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December 2008

12/31/2008 - Your Individual Retirement Account (IRA): Resolutions for Wealth & Happiness in 2009: Issue #908

12/29/2008 - The 4 Biggest Investment Myths of 2008: Issue #907

12/23/2008 - Small-Cap Stocks: The Most Important Trend Headed into 2009: Issue #906

12/22/2008 - I.O.U.S.A. & The Coming Entitlement Meltdown: Issue #905

12/19/2008 - A Rare Bank Without Defaults: Issue #904

12/18/2008 - How to Keep your Gas Prices Low: Issue #903

12/17/2008 - The Falling U.S. Dollar: Taking An About-Face: Issue #902

12/15/2008 - The Truth About Options: Buying Puts & Calls On Stocks: Issue #901

12/12/2008 - Global Oil Demand: Are You Ready for Gasoline Under a Buck a Gallon?: Issue #900

12/11/2008 - 32 Billion Reasons The Average Investor Will Fail: Issue #899

12/10/2008 - John Maynard Keynes: How to Make 30% From an 80-Year-Old Investment Strategy: Issue #898

12/08/2008 - Investing Like Warren Buffett: Take Your  Cue From the World’s Best Investor: Issue #897

12/05/2008 - Stock Indexed Annuities: A Powerful Investment For Getting Back to Even: Issue #896

12/03/2008 - Value Investors - Beware The Value Traps: Issue #895

12/01/2008 - Tax-Managing Your Investment Portfolio: There’s Still Time to Cut Your 2008 Taxes: Issue #894

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November 2008

11/28/2008 - Unearth Big Gains from the Commodity ‘Supercycle’: Issue #893

11/26/2008 - Jim Rogers is Wrong… The Dollar’s Not Done: Issue #892

11/24/2008 - Exchange Traded Funds: An Investment Move You Need to Make: Issue #891

11/21/2008 - Energy Investment Opportunities: Why 28 Million Customers Need These Upgrades: Issue #890

11/20/2008 -  Covered Call Investing: How to Boost Your Bear-Market Income Right Now: Issue #889

11/19/2008 - Small Caps: It’s Time To Think Small: Issue #888

11/17/2008 - Structured Products: Another “Safe Investment” Bites the Dust: Issue #887

11/14/2008 - Broadband Penetration: 7 Ways to Profit From Our Biggest Infrastructure Need: Issue #886

11/13/2008 - The Chinese Bailout: 5 Ways to Profit From China’s $585 Billion Stimulus Plan: Issue #885

11/12/2008 - The Baltic Dry Index: The Only Economic Indicator Worth Tracking Right Now: Issue #884

11/10/2008 - Obama’s New “Economic Fuel”… and 7 Ways to Profit: Issue #883

11/07/2008 - Put Option Selling: Get Paid to Buy the Stocks You Want: Issue #882

11/03/2008 - 10 Roads to Riches: Nine Ways to Get Rich - Plus One Foolproof Way: Issue #880

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October 2008

10/31/2008 - Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG): This Company’s on Fire…: Issue #879

10/29/2008 - Foreign Stocks: 4 “Safe Haven” Markets for U.S. Investors: Issue #878

10/27/2008 - Investing in Art: One Asset That Has Increased in Value Lately: Issue #877

10/24/2008 - WW Grainger: A Healthy Infrastructure Buy For Any Recession-Resistant Portfolio: Issue #876

10/23/2008 - Investing In Dividend-Paying Stocks: A “Strong Buy” Since 1935: Issue #875

10/20/2008 - What If You’re Wrong?: Issue #874

10/17/2008 - Market Vectors Environmental Services ETF: Adding Recession “Insurance” To Any Portfolio: Issue #873

10/16/2008 - Long-Term Investment Goals: Answers to The Top 3 Investing Questions Right Now: Issue #872

10/15/2008 - Master Limited Partnerships: A New Way to Shop for Bargains: Issue #871

10/13/2008 - Reverse Mortgages: The Hottest Product in the Market Right Now: Issue #870

10/10/2008 - Municipal Bonds: A True Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity: Issue #869

10/09/2008 - Closed-End Income Funds: Why It’s Time to Buy Them: Issue #868

10/08/2008 - Arbitrage Opportunities: What to Look For When Efficient Markets Break Down: Issue #867

10/06/2008 - Understanding The Credit Crisis… Through The One Eternal Truth of Investing: Issue #866

10/03/2008 - Infrastructure Investment Opportunities: 2 of Our Favorite ETFs Right Now: Issue #865

10/02/2008 -Short Sellers: Why They Are The Heroes, Not Villains, of Wall Street: Issue #864

10/01/2008 -Warren Buffett: Why Buying Constellation Energy Group Is A Sweet Deal: Issue #863

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September 2008

09/29/2008 - Investment Advice: Don’t Take A Shovel To Your Stock Portfolio: Issue #862

09/26/2008 -Alternative Energy Invesments: Finally Getting The Green Light in 2008: Issue #861

09/25/2008 -Ending the Credit Crisis:The “Money Morning 15-Point Plan”: Issue #860

09/24/2008 -The Bailout Plan: Now’s the Time to Buy Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Issue #859

09/22/2008 -Money Markets: How Safe Is Your Cash? Issue #858

09/19/2008 -Alternative Energy: The Best Investment Opportunities of The Century: Issue #857

09/17/2008 -Wind Power: Why This Renewable Energy Could Solve The U.S. Oil Addiction:
Issue #856

09/15/2008 -The Wall Street Meltdown: What Should Investors Do Now? Issue #855

09/12/2008 - Oil Prices: 2 Ways to Hedge Against Global Oil Demand: Issue #854

09/11/2008 -Investment Risk: How to Avoid the 4 Most Dangerous Pitfalls of Investing: Issue #853

09/10/2008 - Auction Rate Securities: How to Avoid the Wall Street Product Machine: Issue #852

09/08/2008 -The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy…& Get On With Your Life:Issue #851

09/05/2008 -The Infrastructure & Energy Sectors: The 2 Best Places to Put Your Money Over the Next 20 Years: Issue #850

09/04/2008 -Warren Buffett’s Investment Strategy: Time to Buy the Ultimate No-Brainer: Issue #849

09/03/2008 - Dividend-Paying Stocks: 5 Pharmaceutical “Cash Machines”: Issue #848

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August 2008 

08/29/2008 -Stock Market Research: How to Find Winning Stock Ideas on Your Own: Issue #847 

08/28/2008 -Transportation Stocks: Follow the Great Industrialists To Incredible Wealth: Issue #846

08/27/2008 -Investing in Biotech: How to Profit from the 3 “Phases” of Clinical Trials: Issue #845

08/25/2008 - The National Debt: The Biggest Threat to Your Financial Future: Issue #844

08/22/2008 - Inflation: The Silent Earnings Killer: Issue #843

08/21/2008 -Jim Rogers: The Legendary Investor Speaks About The Credit Crisis: Issue #842

08/20/2008 -Deep Value Investments: How to Find Your Portfolio’s Next Superstar: Issue #841

08/18/2008 -Crude Oil Prices: Are “Oily Characters” Behind the Move?: Issue #840

08/15/2008 -The Energy Sector: Another Solid Industry Goes “On Sale”: Issue #839

08/14/2008 -Stock Market Predictions: “Crazy” About the Dollar: Issue #838 

08/13/2008 -The T. Boone Pickens Way: How To Supercharge Your Portfoli Issue #837

08/11/2008 - How Low Will Oil Go? Issue #836

08/08/2008 -Position Sizing: Why Not Using This Strategy Is The Best Way to Lose Everything: Issue #835

08/07/2008 -Using Trailing Stops: The True Art of Selling Stocks: Issue #834

08/06/2008 -Real Estate Investment Trusts: How to Double Your Money With REITs: Issue #833

08/04/2008 -Housing Prices: Why Greenspan Is Right About Real Estate Investments: Issue #832

08/01/2008 - Options Activity: A Market Indicator That Always Delivers Outsized Gains: Issue #831

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July 2008

07/31/2008 -Is Bill Gates the New Ben Franklin?Issue #830

07/30/2008 -Investing in CDs: 2 “Safe Harbor” Investments Right Now: Issue #829

07/28/2008 -Buying Bank Stocks: Good Bet or Big Gamble?Issue #828

07/25/2008 -Financial Independence: How to Make It… How to Spend It: Issue #827

07/24/2008 -Why Doing Nothing is the Right Investment Strategy: Issue #826

07/23/2008 -Financial Analysts: 3 Ways to Beat Their “Educated Guesses”: Issue #825

