From Florida, comes news of the first drop in population in 60 years.

While gold prices attempt to break out to the upside, the bond market continues to climb as well.  Mike Paulenoff takes a look at the pattern developing in the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT).

We will overlook the compromising detail that banks actually lost money in the last quarter – more than $3 billion.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for September 1.

We have to remember that the world economy has never, ever been in a fix like this.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for August 31.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of August 31.

We have arrived at this particular economic moment in time by the choices we have made, which now leave us with choices in our future that will be neither easy, convenient, nor comfortable.

There isn’t really a genuine recovery underway. And the world is not becoming a better place as a result of Ben Bernanke’s exertions.