It appears as though 'trickle down' stimulus is not having its desired effect according to today's Fed Beige Book.
Fed's Beige Book Fails To Stimulate More Lending - Forbes
Jobs Report on Friday.
“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