With attacks on the independence of the Fed, no regulation of derivatives, and allowing banks to be too big to fail, we risk a repeat of the credit crisis.

Does anyone seriously think the feds can do a better job? These are the people who run the Post Office and Amtrak.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for April 9.

The style of capitalism that separates fools from their money.

What happened to de-leveraging? What happened to all those bubble era mistakes? What happened to all that debt consumers were carrying? What happened to the Great Correction?

For more than a year, the "recovery" bounce in the stock market has refused to give up.

At least the economic model of the bubble era made sense. The producers produced. The consumers consumed. That worked great until the consumers ran out of money.

We are in a nascent recovery from the depths of the Great Recession, but the question is "what kind of recovery?"

As traders, we are constantly taught to seek out trading opportunities with a positive edge.

Every line in the financial world has a hook on it.