Brain Food

• Crummy action out there as my trading screens swim in a sea of red


• Oil drops as crude piles up


• The number of bears among independent financial newsletter writers increased this past week to 67%


• Eric Miller explains why we've had a tough 4Q start and where we go from here


• The Weekly Charts with Ike Iossif


• 10 reasons not to listen to the bears


• Some interesting numbers regarding the short-interest in the exchange traded funds


• Shares of BOT surge


• U.S. consumer confidence rises


• High fuel prices have the Christmas shopping season off and running


• Wall St. vet urges lower card rates


• How a $4 billion dollar company collapsed in a week


• "Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it." - Tony Hibbing


• Pump And Dump


• Q&A with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett


• Tom Taulli turns more defensive


• Credit quality lags in North America


• The U.S. dollar hits new highs


• Right now the hot energy bet is whether gasoline prices will hit $3 a gallon again by the end of the year


• I've never really understood all of the fascination with Intel (INTC)


• What is the best indicator?


• Program trades dominate NYSE


• Stocks I'm tracking include BOT, BRLC, NTST, GNTX, PRLS, CAKE, JAKK, STMP, BABY, CTLM, & SGDE


• Shares of many companies will look a lot more expensive soon as stock option reform takes hold


• Morningstar finds four gold stocks for your radar screen


• John Dorfman steals some stock ideas for his Purloined Portfolio


• Like Canadian stocks? The 2005 Investor 500


• Stocks with improving money flow


• IBD profiles Cal Dive International (CDIS)


• Copper shines while gold declines


• Sam Stovall likes the brokers


• Forbes goes stock screening again (Blue Ribbon Companies, Price-To-Sales Plays, Cheap-Growth Stocks, Good-Yield Plays, & Price-Momentum Stocks)


• Cisco to invest $1.1 billion in India


• Inc.com's fastest-growing private businesses


• Robert Kiyosaki on why savers are losers


• Explaning the coming housing meltdown


• "If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money." - New England Proverb


• If it is true that more desktop space equals greater productivity I should be more productive than ever before


• My mother loves I-Bonds


• Since 2000, state college tuition is up +40%


• Military gambling is a big business


• Broadband goes stratospheric


• Splogs roil the web


• EBay halts bird flu drug auction


• Odds are long for giveaway newspapers


• Top magazine covers for the past 40 years


• I always enjoy reading Neville


• Have a website or blog and need an online form? Take a look at In-Form


• Ten ways to use RSS


• In the market for a new digital camera? Visit Dpreview


• Another price drop for Dell LCD Monitors


• The ultimate mobile home office


• My favorite online coupon website


• Friday's Q&A should be a good one!


• "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett