Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for April 2.

The real estate market is de-leveraging. And that takes time. There will be periods when prices are going down. And periods when they are going up. But the overall trend will be down. It took nearly 20 years to deflate the bubble in Japan. It will take years to deflate the property bubble here in the US too.

The spenders spent too much. The savers over-did it too. They built too much capacity. Both need to make corrections.

The feds don't have any money, right? They’ve got the biggest deficits ever, and will have to borrow $2.4 trillion this year just to keep the lights on.

How does an event like a problem in Greece affect you?

Financial markets are at their core not logical at all, but psychological.

You work hard. You save your money. You make a product and sell it at a profit. Everybody's happy. And then, your customers, the silly spendthrifts, go broke. And what do you know? Everybody points his finger and blames you

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for March 26.

A team of Canadian researchers wanted to know if people who bought "green" products were nicer than other people.

Why are the old welfare states going broke? Because the payoffs to the past have become too great.