Happy Monday! I'm in vacation mode! 
- A housing bubble in China? We look at their stock market often enough, but could a housing bubble derail everything financial in China?
- This brings back memories: Pepsi Campaign Restarts the Cola Wars. It's more fun when they fight for our business.
- Maybe this is good news: Companies Step Up Hiring Plans. How many times have we heard that unemployment is a lagging indicator? So much that we are tired of it! Still... if they hire, then people get paychecks, then people spend and invest, then prices start to increase with rising demand.... Then the Fed gets worried about inflation! And round and round she goes.
- Paris Hilton sunbathing topless. Link only. But how about a work-safe image instead...