Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for October 15.

Ben Bernanke gave the Japanese some advice about 10 years ago. He said that if their economy was stuck in the doldrums it was their own damned fault.

Things are not getting better. The US government is so deep in the hole it may never be able to get out. It borrows a dollar for every dollar it receives in taxes. So, it's still digging the hole deeper.

It's not enough just to get back the 8.36 million jobs that were lost in the crisis. The US also needs to create about 15 million more jobs over the next 10 years in order to stay even with population growth and return to full employment. That’s about 23 million all together.

To ease or not to ease?  The Fed may be ready for some monetary shock and awe.

What do round numbers mean to traders?

There's no doubt that printing money can create a boom. But it's a phony boom, not a real one. And when it blows up, which it inevitably does, people are worse off than they were before.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for October 8.

Central bankers are betting big again.

Printing more money never works.