Since Standard & Poor's cut the ratings of nine Eurozone countries, the euro has done nothing but rally.

Where's the money to come from? The European Central Bank? The IMF? The Germans?

What is in store for Europe for the year and the next five years?

The answer to how much do you want to make depends on how much you are willing to lose.

News has been generally "good" ever since the European Central Bank made it clear that it will print money rather than see major banks or minor nations get what is coming to them.

What are the big risks in 2012?  Bill Bonner can think of several.

Most don't seem to understand what capitalism is, let alone what is wrong with it.

The stock market indices had an up-day today. The session started out with a big pop to the upside on strong pre-market futures.

What we know for sure is that the US is going broke. There is hardly any other plausible outcome.

2012 will the year that the consequences of the choices made by nations of the so-called developed world will begin to truly manifest themselves in the economic realm. We are in the closing chapters of the current Debt Supercycle.