Kirk Back At Work

• Apple sales leap 75% on IPod sales


• There's no inflation? Just don't eat, drive anywhere, go to the hospital, or send your kids to school!


• Zero stocks are on my trading radar this morning. As I plow through earnings reports and conference calls, I have little time for much else


• Alexander Paul Morris talks about what's working now in daytrading


• U.S. retail sales jump unexpectedly in June


• Surveying earnings in the oil patch


• "A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error." - Dennis Miller


• StockTiming Fear Index


• Anyone can understand technical analysis


• Dell pulls the plug on customer care message boards


• The Calculus of Risk


• Feng Shui for business success


• Searching for winning stocks? You have to first overcome your own bias


• Ding dong! The wicked bear is dead!


• The long term outlook for the long term investor


• Putnam sees opportunity in some of the worst performers of 2005


• Investors seek quick exits


• July 14th is one of the two best trading days of the year. The other is January 31st according to Stock Trader's Almanac


• Does it matter? The wages of typical workers are treading water, growing roughly at the same rate that inflation eats into their buying power


• Traffic at blog search engines is soaring


• World's Healthiest Foods


• Go Lance, Go!


• I agree that the price-to-sales ratio is helpful in spotting turnaround opportunities


• Don't worry about it - sooner or later, EVERYONE is fooled by the market


• If you are very deep in the hole, does being a little less deeper mean anything?


• ARMs race is cooling off as interest rates rise


• False data from the government seems to be one consistent trend you can bank on


• Another government boondoggle? Passenger airplanes get missle defense


• Investor's Intelligence reported 54.5% bulls in their latest survey (up +0.6% from last week) and 22.2% bears (up +0.8%)


• Taxes soar along with home prices


• Russia becomes China's new best buddy


• Cheap stocks relative to free cash flow


• If you invest or trade in ETFs, Friday's Q&A is going to be a must-read


• Some interesting tips on how to be more charismatic


• Sell in May and go away? That's a poor strategy this year as the S&P 500 has gained over 6.5% since May 1st


• Buyers scramble for starter homes, while luxury real-estate turns soft


• Natural resources and energy top the list of top performing mutual funds


• Desperate Housewives gets 15 emmy nominations


• Congrats to my wife, Rachel, for receiving her ABD (all but dissertation) designation following this week's trip to Spain!


• Don't mess with Uncle Sam!


• Only in America. Still under house arrest, Martha Stewart writes a new handbook for success


• "If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel