We could all soon own shares of 'digital property funds'

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/29/we-could-all-soon-own-shares-of-digital-property-funds/

Trump pulled out of a massive trade deal. Now 11 countries are going ahead without the US

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics/tpp-trade-trump/index.html

Pacific trade pact takes off with tariffs cut in six nations - except the U.S.

https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN1OT00C-OCATP

US farmers 'helpless' as TPP boosts Aust | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/us-farmers-helpless-as-tpp-boosts-aust

Roubini: U.S. economic policy is flirting with mutually assured economic destruction

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/roubini-president-trump-is-flirting-with-mutually-assured-economic-destruction-2018-12-28

It Doesn’t Matter if Ecuador Can Afford This Dam. China Still Gets Paid.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/americas/ecuador-china-dam.html

Al Gore’s right about carbon capture and sequestration

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/422117-al-gores-right-about-carbon-capture-and-sequestration

Mnuchin Bid to Calm Markets Risks Making Bad Situation Worse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/mnuchin-bid-to-calm-markets-risks-making-bad-situation-worse

Here’s what worries Wall Street more than a recession

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-what-worries-wall-street-more-than-a-recession-2018-12-24

US immigration policy on a collision course with the economy | TheHill

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/422607-us-immigration-policy-on-a-collision-course-with-the-economy

Quantitative Tightening Is Already Rattling Markets Worldwide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-22/quantitative-tightening-is-already-rattling-markets-worldwide

El-Erian stunned by recession talk, warns of self-fulfilling prophecy

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/mohamed-el-erian-stunned-by-recession-talk-warns-of-self-fulfilling-prophecy.html

Major Investors in Leveraged Loans Are Unloading Big Chunks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/eaton-vance-lord-abbett-seen-shedding-risky-loans-amid-rout

More than half of global central banks are raising rates, and that’s a problem for stocks

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-global-central-banks-are-raising-rates-and-thats-a-problem-for-stocks-2018-12-20

This growing imbalance in the Trump economy is a terrifying sign we're heading towards a major crash

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/growing-imbalance-trump-economy-terrifying-sign-heading-towards-major-crash/

FedEx CEO blames 'bad political choices' for most of company's issues

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/fedex-ceo-blames-bad-political-choices-for-most-of-companys-issues.html

Fed Raises Rates, Turns More Cautious on Outlook for 2019 Hikes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/fed-raises-rates-while-trimming-forecast-for-2019-hikes-to-two

Trump trade war: China, steel, aluminum tariff payments soaring - Business Insider

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-war-china-steel-aluminum-tariff-payments-soaring-2018-12

Obamacare ruling could cut deeper than many Americans realize

https://politi.co/2BszGYf

The Global Auto Industry Is Likely in First Recession Since 2009

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/the-global-auto-industry-is-likely-in-first-recession-since-2009

How Online Shopping Has Turned Traffic Into a Nightmare

http://time.com/5481981/online-shopping-amazon-free-shipping-traffic-jams/

The Fed Should Ignore Trump and Raise Rates

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-12-19/fed-should-ignore-trump-tweets-raise-interest-rates

Single-family home construction tumbles, prompts talk of correction

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/18/single-family-home-construction-tumbles-prompts-talk-of-correction.html

Why America Needs to Realize That China Will Be No. 1

http://fortune.com/2018/12/18/america-china-number-one/

Banks Pull Back Lending as Fears Over a New Recession Grow | Fortune

http://fortune.com/2018/12/17/banks-loans-recession/

U.S. Student Loan Debt Sets Record, Doubling Since Recession

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-17/u-s-student-loan-debt-sets-record-doubling-since-recession

Analysts Who Warned of Emerging-Market Rout Expect Painful 2019

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-15/analysts-who-warned-of-emerging-market-rout-expect-painful-2019

Disarray in Europe and U.S. Leaves a Hole Where `the West' Was

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-16/disarray-in-europe-and-u-s-leaves-a-hole-where-the-west-was

Half of America hasn't recovered from the recession

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/half-of-america-hasnt-recovered-from-the-recession/

Some of the hottest housing markets are falling hardest

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/14/some-of-the-hottest-housing-markets-are-falling-hardest.html

The Bubble’s Losing Air. Get Ready for a Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-12-15/central-banks-have-few-options-to-deal-with-another-crisis

America's Moment of Truth in Africa - It's Losing Out to China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-14/america-s-moment-of-truth-in-africa-it-s-losing-out-to-china

Jim Chanos says there's something wrong with the stock market when rates this low cause panic

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/jim-chanos-says-theres-something-wrong-with-the-stock-market-when-rates-this-low-cause-panic.html

Trump admin hid report revealing unusually high charges for college students at Wells Fargo

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/420925-trump-admin-hid-report-revealing-unusually-high-charges-for-college-students

Fed Piles Up $66 Billion in Paper Losses as It Faces Trump Wrath

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/fed-piles-up-66-billion-in-paper-losses-as-it-faces-trump-wrath

