Corrections are as much a part of the normal Market Cycle as rallies, and they can be brought about by either bad news or good news. Investors always over-analyze when prices become weak and over-indulge when prices are high, thus perpetuating the “buy high, sell low” Wall Street lunacy.

Income portfolios should have a stable market value. In thirty-five years of investment management, I’ve determined that the single biggest error investors make is their focus on the market value of income securities. Stable income yes; stable market value – not! Roughly 25% of you incorrectly put this one in the “True” column.

It was a fabulous decade for those investors who were able to see over, beyond, and through artificial time constraints to find the long-term opportunities within every beautiful market cycle undulation. There were plenty of gyrations to gyrate to if you only knew how.

by Douglas Rice
Thursday, December 24, 2009

Becoming a millionaire used to mean you were on top of the world. Nowadays, it means you are climbing up the ladder. While a million dollars is completely out of reach for many people, it’s just a step along the way for many others. Why? [...]

By Gerald Warner UK Last updated: December 15th, 2009

Climategate is a global household name. No cat has ever emancipated itself more completely from the bag. It is a world-wide scandal – thanks to the internet. Yet, as its ramifications proliferate and dominoes continue to fall, the most repeatedly asked question online is: how [...]

December 4, 2009
No, it wouldn’t do anything for the environment.
But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore et al two years ago for the environmental movie [...]

By Roy Beck, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:20 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA

Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can’t figure it out.
So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama’s jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans could [...]

By Shannon Zimmerman
November 25, 2009
I’ve been surveying the Fool’s premium service scorecards, analyzing a universe of stock recommendations that ranges from go-go growth companies to the comparatively buttoned-down dividend payers that the team at Income Investor selects for its members each month. And Income Investor is one service that I think deserves especially close scrutiny over [...]

Gordon G. Chang, 11.20.09, 12:01 AM ET
“The continuous depreciation in the dollar and the U.S. government’s indication that, in order to resume growth and maintain public confidence, it basically won’t raise interest rates for the coming 12 to 18 months, has led to massive dollar arbitrage speculation,” said Liu Mingkang, China’s chief bank regulator, [...]

Robert Lenzner, 11.20.09, 7:13 PM ET
Odds are the huge rebound since March has run its course. And even though it yields nothing, it’s time to raise cash.
Nothing is screamingly cheap. The easy money has been made in both equities and fixed income. From the low point in March, it seems you can’t pick an [...]