The real monster is hidden in those pools of subprime debt that have not gone away.

In this week's video, Peter Reznicek looks at the relationship between the US stock market and the US dollar.

Which 16 stocks are we watching this week?

No matter how you analyze the market, you must never forget the human element.

Printing up extra money -- with no backing -- used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves.

The stock market had a very interesting session today as the indices gapped up at the opening, sold off very sharply early on, but held support, and then came on with a bang, especially on the Nasdaq 100, which caused mid-session to consolidate and then exploded into the close, to close at the high for the day going away.

Mike Paulenoff compares the Shanghai Composite and S&P 500.

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for October 15.

Going into today's session, traders may want to keep an eye on US Oil Fund (USO).

Ben Bernanke gave the Japanese some advice about 10 years ago. He said that if their economy was stuck in the doldrums it was their own damned fault.