U.S. CFOs Overwhelmingly Expect a Recession Within Two Years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-12/u-s-cfos-overwhelmingly-expect-a-recession-within-two-years

Yep, Bitcoin Was a Bubble. And It Popped.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-12-11/yep-bitcoin-was-a-bubble-and-it-popped

Zillow, Opendoor can buy your house quickly — but there's a catch

https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-opendoor-buy-house-sell-house-quick-2018-12

The Death of Fed Funds? As Market Dries Up, FOMC Asks What Next

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-11/the-death-of-fed-funds-as-market-dries-up-fomc-asks-what-next

The U.S. Has Huawei in Cuffs. China Has the U.S. in Chains

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-12-10/china-s-huawei-retaliation-could-punish-u-s-companies

Budget deficit soars in first two months of fiscal year

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/budget/420661-budget-deficit-soars-in-first-two-months-of-fiscal-year

Is This The End Of Blockchain?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/12/10/is-this-the-end-of-blockchain/amp/

Yellow vest protests 'economic catastrophe' for France

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46499996

Dollar Stores Planning for Permanent American Underclass, Sell More Groceries Than Whole Foods

https://www.newsweek.com/dollar-stores-general-tree-america-economy-poor-people-food-poverty-lower-1250186

What you need to know to understand Belt and Road | World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/12/what-you-need-to-know-one-belt-one-road

Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation.

https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html

U.S. Adds Below-Forecast 155,000 Jobs as Wage Gain Misses

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-07/u-s-payrolls-rise-below-forecast-155-000-as-wage-gain-misses

May's Brexit vote could plunge the UK into fresh political chaos

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/07/mays-brexit-vote-could-plunge-the-uk-into-fresh-political-chaos.html

People Over 40 Shouldn't Work More Than 3 Days a Week, Study Says

http://time.com/money/5472709/over-40-work-more-3-days-week/

Starved of privacy, America has became a nation of pod people

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/starved-of-privacy-america-has-became-a-nation-of-pod-people-2018-12-07

How seniors are being steered toward private Medicare plans

https://www.axios.com/medicare-advantage-tilting-scales-7db28dd2-25af-4283-b971-21a61fa59371.html

Record imports push US trade gap to $55.5 billion in October

https://apnews.com/73e93b30c49a4349aea32f2f42249cc5

Cramer: This sell-off was caused by a computer-driven 'footrace'

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/cramer-this-sell-off-was-caused-by-a-computer-driven-footrace.html

The CEO of one of America's biggest homebuilders sounds the alarm on a 'housing slowdown' (TOB) | Markets Insider

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/housing-slowdown-rising-interest-rates-toll-brothers-ceo-2018-12-1027779971

Trade conflicts cost Nebraska more than $1 billion in revenue, Farm Bureau says

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419642-nebraska-farm-bureau-says-trade-conflicts-cost-state-up-to-1

GM’s layoffs signal a deeper problem for Indiana and Midwestern factory workers

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gms-layoffs-signal-a-deeper-problem-for-indiana-and-midwestern-factory-workers-2018-12-04

Fed's Warning on Leveraged Loans Seconded by U.S. Bank Regulator

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/fed-s-warning-on-leveraged-loans-seconded-by-u-s-bank-regulator

JPMorgan Asset Says Cash Better Than Stocks First Time in Decade

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/jpmorgan-asset-says-cash-better-than-stocks-first-time-in-decade

The future of work will be shaped by an aging workforce

https://qz.com/work/1476842/the-future-of-work-will-be-shaped-by-an-aging-workforce/

The U.S. Yield Curve Just Inverted. That’s Huge.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-huge

Do you owe a tip to the barista who poured your black coffee? New payment systems leave some in a quandary

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-tipping-technology-20181130-story.html

The US needs to clean up its monetary excesses and twin deficits

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/03/the-us-needs-to-clean-up-its-monetary-excesses-and-twin-deficits.html

Our deficits may finally be coming home to roost | TheHill

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/419161-our-deficits-may-finally-be-coming-home-to-roost

House prices have surged, and so will the government’s mortgage obligations

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-prices-have-surged-and-so-will-the-governments-share-of-mortgages-2018-11-27

 

Alaska Credit Union Will Be the First Financial Institution to Serve $55 Billion Cannabis Industry

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/cannabis-industry-alaska-credit-union-1-pilot-banking.html

FTC Investigation Into In-Game Loot Boxes Is A Wake-Up Call For The Video Game Industry

https://brobible.com/culture/article/ftc-investigation-in-game-loot-boxes/

Jack Bogle Warns Index Funds Are Getting Too Big

http://time.com/money/5468239/jack-bogle-index-funds-problem/

The dreaded yield-curve inversion is near — but in an overlooked section

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dreaded-yield-curve-inversion-is-near-but-in-an-overlooked-section-2018-11-30