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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Naplesjack, post: 2235133, member: 76468&quot;]FWIW--Our National debt is approx 19 Trillion $$$ with our GDP growing at 2% in a very weak 6 year recovery.&nbsp; With Global demand and global growth feeble, and China absent from the bid (buying commodities), there is declining international trade and demand for commodities.</p><p>So, with a stalemate in our Congress, and a hostile government stance towards both big and small Biz, nothing significant will&nbsp; happen until there is a change in the Oval Office.&nbsp; Therefore another 12 to 15 months of feeble GDP growth, with prices at the supermarket going up for the average guy and no popular optimism for high paying manufacturing or service sector jobs.</p><p>IMHO this infers zero rate increases at the Fed.; unrest in our cities due to weak employment; and a stock market pull back until change is &quot;sensed&quot; by the markets and biz owners. </p><p>So borrowers are rewarded; savers penalized; by a Gov which could not pay the interest on our UST in a lifeless economy.&nbsp; We will have to &quot;grow&quot; ourselves out of this weak economy, or languish with declining living standards.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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