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The slowing Chinese economy may force Beijing to make a trade-war deal it doesn't want.

“I suspect the increasingly pronounced slowdown in China’s economy, coupled with recent employment data pointing to continued strength in the U.S. economy, are putting heavy pressure on China to settle sooner rather than later,” Richard Koo, chief economist at the Tokyo-based Nomura Research Institute, wrote in a note to clients.

China, the world’s second-largest economy, grew at a 6 percent rate in the third quarter, its slowest since recordkeeping began in 1993. Growth is expected to slow to 5.8 percent in 2020 as the trade war and growing debt levels curb it, the International Monetary Fund said in its October 2019 World Economic Outlook.

Chinese equity markets have been under pressure as well. The Shanghai Composite has fallen 11.1 percent since the U.S. first announced tariffs affecting Chinese goods on March 1, 2018. By comparison, the S&P 500 has gained 14.9 percent.

“Christmas ornaments, drywall, and Jeffrey Epstein – name three things that don’t hang themselves,” Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) declared during a Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, clarifying that he wasn’t the only one who saw a resemblance between the objects and the supposedly suicidal pedophile: “That’s what the American people think!”

Another devastating day for theRump with the best yet to come. What a total nerk!

direct observation.

On one side, we have information.

Thinking about the impeachment hearings, I think this presents a rather important test of the American TV viewing, politically engaged public.

On one side, we have information.
On the other side, there's a circus.

It's unclear which of these the viewing public will prefer.

tRump is guilty

For you and your ilk, that is enough. Nothing will ever change your mind.

A more apt question would be... How could you not?

An American President is accused of very serious crimes.

I hope it hurts a bunch! Sorry, at this point I go for honesty over false bs for this total ahole jerk. I hope they had to pull a hedgehog out of his butt!