Boris Schlossberg asks himself four questions to gear up for trading in 2012.

The poor victims don't even know they are victims.

2011 began with most people expecting a recovery. Now, they know  there's something else going on. Something more complicated.

The nice thing about a depression is that it cures a depression.

The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and gold prices must hold to avert likely downside acceleration.

There are so many laws, rules, regulations, edicts, commandments, prohibitions, interdictions, injunctions, requirements and obligations that you are bound to miss one or two of them.

The idea of the world's authorities is not to solve the debt problem, but to make it larger. One bank goes bust; they get a bigger bank -- a central bank -- to bail it out. One country goes broke; they get a bigger country to bail it out.

John Mauldin looks at the economic implications of the payroll tax cut extension, and then examines the deficit in the US.

The more you trade the more you lose.

Gold has been going up for 11 years straight.  What's next for gold?