What is it that actually causes a depression? A stock market collapse? Or too much debt?

Unemployment is high and rising.  But if the recession is over, won't employment start to rise?

Price Headley looks at several personality types that you may recognize in yourself or other traders you know.

A good trader should always trust his eyes and respect the price action no the matter how difficult or ridiculous it may seem at the time.

On the one hand, depression will probably not push up gold prices – at least, not at the beginning. On the other hand, it won’t push up stock prices either.

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

Will the feds succeed in causing inflation? Or will they fail? Will the dollar continue to go down? Or will it prove to be a safe haven currency in a time of deflationary trouble?

Investment banks have hung around through the mess, and are poised for a giant comeback.

The trouble with being a contrarian is that you can never be quite contrarian enough.

US consumers are cutting back, and where they are not cutting back, they are scaling down.