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• Americans are scrambling for cash

• Consumers chose not to take 41 million trips over the last 12 months because "flying is too much of a hassle"

• Newly delinquent mortgage borrowers outnumbered people who caught up on their overdue payments by two to one last month

• Americans hold $850 billion in credit card debt, and the average balance per card-holding household is $8,568

• For the first time since 2001, the government will sell 52-week debt tomorrow

• Technically, not a recession!

• FDIC issues a warning

• Leave it to Wall Street to profit from its own distress

• Many of the market wizards are making less these days and they are giving away less, too

• Performance anxiety among hedge fund pros?

• The Libor debate has more or less exploded

• All things, especially in the currency market, are relative

• Sector and stock returns for May

• Understanding contrary indicators

• US equities don't look particularly cheap

• The latest from Barton Biggs

• "Over time the stock prices of large cap consumer names such as Coca Cola tend to trend inversely to commodity prices which, we expect, makes some amount of intuitive sense. The twist is that instead of lagging behind swings in base metals (i.e. copper) Coca Cola's share price tends to lead by roughly six months." - Kevin Klombies

• Hedge-fund managers and speculators reduced bets on higher oil prices by 80% since last July

• Changes to commodities regulations are expected

• A fevered scramble for control of the world's seabed is going on mostly in secret

• Not everybody is paying higher prices for oil

• A primer on gasoline prices

• Michael Moe shares some observations after reading through Friday's edition of Investor's Business Daily

• A standoff of bullish and bearish forces

• A seismic shift in earnings

• There is plenty of good stuff to read in the 2008 Investment Company Factbook

• Jeffrey Saut provides some random gleanings

• Brett Steenbarger finds divergencies in money flows and offers an indicator review

• Do railroad stocks have more power to burn?

• Goldman Sachs predicts that Russia's economy will overtake Britain, France and Germany over the next few decades to become the biggest economy in Europe

• Russian funds sizzle

• Mark Skousen shares his favorite Russian stock

• "People like me -- that is, people with more than $1 billion under management and in excess of $100 million in net worth -- seldom tell ordinary people what we actually think, for the obvious reason that it doesn't pay." - Michael Lewis

• Randolph McDuff may be the best stock picker the world has never heard of

• A sunny future for Lululemon?

• Dividends may be in jeopardy at almost three dozen of the biggest U.S. companies

• Only 55 companies will report earnings this week

• Pop quiz! Can you name the top performing stocks over the past month in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100?

• New Dogs of the Dow

• Stocks currently trading 50% above their 50 & 200 day moving averages

• Factor based stock screening for up and down markets

• A new study has found that over the long term, stocks that are dropped from an index generally outperform those that are added

• According to Ned Davis Research, small stocks have historically outpaced issues with larger capitalizations by a decent margin during a market rebound

• Finding a historical edge in the Stock Market

• Many of the lessons from sports can be applied to trading

• Are your stocks protected by moats?

• Corporate marriages only rarely end in bliss

• Have you ever used mindmaps to plan out your research and/or trading strategies?

• Do you have news fatigue?

• How to maintain good habits

• Chris Perruna shares his summer reading list

• Value strategies reward patience

• Does concentration of risk improve returns?

• As the second anniversary of some fundamental exchange-traded funds approaches, the two major branches of this strategy are at sniping at each other

• ETF Trends' May ETF Performance Report

• A nice weekly ETF update

• The most successful ETFs this year

• Most endangered ETFs

• ETFs FAQs

• UltraShort ETFs could be sweet for bond fans

• Some corporate bonds offer protection from rising prices

• Get a better yield on your savings

• Where does your money go? Find out!

• ShipGooder compares shipping rates instantly

• 10 seriously useful Firefox add-ons

• Do you want to live 5 years longer? If so, join me on the golf course!

• 5 simple rules to happiness: 1) free your heart from hatred, 2) free your mind from worries, 3) live simply, 4) give more, and 5) expect less

• The study of happiness is a thriving field these days

• "I believe that happiness lies less in how much you have than in which way you're headed." - Andrew Tobias