Economist Brad DeLong, of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. He says the chance of Great Depression now is at 5%:  For 2 1/4 years now I have been

“Inside the Global Gold Frenzy” is the title of an article that appeared last week in The New York Times. It seems the mainstream media has finally caught on to what we’ve known for

Inquiring minds are interested in figuring out how long it might take to get back to "full employment" defined as 5%.John Mauldin touched upon this theme in Unemployment: Welcome to the New

“There's a dragon with matches loose on the town. Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down.” --Grateful Dead It's hard to believe I've been scribing online vibe for almost ten yea

I've been absolutely astonished by the number of comments I've seen in the past few days to the effect that right now is an excellent time to initiate new long positions on VIX options.I'm still not

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?

If you're able to actually get a seat at any one of America's mega sporting events, congratulations! You're a member of an extremely elite club. According to Rafi Mohammed, author of The Art of Prici

How quickly the options world changes. Remember back in the good old days when the market didn't move, yet the VIX priced as if it did? And the VIX futures traded at decent and persistent premiums to

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No -- the chart below is not a misprint. Volatility is going through the roof in Human Genome Sciences (HGSI). It's binary event time next week, as Steven Sears explains in the Striking Price: