Now that the U.S. currency is flexing its muscles, investors are looking for more profitable avenues for their money.

After such a long period of falling real rates of interest, they should be ready to go back up.

Bill Bonner writes that calling what's happening in the economy a "credit crunch" is misleading.

Badness in economic terms means either inflation or deflation – or both.  And both is what we’re seeing.

When markets begin to turn against people, they imagine that the turn is just a fluke -- not realizing that it is normal for them to make mistakes and lose their money.

After the biggest spending and borrowing binge in history, Americans need time and money. They need to pay their debts. They need to build savings for their retirements. They need time and money to recover from their mistakes.

Do Americans need to accept a lower standard of living?

The whole United States seems to be following in the direction of Merced, California – epicenter of the housing quake.

Private investors are in no mood to ante-up for Fannie and Freddie.

Many investors are now betting that the whole world economy will fall into a soft, Japan-like nap.