On Monday, the S&P 500 opened at a record high, signifying the current strength of the American economy. Seasonly, stocks are expected to soar around this time of the year, however, this record breaking opening for the S&P 500 means something different: the US-China trade war has not negatively affected the US economy as many investors and economists thought. Furthermore, the most impacted section of the American economy by the trade war with China, industrial companies, was

On Friday, it was announced that unemployment rates fell 2 percent to a 50 year low (since December 1969) of 3.5 percent. A distinct drop in unemployment is commonly correlated to a drop in the labor force participation rate, however, the labor force increased by a solid 117,000 while participation rate remained unchanged at 63.2 percent. This new data exhibits a continually increasing labor force, a frequently looked for statistic used when measuring national economic growth