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American business succeeds

--even when the American government fails.  American business is the American people, a group that is truly great..  Thanks for restating this, it's one of those things that really needs to be repeated.

[expat_panama]

Whoa-- let's hit the new week running with strong futures -- metals up +0.11% and stock indexes +0.46%!  Also our Monday morning's getting reports early with:

Empire Manufacturing
Industrial Production
Capacity Utilization
NAHB Housing Market Index
Net Long-Term TIC Flows

--and somehow we'll want to keep up with treads active since the weekend:

• Is America in Decline? Twenty signs America is not in decline. (h/t Lurkina.n.Learnin)
• How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero
• Household Wealth Is the Highest Ever; Probably Not Your Household’s, Though...
• The Rich's Class Warfare Is Winning [academia needs a new lesson plan]