Views & Clues

• "Investors, having seen the tax relief and interest-rate cuts that were put in place after the Sept. 11 attacks, are behaving as though the government has set up a crash-protection committee for them." - John Bollinger


• Move over Adam Smith, the visible hand of Uncle Sam


• Richard Russell turns bullish


• The Fed is in the corner on interest rates


• Another day, another new low for Fannie Mae (FNM)


• Alarm is growing on storm's cost for agriculture


• Profiteering charges are flying in the wake of Hurricane Katrina


• Will consumers see sharply higher winter heating bills?


• Gurus plug into alternative energy


• The wolf is at the door at U.S. auto business


• Wall Street can and should do much more for Katrina victims


• Companies find value in hedging China bet


• We have midquarter updates from Intel (INTC) and Texas Instruments (TXN) tonight


• Housing boom may continue after the storm, according to the experts. But, as we all know by now, experts are frequently wrong


• With the surging popularity of Craigslist, the downdraft to the newspaper stocks could intensify


• Cycles tend to change before you can take advantage of them


• John Dorfman highlights a few safety stocks


• This was supposed to be the year of large-cap stocks


• I continue to hear good things about Sun Micro (SUNW) around the campfire


• John Dvorak pounds the table on Logitech (LOGI)


• EBay (EBAY) is in talks to buy Skype Technologies? If someone can tell me how that fits well into their business plan, let me know


• These seven companies are sparsely covered on Wall Street despite their bright prospects


• It will be interesting to see when and if Wall Street will attempt to circle the wagons over at Sears (SHLD)


• Cash is trash?


• For what it is worth, this type of article against short-selling typically occurs before market declines


• Too many people know the price of everything and the value of nothing


• Every morning I do pull up the stock screen of pre-market percent gainers


• Cash on the sidelines? According to the Money Fund Report, investors deposited $5.73 billion into money-market funds in the week ended Tuesday, bringing total net assets to $1.91 trillion


• No, my home office WILL NOT look like this


• Hedge fund managers focus on assets instead of returns


• There are always a few good reads provided by the Carnival of Personal Finance


• Plasma TV myths debunked


• "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... we are in charge of our attitudes." - Charles Swindoll