A big swing in the stock markets today, as they opened much higher, and then plummeted on the ISM report, and more jitters about the deficit faux deal.
NonFarm Payrolls at the end of the week. See the comments intraday below.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception