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• Was the Fed snookered into cutting rates?

• How low should the Fed go next week?

• Inside a Fed meeting

• The darker side of interest rate cuts

• The latest rate cut odds

• Are the wizards at Davos overreacting?

• Lies and government statistics

• A new threat to the economy is emerging because of the complex way the financial system has recently tried to cover its losses

• Capitalism's most dangerous enemies

• Isn't the point of capitalism for companies that make stupid decisions to go out of business instead of being rescued?

• Let's the rebates begin

• Wait a minute, the U.S. Senate now wants in

• Corporate bond defaults to rise

• Fund managers struggle to dodge hazards

• Smiles are disappearing in hedge fund land

• Hedge fund rumors run rampant

• According to Goldman Sachs, the nine bear markets in the S&P during the past half century lasted an average of 384 days (until markets had regained their peak), with declines at their lowest point of -32%

• What bear market?

• What recession?

• Americans expect a recession but still remain optimistic

• Why are bloggers so bearish?

• Are they really that bearish?

• Many economists now see a short & shallow recession only

• Revisiting the recession playbook

• Just a pullback amid the long-term uptrend for the Nasdaq?

• Where will the market find a floor?

• A popular measure of valuation used by investors in recent times

• Where have the buybacks gone?

• For some strange reason, a number of readers have been asking me about the Amero

• China & Abu Dhabi buy keys to U.S. influence

• Options for investing in commodities funds

• A perfect storm for precious metals?

• Top newsletters are focusing stock picking

• Who's banking on the battered retail sector

• Gurus short emerging markets

• Citron makes lemonade out of Arthrocare

• Where are the missing iPhones?

• Top gainers this week: ABFS, ABK, AKF, AKT, ANR, BJRI, BKI, BKUNA, BONT, BPOP, BZH, CCRT, CKEC, CNB, CNX, CPKI, CTX, DFS, DHI, FBC, FDG, FNF, FRME, FSNM, GGC, IBCP, IMB, JRJC, KBH, KMX, LEN, LFG, MBI, MHO, MTG, MTH, NVEC, PHM, PMI, PPS, PRM, PTEC, RAIL, RDN, ROCM, SBCF, SWC, TMA, TOL, UA, VPRT, WCBO, WLT, WRLD, and YRCW

• Top losers this week: AAPL, ARTC, BLOG, CMN, COCO, COMV, CRME, FCFS, FRP, FTK, FWLT, GMCR, GRO, HGSI, MALL, MOT, MRCY, MTE, NOA, PHHM, RBPAA, SKF, SRS, STKL, SUPX, SYNA, TGIC, THQI, TRAK, TWIN, VNBC, VRTX, WAT, and WCG

• More drug stocks now showing up in StockScouter

• Large companies that may disappear in 2008

• Tools & techniques that will help you pick the best hedge fund manager

• A cardinal virtue of trading

• Day trading is treacherous, but not entirely a fool's game

• The most important reason individual investors lose money

• Are you match ready?

• Two patterns you never hear of: throwbacks and pullbacks

• Chris Perruna on selling stocks short

• Steps to take when you find yourself in a hole

• How much are you paying mutual fund companies to manage your account?

• Can ETFs lower your tax bill?

• Money market funds wait to see where the buck will stop

• While at the gym, I enjoy listening to trader interviews

• Investors bet on virtual tix at online exchange

• Tired of stock spam? Use a good anti-spam filter

• Input Director is a Windows application that lets you control multiple Windows systems using the keyboard/mouse attached to one computer

• Move over Nick Leeson, here comes Jerome Kerviel

• "Successful speculation is about anticipating the anticipators." - Bernard Baruch