The “Aging Checklist”: What Is It And Why Every Retiree Needs One

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanshenkman/2020/01/30/the-aging-checklist-what-is-it-and-why-every-retiree-needs-one/

Here’s how we’ll pay for Trump’s trillion-dollar deficits

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-how-well-pay-for-trumps-trillion-dollar-deficits-183009760.html

How $98 trillion of household wealth in America is distributed

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-inequality-in-america-how-98-trillion-of-household-wealth-is-distributed/

No Longer European, a Divided Britain Seeks a New Identity

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-31/brexit-day-divided-britain-leaves-eu-seeks-a-new-identity

Old People Have All the Interesting Jobs in America

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-30/old-people-have-all-the-interesting-jobs-in-america

Fourth-quarter GDP rose only 2.1% and full-year 2019 posts slowest growth in three years at 2.3%

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/us-gdp-q4-2019-first-reading.html

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The No. 1 thing people with fat savings accounts scrimp on that you likely don’t

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-thing-people-with-fat-savings-accounts-scrimp-on-that-you-likely-dont-2020-01-29

Take away the military and durable-goods orders sink 2.5% in at the end of 2019

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/durable-goods-orders-get-big-boost-from-the-military-but-business-investment-weak-again-2020-01-28

Tariffs are beginning to raise prices for U.S. consumers: American Apparel & Footwear Assoc.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tariffs-prices-consumer-apparel-retail-footwear-194341832.html

Fed to Keep Rates Steady and Mull Tapering: Decision-Day Guide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-29/fed-to-keep-rates-steady-and-mull-tapering-decision-day-guide

U.S. Corn ‘Only Game in Town’ With Supply Running Out Elsewhere

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-28/u-s-corn-only-game-in-town-with-supply-running-out-elsewhere

Column: That Wells Fargo accounts scandal was even worse than you can imagine

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-01-27/wells-fargo-scandal

New CBO Report Projects $13 Trillion Deficit Over 10 Years

https://www.forbes.com/sites/benritz/2020/01/28/new-cbo-report-projects-13-trillion-deficit-over-10-years/

Blink and you miss it: The U.S. yield curve inverts again

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-economy-yieldcurve-idUSL1N29X176

The WTO Must Reform or Die

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-28/the-wto-must-reform-or-die

A tidal project in Scottish waters just generated enough electricity to power nearly 4,000 homes

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/27/tidal-project-generates-electricity-to-power-nearly-4000-homes.html

Chipotle Fined Over $1 Million for Child Labor Violations

https://jezebel.com/chipotle-fined-over-1-million-for-child-labor-violatio-1841293262

Negative Debt Pile Surges by $1.2 Trillion in Dash for Havens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-27/negative-debt-pile-surges-by-1-2-trillion-in-dash-for-havens

JPMorgan Says Short U.S. 30-Year Bond on Excess Haven Demand

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-27/jpmorgan-says-short-u-s-30-year-bond-on-excess-haven-demand

Cincinnati passes bill giving renters alternatives to security deposits

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cincinnati-passes-bill-giving-renters-alternatives-security-deposits-n1120796

Peak Permian Is Approaching Faster Than You Think

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-26/peak-permian-is-approaching-making-u-s-oil-independence-elusive

President Trump Just Delivered A Death Blow to Amazon

https://www.ccn.com/president-trump-just-delivered-a-death-blow-to-amazon/

U.S. stock futures tumble as China coronavirus spreads, worries escalate

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-tumble-as-china-coronavirus-spreads-worries-escalate-2020-01-27

U.S. manufacturing PMI at 3-month low in January

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-pmi-at-3-month-low-in-january-2020-01-24

Tens of millions of Americans are expected to see lower credit scores following FICO change

https://www.businessinsider.com/fico-change-expected-lower-credit-scores-millions-of-americans-2020-1

Banks Head Into Darkest Phase of the Nordic Negative-Rate Cycle

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-26/banks-head-into-darkest-phase-of-the-nordic-negative-rate-cycle

