Here's something alarming...
"The Fed's about to try something that almost always has ended in recession"
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/02/fed-bal ... ssion.html
"Fed economist: 'No evidence that QE works' as central bank starts unwinding program
... There's little question that the program, known as quantitative easing or "money printing," boosted the stock market. The three iterations of QE between November 2008 and October 2014 each saw big boosts to the market, with a cumulative S&P 500 gain from beginning to end, including the various down periods between each leg, of about 140 percent.
The economic impacts, though, are less clear.
For most of the period, GDP struggled to gain more than 2 percent. Wealth disparity grew, income gains were hard to come by and the Fed continually came up short on its inflation goal..."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/19/fed-eco ... tarts.html