James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of May 2.

This age of deleveraging will produce a fundamentally different economic environment. Whether this deleveraging is orderly, as now appears to be the case in Britain, or more resembles what will be a violent default in Greece, it will create a profoundly different economic world from the one we have lived in for 60 years.

What's Boris Schlossberg's trick number one for minimizing stress for traders?

From the point of view of a modern economist, nothing stimulates better than a bank robbery.

In the past, a central banker was meant to be anonymous, quiet, hidden away somewhere so far in the background that the ordinary man wouldn’t know his name or recognize his face.

Silver Wheaton (SLW) has extended yesterday's upside reversal action and pierced its April resistance line.

Seventy-nine percent of household income growth since 2007 has come from government transfer payments. People earn less real money. They have less real money to spend.

What’s the real rate of inflation? It depends on how you figure it. The Labor Department shows consumer price inflation at barely over 2 percent.

The feds openly and explicitly try to cause inflation. Ben Bernanke made it very clear. He was worried about deflation. He practically made his career as a deflation expert.

Compounding is indeed the topic of this weeks article, but compounding not of interest but of inflation.