Earnings growth so far has been solid, but that's no surprise, and not super relevant in the near term. What is relevant?

John Mauldin gives this thoughts on the economy and how it all plays out over the next five years.

To trade well, you must learn to lose. Trading at its core is the art of managing failure.

Could this be the sell-off we’ve been waiting for? Maybe.

Most people hate the rich. And why shouldn't they? The rich are good at hogging the good things in life. That’s why they’re rich, after all.

You’ve heard of the "miracle of compound interest."  Well, there's a similar miracle at work in the rest of life.

The iShares Silver Trust (SLV) is down 20 percent in four trading sessions.

There are times when a common lifeboat has greater utility than a luxury sailboat.

In the first quarter, the economy grew at a 1.8% annual rate, said the estimate. That is equivalent to the average real rate of growth for the US economy since 1925. The only trouble is, this growth isn't real.

This age of deleveraging will produce a fundamentally different economic environment. Whether this deleveraging is orderly, as now appears to be the case in Britain, or more resembles what will be a violent default in Greece, it will create a profoundly different economic world from the one we have lived in for 60 years.