No. 859 - SPECIAL COMMENTARY, YEAR-END, YEAR-AHEAD Economic and Financial Review and Preview
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