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Among Thursday's best online stories for investors, Nouriel Roubini explains how to avoid a double-dip recession, Melinda Gates discusses philanthropy, and a great profile of super hedge fund AQR Capital Management.

Nouriel Roubini, the renowned NYU economics professor with the nickname "Dr. Doom," has offered up another dire prediction: Even if the U.S. and Europe manage to avoid a double-dip recession, more than 400 U.S. banks will likely fail.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman may not be "Dr. Doom," but like many of his colleagues he has a pessimistic view of the economy. In a speech Wednesday in Slovenia, the New York Times columnist offered a dire assessment of the U.S. economy, predicting that unemployment will peak in 2011...

Economist Nouriel Roubini, known as "Dr. Doom" for his pessimistic views on the economy over the last few years, may need a new nickname. The New York University professor has become almost as optimistic as that ant who can move a rubber tree plant in the classic tune "High Hopes." According to...