At least someone is making money from this foreclosure racket.

This weekend, US Treasury Secretary Geithner proposed to the world's finance ministers that they cap their current account surpluses at a fixed percentage of GDP.  How would that work?  Why do it at all?  What’s the point?

Seven weeks of positive gains. The trend is your friend until it isn't.

John Mauldin looks at the massive fraud involved in the sale of mortgage-backed securities.  It's scandalous, and almost too much to contemplate.

The mistake of misunderstanding your business is common.  What business are traders in?

The economy is either growing slowly, or contracting.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for October 22.

Over the past few weeks we have been focused on the question of whether the Fed will increase stimulus. Now that another round of quantitative easing is all but certain, the new question becomes how aggressive will the Fed be?

No matter how you analyze the market, you must never forget the human element.

Printing up extra money -- with no backing -- used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves.