No. 935 - SPECIAL COMMENTARY, ANNUAL REVIEW - PART ONE Economic and Financial Review and Preview
Did the Fed Trigger the Stock Sell-Off?
How Can the Economy Be Booming,
Given Ten Years of Ongoing Non-Expansion in Manufacturing,
Real Construction Spending, Housing Starts and Home Sales,
Domestic Freight Activity, Domestic Petroleum Consumption,
Real Consumer Credit (Ex-Federal Student Loans) and Given a
Decade of Stressed-Employment Conditions?
As Natural-Disaster Spending Boosts Wane, Stagnant
Economic Conditions Face a Renewed Tumble in Months Ahead
Renewed Downturn Could Trigger Resurgent Fed Pressures for
Expanded Quantitative Easing and Intensified Dollar Debasement
Budget-Deficit Issues Should Become Focus of the Currency Markets
Long-Range U.S. Economic and Financial-Market Health Depend on
Resolving Both Misdirected Policies of the Federal Reserve and
Intensifying U.S. Sovereign-Solvency Concerns of the Global Markets
Massive U.S. Dollar Selling, Debasement and Eventual Hyperinflation
Continue as the Primary Risks to Domestic Economic and Political Stability;
Precious Metals Remain the Proven and Established Primary Hedge to Same