Gannon On Investing poses questions to the authors of four of the best investment blogs: Controlled Greed, Fat Pitch Financials, Bill Rempel, and Cheap Stocks. Topics include personal performance YTD, the stock market, the economy, oil, and their best ideas going forward. A few stock picks appear as well.

Welcome to the latest offshoot of the subprime-mortgage debacle: A burgeoning U.S. pension-fund crisis. Since the global financial crisis struck last fall, the largest 1,500 U.S. public companies have lost a combined $280 billion from their pension funds.

Analysis of why GM should be avoided by value investors due to competitive disadvantages

Some large value investors, including Dodge & Cox and Mason Hawkins' Southeastern Asset, are nursing steep losses from the recent plunge in General Motors Corp stock, data show.

A roundup of last week's stock market related blog posts hosted at Fat Pitch Financials.

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Some big time value investors are investing in the auto industry

So much has happened at General Motors in just the last few years. The future revenue streams for GM are virtually nonexistent. Its time for a short, let this one go.

A $38 billion loss may sound like a lot, but it's not as bad as it seems. There are signs that the worst is behind General Motors.

This week on WallSt.net's 'Financial Blog Watch,' Dennis Olson interviews John Bethel, editor of ControlledGreed.com. John talks about how he got involved in investing, the benefits of value investing, and the some negative comments he got on his GM stock purchase.

Best of all, John even recommends Fat Pitch Financials first when asked about his favorite blogs! (No bias here of course.)

John Bethel reviews the performance of the Controlled Greed portfolio for the first quarter of 2007. Overall, the group was up 4.6% vs. the S&P being up about 0.2% for Q1 of '07.

John Bethel tracks the performance of stocks mentioned on his blog. "I’ve made 18 stock purchase recommendations since...launching this blog on April 27, 2005...In all, the stock picks made on this blog have averaged a gain of 38.4% during the life of this blog." John details the performance of each pick. This post is worth reading simply to see the list of stocks.

A New York Times article states, Toyota hasn't been doing to well with the Tundra full-size pickup truck. GM and Ford are happy with the news as they feared that Toyota would succeed in invading the truck segment with the same success as the family sedan.

Happy hour isn't here yet according to the article.

Geoff Gannon refutes incomplete arguments made by both Barry Ritholtz and Ken Fisher against following the investing of Kerkorian and Buffet and does it in a Paul Harvey sort of way, now you know "the rest of the story."

2006 Annual Report from Mason Hawkins' Longleaf Partners. (This is a link that will bring you to Vinvesting where you can click on the actual PDF link - I didn't want to surprise anyone with a PDF!).