PBJ - Retail Sales In Bad Company Decouple From Decoupling
In a way, the government shutdown couldn't have come at a more opportune moment. As workers all throughout the sprawling bureaucracy were furloughed, markets had run into chaos. Even the seemingly invincible stock market was pummeled, a technical bear market emerged on Wall Street as people began to really consider increasingly loud economic risks.
There had been noises overseas, troubling indications that had gone on for some time beforehand. Typically dismissed as Brazil being Brazil, or strictly European factors which apply to strictly Europe, there had been some softening in US data as 2018 drew