To ease or not to ease?  The Fed may be ready for some monetary shock and awe.

What do round numbers mean to traders?

There's no doubt that printing money can create a boom. But it's a phony boom, not a real one. And when it blows up, which it inevitably does, people are worse off than they were before.

The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) is a textbook case of a channel.

Central bankers are betting big again.

Mike Paulenoff thinks the price action in oil is the first downleg either in a large, incomplete correction, or the first downleg in a bear market for oil.

Printing more money never works.

You either trade freely or you impose conditions in order to protect some special interest or promote some pet project. Then, it's not free anymore.

Spot gold prices rocketed again in overnight trading, reacting to Bank of Japan's cue to investors.

Aren't we in a period of major de-leveraging? Isn’t this the Great Correction? Isn't everything going down?