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2016 China Imports/Exports Tank at Crisis-Like Rates
Global Financial Crisis-Like China Trade Data
Abysmal Import and Export Data out of China in 2016Year-over-Year Chinese exports sank by 11.2% and imports tanked by 18.8%, in January, posting far, far worse declines than expected by most, who according to Reuters, were generally looking for a 0.8% fall in imports and a 1.9% decline in exports ( Read more... ) -
World on Brink of Another Great Recession: Schwenninger
From RT
Increasing Risk of New Global Depression 2016
Sherle R. Schwenninger, World Economic Roundtable at New America/The Nation Magazine, joins Thom. Economists - the people who study this stuff for a living - now think that the world is teetering on the edge of yet another big recession. Slowing growth in China - plummeting stock prices - and ( Read more... ) -
Collapse? Maybe not.
I've noticed two things about modern discourse: People like to say that collapse is imminent, and they like comparing politicians to Nazis ( Read more... ) -
BoA OIS Yield Curve Model: US Recession 2016
The Yield Curve has been a favorite tool of economic forecasters in the US, having accurately foreshadowed seven of the last seven NBER official US recessions. But something funny happened in the past few years: the Fed has embarked upon extraordinarily unconventional policies to artificially anchor the short end of the curve to at or near zero, ( Read more... ) -
LaVorgna Calls BS on Bulls' US Consumer Argument
2016 Recession Despite 'Strong' US Consumer
This morning on Squawk on the Street, Deutsche's LaVorgna explained to CNBC's audience that the bull case for the so-called resilient US consumer fending off the current developing recession is, simply, bull.
We don't need the consumer to be negative for the economy to go into recession, or for that ( Read more... ) -
Technical Analysis Forecasting US Recession
Confirming other indicators we are following for the ongoing development of an official (NBER confirmed) recession in the US in 2016, expert market technician Carter Worth points out several patterns that accurately predicted the last several recessions in the United States, that are flashing red again now.
"This is not a good setup. It's very ( Read more... )
