The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) has the right look of a potentially explosive pattern.

It turned out that 95 percent of the new jobs were census takers -- people paid by the government to count the people who pay the government.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of June 7.

Is the US in a "V"-shaped recovery?  Are we returning to the old normal?  A great deal hinges on the answer, and this week we look at some of the evidence before us.

Today's low in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) represents a 50 percent retracement of the prior upleg.

Is the market really headed down or not?  Is it a real bear market that will continue for years?

The problem in the world economy is debt. There’s too much of it. Investors who aren’t delusional know that too much debt spells trouble.

What if anything does the big-picture candlestick chart tell us?

Unless there's a surprise boom in real estate, households will have to get back on the wagon. They need to de-leverage. And they know it.

Economists and policy makers seem to want to believe impossible things in regards to the current debt crisis percolating throughout the world.  And believing in them, they are adopting policies that will result in tragedy.