Recession Watch List

(1) Second longest day’s journey into the longest day. (2) Fielding questions in North Carolina and Texas. (3) Is it monetary “normalization” or tightening? (4) In the past, rising interest rates rose until they caused a financial crisis, a credit crunch, and a recession. (5) Slicing and dicing the yield curve. (6) Will credit markets start to crack in the corporate bond sector this time? (7) Trump makes a deal with the Saudis by breaking Obama’s Iran deal. (8) Rounding up the usual troublemakers in the Eurozone. (9) Trade war…yada, yada, yada. (10) Fed officials worrying about flattening yield curve. (11) Is it the third mandate?