The higher this rally goes the more you’ll hear that another bull market has started, says underground investor Chris Weber. But Chris is warning investors not to be fooled.

It seems everybody, including The Wall Street Journal, is pitching a tent in the “too far, too fast” camp – the belief the stock market rally is premature, overdone in light of the economic conditions and unprecedented.  But ignore the chatter.  Although plausible, the arguments are profoundly false.

Markets kick off 2009 with sizable rally… what’s behind the best New Year’s rally since 2003…  Obama bounce back in effect… Rob Parenteau on whether his $1 trillion plan will actually work… Dan Amoss on the difference between shorting in 2008 and 2009… Bullish factors for gold (and gold stocks) for 2009… The second wave cometh… more troublesome commercial real estate ripples on the horizon.

In the year following six major bear markets of the last century, small cap stocks soared an average 82%. But Louis Basenese says only the most compelling and innovative small caps will make these mouthwatering gains. He says Genoptix, Inc. (Nasdaq:GXDX) and American Public Education, Inc. (Nasdaq:APEI) are two small caps that should be up 50% by this time next year.

Mainstream media is full of ‘Great Depression’ comparisons to today’s credit crisis. But Justice Litle says there are actually many similarities to be found a decade earlier. In 1919, there was a stock market crash, commodity slump, and a major bank bailout. But there is some hope: out of all that misery, the “roaring twenties” were born.