The market is going up, so all must be right with the world.  Or is it?

Japan has the highest debt to GDP ratio in the world.  And it just keeps adding debt.

What can you do today that will improve your trading?

More people spend their time trying to figure out how to redistribute wealth than trying to create it.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for January 28.

A Great Correction is very different from a recession.  It is not a pause in an otherwise healthy economy. Instead, it is a change of direction -- an adjustment to new circumstances.

Don't expect a balanced budget for this year or any year of this president's administration.  Instead, he'll add 75% to the nation's official national debt -- three times more than all the presidents who came before him put together.

This is shaping up to be a very important and a very interesting day for the precious metals and the mining names.

Americans are having a hard time making ends meet.  Their incomes are falling in real terms.  Measured by the official core CPI, incomes are about flat for the last 10 years.

Even modest cuts proposed by the Republicans don't have a chance.  Every privileged group threatened by the cuts will mobilize.