Bonds look like they are flashing a warning for global markets

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/bonds-look-like-they-are-flashing-a-warning-for-global-markets.html

12 fatal flaws of finance — and how to avoid them - MarketWatch

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/12-fatal-flaws-of-finance-and-how-to-avoid-them-2020-01-24?mod=smartnews

Cut Back on Email If You Want to Fight Global Warming

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-25/cutting-back-on-sending-emails-could-help-fight-global-warming

It's time to end corporate welfare. Boeing is exhibit A for why.

https://www.businessinsider.com/its-time-to-end-corporate-welfare-boeing-is-exhibit-a-2020-1

AFL-CIO's Trumka warns US economy on ‘trajectory towards implosion’

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/afl-cio-trumka-us-economy-implosion

The Supreme Court could upend consumer financial protection as we know it

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/the-supreme-court-has-the-power-to-upend-consumer-financial-protection.html

Goldman to Refuse IPOs If All Directors Are White, Straight Men

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-24/goldman-rule-adds-to-death-knell-of-the-all-white-male-board?srnd=premium

Why the record $1.2 trillion pile of junk-rated debt coming due is a worry

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-record-12-trillion-pile-of-junk-rated-debt-coming-due-is-a-worry-2020-01-24

U.S. oil prices slip and on track for more than 5% weekly skid as coronavirus, supply fears punish market

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-oil-prices-slip-and-on-track-for-more-than-5-weekly-skid-as-coronavirus-supply-fears-punish-market-2020-01-24

EU, China, 15 Others Form Alliance to Settle Trade Disputes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-24/eu-china-15-others-form-alliance-to-settle-trade-disputes

Amateur Investors Are Making Risky Bets That Could Wipe Them Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/amateur-investors-risk-losing-everything-in-hunt-for-yields

The rich have had enough of negative interest rates. Some are pulling cash out of Swiss banks

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/investing/switzerland-cash-negative-rates/index.html

China To Ramp Up Shale Gas Production At Home | OilPrice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/China-To-Ramp-Up-Shale-Gas-Production-At-Home.html

As Coronavirus Spreads, Economists Run the Numbers on China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-21/as-coronavirus-spreads-economists-start-to-run-numbers-on-china

A $46 Billion Bad-Loan Mirage Hints at U.S. Bank Rule’s Flaw

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/a-46-billion-bad-loan-mirage-hints-at-flaw-in-u-s-bank-rule

Share of union workers in the U.S. falls to a record low in 2019

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/share-of-union-workers-in-the-us-falls-to-a-record-low-in-2019-2020-01-22

U.S.-Europe Trade Tensions Risk Flare-Up Over Cars, Digital Tax

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/u-s-europe-trade-tensions-risk-flare-up-over-cars-digital-tax

The Stunning Problem With The 4% Retirement Income Rule In One Chart

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpagliarini/2020/01/22/the-stunning-problem-with-the-4-retirement-income-rule-in-one-chart/

Crude prices slide on worries about oversupply, China virus fallout

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/crude-prices-slide-on-worries-about-oversupply-china-virus-fallout-2020-01-23

Trump's threatened tariffs would increase car prices by thousands of dollars, economists say

https://www.businessinsider.com/tariffs-trump-increase-car-prices-thousands-dollars-economists-estimates-europe-2020-1

Turns Out Bankruptcy Can Wipe Out Student Loan Debt After All : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-out-bankruptcy-can-wipe-out-student-loan-debt-after-all

Ballooning corporate debt won’t lead to a large flock of ‘fallen angels,’ BofA says - MarketWatch

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ballooning-corporate-debt-wont-lead-to-a-large-flock-of-fallen-angels-bofa-says-2020-01-21?mod=smartnews

Hedge Funds Not Led by White Men Outperform Nearly 2 to 1

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-21/hedge-funds-not-led-by-white-men-outperform-peers-nearly-2-to-1

How Airlines and Airports Are Dealing With Deadly China Virus

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/here-s-how-the-airline-industry-is-dealing-with-the-wuhan-virus

