Tuesday, October 15, 2019

China Ties Agriculture Binge to Trump Reducing U.S. Tariffs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/china-wants-u-s-to-remove-tariffs-to-hit-50-billion-imports

Renewable Energy Storage | What Renewable Energy Is

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a29463165/concrete-block-energy-storage/

Think fossil fuels are bad? Nuclear energy is even worse

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/think-fossil-fuels-are-bad-nuclear-energy-is-even-worse-2019-10-17

'Nothing-burger': US-China truce leaves big issues for later

https://apnews.com/c2b8338d087a4d4898d8ac0c12992971

The World Loses $400 Billion of Food Before It Reaches Stores

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/the-world-loses-400-billion-of-food-before-it-reaches-stores

Millennials to trigger changeover point for the US economy, Bill Smead says

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/millennials-to-trigger-changeover-point-for-the-us-economy-bill-smead-says.html

Oil Slides Again as Economy Falters While Supplies Keep Growing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/oil-holds-near-lows-as-u-s-china-trade-deal-hopes-evaporate

Fed’s Bullard Warns of Too-Low Inflation and Risk of Slowdown

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/fed-s-bullard-warns-of-too-low-inflation-and-risk-of-slowdown

The Brexit Threat to World Markets Remains Too Huge to Ignore

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/the-brexit-threat-to-world-markets-remains-too-huge-to-ignore

U.K. Employment Falls as Brexit Strains Spread to Labor Market

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-15/u-k-employment-falls-as-brexit-strains-spread-to-labor-market

Monday, October 14, 2019

Maria Bartiromo ‘Not Buying’ Trump’s Bluster on China Trade Negotiations: ‘The President Has Gotten Nothing’

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/maria-bartiromo-not-buying-trumps-bluster-on-china-trade-negotiations-the-president-has-gotten-nothing/

Salesforce's Marc Benioff calls for billionaires to pay higher taxes

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/salesforces-marc-benioff-calls-for-billionaires-to-pay-higher-taxes.html

Nobel Economics Prize Won by Trio Fighting Global Poverty

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/duflo-banerjee-and-kremer-win-2019-nobel-economics-prize

China Import Slump Casts Gloom Over World Buffeted by Trade War

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/china-s-exports-and-imports-worse-than-expected-in-september

America’s Great Shale Oil Boom Is Nearly Over

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-10-13/america-s-shale-oil-boom-is-nearly-over

China wants more talks before signing Trump's 'Phase 1' deal: Bloomberg - Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-talks-idUSKBN1WT1A1

What Chinese media are saying about the partial trade deal with the US

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/what-chinese-media-are-saying-about-the-partial-trade-deal-with-the-us.html

Trade deal: Morgan Stanley warns tariff escalation remains a 'meaningful risk'

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/13/trade-deal-morgan-stanley-warns-tariff-escalation-remains-a-meaningful-risk.html

Could the next global recession start in the obscure short-term US money markets?

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032425/could-next-global-recession-start-obscure-short-term-us-money

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Producer Price Index shows largest decline in 8 months

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/10/08/Producer-Price-Index-shows-largest-decline-in-8-months/6441570553377/

Inverted yield curve guru Campbell Harvey: Prepare for recession

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/inverted-yield-curve-guru-campbell-harvey-prepare-for-recession.html

Nations must unite to halt global economic slowdown, says new IMF head

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/08/nations-must-unite-halt-global-economic-slowdown-new-imf-head-kristalina-georgieva

Teens prefer YouTube over Netflix, Piper Jaffray survey finds

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/teens-prefer-youtube-over-netflix-piper-jaffray-survey-finds.html

US-China Trade Talks Update: Beijing Not Willing To Talk Industrial Policy Reform

https://www.ibtimes.com/us-china-trade-talks-update-beijing-not-willing-talk-industrial-policy-reform-2841252

Brexit: UK government preparing for breakdown in EU talks

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/08/brexit-uk-government-preparing-for-breakdown-in-eu-talks.html

Donald Trump Promised to Eliminate the Deficit in 8 Years. So Far, He Has Increased it by 68%

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-deficit-debt-cbo-data-obama-1463802

MMT Is All the Rage, But Repo Spike Shows Deficits Still Matter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/mmt-is-all-the-rage-but-repo-spike-shows-deficits-still-matter

Economists Worry That MMT Is Winning the Argument in Washington

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/economists-worry-that-mmt-is-winning-the-argument-in-washington

Here's what Congress may do to fix Social Security this fall

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/heres-what-congress-may-do-to-fix-social-security-this-fall.html

Friday, October 4, 2019

There's an easy way for Washington to fend off a recession and help thousands of Americans

https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-us-economic-slowdown-jobs-congress-infrastructure-investment-2019-10

Another 4,200 truck drivers lost their jobs in September as a recession slams America's $800 billion trucking industry

https://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-truck-drivers-job-loss-september-2019-10

U.S. Payrolls, Wages Miss Estimates in New Sign of Downshift

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-04/u-s-payrolls-miss-estimates-as-wages-cool-in-sign-of-downshift

5 big risks that the world's fragile economy doesn't need right now

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/04/5-big-risks-that-the-worlds-fragile-economy-doesnt-need-right-now.html

Column: What seniors should know about Trump’s Medicare executive order

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/column-what-seniors-should-know-about-trumps-medicare-executive-order

US-Europe dispute threatens main artery of world trade

https://apnews.com/f9a1b466d1a64c649c4c68054be316b9

Clarida Says Economy in Good Place, Fed to Talk Balance Sheet

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-04/clarida-says-economy-in-good-place-fed-to-talk-balance-sheet

How a No-Deal Brexit May Become a Problem for the World Economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-04/how-a-no-deal-brexit-may-become-a-problem-for-the-world-economy

Public banks can be formed in California: Newsom signs new law

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-02/public-banks-can-be-formed-under-bill-signed-by-newsom

Financial markets are a key source of America’s prosperity, so leave them out of the US-China trade war

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3031271/financial-markets-are-key-source-americas-prosperity-so-leave-them