Boris Schlossberg writes that you can trade statistically or you can trade analytically.

Recessions are by definition deflationary. Deleveraging events are also deflationary. A recession accompanied by deleveraging is especially deflationary.

It is simply hard to tear your eyes away from the slow-motion train wreck that is Europe. Historians will be writing about this moment in time for centuries, and with an ever-present media we see it unfold before our eyes.

Why do capable, talented people manage to blow up their massive accounts with alarming speed?

In today's letter, John Mauldin explores the options that the Eurozone faces in order to stay together, and what it all means for some of the countries involved.

Most traders never consider tipping points.

This week the German Bundesbank waved the white flag. The die is cast. For good or ill, Europe has embarked on a program that will require multiple trillions of euros of freshly minted money in order to maintain the eurozone.

You should be chasing price, not performance.

The US employment numbers came out this morning, and they were disappointing. But disappointing does not begin to describe the situation in Europe.

Given the chaos and insistent inflation over time that the Federal Reserve and fiat currency have produced, it is hard to argue that the current system is one that should be encouraged.