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HOWARD GOLD | About Howard Gold
New recession begins next year, Gary Shilling says
I looked up one of the few people who saw the housing bust and financial crisis coming years before they happened: Gary Shilling, economist and author of The Age of Deleveraging. While his steadfast bearishness didn’t surprise me, his blunt assessment did.

David Weidner's writing on the wall | About David Weidner
Women are better investors
New evidence suggests women are more successful investors, and better at just about everything else.

MATTHEW LYNN'S LONDON EYE | About Matthew Lynn
Politics rules today's markets
For the moment, put aside all fundamental and technical analysis of markets; all that counts now is how the politics of the next year unfolds, writes Matthew Lynn.

REX NUTTING'S MONEY & power | About Rex Nutting
E. coli have rights too, GOP says
Industry, even the most well-intentioned, does not police itself, but Republicans say the food industry can be counted on to keep food safe.

MARK HULBERT | About Mark Hulbert
Betting on last 6 months’ momentum
With the market set to mark its first January-June gain in four years, can we draw any inferences about the market’s likely course for the second half of this year?

PETER BRIMELOW | About Peter Brimelow
Stocks suffer, but crash fears recede
Some investment letters preaching doom earlier are now at least less fearful of a full repeat of 2008, reports Peter Brimelow.

DARRELL DELAMAIDE's political capital | About Darrell Delamaide
Huntsman is JFK, without vig-ah
Republican Jon Huntsman reminds columnist Darrell Delamaide of both Reagan and JFK, but so far he lacks their fire and charisma.

BRETT ARENDS | About Brett Arends
Who really benefited from QE2?
The Fed’s program was better for Wall Street than Main Street, according to Brett Arends

JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB | About Jon Friedman
ABC should’ve picked Jake Tapper
Old-school broadcaster says ABC News picked the wrong host for its Sunday show, and laments the state of local TV news, Jon Friedman reports.
IRWIN KELLNER | About Irwin Kellner
Jobs reach fork in the road
While we would always want our elected officials to be sure they are on the path that produces jobs, it does not always work out this way.
MARKETWATCH FIRST TAKE
Breaking-news analysis
• Dodgers extend fans’ misery
• Investment is strengthening
• Forgiveness not JPM playbook
• The 200-day average holds
• Netflix investors like CEO post
• Bending unruly oil prices
• Hedge fund crackdown stalls
• Fed insists: just bump in road

MARSH ON MONDAY
Germans resigned to messy divorce
There’s no love lost between Germans and the outlying states of the euro zone, but they are joined together “for better or worse.” Probably worse, writes David Marsh.

THIS WEEK IN CHINA
Hong Kong has property problem
Now, even Mainland China is worried about a Hong Kong real-estate bubble, and this raises other issues, including the territory’s U.S. dollar peg, writes Craig Stephen.

COMMODITY CORNER
Nuclear energy still won’t die
In the wake of the world’s second-worst nuclear disaster, talk of nuclear energy’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. writes Myra Saefong.

OUTSIDE THE BOX
The U.S. is too big to fail, right?
Only if, or when, Greece defaults will we know who ultimately has sold insurance against that default, writes Brian Edmonds.

OUTSIDE THE BOX
 Why 2011 is worse than 2008
Whether it is global leaders, foreign financial institution executives, rating agency professionals, or investors, they are all reading from the same 2008 playbook, says Peter Atwater.


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