Bear Talk

• The Great Fed Debate

• Poole plays the blame game

• Jeff Miller looks inside an inter-meeting Fed move

• Dealing with the devil

• Bill Gross' investment outlook

• Jim Rogers with more recession chatter

• A bull market for junk bond defaults

• A patient trader is a profitable one

• "The market tends to go further than one thinks possible." - Brad Sullivan

• Larry Swedroe offers some important lessons

• Wealthy investors turn to money-market funds

• Hunting for unusual sentiment data?

• Relative percentage change of US sectors

• Utilities, Energy, Technology and Telecom are all expected to have earnings growth of +15%

• A preliminary fourth-quarter scorecard

• Goldman's BRIC strategy is full of traps

• Why the dollar will (eventually) rally

• The Saudi growth story

• Today's best values are to be found in the United States?

• The current hope in tech is that China and Europe will make up for the softness in the U.S.

• Gold, copper and nickel are off to the best start since at least 1980

• 2008 will be the year of the disappearing dividend

• Arne Alsin goes dumpster diving

• What's not to like about Pepsi these days?

• Vivian Lewis picks Elbit Imaging

• A screen of earnings movers

• Using screens to find winners in a tough market

• Did you know that simply buying stocks at the close on Tuesday and selling at the close on Wednesday accounted for all of the market's gains for 2007 and then some?

• The stock market does better when the stock market isn’t in session?

• As it turns out, insider buying is important especially in the large caps

• Get some elbow room to score in the market

• Will the real P/E please stand up?

• Trader Mike makes the switch to ThinkorSwim

• XBRL skeptics abound

• LONGMEASURE offers a roundup of active stocks

• History shows that investors would be well advised to ignore presidential politics in their election-year investment strategizing. This time could be different

• The White House and the Wall Street Factor

• Unfortunate - the big fight between Republicans and Democrats will be only over short-term goals

• Tax challenges for the next President

• Footnote of the Year

• Google’s lunchtime betting game

• An investor's New Year's resolutions by John Magee

• "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson