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Yale's David Swensen, the best performing university portfolio manager over the last 20 years recommends TIPS as a way to hedge against potential inflation caused by the government's economic recovery spending.

If you are awake before 6AM and turn on CNBC, you will see that the mood outside of the US is dramatically different from that in the US.

Has rate chasing lost its allure?

Whereas I had previously been a dollar bull, the recent warnings of the Chinese are hard to ignore.

The French, in their search for a fixed rate of return that beats the 0.75% offered in savings accounts, have added an entirely new meaning to Best Cash Cow.

Charitable Gift Annuities provide a way for an individual to make a donation and still receive a stream of payments from the money. But when a charity goes bust, so do the payments.

Michael Bienes was a small-time investment advisor who stumbled on Bernard Madoff. In this soon-to-be-aired Frontline program, he, and others describe how the Madoff operation worked, how people were duped, and how many made easy money off the largest Ponzi scheme ever.

Dave Kytes, the managing director at Novantas, a consulting company that serves the banking industry, believes that banks that require more capital will raise their deposit rates.

I just got this quiz. It is very funny.

Bank seemed like obvious shorts a couple of weeks ago. Lot of bright folks went in and we've just seen the sharpest ball-breaking short-killing rally ever.

Our government has debased the economy to remove moral hazard for a handful of banking insiders. This type of activity occurs frequently in Third World countries and is met with real rage. Where is it here?

Obama's strategy is to spend, spend, spend and to give his Democratic controlled House and Senate all the pork barrel that they want. When he has a chance, he'll stand in front of the media and make a big deal about cutting government expenditures, but it is all for show.

We are going to see a period of hyperinflation very soon. The only way that the government can finance a deficit which is 80% of GDP is to erode the value of the dollar. How do you protect yourself?

Warren Buffett says that this cycle's lows, near 6500 on the Dow and 670 on the S&P were still above the 1974 valuations by any metric that he follows.

We've long been "taught" that buy and hold is the best way to maximize return. But the data shows that buying and holding equities over long periods of time is often a losing strategy.