Chasing Nickels Around Dollar Bills

• Where is goldilocks in the ISM?


• Construction spending falls


• CME housing futures indicate more home price declines are ahead


• "Everybody has their hopes and wants, and everybody hopes and wants to avoid a recession. Often, when the signal comes in strongly like it is now, there’s a human nature tendency to say, this time it’s different." - Huge Moore


• Bonds scream recession


• Rapidly increasing inflation is good for stocks?


• I wouldn't rely on these 2007 inflation projections


• Bill Gross' investment outlook


• Brett Steenbarger offers thoughts on the market's U-turn


• Michael Kahn seeks dark clouds forming in the distance ($)


• Woody Dorsey shares some red flags ($)


• ICI provides a closer look at the all-important money inflows (take note the continued drop in liquid assets (see my previous post about this kind of data. The cash deficit is now at -2.91% according to Jason Goepfert))


• Was this summer's sell-off enough to qualify for a mid-term election year low? If so, the bulls are going to love this chart


• "The new high for the Dow Jones Utility Average is both bullish and impressive." - Richard Russell


• The falling dollar is on the Economist's front cover ($)


• Historically, the market doesn't like the falling dollar


• Further dollar weakness depends on Mr. Market's interest-rate forecasts coming good


• Retail investors are increasing their exposure to the currency markets


• Elliott Wave analysis for the gold market


• The Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008


• What 2000 years of history tells us about China's economic future


• China's hawks a $203 desktop PC


• Yep, time to look at some Russian opportunities (In fact, have you noticed the TRF)


• U.S. nuclear firms eye Indian market


• Jon Markman sees opportunity in plastics


• Morningstar's Democrat-proof health-care stocks


• The drug store chains can't catch a break


• Making the case for USG


• SAC Capital goes long Casual Male (CMRG) ($)


• Lots of chatter these days about Mr. Softee


• George Soros' sells biotech, buys tech and retail. See his top holdings


• A quick performance check on the Dow & S&P 500 stocks


• Most overbought and oversold S&P 500 stocks


• Stocks down more than 20% over the past year and also have a five-star Motley Fool CAPS rating


• The Stockopoly Plan looks for frequent dividend income


• S&P's latest screen looks for top-to-bottom winners


• Large caps with low a p/e


• The top 10 performers (1996 - 2005)


• What are your best practices as a trader?


• Michael Sincere's 10 common trading errors


• Always try to admit your mistakes early and often


• Are you a trading idiot?


• WileyTrader shares his thoughts about using the TRIN


• The end-of-the month phenomena


• Investing well requires more than ratio analysis, but it can help


• Victor Niederhoffer's reading list has some unusual suggestions


• The Money Men


• Finding valuable financial lessons in everyday conversations


• A nice look at the hedge fund industry


• You can't judge a hedge-fund index by its coverage


• Some more new ETFs


• As usual, Roy Weitz shares his interesting finds in the mutual fund industry


• Five steps to fiscal fitness


• Yikes! Did you know that the average annual interest rate on payday loans runs about 400%?


• Some large-scale personal data thefts are being buried by the mainstream press


• Have you been SMiShed yet?


• The Feds condemn electronic voting


• Pick up the tab by texting


• Profit and questions on prostate cancer therapy


• Better oversight of 401(k) plans urged


• Right on cue - regulations are hampering capital markets, CEOs say


• The coming crackdown on CEOs (I wouldn't count on it)


• Want to be a venture capitalist? Take Guy Kawasaki's aptitude test


• I wonder how many economists are paying attention to the virtual world headlines


• Deals, Deals, Deals!


• Sign of the times - the new Dealmaker magazine


• The Vigilant Investor's podcast


• Economists, turned bloggers, are drawing fans


• Free stock alerts by phone (I suggest using a throwaway number first)


• What is slowing your computer?


• Google's browser sync


• Google's mobile strategy in a nutshell


• Forget about Friday the 13th! Just be careful on Monday the 27th


• College kid tries to sell his future on eBay


• Funny stuff - have you ever dialed 9-1-1 for yourself?


• Backscatter!


• Too many Americans are failing at being good


• "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

-- Kirk Report