Perspectives

• How the current recession stacks up

• Recession is over! Beware the recovery

• "It is now clear that a rerun of the 1930s Great Depression has been avoided." - Anatole Kaletsky

• The spend and borrow economy

• The most dangerous words on Wall Street

• The worst is yet to come

• Stocks shout recovery

• "No one wants to come out and say - This is a bull market!" - Laszlo Birinyi

• 5 stages of panic buying

• A typical secular bear market

• Bearish sentiment at lowest level since 2007

• There's a fine line between risk taking and risk ignoring. Bulls may be doing both.

• History supports further stock gains

• Wagner's fibo retracement levels for the S&P 500 & Nasdaq Composite

• Individual investors are not as bullish as the pros

• Voters side with Doug Kass that the market has topped out

• What can stop this rally?

• Another overbought indication

• Sector breadth

• Does trading volume matter?

• What are junk bonds spreads telling us?

• M&A doldrums

• M&A is about to pick up steam

• Mortgage delinquencies are still rising

• We're approaching the second wave of mortgage resets

• So, why are homebuilders buying land again?

• More Americans can't pay their electric bill

• Far too many Americans have no margin for error

• The law school indicator

• The only place where salaries are going up

• Congress is the clunker

• A followup to this week's summer project suggestion

• Auto industry braces for hangover after the clunker party

• Solar deflation

• The future of commodity ETFs

• As if we're not already fat enough - global fast food comes to America

• The Bernanke call

• "Ben Bernanke nearly collapsed a lung patting himself on the back last week at the annual Jackson Hole economic wonk confab." - Joseph Y. Calhoun, III

• Bernanke's to-do list

• Bernanke's renomination allows him to redefine the Federal Reserve’s mission

• Bernanke's bad calls (more to come)

• What exit strategy?

• Why the Fed should be given more powers

• Goldman's $4 trillion projection is wrong

• Meet Getco

• Bubble trouble

• Very true - identifying bubbles is a lot easier than timing them

• China builds world's largest shopping mall

• The real reasons for China's real estate boom

• U.S. investors abandon Europe

• This will have a short-shelf life - a global tax on transactions

• Problem banks rise to 15-year high on bad loans

• FDIC runs out of cash and seeks new options

• Are leveraged loans making a comeback?

• Subprime lenders line up for fresh handouts

• Bailed out banks threaten systemic collapse if Fed discloses information

• Ego and the CEO

• Starbucks needs a new blend for growth

• Hype for Hecla Mining

• How to invest in the water theme

• Dogs of the Dow have struggled in recent years

• 8 stock ideas from Buffett's disciples

• More BS from AIG's CEO

• Goldman's tactical portfolio strategies

• It's time to boycott the market over Goldman

• Trade like a Maverick

• Some retailers seeing sales growth

• Trade Idea's recent intraday alerts

• The most overbought and oversold in the S&P 500

• An introduction to treasury auctions

• Using piviot points

• Are you getting the proper rewards for the risks you take?

• Stocks vs Bonds

• Morningstar's favorite sector ETFs

• The argument against market timing

• What about a 3 minute portfolio?

• Fixing target-date funds

• Watch those pesky 401(k) fees

• Would you believe that the IRS may have to cut 401(k) contribution limits

• The average retirement savings by age

• How do bank CDs work?

• Do not underestimate the power of compounding interest

• How to make a million while eating lunch

• Free budget tools

• The no-junk business iPhone apps finder

• This year, don't give more to charity - give better

• Time 50 best websites for 2009

• 10 tips for maintaining a positive attitude

• Huddle up!

• After moving out West, I've enjoyed reading about Cowboy ethics

• "Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people." - Eleanor Roosevelt