Watching markets decline on and on, and watching extremely well established companies falling to arguably long-term historical lows on valuation, I decided it was time to get some pizza and a steak and cheese sub given that I am currently in the US and...

Talk about a booby prize. Institutional Investor magazine released its 2008 All-America Fixed-Income Research Team, awarding top prize -- for the ninth consecutive year -- to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s debt analysts.

I'm not a big fan of that style of online journalism where you bash some mainstream media outlet for not "getting it". But man, what's with this WaPo article on how some businesses are using blogs to market themselves.

Here's something crazy from Nick Gogerty: "The FDIC is the 7th fastest growing website in traffic according to compete.com. You know something is going on when FDIC.Gov beats out Jibjab.com in an election year."

Don't know if it's a trend yet, but in the last couple of days, I've eavesdropped on two or three conversations of people talking about whether the dollar has bottomed.