Consumer Expectations Soar Along with
Anticipated Changes to that Former Malarial Swamp on the Potomac


New Fiscal Stimuli Could Boost Economic Activity by Early-2018


Yet, the Near-Term Economy Continues in Renewed Tumble,
Never Having Recovered Fully from Its Collapse into 2009


Intensifying, Headline Downturn Threatens Resurgent Fed Pressures for
Expanded Quantitative Easing and Intensified Dollar Debasement


Budget-Deficit Issues Should Refocus Global Currency Markets on
Long-Range U.S. Sovereign-Solvency Concerns


Sovereign-Solvency and Quantitative-Easing Issues Threaten to
Crash the U.S. Dollar and Stocks, Roiling Financial Markets by Mid-2017


Long-Range Economic and Financial-Market Health and Stability Depend on
Resolving Both the Misdirected Policies of the Federal Reserve and the
Solvency Concerns of the Global Markets


Given Issues of Fed Independence and Ingrained, Systemic Intransigence,
Early Resolutions of the Fed and Solvency Problems Are Not Likely


Accordingly, Massive U.S. Dollar Selling, Debasement and Hyperinflation
Remain the Primary Risks to Domestic Economic and Political Stability;
Precious Metals Remain the Proven and Established Primary Inflation Hedge

 

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