According to the government, there were fewer people out of work in the month of November than there were in October.  At least, that is the way the authorities tell it.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of December 7.

This week's article is a transcript of an interview of John Mauldin.

Market forecasts and weather forecasts have something in common. Our ability to predict either beyond the next 48 hours is no better than a guess.

Does gold do anything but rise? It goes up when the news is bad. It goes up when the news is good. When doesn’t it go up?

The rate of delinquencies on credit card debt went up in October. Unemployment went up too.

The daily chart of the 10-Year T-Bond Futures could be one of the most important charts we discuss entering 2010.  Why?

We're still a long way from gold's ultimate destination.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for December 2.

What was lost to the first world's two leading economies was found by another part of the world that used to be known as the second or third world.  India, China, Russia and Brazil have all grown by leaps and bounds.