Last Thursday, I received an email concerning debt deflation from David Meier, associate adviser at the MotleyFool.David asked if I had any comments on his article Debt-deflation: Just the beginning?

Brewing in the far corners of the globe, in hot spots in Southeast Asia and Africa, are viruses whose feared impacts are large enough to place them in the crosshairs of health experts.Many of these a

Sales of new houses fell in September, sending many builders’ stocks lower Wednesday. It seems the market wrote checks based on previous good news from the sector that the economy can’t y

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.In B

Stocks rebounded sharply on upbeat earnings and economics, with Leading Indicators posting their strongest six month performance since 1983. Amazon.com’s (AMZN) after-hours surge on stella

Asked to name the most recession-resistant commodities, most people would place "drugs" in the top spot. Indeed, demand for certain prescription drugs -- especially those that treat seeming

The Dow and Nikkei each ended off, though they remain above the 10,000 mark which both recently breached to much fanfare. (Of course, go back two and twenty years respectively and the benchmarks

The big debate is always between the voracious bears and the raging bulls and about the future direction of the stock market. The bears are convinced the market is going to plunge, while the bulls be

  There’s just one problem with corn-based ethanol: It takes 29% more fossil energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than the ethanol release when burned as fuel. The disparity betwee

The US is following the footsteps of Japan; it’s now undeniable. Please consider the following chart.Japanese GDE from the 1989 Peak to Present US GDP 1999 Peak to PresentOffset is ten years.Cl