Fund My Mutual Fund's Most Popular Posts of 2008

Readers come and go (hopefully more come than go) over the year, so with 3100 posts (wow!) since we started in August 2007 I thought I'd compile a list of the most popular posts of 2008 for any of you who were not here to celebrate the new year with us nearly 365 days ago. For those that were around back then - thanks for sticking around and suffering through my occasional bad grammar and more than occasional rants (thank gosh for spell checker). Hopefully the content makes up for those shortfalls ;). We've lived through a year people will be talking about in history books for generations.

This is the first time I've looked at my web statistics over such a long period of time (I post the most popular links each week in the right margin of the blog) and it was quite amazing to see we had over 1 million page views in 2008. I've compiled the most popular of these 1 million into some broad categories - economic, stock market, and mutual fund/misc. So feel free to catch up during the coming days in between bowl games if you joined us late this year, and hopefully the new year brings us more growth and readership.

As an aside, I try to put the most pertinent historical posts in the far right margin of the blog so newcomers can "catch up" relatively quick. (I know a lot of people read the blog in readers or via email sent each day, and never come to the site itself, but I'd encourage you to visit the site from time to time and check out the content in the margins - also I update the portfolio each week in the right margin in case you were wondering where that information is)

I am working on a much lengthier "introduction piece" that hopefully will be complete sometime in January 2009, so new(er) readers can sit down and in 1 post see what we've been saying since August 2007, and compare our record to the punditry who muck up most of financial TV and media. I believe our track record, once compiled in one spot, will prove to be exemplary versus the mob that is paraded in most financial media or runs most of the money in this country. As I think about improvements of the website for 2009, I realize what I do is a running daily commentary, sort of like a novel and it's probably difficult to join in on chapter 18 so hence my goal to get some summary posts up early in 2009 so people can catch up on chapters 1-17 in an easily accessible fashion. Or if you prefer....you can read all 3100 posts if you are a masochist ;)

Mutual fund/Misc

1. Jan 7: Readers Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch
2. May 26: Frequently Asked Questions
   

Economic

1. Dec 31, 2007: 13 Outlier 2008 Predictions
   
2. Dec 6, 2007: What Should Median Housing Prices be Today?
   
3. Nov 19: Boston Globe - What Would a 2009 Depression Look Like?
   
4. Dec 8, 2007: Do the Bottom 80% of Americans Stand a Chance?
5. Dec 4, 2007: Et Tu 1st Half 2008? Predictions for the Coming 6 Months
   
6. Aug 20: Nouriel Roubini "Told You So"
7. Jan 2: Doug Kass' 20 Predictions for 2008

Stock/Market

1. May 26: Best Performing Stocks Year to Date (an amazing list considering none of these probably made the end of year list - this was dominated by commodities at the time)
2. Apr 18: You Thought Visa was the Hottest IPO of 2008? Wrong - Intrepid Potash
   
3. Nov 21: Fear Louise Yamada
   
4. Apr 14: Holy (Holey?) Crocs! (aka Stuff I've Been Negative on Since Fall 2007)
   
5. Dec 6, 2007: Coal Stocks Quietly in Bull Market
6. Oct 28: Boone Pickens Almost Entirely in Cash; Fidelity Job Cuts; Legg Mason Stock Craters
7. May 28: Ken Heebner - America's Hottest Investor (boy did that call the top)
   
8. Aug 6: Cramer - Quants and their Machines
9. Apr 22: Don Coxe Offers Coxe Commodity Strategy Fund (another sign of a top)
   
10. Sep 10: Time to Bail Out Washington Mutual (WM)?