Running The Numbers

• "We don't have visibility, so there will be a lot of volatility.'' - Guillaume Duchesne

• Banks face more CDO writedowns

• Mass layoffs highest since 9/11

• What is a recession (and are we in one)?

• U.S. moves toward more stimulus

• Can we really afford another economic-stimulus package?

• New realities of a pay-as-you-go world

• How will the US economy grow when 70% of its growth is based on consumer spending, yet the US consumer is more focused on paying down debt then spending money?

• Are we there yet, Daddy?

• The recession, the credit crunch, the housing collapse and the bear market have not run their course

• "It is still too early to make a wholesale commitment to buying equities as corporate profits could easily fall by 30% in a "quite unpleasant" recession." - Ewen Cameron Watt, BlackRock

• The Starbucks recession indicator

• "Because of the greater volatility in a bear market, shorts generally should be traded more aggressively than longs would be in a bullish environment." - Brian Shannon

• Can volatility history teach us anything?

• Still, here are seven reasons to be bullish

• Five reasons for optimism

• Top 10 reasons why this is not the 1930s

• The key ingredient for a stock rally

• Looking for the S&P 500’s Price/Earnings Ratio? Take your pick!

• First rates peaked, then stocks, then commodities. And now we wait for the bottom pattern

• Inflation has subsided, but for how long?

• Last time this market-timing indicator was more bullish was in 1982

• Why the lack of transparency in the bailout is a big problem

• Bernanke & Volcker jockey for top job

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• California home sales revive, but not without intense pain

• "12 million U.S. homeowners owe more than their homes are worth, compared with 6.6 million at the end of last year and slightly more than 3 million at the close of 2006." - Mark Zandi

• The next debt explosion

• How LIBOR threatened to destroy the global banking system

• CDO investors face losses of up to 90%

• Yet another video to understand the financial crisis

• The credit crisis as Antarctic expedition

• 14 reasons Main Street loses big while Wall Street sabotages democracy

• Clusterf#@k to the Poor House

• The bloggers stay bullish!

• Panic is not the same as capitulation

• A technical checklist for signs of a market recovery

• All eyes on the coiled spring!

• The problem of forced insider stock sales

• The other side of the trade: bear trap

• Hedge funds: defensive in tone, aggressive in strategy

• Timely questions for value investors

• 10 trends for long-term gains

• Big currency bets backfire

• Paulson praises China's cooperation

• "It seems to me that frailty we have seen in the western economic and financial system in the last year will catapult China along the path to supremacy." - Tom Scollon

• Merrill Lynch launches BRIC indicator

• Funds investing in the BRIC economies have plummeted by 60%

• Sarkozy proposes plan to keep industries out of foreign hands

• Argentina default looms, pension seizure roils market

• Pakistan asks IMF for loan to avoid defaulting on debt

• Saudi Arabia injects cash into banks

• Panic grips oil-rich governments dependent on high prices

• Swiss hedge fund industry to grow as crisis bites

• Latvian central banker says credit markets may soon calm

• Shattered illusions of liquidity around the world

• Glory days fade for U.S. farmers

• Believe it or not, regional-bank stocks are up 20% since mid July

• Banks are using your tax dollars for M&A

• CEO pay at the 9 government-owned banks

• Business returns to normal on Wall Street - Merrill's Kraus gets a buyout bonanza

• Clearly there has been a lot of bottom fishing going on!

• Behind Apple’s impressive quarter

• The growing frustration of eBay sellers

• Wachovia suffers nearly $24 billion loss

• Government Sachs recommends selling Citigroup and buying Morgan Stanley

• GM in hunt for Buffett-style capital injection

• Another take on Emergent BioSolutions

• Best Buffett buys

• Debt-free dividend stocks

• These 10 banks have high Texas Ratios, a comparison of troubled loans to capital, which can be an early warning sign of stress

• Screening for value like Benjamin Graham

• Kevin Matras shares his value screen

• Stock-picking lessons from a pig farmer

• Five tips for buying stocks in bad times

• Stocks that are paying dividend yields of greater than 8% along with other attractive fundamental attributes

• Stocks with the lowest estimated PEG ratios in the Russell 1,000

• Top 10 Dow stocks by PEG

• Top 200 stocks in Canada

• "The real key to successful trading is to obtain the greatest possible reward-to-risk tradeoff. Big returns off of small risks lead to long-term profitability. Big returns accompanied by large risks invariably ultimately lead to large losses. - Jay Kaeppel

• Avoid stress when managing exits

• In times of stress, we tend to anchor our thinking in the most salient pieces of information

• What to do when you get that miracle trade

• Discount Rate Calculation

• Find the winners in the sea of ETFs

• Despite recent pullbacks, biotech ETFs continue to outperform the market

• What's up with those alternative energy ETFs?

• In the future, asset allocation could need to be turned completely upside down

• Evidence suggests that jumping right in with your money may generate better results than investing gradually over time

• Mutual fund investors face risk of a tax hit despite large losses

• According to a new study, the rich cheat more on taxes

• America's luxury homes, downsized!

• What do you need and want in a car?

• The best keyboard on the planet. Period.

• A free program to help you get things done!

• Another program to help you track your investments

• Trade-Ideas goes mobile!

• Tweet what you $pend

• Capture thoughts, create to-dos and set reminders with a simple phone call

• Dollar bill sends Wall Street into frenzy

• "He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." - Confucius