What do u think will happen to the US economy in 2006?
412341
i'm pretty sure the economy will go up in 2006\n\nunless of couse it doesn't, in which case it will either go down or possibly remain stable.
1000539
Actually lagging indicators aren't as bad as you think.  The unemployment rate has been steady at or below 5% for some time now, T-bond rates around 5% are high compared to a year ago but moderate in any historical context, and core inflation is up but not dramatically, at least not yet.\n\nI don't think we're headed into a plain old recession like in 1990.  My speculation is the gross mismanagement of US finances will build into some crisis with highly unpredictable results, like maybe a collapse in the dollar.  A perceived crisis would clobber the stock market, but not necessarily in a long bear market like 2000-2003.
989280
Both parties will tell you that the economy is sound. Bush says inflation is under control. How can this be true? Everything that I buy is from and Atheist / Communist China. Low quality Junk. Yet it cost more than before. Gas prices are up . Groceries and efreight has gone through the roof. I don.t trust any politician or media anymore.
253383
Recent employment data suggests that we are nearing full employment. This last occured in 2001, just before the air was let out of the economy. Before that, we were teased with near-full employment in 1996. \n\nWhere our economy goes depends on how interest rates are played. If they are allowed to continue rising, as they should (offset inflation), we'd still be below historical levels and economic growth would slowly decline. If they are held static or are somehow reduced, further economic activity would occur, which would overheat our economy. Either way, I see us nearing an apex. \n\nThe question is whether that apex is relatively small or large in scale to the economic growth we experienced since 1996. \n\nWho's to say. \n\nBut if all you're asking is whether we're in a trough or peak right now, my guesstimate is peak.
287274
We all know all good things come to an end, just like the Roman empire came to an end after 600 hundred years, i believe the U.S. will last no more than 2,000 years. I hope I will be proven wrong but that is my best guess.
581829
GEESH!! SEE WHAT THIS BUSH ECONOMY IS DOING TO PEOPLE!!
627528
During the next 5 years, I hope to see a Democratic sweep in all state and Federal governments (at least we will get a different set of lies), I am afraid we will see rampant inflation, horrid interest rates, serious weather pattern changes including more and more serious hurricanes on the East Coast. I expect that during the next 10 years, our ocean levels to begin rising causing more and more flooding in the gulf and East Coast. We well could face a serious uprising of the population due to the Iraq ordeal...very much like we had with Viet Nam. I do not foresee good times ahead. I also think our problems with Mexico have just started. I hope I am wrong.
67009
I think that it will crash soon.\n\nTheres too much instability in this world right now!!\n\nFor example:\n\n1. All these strains of the flu- affect the health care system\n2. War in Iraq and God knows what other places in the future!\n3.Gas will run out\n4. etc.\n\nI think we're heading to a bad place soon. Make sure you look out for yourself! And think ahead for yourself and your family.\n\nI think that the government is gonna take us for a ride....\n\nCheers! danae
959947
The republicans aren't going to blame the demo's for it, the republicans and the people will cause they will be the cause of it. Right now are economy is in better shape than it has been since 2003 and getting better. Until the demos take over.
513984
I hope so, depends on how the repuglicans spin their failures in the last 5 years. Some people would believe any thing that they say, I for one have never been fond of supply side economics's It has never worked. Clinton's consumer driven economics got the budget in the black and it didn't take long for Bush and his goons to end all of that prosperity.
456178
stable?!?!? we're gonna have another stock crash and the middle class will become non existent
20983
For 2005: $14K\nFor 2006: $15K
982600
Not likely. The debt to GDP ratio is really not any worse than it has ever been.\n\nhttp://zfacts.com/p/318.html \n\nhttp://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2006/05/pie_chart_of_wh.html
35888
Go straight to the source, the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  It won't give you future GDP expectations, but they will give you a number.
291623
No what I do think it will destroy America. Just look at how far downhill we have come since the repuglicans took power, we are on the verge of world war III, in debt to the Chinese, giving away nuclear technology, involved in a stupid war in Iraq. Got a president that don't know how to tell the truth, favors the oil company's and the rich while leaving the poor and middle class behind. It is a real mess that I am not sure that we can recover from very easily.
644443
Our economic policy is Nixonomics (Keynesian policy), so you can imagine that the result will be pretty much the same.  I expect inflation (currently observed in prices for both housing and raw materials like oil and metals), and over the longer term, some weakening growth (recession). In the days of Gerald Ford, it was called stagflation.  If we elect a responsible leadership that can control spending, we might be able to turn things around and forestall that slowdown, but sadly, I just don't see that happening.  Very few politicians on either side of the aisle are talking about responsible spending these days.  (OK, maybe they're talking about it, but they're sure not DOING it.)
996042
Decline in some areas, maybe (manufacturing comes to mind)...but in terms of research, development, and especially services...these are what will buoy the US over the next fifty years.\n\nThis is what happens during the development of a one-world economy. The idea of the nation is, in some ways, obsolete.