FOMC Rate-Hike Canard Remained Consistent with
Dollar and Gold-Market Manipulations and a
Post-Election Crisis that Could Revive Quantitative Easing

Economic Activity Remains far from Recovery

Third-Quarter Durable Goods Orders on Track for Year-to-Year Decline,
Both Before and After Adjustment for Inflation and Commercial Aircraft

August Home Sales (New and Existing) Declined in the Month,
Amidst Unstable Reporting, with Smoothed Activity
Continuing in Broad, Non-Recovering Stagnation