Daily Blogwatch: Cold on solar; why are we drinking so much kool-aid?

After the success of the A123 (AONE) IPO last week, it's worth checking out this fascinating battery investing for beginners.

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Neat site: See what's trending on twitter by location.

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More reasons why I hate solar stocks, particularly First Solar (FSLR).

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Watch-Mojo says once and for all that nobody should doubt the wisdom of Google's acquisition of YouTube.

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Why is Baidu (BIDU) crushing Google (GOOG) in China?

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Is Sequenom (SQNM) a dead stock?

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JPMorgan says AOL is worth $4.2 billion.

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The BRIC countries ranked from best to worst. It surprised me which came in last.

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Uh oh, why does this economist think another crash is possible? I'm sick of crashes already!

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And meanwhile, this guy thinks we're in a boom. How come whenever someone says we're in a boom someone always has to say "quit drinking the Kool-aid"? How much Kool-aid is there anyway? Interesting that the phrase "kool aid" is still at multi-year highs on Google Trends.

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We all know "C" is the stock symbol for Citigroup. But what are the other one letter companies?