Weekend Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.
It's time to check in on the
top Nasdaq stocks with short interest
. Get ready for the squeezes on
Level 3
(LVLT)
and
Comcast
(CMCSK)
.
Big Ben consistently does the blogs I wish I had written:
Here are all the specialty metal stocks
that he believes are cheap.
I've used
McAfee
(MFE)
security software forever. So why not check out
the house that John McAfee now owns
from the payments I've been sending him?
This is a great portfolio:
What stocks should you buy for your kids
? They'll go up
and
they're kid-friendly.
Alarm Clock profiles the
$100 million domain-name mogul
. He owns god.com, satan.com and the entire Internet presence of the country of Cameroon.
GigaOm analyzes why (other than for pure love)
(GOOG) - Get Report
, the company run by Sergey Brin's wife.
TheFlyOnTheWall
checks out
Macrovision
(MVSN)
.
Unusual stocks of the day:
stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday
, suggesting a possible breakout, and stocks with
, suggesting somebody is breaking the law and knows something you and I don't.
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man, is sometimes hard to understand, but I'll link to this anyway: Check out
. What are they checking? I don't know, but it still looks interesting.
StocksandBlogs.com is taking a stand -- here are its
top 10 U.S. stocks to buy right now
. Nos. 1 and 2 are
Morgan Stanley
(MS) - Get Report
and
CVS Caremark
(CVS) - Get Report
.
Chris Anderson, author of the excellent book
The Long Tail
, just announced his
, and I think I really like it.
OptionsMonster offers its favorite
.
The art of selling short by
(say that 10 times fast) Jim Chanos.
Israeli stock specialist Israel Newsletter checks out
email stock
Commtouch
(CTCH)
.
And, if you missed it, here are
Cramer's portfolios of the week
.
Also, now that Cramer is done with doing the Imus spot on
MSNBC
for a while, I bet he will be
answering more questions in Stockpickr Answers
.
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