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?

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist, author and 1974 Nobel Prize-winner for Economics wrote: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governme

As I sit here and digest the latest proclamation of economic recovery, I'm reminded of several quotes littered throughout history that, how shall we say, were somewhat premature.In no particular orde

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.&nbs

John Mauldin coined the incredibly popular phrase “Muddle Through Economy.” If the next few years continue to drag along as we rebuild from the greatest credit bubble in history, then Joh

As every school child knows, water is formed by the two elements of hydrogen and oxygen in a very simple formula we all know as H2O. Today we start a series that starts with the question: What are th

There's recently been a lot of talk about United States Natural Gas (UNG) in terms of how it's been disconnected from the underlying fundamentals. As always, the popular media is the last one to

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on the Buzz & Banter. It's being reposted here for the benefit of the Minyanville community. Yesterday, the S&P 500 found support close to

You can’t beat the crowd by being the crowd. Yet, time and again, this is exactly what most investors attempt to do. The investment manifestation of this is called momentum investing -- buy hig