This very limited “deal” gives the Chinese what they want in the short-term and it allows them to continue to delay any sort of resolution on the most important trade issues.

We are in the process of committing national financial suicide, and most Americans don’t seem to care.

The stock market hasn’t started a quarter this badly in about a decade, and if stock prices continue to plummet it could set off a wave of panic selling unlike anything that we have seen in a very long time.

For the very first time since the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has been forced to conduct an emergency intervention in the repo market.

When the price of oil rises dramatically, that tends to be really bad for the U.S. economy.

60 percent of Americans believe that a recession is “very or somewhat likely in the next year”, and the reason why that figure is so high is because there is already a tremendous amount of evidence that the economy is slowing down all around us.