Jose Roncal is co-author of "The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating" which Donald Trump endorsed as "a great read". Many of the author's articles related to finance and the global economic crisis can be found at www.financialspeculation.com

Seems like there's no end to the indigestion-inducing economic news. Recently I woke up to the news that the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index had fallen by 17.4 percent from a year earlier. Even wors...

Wall Street, the housing market and the whole economy have all gone from boom to bust. The global economic meltdown is a stark reminder of how giant bubbles tend to over-inflate until they reach criti...

We've all heard the old adage, "it's always darkest before the dawn." But exactly when can we expect things to lighten up? There's so much paranoia and mistrust with a stock market in the tank and so ...

As we start the New Year, it's time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous year during which nearly every aspect of the global economy took a beating...

The current economic meltdown has changed the face of Wall Street, possibly forever. For decades the energy in the market had been fueled by high-rolling investment bankers, but look what's happened i...

We’ve survived the tech bubble and the housing bubble, but are we headed for something more catastrophic than either of those?  Some experts are beginning to fear the worst and now some fear the Treas...