We don’t know if we’re in a recession, a “Great Recession” or a depression. All we do know that the stock market is anything but predictable right now.

If the global economy were a hospital patient, you’d definitely find it in the Intensive Care Unit.

Can you talk a currency into gaining value? It seems Fed Chief Ben Bernanke and European Central (ECB) President Trichet think so. They’ve been telling anyone who will listen how serious they are about fighting the inflation monster that would cheapen their currencies.