Stock Boxing

• A bull market for margin calls!

• Turmoil in the credit derivatives markets continues

• The question of the day - which banks could fail?

• "There is a Street perception, which we generally share, that fixed income markets are "smarter" than equity markets. At the moment, the fixed income signals are all very negative. Many on the Street interpret this to mean bad news for equities." - Jeff Miller

• Inflation concerns may limit size of future rate cuts

• "Today's economic and financial crisis would resolve itself more quickly and efficiently if the government got out of the way." - Caroline Baum

• Meanwhile, Ken Fisher thinks the credit squeeze is total nonsense

• When Bernanke speaks tomorrow about mortgage foreclosures, pay attention to his words

• Can stocks rally back from 2008 low?

• "By the time a market story is being covered on the CBS Evening News, the real tradable portion of the move has usually already been made." - Jonathan Hoenig

• It's time to turn off the news!

• Why we are still in the early innings of the bursting of the housing and credit bubble

• For the first time ever, banks/lenders own more of the houses in America than the folks who live there do

• The commercial-property downturn isn't expected to be nearly as steep as the current slump in the housing market

• Did you know that public's bill for maintaining foreclosed properties abandoned by lenders and investors may reach as much as $50 billion this year?

• The Business Cycle in Action

• Is your state now in a recession?

• Job growth has slowed to a crawl

• But, new college grads find it easy to get a job?

• If history is a reliable guide, the recession of 2008 is now unavoidable

• Many have businesses have claimed to be recession-proof, but few have managed it

• They go out while the economy goes down

• Stagflation is back!

• There's now a TIPS bubble?

• 90% down days are typically followed by one of three patterns

• Just like Mike, people have been searching for my post on leveraged inverse ETFs

• Perhaps this is why we're not seeing any panic

• Option traders panic

• Dr. Steenbarger's indicators are pointing toward market lows

• The percentage of S&P 500 stocks above their 5, 10, 20, and 50 day moving averages

• As stocks go down, valuations go up!

• Are low p/e ratios a valid reason to buy stocks?

• P/E ratios by S&P 500 sectors

• According to Ian Welsh, how this economy is going to play out

• Your tax dollar at work!

• The trade of the year

• Just blame McCain?

• Al Gore goes long into an environmentally friendly hedge fund

• The downside of solar energy

• Dr. Doom sure is living up to his name these days

• "The current environment is one of the most challenging I've seen in 20 years of following the market." - Nate Pile

• This week's earnings calendar

• Food inflation!

• Food pantry use surges

• New super-spike might mean $200 a barrel oil

• In search of the perfect battery

• Gold is enjoying a speculative surge. Beware!

• How you can profit from the weak greenback

• But, from looking at this chart, you'd think that we're overdue for at least a downtrend bounce for the dollar

• Asia sings - credit crunch, what credit crunch?

• Investor Wilbur Ross is betting $1 billion he'll make a tidy fortune from cities and towns struggling to find money for schools, roads and even dogcatchers in the new credit crisis

• A how-to guide for municipal bonds

• Another hedgie bites the dust (many more to follow)

• Anatomy of a hedge fund collapse

• Hedge fund return statistics

• While the market moans, Warren Buffett has been buying a lot of stocks for Berkshire Hathaway

• 11 reasons to short Berkshire

• Whitney Tilson provides a low-risk, high-uncertainty investment

• The value guys offer some insight

• The 27% Bank Account?

• Trading at fresh lows, some still think Google will have a 90% search market share 1 year from now

• Short interest screens

• John Dorfman's bunny stocks

• Always remember, it is far better to be disciplined and frustrated than stubborn and poor

• Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. Here's a technique to help

• Emotion, feelings and intuition can lead to alpha

• After you've done your homework, go with your gut

• Do you create momentum screens? If so, you'll want to read this research

• Ratio analysis spreadsheet

• For those who need it - some historical market data

• How to avoid the most common and costliest mistakes in retirement portfolio investing

• The joy of building your own portfolio

• Did you know the cost of active investing is $100 billion per year?

• How much of a nest egg do you need to join the true elite?

• New ETFs weight stocks by revenue in latest indexing twist

• Interesting data on the net assets within ETFs

• What happens when your mortgage lender goes bankrupt?

• 14 other ways to use RSS feeds

• Remember, my RSS feed can be found here

• Get mobile stock quotes and watchlist updates via twitter

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• "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy