If there is one thing you can count on it is that developers, bankers and farmers will over-do it. They all go bust every 10 years or so. What is hurting the banking industry now is subprime lending. But don’t worry. We live in an age of Zoo Capitalism, and the keepers are supposed to make sure the animals don’t get hurt.

James Mound reviews futures and commodities in his weekly report for the week of December 10.

Given all of the dovish potential surrounding the upcoming FOMC meeting, there may be more gains in store for Treasuries and US equities, while additional weakness may await the US dollar.

A rate cut on Thursday is highly anticipated, but Toni Hansen suspects that there will primarily be a trading range this week with a great deal of overlap from one day to the next unless the Fed does something completely unexpected.

Tim Bourquin interviews Mike Parker, who talks about he uses linear regression channels (LRC) on daily and four-hour charts to find trades.

This week John Mauldin takes a look at some economic theories which help explain how the more that individuals hedge their risk in economic markets - the larger the network - the more the entire system is put at risk.

Credit, it turns out, soon reaches the point of diminishing returns. During the entire period up until 1980, it took about $1.40 worth of extra credit to produce a single extra dollar of GDP. Since then, the ratio has deteriorated. And now we seem to have passed the top of the credit cycle, with the credit industry unwilling to pony up more cash and output falling.

The release of UK CPI on December 18, which is anticipated to show that consumer price growth accelerated faster than the Bank of England’s 2.0 percent target, could prevent the central bank from cutting rates in January.

Despite the buying, the volume in the indices continued to drop on Thursday, but Toni Hansen is still looking for a bit more upside into Friday.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for December 7.