Daily Blogwatch: Yasser Arafat and Me, the Magnetar Trade, and Is the Market Still Going Up?

Below are some of the best reads for investors from the Web:

A great article on how one hedge fund helped keep the housing bubble going and then made money on the crash -- the so-called "Magnetar Trade."
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Me, Yasser Arafat, and the sale of my second company.
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Chart of the inflation rate dating back to 1450.
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Where did all the Major League Baseball team names come from?
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Good question! Why isn't there an economist on the Supreme Court?
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Super fund manager Leon Cooperman thinks this bull market still has room to move.
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The cheapest photos ever taken from space.
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Fund manager Jeff Matthews thinks the new normal is the same as the old normal.
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Why is the market going up? Value Plays explains that the fundamentals just keep improving.