There's a myth out there about the stock market signaling robust recovery. But believing it doesn't make it true.

How can we hope to restore the prosperity of the 1990s when no one understands why it ended?

The stock market is off with a bang for the new year. Can the real world possibly keep up?

Monetary deflation imported from the US Fed and disastrous fiscal follies imported from the IMF are what killed Argentina.

The huge gap between bond yields and the "earnings yield" of stocks is all across the curve.

Going just by the math, recovery could be swift. But that doesn't mean you won't think we're still in recession.

In both text and subtext, Greenspan's message was bad news for equities.

Robust recovery requires risk-taking, but the Fed's continuing deflationary bias stands in the way.

Saber-rattling by Asian neighbors has made Japanese officials clam-up on Yen depreciation -- but it's still destined to go lower.

That New Year's party was fun. But now the markets and the economy are facing a deflationary reality that doesn't have a super-V in it.