Casino Capitalism

• Almost armageddon!

• Congressional leaders stunned by warnings

• Bush presses for quick action on $700B bailout bill

• Hank Paulson to the U.S. -- Grab Your Ankles!

• A bailout plan, but will it all work?

• Congressional Democrats considering the Bush administration's emergency plan countered with their own demands yesterday

• Foreign banks lobbied successfully over the weekend to be able to sell us toxic debt

• The fleecing of America

• Hussman's open letter to Congress

• The Bailout Bonanza Scorecard

• How financial madness overtook Wall Street

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Economy

• The gross value of outstanding derivatives is now counted in tens of trillions of dollars

• "At the end of the day we are here because we have moved from sound fundamentals of doing business to shady get-rich-quick programs." - Dan DiMicco

• "We're playing a game of casino capitalism, interfering with the way the market is working." - John Bogle

• Ron Paul addresses financial crisis

• "What if the reality is that the US economy has been a lot worse than was thought for a long time, and now the chickens are finally coming home to roost?" - Richard Siklos

• Paulson's Bailout Plan will hose taxpayers

• Mad as hell - taxpayers lash out!

• A brief look at the week ahead

• This week's earnings preview

• Can the Levee hold?

• What panic?

• Did we see a Lowry’s 90% up day last week?

• Follow through days quantified

• Hulbert offers more info on the 9 to one up day

• What an ugly bottom looks like

• How to recognize market capitulation

• Tim Ord's favorite indicators for pinpointing major market bottoms

• There continues to be more evidence of sector rotation than across-the-board buying which will have to change to sustain a bull market move

• "There should be an attempt to sell stocks back down and potentially retest last week’s lows. Historically, 70% of such downside retests are successful. In this case, however, we think the odds are near 100% that the trading lows are “in” for the year." - Jeffrey Saut

• Despite the frightening events on Wall Street, this bear market may be over soon

• The worst is yet to come

• The pain of deleveraging will be deep and wide

• The best-performing hedge fund manager of the past two years has closed down his funds and is returning money to investors

• Whitman's glass-half-full take on market

• The SEC's new rule: Don't short anymore, don't tell

• Credit rating agencies are under fire once again

• It is time for all to demand better data

• Mathematicians predicted stock market volatility years ago

• The lottery indicator

• The stripper indicator

• The nanny indicator

• Americans are cutting back on health care, a sector once thought to be invulnerable to recession

• Here comes $500 oil!

• What do Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon have in common?

• Sovereign funds retreat from Wall Street banks

• Why foreign ownership of U.S. assets is a big deal

• China's heavy-duty market intervention risks taking things too far

• Australia bans shorting any & all stocks in their markets

• NYSE expands short selling ban

• Why the short-selling ban stinks

• Nothing is really new on Wall Street

• Yet another bank bites the dust!

• Chipotle: Too Hot to Handle?

• Wells Fargo sees opportunities in economy woes

• Goldman & Morgan scrap Wall Street model

• Outcry grows over transfer of U.K. funds by Lehman

• The biggest winners & losers last week

• Top short-squeeze plays

• Year-to-date performance of the SEC's No-Short List

• Are there any investment opportunities among Fortune's 100 fastest-growing companies?

• Ten ways to invest in my home state

• Stock market cycles across timeframes

• Moving average crossovers debunked?

• Q&A with Dr. Alexander Elder

• Trader Mike on how to pick your spots when selling short

• Evaluating AbleTrend's buy and sell signals

• So, who is getting rich off the losers?

• Stay calm amid the chaos

• I'm all for accomplishing more by doing less

• How to work better

• Get schooled in Harvard Fund Management

• Playing defense through ETFs

• A carefully chosen hybrid fund might be worth considering for someone convinced that the end of the investment world isn't at hand

• Stock funds that may lead recovery

• Coverage when brokerage, bank, or pension fund fails

• 6 ideas for insuring your deposits

• What to do in these uncertain financial times

• U.S. territories like Guam and American Samoa may not be high on your list of retirement havens, but they're well worth a look

• A free tool that helps you recover your lost items

• A new kind of venture capitalist makes small bets on young firms

• Stock Twits

• Amid market turmoil, some journalists try to tone down emotion

• In these dark days, who do you trust?

• "There are no easy answers ... but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." - Ronald Reagan