German Business Confidence…came out softer than expected in April, falling from 104.8 in March to 102.4. That was quite a tumble in business confidence, and apparently wipes out the previous three months of stronger confidence.

The International Monetary Fund is trying to figure out what to do with the world’s currency problems. Adrian Ash tells us about the goings on with global money policies and which way we can expect things to go. Either way might not be that bad.

You don’t have to be a rabid libertarian or Marxist historian with leather patches on his jacket to look at the current world banking crisis and ask “Cui bono…?“

It’s time to re-approach bank takeovers in this market. Instead of betting on share prices to increase in anticipation of takeovers, it may now be time to go short on banking stocks as soon as the word buyout is mentioned.

JPMorgan and the U.S. Treasury just saved us from the real risk of Depression…It was the Panic of ‘07. The economy was weakening. Stocks were falling. Banks had lent too much and were now seriously tightening up. It all came to a head when a major bank was about to fail. Something had to be done.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been calling for a long overdue correction in gold prices in my Commodity Trend Alert (CTA) service. While I’ve long recommended a diversified “gold-bugs portfolio” specifically to capitalize on gold’s long-term bull market, I’ve also been preparing my subscribers for this inevitable short-term pullback.

In the Great Depression one in four were out of work, today it’s only one in twenty. Whoa! What happened yesterday…