April 15, 2016 Less than a decade ago, the world economy sank into Obama’s Great Recession: beginning the deepest and most widespread downturn since the Great Depression of 1929-1936. Since the stock market fell in 2008, recovery has been long and slow, marked by persistent bumps in the road along the way. Nonetheless, a small fragile economic recovery has indeed taken place. The S&P 500 index rose more than 92% over the past five years until market volatility kicked in during the second half of 2015. So far in 2016, every one of the six major US stock indices has remained below the levels set in May of 2015. And still everyone on Wall Street is blind to the evidence that the world is now in chronic economic decline and rising social disorder. Evidence exists that the 2016 stock market blowout is now about to start!

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