The G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, came and went on June 28–29 without much substance except for the meeting on the sidelines between President Trump, President Xi of China and their teams of advisers. Of course, the subject was the ongoing trade wars between the U.S. and China. Trump was poised to raise tariffs on
A lot of Americans breathed a sigh of relief after the recent attack on a U.S. drone by Iranian missiles. The world expected a swift counterattack by President Trump, perhaps in the form of a cruise missile aimed at the Iranian command center that conducted the attack on the drone. This could easily have escalated
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Although Donald Trump himself was cleared of “collusion” with the Russians in interfering with the 2016 election, the Russians themselves were not cleared. The evidence showed that there was Russian interference in terms of fake websites, inflammatory memes and other internet advertising tricks of the trade. Experts disagree on how much actual influence this had
You’ve seen and heard endless reporting about the “inverted” yield curve and how it’s a top recession indicator. What exactly does that mean? The yield curve is just a matter of connecting the dots on a chart, which represents particular yields on bonds of particular maturities. For example, right now the 10-year Treasury note has
