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It's a shame filmmaker Tim Burton has chosen to leave the Red Queen's Race out of his upcoming Disney version of Alice in Wonderland. That little vignette offers some valuable insights about how the global economy ran full-speed into its current unhealthy state.

As gold slides on the back of a strong jobs report, some investors may be tempted to pile into the precious metal. After all, a cacophony of pundits are convinced that gold can only head higher since the world's central banks will pile into the precious metal. And a drop like the near 4% slide on...

Global investors, beware: Japan could be a classic value trap. Japan's central bank took an aggressive stance against deflation on Tuesday, announcing it will inject $115.7 billion into the economy. So far, the move has not been dramatic enough to bolster the market significantly or impress...

Investors, analysts and strategists forever debate whether the equity markets are properly valued. That's the whole point of investing, after all, to figure out whether an asset is cheap, and thus poised to go higher, or too expensive, and so set for a fall. There's a bull and a bear case for...

The housing market dropped off a cliff in October, as the original Nov. 30th expiration date for the first-time home buyers tax credit approached, according to the Housing Market Monitor of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Add to that the 6.25% 60-day delinquency rate in the third...

A UCLA professor has come up with a wild idea to help prevent the next financial meltdown. He doesn't propose expensive regulations and mechanisms of enforcement on financial actors. Instead, he suggests that swift and decisive punishment of the biggest instigators of financial mayhem could scare...

Investing expert James Stack was one of the first on Wall Street to predict the stock market meltdown and recent bear market. In the late 1990s, the editor of the biweekly newsletter InvesTech Research warned of a high-tech bubble that would spread to other sectors and take down many small...

These days, it is hard to know what's real and what's not. The U.S. reported 3.5% gross domestic product growth in the third quarter, during which time China says it grew at an 8.9% rate, according to Fortune. That all sounds great. But it doesn't take much digging to realize that both countries...

As China moves closer to overtaking Japan as the world's second-largest economy, it's flexing its new found muscle and ignoring warnings from the International Monetary Fund regarding its credit growth rate and the value of the yuan. China began a 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion) two-year stimulus in...

Is Dow 10,000 a blessing . . . or a curse? ____________________ Whoah! Elliot Spitzer does it again: Nine questions for Ben Bernanke. (By the way, quick advice for slate.com: it's better for search engine optimization if the URL contains the title of the article.) ____________________ If you had...