“Darkest Days” for the Economy: Behind Us, or Just Ahead?
Economic skies forecast: slowly clearing, heavy rain returning, or cyclone?
November 18, 2011
By Elliott Wave International
Many people still talk about a “recovery,” or at worst only see a possible double-dip recession. But what if the mistake was to think the economy was only in a recession in the first place? It can’t “double-dip” when it never truly recovered:
“The respite following the 2009 stock market low is not a new expansion. It has failed to improve housing sales, barely caused employment to budge, and hasn’t managed — despite the unprecedented manufacture of new Fed money — to get the total supply of credit back above its 2008 high.”
Elliott Wave Theorist, Sept. 2011
Indeed, the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing measures have failed.
The Fed’s latest policy plan to stimulate the economy has been dubbed “Operation Twist.”
“On September 30, the Fed started operation twist, by which… Continue reading
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