America it's a mighty big place. It takes 5 or 6 hours to fly over, days if traveling by automobile. All together the USA is the fourth largest country by territory in the world. Only Russia, Canada and China have more territory.

And one of the distinguishing attributes of out country is the number of farms. Only China has more farmland than does the US. Just over 17% of our total land is in farms. Roughly 328 million acres.

America it's a mighty big place. It takes 5 or 6 hours to fly over, days if traveling by automobile. All together the USA is the fourth largest country by territory in the world. Only Russia, Canada and China have more territory.

And one of the distinguishing attributes of out country is the number of farms. Only China has more farmland than does the US. Just over 17% of our total land is in farms. Roughly 328 million acres.

One of the research reports I like to check in on this time of the month is the latest editions in the Leading Economic Indicators.

The LEI sets the tone for the overall direction of the economy. And is used primarily by those Wall Street Analysts who are on the money management side of the business. The so called buy side.

One of the research reports I like to check in on this time of the month is the latest editions in the Leading Economic Indicators.

The LEI sets the tone for the overall direction of the economy. And is used primarily by those Wall Street Analysts who are on the money management side of the business. The so called buy side.

One of the research reports I like to check in on this time of the month is the latest editions of the "Leading Economic Indicators."

The LEI sets the tone for the overall direction of the economy. And is used primarily by those Wall Street Analysts who are on the money-management side of the business. The so called "buy-side."

Wall Street has it's own jargon. A language all its own, that can be difficult to understand at times. Late last week you may have seen headlines in the Financial Press screaming, that the “Yield Curve Is Inverting.”

Wall Street has it's own jargon. A language all its own, that can be difficult to understand at times. Late last week you may have seen headlines in the Financial Press screaming, that the “Yield Curve Is Inverting.”

Wall Street has it's own jargon. A language all its own, that can be difficult to understand at times. Late last week you may have seen headlines in the Financial Press screaming, that the “Yield Curve Is Inverting.”

Wall Street has it's own jargon. A language all its own, that can be difficult to understand at times. Late last week you may have seen headlines in the Financial Press screaming, that the “Yield Curve Is Inverting.”

We have entered an all new world. One that will certainly be unlike anything that any of us have seen before.

Perhaps the closest thing to this new world, was back a hundred years ago, with the Spanish Flu of 1918.