U.S. Agriculture Secretary says no need for more farm aid after China trade deal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture-idUSKBN1ZJ28L

Global central banks are partnering up to explore digital currencies

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/global-central-banks-are-partnering-up-to-explore-digital-currencies.html

Somebody Big Has Called This Year’s Oil Market Completely Wrong

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-20/somebody-big-has-called-this-year-s-oil-market-completely-wrong

22 men own more wealth than Africa's 326 million women, Oxfam says

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/19/business/oxfam-billionaires/index.html

Mission Impossible: China can't meet its commitments on U.S. crude, LNG, coal - Russell

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-russell-china-energy-usa-idUSKBN1ZK07T

Trump Tariff Aid To Farmers Cost More Than U.S. Nuclear Forces

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/01/21/trump-tariff-aid-to-farmers-cost-more-than-us-nuclear-forces/

More Than Half of CEOs See Global Growth Slowing This Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-20/more-than-half-of-ceos-see-global-growth-slowing-this-year

Extreme poverty and inequality hits women hardest, according to Oxfam

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/5-shocking-facts-about-inequality-according-to-oxfam-s-latest-report

America Is Awash With Natural Gas and It’s About to Get Worse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-19/america-is-awash-with-natural-gas-and-it-s-about-to-get-worse

Why it only costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/

Did Congress Make a Mistake With Trump's U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement? | The National Interest

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/did-congress-make-mistake-trumps-us-mexico-canada-agreement-115236

Majority say BOJ's negative rate policy has not boosted economy, prices: Reuters poll

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-poll-idUSKBN1ZJ0B9

Unpaid care work by women add 10 trillion to the economy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-inequality-idUSKBN1ZJ00B

Just 162 Billionaires Have The Same Wealth As Half Of Humanity

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billionaires-inequality-oxfam-report-davos_n_5e20db1bc5b674e44b94eca5

Air Force Warns Boeing’s New CEO That It’s Not Happy Either

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/boeing-s-calhoun-warned-by-air-force-that-it-s-not-happy-either

The US is running a $1 trillion deficit, but politicians and investors don't see a problem

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/17/the-us-is-running-a-1-trillion-deficit-but-politicians-and-investors-dont-see-a-problem.html

How Trump's disdain for international cooperation weakened the China deal

https://theweek.com/articles/889888/how-trumps-hatred-international-cooperation-weakened-china-deal

Saturday night owls open thread. Joe Stiglitz: The truth about the 'booming' Trump economy

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/18/1912481/-Saturday-night-owls-open-thread-Joe-Stiglitz-The-truth-about-the-booming-Trump-economy

Welcome to ‘Peak Decade,’ From Globalization to Central Banks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-19/welcome-to-peak-decade-from-globalization-to-central-banks

Stocks appear detached from reality, rallying for two things that may not happen

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/18/stocks-appear-detached-from-reality-rallying-in-anticipation-of-two-things-that-may-not-happen.html

An intensifying climate crisis threatens more than half of the world’s GDP, research claims

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/19/davos-climate-crisis-threatens-more-than-half-of-the-worlds-gdp-wef-says.html

U.S. job openings post biggest drop in more than four years

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-jobs-idUSKBN1ZG1V0

US housing construction jumps 16.9% in December

https://apnews.com/31a7a9252a7846ec8f2e49e861625870

The Millionaires Who Actually Want to Pay More in Taxes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-17/the-millionaires-who-actually-want-to-pay-more-in-taxes

The Fed Won't Avert The Next 'Crisis,' They Will Cause It

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4317488-fed-wont-avert-next-crisis-will-cause?utm_source=smartnews.com&utm_medium=referral

U.S.-China Trade Deal: A $40 Trillion Trap On Trump’s Wall Street Buddies?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williampesek/2020/01/17/us-china-trade-deal-a-40-trillion-trap-on-trumps-wall-street-buddies/

Trump just ran a two-year trade war experiment. It failed.

