If the feds slow down their spending machine, what calamity will be upon us?  What evil is so great that we should put the financial integrity of the nation at risk?

Future historians, when they finally get a grip on it, will no doubt dub our time as the "Age of Bubbles."

Fiscal stimulus, monetary stimulus, unorthodox stimulus -- trillions of dollars' worth.  What happened?

It's a mixed bag in the metals sector today, which bears close watching for the iShares Silver Trust (SLV), Silver Wheaton (SLW), the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX).

Real trouble comes unannounced.  Black swans do not honk before they appear.

While the debt supercycle is still growing on the back of increasing government debt, there is an end to that process, and we are fast approaching it.

When we think of trading models, most of us inevitably fall into the quantitative trap.

If you believe the "recovery" story, you naturally think inflation will pick up and bonds will go down. You should be a vigilante. You should sell bonds. Bonds should go down.

Is the Great Correction over?  Where will this end?  Bankruptcy?  Hyperinflation?  Or revolution?

Mike Paulenoff thinks that Silver Wheaton (SLW) has ended a minor pullback.