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The market’s recent nosedive was allegedly caused by four factors. The thing is, none of them really matters.

The coming oil boom; or, How to stop worrying and profit from sky-high�and headed higher?�prices.

Which billion-dollar companies are about to join forces and form multi-billion-dollar companies? A 2005 M&A forecast.

Wal-Mart will stumble, the stock exchange will move to Chicago, major airlines will cease to exist, and other humble predictions for 2005.

Or, why we should stop worrying and learn to love our nation’s rapidly plummeting currency.

The Bush plan to privatize Social Security and Medicare is a multi-billion-dollar disaster in the making. Perhaps the best we can do, ironically, is to copy the savings plan that federal employees get.

There’s a new boom in initial public stock offerings. And this time around, the merch is priced to sell.

The Vioxx scandal is more than a headache for the long-beloved drug giant. It could be the death of the company as we know it.

Fannie Mae says it did nothing wrong, but criminal indictments could be on the way.

With the rich getting richer, companies that cater to upmarket tastes have never looked like a better bargain.