Since mid-August, the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) has carved out a 3-month bottom pattern that appears to be breaking out to the upside.

Maybe gold is going vertical.  Or maybe it is just toying with us.

Today's action in natural gas and in the U.S. Natural Gas Fund ETF (UNG) argues for higher prices.

The counterfeiter creates money that looks just like the real stuff, but it has no gold or other backing behind it.

Is the action in the S&P telling us that a correction is over and that we can expect another upleg?

It turns out the the jobs numbers were much worse than originally thought.

Ben Bernanke made his reputation as a master plumber in Princeton, New Jersey, interpreting drippy money supply faucets and deconstructing clogged fiscal drains.  And now, he has become the hope of all mankind.  Or at least that part of mankind that hopes to get something for nothing.

The Fed announced a $600 billion purchase program, from here until June. Will it work? Will it create real prosperity, growth, and wealth?

If bond buyers will not finance America’s trip to bankruptcy, the Fed will provide as much brand, spanking new money as necessary.

The debt level per private sector worker -- the people who have to pay the bills -- will nearly double between 2007 and 2015.