Circle The Wagons

• The bulls are trying to circle the wagons, but so far the effort has been unimpressive


• Katrina contained no silver lining


• Possible future Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, predicts the effects of Katrina will be fairly modest


• Hurricane clean-up stocks rally


• We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it


• Ultimately, energy markets will eventually figure out how to deal with problems of supply and demand


• TRCA, IPII, SIRF, GLBL, ABIX, FCEL, SYNM, HOC, DPTR, BLDP, & MPWR are all on my trading radar. I'm currently daytrading Gravity (GRVY)


• Consumers make changes due to rising gas prices


• 2Q GDP growth revised down


• Chicago-area manufacturing shrinks on oil concerns


• "The fact that neither the war nor the economy is perceived as going well suggests that higher commodity prices will eventually precipitate into a crisis. The end result we think will be another terrorist attack on US soil." - Jes Black


• Top performing market timers are bullish


• Did you know the day before Labor Day has been positive 76% of the time since 1950, with an average return of +0.4%?


• Investor's Intelligence found that 51.1% of the newsletters it follows had a bullish bias (down from 56.8% last week) while 27.3% were bearish (up from 25.0%)


• "History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums." - Alan Greenspan


• Wall Street cuts yields on investors' cash


• The Q&A with Dan Denning is a must-read


• For a few months after graduating from college, I lived in Louisiana


• Microsoft moves in on VoIP


• Long shots!


• All of a sudden, Dell is getting walloped


• Tiffany's (TIF) profit is up 53%


• General Motors (GM) lost an average of $1,227 for each vehicle in the first half of the year in North America, while Ford (F) lost $139 according to new research from Harbour Consulting


• Some companies are making green by being green


• Martha bets the farm on...Martha


• How should an investor play the growing rear-projection digital-TV boom?


• Technical analysis of the 10-year chart of the Dow


• Risk gauge is misused


• Do penny stocks ever really deliver?


• "Good wood doesn't grow with ease: the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - Williard Marriott


• A guide for would-be conspiracy theorists


• Will we see a big surge in RV sales following the hurricane?


• While insiders at energy companies continue to buy shares even as stock prices surge, insider selling at homebuilders has reached record levels


• Paul Merriman and his 500 year estate plan


• 9 offbeat ways to pay for college


• Mortgages have indeed become risky income tools


• More than one in four Americans are faltering under the burden of health costs


• Even as the economy grew, incomes stagnated last year and the poverty rate rose


• Insurance - what you need and what you don't


• Chuck Jaffe offers some Labor Day resolutions to help you get your financial house in order


• It's time again to play Dorfman's annual DEFT Contest


• I'm pleased to discover that readability tests provide good rankings for The Kirk Report


• If you're bored, Guess-The-Google will keep you busy


• Are you gullible?


• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean