Bottom Fishing

• Fedspeak!

• Paulson locks horns with lawmakers over rescue fund

• The risk of Bernanke's cash injections

• It isn’t a TARP without troubled assets to cover

• CPI + PPI = Deflation

• Year's defaults soar past a quarter-trillion

• S&P 500's Q3 earnings fall 22% from last year

• An interesting look at quarter EPS beat rates

• S&P 500 2009 estimates are all over the map

• Worst recession since 1930s is possible

• Depression 2009: What would it look like?

• My personal favorite headline of the day - "Impossible to determine if stock market has hit rock bottom."

• Yield curve near 10 year highs

• S&P yield eclipses 10-year yield

• More Americans slipping into bankruptcy

• Gift card sales seen down 6% this holiday

• In bad economy, boat owners abandon their vessels

• Consumers are sticking only to what they already know and aren't spending like they have in the past

• Perception vs reality

• Even the junk on eBay isn't selling these days

• Economic troubles hit the vineyard

• BofA sees record credit card industry losses

• Are big companies willing to spend money in this environment? The CEO of Pitney Bowes provides some perspective

• Home builders are distraught over economic crisis

• Trader Steven Cohen expands estate

• Sector P/E Ratios!

• Companies find bankruptcy impossible without financing

• Record losses hit pensions of big firms

• With jobs disappearing, military recruitment is increasing

• Hard times befall even the wealthiest universities

• More troubles emerge among derivatives

• "A major indicator that markets have bottomed is when corporate buyers step up and place bids for their own shares. That is not happening." - Charles Biderman, TrimTabs CEO

• Investor confidence in decline

• Forced liquidations? Customers withdrew $62.7B from hedge funds last month

• "October was our best month in over five years for new account openings." - Donald H. Lyton, CEO of Etrade

• The quick return of Eliot Spitzer?

• Todd Harrison's 5 potential surprises into year's end

• Jim Rogers gives his outlook for the U.S. dollar and more

• John Paulson moves back into residential mortgages

• Distressed firms ask bondholders to take reduced debt

• History shows that the best-performing buyout funds are those that invest during recessionary cycles

• Banks scramble for cash by offering insane rates

• The concrete shoes of the XLF

• Extendo VIX

• Right now, the stock market's expected inflation-adjusted return is about 6%

• Does everything trade like the S&P 500?

• Investment advice for a wild market

• 30 reasons for the next Great Depression

• The bloggers stay bullish!

• 10 new gurus you should know

• Thoughts from the highest-rated technical analyst in Institutional Investor magazine's survey the past four years

• Scaling down - 800 to hold on the S&P

• Do you have a gameplan for a fast break below Dow 8,000?

• Is this only the calm before the real storm?

• China has taken over Japan's spot as the biggest foreign holder of Treasury bills, notes and bonds.

• Japan looks better than the rest

• Russia suffers plunging reserves as ruble struggles

• Ecuador hints at default

• It's only money! A Brazil trader shoots himself on stock exchange trading floor

• Emerging nations to lead world out of recession

• Airlines report decline in global business travel

• Value traps killing off value investing

• Governments can't handle global run on gold coins

• Andrew Cuomo has lots of nerve

• Down $16 billion - has Buffett lost his touch?

• Quants proclaim - we're not dead yet!

• Pirate attack!

• Employee swap!

• The market for debt used to finance hotels, offices and shopping malls is under pressure

• Uncle Sam as sugar daddy

• What's another $600 million down the drain?

• Detroit chiefs plead for aid

• GM makes the hard sell!

• Big Three CEOs flew private jets to plead for free cash

• Bankrupt automakers better than bailout

• Maybe the best solution is to offer a car loan deduction to U.S. taxpayers

• "I ask not what my country can do for me, but for what my country can lend to me." - Michael Lewis

• Life insurers are buying up small thrifts so they can be eligible for TARP

• Confusion abounds regarding control of AIG

• BofA bets big on a rebound

• The uncertain future of Fannie & Freddie as losses mount

• Freddie Mac could lose up to $40 billion in 2009

• And we'll all be eating at McDonald's

• Impressive financials at Cognizant Tech

• Education stocks get good marks

• 6 stocks with improving dividends

• A screen for stocks to short

• More value stocks

• 7 highly rated stocks on sale

• The Virtue of Risk Management

• Really understanding yourself and how you think can give you an edge that others in the market don't have

• It's time to take a ride into the (dis)comfort zone

• How to gauge a company's management

• What about beta?

• A new way to look at yield and dividend growth

• WSJ's Price & Volume Alerts

• Are you the next Lehman Brothers?

• How to invest well and sleep better, in good markets or bad

• ETFs for 'Lazy' Fixed Allocation Portfolio

• iShares portfolio builder ETFs are complex and pricey

• Getting diversity through Hard Asset ETFs

• Research shows that investors who don’t have assets invested in mutual funds increased from 6% to 16% over the last two years

• Yes, fund managers really do underperform

• Witnesses to the 1930s recall lessons they learned

• How to talk to your kids about the economy and your family's financial situation

• 14 creative ways to keep costs down

• Saving time & taxes through good recordkeeping

• Online notebooks to help manage your life

• Achieve your goals through better time management

• How some traders are feeling these dark days - The Black Hole!

• "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." - Lau-Tzu