The biggest negative factor that we have been talking about here--the debt ceiling--is now out of the way until March 2017. We are in the clear, having averted what could have been a disastrous default of the entire U.S. economy.
With this new budget deal the amount of fiscal stimulus will be significant. Not only does the Congressional Budget Office anticipate a spending increase of over $230 billion over the next two years, the additional spending of $112 billion implied in this budget deal means that spending over the next two years will rise by nearly $340 billion.
That is significant and it means two things for sure:
1) The economy WILL NOT go into recession
2) You can go buy stocks now (buy the S&P Index, it's simpler) and basically take a vacation until March 2017. You will be handsomely rewarded.
I don't care what anyone is telling you about the deficit, they are going to be wrong. And if I end up being wrong here in my prediction, feel free never to read this blog again or mock me from now until forever.
Oh, and one more thing...the dollar will fall because some pricing power will return to foreign exporters. And if and when the euro rises it won't be because it has become "harder to get." It's all about price, not quantity. People should know that.
P.S. If and when the Fed raises rates (and they will) that will be an added fiscal stimulus. Those who have been saying here, that it doesn't work that way, can also call me out as ignorant if it in fact doesn't end up to be bullish.