You either trade freely or you impose conditions in order to protect some special interest or promote some pet project. Then, it's not free anymore.

Aren't we in a period of major de-leveraging? Isn’t this the Great Correction? Isn't everything going down?

Is it better to trade in front of others?

The trouble with today’s capitalism is that there is little honest capital left in it.

Lawrence G. McMillan reviews the options market in his weekly column for October 1.

Mr. Market always has his tricks. What if he's preparing a run on the dollar, and a big blow-off in the gold market before the sell-off in other assets?

Investors were entitled to think that the economy "had turned a corner." Or, that the worst was behind them. Or, that they were "on the road to real recovery."

Local governments are going broke. So are national governments. The politicians will have to make choices.

If gold is going up, analysts reasoned, it must mean something. What? The obvious explanation is that inflation is coming.

The fourth winning week in a row, but how much more can we expect from the market?