The G20 meeting in Toronto was billed as a showdown between the Germans and the Americans -- between the deficit cutters and the big spenders.

This week we look at what the leading indicators are telling us, size up a new indicator, drop in on banking data, and do a whole lot more.

Can you improve your results without borrowing more and increasing your leverage?

Even Tim Geithner must realize that all those trillions spent on "stimulus" were largely wasted.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for June 25.

You've heard the expression, "bad money after good"? Well, stimulus money was bad money from the beginning.

Economists were surprised, say the reports. The feds are still paying buyers $8,000 to buy a house. And still the number of buyers is going down.

A Great Correction is what you get when a great many things need to be corrected at the same time.

Now that we've figured out how history works, we’re begging to see the forces of history at work all around us -- an eternal fight between the zombies and the producers.

The levels of fiscal deficits are unsustainable and threaten to bring many countries to the desperate situation that Greece now finds itself in.