Surprise, surprise, surprise -- not: The oil-hype story as discussed in Ten Reasons to Ignore the Hype Over Secret Oil Meetings has blown sky high already, just hours after I wrote it.Russia Denies T

Once again everyone is hyperventilating over "secret" moves to trade oil in currencies other than the US dollar. Please consider The Demise of the Dollar by Robert Fisk.  “In

Crude Oil in Focus Crude oil is up a second consecutive day, helped in part by a weaker dollar. Arab nations, along with China, Russia, Japan, and France, were reported to be secretly discussing a mo

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a re

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization tha

In a summer full of major news stories, the H1N1 virus was one of the biggest. With the government set to conduct surveys and research to track the spread of swine flu, the influenza started spreadin

Editor's Note: James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high level financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and a university in his 22-yea

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner travelled to the Gulf nations today to reassure Saudi business leaders of the value of the US dollar. According to the Financial Times, Geithner also said the US is co

1. We Have the Means, the Motive is Missing"It is our belief that the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and United States Treasury will soon put an end to this deflationary phase, and we

Government bonds dominated action on financial markets during the past holiday-shortened week, as angst about inflation and massive issuance propelled yields to 6-month highs in the US, Europe, and J