https://theweek.com/articles/889875/trump-just-ran-twoyear-trade-war-experiment-failed

Angela Merkel warns against demonizing China for its success

https://www.axios.com/angela-merkel-warns-demonizing-china-success-2fb61a28-8bc2-4a69-9f9d-d0a0e4a61194.html

The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitative-easing hell

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-federal-reserve-is-stuck-in-quantitative-easing-hell-2020-01-16

Economists Don’t See Any U.S. Growth Bump From U.S.-China Deal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/economists-don-t-see-any-u-s-growth-bump-from-u-s-china-deal

U.S. to Start Issuing 20-Year Bonds to Fund Rising Deficit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/u-s-to-issue-20-year-bond-in-early-2020-to-finance-rising-debt

Europe Scrambles to Fight Off Threat of U.S. Tariffs on France

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/europe-scrambles-to-fight-off-threat-of-u-s-tariffs-on-france

U.K. Retail Sales Extend Worst Run on Record

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/u-k-retail-sales-extend-worst-run-on-record-despite-discounting

Student debt is over $1.6 trillion and hardly anyone is paying down their loans

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/student-loan-debt-is-over-1point6-trillion-and-balances-arent-going-down.html

Jerome Powell Secretly Knows the Federal Reserve Is About to Crash the U.S. Stock Market

https://www.ccn.com/jerome-powell-knows-federal-reserve-destroy-us-stock-market/

The Hidden Recession That Everyone Is Overlooking

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/16/the-hidden-recession-that-everyone-is-overlooking.aspx

Under-the-radar bullish trend suggests the global economy is turning a corner

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/under-the-radar-bullish-trend-suggests-the-economy-is-turning-a-corner.html

U.S. Retail Sales Post Solid Advance to Close Out Moderate 2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/u-s-retail-sales-post-solid-advance-to-close-out-moderate-2019

China's 'market condition' caveat on U.S. ag purchases adds to trade deal doubts

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture-idUSKBN1ZE2QE

US-China trade deal: Five things that aren't in it

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51130434

Millennials prefer White Claw over wine — and it’s shaking up the alcohol industry

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/millennials-prefer-white-claw-over-wine-and-its-shaking-up-the-alcohol-industry-2020-01-15

Merkel makes clear she won’t join Trump in challenging China

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/merkel-makes-clear-she-wont-join-trump-in-challenging-china-2020-01-16

Jury Still Out As U.S. China Trade War Throws Up Winners, Losers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/and-the-winner-of-the-u-s-china-phase-one-trade-deal-is

U.S.-China Trade Deal Reality Check: What’s New, What’s Unclear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/u-s-china-trade-deal-reality-check-what-s-new-what-s-unclear

Militant Coal Miners Occupy Kentucky Railroad Over Unpaid Wages

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqd87/militant-coal-miners-occupy-kentucky-railroad-over-unpaid-wages

This free cash plan would pay you $1,320 per month and wouldn’t cost the government a cent

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/budget-neutral-universal-basic-income-plan-would-pay-1320-per-month.html

The last time this ‘clear danger sign’ flashed in the stock market was in 1999, and we all know what happened next

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-last-time-this-clear-danger-sign-flashed-was-in-1999-and-we-all-know-what-happened-next-fund-manager-warns-2020-01-15

This ghost of the housing bubble still haunts the home mortgage market

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-ghost-of-the-housing-bubble-still-haunts-the-home-mortgage-market-2020-01-15

U.S. Won’t Cut More China Tariffs Until After November Vote

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/china-tariffs-to-stay-put-until-after-u-s-election-despite-deal

The stock market has never been this big relative to the economy, signaling it could be overvalued

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/the-stock-market-has-never-been-this-big-relative-to-the-economy-signaling-it-could-be-overvalued.html

Housing Upswing to Cushion U.S. Economy From Sluggish Investment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/housing-upswing-to-cushion-u-s-economy-from-sluggish-investment

Oklahoma sues three opioid distributors over ‘man-made crisis’

