So clear are the signs of a US downturn that the National Bureau of Economic Research, the most prestigious US independent economic authority, said the country has been in recession since December 2007.
The Forbes.com Investor Team speculates about the next catastrophe. Could be autos, or could be a major endowment or pension fund.
Rising levels of unhappiness in women workers in the US are equivalent to an 8.5 percentage point hike in unemployment, says Sumita Kale.
'The investment rate in China might be high precisely because the return on capital in China is high'.
She would be the first Indian to be occupying the coveted post at IMF after former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan
'India is in a slowdown which most of us have not seen in our living memory.'