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Morning six-pack: What we're reading Tuesday

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
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Happy Tuesday. Hangover anyone? Then have a little hair of the Irish dog that bit you in the form of a Morning Six-Pack.

Wall Street sees something it likes in the words of Vladimir Putin, which is just weird. (New York Daily News)

Gearing up for March Madness? Purely for amusement only, here are a few tips to help you fill out your brackets and win Warren Buffett's money. (Bleacher Report)

Also for your handy-dandy reference: an easy guide to all of the biggest doomsday predictions for the dour road ahead. (Paul Farrell/Marketwatch)

The chart that might keep Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen up at night: Food prices are escalating thanks to the drought in California and Texas, and it couldn't come at a worse time. (Wall Street Journal)

Kevin Trudeau used to be a hotshot TV pitchman, hawking miracle diets and cancer cures. Now he's a jailbird with 10 years to think about his misdeeds. (Chicago Tribune)

And finally ... the path for Yellen and her cohorts may seem clear now, but things could get a lot more interesting once 2015 hits. CNBC's Steve Liesman uses results from our latest Fed survey to explain.

—By CNBC's Jeff Cox. Follow him on Twitter @JeffCoxCNBCcom.