Tilting The Odds

• Bush considers tapping emergency stockpiles of oil


• What politicians won't tell you about future oil prices


• "By early November, when that first heating bill has to be paid, we will see how much resolve that mid-upper-income market is going to have." - Marshal Cohen


• Traders should continue to focus on the alternative energy plays


• August has been filled with long periods of inactivity punctuated by a flurry of activity


• Money inflows remain relatively unimpressive


• How much cash on the sidelines is really there to pump up stocks?


• Six tips for putting idle cash to better use


• Odds of a December Fed rate hike are back below 50%?


• "The harder you work, the luckier you get." - Gary Player


• 50 stocks that currently have the highest Stock Scouter technicals rating


• Newsletters tout tech at Washington conference


• Don't take your long-range plans too seriously because you can't control the future. Life is full of surprises!


• Measuring the economy may not be as simple as 1, 2, 3


• Every Monday morning, I read Thomson's Market Week


• A bad August. A worse September?


• Dumping of US dollar could trigger economic September 11


• Eonomists are starting to bite their nails over the nomination of the new Federal Reserve chairman


• Can Google win over the markets as it loses friends?


• Google will overtake Microsoft?


• WiMax: wireless pie in sky or the next tech revolution?


• A hedge fund falls off the face of the earth


• Did you know that Australian real estate is the most expensive in the world?


• The return to normal housing prices could be as painful at the Great Texas Real Estate Crash


• Why most real-estate agents aren't getting rich


• Independent strategic consulting firm, Oxford Analytica, finds that income inequality in America threatens future growth


• AllThingsFinancial hosts the Carnival of Personal Finance


• Chuck Jaffe's stupid investment of the week


• After the nation's big investment banks agreed to pay $1.4 billion to regulators to settle conflict-of-interest charges, the settlement money has not made its way into the hands of jilted shareholders. And most of it never will


• Buying companies with excess cash flow is the best defensive maneuver against financial risk


• The U.S. drug industry is under unprecedented assault


• Encouraging employees not to participate in the company's healthcare plan is a growing trend among small businesses


• A penny saved, is a penny earned


• Aging baby boomers outpace trained doctors


• Tips for designing a safe and comfortable workstation


• 10 steps for a good ergonomic workstation arrangement


• How ergonomically sound is your workspace?


• Lessons from the Stock Market Samurai


• Some interesting thoughts regarding trading journals


• Pluck is my favorite new RSS reader


• This week's vital signs


• "A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight." - Jesse Livermore