For the third week in a row, stocks lost ground.  So what does this weakness mean?

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of May 23.

John Mauldin looks at the declining importance of economic theory.

Boris Schlossberg explains how trading connects him to the rest of the world.

We take for granted that a healthy economy grows.  Our governments depend on it to pay the bills. Our investments depend on it too, as we buy investments that we hope will become more valuable as sales and profits grow along with the economy. B ut what if all of our assumptions about what is normal are wrong?

The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) is up, while the iShares Silver Trust (SLV) circles unchanged.

Each time humans make a breakthrough, their rate of growth speeds up. They then take advantage of it.  They fill up the economic niche it opens for them as fully as their new technology allows.  And then what?

US wages stopped growing at about the time of the first oil shock in the early ’70's.

Can there be any doubt that China is destined to become the world’s economic superpower?  It has the size, the energy, the know-how, and it has the money.

The rounded two-month base pattern in the ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas ETF (DUG) has broken out to the upside.