Swimming Against The Tide

• Trade, sentiment help recovery

• The market has very high expectations for retail sales

• If you give people $4,500, they will spend it

• The ugly truth behind retail sales

• The real problem - the typical American household made less money last year than the typical household made a full decade ago

• Is double-digit unemployment here to stay?

• Why we're facing deflation

• Judging downturns

• Desperate times call for desperate TV marketing

• Even Olympics feel the squeeze from recession

• More people launch own firms to make ends meet

• Fretful investors sidelined by rally

• Bullish fodder

• Wild times in stocks

• This week brings the initial batch of third quarter results

• Outlook still favorable in the runaway rally

• A doji sell signal in the Dow

• Barron's Q&A with David Rosenberg

• Donald Coxe's basic points

• Doug Kass circles the wagons

• Jim Rogers' best advice

• More great links can be found at the members' only website!