Corporate earnings will take center stage again this week as certain financials hope to follow last week’s upbeat announcement by banking giant Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) with some decent earnings reports of their own.

Our experts have cranked it up to high gear and have dug into some of the most controversial topics Investment U has covered recently. Like investing in gold.

Volcker Appointed to Overhaul Tax Code; Ken Lewis Sees Recession Bottoming; Ford’s Volvo Sales Moving Along; Romania Receives $27 Billion IMF Loan; IBM Transfers Jobs to India; Durable Goods Orders Rise; Brazil’s Stock Market Surges to Six Week High; Bank of America to Repay TARP Funds

If only China had someone like St. Patrick.  As I scanned the post-Paddy’s Day headlines, it occurred to me that China needs its own saint to drive some snakes out of its economy. 

Investing isn’t about excitement. It’s about making money. And sometimes the easiest (and surest) ways to make money are the most boring. Here’s one “boring” way to make a lot of money over the next month.

U.S. President Barack Obama has decided against naming a “car czar,” and is instead asking U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and White House economic adviser Lawrence H. “Larry” Summers to head a task force on revamping the U.S. auto industry, Bloomberg News reported yesterday (Monday).

At a time when U.S. employers are laying off workers in record numbers, Intel Corp. (INTC) announced yesterday (Tuesday) that it would spend $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities while safeguarding 7,000 high-wage jobs.

President Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus plan heads to the floor of the House of Representatives this week, with House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, saying many in his party will vote against the package unless significant changes are made.

Microsft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) yesterday (Thursday) announced they will cut up to 11,000 jobs and could no longer give quarterly forecasts with global economic uncertainly, after the two tech giants announced declines in the final three months of 2008.

After a two-day “holiday” to start the week–Martin Luther King Day today (Monday) and Inauguration Day tomorrow (Tuesday)–it’ll be back to business on Wednesday as Congress begins to grill U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner – the appointment many observers believe to be the most important of the new Barack Obama administration.