>"US consumer spending fell in May for the first time this year and prior months were revised lower, suggesting an _...Read More_

"Cathie Wood said the U.S. is already in an economic downturn, and she admitted that she underestimated the severity and lasting power of _...Read More_

>"A survey of U.S. consumer confidence dropped in June to a 16-month low of 98.7, as Americans grew more _...Read More_

>"The new BRICS basket-based currency would challenge the US dollar-dominated IMF's basket and allow Russia _...Read More_

"Manufacturing growth is slowing worldwide as China's COVID-19 curbs and Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupt supply chains and keep inflation at the highest in years, while the growing risk of a U.S. recession poses a new threat to the _...Read More_

>"The dislocation of global fuel markets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has boosted the cost of shipping products such _...Read More_

>"US investors fret about possible recession as S&P 500 plummets into bear territory and global markets feel aftershocks"

My biggest concern with all of this is : How 'temporary' is this? Supply issues, war, lockdowns, outright gouging, whatever everyone is blaming this on, does anybody really expect prices to drop to reasonable levels ever again?

"The attacks came amid denials by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the global food shortage was brought on by the Russia-Ukraine conflict."

"We live, as some have suggested, in an interregnum between a dying regime and some unknown successor."

this is interesting -- Israel's Central Bank added China's yuan to its reserve holdings for the first time _...Read More_

"The informal sector in Zimbabwe is massive. Finding ways to connect it to the formal sector is vital."

>"Russia is guilty of creating a food security crisis and higher energy prices, but China is also worsening inflation in three areas, said a think tank."

>"Without European buyers, Russia would need to find somewhere to store or sell roughly 2.5 million barrels a _...Read More_