As the polls have shown, the more time that passes, the more folks realize odds are it won't be different this time.

India's deal to buy 200 metric tons (6.4 million troy ounces) of gold from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a huge deal – not just the fact that the New Delhi government is handing over $6.7 billion for the metal, but what it may mean for gold going forward.

It has caused me to rethink the growing bubble in Chinese markets. And that we may have thought a bit too much, looking too closely at key economic fundamentals like electricity consumption and age demographics in the past.

The stock market has enjoyed a significant rally since the end of the first quarter. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported last week that the economy grew at a 3.5% annual rate in the third quarter--a figure

The Obama administration dispatched high-level members back onto the Sunday morning talk show circuit following a few bits of positive economic news.

The US economy contracted for four consecutive quarters since October 2008, something we have not seen since the Great Depression. A V-shaped recovery is simply not in the cards because the credit crisis has caused deep, systemic damage. Having said that, if the recession ends this year, it certainl...

With the USD fluttering around 76 on the US Dollar currency basket index, the USDX it's a good time to pontificate on its near term future, and longer term future. Gold's big rally since 2002 begs a lot of major questions.

The market has rallied dramatically since the March 9 low, with the biggest beneficiary of this rally being low-quality companies.

The United Nations Climate Change Treaty, signed in 1992, committed the world to "avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." Yet, since that time, greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar.

When will China finally realize that it cannot accumulate dollars forever? It already has more than $2 trillion.

Every September, the world's leaders gather at the United Nations to reaffirm our founding Charter - our faith in fundamental principles of peace, justice, human rights, and equal opportunity for all. We assess the state of the world, engage key issues of the day, and lay out our vision for the way ...

The key to climate change control lies in improved technology. We need to find new ways to produce and use energy, meet our food needs, transport ourselves, and heat and cool our homes that will allow us to cut back on oil, gas, coal, nitrogen-based fertilizer, and other sources of the climate-chang...

There is a general consensus that the massive monetary easing, fiscal stimulus, and support of the financial system undertaken by governments and central banks around the world prevented the deep recession of 2008-2009 from devolving into Great Depression II.

President Obama recently announced a new initiative that will make it easier for Americans to save for retirement. This is an important step. The stock of personal U.S. savings took a big hit in the midst of the financial crisis, and many families have been left scrambling to make ends meet. Before ...

Public debate, especially during economic crises, focuses on growth statistics, which become a kind of fever thermometer. But the readings are unreliable and change constantly, prompting statisticians to think about different ways of measuring an economy's very different products. In particular, new...

The bursting of America's housing bubble in the summer of 2006 triggered the global financial crisis and recession.

It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity. In the span of three days, September 15-17, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, the mega-insurance company AIG was taken over by the United States government, and the failing Wall Street icon Merrill Lynch was ...

Many people think that Yahoo! is as good as dead: investors have driven the stock down almost 20% since its recent deal with Microsoft. But I think the company is now in a stronger position to stake out new ground, rather than fight with Google over stale turf. Leave that to Microsoft.

Where is the American and global economy headed? Last year, there were two sides to the debate. One camp argued that the recession in the United States would be V-shaped - short and shallow. It would last only eight months, like the two previous recessions of 1990-1991 and 2001, and the world would ...