http://www.financialpost.com/stocks+even+matter+anymore/3480209/story.html

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hotel-movies-20100904,0,1331363.story

More guests are bringing their own devices, taking a small but significant bite out of the bottom line as the hospitality industry struggles to pull out of a deep slump.

The nation's hotel industry, already struggling to pull out of its worst slump in decades, is now suffering from another loss in revenue because of the booming popularity of cellphones and laptop computers.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6836286n

http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2010/09/03/pm-will-a-payroll-tax-cut-mean-more-jobs/

One idea the president may propose in his jobs plan is a temporary cut in payroll taxes to encourage hiring. But critics say that once the taxes are raised again, high unemployment numbers will be back.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2010/09/03/pm-recession-changing-the-way-we-live/

We're starting to realize just how deeply and broadly this Great Recession has bitten into the way we live. Births in America were down 2.5 percent and marriages down 3.5 percent. Something called "new household formation," basically it has flattened out. Usually, we're adding like a million households a year, just from kids growing up and moving out, people getting married. All of this really suggests that people are just putting their lives on hold. They're deciding not to start families, not to leave home after high school or college. Demographers told me that a lot of this is really just about lack of jobs, lack of job opportunity.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/gloomy-experts-see-signs-of-double-dip/article1695203/

Most upbeat prediction at the Ambrosetti Forum on the global economy is mere ‘subpar growth’.

Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook — especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/09/02/pm-a-lot-of-firing-not-enough-hiring/

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says that the lack of hiring is the bigger problem in today's economy, more so than the number of layoffs.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/stocks/2010-09-02-lostgeneration02_CV_N.htm?csp=DailyBriefing

There are no visible picket signs on Wall Street. The U.S. stock market— the world's biggest when measured by the market value of the companies that trade here — still opens for business every trading day. And the 6 o'clock news still lets everyone know if the Dow finishes the day up or down.

Yet, increasingly, investors on Main Street are not playing the stock market game with confidence like they used to, mainly because the game of making money has gotten tougher and more volatile since the financial crisis. Retail investors are buying fewer stocks. They are paring back on stocks and stock funds they already own. Instead, they're moving into safer investments, like cash and bonds.

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/the-redheaded-stepchild-of/441724

Coincidental  Technical Indicators are less common but give better insight than lagging ones,which most technical indicators are.

So I figured I would start off my first blog post with a discussion of something that really doesn't apply to me or my personal investing behavior and that is the art of technical analysis.  While I'm not an active trader and thus don't engage much in technical analysis, I personally believe that technicals are a legitimate trading strategy and often times are actually MORE relevant than fundamentals (how many times have you watched a great company with awesome fundamentals keep falling and falling and falling?).  Having said that, I've noticed that whenever technical indicators are mentioned in the media whether it's on CNBC or The Motley Fool, the one indicator that almost never gets mentioned are Bollinger Bands.  All the time you hear people talk about moving averages, MACD, RSI, DMI, but nobody ever talks about Bollinger Bands.  Why is this the case?  Bollinger Bands to me are the single best indicator when it comes to judging momentum, volatility, and potential future price movements, plus they're so easy to use!

http://www.nationalpost.com/Clock+ticking+hourly+billing/3467213/story.html