[#  item_content] If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility. NYT >… Read More »How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge

[#  item_content] Venezuela owes China’s banks about $10 billion, and its oil is about the only legal way it has to pay them back. NYT > Business�

[#  item_content] The U.S. tariffs on transshipment countries like Vietnam and Cambodia are so steep that they could force a major reassessment of global supply chains. NYT >… Read More »Trump Blocked America’s Front Door to China. Now He’s Closing Back Doors.

[#  item_content] The president’s aides insist the fallout will be short and ultimately result in a better economy, as economists warn of higher inflation and slower growth. NYT… Read More »Trump Officials Warn of Tariff Pain as Price Increases Loom and Stocks Tumble

[#  item_content] Markets in Asia reflected investors’ continued worries about the economic disruption of President Trump’s trade policies. NYT > Business�

[#  item_content] A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump… Read More »Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China

[#  item_content] Higher prices could also be coming soon for seafood, sugar and coffee. But it may be a while before importers and retailers can gauge the… Read More »Grocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in Produce

[#  item_content] An idealist, he founded The Texas Tribune, a model for nonprofit grass-roots news organizations nationwide, and the American Journalism Project, which supports them. NYT > Business