US economic data this week is likely to highlight the mounting recession risks that have plagued the greenback and equity markets.

Regardless of whether or not the Fed will again slash rates in its December meeting, Toni Hansen is continuing to lean towards the likelihood of a larger market correction on the monthly time frame into the new year.

Tim Bourquin interviews Jeff White, who talk about how he finds trading opportunities by using scanning software, how he determines his stop loss points and how he scales out of profitable positions.

The unstoppable force of inflation seems about to smash into the immovable object of deflation.

Bill Bonner writes that the markets are in an uncomfortable and potentially explosive position.

Poor Freddie (FRE). The federally-chartered lender announced a loss of nearly $5 billion. Sister Fannie (FNM) didn’t get away either. Her shares went down 22%. When you lend out money recklessly, you gotta expect trouble.

Government bonds have rocketed higher while the Japanese yen currency crosses have tumbled, making it very clear that risk aversion remains the primary driver of the markets and that lower volumes will only exacerbate large moves.

Toni Hansen belives that the market is still poised for a third bounce higher on the daily and weekly Dow and S&P 500.

Today, Price Headley shows traders how to absorb as much information as possible quickly and how to avoid bad information.

Thanks to a mixture of good luck and bad management, the United States was able to heat up the entire world economy. But now, it’s in hot water itself. Americans are up to their necks in boiling debt while Wall Street has its vaults stuffed with the kind of debt that sets off Geiger counters.