Is Now the Time to Buy Gold?

Seekingalpha.com: Gold almost took off past the $1,000 dollar range and is now currently at $879. This last week's soft CPI & PPI reports shows that we are currently in a deflationary period and that inflation will not be a concern in the near term.

The 10 people who have profited most from the financial crisis

Timesbusiness.typepad.com: We’ve rounded up ten credit crunch Houdinis who’ve escaped the financial crisis and are laughing all the way to the ailing bank.

Ten people who predicted the financial meltdown

Timesbusiness.typepad.com: The financial events of recent weeks have filled many of us with shock and panic. Surely no one could have predicted that we would be in this mess? Well, actually, they did. Here are ten people who saw the financial meltdown coming...

Filthy rich: the 10 highest paid hedge fund managers of 2008

Timesbusiness.typepad.com: Stock markets across the world may have tanked last year but that didn’t stop the top performing hedge fund managers from making themselves a huge pile of cash.

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS. Business big shot: Sir Martin Sorrell

Business.timesonline.co.uk: Sir Martin Sorrell is expected to warn the world today that the economy is back in the “bath” – a vicious recession that is hitting revenues of WPP, the world’s second-largest advertising group.

MATH WHIZ: Big banks' fuzzy math

Money.cnn.com: Analysts are anticipating a flurry of capital-raising among banks once the stress tests end. They expect to see the healthiest institutions following in the footsteps of Goldman Sachs and selling stock en route to an early exit from the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Weaker banks are expected to try to raise money, with less certain success, to bolster their capital cushions.

TIME BOMB: Banks brace for derivatives 'big bang'

Money.cnn.com: Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has called for putting the market, currently an "over-the-counter" affair that consists of private contracts between traders, on the same footing as the markets for stocks and commodities, in which parties trade with a central counterparty or exchange.