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Stock Smackdown: Cramer vs. CAPS

There's no denying that Mad Money host Jim Cramer is entertaining, popular, and passionate. On many occasions, he's even right. So he's smart, funny, and the closest thing to a stock market rock star -- but is he smarter than you?

Tomorrow's Monster Stock?

Stocks climbing to 10 times their original price are rare breeds. But they're not impossible to find -- especially when you have Fools for friends.

Get Ready for the Fall?

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall." It's the worst nightmare of every investor in today's market -- buying a rocket stock just before it takes a nosedive.

4-Star Stocks on the Upswing

Sadly, there's no such thing as an ultimate buy signal when it comes to investing in stocks. Identifying companies with the wind at their backs takes time, patience, and a good dose of due diligence.

5 Top Stocks at Half Price

You love buying your shirts when they go on sale. And who can resist a buy-one-get-one-free offer? So when our stocks go on sale, why do we bemoan their low prices?

5-Star Stocks on the Upswing

Sadly, there's no such thing as an ultimate buy signal when it comes to investing in stocks. Identifying companies with the wind at their back takes time, patience, and a good dose of due diligence.

3 Stocks Hitting High Notes

When a stock hits a fresh high, it can mean that it’s on its way to greatness -- or that it has run its course. Even with the risk of the latter, searching for these outperformers can reveal companies that are doing something right, much to their investors' delight.

5 Top-Rated Value Stocks

Are you familiar with the dynamic duo of Fama and French? No, they didn't eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil -- that was Adam and Eve. And they didn't defeat Mr. Freeze -- that was Batman and Robin.

6 Stocks That Never Surrender

Welcome back, Fools, to Week 3 of my mano-a-mano melee versus Mr. Market -- and what a difference a week makes!

7 Reasons Not to Worry This Week

This week is loaded with potential minefields.

I recently went over seven bellwethers that are expected to post lower earnings than they did a year earlier. But that was just the tip of the iceberg, my worrywart friends. Many companies are owning up to the fact that they're just not as profitable as they used to be.

Corning's Quarter: Better Than Advertised

If you want to get a read on consumer spending, you gotta know where to look.

Dueling Fools: Fortune's Less of a Loser

Less bad, but not good: That much-bandied moniker aptly sums up Fortune Brands (NYSE: FO), a leader in the spirits, home and hardware, and golf businesses.  Unlike my Foolish colleague Robert Steyer, I'm less sanguine about even the spirits business going forward.