07/21/2008 -Bear Markets: Your Gift From The Financial Gods? Issue #824

07/18/2008 - Shadow Stocks: The Low-Risk, High-Profit Way to Play the Leading Global Trends: Issue #823

07/17/2008 - The Housing Market: How to Play the Real Estate Rebound: Issue #822

07/16/2008 - The “Wizard of Wharton’s” Favorite Ratio for Evaluating Stocks: Issue #821

07/14/2008 - Stock Market Investment Advice: Beware Wall Street’s “Tower of Babble”: Issue #820

07/11/2008 - Why Stocks Do Better When Congress Is Out of Session: Issue #819

07/10/2008 - Buying Gold: The Best Way to Use This Precious Metal: Issue #818

07/09/2008 - Market Timing: What All Great Investors Have in Common: Issue #817

07/07/2008 - As Bank Stocks Fall… Beware of the Dividend Trap: Issue #816

07/02/2008 - Variable Annuities: Beware These Promises of “Risk-Free Income”: Issue #815

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June 2008

06/30/2008 - Market Vectors Gold Miners… A Conservative Blue Chip Stock: Issue #814

06/27/2008 - Stocks as an Inflation Hedge… The Naysayers Respond: Issue #813

06/25/2008 - The 4 Pillars of Investing: Don’t End Up as Stock Market Road Kill: Issue #812

06/23/2008 - The Ultimate Inflation Hedge: Stocks?: Issue #811

06/20/2008 - Municipal Bonds: The First “Obama Investment”: Issue #810

06/18/2008 - The Banking Stocks Crisis Reveals the “Buy of the Decade”: Issue #809

06/17/2008 - Sir Isaac Newton On Today’s Oil Market: Issue #808

06/13/2008 - The 10 Most Common Estate Planning Mistakes… And How to Avoid Them: Issue #807

06/11/2008 - U.S. Finacial Mess “Powers Up” Investment Opportunities in Energy: Issue #806

06/09/2008 - Merrill Lynch’s “Bull”: Misrepresentation at Merrill Lynch: Issue #805

06/06/2008 - Money Managers: An Easy Way to Find the Best: Issue #804

06/04/2008 - Trailing Stops: Lock In Your Profits with This Not-So-Secret Sell Strategy: Issue #803

06/03/2008 - Weak Dollar Rising: 10 More Reasons Not to Bet Against the Greenback: Special Report

06/02/2008 - Sovereign Wealth Funds: How to Turn Sovereign Wealth Into Personal Wealth: Issue #802

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May 2008

05/30/2008 - Warren Buffett Investing: Welcome to the Oracle of Omaha’s “Long, Deep Recession”: Issue #801

05/28/2008 - Synthetic Fuels: How Converting Coal to Oil Can Solve The Energy Crisis: Issue #800

05/23/2008 - Crude Oil: Mega Profits from the Oil Reserve 8 Times Bigger Than Saudi Arabia’s: Issue #799

05/21/2008 - The Dodge and Cox Stock Fund: Get into this Mutual Fund Before it Closes Again: Issue #798

05/19/2008 - Target Retirement Funds: How to Put Your Investment Portfolio on Autopilot: Issue #797

05/16/2008 - Eckhart Tolle: Old Ideas From a New Earth Guru: Issue #796

05/14/2008 - Momentum Investing: A Proven Investment Strategy That Earns 350% When Put to the Test: Issue #795

05/12/2008 - The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio - Get Wise, Get Wealthy… & Get on With Your Life: Issue #794 

05/05/2008 - Money Market Funds: Why Your “Plus” Could Become A Minus: Issue #792

05/02/2008 - The Price of Oil: Is This Hot Commodity Becoming the “Mother of All Bubbles?”: Issue #791

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April 2008

04/30/2008 - Annual Reports: How to Understand the Financial Picture of any Company: Issue #790

04/28/2008 - Real Estate Investments: How to Buy Dollars for 67 Cents: Issue #789

04/25/2008 - Mark Skousen: How “EconoPower” Can Make You a Better Investor: Issue #788

