Trading is different. It requires practice first and education second.

The whole idea of pumping money into the bond market -- Bernanke admitted himself -- was to get asset prices up. What else could it be?

The spot gold-dollar index relationship suggests that gold prices are poised to test a key near-term range or channel boundary.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for November 12.

The Fed has just entered the market with the biggest wad of cash investors have every seen.  How come the stock market isn't soaring?  Is all this buying power already priced in?

There is the backlash against Ben Bernanke's crackpot money-printing scheme. It creates bubbles. It distorts markets.

Maybe gold is going vertical.  Or maybe it is just toying with us.

The counterfeiter creates money that looks just like the real stuff, but it has no gold or other backing behind it.

It turns out the the jobs numbers were much worse than originally thought.

Ben Bernanke made his reputation as a master plumber in Princeton, New Jersey, interpreting drippy money supply faucets and deconstructing clogged fiscal drains.  And now, he has become the hope of all mankind.  Or at least that part of mankind that hopes to get something for nothing.