Good day: cashing in on a $1,000 note. Great day: cashing in a $1,000 note for $2.5 million. That's how much a $1,000 United States Treasury note f...

A quiet revolution is happening that has, for the most part, gone under-reported.

What happens when a country's currency is in freefall? You need look no further than current turmoil in Iran to find out.

No matter how hard the Fed pushes, the U.S. economy isn't going to respond to yet another round of quantitative easing. There is, however, at least one price that another round of quantitative easing is bound to send higher -- the cost of oil.

While it is true that the purchasing power of the dollar is a key metric to judge the direction of gold prices, the Dollar Index will only tell you what the dollar is doing against a basket of 6 other flawed fiat currencies.

Foreign borrowings of the U.S. represent a clear and present danger to the dollar and to the financial system. Potential dumping of U.S. dollars would start a run on the currency and a financial panic that would tip our already precarious economy into a deep depression.

The dire state of the world economy reflects destructive actions on the part of many players. Still, the fact that so many have behaved badly shouldn...

There is no such thing as the US becoming the next Greece. There is no such thing as the US getting cut off from spending by the financial markets and forced to go begging to the IMF to get US dollars to spend.

GENEVA -- The U.S. dollar has hit a record low against the Swiss franc of 0.7485 centimes to the dollar – a drop of almost 30 percent from a yea...

NEW YORK — The dollar fell broadly Friday on signs of a sharp slowdown in U.S. economic growth and the increasing possibility of a debt default ...

The headline progressives are in full retreat. They have found out the hard way that their bleeding heart pleadings -- 'yes, the financial markets might destroy us, but how can we cut this or that worthy cause' -- don't cut it.

NEW YORK- (Burton Frierson, Richard Leong and Chris Reese) - The flood of Federal Reserve money that has supported Wall Street and the rest of the...

SINGAPORE -- Oil prices rose to near $100 a barrel Monday in Asia, bouncing back from last week's plunge, as a weaker U.S. dollar made commodities les...

(Mike Dolan) - Years of angst about a self-feeding downward spiral of the U.S. dollar and Treasury bond prices were swept aside when the credit cr...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Dollar dominance is sowing the seeds of financial turmoil, and the solution is to promote new reserve currencies, a Chinese gove...

It is sometimes suggested that our trade problems (job losses, international indebtedness) will go away on their own once currency values adjust. Bott...

It now appears that the United States has finally succeeded in its efforts to destroy confidence in the U.S. dollar. Certainly this was no easy task.

BEIJING: China should not worry about being too heavily invested in the dollar and U.S. government debt, because its dependence is not unique in a wor...

In the absence of any realistic alternative to replace the supremacy of the dollar, it is likely to remain the dominant global currency for many years to come. No other currency is more widely accepted or used.

Last night at a Common Cause dinner in New York, Paul Volcker singled out the danger facing the U.S. if the dollar no longer retains its role as a global benchmark.

Over the last few decades, several trends have shaped economic flows and returns. In the developed world, we have seen a historically rare and nearly ...