The poor victims don't even know they are victims.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for December 23.

2011 began with most people expecting a recovery. Now, they know  there's something else going on. Something more complicated.

The nice thing about a depression is that it cures a depression.

The SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) and gold prices must hold to avert likely downside acceleration.

There are so many laws, rules, regulations, edicts, commandments, prohibitions, interdictions, injunctions, requirements and obligations that you are bound to miss one or two of them.

The idea of the world's authorities is not to solve the debt problem, but to make it larger. One bank goes bust; they get a bigger bank -- a central bank -- to bail it out. One country goes broke; they get a bigger country to bail it out.

The Shanghai Composite has relinquished 72 percent of its bull-market run.

John Mauldin looks at the economic implications of the payroll tax cut extension, and then examines the deficit in the US.

Right now, both dollar strength and equity weakness remain unfriendly to oil prices.