Several analysts have come out of the woodwork in the last few weeks predicting not just a U.S. growth slowdown, but the start of a recession in 2020. These calls were amplified after a week of stock market volatility. Bond vigilantes are pointing to rising real yields (that have been adjusted for inflation) while bear market doomsayers have been looking at signals from international stock indexes, with markets like China down more than 20 percent on the year and many European indexes such as Germany and Italy also technically in correction (down 10 percent or more). Is the fiscally turbocharged U.S. growth about to ... (full story)