Rate Hikes and Dodo Birds . . . .

[errolanderson]

ECB Draghi announced no rate hike in Europe this morning . . . Fed chair Powell is now on-pause, likely for a long, long time . . . and for the Bank of Canada, good grief.

Watch for the battle between banks for spring mortgages heat up and record bank profits take-a-lick . . . The U.S. is now rapidly heading straight into a recession (IMO). Canada, Europe and Asia are already in-recession.

Government will always be the last to let you know . . . .

[SASKFARMER3]

I think the USA will slow a bit but Canada is on way to a full scale shit show.

Thank a liberal every single day.

[bucket]

How is raising rates going to help?????

[chuckChuck]

SF3, will not the US recession be Trumps fault just like Trudeau is to blame for Canada's recession?

Oh I forgot Trumps your guy! LOL

[Hamloc]

Errol one simple question, how much have Trump's tariffs influenced the global economic slowdown in your opinion?

[jazz]

US will not go into recession. Trump has a multi trillion dollar deal on tap with China to announce in about 30 days. MAGA.

Canada gets flushed with socialist stupidity.

[checking]

.1% GDP loss for every week the US government is shut down. No wonder the US is headed for zero growth in 2019.

In Canada, we just have Trouble, and that is enough.

[SASKFARMER3]

No chuck the USA won’t h e a recession as trump and China will have a deal. Now Canada and our gay prince, well we’re f67$ed

[errolanderson]

Errol one simple question, how much have Trump's tariffs influenced the global economic slowdown in your opinion?

Hamloc . . . Trump tariffs most definitely speeded-up the current global slowdown . . . but it was eventually going to happen anyway. A ticking debt bomb . . . .

Since the collapse of Lehman Bros in 2008, global economies have been in gradual decay despite trillions of dollars in money printing that was supposed to generate inflation.

Now global markets have a serious risk of social unrest which could lead to panicked sell offs. The next generation is now facing this financial mess. There have been harsh warnings of this in Davos, Switzerland this week at the World Economic Summit.

This trade war is now morphing into a technological war that no one can win (IMO). The world is flat when it comes to technology. Watch out for up and coming India over the next generation. Their low debt load and youthful well educated population will be a force in the technology world. India’s GDP may eventually surpass that of the U.S. in my view.

The U.S. is in a battle to maintain their global power. But the tariff war is unwinnable and may last for years . . . .

[WiltonRanch]

Hamloc . . . Trump tariffs most definitely speeded-up the current global slowdown . . . but it was eventually going to happen anyway. A ticking debt bomb . . . .

Since the collapse of Lehman Bros in 2008, global economies have been in gradual decay despite trillions of dollars in money printing that was supposed to generate inflation.

Now global markets have a serious risk of social unrest which could lead to panicked sell offs. The next generation is now facing this financial mess. There have been harsh warnings of this in Davos, Switzerland this week at the World Economic Summit.

This trade war is now morphing into a technological war that no one can win (IMO). The world is flat when it comes to technology. Watch out for up and coming India over the next generation. Their low debt load and youthful well educated population will be a force in the technology world. India’s GDP may eventually surpass that of the U.S. in my view.

The U.S. is in a battle to maintain their global power. But the tariff war is unwinnable and may last for years . . . .

Irrespective of Trump winning do you think this trade war and resulting reprocussions was inevitable?