These 10 factors are mutually exclusive. Indeed, many are complementary. It's not likely we would see consumer sentiment fall without the residential real estate market taking a hit, for example. That's why prolonged high oil prices are so dangerous -- they could create a domino effect that would poison many different aspects of the U.S. economy.
Prophecy is playing out before our very eyes. Look back to this type from the past:
ReplyDeleteAntiochus IV Epiphanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiochus_IV
He has the following characteristics:
1. Raisor of taxes.
2. Adverse to Israel
3. Proclaims peace, but causes unrest.
4. Has an illness that takes him out in the end. (Who is skinny and ill looking?)