Business Columnists

Overall, I am expecting economic optimism to steadily rise in the upcoming months.

Chinese businesses are cutting prices and moving operations out of China to avoid U.S. tariffs.

Deflationary forces are expected to persist because of excess inventories from the dumping of goods as importers try to beat the tariffs.

The stock market is a manic crowd. A crowd does not think, it merely reacts. We now have a grossly oversold stock market.

The Chinese leader wants to reduce China’s vulnerability to the rest of the world. He has been only half successful, and only with half the dependency equation.

Currently, the first Fed meeting with a market bet for a cut is in June.

But the media is storming against them.

Local governments have become so cash-strapped that they have resorted to paying their bills with unfinished and unbought apartments from the property crisis.

Overall, the stock market does not mind all the political drama now underway.