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By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – A Bloomberg article recently joined the chorus of stock market naysayers with a specious claim that the current record optimism displayed by Small Business surveys signaled that a market correction was due. Panics can occur almost anytime… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights By Global Risk Insights – On June 11, major Chinese and Indian oil companies started a formal meeting in Beijing, discussing the establishment of an “oil buyers’ club” to negotiate better prices with OPEC countries. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Gary Dorsch By Gary Dorsch – Over the past 30 years, the technocrats in Beijing have attained an almost mythical status. The decade after two decades of rapid double-digit growth has transformed China into the world’s second-biggest economy… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Richard Mills By Rick Mills – In 2016 Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, declared that there was no doubt, in his mind, that the US would go to war with China in the South China Sea in the next five to 10 years. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Oil Price By Oil Price – In a breakthrough in EU-US trade talks, President Trump and European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed yesterday in a meeting at the White House to suspend new trade tariffs… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – The 300,000 manufacturing jobs already created under Trump plus the 900,000 since 2010 is a nice rebound for the factory sector. It’s the longest and strongest job growth period since the 1960s. However, the big picture is that a return… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – The story of 2018 has been one of U.S. growth, but not necessarily global growth. While most major economies around the world are still expanding, they have been decelerating or holding steady… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Though many express concern over rising interest rates and their potential impact on the market, Ralph Acampora told Financial Sense Newshour that there have been many periods in the past where the two have risen at the same time… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Michael Pettis By Michael Pettis – China’s debt problems have emerged so much more rapidly and severely this year than in the past that a growing number of analysts believe that this may be the year that China’s economy breaks… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By FS Staff By FS Staff – We’ve often spoken about the aging business cycle and our anticipation of economic troubles in the 2019 to 2020 timeframe. This time on the Financial Sense Big Picture, Jim Puplava discusses hedge fund manager Ray… …read more From:: Financial Sense