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US VIEW: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ economist Chris Rupkey quipped, "Life is

good. When's the next recession?" 

- He added the "market is so obsessively risk focused anymore" as it's "always

looking at what might go wrong in the future. But the U.S. economy is in its

ninth year of expansion from the 2007-2009 recession. Things have been going

right for quite a long time now. It must be time to stop and ask: when's the

music going to stop for the economy? Always looking for what can go wrong even

Madame Lagarde at the IMF said this week that the world economy is in a better

place and growth is more balanced, but the recovery was not complete. It will

never be complete in the minds of some. There's always more work that the

economy can do to help its citizens."