Hitler

Among Monday's top online stories for investors: Seven stocks insiders are buying like crazy; financial books for your holiday gift list; and would you trust a former hedge fund manager who is also an ex-con and former sex offender with your money?

An unemployed man was fined 900 euros, or $1,227, for knocking the head off a waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler at Madame Tussaud's museum in Berlin.The man, 42, an ex-policeman, said the display of the Nazi leader that was only some 500 meters from Berlin's Holocaust memorial was inappropriate,...

Apparently the recession that's curbing demand for high-end art hasn't yet trickled down to the world of World War II fanatics and, perhaps, neo-Nazi types.CNN reports that "A painting by Adolf Hitler sold for almost $15,000 Thursday -- more than six times as much as expected."Some 15 pieces of...

A couple of months back, I wrote a post about how a beginning investor could use artist's prints to start an art collection. In the piece, I quoted art dealer Jennifer Watson, who suggested several techniques that the novice collector could use to select pieces that were likely to go up in value....