Weekend Blog Watch

 

Jim Cramer is nonstop on Stockpickr Answers. I'm feeling competitive but he's hard to keep up with.


What should Starbucks (SBUX Quote) learn from McDonald's (MCD Quote)?


OK, the great depression of 2008 may or may not be imminent. But here are the highest yielding gold stocks anyway, just in case.


Can Genentech (DNA Quote) catch a break?


Stockpickr's latest list of profitable NYSE stocks that trade for less than $5. These stocks have a tendency to pop huge.


A Dash of Insight sets the record straight: the truth about U.S. savings.


Seeking Alpha gives the ultimate guide to the online job market and Monster Worldwide (MNST Quote).


I've spent some time getting to know activist hedge fund manager Bob Chapman, and I have to say, he is brutal. I would not want to be a CEO on the opposite side of one of his attacks.


Well, I guess Wal-Mart (WMT Quote) won't be buying Time Warner (TWX Quote) anytime soon.


This is no joke: Prisons are so crowded, they can't even keep Paris Hilton behind bars for more than five days before they have to release her. The entire system is going to get privatized. Here are the prison stocks I think are buys right now.


Could Shutterfly be the ultimate acquisition candidate? All of this is to say, ignore market volatility -- focus on the cheap stocks that are still getting acquired by a world awash in liquidity.


Dividend Money should write the book Trade like Canada.


Information Arbitrage thinks that Microsoft (MSFT Quote) has got its game hat on again.


Nobody knows security software like Israel. Israel Newsletter recounts the top three Israeli security plays.


Try out our newest feature: the ultimate financial blog search engine. We catalog every blog post from the top 300 financial blogs on the Internet. Try searching "GOOG" in our search engine vs. Google's (GOOG Quote) blog search engine.

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