If only T. Boone Pickens could run the country for a year. We import 70 percent of this country's oil. This country can be brought to our knees if the oil was cut off. Pickens has a plan, and he wants the world to know.  Good stuff fellow Masters. 1st - Pickens Website: http://www.pickensplan.com/ IT'S TIME TO STOP AMERICA'S ADDICTION TO FOREIGN OIL America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil. On January ...

Happy Saturday fellow Masters.  You may have noticed we've been using charts and stats from a site called Finviz.com lately. I had a chance to talk with Ivan Klimo, Finviz Product Manager and bounced a few questions off him.  Check out our Q&A session with www.finviz.com. 1. First off, great site and one-stop shopping for someone checking out securities before they decide to buy and sell, what was the inspiration for the site? The site development started due to our internal needs for online stock screener that would provide rich information output and optimal navigation. After finishing the screener we got plenty of other ideas on how to improve the analytical processes used by stock traders on daily basis and decided to implement them into a market research ...

Fellow Masters, passing on a great article from OldSchoolValue.com on a company called AeroGrow International, Inc. (NASDAQ:AERO) that trades for $2.67 a share. Their AeroGarden that grows plants using just air and water is amazing, but can it get the backing from Wall Street? Be sure to read Jae Jun's detailed analysis which in the end scores 11 of the 15 points where 3 of the points come out neutral. Never heard of AeroGrow? At first glance, I'll admit, I thought the AeroGarden had a fad feel to it, maybe the new Pet Rock of 2008. Just imagine those bad boys with some bubble eyes glued on and flashy packaging, it could happen? AERO shares have tanked over the last year, down 61% so right ...