Explanations for this gold selloff abound everywhere and nearly all of them are inane and incorrect. What gold is really telling us is that the global economy is on very thin ice.

Since Japan's asset bubbles burst over 20 years ago, policy makers have persistently fiddled with the levers of monetary and fiscal policy but their efforts have spectacularly failed.

If Ben Bernanke was unhappy to see inflation rear its ugly head, depositors in savings accounts, money market accounts and other bank products should give him company in his misery. If inflation is here to stay, it would add an ugly new wrinkle to an already troubled economy.

By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the co-founder and co-chief investment officer of bond giant PIMCO, says it ...

Could it be that world governments and central banks are now taking drastic measures to re-inflate their economies because they don't believe their own economic statistics?

We now have entire nations which have become insolvent. It would be very difficult to argue that having a banking crisis is better than enduring a sovereign debt crisis, especially since much of the assets banks hold is sovereign debt.

Hardly an hour goes by without some pundit pushing the possibility of some kind of run away inflation, with Zimbabwe and Weimar rolling off the tongue...

U.S. consumer prices fell in October for the first time in four months as Americans paid less for new cars and gasoline, although prices outside o...

WASHINGTON -- Many on Wall Street hope Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will unveil a new effort Friday to boost the economy in a highly anticipa...

NEW YORK — Stores are trying everything they can think of to disguise the fact that you're going to pay more for clothes this fall. Some are us...

With the debt-ceiling fight resolved, and discouraging economic reports piling up, the Federal Reserve is under close scrutiny for signs that it might...

WASHINGTON (Lucia Mutikani) - Consumer spending unexpectedly fell in June to post the first decline in nearly two years as incomes barely rose, a ...

Look at any number of recent economic indicators, and it's easy to understand why there have been whispers of a double-dip recession. If the economy i...

This post has been corrected. With employment only increasing by a net total of 18,000 jobs in June, a new report by Moody's Analytics suggests jus...

Solving America's employment crisis just became even more daunting, if that's believable. In June, the U.S. economy added only 18,000 jobs total. ...

There is only one real law of economics: the law of supply and demand. If the quantity supplied goes up, the price goes down....

NEW YORK -- Another major policymaker has decided to take a more detached stance toward the economic slowdown. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernank...

UPDATE: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will remain essentially unchanged, even ...

FRANKFURT (Sakari Suoninen) - The European Central Bank is in "strong vigilance" mode over inflation pressures, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet ...

TOKYO -- Japan's consumer prices in April rose for the first time in more than two years on a spike in energy and tobacco prices, the government said ...

Each time Ben Bernanke testifies before Congress, his job gets more difficult. Firmly ensconced between a rock and a hard place, Bernanke must defend the drastic measures he is taking while denying any extreme concerns that he might have.

WASHINGTON: The massive U.S. budget deficit is the gravest threat facing the economy, topping high unemployment and the risk of inflation or defla...

Complacency is returning to markets. Risk aversion is evaporating. Recovery is in the air. Even the animal spirits are returning, with M&A activity re...

Americans freshly reminded of the founding family's $86.8 billion fortune may see this more like a penalty for late shoppers.