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Why do so many American Progressives wish to put even larger swathes of our lives under political control given their belief that politics is so very easily corrupted by oligarchs and big-money donors?

"Higher stock prices will boost consumer wealth and help increase confidence, which can also spur spending." - Ben Bernanke

"today is exactly one month until Christmas", and as happens around this time of the year, it will be a truncated week due to the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday that usually extends into a sleepy Friday for markets.

...58 of the 85 monthly individual indicators made negative contributions

Vendors demand 'cash only' as liquidity crisis turns to panic.

Global obesity levels place a heavy burden on healthcare provisions, leaving some countries facing an increasingly hefty bill.

"With growth once again slowing, and past precedent suggesting credit has neared its limit, China finds itself at a crossroad."

"We had historically said: distributional outcomes, monetary policy has no role to play. That was kind of the standard view at the Fed, and I came in assuming that. I now think that’s wrong."

At some point we may have simply overbuilt!

Investors who believed the industry’s ceaseless hype are now grappling with reality – that their money was drilled into the ground and is gone.

"We will continue our tradition of not investigating Mike (and his family and foundation) and we will extend the same policy to his rivals in the Democratic primaries."

Over the course of 2019 we have been tracking three states – Michigan, Ohio and Indiana – because we believe the next US recession will start in the American upper-Midwest. Pennsylvania is also clearly moving in the wrong direction.

"The actual data itself is just decelerating pretty hard actually." 

...obviously now, the poles have reversed and the deleveraging, relatively low consuming, fixed income elderly are the majority of annual population growth...

The highest earners saw confidence surge in November, but low income Americans declined...amid the impeachment debacle, Democrats confidence rose and Republicans fell...

"Although up on lows seen in the summer, business expectations for the future are still well below levels seen earlier in the year, reflecting heightened anxiety regarding trade wars and geopolitical uncertainty..."

"It's difficult to make a prediction right now, but we are quite convinced it's not going to go down to smaller investors."

In 2018, the gross domestic product was 91.93 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.8972 trillion yuan (or 2.1%) over the initial accounting,...

You can’t simply go into business to provide value to customers, employees, and shareholders anymore... Now there has to be some woke purpose that involves diversity, the environment, and whatever else...

So the trade war is about to deepen?