Many pundits have been talking about a double dip recession in the United States economy because of the horrible economic indicators the past couple of months.  I think they have it wrong.

Several years ago in the midst of the economic crisis I suggested that the Federal Reserve and Treasury pulled a ploy from Jessica Alba's character in the Fantastic Four and put the economy in stasis.  Just like the character, the explosion can only be held back so long and you should have run for cover during the stasis period.

Trillions of dollars later the Obama Administration has exhausted its ability to hold off the coming explosion and never addressed the underlying problem of the U.S. economy. 

America, like the aging pro-baseball player who has been using steroids for the past few years to stimulate his performance statistics, our government has been pumping the economy full of financial steroids to stimulate the economic statistics.  If the ball player does not stop using, it will kill him.  America, if we don't stop elected people from pumping the economy of financial steroids it will kill us.

The entire economic recovery has been make believe, funded by printed dollars from fantasy land.  No, it is not a double dip recession, it is a resumption of the natural downsizing from decades of financial steroids.