Thursday's Blog Watch

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

Check out the top stocks in the winning portfolios for both the "Beat the Street" game and the CNBC contest.

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John Arnold is the top-paid hedge fund manager this year. The 32-year-old made $1.5 billion for himself personally. Michael Covel describes how he did it.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day include trades triggering this morning on Steel Dynamics (STLD Quote - Cramer on STLD - Stock Picks), Google (GOOG Quote - Cramer on GOOG - Stock Picks) and others.

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Here's a fascinating stat from Ticker Sense showing that the biggest thing we need to worry about in this market is that funding has been approved for the 2nd Avenue subway in New York City.

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Paul Kedrosky has the latest search stats, and Google is in a race for world domination.

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Here's a list of stocks that rose yesterday on unusual volume -- a condition that could suggest a breakout is occurring.

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Who will be the Microsoft (MSFT Quote - Cramer on MSFT - Stock Picks) of the 21st century?

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I've never known anyone to use Fandango instead of Moviefone, but Comcast (CMCSA Quote - Cramer on CMCSA - Stock Picks) is acquiring Fandango in its largest Internet purchase to date, so somebody must be using it.

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Perhaps the great expectations for Research in Motion (RIMM Quote - Cramer on RIMM - Stock Picks) were too great.

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Has Harley-Davidson (HOG Quote - Cramer on HOG - Stock Picks) been hiding inventory problems?

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Is eBay (EBAY Quote - Cramer on EBAY - Stock Picks) the counterfeit capital of the world?

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Clear AM sees things more clearly when it's wearing DSW (DSW Quote - Cramer on DSW - Stock Picks) shoes.

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I like to keep track of the latest activist situations, where hedge funds are trying to shake things up. Today's list includes new filings on PDL BioPharma (PDLI Quote - Cramer on PDLI - Stock Picks) and Pier 1 (PIR Quote - Cramer on PIR - Stock Picks).

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Cement is the new water (which, a few months ago, was the new oil). And David Merkel, Real Money columnist and money manager, blogs about the top cement pick, Cemex (CX Quote - Cramer on CX - Stock Picks).

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Money manager and Street Insight columnist Brian Gilmartin writes about why he's concerned about holding General Electric (GE Quote - Cramer on GE - Stock Picks) into its earnings report on Friday.

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