Ben Bernanke prints money, but the money never gets into the consumer economy.

How come prices are shooting up now?  Why didn't they shoot up four years ago?  Or four years ago?  Or last year?  What has changed?

The muddle through economy is the product of a few major structural breaks in the world’s economies that have important implications for growth, jobs, and when we might see a recession again.

What matters in trading is not the ability to understand yourself, but the ability to understand the market.

Capitalism is a process of creative destruction. New wealth is created. Old wealth is destroyed. Unless the feds can make time stop, these great successes of today will be the great failures of tomorrow.

The Bull Trap high established on Monday was the oil market's way of winking at us about a potentially friendly resolution.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for February 4.

Gold is what you buy when you fear the authorities are up to no good. But so far, very few people own gold.

The rich have gotten richer.  The poor have gotten poorer.  People don't know why.  But they don't like it.  And they figure it has something to do with the rich rigging the system. They're right, but not in the way they think.

Markets are always discovering prices. Prices go up and down. But they usually find an equilibrium in a fairly narrow range. In a world of real money, prices don't vary that much.