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Stocks suffer their biggest sell-off since November as a weak manufacturing report and new worries about financial stocks frighten investors. Fed boss Bernanke calls on Congress to use tax breaks to stimulate the economy. Merrill Lynch falls 10% after reporting a $10 billion loss.

It's time to focus on the lessons learned from this round and move ahead to find some winners.

The Oprah Winfrey Network will debut next year in 66 million homes, part of a joint venture between the queen of talk TV and Discovery Communications.

This has been a tough round of Strategy Lab. The mortgage crisis led to a market downturn of more than 10%, something that does not happen every year.

I was beaten up in this round of Strategy Lab because I underestimated the seriousness of the subprime-mortgage mess and the credit crunch. That's a good lesson to use in the next round.

All good things come to an end, and our surveys and analysis of the latest U.S. employment numbers over the last five days bring us to this unambiguous conclusion.

Finishing ahead of the S&P but still down is a hollow victory.

Most Americans are likely to be worse off for years to come because of the bubbles created when the former chairman ran the Federal Reserve.