What's Ahead For The Second Half Of 2021?
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Published Friday, June 25, 2021 at: 7:45 PM EDT

The investment outlook is clouded by surging inflation. Will inflation revert to its tame rate, as the Federal Reserve expects? By early 2022, the Federal Reserve Bank’s forecast of inflation will be coming true or not.  Until then, U.S. stock prices could be highly volatile as speculators and investors with near-term cash needs cash in or out of the stock market.     Despite the Covid economic recession, disposable personal income and personal spending are at or higher than the level they would be had the pandemic never happened. Three rounds of government direct payments from the federal government, along with extra unemployment benefit checks, have...

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