Do Americans need to accept a lower standard of living?

The latest commentary from the Federal Reserve continues to focus on upside inflation risks, but has yet to warrant expectations of a rate hike to follow in the coming months.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 26.

Subsequent bouts of weakness have created a series of "higher lows" in the US Oil Fund ETF (USO).

The whole United States seems to be following in the direction of Merced, California – epicenter of the housing quake.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of August 25.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for August 25.

Toni Hansen writes that this coming week will be much more active, as important economics reports are released.

Yet another crisis confronts us, as we will have to deal with the aftermath of a rather large number of bank failures over the next year, which is likely to overwhelm the ability of the FDIC to insure your bank deposits.

We've seen a short-term bounce in gold, but where do we go from here?