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...greatest economy ever?

All signs point to what we concluded a long time ago (when young people still knew what phasers were in popular culture): this is a bum deal.

"Isn’t it true that ultimately we have done the right thing to act in favor of jobs and of growth rather than the protection of savers?"

China plans to establish an Earth-moon space economic zone by 2050, which is expected to generate $10 trillion worth of services per year. The zone will cover areas of space near Earth, the moon and in between.

Loneliness has become a global epidemic...

Freight railroads, along with Class 8 trucking, have long been used as a gauge of the country's economic health...
 

Many of the bankruptcies are occurring in election battleground states like Wisconsin...

'In a $21.5 trillion U.S. economy, those kinds of gains won’t move the needle very far.'

"The move in container shipping rates is consistent with the continued deterioration in raw industrial commodities, China's official PMI, China's steel PMI, as well as market internals such as industrials relative to the S&P500." 

The Federal Reserve is a barbarous relic. The next downturn will be its death knell.  Alas, what comes after the Fed will probably be even worse. Populism demands it...

"While the first wave of globalisation ground to a halt during World War One, it was definitively ended by the protectionism of the 1930s" 

Under the last two US presidents, total US debt has increased by 115%, to a record $23 trillion.

So far, President Trump has shined when it comes to economic issues, according to most public opinion polling.

"Strategists predicting the impact of a presidential election are worse than the pollsters."

Do they actually agree? Yes – on their irreconcilable differences. Now just isn’t the time to advertise that agreement to disagree too loudly: but supply chains will keep moving anyway.

Since February 2010 - a period covering nearly 10 years - the US restaurant industry has added jobs every single month with just 4 exceptions!

"...the overall picture therefore remained one of only very modest growth and guarded optimism..."

So much for expectations of the worst payrolls print in half a year.

After several months of disappointing payrolls prints, October is set for a doozy.

“The FED didn’t just ‘save’ the US financial system, it altered the flow of capital everywhere...”