"China"

With the world’s eyes focused on the Brexit vote, and the subsequent rollercoaster ride of the stock market, we may be overlooking much more serious developments elsewhere. As recently as …

One of the puzzling aspects to the recovery since the Great Recession is that U.S. manufacturing has ticked up but U.S. manufacturing jobs have not. The prime example of why …

Since the Reagan era China has bled off jobs from the United States to achieve double digit growth. Entire sections of our nation, particularly in the upper Midwest, collapsed economically. …

There was general agreement among analysts that 2016 was not going to be a great year for stocks. Yet nothing prepared investors for the brutal reality of the first week …

One of the more frustrating aspects to investing is that there are many counter-intuitive forces at work in the economic world. One of those developments that’s hard for people to …

By the officially accepted standard, the U.S. is now the number two economy in the world. To be sure there are people now arguing that the standard isn’t fair or …

In many ways, massive ground wars are relics of the past. While it’s still important to maintain a strong defense, actually applying that military power is a crapshoot as far …

Most of you know I don’t buy in to conspiracy theories, most of which end up being dead wrong, though that never seems to dissuade the people fronting what turn …

China and the US are sitting down to talk today through Thursday. During their annual “Strategic and Economic Dialogue” meeting, they plan to discuss such hot topics as North Korea, spying …

THAT NOISE ON JULY 4 WEEKEND: It wasn’t fireworks. At least 11 people were killed and 60 others wounded in Chicago (which has some of the nation’s most restrictive gun …