The beginning of the end of the Weimar Republic was some 89 years ago this week. There is a stream of opinion that the US is headed for the same type of end.

What can motorcycles teach us about trading?

What's the market outlook for this week?

Markets always test their admirers.

The feds borrow. The feds spend. And more and more of the real economy shifts away from real production.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is getting a fair amount of press.

Rumors are circulating that in an effort to enable its exporters to compete effectively with China, Japanese authorities are considering some sort of currency peg.

Even the Fed is managing expectations downward. It says we'll have unemployment over 7 percent until after 2015.

But what if the real problem had less to do with how much stuff we have and more to do with what kind of stuff it is?

Is there another banking crisis in our future?