04/23/2008 - Robert Shiller: A Chilling Prediction On Fed Rate Cuts: Issue #787

04/21/2008 - The Truth About Managed Accounts: Issue #786

04/18/2008 - Your Retirement Plan: Have You Calculated Your Number?: Issue #785

04/15/2008 - Hedge Fund Loss: 4 “Unscientific” Ways to Increase Your Total Returns: Issue #784

04/09/2008 - Jim Rogers: An Exclusive Interview With The Legendary Investor: Special Feature

04/07/2008 - A Contrarian Strategy: Why Clear Channel Is Today’s Top Stock Pick: Issue #783

04/02/2008 - Recession Investing: Why It’s Still Not Time to “Time” the Market: Issue #782

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March 2008

03/31/2008 - Further Evidence Against The Efficient Market Hypothesis: Issue #781

03/28/2008 - The End of The Weak Dollar: Top 10 Reasons the Greenback’s Finally Headed Higher: Issue #780

03/26/2008 - Exchange Traded Funds: 4 Ideas For Income Investors: Issue #779

03/24/2008 - The Visa IPO: Why We’re Going Long: Issue #778

03/19/2008 - The Federal Reserve: Dispensing the Wrong Medicine: Issue #777

03/17/2008 - 4 Investing Lessons: How To Profit During a Financial Crisis: Issue #776

03/14/2008 - The Credit Crisis: Just How Bad Is It?: Issue #774

03/10/2008 - The Permanent Portfolio Fund: Harry Browne’s “Peace of Mind” Investment: Issue #773

03/07/2008 - Stock Dividends: The Difference Between Success and Failure: Issue #772

03/05/2008 - Inflation… The Biggest Risk You Face as an Investor: Issue #771

03/03/2008 - Warren Buffett’s 2007 Annual Letter to Shareholders: Issue #770

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February 2008

02/29/2008 - Auction-Rate Securities: Just How Safe Is This “Safe” Investment?: Issue #769

02/27/2008 - Investing in Cuba: Fidel’s Out. Raul’s In. Here’s Your Investing Guide to Cuba: Issue #768

02/25/2008 - Long-Term Stocks: Three “Best of Breed” Companies On Sale Right Now: Issue #767

02/22/2008 - Free Trade: Can 60% of American Voters Be Wrong About The Benefits of Foreign Trade?: Issue #766

02/21/2008 - Buying Stock in Microsoft: A Debt-Free Company That Wall Street Doesn’t Appreciate… Yet: Issue #765

02/15/2008 - Your Investment Portfolio - Why You Don’t Need A Financial Planner: Issue #764

02/11/2008 - Social Security Benefits: How To Avoid The Coming Entitlement Meltdown: Issue #762

02/08/2008 - Sir John Templeton: How To Find The Road Map to Spiritual Wealth: Issue #761

02/06/2008 - Warren Buffett: 3 Stocks on Berkshire’s “Buy List”: Issue #760

02/04/2008 - Larry Winget: Finding Financial Solvency With the “Pitbull of Personal Development”: Issue #759

02/01/2008 - Stocks for the Long Run: 7 Market Conclusions from Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel: Issue #758

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January 2008

01/28/2008 - Closed-End Funds: Two Closed-End Companies Primed For Profits Over Mutual Funds: Issue #757

01/25/2008 - Bear Markets: How to Uncover Profit Opportunities When Selloffs Emerge: Issue #756

01/23/2008 - Buying Silver: How To Eliminate Silver Coins & Bullion With One ETF: Issue #755

01/21/2008 - The Credit Crunch: 2 Ways To Profit From Credit Crisis Opportunities: Issue #754

01/17/2008 - Investing In Oil Companies: Here Are Five Oil Stocks Set to Surge in 2008: Issue #753

01/15/2008 - Sovereign Wealth Funds: 2 Safe & Easy Ways To Profit From This Mega Trend: Issue #752

01/14/2008 - Inflation Adjusted Treasuries: Why TIPS Aren’t The Safest Place For Your Money Right Now: Issue #751

01/10/2008 - The TakeOver Trader: 3 Ways to Master the “Skim” Trade This Year: Issue #750

01/08/2008 - The Housing Market… Why the Price-to-Rent Ratio is Signaling More Pain Ahead: Issue #749

01/04/2008 - The Price of Gold… 3 Reasons Why This Precious Metal Should Be In Every Portfolio!: Issue #748

01/02/2008 - The Oxford Club: The Best Place to Be in 2008?: Issue #747

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