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/oklahoma-sues-three-opioid-distributors-over-man-made-crisis-2020-01-13

US reverses China 'currency manipulator' label

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51098294

US budget deficit running 11.8% higher this year

https://apnews.com/179b7a049feebdc199d1699408bb5310

America’s CFOs Are Warning Of A Recession. Here’s Why That’s An Important Indicator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/01/13/americas-cfos-are-warning-of-a-recession-heres-why-thats-an-important-indicator/

SB50 Could Make California Livable Again - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/sb50-california/604786/

Global Debt-to-GDP Ratio Hit an All-Time High Last Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-13/global-debt-to-gdp-ratio-hit-an-all-time-high-last-year

China Used the Rest of the World to Cushion Itself From Trump’s Tariff Barrage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/china-used-rest-of-world-to-cushion-trump-s-2019-tariff-barrage

China’s 2019 Exports Edged Up as Total Trade With U.S. Declined

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-14/china-s-trade-with-u-s-fell-in-2019-global-surplus-widened

The world is drowning in debt

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/economy/global-debt-record/index.html

Tesla is an ‘existential threat’ to automakers, says analyst with $612 price target

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/13/oppenheimer-analyst-tesla-is-an-existential-threat-to-automakers.html

Coal-fired power plants closing at near-record pace: report | TheHill

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/478004-coal-fired-power-plants-closing-at-near-record-pace-report

Trump Is Wrong. The U.S. Does Need Middle East Oil

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-12/trump-is-wrong-the-u-s-does-need-middle-east-oil

Auto industry cautious as China starts 2020 with forecast of a 2% sales decline

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-autos-idUSKBN1ZC09T

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China is really worried about unemployment. Here's what it's doing to avoid mass layoffs

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/economy/china-2020-economy/index.html

As businesses hold back, U.S. consumers seen boosting big banks' profits

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-results-preview-idUSKBN1ZC0C4

This Is Nuts And Why We Reduced Risk On Friday

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4316345-this-is-nuts-and-why-reduced-risk-on-friday?utm_source=smartnews.com&utm_medium=referral

‘Worst thing’ an investor could do right now is take profits, PNC’s Amanda Agati says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/12/worst-thing-investors-could-do-right-now-is-sell-pncs-amanda-agati.html

The U.S. Housing Market Crisis Is Inevitable; Here’s Why

https://www.ccn.com/the-u-s-housing-market-crisis-is-inevitable-heres-why/

Oil Bible Offers ‘Fuel for the Soul’ in Waning U.S. Shale Patch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-11/oil-bible-offers-fuel-for-the-soul-in-waning-u-s-shale-patch

‘Yikes’ — wage growth called ‘incredibly disappointing’ in jobs report

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yikes-wage-growth-called-incredibly-disappointing-in-jobs-report-2020-01-10

Milk Processors Are Going Bankrupt as Americans Ditch Dairy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/distaste-for-dairy-sends-milk-processors-to-bankruptcy-court

Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do - The Boston Globe

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2020/01/11/national-recycling-crisis-hits-hard-western-massachusetts/cn6o05CAvXmYzwyqWFCniJ/story.html

Goldman Sachs casts doubt on whether China can honor $40 billion in US farm purchases

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/10/goldman-sachs-doubts-china-can-honor-40-billion-us-farm-pledge.html

US population growth is the lowest it's been since 1918. Here's why that's terrible news for the economy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-population-growth-lowest-since-1918-negative-economic-impact-demographics-2020-1

U.S. Corn Crop Is Now 92% Genetically Modified

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/u-s-farms-power-through-crazy-weather-showing-genetics-matter

CNN pays out record $76 million to settle union-busting case

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/cnn-pays-out-record-76-million-to-settle-union-busting-case

Jeep idles Cherokee facility with more than 50,000 in inventory | Autoblog

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/01/10/jeep-idles-cherokee-plant-belvedere-illinois/

There is a 50% chance something bad will happen to the stock market soon: top strategist

