Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can't know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should have known, and, at the least, policy makers should no longer be allowed to say, "How could I have known?"

In trading, loyalty will ultimately get you killed, or at the very least bankrupt.

Deeply flawed heroes at the world’s central banks and treasury departments think they can do a better job of guiding the economy than the markets themselves.

The dollar's broader trend will be defined by the general quality and direction of risk appetite.

Greece is in special danger not only due to the sheer size of the fiscal deficit as a percentage of GDP, but any political efforts to institute cuts in spending and rein in the deficit have been met with fierce popular opposition.

The Japanese yen may temporarily decline after five consecutive weeks of gains as an upward correction in risky assets boosts carry trades at the expense of the stand-by funding currency.

Policy makers chose to leave the door open for quantitative easing as the U.K. economy barely ended its recession in the fourth quarter.

Swiss Unemployment Rate and Consumer Price Index data promise noteworthy CHF moves.

Mike Paulenoff writes that the euro could be heading for a test of a major uptrend line.

Americans with money are caught in a vise. On the one side is the de-leveraging economy. On the other is the government.