When you have a market that’s in the process of hammering out a bottom (as I believe we have right now), my “best investing idea” involves carefully adding some of the very best small cap stocks to your portfolio.

The world has certainly given us a lot, and we keep asking for more. We have a need for many natural and precious resources that nature has to offer, but we must know where to look. The better we can find and extract these resources, the better we can use nature’s gifts to their full potential.

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Days after Bernanke pronounces the worst over, here comes another rescue package. Greenspan says, “It’s not my fault,” as if he hadn’t already made himself clear. Chris Mayer lays out his favorite “distressed” plays to BusinessWeek. Mainstream media picks up on our end-of-cheap-food theme.New commodity boom: Fast-food grease.