A user recently wrote this comment: You talk like a professional but obviously you are not a professional and full time trader. I have a question for you. You say that ... Read More

Here at about.com we are always looking at ways to improve the information we provide to readers. I would like to get some feedback from you on what areas you think ... Read More

As everyone here probably knows, I am a strong proponent of auditing the fed and revamping the monetary system in the US with something more transparent.I’ve come across a video ... Read More

The FOMC statement was rather unsurprising. The only part that caught my attention was this: To provide support to mortgage lending and housing markets and to improve overall conditions in private credit ... Read More

Bretton Woods is a part of forex history. While the agreement itself was not strictly about forex trading, it did lead the way for some of the organization that led ... Read More

A 35 percent tariff has been imposed on Chinese tire imports by the Obama Administration. This could be the beginning of a huge landslide that could make economic conditions worse ... Read More

The US dollar sits at a critical juncture as we end the week of Sept 11th. The following week will really be telling. The dollar remains to be extremely oversold ... Read More

The dollar plunged after comments by a UN Panel calling for an end of the US Dollar’s reserve status.The argument is basically that the US has an unfair advantage because ... Read More

I have been thinking more about the issue of a audit of the Fed since my post The Fed Should Be Audited. Not only should the Fed be audited, but ... Read More

The US Nonfarm Payroll Report for August showed another month of job losses. 219k jobs were lost and the unemployment number spiked up to 9.7 percent.The number of jobs lost ... Read More

My colleague Kimberly Amadeo wrote a blog in opposition to an audit of the Federal Reserve. Kimberly’s main concern in her blog is that an audit of the Fed basically ... Read More

The August ADP Payroll Report shows that nonfarm employment decreased by 298k for the month of August. I would expect that the nonfarm payroll report will show even more losses than ... Read More