More disasters could hit debt-laden companies owned by private-equity shops Apollo, Blackstone and KKR. This week's Barron's cover story looks at 13 troubled deals.

A dozen out-of-favor stocks that could rebound this year according to Barron's.

7 Places in the financial sector to start your due diligence.

Rick of Value Discipline returns with a great post on the recent market turmoil - "the Chinese 'accident' was more of a scrape or a fender-bender than a full-fledged crash...a fall out of a first storey window." A great post that touches on several important topics mainly focusing on risk and panic or the lack thereof.

This week's festival includes six posts discussing specific stocks, three posts on topics in investing, and a poem. Yes, you read that right. This week's festival concludes with a poem. It's the proverbial cherry on top of this satisfying stock sundae. Stocks mentioned include: Legg Mason (LM), Overstock.com (OSTK), Western Union (WU), Whole Foods (WFMI), Walter Industries (WLT), and Mueller Water Products (MWA).

A roundup of this past week's stock market related blog posts hosted by Stock Market Beat.

Rick of Value Discipline applies his usual logical approach to Legg Mason (LM). The result is a solid analytical article that's worth reading. "With an EV/EBIT of 17 times, the stock is not exactly a bargain at first brush, but more normalized levels of profitability likely, I think the stock at least deserves to be on the radar screen."