The Recovery™ - Bubble Back To the Bar For the Hair of the Dog That Bit You

"Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good...

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes."

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4 Sc. 1

And why would we expect anything different, given the lack of serious reform and the careful targeting of the monetary expansion into the hands of the same old TBTF financial firms that have been distorting markets and misallocating capital for their own advantage since the repeal of Glass-Steagall?

The best way to cure the damage from a widespread, real economic collapse in the aftermath of a financial asset bubble is surely a continuation of the failed policies of the past, and yet another asset bubble targeting the most wealthy in the hope that something will trickle down to the rest.

Amount of Dollar GDP Added For Each Additional Dollar of US Federal Debt

The line represents each dollar of GDP added for each incremental dollar of Federal Debt.

I would suggest that someone look into why the velocity of debt is now running into the law of diminishing returns.  The big slide started with Reagonomics and the 'supply side' theory based on the second chart.

It might have something to do with a corrupt financial system, the myth of efficient markets and globalization,  tax cuts for the wealthy and unfunded wars, and the largely stagnating median wage.

However one wishes to slice it, it might be difficult to make up in volume what is taken away by a crippled financial system that keeps sweeping the productivity gains and national wealth up to the one percent where it is used for largely non-productive monopolization of resources, political corruption, unfunded endless wars, and fraud.