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/there-is-a-50-chance-something-bad-will-happen-to-the-stock-market-soon-joseph-davis-173617754.html

Walmart Has Made A Genius Move To Beat Amazon

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2020/01/08/walmart-has-made-a-genius-move-to-beat-amazon/

S&P 500 has up to 20% upside this year — but don’t buy just yet, strategist says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/10/longview-sp-500-has-up-to-20percent-upside-this-year-but-dont-buy-just-yet.html

The No. 1 ‘soft skill’ you need to compete in today’s job market

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-soft-skill-you-need-to-compete-in-todays-job-market-2020-01-10

$170 Billion and Counting: The Cost of Brexit for the U.K.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/-170-billion-and-counting-the-cost-of-brexit-for-the-u-k

Illinois Legalizes Blockchain Contracts

https://www.coindesk.com/illinois-legalizes-blockchain-contracts

Robert Reich: Four reasons why millennials don’t have any money

https://www.salon.com/2020/01/09/four-reasons-why-millennials-dont-have-any-money_partner/

Ohio businesses fret over lingering trade war

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2020/01/09/ohio-businesses-fret-over-lingering-trade-war/2846461001/

'This Airplane Is Designed by Clowns.' Internal Boeing Messages Describe Efforts to Dodge FAA Scrutiny of MAX

https://time.com/5762666/boeing-max-faa-messages-clowns/

Nearly all corporate CFOs say the economy is going to slow and the stock market is overvalued

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/09/deloitte-cfos-say-economy-is-going-to-slow-stock-market-overvalued.html

Top Quality Crude Offered Near $100 a Barrel on New Ship Rules

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/top-quality-crude-offered-near-100-a-barrel-on-new-ship-rules

A beautiful thing happened after coal-fired plants were shut down in the U.S.

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/coal-fired-plants-study-local-pollution

World Bank warns of global debt crisis following the fastest increase in borrowing since the 1970s

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/09/economy-world-bank-warns-of-global-debt-crisis-as-borrowing-increases.html

Steel Company CEO Says Everyone Else Should Have To Pay for Trump’s Tariffs, but Not Him – Reason.com

https://reason.com/2020/01/08/steel-company-ceo-says-everyone-else-should-have-to-pay-for-trumps-tariffs-but-not-him/

World’s Largest Car Market Reports Second Straight Annual Decline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-09/china-december-car-sales-fall-3-6-capping-second-annual-drop

The U.S. Trade Deficit Is Narrowing for Reasons That Aren’t All Good

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-08/trade-war-latest-trump-trade-deficit-2020-promises-kept

The U.S. Spends $2,500 Per Person on Health Care Administrative Costs. Canada Spends $550. Here's Why

https://time.com/5759972/health-care-administrative-costs/

Bank of England’s Carney says central banks are low on ammunition

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bank-of-englands-carney-says-central-banks-are-low-on-ammunition-2020-01-08

Russia Readies New Gas Link to Europe in Defiance of U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-08/russia-opens-natural-gas-link-to-turkey-amid-u-s-opposition

Iran Headlines Lead Algorithms to Make Money-Losing Trades

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-08/algos-seize-on-iran-headlines-to-leave-some-traders-with-losses

Finnish PM calls for four-day week, six-hour workday - NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12298455

Economists Care Too Much About Inequality

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-07/economists-debating-piketty-care-too-much-about-inequality

The Student Loan Forgiveness Tax Bomb

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertfarrington/2020/01/06/the-student-loan-forgiveness-tax-bomb/

Middle-income households haven’t recovered since the Great Recession — here’s a reason why

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/middle-income-households-havent-recovered-since-the-great-recession-heres-a-reason-why-2020-01-07

Red Sea Desert Locust Outbreak Threatens South Sudan, Uganda

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-07/red-sea-desert-locust-outbreak-threatens-south-sudan-uganda

Coal’s Collapse Has America’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Falling

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-07/coal-s-collapse-has-america-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions-falling

