RECESSION

I kind of have a 15-year plan for financial independence. In the plan, I know there will surely be a couple 0f recessions on the road when market will give negative returns. Is this year one of them? There was certainly no such indication early this year, and it surely feels that way now, and there's an increase of talking of R word among the talking heads.

As for this morning, crude is up, Mideast the same, earnings mixed, and we are waiting for PPI, where do you think futures are heading, red, obviously.