China agreeing to play fair is a new thing, however. "Following two days of bilateral consultations on trade, representatives from Washington and Beijing reached a consensus on trade, with the latter agreeing to take “effective measures to ...

Trade deficit according to Hillary Clinton and her sycophants: Give my 'Foundation' $250 million and I'll give Russia 20% of America's uranium. A girl's gotta eat...and drink...heavily.

Trump is the first American president in decades to enact policies that actually benefit the U.S. as opposed to propping up other nations who have become accustomed to running roughshod over us in trade deals. An improving U.S. economy, with ...

Chrysler announced they will be closing a large manufacturing plant in Mexico and returning to Detroit. It will be interesting to see how Trump's new tax incentives will affect trade with other countries, in terms of leverage.

Only in (formerly) America.

My wife works in retail and just lost her job of six years in this horrible economy. The holidays should be booming for retail and she can find nothing.

We don't need no weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.... Obama has to go in November before the US will begin to recover.

Welcome to the new normal....

There goes Obamas' convention speech bounce. Good for the dollar as it will enhance Bernankes odds of QE3. 8.5% would not surprise me.

High unemployment is the new normal in U.S. that is why bad news is no news. A regime change in November will strengthen the dollar and push the EU lower to at least 1.20 by January. Forget my words...

I am a consumer in U.S. and my confidence is zero until Obama is thrown out.

Wonder why unemployment numbers are always revised up not down? Look for Dow to continue dropping...Bernanke REALLY wants a QE3 B4 Nov.

Break out the champagne.

QE3 would be the final nail in the coffin...besides the US cannot even afford the ink to print up the worthless paper. E/U next stop 1.21..

"QE3 will come?" Judging from the success of QE1 and QE2 I sure hope not...

Any attempts to artificially stimulate any economy always has the opposite effect in the long run as it interferes with the natural cycle...econ 101.

It is not only 'consumer' confidence that is down in Amerika under Obama...

what's that old nugget? the trend is your friend? the eu has not yet begun to fall, it is just dangling it's legs over the edge getting ready to drop. if you are not already short find a good spot and jump in, the waters fine... Next stop 1.15 with ...

Hey Bernanke, how about QE3, it worked so well the first couple times.