Where's My Cheese?

• Risk appetite returns

• The employment picture could start to look better in just a couple of months

• Obama's short on details, long on optimism

• The Deficit Spending Blowout

• Why Obama will own the recession

• Geithner prepares TARP 2.0

• Financial markets face substantial overhaul

• Hank Paulson is getting a better return than most fund managers this year

• "Earlier this week the Senate voted 97-to-0 for tougher regulations. For example, when corporations buy a senator, they must now get a receipt." - Jay Leno

• S&P 500 estimates are all over the map

• "A stock market that looks to be trading at 11 times earnings is closer to 22 times earnings based on a more conservative measure. That's expensive." - Jack Hough

• The ugly - p/e multiple

• Are the first five days of January a harbinger of rest of year?

• By the numbers - how 2008 shakes out

• Stocks' year-to-year returns are largely random

• How the market typically performs in a post-election year

• BS is still Wall Street's official language

• U.S. companies face $409 billion pension deficit

• Consumer credit deteriorated in December

• Loan delinquencies hit record highs

• Economists and politicians say spend whatever it takes to rescue the economy

• More skepticism over the bailouts

• Fed faces tough task ending emergency support

• Time to buy all dips?

• The bulls keep talking about all of that sidelined cash

• What does the Coppock Guide now say?

• "Remember that the bond market is pricing in a serious wave of defaults -- and I don't think the stock market is. If and when those defaults arrive, with shareholders of the companies in question being largely wiped out, will the broader indices really remain unaffected?" - Felix Salmon

• Battaglia was right on the money; now what?

• The economy according to Nouriel Roubini

• Gary Shilling's 2009 predictions

• Big money outflows in emerging markets

• Cash printing presses are working overtime worldwide

• U.S. remains the world's most innovative economy

• Will the IPO market come back from the dead soon? Not likely

• 9 possible pharma deals for 2009

• Would you believe that most bank executives continue to dismiss risk management?

• Yet another problem for the hedge fund wizards

• The Ponzi Scheme in every hedge fund

• The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter

• Fund heads voice short selling fears

• The refinancing rush has lenders struggling to cope

• What can home buyers and sellers expect in 2009?

• America's weakest housing markets

• The housing market according to KB Homes

• No recovery for real estate as speculators dominate sales

• Questionable timing for commodity index rebalancing?

• The powerful case for $1 gas

• Hydrokinetics draws attention for clean energy opportunities

• 2009 earnings estimates for several software companies are being revised up

• Hope springs eternal for Detroit 3

• Citigroup, General Motors and Chrysler must account for billions

• Retailers have not-so-merry holidays

• Unhappy chinese new year for Lenovo

• Satyam scandal rocks outsourcing industry

• Henry Paulson's portfolio

• Top picks from 75 advisors (for what is is worth, here's the tracking data on last year's list - conservative & speculative)

• Six companies that trade below their book values

• Stocks that have no debt and pay a high, sustainable dividend

• Nasdaq short-squeeze plays

• Thomas Bulkowski finds a number of triangles

• Overleveraging is a trader's worst enemy

• There is nothing new about irrational speculation

• Avoid analysis paralysis

• Sage advice for developing yourself as a trader

• Is it better to buy new lows or new highs?

• Look to the Higher Time Frame

• Finding tradable patterns in bear markets

• Are you keeping an eye on RSI (2)?

• Dangerous trading myths which aren’t so dangerous

• Don't have time for a trading journal? Can you spare 30 seconds per day?

• 10 smart books of 2008

• Wall Street Stories - Edwin Lefevre

• Q&A with Yale's Swensen

• 10 investing basics from Buffett

• Scott Adams doesn't trust Buffett

• Should you trade with multiple monitors?

• If you're planning to rebalance your portfolio for 2009, here's a tip

• Four intriging index funds that deserve attention

• 5 ETFs you shouldn't count on

• Morpheus' ETF roundup!

• Feeling exotic? 7 ETFs in different asset classes

• Leveraged and inverse ETF winners & losers

• New ETFs bank on social themes

• Avoiding mea culpas with alternative assets

• 1 fund in 1,700 made money in 2008

• SmartMoney's mutual fund report card

• Where are the wise money managers?

• PIMCO's Gross says muni bonds & TIPS attractive

• However, keep in mind there's a nationwide inquiry on bids for muni bonds

• Shocker! The idea of keeping stocks through thick and thin is losing its popularity

• 2009 IRA Contribution Limits

• Many taxpayers stand to gain from new laws

• Method to the Madoff

• Why we keep falling for financial scams

• How to make money from your -- and other's -- New Year's resolutions

• New rankings of the best and worst occupations in the U.S.

• Quality business RSS feeds

• Create and customize your own personal newspaper using feeds from your favorite sites

• Love watching movies as I do on a winter evening? Find a good on through clerkdogs

• Always please remember, you are not your money!

• Life after the crash for a few on Wall Street

• "Don't measure yourself by what you've accomplished, but rather by what you should have accomplished with your abilities." - John Wooden, basketball coach