In this latest issue of my weekly podcast, we take a closer look at some criticisms of the yield-curve inversion as a recession indicator. The Fed releases its notes of the last FOMC meeting. How Trump may be angling to use China as a campaign issue in 2020. Sizing up Bernie Sanders' $16.3 trillion Green New Deal--what it says (good and bad) about America's shifting national mood. A few more shuffles in the line-up of 2020 Democratic candidates. And then a world tour… to Germany, to Italy, to the UK, and (especially) to France, where the G-7 leaders just met at a famous beach resort. Finally, what went wrong in Argentina? Will that country ever give up its love affair with Peronism?

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NOTEMy podcast will be on a break for one week. I'll be back on September 10th!