NEW YORK (PNN) - August 20, 2015 - The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tumbled the most since February 2014, sending it below a trading range that has supported it for most of the year amid intensifying concern that global growth is slowing.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (PNN) - August 18, 2015 - The Federal Reserve is putting some of its post-crisis actions under a magnifying glass and not liking everything it sees.

In a white paper dissecting the Fascist Police States of Amerika central bank's actions to stem the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, Stephen D. Williamson, vice president of the St. Louis Fed, finds fault with three key policy tenets.

PARIS, France (PNN) - August 12, 2015 - Sociéte Generale strategist Albert Edwards may have finally out-beared himself. He warns the China devaluation is a step toward "a financial-market rout every bit as large as 2008."

In his new note, Edwards says the Chinese currency devaluation is the beginning of a period of serious foreign-exchange weaknesses in Asia.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 30, 2015 - Today we look at a unique dataset - Gallup’s annual poll of job satisfaction - to see what it can tell us about secular trends in employment, consumer confidence and spending.This annual survey of +1,000 people active in the Fascist Police States of Amerika workforce goes back to the late 1980s, so it is a useful lens with which to consider issues like labor force participation rates that have shifted unexpectedly over the period.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 29, 2015 - It's another bad-news story for the Fascist Police States of Amerika newspaper industry: newsroom jobs slumped another 10.4% to the lowest level since tracking began in 1978.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 25, 2015 - Emerging-market currencies are in free fall.

An index of the major developing-nation currencies fell to an all-time low this week, extending its drop over the past year to 19%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg going back to 1999. The Russian ruble, Colombia's peso, and the Brazilian real have fallen more than 30% over the past year for some of the worst global selloffs.

NEW YORK (PNN) - July 20, 2015 - The cost to Amerikan cities for their cash-strapped pension funds is starting to look a lot worse, and it’s not because the stock-market rally may be losing steam.

Houston was warned by Moody’s Investors Service this month that it may be downgraded because of mounting retirement bills, the latest municipality put on notice as the company ignores bookkeeping gimmicks that let cities mask the size of their debt for years. The approach foreshadows accounting rules for even top-rated issuers that are poised to cause pension shortfalls to swell as new financial reports are released.