Inflation is looking like it may be a strong force and not easy to get down no matter what the fed does. This hurts the stock market and favors different investments such as bonds, bond funds (mutual funds that deal in bonds not stock) bond funds which are ETF (exchange traded funds available to all investors run a bit different than mutual funds), CD’s, high dividend stocks, commodities. It has been mentioned that for inflation to go down 1% the unemployment rate must rise 1%. There is nothing like that on the horizon that I see for the US economy in the next two years.