Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

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

Jim Cramer answers questions about McDonald's (MCD Quote), Caterpillar (CAT Quote), Goldman Sachs (GS Quote) and more in Stockpickr Answers. If you have a question for Jim, go ahead, ask.

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Sramana Mitra continues her analysis of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone carriers. Today's is T-Mobile.

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This volatility is a short-term trader's dream come true. Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day have been finding the gems in this volatile market for short-term trades.

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Hilarious. Wallstrip covers Checkpoint Systems (CKP Quote).

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How's tech spending doing? Stock Market Beat surveys the conference calls of Staples (SPLS Quote), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ Quote) and others to determine what's going on.

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What the heck is up with Apple (AAPL Quote) lately?

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Howard Lindzon lists the stocks that have behaved the strongest in this market.

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Analytical Wealth wants to know whether the banking rally has been jumping the fun.

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Jeff Matthews has a nice contrary look at Miss Teen South Carolina.

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Is Level 3 (LVLT Quote) a threat to Akamai (AKAM Quote)?

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Uber-marketer and entrepreneur Seth Godin looks at the scarcity of scarcity when trying to come up with business ideas.

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Blogvesting wonders whether Mother's Work (MWRK Quote) is a value trap. By the way, how great is that for the name of a company? I wish I had named Stockpickr something like that.

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Well, is the dust clearing or not? Here are the latest Moody ratings on all of the U.S. investment banks, including Lehman Brothers (LEH Quote), Goldman Sachs, etc.

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Unusual stocks of the day: stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, and stocks with unusual option activity. These are all potential breakout plays.

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