Trade war: China’s refusal to lift grain quotas make Trump’s phase one import demands ‘more difficult’

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3044958/trade-war-chinas-refusal-lift-grain-quotas-make-trumps-phase

Americans Rank A Google Internship Over A Harvard Degree

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2020/01/06/americans-rank-a-google-internship-over-a-harvard-degree/

China’s Tax Cuts Lifted Growth Almost 1 Percentage Point in 2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-07/china-s-tax-cuts-lifted-growth-almost-1-percentage-point-in-2019

Fed officials are increasingly warning that climate change could damage the economy

https://www.businessinsider.com/fed-warnings-comments-on-climate-change-could-damage-the-economy-2020-1

The Iran crisis could bring a bigger economic problem than surging oil prices: Morning Brief

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/iran-crisis-could-bring-bigger-problem-than-surging-oil-prices-morning-brief-110442656.html

Enjoy That 29% Rally? You Have These Folks to Thank

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-06/central-bank-easing-enabled-stock-rally-in-2019-expect-more

'Approximately 100 percent' of tariff costs have fallen onto Americans, new research shows

https://www.businessinsider.com/all-tariff-costs-fallen-onto-americans-pay-new-research-shows-2020-1

Oil Hits $70 as Mideast Crisis Deepens Fear of Supply Disruption

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-05/oil-set-for-bumpy-week-as-u-s-says-iran-may-strike-saudi-again

Yellen says regulators need new powers to combat potential asset bubbles

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yellen-says-regulators-need-new-powers-to-combat-potential-asset-bubbles-2020-01-05

Low Rates Could Get Even Lower, Senior Central Bankers Warn

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-05/low-rates-could-get-even-lower-senior-central-bankers-warn

Borden Becomes Second Big U.S. Milk Producer to File for Bankruptcy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-06/borden-becomes-second-u-s-milk-producer-to-file-for-bankruptcy

Signs That A Recession Is Imminent

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4315242-signs-recession-is-imminent?utm_source=smartnews.com&utm_medium=referral

Fed Quietly Confirms Fears About Stock Market’s $10 Trillion Powder Keg

https://www.ccn.com/fed-quietly-confirms-fears-about-stock-markets-10-trillion-powder-keg/

To fight the next recession, the government may send you money so you can go out to dinner with friends

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/to-fight-the-next-recession-the-government-may-send-you-money-so-you-can-go-out-to-dinner-with-friends-2020-01-04

Railroads cut workers as industry automates, implements cost-cutting strategies

https://www.axios.com/railroad-cut-workers-technology-economy-759ebc94-202b-4aeb-9079-49825239bf23.html

'I used to be silly with money, but with Hare Krishna I’ve learned self-control'

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jan/04/i-used-to-be-silly-with-money-but-with-hare-krishna-ive-learned-self-control

Bernanke: Fed has ample clout to fight downturn if toolkit used properly

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-bernanke-idUSKBN1Z400J

Longest Ever Subzero-Rate Experiment Suggests Key Fear Unfounded

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-05/longest-ever-subzero-rate-experiment-suggests-key-fear-unfounded

Debt will kill the global economy. But it seems no one cares | Phillip Inman

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/04/debt-will-kill-global-economy-pensions-ageing-population

America's economy needs to pull more workers into the labor force: Fed officials

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-reserve-officials-us-economy-needs-to-pull-more-workers-into-the-labor-force-130043767.html

‘If you are wondering who benefits’: Weapons makers see stocks surge as Trump moves closer to war with Iran

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/if-you-are-wondering-who-benefits-weapons-makers-see-stocks-surge-as-trump-moves-closer-to-war-with-iran/

U.S. Factory Gauge Unexpectedly Falls to Lowest Since 2009

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-03/u-s-factory-gauge-unexpectedly-falls-to-lowest-level-since-2009

Yellen Says U.S. Minorities Are Being Driven Away From Economics

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-04/yellen-says-u-s-minorities-are-being-driven-away-from-economics

US manufacturing plunges deeper into recession

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/03/economy/december-manufacturing-downturn/index.html

