Short Takes

• Dow milestone passes without much celebration or sense of euphoria


• Nearly all confidently made predictions about the future of the Dow turn out to be hopelessly flawed


• New hope for the 2007 economy


• Hope for the best, plan for the worst, and expect to be surprised


• Large cap talk


• Should we all just be closet indexers?


• Jobs report speculation


• Rothschild was right


• Crocodile tears for the real-esate brokers


• Risky home loans by state


• Extreme insider selling in the rearview mirror


• Opportunities in lesser known stocks


• Linda Bradford's time tested trading rules


• Fewer companies are paying dividends


• Exchange-traded funds ride a tidal wave of growth


• The Blind Side


• An advertising-free search engine: searchmash


• What do you want to experience now?


• For the holidays, from Neiman-Marcus


• The power of expecting good things to happen


• "If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out." - George Goodman