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"...merely indicative of annualised GDP growth in the region of 1.5%"

He sees when stocks are slipping; He knows when bears awake
He knows the Dow Jones must look good; For Trump’s electoral sake

...a good sum up of what we should expect in 2020...

... future historians will probably remember 2020 as the year when an enfeebled and vulnerable Europe chose to make itself feebler and more vulnerable. The task for its leaders now is to avoid making matters even worse...

Do you believe in miracles?

Builders are building cheaper homes because no one can afford anything else...

The French tax "discriminates against U.S. digital companies, such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon."

It's hot outside so let's print more money.

International trade remained a drag on the sector, however, as new export business decreased for the fifteenth successive month...

"Some caution is needed, as these improved survey numbers merely translate into very subdued growth in comparable official gauges of manufacturing production and factory payrolls..."

the problems in NATO are symptomatic of a broader collapse of the global institutional architecture in the face of populism.

"There is no demand in the economy, and that is the starting point of the crisis." 

"Sources with direct knowledge of the trade talks told the Global Times on Saturday that the U.S. must remove existing tariffs, not planned tariffs, as part of the deal."

Is the global economy recovering from its 2018 slump or is the dreaded double dip on deck?

We doubt it will come as a surprise that some of Europe's most fiscally challenged countries are also those that offer the longest retirement across the entire OECD universe.

On December 9, bondholders of China's state-owned Tewoo will have to decide if they will accept a "distressed exchange offer", triggering the biggest SOE default in China since 1998.

"This is one of the biggest private movements of gold between banks in the world."

If one looks at true corporate profits stripped of all adjustments, revisions and addbacks, a very ugly picture emerges: one where US corporate profitability is the worst since the financial crisis.

...but how many of us know or appreciate that Thanksgiving really celebrates the failure of socialism and the birth of free enterprise in America? 

Money-printing companies can't print their way out of financial dire straits.