The Return To Misery

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4315097-return-to-misery?utm_source=smartnews.com&utm_medium=referral

Sales of Manhattan’s priciest apartments plunge almost 40% in fourth quarter

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/sales-of-manhattans-priciest-apartments-plunge-almost-40percent.html

Bill Gates: My $109 billion net worth shows the economy is not fair

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/bill-gates-americas-tax-system-is-not-fair.html

Manufacturing economy weakest in a decade as December ISM index comes in at 47.2

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/ism-manufacturing-index-december-2019.html

Here's why you shouldn't abbreviate 2020 when writing the date

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/01/02/abbreviating-year-2020-tips/2794630001/

U.S. farmers see another bleak year despite Phase 1 trade deal

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture-insight-idUSKBN1Z20CK

A Crisis Has Already Begun… We Just Don’t Know It Yet

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2020/01/02/a-crisis-has-already-begun-we-just-dont-know-it-yet/

Don’t laugh: Here’s why the ‘great rotation’ from bonds to stocks could finally happen in 2020

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-laugh-heres-why-the-great-rotation-from-bonds-to-stocks-could-finally-happen-in-2020-2020-01-02

U.S. Warns Argentina That IMF Deal Threatened by Leftist Allies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-02/u-s-warns-argentina-that-leftist-allies-threaten-new-imf-deal

Ten Strategists on What U.S.-Iran Escalation Means for Markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-03/here-s-what-market-strategists-say-about-the-middle-east-tumult

Is This The Beginning Of Amazon’s Meltdown?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenmcbride1/2020/01/02/is-this-the-beginning-of-amazons-apocalypse/

An unknown ‘international shock’ will likely cause the next recession, Burton Malkiel says

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/02/burton-malkiel-unknown-international-shock-may-cause-next-recession.html

'The salt they pump back in kills everything': is the cost of Chile's fresh water too high?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/02/the-salt-they-pump-back-in-kills-everything-is-the-cost-of-chiles-fresh-water-too-high

The Dollar’s Losses May Just Be Getting Started

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-02/dollar-s-losses-may-be-just-getting-started-on-trade-truce-fed

Music Streaming Soared From 7% to 80% of U.S. Market in the 2010s, RIAA Stats Show

https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/music-streaming-soared-2010s-decade-riaa-1203454233/

Is your 2020 Medicare plan messed up? Here’s how to fix it | The Kansas City Star

https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/health-care/article238273393.html

Negative Interest Rates Aren’t Such a Departure After All

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-02/negative-interest-rates-aren-t-such-a-departure-after-all

What Could Possibly Repair The U.S.-Chinese Relationship? U.S. Energy Exports

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2020/01/01/what-could-possibly-repair-the-us-chinese-relationship-us-energy-exports/

UK economy starting 2020 in ‘stagnation’ and uncertainty, British Chambers of Commerce warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-economy-brexit-boris-johnson-trade-deal-eu-a9266491.html

Major Cities Face High Risk of Flooding According to a Goldman Sachs Report | ArchDaily

https://www.archdaily.com/930963/major-cities-face-high-risk-of-flooding-according-to-a-goldman-sachs-report

Climate change could render assets ‘worthless’, Bank of England governor warns

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-finance-assets-worthless-mark-carney-bio-divestment-a9263861.html

Why U.S. dollar bears could be thwarted in 2020

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-us-dollar-bears-could-be-thwarted-in-2020-2019-12-31

Judge gives California truckers a reprieve from new labor law

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/judge-gives-california-truckers-a-reprieve-from-new-labor-law-2019-12-31

U.S. Home Prices Rise Most in Five Months as Markets Pick Up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-31/u-s-home-price-gains-accelerate-for-second-month-in-october

China cuts banks' reserve requirements again to spur slowing economy

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-rrr-cut-idUSKBN1Z01LA

The Middle Class Risks Consuming Itself

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-12-30/health-care-education-employ-and-hobble-u-s-middle-class