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CNBC's Rick Santelli asks the question, is government data real? more...

The government's surprise decision to reimpose capital controls this week to protect the ailing rupee only served to intensify the sense of crisis afflicting the economy. more...

Why isn’t the price of US Treasuries falling after the S&P downgrade; why are equities under pressure; and why is gold surging? Developments in Treasuries appear, at first sight, the most puzzling. more...

A Greek default could be a couple of years away, and that wouldn't be such a bad thing, this strategist says.* more...

Albert Einstein is reported to have said that insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By those standards, the deal with Greece that is about to be agreed looks insane. The only justification, as I argued in a column on May 10, is that it is...