• Currency ETFs play on the U.S. dollar

• Tom Lydon provides monthly ETF performance report

• If you think there area already too many ETFs, just wait

• It's good to note that a number of absolute return funds did precisely what they promised

• Smart hedge funds that capitalize on dumb money

• A number of free financial planning tools

• King Solomon's financial advice

• IndymacBank offers a 4-month CD for 5.60% (with FDIC insurance)

• No surprise - those who work at home or remotely report higher levels of satisfaction

• Ron Paul grabs attention of alienated voters

• Summize: 19 million reviews on 2 million products

• Or even better, millions of product opinions, but just one score

• Mpire: Everything you need to find the best deals online

• Do you use RSS? You may find this list of 90 services helpful

• Fortunately, you don't have to use Adblock Plus to visit this website

• Yes, Alan Greenspan is blogging

• Are you an expert? Take this quiz to find out

• Very true - Americans live to work

• The early bird usually is first to get the worm

• If you don't know what you want, you won't know when you've gotten it

• "I am an optimist. But I am an optimist who takes his raincoat." - Harold Wilson