{"id":104737,"date":"2017-04-12T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=104737"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:22:33","slug":"economy-contracting-but-expect-higher-stock-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/04\/economy-contracting-but-expect-higher-stock-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy contracting but expect higher stock prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2150162723\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">April 12, 2017<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By\u00a0Chris Vermeulen &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2pulfLq\" target=\"_blank\">www.TheGoldAndOilGuy.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States is the world\u2019s largest and most diversified economy! It is currently suffering through a <strong><em>protracted period <\/em><\/strong>of slow growth which has held down job creation and labor market participation.\u00a0 The Pew Research Center reported, in late 2015, that a mere 19% of Americans trust the government either always or most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/making-sense\/column-why-the-fed-should-print-more-money-not-less\/\">FED must print more money<\/a> in order to keep the party going forward.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that this current bull market has been driven mostly by corporations which are buying back their shares, over the years. Individual investors have increasingly been moving out of equity mutual funds and into equity ETF\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec3.gif\" alt=\"ec3\" width=\"639\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that in fiscal year 2016, the federal budget deficit increased in relation to the GDP, for the first time since 2009. The CBO projects that over the next decade, budget deficits will follow an upward trajectory. The spending costs for retirement and health care programs targeted towards senior citizens, and rising <em>interest payments<\/em> on the government\u2019s debt will be the root drivers. There will be only a modest growth in revenue collections. This will drive up public debt to its\u2019 highest level of gross domestic product (GDP) since shortly after World War II ended.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office stated that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/52430\">nation\u2019s public debt will reach 145 percent of gross domestic product by 2047<\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-106220611\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5.png 1650w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-768x512.png 768w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-1030x687.png 1030w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-1500x1000.png 1500w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-705x470.png 705w, http:\/\/www.thegoldandoilguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ec5-450x300.png 450w\" alt=\"ec5\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Conclusion:<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong><em>BULLISH<\/em><\/strong> Trend in the stock markets is not reversing in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>The stock market is on an upward trajectory.\u00a0 Are you wondering what you should do next?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to gain the edge that you need in order to beat the markets an profit during both rising and falling prices?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Take advantage of my insight and expertise as I can help you to grow your trading account. Tune in every <\/em><em>morning for my video analysis and market forecasts<\/em><em> at TheGoldAndOilGuy.com on all \u2018asset classes\u2019 and new ETF trade opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I always take half off of the table, on all positions, to lock in quick solid gains and then ride out the other half for much higher returns!\u00a0 I manage my risk while keeping profits!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Vermeulen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2pulfLq\" target=\"_blank\">www.TheGoldAndOilGuy.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Chris Vermeulen &#8211;\u00a0www.TheGoldAndOilGuy.com The United States is the world\u2019s largest and most diversified economy! It is currently suffering through a protracted period of slow growth which has held down job creation and labor market participation.\u00a0 The Pew Research Center reported, in late 2015, that a mere 19% of Americans trust the government either always or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104738,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737\/revisions\/104738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}