James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of May 10.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for May 10.

As frightening as it is to consider public debt increasing to more than 100 percent of GDP, an even greater danger arises from a rapidly ageing population. The related unfunded liabilities are large and growing, and should be a central part of today's long-term fiscal planning.

A perfect trade is one that can answer three simple questions.

What are the Greek protestors so irritated about?

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for May 7.

As to the Greek bailout, there are two points of view -- both of them insufficient. One group thinks the bankers should get their money. The other thinks the public employees should get the money.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the financial futures markets for May 6.

The authorities are trying to force the economy back into the shape it was in before the crash. They're preventing it from taking a new, better shape, and preventing the correction from doing its work.

What does it mean when the financial intelligentsia seems to have no idea what is going on? It means they’ve got the wrong idea about the way things work, and probably no incentive to have the right one.